Fun Stuff > BAND
your gateway band
Trollstormur:
The Covenant. I downloaded Nexus Polaris' "Dragonheart" and was completely blown away by Hellhammer's masterful drumming. The 6 full minutes of 32nd notes on the doublebass was just too much; I wanted more. I checked out the other bands Hellhammer'd been in, and it brought me to a wild galaxy of christian hating, tribalist childer of Europa. from Mayhem to Arcturus and Bathory and even Cradle of Filth, I was hooked and became the metalist scum the world loathes today.
TheCourtJester:
Started with The Decemberists. "My mother was a chineze trapeze artist" at a party my cousin was having. My taste in music was limited to hard stuff (MSI, APC, other crazy shite), showtunes, and the usual mainstream stuffs from TV and radio. But I had mentioned I liked old Weezer...he kinda gave me a funny look and told me some other bands I might like.
Then one led to another...and here I am. I still listent to a lot of punk and "mainstream" stuff if it appeals to me. I didn't CHANGE the music I listened to, just broadened it.
myiaa:
Hole. I was searching for a song online, and I Soundgarden's Blackhole Sun came up in the search results, so I downloaded that because I thought "hey why not". Then I moved away from the bratty girl rock I used to listen to and into indier things.
BrittanyMarie:
My uncle force-fed me Pixies from a very very young age. Then after he finally got through to me (epiphany at age 12), I started going after similar artists, who covered them, who they covered, the producers' other stuff. Basically I looked up everything on the sleeve. Yay
Hecuba:
For me, it was a friend who introduced me to the Magnetic Fields (who recently made their debut on a major label, I may add). I guess I would've been about 12, thus I didn't get a few of the more risqúe bits of 69 Love Songs, but I still loved it. Around the same time I was given a Sparklehorse CD for my birthday and introduced to Belle & Sebastian by a Scottish expat friend... and history was made, I guess.
I wouldn't count myself among the never-looked-back sect, though. I'm still a R.E.M. and Bob Dylan fanatic, plus I like some more mainstream stuff (the Barenaked Ladies in particular, and the Wallflowers and AFI [although not their most recent album. Blech]).
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version