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yeah i couldn't think of a better title but i'll explain...
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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Must have been a danish rockband called Kashmir, who aren't really indie and sell shitloads of records, anyway mainly their early records Travelogue and Cruzential(a sort of funk rock with song titles like Vote 4 Dick Taid, Prawn's Blues, Lollypork Stomp etc.
From there it just got weirder and weirder ;)
I might add that I had immensely bad taste before, namely Aqua *shudder* and does anyone remember Wamdue Project...jep
however just to show that I am in recovery, I am listening to Set Yourself On Fire right now and it's soooothing...
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As bad, typical, cliche' as it sounds, Radiohead first...then Pinback. In between that I knew some of the basics but then after I found Pinback (sometime after BSL) I got the desire to search around for music instead of being a passive music lover.
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I was in 8th grade and watching music videos on MTV. They played a Weezer video, I liked weezer a lot, still like Blue and Pinkerton a lot. Then they played "Stereo" by Pavement. I liked that song a lot. I bought Brighten the Corners the next day. I liked that cd a lot. I bought Slanted and Enchanted a week later and never looked back.
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Tool's Aniema.
Let me explain. At this point I was just going on recommendations from friends, the local college radio stations, and various mainstream magazines. I was searching for a review of Aniema and found the review of it on Pitchfork. Thus I was introduced to Pitchfork and various bands that they have reviewed.
Also Nirvana played a big role by introducing me to the Pixies and Sonic Youth. I ended up likeing those two bands more so then Nirvana.
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I don't listen to indie.
I suppose you could say my gateway band would have been maybe Cradle of Filth. I can even remember how it happened. At the time I was heavily into anime and just starting to get into hard rock music via the likes of late Metallica, Rammstein etc. Well, I was downloading anime music videos, (typically geeky) and I got one with Cradle of Filth's cover of Iron Maiden's 'Hallowed be thy Name' and I was just blown away.
Then, soon after, I got one with Dimmu Borgir - Fear and Wonder leading into Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell. Hearing that dark, claustrophobic orchestral piece leading into that little cough and that scream of "YOUR GONNA BURN IN HEELLL" set me down the road to decent shit.
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Again, dont listen to Indie.
It was Iron Maiden. When I was younger, didnt like music at all. Nothing on the TV or Radio interested me at all, thought it was all complete crap. Only bits I liked where bits of J-Rock in the anime I watched.
Anyway, one day was playing Carmageddon 2 at my friends house. And listening to the music...which happen to Iron Maiden and I loved it. I I end up looking up more of Maiden's music and going onto the internet to find more bands like them. And it just went on from there.
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Rage Against The Machine and The Beastie Boys.
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pearl jam. i got vitalogy when i was ten, and my brother sat down with me and made me count the beats in 'my last exit.' one, two, three, four, FIVE!!!!! one, two, three four, FIVEEE!!!!
it was insane.
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The Poster Children. I sort of randomly came across them when mucking about on the Internet when I was a young lad. I liked the things that I read, so I picked up Daisychain Reaction, which was a revelation in two ways: 1) Music that's not played on the radio can be much better than music that is and 2) I like music that my parents don't.
From then on, I pretty much lived by the Parasol Records catalogue. They used to send out a big paper one that I would go through underlining things that sounded cool (or even bands that had nice names) and try to find out more about. I started out with the Champaign/Urbana scene at the time (which was impossibly awesome) and then branched out to the rest of the indie world.
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The Eels. Was in an IRC room and someone was raving about Bus Stop Boxer. At the time, I basically didn't listen to music, but had them DCC me it anyway. Played it endlessly. That led to lots more The Eels. But actually, I mostly blame this site for the indie I listen to.
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Manic Street Preachers
<3
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Oddly enough Lard led me to punk rock which led me to indie rock, which led me back to punk rock......
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Thats a loooooong story. Basically, back in high school ,there was a band that one of my friends put together that I cant for the life of me remember. They were'nt that bad but thats beside the point. My friend, the drummer at the time, has mostly the same taste in music as me, so when I was listening to something, he'd recommend something I may like, so I'd check it out. Eventually, his semi-obscure taste in music reflected on me and I got into a whole bunch of indie bands.
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I suppose with me it would probably be Sonic Youth it explains my penchant for noisy and experimental music.
