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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Ikrik on 26 Mar 2008, 20:07
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Before you guys were the cool, hip, and listened to great music, what did you listen to? What bands do you not listen to anymore....and why? I find when I talk to my friends that they used to listen to "bad" music and I was wondering which bands you were all listening to before you started listening to "real" music. I know that my favourite band used to be Disturbed. I used to think that they were metal and my friend and I still argue about what kind of music they are. I say they're hard rock at best, but he still defends them as metal. Another band I used to listen to was Tool, but I can't really stand them anymore....Maynard James Keenan isn't as talented as people think he is. So what were you listening to before you got educated in good listening?
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The only band I listened to that I don't think is that good anymore is like... Def Leppard. I listened to them in '87, before I got into Jane's Addiction and the Cure and REM and stuff.
But I don't really think they're that bad for a pop-metal band.
I'm not sure I ever listened to anything I would consider honestly terrible, like Limp Bizkit terrible.
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Before I listened to good music (the road at which started at Weezer's Green Album, which I've also disowned a long time ago), it started at a copy of Stone Temple Pilots' last album, Shangri La-Dee-Da. Before that, I was an avowed fan of the Backstreet Boys and Rockapella.
Yeah.
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I used to be pretty into the Lion King soundtrack.
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I'm going to look for my first few posts on this forum, ever. Get ready for lulz.
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Man, I am still pretty into the Lion King soundtrack.
Also, I went from country to boy bands to Linkin Park (they were pretty much my favorite for a few years, and basically all I listened to) to now. But as I still don't really think I'm cool I guess I don't belong in this topic. I'm going to go.
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Korn, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, System of a Down... I hit them all pretty hard.
And I still do. Damn, I'm never going to be cool...
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Man, I am still pretty into the Lion King soundtrack.
Pretty sure I still know all the words to "I Just Can't Wait to Be King".
I have no regrets.
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I think I am failing to find issue with Rockapella and The Lion King. Keep on keepin' on guys.
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I used to like Creed. I can blame my dad, though, I asked for the rolling stones but he wasn't comfortable with the content of some of their songs, though he had no trouble listening to them on the radio.
They came up on my pandora recently, I think it was the Down station. WTF, I mean really, W.T.F?
I listen to Rob Zombie and SoaD sometimes still, when they come up on pandora. Same with tool and NIN, don't like them enough to thumbs-up them though. Korn and Slipknot are not happening.
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This is long, but bear with me, it's funny:
NOFX, Lagwagon, MXPX, Fall Out Boy, No Use For A Name, Goldfinger, Green Day (their older stuff), Brand New, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, A New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Something Corporate, The Offspring, Unwritten Law, Long Shot Hero, Slick Shoes, Anti-Flag, Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Millencollin, Saves the Day, Sugarcult, Reggie and the Full Effect, Mest, The Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, Rancid, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Descendents, The Mad Caddies, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pennywise, Pulley, Good Riddance, Strung Out, Senses Fail, Agnostic Front, The Starting Line, The Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Fugazi, The Unseen, Guttermouth, Black Flag, The Distillers, Minor Threat, Catch 22, The Suicide Machines, Streetlight Manifesto, Mustard Plug, RX Bandits, Five Iron Frenzy, Southcott, Silverstein, Chiodos, Billy Talent, Buck-O-Nine, Finch, Funeral For a Friend, Thrice, Taking Back Sunday, Boys Night Out, Allister, Amber Pacific, AFI, Panic! At The Disco, Race The Sun, Anberlin, Armor For Sleep, Daphne Loves Derby, Angels and Airwaves, HORSE the Band, JamisonParker, Jack's Mannequin, Pinback, Dashboard Confessional, Secondhand Serenade, Matchbook Romance, Emery, The Junior Varsity, theAUDITION, The Spill Canvas, Rookie of the Year, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Thursday, Asteria, Avery Pkwy, The Juliana Theory, Snow Patrol, Waking Ashland, X's For Eyes, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Forecast, Hidden In Plain View, Monty Are I, Saosin, Jonas Sees In Color, LASTWINTER, Sleepaway, The Classic Crime, The Morning Of, Forgive Durden, Run Kid Run, Moneen, Thin Dark Line, etc.
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Back in 6th grade and Middle School I listened to the radio. This was back when pop-punk was cool. Although in 8th grade I did listen to the Aquabats, and I still think they're pretty cool.
In High School I pretty much exclusively listened to Metal.
Now I listen to a whole lot of stuff, Metal still included. But I will never listen to pop-punk again.
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I used to listen to the Chili Peppers obsessively in high school. I still think they're pretty cool, but I haven't listened to them in years.
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I started off on classic rock, then got into mainstream metal (never really nu-metal) and industrial rock. I can't really think of any bands I ever was really into that I've disowned, but there's certainly a few that I listen to very, very rarely nowadays, often for reasons (or to material) I didn't appreciate originally. Actually, I wrote a blog post on this subject last year:
http://mirkgard.blogspot.com/2007/06/ive-had-this-post-in-draft-form-for.html (http://mirkgard.blogspot.com/2007/06/ive-had-this-post-in-draft-form-for.html)
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Hello, my name is Spluff and it has been two years since I last listened to Slipknot.
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This is long, but bear with me, it's funny:
buuuuuuhhh
It's eerie that the last half of that list reminds me of my bitch ex-girlfriend's ass taste in music. Neat.
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I used to listen to Coldplay and Jet a lot. No seriously, a lot.
I've only really been listening to "indie" stuff since December '06.
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A while back I listened to Coldplay (the Parachutes era so to be fair it was still some occasionally decent stuff) and a whole lot of The Offspring. This was in middle school. I got into "cool" music, most notably all the ambient/"post-rock" stuff that I listen to almost exclusively these days back in 9th grade or so which means about 5 years ago. I also used to listen to Linkin Park sometimes. And I liked it.
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I also listened to Eminem and main-stream gangsta rap. Boy, those weren't the days.
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Wait... What??? I'm supposed to be cool now? Well, so much for that...
I still listen to Steel Eye Span, Mary Black, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Harry Belefonte, Joan Baez, Edith Piaf, Kingston Trio, Fleetwood Mac, Emmylou Harris, and so forth. So, still not cool.
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Woody Guthrie will always be cool.
The first music I can remember hearing is Ivor Cutler, Bob Dylan and Queen. So, nothing basically. There have been some ill-advised choices along the way, such as Rednex, Guttermouth and Oasis, but I never really liked Oasis I just bought their records because everybody else did and my interest in Guttermouth lasted only a few months really. There's a lot of other stuff some people probably think is bad music, such as the ropier end of '90s dance music, pop punk and emo pop, but sod it. I like Reel 2 Real featuring the Mad Stuntman, Dagobah and Farside.
