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KharBevNor:
Having discovered Finntroll through recommendations, and after downloading and hugely enjoying all their albums, I decided to search for more music in a similiar vein. Amazon led me to Borknagar and Asmegin, whilst google, in it's infinite wisdom, suggested Skyclad. I downloaded some Skyclad off of DC++, just some random tracks. Getting into them took me ages. It was too different, at first. But then I realised how catchy 'When God Logs Off' was, and how good the lyrics were. I read their lyrics. Found they were incredible. Downloaded more songs based on which had the best lyrics. Ended up with all their stuff. Despite my best efforts I've only managed to buy a single album. Fucking obscurity. I think they REALLY started to click for me as my favourite band around february of this year though, and this is I think to do with me slowly developing a generally pagan worldview over this period, which of course makes Skyclad a whole load more relevant. I also started developing a strong emotional attachment to songs such as 'Penny Dreadful', 'Helium', 'Fainting by Numbers' and so forth.

What an unimaginably awesome band. Finding someone else who's a fan always warms the cockles of my heart, and it's a relatively rare thing, even amongst metalheads. I keep trying to introduce people to them and are not often successful. This makes me really sad sometime. I genuinely wish they had any sort of popularity. They'd do things like tour then.

Schmendrick:
When I was around twelve or thirteen I pretty much only listened to Weezer and The Barenaked Ladies. My brother, who is seven years older than me, was not a fan of my music taste. He would play Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd for me whenever we were driving around in the car and then would leave his whole cd case in the car for me 'by accident'. It got me into some really awesome stuff that I still adore and respect today. I have a good brother.

Also when I was around three or so my sister, who is nine years older, would put on Nirvana and teach me how to head bang and mosh. I would mosh in my car seat and sing/scream along.

Trollstormur:
I'm really proud of discovering Korpiklaani by meself. it's too fun of a band to hate :D

soak:
I tried desperately to be the cool older brother with my little sister, but it never happened.

No one else in my family has any taste in music, case in point my Dad's favourite artists are Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys and East 17 (no I do not have two dads!).

La Creme:
Eels: In late 6th grade, after a long night of singing the Tenacious D CD, Keiffer rolling around in a sleeping bag and saying "I'm like a steamroller, only jewish", and my friend's sister bitching at us from downstairs, Keiffer decided to put on the Eels' "I Like Birds". I was blown away. Later that month, I went to a store and bought "Beautiful Freak". From there, my love for Eels grew. To this day I am a huge fan.

Liquid Tension Experiment: Whilst walking about at jazz camp with "friends", (people of equal playing level; anyone better than you wanted nothing to do with you, and you wanted nothing to do with people worse than you) we were trying to out-band one another. I won the indie with a sharp Sugarplastic to the face. But when we entered into prog territory, I was quite knocked-on-my-ass (at this point, the only prog I listened to was ELP, Symphony X, The Moody Blues, and Renaissance). One guy mentioned LTE and said they were the best band to play with distortion and without a singer in the history of rock and roll. I figured they were worth a check out.

After jazz camp and nearing school, I ran into my actual friend Oliver from camp at Amoeba records. Whilst searching the Tom Waits used CD's, Oliver came up to me and said "I found the last LTE cd." and I thought "shite". Turned out Oliver and me were going to school together though, and in a trade for loaning him the first Sandman graphic novel, he burned me a copy of the first LTE cd. Three songs on it are now amongst the 25 most listened to of mine and have been since I got the CD.

Jimi Hendrix: The first concious memory I have of really getting into Jimi was when I was playing guitar in my room recently after I had gotten my DD-6. I was doing a lot of echoey stuff with the Wah, and my dad came in and said "Are you playing '1983...' by Jimi?" and I said no. He played it for me and my love for Jimi (which was already existent but only in the form of liking a couple popular cuts off 'Are You Experienced?') increased ten-fold. Jimi is now one of my several guitar heroes.

Mr. Bungle: I found out about Bungle shortly after listening to GWAR for the first time. I never really bothered to check them out, but their name stayed a lurkin' in my subconcious. About two years later, my brother's saying to me "You gotta check out this band Mr. Bungle. They're like GWAR, but with a clown gimmick!" Although he was totally wrong, I listened to some samples, decided I liked it, and vowed to buy a CD later.
A few months passed, and my friend Jordy kept going up to me at school and saying "I was lookin' atchoo while you was lookin' at me..." in a very Brando voice. I asked him after the 10th or 11th time what the fuck it was all about. He played me 'Egg', then 'Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy', and finally 'Carousel'. It was then that I fell in love.
DISCLAIMER: I still assumed my brother was right about the clown gimmick after these three songs, but to any of you who are wanting to check out Bungle in the future, they are not a band about clowns. So don't make that assumption.

The Sugarplastic: My brother's friend Dustin was over, and I kept hearing stomping coming from his room. I went in and found that they were both sitting, my brother drawing, and Dustin reading, stomping their feet along to 'Ottowa Bonesaw'. I asked Dustin what it was and he said "Damn good". Later that week, he burned "Radio Jejune" for my brother and within a day, I had burned a copy of his and knew every note of every song.


There, 5 of my favorite band, and how I got introduced to them, in a nutshell.

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