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Coldplay led me to Radiohead's OK Computer and the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin.
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I don't listen to indie, with the exception of maybe, 3 bands.
Of my avant-garde/fucked up music:
Primus and Zappa, which led to Beefheart and the Residents and Buckethead and all that jazz.
Metal:
Black Sabbath, which led to Iron Maiden, which led to a shitload of other stuff.
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I started out with the Champaign/Urbana scene
I have a soft spot for that scene being the HUM fan that I am. I've found that Champaign/Urbana and Chicago produce lots of bands that I like.
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Coldplay led me to Radiohead's OK Computer and the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin.
Exactly the same apples for me, except I bought Kid A first. Not the easiest Radiohead album to start with but I love it.
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I pretty much started out liking indie stuff...I just stole my dad's CDs I'd never heard that looked cool, and that's how I got into Primus, and then I started looking up independent trance music artists on mp3.com, and once I'd got into the habit of finding my own music actively, and my tastes changed more in the direction of alt-rock, I just...started finding indie music.
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I don't think their indie but a while back I started listening to the Strokes. That began my turning away from bands like Slipknot and Korn, etc. Then it progressed from there. First true Indie band would have to be Spoon, I think I picked them up from these forums to be honest.
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I downloaded some Interpol stuff when I was on KaZaA looking for Matchbox 20's "Bright Lights." I had no idea what it was and I started seeking out similar stuff actively and borrowing random CDs from the library. The first random CD I ever borrowed was Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which I'd never heard of.
So yeah, I kind of lucked out on both those counts, but they definitely opened up a whole new world.
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Exactly the same apples for me, except I bought Kid A first. Not the easiest Radiohead album to start with but I love it.
Kid A was my second; it took me forever to get into. It was one of those albums that I at first hated myself for spending the $16 to get but after three months finally really listened to.
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elliott smith and iron & wine, at about the same time. so basically acoustic stuff introduced me to indie
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The Beatles.
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I guess you could say it was Bright Eyes because that's the first indie band I've listened to. But I'm constantly having friends introduce me to new music, and the two people who have introduced me to the most bands are heavily into indie.
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I guess "Good News for People who Love Bad News" got me into the genre...
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I would have to say my gateway band would be R.E.M. Obvious, I know. I did the whole "who influenced them" thing and wound up buying the VU box set, Peel Slowly and See when I was a senior in high school. It tooke me awhile to really indulge and understand what that band was all about. I really didn't start to go all-out indie until around 1999/2000. I was on an R.E.M. message board and someone posted an "Indie Rock Primer" which included such gems as Slanted and Enchanted, Daydream Nation, Paul's Boutique, and Surfer Rosa. I started there and never looked back. And now its nice when I hear bands talk about listening to R.E.M. and how they influenced them.
~~Willis
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The band that got me into metal was Metallica.
More specifically, a cassette tape of "Ride The Lightning" I bought when I was about 10 years old.
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I listened to Pink Floyd and nothing else growing up. Then I heard 'Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight' by The Misfits and I was hooked.
The Misfits really opened the door for just everything. They led me to Black Flag and then reading Get In The Van which is Henry Rollins' tour journal entries got me into a bunch of bands that were on Black Flag's record label, SST. Those bands would include Sonic Youth and Husker Du. That was the stuff that got me into indie I guess.
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I can't really remember anymore. It could well have been 'One Head, Two Arms, Two Legs' by Dawn Of The Replicants. Or maybe my mum's Velvet Underground 'best of' album, but I can't remember if I played that much before getting into indie for myself. For punk, it was 'Insomniac'.
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yeah i guess i shouldn't have restricted it to just indie, i just said that because of my own experience. i should have said whatever you are listening to now. :)
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My mom had an indie rock band when I was a kid. If I had ever found a gateway, it would have had to be a gateway out.
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I think a lot of people have answered a similar query in the thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/viewtopic.php?t=5211).
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The Afghan Whigs
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my introduction to indie was when i realized that i absolutely hated punk.
i was punk for so long, id have the word punk n my head all day.
then once at a show i realized i didnt like the atonal wailing and incompetence i saw.
there was a month where i had nothing to listen to except nick cave and the saints.
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Radiohead. Bought Ok Computer for reasons that escape me at present and it jsut blew me away. Then I sort of hit a musical low of litening to shitty punk and nu metal for a while (surely a low point for me) before I actually aquired some taste before going to Uni and starting to listen to this that and everything else.