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Yeah, what I used to listen to that I don't any more was pretty much a whole big pile of mid-90s skater punk, also the Beastie Boys, I think I liked Oasis when I was like 14? Also a pile of grunge.
My favorite band when I was 14 was the Smashing Pumpkins, and I still listen to them pretty frequently (although not anything after Mellon Collie). I also still occasionally listen to stuff like Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, etc etc. I guess I started hitting my trip-hop phase pretty hardcore around 15 or 16 and I still listen to a lot of that, too. I also still listen to Soundgarden's "Down on the Upside" album. What?
(Also I don't really listen to indie rock much, so if that's what we're taking "cool" to be, I'm definitely not it).
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I was never uncool! My dad essentially raised me on spacemen 3 and REM.
I listen to a lot of "uncool" stuff though, like Dire Straits, ABBA and Duran Duran
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I don't want to live in a world where ABBA is uncool.
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Back in the day it was all about The Newsboys.
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I was never uncool! My dad essentially raised me on spacemen 3 and REM.
I listen to a lot of "uncool" stuff though, like Dire Straits, ABBA and Duran Duran
Who says Dire Straits isn't cool?
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Dire Straits are a thoroughly uncool band. Mark Knopfler even wears a headband!
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So? I am listening to their music, not taking pictures of them.
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and? i fail to see your point
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i used to listen to smash mouth religiously
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and? i fail to see your point
So I don't care what they look like, if I did I would listen to the prettyboys and prettygirls that have no musical talent whatsoever. I would say Britney Spears, but she doesn't qualify as either now.
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so let's see
I say i listen to the dire straits even though they are uncool
you ask why they are uncool
they wear a headband
then you say that why does it matter, if you listen to them?
i say "and?", with a tacit "that isn't relevant to the issue at hand"
basically, the dire straits are a good band even though they are uncool and i don't get where your argument fits
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Ah, I see. You mean cool as in appearance, I thought you meant cool as in music taste.
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I used to listen to ICP. Then I clued in that it was just me trying to be "different" and failing, because every "diferent" kid in my schol listened to ICP. I went back and listened to about 30 seconds of one of their songs the other day. Oh god awful.
God, it feels good to get that confession out of the way.
Mind you, I still listen to a lot of stuff that would get me ridiculed in a place like this, I'm sure. I'm a glassjaw fan, for example.
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Backstreet boys.
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hell I used to listen to stuff like limp bizkit, eminem, 50 cent, mainly a lot of shit. Man I thought i was cool back then.
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This was the first album I bought:
(http://www.vinylzart.com/images/AlbumCovers-JohnCougarMellencamp-AmericanFool(1982).jpg)
And yes, I said album, as in-- on vinyl. At the same time I bought this on 7"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Tony_Basil_-_Mickey_picture_cover.jpg).
I'm pretty sure the second album I bought was Billy Squier. It was like.... 1982, cut me some slack.
Edited to correct image and add this: I believe this was the year that my parents decided I should be a Hall & Oates fan, so I got four or five Hall & Oates albums for Christmas. The next year, they though I should be a Duran Duran fan, so I got like three Duran Duran albums. By 84ish, There was nothing but punk for a very long time.
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Before I was cool? That would imply that I am the heppest of cats right now!
When I was in high-school I was waay too into Korn, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Fear Factory and Nine Inch Nails (because no one else understood how I felt!!!). I still listen to Fear Factory and Nine Inch Nails but I'm not nearly as angsty or as wanky as I was then. Now I listen to whatever takes my fancy be it things like Emperor, Arcturus or Satyricon or something a little more whimsical like Feist or Tegan & Sara.
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Killswitch Engage. =/
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I listened to some shit back in the day. Slipknot, Sum 41, Eminem. Christ, it was bad.
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I think I'm doing this all back to front.
See, I liked all that credible 'indier than thou' stuff (and Bright Eyes) and still do to a great extent, but as I was scanning through imapiratearg's list, I realised that my musical taste has somehow inverted, and there's a whole load of stuff in there that I really like now that 2 years ago, I would have turned my nose up at.
I think I subconsciously started liking it to avoid those conversations whereby people namedrop other bands simply to out-cool the other, as going 'I really like Fall Out Boy lolz' tends to put a rather unpleasant stop to that sort of scene hierarchy.
Maybe I'm just peverse.
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Dire Straits were my first love but I see that conversations's already been played out so yeah.
Them and the doors.
I had a brief nu-metal period but that got knocked on its ass after a couple months.
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To a lot of people on the forums, there's not much of a distinction between what I enjoyed then and what I enjoy now. Back then it was a lot more hormonal, and far less obscure, things like Jawbreaker, At The Drive-In, The Get-Up Kids, HWM, American Football, Mineral, Cursive. I even had a Piebald album that I enjoyed (When Life Hands You Lemons). As far as I was concerned, if it didn't follow those 'shouty about girls and feelings' aesthetics that I could relate to oh so well at the time, it wasn't worth my time. The more I got to know all these bands, the more I heard about their favourite bands and influences, which I started to look into. Names kept popping up, descriptions of healthy music scenes. They kept talking about thing like chapel hill and the DC hardcore movement. Fortunately, all the bands I found through this manner weren't too far removed from what I was already listening to (Fugazi, AoL, Polvo). It basically took Sonic Youth to 'open' me up, because at the time, they were the weirdest thing I had ever heard.
The thing that I can't piece in, is Joan of Arc, who I have been listening to as long as I can remember. Musically, it didn't fit in at all, the vocals were horrible and unlike anything else I listened to, the music was glitchy and felt unstructured. I considered it 'singer/songwriter' at the time for some reason and I almost certainly had to have gotten into it through American Football or caP'n jazz. It surprised me now how I could have enjoyed a band as bizarre (terrible?) as Joan of Arc and still shrugged off 90% of other music I heard.
After I heard Sonic Youth and 'opened up' is when I went through a period of listening to a lot of really good and really bad music, I was hearing so many new things that it was overwhelming. I even span an Elbow record for a few months, and in retrospect, they're just Coldplay. I spent more money on music during this period than I ever have in my life. Most of it I'll never revisit or I think is just plain terrible. In was during this period that I discovered Questionable Content and a lot of the music that people associate with it. The forums were a part of my 'musical growth' cycle. After hearing all of that music for about a year, I sort of did 'backwards' step, I feel, when I began to consider the ethics of a lot of the independent music I was listening to. Why bands like Fugazi operated like they did. I began to realise that a bands ethics seems to have a huge influence on the music they make. Having spent a good few years sat on my ass pondering about these things, I think it's about time I take what I've learned and start my own band with some like-minded individuals in order to see what I sound like.
