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Explain how you got to listening to the music you listen to today...Tell us what you used to listen to...

I always listened to the mainstream radio station that everyone has until i was about 12 then i started to get into the rap/hip-hop scene. Then my cousin (pimp_racer) came to visit me in NY and we were chillin in my basement watching MTV all day just to see P.Roach's Last Resort...we got all pumped from that song...that was basically the gateway to our liking of rock..I then started to listen to alot of mainstream rock...Linkin Park and all that stuff. Then in ninth grade I started playing guitar and listening to classic rock..like late 70's early 80's stuff like Eagles, Styx, Rush, Journey, Hendrix, Foriegner, The Who, Steve Miller Band. I started skating and listening to what i knew was punk in those days at 14...Good Charlotte and Sum 41. About half way through tenth grade, i started getting into the good stuff. Thats when I learned of Thrice and Glassjaw. I had a really good buddy that only lived here for about 6 months, but he introduced me to FATA and Coheed. I was amazed at the talent of all these bands and couldnt understand why they werent on the radio. I did alot of research after that and discovered that most of the talent was hidden in these bands. They werent signed to huge record labels or promoted all over the TV. Now at 18, I listen to mostly Screamo, Emo and Punk...All because of Papa Roach. I basically showed Pimp_racer all the bands i knew of, so thats how he learned of them.

Yup Yup, that is exactly how it happened to us...except i never got into rap. Go Izia without him we would still be listenin to that 99x crap. lol

Well, I was brought up by my cousins and their friends to be the biggest dj and clubber the world had ever seen. And it looked like it was probably going to happen because I had been djing from the age of like...8 till 13 and was getting really good. And then they made the mistake of shipping me off to camp where one of the councillors played U2's "Sunday Bloody Bunday" everymorning to wake us up in the cabin, I fell in love with the song, and started listening to alot of softer-rock, I still convinced by then that punk rock and anything with screaming in it was the worst music ever.

So around last summer my musical diet was srictly bands like Our Lady Peace, Sloan, U2, and i loved coldplay, i bought their cd's i downloaded all their videos, and they were just awesome, then i heard "politik" by them and i was like this song is so much louder (even though in retrospect it was still a quiet song) than their others. thats when i started to think it was ok to listen to heavier rock music like the white stripes, the vines, the hives, and i started listening to kind of that playful-bouncing souls punk rock. from their i found a local band and on their website they had a link to band called story of the year, they were ok, but not great. then when i was looking for bands related to them i found a screamo band called emery. my first screaming song. I loved it, and of course i hid my fascination with this satanic music under piles of club records, but i loved it. then i found out that emery was a CHRISTIAN screamo,band which made it ok for me to like them.

then i kind of slowly gave up on dance music, although, i still listen to lots of my old favs. its the music of my childhood. but now i listen to mostly hardcore, screamo, heavy emo, emocore, punk, classic rock, eighties metal, and drum and bass bands.

i have liked a few rap artists but for the most part i stay away from that junk.

All that came from U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday, thats probably the reason that I'm typing to you guys right now!

Awesome! I wonder if everyone has a song that they are thankful for...ha ha

when I was around 11,12, listened to alot of the mainstream stuff on the radio, nothing special o worth noting, but I was never into the whole backstreet boys, boyband crap that all my friends were into at the time. Then a friend of mine lent me her silverchair album (neon ballroom), I fell in love with it, bought a copy of it, and listened to it the entire summer. Then I got into OLP, and some other softer rock. Around grade 9 I got into a rap/hip-hop stage, that lasted until the summer, when I started listening to alot of pop-punk bands, blink 182, sum 41, yada yada yada. then in grade 10 I started listening to actual punk, emo, screamo all that. alot of brand new, taking back sunday. then, just this year I really started getting into metal, made a lot of new friends, who are all really into metal, so they've all been introducing me to alot of new metal bands, and alot of more obscure punk stuff too.

right, forgot to add that I started getting into the classic rock, zeppelin, stones, beatles when i started playing guitar, and alot of the punk bands I listen to come from tracks I hear on ski movies, and also names I pick up on this site.

Way way way way way way way [Have i written 'way' enough yet so you won't all pelt me with eggs when i discuss the old bands i used to be a fan of?lol] back I used to be a massive fan of all the mainstream pop bands, the likes of Steps, S Club 7, Boyzone, you get the picture? Well i was a MASSIVE pop fan, I went to all the festivals all the concerts, purchased all the cds and merchandise ... I was pretty much a sad case!

But then, the band that got me into Emo/Indie/Rock/Hardcore/Acoustic was from Silverchair, I used to have a penfriend from Australia and they always used to talk about them ... So I went out and bought [Neon Ballroom] and i was hooked from there!

^neon ballroom is a great album, seems to have started a few people on to a lot of great music.

OK well when I was younger I loved pure POP like BSB NSync n Britney..then around 12 to the age of 15 i listened to hip/hop rap and rnb...around where i live it was and still is the "in" thing to lsiten to. Im 16 now and going to grade 11 and have just recently discovered emo and screamo n stuff...I have always been a really emotional person who loves lyrics except all this time I never knew where to start when looking for emo-type bands. Also I was going through a really hard time so the music helped me alot and now I am just totally in love with it!