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Muffy is going to slate me for this............
Feeder. One of my associates in class was listening to polythene on his personal stereo type things, I went and bought the ablum straight after class.
For those who don't know jack about feeder, they've only turned shitty recently.
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I remember early Feeder, and that's a lie
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Yeah, i hope Muffy kicks your mofoing backside.
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Happened when I was 14.
I was a freshman in high school, and was the music reviewer for the school paper. I was getting to a point where I wanted to try and 'break' a band or album to my school peers. Change the music scene, you know?
Of course, I was 14 and didn't listen to much music outside 'good' MTV rock bands (Green Day, RHCP, the like).
At this time, I had never heard of Radiohead, but when I was looking in the CD store and saw the cover to Kid A, I was just drawn to it. I thought I had maybe heard of the band before, and thought I heard something about the album being good, but not a damn thing else.
That night, I put it on my dad's hi-fi when no one was home and put it just loud enough where I could get completely lost in it.
It was mesmerizing, enchanting, amazing...
I didn't know enough about music, I guess, to be put off by it. I was listening to it with completely open ears. When I heard Thom Yorke's voice on the title track, all digitized and muted, it was one of the most exciting things I had heard. The opening keyboard synth drones of "Everything In It's Right Place" were infectiously planted in my head from the first time I heard them.
I tried to get my friends into them, and they'd make fun of me. When they were juniors and seniors in high school, I'd hear them talking to people about how badass of a record Kid A was and laugh at them and point out when I first made them listen, they mocked me profusely for liking it. They'd look down at their feet all sheepishly and I'd laugh.
After listening to Kid A, I looked up reviews on the album to help write mine. I came across a pitchfork Top 20 albums of 2000 list which included Sigur Ros' Agaetis Byrjun and Modest Mouse's The Moon And Antarctica. After downloading and loving those two albums, in addition to Kid A, I was gone down the indie pathway for good.
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I didn't know enough about music, I guess, to be put off by it
What does this even mean? Oh, and
"Everything In It's Right Place"
"Its", thank you very much.
I was going to comment on how old this made me feel, given that you were 14 when Kid A came out, then I realised that I was 14 when Kid A came out. Which means I started listening to Radiohead when I was 11. Which, frankly, is quite worrying.
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You just make me feel old....
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Postal service. My best friend sent me an mp3, and i got hooked.
Though I listened to radiohead loooooong before that.
I think most of their music came out either pre-me, or when I was very young, and not quite self-aware...
but then again, i'm pretty vague on when exactly they came out.
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BlindSuperHero, nobody likes a grammar nazi.
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Yeah, ain't nobody nohow who likes them a grammer nazzie.
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You just make me feel old....
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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After buying The Moon and Antarctica, I basicly put down all the stuff I was listening to at the time and went indie from then on.
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You certainly did the right thing.
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BlindSuperHero, nobody likes a grammar nazi.
Since when did "Superhero" warrant two capital letters?
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The Covenant. I downloaded Nexus Polaris' "Dragonheart" and was completely blown away by Hellhammer's masterful drumming. The 6 full minutes of 32nd notes on the doublebass was just too much; I wanted more. I checked out the other bands Hellhammer'd been in, and it brought me to a wild galaxy of christian hating, tribalist childer of Europa. from Mayhem to Arcturus and Bathory and even Cradle of Filth, I was hooked and became the metalist scum the world loathes today.
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Started with The Decemberists. "My mother was a chineze trapeze artist" at a party my cousin was having. My taste in music was limited to hard stuff (MSI, APC, other crazy shite), showtunes, and the usual mainstream stuffs from TV and radio. But I had mentioned I liked old Weezer...he kinda gave me a funny look and told me some other bands I might like.
Then one led to another...and here I am. I still listent to a lot of punk and "mainstream" stuff if it appeals to me. I didn't CHANGE the music I listened to, just broadened it.
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Hole. I was searching for a song online, and I Soundgarden's Blackhole Sun came up in the search results, so I downloaded that because I thought "hey why not". Then I moved away from the bratty girl rock I used to listen to and into indier things.
