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your gateway band
marenpoop:
yeah i couldn't think of a better title but i'll explain...
what in your experience was your band that opened the door for you to start listening to indie music? like, say you were listening to backstreet boys and then someone gave you...oh i dunno, radiohead's ok computer and you never looked back...
for me, i used to listen to whatever was on the radio when someone told me to get the flaming lips "the soft bulletin". she tricked me actually by telling me they sounded just like blink 182...haha needless to say i'm a huge flaming...head? i'm a huge flaming lips fan.
Praeserpium Machinarum:
Must have been a danish rockband called Kashmir, who aren't really indie and sell shitloads of records, anyway mainly their early records Travelogue and Cruzential(a sort of funk rock with song titles like Vote 4 Dick Taid, Prawn's Blues, Lollypork Stomp etc.
From there it just got weirder and weirder ;)
I might add that I had immensely bad taste before, namely Aqua *shudder* and does anyone remember Wamdue Project...jep
however just to show that I am in recovery, I am listening to Set Yourself On Fire right now and it's soooothing...
yipjumpmusic:
As bad, typical, cliche' as it sounds, Radiohead first...then Pinback. In between that I knew some of the basics but then after I found Pinback (sometime after BSL) I got the desire to search around for music instead of being a passive music lover.
Tartar Martyr:
I was in 8th grade and watching music videos on MTV. They played a Weezer video, I liked weezer a lot, still like Blue and Pinkerton a lot. Then they played "Stereo" by Pavement. I liked that song a lot. I bought Brighten the Corners the next day. I liked that cd a lot. I bought Slanted and Enchanted a week later and never looked back.
Druid:
Tool's Aniema.
Let me explain. At this point I was just going on recommendations from friends, the local college radio stations, and various mainstream magazines. I was searching for a review of Aniema and found the review of it on Pitchfork. Thus I was introduced to Pitchfork and various bands that they have reviewed.
Also Nirvana played a big role by introducing me to the Pixies and Sonic Youth. I ended up likeing those two bands more so then Nirvana.
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