Who influenced your music taste?
 

Greetings earthlings!
Just wondering what everyone used to listen to growing up and who influenced your music taste?
My mum listened to a lot of Queen, the beach boys and the Beatles when I was growing up and for some reason Rod Stewart was always playing in the car! Dadio's music taste is ****e so I wont bother going into that.
Suppose my biggest influence came from my older siblings. The were into Blur, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Ash, that kind of thing...
So yeah...your turn!

Random friends got me into music, like blink & the misfits and shiz.
Then ArtistInTheAmbulance got me intro like, Thrice and thursday and stuff which led me to get into all the emo/hardcore i'm into now. She also, sort of got me into the faint a bit, in a way.
Then I found the rest myself.

No Doubt.

My first love. In 1994. Like second grade I was listening to the self titled album.

Then Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I started out so solid.....what in the world could have happened?

Though I was raised on Reba, Leann Rimes, and Billy Ray Cirus. I now hate country.

Ohhh....

Well, I was brought up around classical and jazz music, but it's only really starting to have an effect now. My sister and I have quite similar tastes in music, so I probably got the Light rock influence from her. The heavy side I got from one of my best frineds, who I've known since I was one, so he may as well be a brother! I got into alternative stuff before he did, but he passed me out and intoduced me to a load of stuff.

I had to commute with my mom back and forth from work when I was like four and the only thing that I could really do at her work was listen to the radio. Then I didn't really care about music untill I was like 10 and I just stole my parents radio and put it in my room. And since I was 12 I've just ran into different people on the internet who've shaped my tastes.

The first stuff I was ever into was Dave Matthews Band and Smashing Pumpkins (from my brother) and Pink Floyd and The Beatles (from my dad). Then I heard my first hardcore band, I htought they where hardcore at the time, actually metalcore, and since then i've been into hardcore and emo and now more into post hardcore and prog.

a lot of classic rock and old school hip hop

i'd have to say my oldest brother got me into a lot of the music i still listen to today. pantera, alice in chains, bad religion, smashing pumpkins, local H, nirvana etc. etc. my dad used to listen to pink floyd and moody blues a lot, but now he's all gospel all the time. what really opened my eyes though was when i started playing guitar and joined a band. i started listening to blink and sum41 and that kind of stuff, and that progressed to more punk rock like nofx, millencolin, rise against and so on. after that, i started getting into pretty much everything that i would call "real music". nothing pisses me off more than fake rap, fake metalcore (way too much of this **** going on). my friend ashley got me into portishead and other weird ****, and thats aboot it. story of my life

Well it started off as me being a Linkin Park fanboy, then I started loving System of a Down as well as LP. Then I bought Adema's first 2 albums. I then started getting into a bit of heavier stuff i.e Soulfly, Slipknot. I had always liked The Offspring then I put their albums on my computer and BAM I was here and I have been introduced to many bands here here.

I'm now into anything from thrash metal to hardcore and I have people here to thank for that:D

my brother, (RIP) Kiss, Alice Cooper, Led Zep, USA Network's program called Night Flight, and a segment on that called New Wave Thaeater (doubts anyone here would even remember either of these) Beatles, Blue Oyster Cult..
tons of miscellaneous oldies songs

Until I joined this forum I found all my music by myself, albeit using methods like allmusic.com... a lot.

Ironically, I recently started listening to the music I grew up with my dad listening to, like Massive Attack, because I ignored it for the longest time as simply "my dad's music" while I listened to punk rock and the sort.

Friends, Dad, drum teacher, forums, Modern Drummer, etc., etc.

The person i admire the most, my brother. and myself.

You guys.

Until I joined here I just liked the same old trash that the radio played. Plus or minus a few bands.

awwwwww, cute

I always thought top 40 was all there was. But a good friend got me into great music, from there I just used the internet. As soon as I got a better music taste, I also went to bars where the music was good, and I got more friends with an even better music taste. And to be honest, MB has gotten me into some really cool bands.

Lol my friends got me into bands like green day , black eye peas , red hot chilli pepers , good charlote and blink 182

Those people are not friends.

