This will date me, but Boston was the first album I bought. I rember coming home and putting on the headphones with the volume cranked
listening to "More than a Feeling". I was hooked

Alright! More old people! :beer:

Bright Eyes, one day i saw the music video for "Hot Knives" and thought it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen/heard.

Bands everyone has heard of: Jimmy Eat world/Taking Back Sunday

Band no one has heard of but should have: Further Seems Forever

thanks to my best friend Savannah D. to showing me these guys

except for Frank Zappa :p:

as for myself i'm another one of the many pepperheads on the board. only it was the 'Jungle Man' single in my case. doesn't mean i didn't play the crap out of BSSM when it came out a few years later though.

i had heard other music before, and i had followed the misguided path of 'getting into' the same stuff as my old man in a foolish belief of listening to 'good/right' music, but the chili peppers were the first time i heard MY music and nothing else was the same after that fateful night back in grade 9.

Oasis when i was 10 years old. Before that i liked some MJ and awful, cheesy, early 90's dance music but wasnt big into music yet. Inreally got into music very quickly afterwards.

Miscellaneous pop, Weird Al, NoFX.

A Filipino bang called "Hale" got me into music, more on opm type and rock type music affects my band. :)

The Beatles probably, at the age of 13 or 14. I discovered my dad's CDs (the blue and red albums), and was hooked quite quickly. It took me a while to expand my listening habits to The Beatles' studio albums, and then to the stray Dylan or Stones track, before fully embracing the 60's. Before my discovery of The Beatles I was hardly listening to music at all, except for whatever happened to be on the radio.

Oasis back in 96, the good ol days:)