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As a young kid, I remember listening to the radio, and there were a couple of acts, like Chris Isaak and Hall & Oates, that just appealed to my young brain, and I can still listen to a few of their songs and genuinely enjoy them. The first albums I owned were Jamiroquai and Barenaked Ladies records, and I don't listen to them anymore but I don't find them offensive, per se. I likely would have gotten into nu-metal and might not have come out (I played Deftones' White Pony over and over in middle school, can't stand it now, mostly because of middle school) but I noticed that the people around me who loved it were total assholes.
Some of the things I really liked when I was younger were Prodigy's Fat of the Land and Music for the Jilted Generation, the latter of which I don't hate now. I also really like the Matrix soundtrack, and all those albums together opened me up to industrial rock and electronica, both of which I now thoroughly enjoy, even if I find my entries into the genres to be subpar now. On the upside, I've loved the Trainspotting soundtrack for as long as I remember.
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This thread sucks. I'm not cool now, and I hope I never will be, because regardless of music, what is cool - emo haircuts, binge drinking, unprotected sex - is fucking stupid a good 90% of the time.
However, when I was 13 I was cool by association for a little while (I was probably the first guy in my year to get a lap-dance, from the most generous-racked girl in my year group), and during that time, before that time, and for a while after that time, I was listening almost exclusively to nu-metal.
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I don't think the concept of this thread is totally serious. I mean, I agree with you, music has little or nothing to do with how "cool" one is. I think the idea behind the thread was to get all reminiscent and laugh and joke about all the stuff we used to like.
"LOL I LISTEND 2 FOB,!!!1"
"LOLWTF"
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My 'this thread sucks' was meant ironically as well. I do my damndest not to throw that around seriously because it's such a twattish thing to say.
But yeah. I still listen to Linkin Park occasionally. I don't really have a 'lol I listened to that' list, because for the most part I uh... still listen to it.
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i have always been cool. my first cd was Marcy Playground's self titled which i still listen to all the fucking time.
there was a couple of months during middle school where i listened to Korn but then i discovered Incubus (S.C.I.E.N.C.E. era) and i never looked back.
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i have always been cool. my first cd was Marcy Playground's self titled which i still listen to all the fucking time.
then i discovered Incubus (S.C.I.E.N.C.E. era) and i never looked back.
These two albums let you win at life. SCIENCE is awesome. I've never heard Marcy's debut, but I reviewed a reissue of MP3 and it's great.
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I listened to Sonic Youth when I was six. I was kind of a music snob even then.
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When I was a kid, I listened to whatever my parents listened to. With my dad it was his classic rock (some of it not so classic at the time) mix tapes (it had stuff like ZZ Top, Supertramp, Queen, cool stuff like that) and my mom's country and pop radio stations.
It was my dad who really got me into music.
Between the ages of 10-14 I was the biggest No Doubt fan. But at that time I was also listented to a vast amount of of Linkin Park, System of a Down (that was when Toxicity album came out, it blew me away). I had The Eminem Show (edited version, of course -_^) on repeat while on the computer, now whenever I hear a song off of that album, I'm back on Luclin as my Vah Shir.
I've come to realize that bands like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit were kind of the 'gateway drugs' to the more hardcore stuff.
At the end of my high school career , I was basically attached to the city's local alt rock station, ya know, with bands like Mudvayne, Disturbed, Slipknot, etc., I didn't start checking out the indie scene til my first semester at college.
Oh, and I've always love techno, classic rock, and late 90's pop (thought that does NOT included the boy bands and britney spears... never liked them)
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Pretty sure I still know all the words to "I Just Can't Wait to Be King".
I have no regrets.
Everybody look left, everybody look right, everywhere you look I'm standing in the spotlight...
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The first time I ever heard any music that I knew I liked (I grew up in a house that *NEVER* played any music.. it was all talk radio, all the time) was during art class in the 9th grade (1996 or so) when a friend of mine and I got kicked out of the class so we sat in the hallway listening to his CDs.
He had Soul Coughing's Irresistible Bliss , The Bends, and the S/T Ben Folds Five disc... all this got me into Pearl Jam's post-No Code stuff (which I still love), Dave Matthews Band's first few albums (which I still listen to because my guitar/harmony teacher reintroduced me to it), and U2's later catalog (which my guitar/harmony guy praises constantly).
The only things I have hiding in my old CD cases that I find embarrassing now is Better than Ezra/David Gray type stuff, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't listen to Good and In the Blood at least once a month on repeat.
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unprotected sex
??? Unprotected sex is "cool"? That's news to me. I'm only maybe half kidding about that -- is there some kind of weird "condoms are lame" trend floating around that I don't know about?
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I listened to the typical bad pop. Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and everything else that was popular in the '90s.
Now I listen to bands like I Hate Kate, All-American Rejects, Evanescence and Colbie Caillat.
I am so far from being cool... :mrgreen:
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I used to listen to Linkin Park and Billy Talent and a lot of classic rock. I don't really regret any of it, just kind of see that it's not as good as I once thought.
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I've been cool my entire music listening career. Even when I wasn't really big into music, I listened to classical and the Russian Red Army Choir almost exclusively. Then I just found more cool stuff and expanded my coolness.
I am cool.
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I think Aqua is an exception. Not everyone can sing a song about a hunk of plastic and sell over a million records. If they were even called records back then...woe my bad memory! >.<
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Elton John, Bryan Adams, and Don Henley were pretty much the tapes in my dad's car.
I still love Elton John. At least, the good, pre-'75 Elton John. With a few singles here and there after that.
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Went through the first 14 years of my life listening pretty much exclusively to classical/video game/instrumental music. Then I met friends who were into punk and metal and all such wonders, got big into Korn and ICP, as well as 1000's of other groups (pretty much started swarming over all kinds of music at that point)
Then I matured and realized that while I thought ICP used to be funny cause they seemed to take themselves seriously, now I just found that sad.
Although, admittedly, I think I was "Cool" back then. Now I'm just me. And that's dandy by my standards.
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Uh, Waters-led Floyd and Zeppelin and the Beatles. Oasis, too, and the Smashing Pumpkins.
I didn't listen to any of that after I started listening to the VU, Roxy Music, &c., except the Pumpkins. Then one day three or four years ago I was sitting on the couch, totally straight, and it just hit me, 'Mean Mr. Mustard' is a goddamned good song. So I started listening to the Beatles again, haven't really stopped. Then at the beginning of this year I started listening to more and more Barrett-era Floyd. I still can't stand Waters, though. I started listening to Zeppelin this month again. I remember the first time I heard Stairway. I was thirteen and I liked it. I remember the last time I heard it. I was twentythree, and it sucked. Some of their other stuff's okay, tho. I kinda quit listening to the Pumpkins last summer over some strange personal drama.
Oh, and Lou Reed's in Asheville next month. ::can't wait::
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Will Smith and Hanson were the shizzle back in year 5. GETTING JIGGY WIT IT, etc etc.
I stopped listening to pop and started listening to nu-metal (and Metallica, I was- and I guess still am- a huge, huge fanboy of them) in year 7 or so when that started becoming popular.