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My uncle force-fed me Pixies from a very very young age. Then after he finally got through to me (epiphany at age 12), I started going after similar artists, who covered them, who they covered, the producers' other stuff. Basically I looked up everything on the sleeve. Yay
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For me, it was a friend who introduced me to the Magnetic Fields (who recently made their debut on a major label, I may add). I guess I would've been about 12, thus I didn't get a few of the more risqúe bits of 69 Love Songs, but I still loved it. Around the same time I was given a Sparklehorse CD for my birthday and introduced to Belle & Sebastian by a Scottish expat friend... and history was made, I guess.
I wouldn't count myself among the never-looked-back sect, though. I'm still a R.E.M. and Bob Dylan fanatic, plus I like some more mainstream stuff (the Barenaked Ladies in particular, and the Wallflowers and AFI [although not their most recent album. Blech]).
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Incubus... yeah, sounds odd, but when I started listening to them, I joined up on a fansite's messageboard which was populated by a lot of indie and punk fans. And here I am today :)
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I have no idea what indie music is but i know what got me into music in the first place
Prodigy - Breathe
Korn - Got The Life
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my gateway into indie:
they might be giants, when i was like 8. my friend's nanny was listening to them in the car, and we'd all sing along. it was awesome.
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Best. Nanny. Ever.
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My gateway band was defintetly the Cure, my dad was a huge 80's pop fan, so I was exposed to The Pixies, The Smiths, Depeche Mood, and The Police, this led to listening to Sonic Youth, Interpol, Flaming LIps, and Wilco. I'm (unfortunetly) still in my punk phase, my punk gateway band was The Ramones, I heard them on a old skate video about four years ago, and then it was more covered bands like, The Clash, MxPx, Rancid, NO/FX, and Anti-Flag and The Sex Pistols, but it got better when my 8th grade girlfriend introduced me to The Damned, Black Flag, Op. Ivy, Dead Kennedys, Jawbreaker, and the Germs, so I wen't headfirst into it. But mostly it was thanks to The Cure and Depeche Mood.
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I never really had a gateway band, the closest thing would be R.E.M. After the phase where you listen to basically your parents music (a lot of which I am still into) I got into R.E.M. in the late 1980's, pretty much the same time my father did. After that I skipped most of the grunge phase in favour of Wilco, Moby, Depeche Mode, the Cure and a lot of mid-90's post grundge alt-rock. I was heavily into the philly local music scene, groups like G. Love & Special Sauce, Bloodhound Gang (at the time), Trip 66, Ben Harper, etc.
God, this was all back around 1996 or earlier, I'm feeling pretty old now. Interesting sidetrack. R.E.M. and Moby lead me to Mission of Burma, which lead me to the Pixies and Husker Du.
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I feel old and I'm only a 16 year old sophmore...I really have been listining to The Cure for ever.
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My gateway band was Weezer. I took my sisters blue album cd after she left it in the car when I was about eight and I still have it seven years later.
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I fell out of love with Weezer, they are no ridicously popular at school and elsewhere. "Buddy Holly" is a great song, but extremely overplayed.
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phantom planet.
i looked into their blog cause i'm a huge geek and Alex Greenfield or Greenwald or whatever had his ideal mix tape. it had things like Lightning Bolt, Hella, Deerhoof, all this stuff i'd never heard of.. and it branched off from that.
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Gateway bands : The cure, depeche mode, pixies, radiohead, etc.
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Boyfriend sent me 'Company Calls' by Death Cab.
From that day on my taste in music pretty much broadened to most genres.
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For me, it would have been a mixture of three people's influences.
I was listening to the Manic Street Preachers and Oasis and stuff a lot, but then I was talking to my friend Sophie and she introduced me to the Killers, the Kaiser Chiefs and Le Tigre. Le Tigre obviously being electronic pop more than indie, but I wanted to include it anyway.
Then there was her (now ex) boyfriend Nathan and his liking for Ratatat, the Shins and the Arcade Fire. Damn him for not being online much anymore - I hate the radio and he told me about new music.
Finally, my (now ex) boyfriend made me get Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's self titled album, which is fantastic, and I just want to mention once again that I'm seeing them live next month!!
I have a tendency to warble on for hours about this kind of thing so I shall stop before I get carried away...
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It's really weird seeing how different groups all got into music in different ways. A lot of Metalheads seen to have come from actually buy music themselves or from nerd areas like Anime and Video Games.
