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your gateway band
Hector Gilbert:
I had a bit of a false dawn with Green Day for a while when I was nine or ten. Not that I stopped liking them, but I stopped listening to them because I said something bad to my mother that I didn't really understand at the time and I didn't quite get over the embarrassment and start listening to them again until I was around 17/18. I dug a lot of video game and formulaic electronic music in the meantime but I only really got into rock and otherwise more consumer-oriented music through Nine Inch Nails when I was 14 due to The Quake Soundtrack. For a year Nine Inch Nails was almost virtually all I listened to, but at 15 I started to branch out a bit. I only started getting into industrial music and krautrock two years ago, and prog and metal one year ago. So I'd consider Nine Inch Nails to be for the most part my gateway band, but not the be all and end all by any means.
As for my parents, my mother has been known to put on the dance-y music she likes on the stereo but she doesn't really force what she likes on anyone else. She appreciates elaborate yet rhythm-centric arrangements and singers with vocal resonance. She introduced me to groups that I liked a few songs off of but never really got into such as Alabama 3 and Manu Chao, and also Tears For Fears who I do dig quite a bit from time to time.
My father likes The Beatles, jazz music and spacey/ambient music, but has very strong views on the subject. He once told me that he "never got on with anyone who was into progressive rock", which I find a bit unsettling. I was planning on getting The Ladder and Magnification while visiting him, but now I'm not so sure! I give him plenty of credit for showing me some jazz I enjoyed, but that was only a year ago. One of my earlier introductions to rock music came with Sgt. Pepper's, but after a couple of weeks of my father purchasing the CD for me I wasn't that excited about it. I guess I'd consider most of my tastes to be primarily self-driven.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Kai ---The best thing I can say about my dad is that he's a big Zappa fan and most of his records don't suck. Most.
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You make it sound like a Zappa-loving parent is something less than extremely cool. I mean, it's Zappa!
Kai:
It's not that he has bad taste (He doesn't, there's alot of good music in there. Zep, King Crimson, CSNY/Neil Young, Allman Brothers, etc.) It's just that It's almost impossible to beat a dad who raised you on Beefheart.
Course, he really loves the Residents, so it's all good.
mechorg:
--- Quote from: Willis ---
--- Quote from: Revenge_Therapist ---You just make me feel old....
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You're not the only one pal. Kid A came out when I was...eh...almost 22. It is interesting from an "old man's point of view" to see the difference between my "gateway" band/bands and those of the kiddies here.
Off topic: we should start a QC Geriatrics for all us old folks. We can talk about casette tapes, CD long-boxes, and how "Creep was everywhere the summer of '93."
~~Willis, feeling nostalgic
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Go for it, Willis. I'll join you. :)
I really can't think of a 'gateway' band for me because
i've been listening to such different music for as long as i can remember.
so i guess i'll say it was listening to Moody Blues, Harry Chapin, and Yes from my dads record collection when i was 5.
I've been listening to Radiohead since Pablo Honey... I was 20 when kid A came out. I still remember unwrapping that album in my car and listening to the first 4 notes on max volume in my car driving back to the dorms. its forever etched into my memory.
Miroku:
--- Quote from: sXeSamurai ---Depeche Mood.
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MODE! DEPECHE MODE! M-O-D-E =P
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