I guess the first "QC-approved" band I heard was Isis, back in year 12, not all that long ago really. Owned me then, and still continues to do so 'til this day.
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Holy crap, I'd totally forgotten about Metallica. I think I just got so pissed about that Napster thing, while *in the fucking liner notes* to their cover album Lars talked about all the imported 45s they'd tape for each other.
I still think Cliff's bassline is the funkiest part of 'The Number Song' tho
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(http://snoot.org/i/wuss/hanson.jpg)
shut up i was like 9.
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Some girl at my school defends Hanson on the sheer argument that their fan club member count exceeds 30.000.
She also doesn't eat pigs meat because pigs are much smarter than other animals.
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The whole topic is based on the premise that I have actually become "cool" at some point in my 39 years on the planet, so then we'd have to list what I've listened to since I had control over my music selection.
Huey Lewis and the News
Dire Straits (Brothers in Arms is my favourite album of all time)
Wierd Al Yankovic
Chuck Berry
Willie Dixon
Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker
BB King
ZZ Top
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Robert Johnson
Colin James
Styx
George Thorogood
Crash Test Dummies
Enya
Sarah McLaughlan
Annie Lennox
Bob Marley (Legend is an awesome album)
Pogues
and many more
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She also doesn't eat pigs meat because pigs are much smarter than other animals.
That doesn't stop pigs.
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Lesse, the only music that I once listened to that I'd never pop into the CD player would be mediocre 90's rock like the Offspring, the Spin Doctors and Green Day, and I got those albums before I turned 12. Other than that, having avoided Nu-metal when it was around (it was my brother who is to blame for our household's Limp Bizkit, Korn and Godsmack albums) I can pretty happily listen to much of what I used to think was the BEST THING EVER, though without quite as high an estimation, with the possible exception of Metallica's Load/ReLoad, which while not nu-metal or St Anger bad were pretty mediocre, though I didn't realize that when I was 13 and Ride the Lightning was too hard-edged for me. AC/DC's Back in Black may be retarded, and I may realize that in a way that I didn't when I was 11, but it's still pretty darned fun. Other albums that I loved, like Appetite for Destruction have if anything increased in my esteem. Then there's New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which I got when I was 11 and was initially rather disapointed with (it didn't have "It's the End of the World As We Know It" on it, and that was the only REM song I knew) but eventually I came to like a few songs on it, and now I think it's great.
-Wilhelm
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Hanson pic
I have a friend who thought Hanson were girls for a number of years.
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They are rather androgynous.
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I used to listen to Linkin Park and Billy Talent and a lot of classic rock. I don't really regret any of it, just kind of see that it's not as good as I once thought.
*looks down at Billy Talent hoodie he is wearing*
Yeah, those bands were shit!
I still love Billy Talent and I am unrepentant.
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A life list
Age 8 - Rock and roll is terrible.
Age 9-11 I love only the Beatles
Age 12-14 - I love only Simon and Garfunkel
Age 14- Suddenly I sort of like matchbox twenty and Bob Jovi, God help me. Also John Mayer, but I still think "Room for Squares" is a pretty solid album.
15- "London Calling? Looks interesting...."
Life got better after that.
These things I listen to not enough indie goodness, too much country (but the good kind), and stilll like some John Mayer and Green Day to be "cool". But I am still pretty amazing, thank God.
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I suppose I do have something to thank nu-metal for. I listened to the "metal" station on the radio (Lamb of god, godsmack, nirvana, good fucking charlotte :?) and found it lacking, but I wanted something different than I had been listening to (pop-punk and grunge radio station), so I tuned into my Dad's favorite classic rock station, and realized what I had been missing. When was it that guitarists stopped playing solos in popular music?
AC/DC may not be the most talented band on earth, uber, but you are right, they are fun, and that is what music is supposed to be about. They also had a lot of influence on many bands, I bet that some simple AC/DC songs are the first ones most guitarists learn, after Smoke on the Water or Stairway.
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I think Aqua is an exception. Not everyone can sing a song about a hunk of plastic and sell over a million records. If they were even called records back then...woe my bad memory! >.<
I reckon Barbie Girl is a really great pop song, it comes across incredibly sugary and childlike but then it's actually all about some sort of extreme sub/dom relationship which seems to be ultimately unfulfilling and dehumanising. Interesting stuff for a song little kids would sing.
Oh, and AC/DC also have pretty much the best recorded guitar sound ever on Back In Black. They're a great band, there's a reason you can spot an AC/DC sticker in old photographs of the Dischord office.
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Back when I was younger I listened to nothing but pop. Since iTunes and it's play tracker have come out I've listened to Savage Garden's debut album 200 times all the way through. I don't care what all of you say but Savage Garden was awesome and their albums really do stand the test of time.
From pop I got into mainstream Alt rock/nu-metal and eventually mainstream metal. Metallica, System of a Down, Breaking Benjamin, Incubus, Linkin Park, and Deftones were pretty much on constant rotation. Despite the shoddy lyrical content of Linkin Park, you must admit they knew how to right mindlessly catchy dropD hooks.
Right now I'm all over the place musically. In Flames is playing as I type this, and I've got all sorts of MDM bands on my iTunes as well. Chopin is my favorite classical composer, and I have every album from Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden, Queens of the Stone Age, and Stone Temple Pilots (Nirvana was overrated so I only have Nevermind and their live from NYC albums).
Good music is music you enjoy listening to, and that varies depending on the person.
This is the part where I also mention that I listen to REM, Smashing Pumpkins, and various indie artists to prevent my ostracization.
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, over and over and over again.
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The first song I ever used to love and get excited about was Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. I was two at the time, and loved it unconditionally whilst growing up, and only found out who the band were when I was about fifteen.
It's been downhill ever since.
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shut up i was like 9.
Around here it was all "Holy crap! Hanson is from Oklahoma and so are we!!!! Squee!"
I grew up listening to oldies (Beatles, Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Linda Rondstadt, etc.) and marches - cause that's what my dad listens to. When I started listening to music on my own it was country for a while, back in the Garth Brooks-Tim McGraw-Alan Jackson era of the mid-90s, because other than Hanson, if you were from Oklahoma you listened to country. All through middle-school I just kind of listened to whatever was on the radio, plus I started playing in the jazz band at school, so I started my love affair with Buddy Rich and Count Basie. It wasn't until I hit college that I started to really think about what I was listening to and what kind of bands I supported, not only musically, but also what they stood for. My tastes continue to refine themselves to this day.
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Before I began listening to bands like My Bloody Valentine, Velvet Underground, Elvis Costello, The Stooges, Television, Dinosaur Jr and so on..
I listened to this: Beck, Orgy, Soundgarden, Weezer, The Cranberries, No Doubt and Ok Go, Ambulance LTD, Beastie Boys.. etc. =/
But I guess I shouldn't be answering this question anyway because in no way do I define myself as "cool."
