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I'm sure I've said this before in some thread or other, but the man who started me on the road to obsessing over music was this guy;
http://www.concertlivewire.com/jpegs...iews/bowie.jpg

^ My mom is a HUGE David Bowie fan. A lot of his songs take me back to someplace or another in my childhood.

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Originally Posted by duga (Post 791976)

I'm sure we all have bands that we listened to a lot in our early years that we wouldn't really touch now. They still have their place in where we are now. I have huge lists of those bands, some quite embarrassing to admit lol

I've never had that problem admitting I like certain stuff, hell I even through a Green Day album on my top 10 favorite punk albums. Bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41 are a great band to slowly bring people into music, they're like the Fisher Price of music. True with many people they use those bands as an entry, then start to go back and see who influenced them, and who they're influencing now. Some stuff stays, some stuff you grow out of, how I'd never immediately stop liking something just because I was becoming friends with someone who didn't like them. I've had this discussion with an old friend from high school who went from becoming the biggest Radiohead fan in 6 months, to hating them 6 months later. Personally I don't care for Radiohead much so I was happy to see them go, but the circumstances in which they went were not truthful. Like what you like and fuck what others think, that's rock 'n roll.

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Originally Posted by Burning Down (Post 791992)

^ My mom is a HUGE David Bowie fan. A lot of his songs take me back to someplace or another in my childhood.

My claim to fame is having an email conversation with his producer Tony Visconti (as in more than some copy-and-paste/half-arsed reply) and knowing some bloke who's talked to the man himself in the BowieNet chatroom :D

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 791993)

Couldn't be more true. I will never hide anything I've listened to...in fact it is an interesting conversation topic when I bring up bands people make fun of these days. Maybe embarrassing is too strong of a word, but the feeling is more for me personally. Like going back to an old band and remembering them being so expert and now hearing them compared to a lot of the great stuff I listen to these days...it is a weird feeling.

Oh and David Bowie is the man...no artist has covered more ground and done it with such talent.

The Beatles were the first band I got into as a pre-teen music fan.
Help! was the first LP I bought at the tender age of nine.
I still have the record.
I still love the band.

When I was younger I got into music on bands like Blink-182 and Relient K..

It would probably be The Wallflowers.

Clutch
Green Day
System of a Down

Ash did it for me. Their two songs on the Angus soundtrack struck a chord with me and got me to start thinking about music.