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trolley:
Ok, so plot out your musical "route". Bands that have defined periods of your musical tastes from when you first got into music until present day.I'll give an example.

Starting in approximately 2002:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Weezer
Taking Back Sunday
AFI
Kill Hannah
Dashboard Confessional
Mew
Postal Service
Arcade Fire

Obviously my tastes have been relatively mainstream by other peoples standards, and perhaps don't indicate my true musical leanings over the years. But mine only spans a relaitvely short period (about 3 years) so please post your own and show us where you've come from to where you are now.

added the postal service. Can;t believe i forgot them.

Aphi:
Hmmmm......

Our Lady Peace
The Matthew Good band, which later became
Matt Good,
Rammstein(I am ashamed)
Dashboard Confessional
Broken Social Scene
Taking Back Sunday
Thursday
The Postal Service
and finally,
Metric.


And a long, rocky road it was.

Signum_Tenebrae:
Metallica
Fear Factory
Slayer
Cradle of Filth
Dimmu Borgir
Darkthrone
Burzum
Absu
Xasthur

a pack of wolves:
From when I first got really interested:
The Who
The Velvet Underground
Dawn of The Replicants
The Delgados
Greenday
NOFX
Dead Kennedys
Idlewild
Fugazi
Imbalance
Submission Hold
Fig 4.0
After this point it all gets just far too all over the place to have a defining band (and I'm pushing it with the last few really), aside from the fact that I've never stopped listening to any of the above.

lastclearchance:
I've thought about this sort of thing a lot.  I have the opinion that for everyone, there is one defining album--not necessarily your favorite album, or even your favorite album at the time, but an album by which all other albums are measured.  For me it's Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.  An example of its effect: I am incredibly forgiving of self-indulgent and melodramatic music because of my love for this album.  

I also think it happens more with albums with bands.  

Achtung Baby (U2)
Sixteen Stone (Bush)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins)
The Colour and the Shape (Foo Fighters)
The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails)
Kid A/Amnesiac (Radiohead)
Transatlanticism (Death Cab for Cutie)
Shake the Sheets (Ted Leo)

I can't remember what was between Radiohead and Death Cab but there was something.

I keep going back and editing this list.  I should probably leave it alone.

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