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When I was really young and still shared a room with my older brothers (so, early '90's), it was all The Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer. I liked all of them when they were on but I wasn't big on music so I never bothered to find out who they were and listen to them on my own. This was a mistake. In middle school (after my brothers left the house), if I listened to anything it was "the best mix of all the hit songs" type radio. Avril Lavigne, Five For Fighting, Jet, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crowe, Train... ugh. This was also a mistake. Then I found out about OverClocked ReMix (http://www.ocremix.org) and listened to that pretty much exclusively until partway through sophomore year. This was certainly a step up. Finally something turned me on to the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse and the Pixies. I believe stuff like Air, Beck, Broken Social Scene and The Flaming Lips followed. There we go.
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Def the first song I heard that I thought totally rocked was 'Because the Night'. I was listening to it on the radio in the waiting room while my mother was in therapy. Ah, to be eight years old again.
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:-D i could not get enough Bush. when i was young i thought the album 16stone was sent by god to make me happy..... now i hope the whole band gets eaten ( DAMM YOU Gwen Stefani! ) :-D
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Before I was cool I listened to Not Michael Jackson.
Lately I have been thinking about how this topic is so utterly contingent on environment. I brought up pretty much the same question to one of my friends, (what did you listen to before you were cool?) and he responded (slightly jokingly) that he had never listened to uncool music. He started off with stuff like Simon and Garfunkle and various folksy-bluesy things.
The thing is, why should it matter that he started off there and I started off with Alien Ant Farm and Destiny's Child? When I started listening to music for pleasure as an adolescent I was living in suburbia. My mother listened almost exclusively to Chinese worship songs. In fact, she still does, as she is a rather casual consumer of music. My peers liked Avril Lavigne and Nelly. I didn't even know about much other kinds of music before joining these forums. I still don't know anyone who's even heard of pitchfork besides some friends I've met only after transferring to university several months ago.
My friend, on the other hand, started listening to music under the influence of his parents, who both grew up as the kind of people who are avid music listeners.
I don't really have a larger point, as I'm sure many of you understand this already. It just helped me see how so much of this is relative.
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Surely!
Like I said in my original post, I was raised in the home of an avid music listener. Growing up I guess I listened to "cooler" music that my peers but I simply didn't know other, just like average-boy will not grow up listening to Joy Division because he doesn't know them, I never listened to the average pop because we didn't have it in the house. There were several moments in my earlier years where i felt distinctly out of place (and decidedly uncool) because i didn't know any Backstreet Boys songs, hell, I still don't know any! In a sense I was really just the same as a kid who listens to whatever just cause his dad does, just in a different environment. I didn't actually branch off or create my own style or became cool or whatever until i was 15-16 and I found two albums, two compilations actually, that changed the way i thought radically. New Order's Substance and Abba's Gold.
Seriously, those two albums have had a lot more impact on me than all the Daydream Nations, all the Fear of a Black Planets, all the Sgt Peppers and the Dark Sides of The Moons.
For all the virtues of my dad's record collection, he doesn't dance. Sure we had some weird electronic music and stuff, and the Talking Heads, but it just wasn't a thing you did. Then one day, around the time my form of misfittery was becoming more acceptable and now some other kids listened to Radiohead and stuff, i found myself shopping for a record to give my friend. I wasn't too sure what to get so i just went with something easy and I thought "Hey, I'll get him, Substance by Joy Division", cause it has all the singles and it is a pretty rad compilation, so I asked the clerk and he said sure and pointed me to where I would fnd it. Sure enough I did, but the cover wasn't black, it was white, and on the front there was no Joy Division, it read New Order. Now, I was vaguely aware of New Order, I knew that they were a band related to Joy Division somehow but I never gave them a second thought. Looking at the tracklist I only recognised one song, Ceremony, that was a song on Still! A song where you couldn't hear the vocals but whatever. So instead of having the album i wanted to buy for my friend I found myself holding a clunky two cd box (those atrociously designed double cases that used to be commonplace) by a band I'd never heard. At this point I made a Big Decision and bought that, didn't give anything to my friend and went home to listen to it. It was a really weird experience, the first song WAS the same Ceremony! but now you could hear the vocals. And it wasn't as grim and hmmm my feet are tapping along. By the time I got to Temptation, I was in love. It's actually been my favourite song for a number of years, and then came Blue Monday, man It was so awesome and maybe this was what people meant by dance music (it wasn't, they meant ricky martin) and every track was a really big discovery for me.
And that is how Substance saved my life
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Tina Arena's 'Don't Ask'. I was still using a cassette player until about the age of 12, and this was the only cassette I owned apart from audio books. Then I felt like an outsider in Year 5 because I didn't like Blink 182, so that started my CD collection. In retrospect, the fact that the first CD I ever bought for myself was 'Enema of the State' makes me feel sick. Now I pretty much listen to Radiohead...so I guess I'm still not hip/cool huh?
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, over and over and over again.
You know, there is a reason why I don't classify Smashing Pumpkins with mediocre 90's rock, and that may be because I still find this album to be pretty enjoyable. Not sure you're saying it isn't, of course.
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:-D i could not get enough bush
it is a popular item ^___^
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I think Aqua is an exception. Not everyone can sing a song about a hunk of plastic and sell over a million records. If they were even called records back then...woe my bad memory! >.<
I reckon Barbie Girl is a really great pop song, it comes across incredibly sugary and childlike but then it's actually all about some sort of extreme sub/dom relationship which seems to be ultimately unfulfilling and dehumanising. Interesting stuff for a song little kids would sing.
I really don't think that they thought other of it than a kid playing with a barbie doll.
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You know, there is a reason why I don't classify Smashing Pumpkins with mediocre 90's rock, and that may be because I still find this album to be pretty enjoyable. Not sure you're saying it isn't, of course.
Oh, I still love it, but I was not cool when I bought it.
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I really don't think that they thought other of it than a kid playing with a barbie doll.
Maybe, but I think there's enough there that they couldn't be unaware of it. It doesn't really matter to me if they were or not though, Barbie Girl's still an excellently fucked up pop song.
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the first band I ever listened to was Chumbawumba, and I just never evolved past that--I have never listened to music that was not chumbawumba
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In other words, you got knocked down but never got up again?
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Well I used to listen to Evanescence, and then it was some scattered nu-metal, then emo, Flogging Molly, and finally a general explosion in every direction at once. Right now I'm still a SOAD devotee, and I still have a soft spot for Alice Cooper and the less scene-ish, more "emotional hardcore" sort of emo like AFI.
I'm still not cool, though. Nobody even knows who Pavement IS at my school.