Up until about age 12 I didn't really have a real interest in music. In our old house my brother's room was pretty much right next to mine and he used to leave his stereo on ALL night. I used to hate it so much, but then I found myself singing along till like 2am lol. So through him I heard alot of old blink, pennywise, mxpx, millencolin, frenzhal rhomb. When he turned 17 he changed ALOT. He started raving, so I went through the whole hating his music then starting to like it thing. I remember him playing this one cd all the time, Bexta Mixology. I fell in love with this track called Airwave by Rank 1. So from the age of 14 I was obsessed with electronic music. I went to my first rave in April 2002. I'm trying to think of how I got into emo, I think I was messing around on mp3.com and found a song by Rufio called "she cries", a song by Finch and one by The Starting Line. I didn't look for anymore stuff, then I met this guy Cav about a year 1/2 ago and he liked The Used. So I downloaded some stuff by them off Kazaa and I clicked on the 'more info' thing, and there was a website listed: www.emotionalpunk.com. So yeah, I looked on that site out of curiosity and found heaps of bands. That's how I got into it I guess.

Living at the beach, I guess I kinda just live on a punk scene. Lots of local bands, concerts all the time, maybe it's in the water.

i started out on the radio, thenn got into metal through metallica in grade six. i became a metal head up until about yr 9 when i heard refused. all my friends were into emo and stuff at that stage-rufio midtown and the like. i liked all their bands except the ataris. i got so much crap for that, but they were so old and still singing about being dumped by their girlfriends. the singer was married and had a kid! i called them posers. so i got into hardcore via refused and i am still in love with that band. at the drive in was also a large influence of mine and i follwed them into sparta and now the mars volta. i have a huge photo on my wall of me and grasping venegrez's hand and screaming at each other while he is on top of the gate. my friend got the best shot of it, and i blew it up. i love it. ahhh what else? the very first time i herad thursdays waiting i went out and bought it. they have to be the one of biggest influences on me. but now i listen to hardcore, sccreamo, emo-limited. i am now awaiting anxiously for coheed to come to australia. iv heard rumours, but does anyone know the truth?
i also live on the beach. if anybody knows melbourne, im opposite geelong, but there is quite a healthy punk scene down here

I haven't heard anything about Coheed coming here. *crosses fingers*

well my friend, iv herad a number of rumours. iv heard they are due to be here by the end of the year, and some that say mid-way through next

Grr! I'm impatient, can't wait that long eh!

hm.. i know this is an old thread.. but i was just looking through them.. and felt like saying mine haha.. um..... well around 6th grade i started getting into poppy stuff , and where i live it's like everyone is into rap and stuff and i never really liked that stuff like the style.. people just got on my nerves. but i was really into pop like Christina Aguilera (still LOVE her) and britney spears. and my older bro was into like old blink 182 and midtown so i started liking them. but i remember listening to the ataris "San Dimas HS footbal rules" and like i completely fell in love w/ them. then i just started making more friends that were into it.. and my brother started getting into hardcore and stuff so i started listening to emo/ screamo/ hardcore/ acoustic now. that was a few years ago.. so my gateway was the ataris. haha. i'm 16 now and still finding new bands haha so yeah

i listened to mostly silverchair, radiohead, and some metal bands like Tool untill i was about 13 or so when i got brought to a local show. it featured a local band named Drunken Orgies of Destruction, which was a trashy grind band with songs about 30 seconds long. i loved it and for a while listened to grind and trash and some metal-core bands. Then i started my first band when i was 14 and listened to alot of metalcore and older emo and what people would call emo violence. that band fell apart after about 2 years and during that time i really got into fast paced spazzy emo and started some new projects in that vein.

My mum bought me up on a diet of Motorhead, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden vinyls. From there, having an older brother with an interest in more mellow, "indie" bands, got me interested in the likes of Jeff Buckley and Radiohead, and then, when I was about 14, I met my first girlfriend, who was a massive Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains fan, and since then I've been trying to find as much music as possible, and trying to enjoy music of all different kinds from all different types of people, not caring who they are, how many records they sell, what clothes they wear, or what brand of beer they drink.

I started listening to rap when I was in grade school and they by highschool my new friend introduced me to Guns N' Roses. After G n' R, I got into Metallica and then was in metal phase for awhile. Then Nirvana hit the scene, and I got into grunge. Then Kurt died and I got into '90s punk like Green Day, Rancid and Offspring. Then in '94 Korn hit the scene and I was into the rap/nu metal for awhile. Now, I mostly listen to many genres like: metal, hardcore, grindcore, punk, nu metal and some death metal. Now, I'm more open-minded to different styles of music. I however, don't like the newer breed of pop punk.
I haven't really listened to any emo, so I really can't say that I like or it hate.

