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Freelance Physicist:
(Sorry about the long post, I just prefer the narrative form to lists)

From birth to thirteen years later, I listened to nothing but oldies--I only listened to music in the car and K-Earth 101 was the only station they played.  Thus, my first defining band:

The Temptations (almost entirely due to their song "My Girl")

This lasted until I got to Junior High, when I discovered that my boom box had a radio option and I listened to nothing but hip hop for three years just to piss off the rest of my family (I liked the music, too, but looking back makes me think it was a rebellion in a small, pathetic way).

Tupac

Sophomore year of high school, my best friend from Jr. High came back to my hometown after three years in another state.  Every time he'd come over to hang out at my house, he would switch the radio to a rock station, strap me to a chair, and drill me on the bands that were played ("Hear this?  This is Pearl Jam.  This is good music.  Hear this?  This is Nirvana, this is also good music."  (OK, he didn't strap me to a chair, but he refused to listen to hip hop.)).  He then got me as a gift my first punk cd

Blink 182 (shut up!  I know you know all the words to "Dammit" and "Josie")

which shortly led to

Green Day

Of course, I think almost all high schoolers and college students go through this phase:

Jimi Hendrix
The Doors

Freshman year of college, internet radio (yay university internet connections!) introduced me to jazz in a big way.

John Coltrane
Digable Planets (rap that samples jazz, how cool is that!)

Then, last year in the fall, I was playing through my CDs (I had built a pretty good collection by then) and put on Pearl Jam's 'Yield'.  I'd had it for some time, but for some reason, something clicked in my head and I couldn't listen to any other band for the entire semester.  Since then, they've been my defining band against whom I measure all other bands.

Pearl Jam

Now, though, Ted Leo + Pharmacists is starting to give PJ some competition.  Nothing Nice to Say has been introducing me to some good punk music (esp. Against Me!).  QC => indie music, etc. etc.

Kanno:
I don't think I could even make one of these for myself, I've listened to so much music.  I guess the favorite of my most, most favorite bands that influenced me would be:

Led Zep (and every other classic rock band, for that matter)
Spin Doctors (I still listen to PfoK and it KICKS ASS)
Green Day
Misfits
Smashing Pumpkins
Weezer
<--lots of metal
between here--->
Mos Def/Talib Kweli (hip hop phase)
Millencolin
Ben Folds Five
Yoko Kanno (hence the name)
The Get Up Kids
Ben Kweller
The Postal Service
Modest Mouse
--now--

I'm not sure who my next musical crush is going to be on.  I've been listening to a lot of indie bands posted in these forums, but none have really impressed me much like the postal service album has.  I went to sleep to that album for about a month straight.

DeathrockZombie:
Boyz2Men
Snoop
Guns N Roses
Black Sabbath
Thelonious Monk
My Dying Bride
Sisters of Mercy
Bauhaus
Bella Morte
TSOL
Cock Sparrer
Nerve Agents

Psiogen:
1990-2004:

The Rubber Dahls (My mom's band)
The Beatles
They Might Be Giants
XTC
King Crimson
The Velvet Underground
Brian Eno
Gentle Giant
The Beach Boys
Van Der Graaf Generator
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Dismemberment Plan
Antipop Consortium
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Animal Collective
The Wrens
Wu-Tang Clan

2005? We'll see.

El Opium:
since 1999: (If it were possible some of this would be drawn more like a tree)
Nirvana
Sunna
Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive
Can
The Smiths
The Fire Show
Big Black
No Doctors
The Comsat Angels
Wolf Eyes
Hair Police
Yellow Swans
Swans
Charalambides
Growing
Skullflower
(probably forgetting a few)

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