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I'm reading this thread and some of the bands that you people don't like I like. Hanson's newer stuff is pretty good. I know I'm probably going to get flamed for saying this but the band that made me start my music collection over again was Silverchair, this was about 6 years ago. Diorama is an amazing album.
Before that my favorite band was The Moffatts. I still even listen to them occasionally. I'll basically listen to anything. I'm extremely open minded. I'm offended by some of the comments in this thread, but I'm not one to start drama. I came here solely for the fact that I love music and everything about it. It's one thing that's keeping me alive right now.
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the first band I ever listened to was Chumbawumba, and I just never evolved past that--I have never listened to music that was not chumbawumba
I saw Chumbawamba live playing an acoustic set. It was pretty fun.
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Me too, although it actually made me cringe a bit. They did help us make a ton of money for the social centre I volunteer at though, and I'm pretty sure they've lent us PA equipment before so that's cool. They're not a bad effort really.
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I think I knew (and may still know) every word to the first Avril Lavigne album.
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At least you're true to your username.
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I listened loads to The Hives. I have all their albums. I don't so much "lol I listened to that" as bawl my eyes out when I think of it.
The Hives are AWESOME. Howlin' Pelle is a legend.
"Watch as I drink the water!"
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Me too, although it actually made me cringe a bit.
Vodka can help with that.
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I never became cool; I just found new groups of friends who had more similar taste to mine.
That being said, before I really got a feel for my own tastes, I had most of Sacred Reich’s albums. And during high school, I listened to some pretty dire industrial-rock/-metal: Gravity Kills, Stabbing Westward, Bile, 16 Volt. I still like that genre, but I’ve become more discerning about it: yes to NIN, classic Ministry, Skinny Puppy’s Rabies, no to just about anything by Marilyn Manson, the more derivative KMFDM albums, etc.….
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Is this the thread to admit I was at a spice girls concert when I was younger?
I also own a destiny's child album, as well as 2 FIVE albums.
Man, I was so into ZTV and MTV when I was 10-13, then came my "metal" period, and I still listen to in flames from time to time, they have some songs that I still find pretty neat.
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Well, they seem pretty fucking great live, at any rate. I'd still see them live, but I don't think I'd ever listen and like one of their albums again.
Also, Tyrannosaurus Hives was way too polished.
True, but my favourite Hives track outside of 'Main Offender' is 'Diabolic Scheme,' because it's nothing like anything else they did. The stabbing strings, man!
But yeah, I'd definitely see them live.
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Man I grew up listening to The Smiths. I've ALWAYS been cool.
But seriously. Papa Roach and Alien Ant Farm. I still enjoy Alien Ant Farm but wtf Papa Roach.
Thank the lord for At The Drive-In.
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Staind. Lots and lots of Staind.
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Hypnotoad only works as an animated .gif. Like that he just looks retarded.
Next week on Everybody Loves Hypnotoad:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/Sigs/Hypnotoad01.gif)
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Nope, even then it still looks retar-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!
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haha, my dearest apologies. Better now?
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I'm reading this thread and some of the bands that you people don't like I like. Hanson's newer stuff is pretty good. I know I'm probably going to get flamed for saying this but the band that made me start my music collection over again was Silverchair, this was about 6 years ago. Diorama is an amazing album.
Before that my favorite band was The Moffatts. I still even listen to them occasionally. I'll basically listen to anything. I'm extremely open minded. I'm offended by some of the comments in this thread, but I'm not one to start drama. I came here solely for the fact that I love music and everything about it. It's one thing that's keeping me alive right now.
You don't basically listen to everything. You are not extremely open minded and you are not offended and you should start drama. It's fun.
Seriously though, this thread isn't about bitching about bands that we don't like, it's about remembering what we used to like and have semi-quasi-serious bantering about it.
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Typical Brit-cringe on the way: I used to listen lots to Deacon Blue, Runrig, Fleetwood Mac, and (God help me) Genesis. Thank the Lord I'm grown up and apparently able to judge my own music taste better. Although in 10 years I'll probably be cringing about being a fan of Muse, Manic Street Preachers and LCD Soundsystem...
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One year I asked for a CD by 'Puddle of Mud' for Christmas. I got it, then listened to it a whole bunch. No one knows this about me.
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I was the coolest 7 year old. I found my mom's vinyl and started listening to the Byrds.... "MOM PUT IT ON AGAIN!" ... On repeat. She never said anything, simply acquiesced to my wishes.
I listened to a lot of Celine Dion (this was before I spoke English. I went back years later, and realized that what I had THOUGHT she was saying phonetically was WAY off from what she was actually singing. This was very funny). I also liked the Kelly Family - they were big in the german-speaking parts of Switzerland. Every young girl wanted to marry Paddy or Angelo and be absorbed into the multi-head family for a life of musical hippiedom. I also did the Hanson thing. I was also way way into the Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco soundtrack.
Then I moved to India, and I swear all I heard for 2 years was the chart albums I would get in Europe (98-00... these were of German origins, and at the time there was a lot of electronic techno-y stuff on them) and a lot of Venga Boys and Aqua (the latter two less by choice and more because that's all that would ever get played in any sort of place like poolsides, cars, etc. I still dream about these songs, particularly the Venga Boys, sometimes....). A bit of Eminem as well ('slit' in 'slit my wrist' was censored for some reason I still haven't really grasped). It was around this time that my British friend and I made up a dance to 'The Table' by The Beautiful South (I never got into the Spice Girls. I feel like such a creepy failed girl!).
Then Milan, Italy. I started listening to a lot of RHCP, H.I.M. and yes, Puddle of Mudd, Nickelback, Crazy Town, Linkin Park. And Des'ree. My first few gigs were H.I.M. , Limp Bizkit, and the Hives. Then my friend made me listen to some InMe. I liked it, tried to download some, and got a track called 'The Killer In Me'. Which turned out to be 'Disarm' by the Smashing Pumpkins... and from then on I stopped listening to almost everything else. Pumpkinspumpkinspumpkins. Then Nirvana, Hole, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Queens of the Stone Age etc etc etc. I got high at an Incubus gig, and then we started getting high to Placebo and Marilyn Manson. I still listen to everything I got into post-Pumpkins, among countless other things. I've been trying to branch out ever since.
The thing is, I still own most of these records, including the ones that would be cringe-worthy in most people's eyes. I consider them all a pretty integral part to who I am and even though I don't listen to a lot of them anymore I don't think I could bear to part with them. (I am SO not cool).
I went through an elitist phase and then got over it. Given the right mood and setting I can pretty much enjoy everything, even if from a "revelling in its awfulness" PoV. It just doesn't mean I'll be taking it home at the end of the day. But anything else would be such a waste of potential fun.
Oh also - considering how awesome my parents' music taste is, it took me a very long time to branch out. I was brought up on Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, Tracy Chapman....
This turned out way longer than I intended. Sorry.
