My Musical Heritage: I was born in XXXX....

**Exo** · 07-09-2015, 07:29 PM

I didn't realize I'm five years older than Frownland. Weird.

I was born in 1989. My first album was a cassette of The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse. I still like the album. From there my musical journey gets strange. I went through the backstreet boy/N'Sync thing for a few months before graduating to whatever was playing on TRL at the time. I'd watch that **** every single day when I got home from school. I knew all the hits and one hit wonders. It stayed mostly like that until I was about 13 where I started to get into more pop punk and emo type stuff. Bands that I listen too included...

New Found Glory
Coheed and Cambria
The Used
Taking Back Sunday
Midtown
All American Rejects
Alkaline Trio

Alkaline Trio was my sh*t when I was 15. I'd listen to From Here to Infirmary every day when I rode my bike to work for a whole summer. Then I started to get into emo/hardcore bands like...

As I Lay Dying
From First To Last
The Bled
Blood Brothers
Circa Survive
Fall of Troy

Then something magical happened. I blind bought a copy of The Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium cause I liked the album cover. I listened to it in awe like 8 times in a row that night. The album opened my eyes to what music could sound like and make me feel.

After that it's just been a sh*tshow after another. I like where my taste is at now. Diverse. Deep. Superior.

Chula Vista · 07-09-2015, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I blind bought a copy of The Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium cause I liked the album cover.

I discovered early Genesis and King Crimson the same way.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-09-2015, 07:59 PM

I was born in 1997, and had my first musical exposure thanks to my father's massive CD collection. Early on, some of my favorites consisted of Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard, artists of that sort. Until about 2005 or so at least, when I started getting into artists on my own. I started listening to a lot of stuff that I had considered to be "different" at the time, like Linkin Park, Billy Talent, and even Limp Bitzkit (yeah, I was one of those kids) for awhile. Eventually, I got out of that phase thanks to the release of Kanye West's Graduation, which led me on a pretty long hip-hop phase where I listened to every rap album I could get my hands on.

Through hip-hop, in large part due to it's dependence on the internet now because of mixtape downloads and things like that, I learned how easy it was to find music and began discovering new genres. I discovered a love for a lot of metal music, some good some not so much, (I still listen to Slipknot, oh well,) emo, indie folk, and tons of other awesome stuff. Some of my favorite musicians now are Sufjan Stevens, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Death Grips, Killer Mike, El-P, Mastadon, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Radiohead.

I still have quite a few bands that I discovered when I was younger that I still listen to, despite being dubbed ****ty mainstream stuff by lots of people, bands like Killswitch Engage, Billy Talent, RHCP, Deftones, and stuff like that.

07-09-2015, 07:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	I didn't realize I'm five years older than Frownland. Weird. I was born in 1989. My first album was a cassette of The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse. I still like the album. From there my musical journey gets strange. I went through the backstreet boy/N'Sync thing for a few months before graduating to whatever was playing on TRL at the time. I'd watch that **** every single day when I got home from school. I knew all the hits and one hit wonders. It stayed mostly like that until I was about 13 where I started to get into more pop punk and emo type stuff. Bands that I listen too included... New Found Glory Coheed and Cambria The Used Taking Back Sunday Midtown All American Rejects Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio was my sht when I was 15. I'd listen to From Here to Infirmary every day when I rode my bike to work for a whole summer. Then I started to get into emo/hardcore bands like... As I Lay Dying From First To Last The Bled Blood Brothers Circa Survive Fall of Troy Then something magical happened. I blind bought a copy of The Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium cause I liked the album cover. I listened to it in awe like 8 times in a row that night. The album opened my eyes to what music could sound like and make me feel. After that it's just been a shtshow after another. I like where my taste is at now. Diverse. Deep. Superior. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

07-09-2015, 07:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
Ol’ Qwerty Bastard OQB Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Frownland Posts: 8,831	I was born in 1997, and had my first musical exposure thanks to my father's massive CD collection. Early on, some of my favorites consisted of Nirvana, AC/DC, Def Leppard, artists of that sort. Until about 2005 or so at least, when I started getting into artists on my own. I started listening to a lot of stuff that I had considered to be "different" at the time, like Linkin Park, Billy Talent, and even Limp Bitzkit (yeah, I was one of those kids) for awhile. Eventually, I got out of that phase thanks to the release of Kanye West's Graduation, which led me on a pretty long hip-hop phase where I listened to every rap album I could get my hands on. Through hip-hop, in large part due to it's dependence on the internet now because of mixtape downloads and things like that, I learned how easy it was to find music and began discovering new genres. I discovered a love for a lot of metal music, some good some not so much, (I still listen to Slipknot, oh well,) emo, indie folk, and tons of other awesome stuff. Some of my favorite musicians now are Sufjan Stevens, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Death Grips, Killer Mike, El-P, Mastadon, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Radiohead. I still have quite a few bands that I discovered when I was younger that I still listen to, despite being dubbed ****ty mainstream stuff by lots of people, bands like Killswitch Engage, Billy Talent, RHCP, Deftones, and stuff like that.