The Offspring started me off, but Linkin Park made me really explore music.

System of a Down, and honestly I HATE them now. I overlistened to them, and the band brings back quite bad memories, not good ones.

I'd have to say Billy Talent, but Linkin Park get an honourable mention. LP got me started but I absolutely fell inlove with Billy Talent and was an avid fan for about 2 years. Their second album (I find) is pretty ****, but I still listen to their first self-titled record sometimes, and I enjoy their really early stuff form when they went by the name Pezz.

blink-182, word I still love them and I'm not embarrassed to love them at all. My torch for them is more a candle but I still bust out the occasional song.

i got into music when i was born (lol) but srsly, my moms a musician so i've grown up appreciating so many different types of everything.

RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik was the album that really got me into music.


Yeah, I listened to some Eagles albums, Beatles compilations before that, and liked CCR and the Doobie Brothers.

But BSSM was the album that really made me crazy for music. My mate introduced it to me about 4 years ago and I have many memories of listening to it with friends on the deck of a bach in the summer.

Tool, I still listen to and enjoy them quite a bit

Blink 182 here too

I knew well known bands before them but they helped me realize there was more to music than what I heard on the radio

It was the amazing combo of Peter Gabriel - So and Genesis - Invisible Touch back in 1986

Opeth: got me into metal and classic prog rock. I certainly don't listen to them as much as I did say, four years ago, but I owe my love of music to albums like MA,YH and Still Life and Damnation.