Music Banter - The first band You started to listen

My stepdad listened to a lot of British music when I was growing up such as The Beautiful South, Ocean Colour Scene, The Bluetones, Pulp, Elastica, Oasis, Stereophonics, The La's, The Verve etc. which is what got me listening to "rock" music. He also listened to Dire Straits, Faith No More, REM, Soundgarden, Alanis Morissette, GNR, Radiohead, Faithless, Tool and Ugly Kid Joe a lot, as well as a bit of Cypress Hill, Eminem, NWA and Public Enemy, so I had quite a mixed bag of artists playing around me when I was younger. The first artist I discovered by myself though was probably Linkin Park haha. I remember when I was 9/10, my cousin (who was a bit of a mosher at the time) came round and put Kerrang on. Now, Kerrang was a channel I tried to avoid because I remember flicking it on one day and seeing the video for Chop Suey by SOAD and Daron's eyes scared me a lot so from then on I was reluctant to put it on ever again. When my cousin put it on, Crawling was playing and it was a complete breath of fresh air to me and I absolutely loved it.

Went out shortly after and bought Hybrid Theory with pocket money my nan gave me. And from there I got into bands which were featured on the Kerrang compilations/American Pie soundtracks such as Saliva, Papa Roach, Seether, Spineshank, Ill Nino, Korn, Eve 6, Lit, Slipknot, Third Eye Blind, American Hifi, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, American Head Charge, Static X, Jimmy Eat World, Hole etc. etc. etc.

Sadly, Linkin Park were probably the first band I ever truly loved, followed by me falling head over heels in love with Placebo in 2005ish, then I went off them and fell right back in love around 2008ish and then lost interest again and now I find myself mostly loving a lot of the American alt/indie/grunge scene a lot and I feel I've found my "niche" in music because this massive genre umbrella covers everything I absolutely adore in music, so I can't see myself ever getting bored of it.

Nirvana are one of the bands I'd loved since growing up and still love them now, actually I probably like them a lot more now than I ever did. I remember the first time I ever listened to them, I was 14 and me and my friend Ali were sitting in his bedroom and it was the first time I'd ever tried weed. He made a compilation CD and Come As You Are was on it, I absolutely loved it and listened from there.