What band got you really into music
 

Most people I meet that are really into music have a certain band...or even a certain song...that just clicked with them, resulting in hungrily devouring music from that day forward. What is it for you guys?

I got really into music when I got my hands on a copy of Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins. The first thing that hit me was the tone...the guitars in that album blow my mind to this day. They are HUGE. It started a continuing obsession with the Smashing Pumpkins (to this day there is always a song they have that I can relate to and speaks to me no matter what I am going through). It also started a continuing obsession with music.

On a side note that album also inspired me to pick up a guitar...I had to know how those sounds were being made...

I have loved music for as long as I can remember. There's no one band that got me into it, I grew up in a household filled with music and it's been important to me my entire life. It's difficult for me to image what it would be like to have discovered music at much later age as was apparently the case with you.

The first band that got me intensely into music, not saying that I didn't listen to music before this band of course, but the first band that really made me thirst for more good music like them, has got be A Perfect Circle. My first album from them was Mer De Noms and gosh I couldn't get enough of it. I remember not being able to wait to reach home from school, putting on cd player, and just drifting away...

No one band is responsible for my love of music but Sigur Rós led me to check out weird and obscure genres.

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I know the feeling...I pretty much wanted to be listening to music 24 hours a day and I had real problems keeping my earphones out of my ears. And great album to be obsessed with, btw...the Thirteenth Step was such an epic follow up imo

Franz Ferdinand or Nirvana if I remember correctly.Can't be bothered with either now.

Definitely, although, I think I still have that problem, lol.

While he certainly doesn't represent the type of music I listen to now, Everlast was certainly one of the first musicians I actually started to really listen to. I wasn't actually big into his music, but I did enjoy reading some of his lyrics. At an early age, hearing "Ends" and "What It's Like" were some pretty heavy subject matter, but it did show me how music can be used to explain ways of lives. Before I really heard him, music was just something to rock out to with no real substance. Everlast showed me that it can be also used as a tool to educate. It's unfortunate that none of his CD's were that successful (or good for that matter), but besides the singles the rest of the album was pretty much filler. I can't say I've paid much attention to him since 2004, but I really doubt I'm missing much.

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

For me it was probably a combination of Metallica and Megadeth, both. Up until about 6th or 7th grade I'd just listen to oldies on the radio and commercial rap stuff like Tag Team, Snow, Vanilla Ice, etc. At some point my best friend and I listened to a copy of Countdown to Extinction his brother just had laying around their room, fell in love with the sound, and it just went from there.

Although my tastes have moved on a bit since then, they were still the first 2 bands that I really dug through their back cataloge, bought nearly all their albums, knew all the members names and songs 100% by heart, etc.

Thinking back now, I probably listened to Rust In Peace more times in total than I have any other album in my life.