Yet the Indie lot mostly come from people giving them music or their parents.*
*Why yes, I do know this is a sweeping statement because I haven't go back and read the topic again in full and that it's a limited data set. I am also aware my point as the same flaws as all other sweeping statments ever.
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I've come to the place I am from research and buying albums. If my friends had influenced my tastes, I would listen to top 40 modern rock or something more metal/gothy, and my parents are musically a blank spot.
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Also, I've got to say my parents probably did musically influence me. Actually, they certainly did: You've got my dad brining me up ona diet of prog rock and old-school punk, and my mum feeding me everything from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Bob Dylan. My parents musical taste generally rocks. I mean, I got my dad into Nightwish and Ayreon, and my mum's now a firm Skyclad lover.
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i'm not an indie listener either, but here's the story anyway.
i was big into(lord help me) things like bon jovi when i was younger(say 13) and upon getting into highschool a friend i had made gave me a copy of skinny puppy's album 'last rights'. it took my a while to really get into and understand it, but from there it was an easy slide into other things...haujobb, nin, fla, etc. it also got me into things like the aforementioned radiohead and just looking for something different for the sake of doing so.
(i still hum along to bon jovi on the radio occasionally)
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BLACK SABBATH
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Well, my own mother used to delve into the punk world and bring us back gifts from the past. I grew up crooning to the Pixies' "Caribou" and "Debaser". Thankfully, I was able to avoid the Good Charlotte stuff in Grade 8. I got really into this local band, Alexisonfire (they used to be small!) and I fell in love... with Dallas' voice, especially. I confided in them the entire year, embracing my misunderstood pre-teen angst. Then Billy Talent exploded, and they became my next obsession. I went to see a show with them headlining and METRIC and Death from Above 1979. That's when it all started. I quickly ditched Billy Talent and fell in love with hipper-than-thou culture. Voila. (Once in a while, I still pull out my alexisonfire on a sad, stormy night. But don't tell anyone!)
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I was also always a fan of U2 and Supertramp, due to my parents. *HI MUM!*
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Hmm... I got Radiohead's Pablo Honey back in grade 6 (it was pretty old by then... 3 or four years), my parents listened to the cure, and more recently, I deeper into indie with Modest Mouse's Lonesome Crowded West... and let's not forget Sloan, back when they were still indie.
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Nirvana and Pink Floyd
Nirvana led to Meat Puppets and later, the Pixies and Sonic Youth. Pixies led to Velvet Underground, which led to various guitar rock bands. Sonic Youth led to stuff like Blonde Redhead and other experimental art rock.
Pink Floyd led to Syd Barret's solo stuff (which is damned fucked up) which led to Frank Zappa and then other various really messed up bands. Pink Floyd also led to Radiohead, which led to various prog acts, including The Mars Volta, which are now one of my favorite bands.
I missed out on a lot of the really mainstream indie acts, partly because I spent a long time with limited money, and partly because I just can't really reconcile some of them with my tastes. Somewhere along the line I went through a goth phase where I picked up a taste for industrial, and I've retained a love for Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and Frontline Assembly (my favorite industrial band) although I've sort of distanced myself from KMFDM, Rammstein, and some other industrial acts. Lately I've been slowly trying out new subgenres based on recommendations, and liking some and hating others. I picked up the Black Keys a few months ago on several recommendations and was awestruck. I tried out Decemberists on other recommendations and I couldn't stand them. Postal Service makes me want to beat the shit out of someone.
So, I wouldn't say I'm exactly indie, but I have some indie tastes.
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Also, I've got to say my parents probably did musically influence me. Actually, they certainly did: You've got my dad brining me up ona diet of prog rock and old-school punk, and my mum feeding me everything from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Bob Dylan. My parents musical taste generally rocks. I mean, I got my dad into Nightwish and Ayreon, and my mum's now a firm Skyclad lover.
Coolest parents EVER.
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My parents aren't too shabby either. My Dad introduced me to Captain Beefheart and my Mum's a fan of John Zorn.
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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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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.
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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.
You make it sound like a Zappa-loving parent is something less than extremely cool. I mean, it's Zappa!
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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.
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You just make me feel old....
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
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.
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Depeche Mood.
MODE! DEPECHE MODE! M-O-D-E =P
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yeah i couldn't think of a better title but i'll explain...
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.
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....
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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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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…
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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.
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