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your gateway band
mizaktik:
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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.
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Very similar here, actually. I was at Stanford over the summer, and I saw on one kids iTunes the flaming lips, and having read about them in this comic, i asked the kid to burn it for me. Holy shit have my tastes changed since then....
ksolo84:
--- Quote from: Hector Gilbert --- 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
What did you say
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hooligan:
The Clash definitely got me pointed in the right direction.
However, I can truly say that it was the "Repo Man" soundtrack which launched me into the Boston hardcore scene. And I know that this is the case for many other mid-30 year old former punks. It is funny how many people in my age bracket will bring up that album when talking about early influences. After I heard that album, I ran right out and bought Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Fear, and Circle Jerks albums. Shortly thereafter I saw the Circle Jerks at the Rat in Boston, Slap Shot opened for them, that was my intro to the local scene.
All this lead to me getting “This is Boston, Not L.A.”, which got me into all kinds of local stuff.
Oh crap, and then there was the whole Discord “The Year in Seven Inches” record, that got me into straight edge…
-sam:
stragely enough it was Dave Matthews Band for me. It was having Bela guest on Before These Crowded Streets that really turned me onto the Flecktones -- I'd heard of them from a college roommate who was a fan. And when I was first getting into the tape trading scene I grabbed a lot of Phish shows because I figured I could trade those for the DMB shows that I really wanted. From there I started hearing about all these cool bands like SCI, moe., umphrey's etc, and the rest as they say, is history.
-sam
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