Well... I think I was around 5 or 6 or 7, I odnt remember, and I was in the car with my older sister, and, I think it was, 'Ruby Soho' by Rancid came on the radio and I asked her who the band was but she didnt know... Then a few years later, when I was about 11 or 12, I was listening to the radio and it came on and I remembered it from when I was little and....yea... thats about it...

Hi I'm new here :wave: Heh so anyway I bought my first CD in grade 5. I didn't really have alot of interest in music at that time so I just bought what everyone else was listening to which was pop. Well i listened to pop music for two years until I heard Still Waiting by Sum 41. Thats the song that first introduced me to rock. I got all the Sum 41 Cds and started to get into all those Much Music rock bands and stuff that was on the radio. Then one day my brother was playing The Hives and it was sooooo much better than all of the radio and MM bands because the style was more original and different. That go me into the whole punk kinda thing. After that I started listening to alot of older punk like Dead Kennedys, Anti-Flag, Ramones, NoMeansNo, Sex Pistols, Misfits and New Bomb Turks (sorta);after taking a look at 'newer' punk bands which I thought were mostly crap.

i've been around rock all my life. i grew up on 80's soft rock and the beach boys. then when i was 11 or 12, i got much big shiny tunes 5. it had adam's song by blink 182 on it, which pretty much got me started on rock. then i got into nirvana in grade 8, which got me into grunge/classic rock. that somehow led to husker du, which lead to hardcore and emo.

I listened to Pop from like 3rd grade till 6th. Backstreet boys ya see. Then I got into rap cause that was the "dope" thing to do. Then I heard some rock coming through the radio. It was amazing. I wanted more. I got into Punk through alot of my high school friends and listened to Anti-Flag, The Clash, The Damned, Intro5pect, the like. Then I heard FATA through my friend Brendan who was about 3 years older than me. I loved it. I started to listen to more and more screaming style of music. I loved it even more. I currently listen to Metal (Borknagar, Ministry, Iced Earth, etc.) metal-core (Darkest Hour, At The Gates, Arch Enemy, Immortal Souls, etc.)and hardcore (Inked In Blood, Figure Four, Symphony In Peril, etc.). I've been listening to alot more death and thrash metal recently though.

since 8th grade I was obsessed with our lady peace
they are still by far my favorite band any ways that lasted untill 10th grade
when my friend Helene showed me this band Taking Back Sunday and Thurday. i really liked these bands alot. Then we went to our first show. During that time what really got my attention was metal like Unearth and Zao. That probably lasted up untill the end of 10th grade because thats when I Met my boyfriend. He was really into Orchid Books Lie hot cross and thats basically what I listen to now.

My dad always played his old records when I was growing up so I was mostly into rock untill middle school when i began developing my own musical tastes. Some of the first CD's I bought were Green Day, the Offspring, early Blink-182, and anyone from Canada will recognize this band: Serial Joe hahaha their song "mistake" was my favourite for such a long time. In high school my best friend was dating a guy who was very much into the emo scene and through him I was introduced to Dashboard Confessional (before everyone knew about them). I clearly remember hearing "hands Down" in his car and loving it while my best friend was begging him to turn it off put the radio to kiss98.5 known for its hip hop lol. Now that i'm in university, I listen to all sorts of bands in the emo and punk genres and i'm always looking for new bands to love.

I grew up listening to the bands my dad listened to. RHCP, Oasis, R.E.M.,Pearl Jam, Hole, Velvet Underground, Nirvana, Talking Heads, soundgarden, Depeche mode, pink floyd, joy division the list goes on. I'm quite proud of my musical background cos it wasn't the mainstream pop-**** that is fed to every unbeknownst child today. Its sad to see music without meaning or feeling, its just become a moneymaker. Im glad to say im into music thats from the heart and is deep, meaningful, poetic and beautiful. The clash have been a major part of my musical upbringing aswell as it was my first proper band i got into. I live in the same town as topper headon (ex-drummer) and im very happy to have been in his house and talked to him. My emo love came from the punk i used to listen to then that gradually turned into screamo/hardcore when i got into the gigs locally.

I grew up on REM, the beatles and U2 from my dad. Also country ;-) from the bus radio. I bought Green Day's Dookie when it came out, from columbia house record club (god bless them). That was around 1994. From then on I started getting into the rock scene a little more. I went through the metallica, linkin park, etc. days, although I always kept up with green day. Then I heard Hit or Miss by A New Found Glory, and I absolutely loved that song. I went to see them in concert, and by god, there was chris carrabba sitting up on stage, all by himself with an accoustic guitar. I didn't cry, but I could have. I bought Swiss Army Romance soon thereafter and the proceeded onto Something Corporate, Taking Back sunday, and the like. I got Finch's full length, and I loved it, except those 2 songs where they screamed a lot. Obviously the one's featuring Glassjaws singer. Well, after a while I began to love those as well. Even to the exclusion of the rest of the cd. So I started getting into the harder stuff, Thrice, Underoath, Atreyu and bands like that. I still, however, listen to green day and much of the more pop-punk "emo". Also something that never quite got away from me was the 90's rock from the radio - The goo goo dolls, The cardigans, EMF, Jesus Jones. The end.