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Like a lot of people these goons were the people who started it really, you wouldn't think it to look at them!

Unlike some others though my parents aren't really big music fans, apart from some CD's/vinyl i nicked i was pretty much left to my own devices. How the hell i've come to listen to all the shit i do now i have no idea.[/QUOTE]


Same here, my parents have very limited taste in music

Although my Mum gave me this amazing northern soul vinyl from here youth.

Still I discovered most stuff by myself or through friends. My parents werent much use.

My parents had a TON of records when I was young, so mine is Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks voice is what did it for me.

music has always been my life.
concert band, marching band, FAILED garage bands, etc.
granted..im only 17 xD.
still though, i can't imagine my life without music.
The band that actually got me into heavier, "musical message" type bands was actually system of a down. song: byob. time?: 6th grade, lol.

The first band I got into was Queen. I bought all of there greatest hits at the time (platinum, gold, greatest). What triggered it all was in 5th grade when I watched Wayne's World for the first time. I looked in the credits after the film to see what song was playing when they were cruising around town and low and behold it was "bohemian rhapsody".

Oh, how is it possible that I forgot this album?! Also one of my first albums. Although I don't listen to Offspring now so much, this album was really big influence for me as a teenager :thumb: I still remember lot of lyrics and melodies...
Than my younger brother started to like Offspring so I know also other albums but in my opinion this one is their best, with best music ideas :)

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"I won‘t pay, I won‘t pay ya, no way. Why don‘t you get a job? Say no way, say no way, no way... Why don‘t you get a job" I loved their melodies, we had lot of crazy moments with this album.

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Afeeeeee.

A friend just turned me on to the band, 'FireFlight - (song)= Unbreakable'.

Gorillaz, Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand were the first bands I really got into.

I was listening to things like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Michael Jackson. The Monkees, The Beatles, and some others from a young age. A lot of it was thanks to my mother. The first band to really shape my obsessions and tastes that I have now was The White Stripes. I think I was 13 when Elephant came out. I'm still a huge fan and White Blood Cells would make any of my favorite albums lists.

Others to thank:
Green Day, I too became obsessed with American Idiot. It was pretty much all I played my sophomore year of high school.
Modest Mouse
The Arcade Fire
Franz Ferdinand
OutKast
The Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan

I started listening to real music in fourth grade or so; I ditched my god-awful Backstreet Boys and NSync CDs and replaced them with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Audience, Warren Zevon, Cat Stevens, Cream, Allman Brothers...My dad showed me the way into classic rock and it was like I was born again. When I was maybe thirteen I started to take interest in some more recent bands such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and Modest Mouse. Ultimately, it was Gorillaz and Modest Mouse that convinced me to search for music. Modest Mouse especially introduced me to the world of "indie" rock and against-the-mainstream ideals, however funny that seems now. Since then, I met some people who slowly got me into punk and ska and everything in between. Now, I've filled up my eighty gig iPod! Music is a wonderful thing, and it literally has saved my life.