My dad influenced me a lot, he got me into bands like Queen, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. My uncle got me into riot grrrl music, and bands like The Slits and Patti Smith.

See, my parents sucked. They listen to some crappy oldies station and the cds they bought were Garth Brooks and LeAnn Rimes. There are many videos of me singing "Achy Breaky Heart" with all the lyrics and a little dance routine. Although my mom disliked most rock, she LOVED Alice Cooper so that's the ONLY good thing she taught me.....that Alice Cooper is awesome.

I thought of another one. My friend Sami has pretty good taste in music, we exchange bands sometimes. She introduced me to 30 Seconds to Mars, Atreyu, Smoking Popes, a few others. For this I thank her. My friend Lindsay got me into symphonic rock with Nightwish.

A lot of it was up to me though, searching around online. Even today I sit around and just listen to bands on myspace. I just love music.

I like a bit of the stuff my parents liked. My dad has a load of post-punk records which I do love, but he also likes 80s synth pop, which ain't bad, but not fabulous either.

I suppose getting into blink-182 when I was 12 or something, just introduced me to a world of more and more interesting music. I stilll love blink-182, but there is so much more I love which is so experimental and different from anything in the mainstream really!

:rofl:

How'd would u kno u have NO friends

Lol I'm sure he has friends, he also has another thing... Grammar skills. P.S you spelt Australia wrong

I`d say my mother

Not in the sense of actual bands but the way she listened to music. She had a really wide & varied taste with bits of anything & everything in it. As I said in another thread we wern`t your typical classic rock family , there were no Pink Floyd or Led Zep or Queen albums in my parents record collection when I was growing up.It was all 50s rock n roll , classical , glam rock , pop , motown , reggae & synth pop singles.

this friend of mine from 6th grade got me into rock music with the whole sum 41 phase
then random people from this board broadened my music tastes
& of course my father playing 80s rock music constantly stuck with me
& now im the music guru to all my friends
:D

I feel bad for your friends.

well for me, i got my music taste from my dad, my mom was no infulence what so ever only thing she listened to was country, my dad listened to the GNR, Metallica, AC/DC, stuff like that, it was only after a few years did i start to listen to the older stuff and thats what stuck

i feel bad for your girlfriend
:D
...shutup...

Prior to MB, my mom and dad mostly..they listen to a lot of good CR...but ever since MB, id say everyone in general plus Alex and Ethan especially.

Pixies - Surfa Rosa, then I saw them live.

My uncle provided with most of what i listened as a kid.
So from what he got me listening to: dead kennedy's, love & rockets, pink floyd, the clash, the ramones, social D, bob dylan, styx, deep purple, pantera and that's about it really.

Over the years though, I get influenced a lot by two of my bestest friends in the world and the people in my band

My piano teacher and my friends Colin and Mark. Everybody in my family listens to extremely bad music, as does my girlfriend generally.

My cousin listened to a lot of Rage against the machine, beastie boys, alternative and hip-hop, so that probably started off the kinda music i like.

It's hereditary then. ;)

My elder sister by 5 years has had a strong influence on my music tastes.
Particularly for Soul music. I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but she used to have her friends round and clear the kitchen floor to practice N.S. dance steps on the lino.
Other strong influences over the years have been my friends, plus my own curiosity for new music.
MusicBanter being responsible, lately.

Myself.

Yeah MusicBanter will give me a nice flavoring, a new layer of frosting on the cake if you will, but the cake was built on reading magazines for anything that sounded frech and of course the super uber world of downloading free msuic since the days of Napster.

I'm fairly sure that no one currently on MB remembers, but when I first started coming here, I was a hardcore punk fan. The Damned, Johnny Thunders, all that ****. But as time passed I started listening to the Leaders Of The New School, Django Reinhardt, Wu Tang Clan, Syl Johnson, Madlib & Stones Throw, Duke Robillard, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, MAC DRE!, Big Pun, & all that noise. I am just happy to have such a broad musical spectrum at the age of 14.

Most of my musical influence is from stalking you guys... I thank you