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First FM/AM walkman! Debbie Gibson, Police, The Bangles, Wilson Phillips, McHammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids on the Block, Mike and the Mechanics. Then I discovered some of the music my parents liked. (Beatles and The Who were insta-win. Takes me until ten+ years later to decide Leonard Cohen and Ray Charles are any good. Still hate Bread and CCR though.) Finally move along to grunge! Then on to a rabid-Tori-Amos-fan phase. No, I did NOT wear any wings to a concert.
SO, still working on that "cool" thing. :mrgreen:
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This may get double-posted, as these forums and/or my internets were being weird upon posting, if so, I apologize.
I was in a similar boat to absurd(*2)
I grew up with my mom, listening to The Beatles, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Arlo & Woodie Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton (& Cream), Hendrix, Dylan, 4 Non Blondes, U2, Pink Floyd, CCR, the list goes on. Also, the Traveling Wilburys.
My dad gave me a taste for Classical, as well as old Irish and English drinking music, as well as some bluegrass.
But, when I got older, I started listening to Metallica and Ozzy. Which led me to buy some Ozzfest sampler CD, which led me to Fear Factory, Biohazard, Sepultura, and I dont remember what else. And so I started down the road to heavy metal.
The only intermediate points, before I got heavily into metal and never looked back (at least at the stuff I listened to between all the music of my childhood, and buying up damn near every metal band I could find) Stuff like:
Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, a lot of shitty techno/electronica/trance (especially during my acid using years), I honestly cant remember what else. A lot of shitty radio alt pop.
This song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE)
and this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx3s_ab8Vc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx3s_ab8Vc)
Hold especially good memories for me.
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Back when Nickelback released "This is How You Remind Me" I thought it was kind of neat. Yeah, I know.
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holy crap, how old are some of you folks? 14?
deee lite, paula abdul, Aerosmith, kool moe dee, ABC, and janet and micheal jackson.
also, this on a 45 single over and over and over and over.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxcpDR6drHk
that was the bulk of my tween years. i'm not as embarrassed as i thought i'd be....
except for the whole "i was a giant aerosmith fan".
:(
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Slint.
No, but in all seriousness...
Slint.
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The first bands that I really liked a lot where Foo Fighters, Weezer Queens of the Stone Age, The Beatles. I still think they're pretty good though. Bands that I really do regret that I ever listened to even a little bit are stuff like Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and maybe Nirvana a little bit.
But I don't think I became cool, I just stopped caring and now just yell about how Deerhoof and Elvis Costello are awesome anytime we talk about music.
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I think this is really wierd, the first album I ever owned was the lion king soundtrack (Already mentioned here at LEAST twice) and I loved it to bits and used to dance and sing-a-long to it. Then I got the "Blue-da-ba-dee" single and my parents hated me for it.
Eventually I got into Linkin park and sum 41, then got progressively heavier in my music tastes, and the heavier I got the cooler I seemed to be, by cool I mean fro some reason people sat with me and wanted me to give my opinion on CDs.
So I guess I listened to Eiffel 65, Lion king, linkin park and Sum 41 before I became cool.
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Then I got the "Blue-da-ba-dee" single and my parents hated me for it.
Ohmygod I spun that Eiffel 65 album to death. In fact, I just uncovered it a few weeks ago and listened to it all again.
Yay for trashy electronic europop.
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Ohmygod I spun that Eiffel 65 album to death.
Yay for trashy electronic europop.
Not all trashy euro-pop.... some british band did a cover of it. Metallising the entire piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXvQ94Z1oDM
Back on topic, I found out I actually have a few Green day CDs, so I used to listen to a lot of Green day back in the days!
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Well I listened to Meshuggah when I was like 10 but I also listened to some pretty standard stuff like Nirvana, Audioslave, System of a Down, Pearl Jam, etc. I pretty much listened to any hard music I could get my hands on, later on, through the web I found out about much better bands. I pretty much dislike the stuff I used to listen to, but I still enjoy listening to Nirvana once in a while or play Audioslave's Cochise.
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All I listened to until my senior year of high school was They Might Be Giants and Weird Al. I eventually branched out and started listening to the worst techno I could get my hands on. (Dune, I am looking at you.) From there I moved on to Rufus Wainwright, The Tea Party, and Super Furry Animals. Then, I was browsing at Borders and I saw Wave of Mutilation and I was like "Oh, this band is called the Pixies. I bet it's cute!"
I love making good decisions for terrible reasons.
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back in my emo-kid mallgoth days, I would look up how to be emo online, copy every single thing i could, but still end up looking like a mall goth.
My favorites were Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, and I pretended to like Bright Eyes because the internet told me all the emo kids liked them.
Someone needed to smack me.
Hard.
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Weird. I pretended to hate Bright Eyes for that exact same reason.
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:roll:
At this whole thread.
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In junoir high I was all about faux-punk rock, sum41 was my favourite band for years... also blink 182 and the first 3 greenday albums (which I kind of still dig for nostalgia purposes). There was also Linkin park, stained and disturbed. I think my little sister has all those cd's now.
Then pink floyd saved my life and my music taste did a complete 180
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I'm loading Doowop songs onto my iPod for my mother-in-law right now. Nostalgia is a-okay by me.
And if a Tone Loc song plays on the radio I will sing along to the whole thing. Go ahead and roll your eyes. I don't care.
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I love the way people keep saying "Pink Floyd saved my life" on these forums, as if they were miserable listening to Green Day. You had fun! Don't try to deny it!
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Oingo Boingo.
The first song I ever sang was the chorus to an Oingo Boingo song.
My iPod has every Oingo Boingo song I know of on there.
And that is pretty much almost all of them.
Oingo Boingo = Epic Win
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I love the way people keep saying "Pink Floyd saved my life" on these forums, as if they were miserable listening to Green Day. You had fun! Don't try to deny it!
Truth. I still have more fun listening to Green Day than I ever will listening to Pink Floyd.
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Weird. I pretended to hate Bright Eyes for that exact same reason.
Ahh, I thought I was alone.
thank the lord.
We still exist, us epic how to be an emo kid followers.
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Mainstream adult contemporary.
Before that, post-grungy yelling crap like Staind and Sevendust.
The day that ended was the day I went to the Family Values tour. It was like 'So. Linkin Park doesn't play instruments, they do that faux-hip hop audience pandering, and they apologize when they play a song not on the album. I'm done with this.'
Fuel lost me the same way, at a concert. The lead singer comes out in leather pants and this ridiculous outfit and screamed "That's right, you came to see MEEEEEEEE!" No, I came to hear you sing, douche. And hear your band play, but you won't share the spotlight with any of the less douchey members.
After that I went to classic rock for a while, and after I finished discovering that I was ready to move onto modern cool music.
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I love the way people keep saying "Pink Floyd saved my life" on these forums, as if they were miserable listening to Green Day. You had fun! Don't try to deny it!
Truth. I still have more fun listening to Green Day than I ever will listening to Pink Floyd.
Also I feel that advancing my taste in music has made me grow exponentially as a person and has dramatically matured me.
besides the fact that you all would drop 30 odd respect points for me if I started gushing about Am3riCan IdoIt!!11!11!!
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Guys, when I was young and didn't know much about music I liked Wham.
Then I got all cool and didn't like Wham.
Now that I am older and don't give a fuck I like Wham.
Repeat the above replacing with things like Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Rick Springfield, The Cars, hair metal & 80s power ballads.
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This is a quick history of my tastes throughout the years.
Very first of all, as early as I can remember, my house was always filled with the sounds of the beach boys, simon and garfunkel, the mamas and papas, and occasionally the beatles. I remember those pretty well and I still like all of them, ha!
Then fast forward to when I was 13 or so. I think the very first cd I got was the orchestra soundtrack from jurrasic park. Kind of odd. Then I remember loving spin doctors, the cranberries, and live. I still like throwing copper :-P Anyway, then my best friend was into gangsta rap: snoop dogg, ice cube, tu pac. That phase was short lived and so we both went on to like an interesting mix of good and bad rock: pearl jam to eric clapton to don henley to guns n roses to the doors to queen to kiss (ugh). So honestly, overall, not a bad start.
In the 90's it kind of went everywhere- I remember getting sugar ray's lemonade and brownies album with this naked chick on the cover. had to hide it from my mom. I remember liking nirvana and pearl jam alot. Then it was basically anything alternative like weezer, better than ezra, seven mary three, sponge, oasis, our lady peace, stone temple pilots. One friend told me about this band rage against the machine- I listened to them and thought, wow this kind of sucks. His voice is wierd. But on listen two, I was hooked. Couldnt get enough of them.
Then came high school. This brought about my ska, punk, alternative era- where I really got into music-some good. some bad. First of all ska became big for me during that whole explosion: of course mighty mighty bosstones and the mad caddies (still love them!). I liked buck o' nine and the pilfers and save ferris. Then came an obsession with 311. (got to admit that I still like them. Like I own all of thier cds.. and some bootlegs. I realize this may have ruined all credibility with some people haha) But of course then I got into all the pop punk stuff like mxpx and the ataris (ughh) , blink 182. Also face to face, rancid, bad religion, nofx etc. Never got huge into green day. Best bands discovered during that era= limp (not bizkit), no knife, fugazi, the pixies.
On the alternative side it was smashing pumpkins, tool, incubus, ratm.
On a side note, I also got into the short-lived neo swing revival- i liked the cherry poppin daddies, big bad voodoo daddy, royal crown revue (which I still like and listen to now and again!)
Then came a short, but dark phase that I do not wish on my worst enemies- listening to korn, limp bizkit, slipknot. Later on, probably the worst thing I've ever listened to and liked is a band by the name of Hawthorne Heights. holy hell, i dont know what else to say.
But out of the darkness came a light which lead me to led zep, radiohead, saves the day, miles davis, the strokes, the deftones, frank sinatra..
And then from there it gets confusing and messy but I pretty much keep it simple- i listen to what I like.
currently Im listening to someone still loves you boris yeltsin, thrice's new one, vampire weekend, brother kite, broadcast, nujabes, sun kill moon, this will destroy you, fleet foxes, etc.
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Now that I am older and don't give a fuck I like Wham.
I'm in love with you.
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Yeah, I'm not cool. I'm sort of a nerd. But, within my friend circle of nerds I have been worshiped as cool on occassion. Probably just because I'm running away this summer to go see all my fave bands in Chicago, which blows the minds of some of my high school peers. I'll take all the respect I can get though.
Behold, the musical evolution of Jodi:
Mix tapes from my Dad (music I'm into now, haha. The Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, some Bowie)
Shaggy
Barenaked Ladies
U2
Fleetwood Mac
Rufus Wainwright
a lot of David Bowie
Nirvana
Animal Collective
Once I hit AC it was like music orgasm and all was lost. AC saved my life, I was so much more connected with music after that. It was great. I still enjoy all of the artists (Shaggy and Barenaked Ladies just for memories of car rides and fall fairs) and Bowie has evolved from an artist on my iPod to my God.
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It seems a lot of you still have pretty dire taste in music.
Before I started attacking people who say they "listen to pretty much everything" I liked the indie flavour-of-the-month and pretentious wank like Radiohead.
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Some german punk : D
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It seems a lot of you still have pretty dire taste in music.
Before I started attacking people who say they "listen to pretty much everything" I liked the indie flavour-of-the-month and pretentious wank like Radiohead.
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I once owned an album by cringe-inducingly feeble folk-rock band The Levellers. This album was so mind-numbingly abysmal the first thing I'm gonna do if I travel back in time is kick my younger self in the face for foisting this utter bullcrap on my poor innocent family. I listened to a load of shitty Ska and metal but that album sticks out as a true musical crime punishable by execution by iron maiden (the medieval torture apparatus iron maiden).
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I dont get this at all.
But I listened to Led Zeppilen and Beatles. It enjoyed it (I still enjoy "I am the Walrus"), some good songs but could never listen to a whole album and like it all. Then I found out that they still made music after the 90's that wasn't Rap and I found bands that had songs that were all good.
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Then I found out that they still made music after the 90's that wasn't Rap and I found bands that had songs that were all good.
I don't get this at all.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
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Oingo Boingo = Epic Win
Well, duh. It's got Danny Fuckmothering Elfman!
Yes. Did I mention that I saw Oingo Boingo in concert TWICE before they broke up. Indeed, I was way little, but I've met him once and been within shouting distance three times (including when I met him...no I did not shout.)
Danny Elfman is awesome.
However, if you are a Tim Burton fan and THINK you know SHIT about Danny Elfman based solely on his soundtracks...
Die.
This goes for everyone.
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Oingo Boingo = Epic Win
Well, duh. It's got Danny Fuckmothering Elfman!
Yes. Did I mention that I saw Oingo Boingo in concert TWICE before they broke up. Indeed, I was way little, but I've met him once and been within shouting distance three times (including when I met him...no I did not shout.)
Danny Elfman is awesome.
However, if you are a Tim Burton fan and THINK you know SHIT about Danny Elfman based solely on his soundtracks...
Die.
This goes for everyone.
This thread brings out the pretentious indie in everyone.
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wait wait wait
Danny Elfman was in Oingo Boingo?
Danny Elfman is responsible for "i love little girls, they make me feel so good"???
oh man.
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that "i love little girls" song is pretty awesome to listen to while on mushrooms.
me and some friends drove around for HOURS frying our asses off listening to only that song on repeat for the entire night and it was fucking amazing. everyone was singing along and dancing and having a jolly good time.
highly recommended.
"highly" hurr hurr