[totw] The band that changed your life.

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ThugTears666

#1 July 10, 2008, 09:57:07 am

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Well I'm boss around here so I can basicially do my TOTW WHENEVER I LIKE you got that!?????

Todays topic is about: The band that changed your life.

When I was younger I was like most other kids, I played video games, I obsessed over Michael Jordan and secretly...... I was an avid masturbation fan. But I never really got music, yeah I liked to hear it sometimes but I never really understood how people would faint when seeing Michael Jackson live or how seeing Tool could bring a grown man to stand back in awe like a little girl and shout "ITS THEM!".

There was one band that changed it for me, one band that got me into music properly. I might not like them now, or even respect them but I still have vivid memories from the excitement I felt when I discovered how huge of an effect music could have on someone and how truely alive I felt seeing a band in concert. I cringe to say it, but the one band who got me into music was.......metallica. When I was 15 I liked Metallica more than I liked my parents, I actually had people who I classified as enemies because they liked Blink 182 and I thought Kirk Hammett was the greatest guitarist in the world. I kinda hate them now but my favourite memory was seeing Metallica live, me and my best friend sat up all night before the concert and listened to all their cds back to back, I had researched every single obscure fact I could and they were more a part of my identity than anything else. After Metallica I discovered more obscure and truely creative Metal bands and I got into more death related stuff like AT THE GATES, music really started to excite me.

Today I have moved on and I kinda find them boring but.. a few years ago Metallica were the greatest to me and without Metallica I wouldn't have the same feeling about music I do now.

Now tell your story, it doesnt have to be as exciting or whatever but who was the first band that properly got you into music?

Last Edit: July 10, 2008, 10:00:19 am by Afura

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Clucky

#2 July 10, 2008, 10:37:44 am

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When I was growing up I was pretty different - I never liked GI Joes, superheroes were boring, cartoons were uninteresting, playing outside was uncomfortable, and being dirty was absolutely terrible. I was always much more interested in video games and the computer and stuff like that. You would think that I would listen to a lot of music with such an empty palette of activities to choose from, but the extent of my musical taste was video game music and techno. In fact, I hadn't casually listened to a song with lyrics until I was 11 years old!

Well, all this changed when I turned 13. Before then I didn't really have a favorite artist or genre, and at the time all I knew was that I hated rap, country, and metal (although now I love metal, older country can be kinda good, and I've discovered that not all rap is annoying gangster rap). As strange an occasion as any to get into a band, only a few days after having a pretty traumatic breakup with my first girlfriend, I began to listen to Radiohead. And I was instantly hooked. I loved their sound, I felt comforted by some of their painfully depressive lyrics, I was amazed by the creativeness and oddness of some of their songs, and although his singing was rather shit, I couldn't get enough of Thom Yorke's voice. I immediately began to buy and download every song of theirs I could get ahold of, and any song I couldn't get a file or CD of, I would listen to in constant rotation on Youtube. Even to this day I am a huge fan of Radiohead, and I can honestly say that they have hugely contributed to my behavior, views, and musical taste.

And then I came across Porcupine Tree and now my life is complete.

Last Edit: July 10, 2008, 10:43:05 am by Clucky

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Farren

#3 July 10, 2008, 11:06:15 am

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Tool/APC

These two bands basically defined the moment where I went from listening to whatever is on the radio, to actually holding music to a standard and really THINKING about what I was listening to.

I liked A Perfect Circle after listening to 13th Step from a friend, after that I went and bought Mer De Noms. I knew right then they were gonna be one of my favorite bands. Actually, I got into APC before I got into Tool.

I remember listening to Tool on the radio and thinking, "HMMMM THIS IS NICE BUT THE SONGS ARE TOO LONG".

When someone burned 13th step for me they gave me Lateralus too because they said I might like it. I gave it a listen and then put it down because I wasn't really into it. But I remember while riding home from school one day my buddy played Parabol/Parabola and I liked it alot.

I remember the EXACT moment I actually REALLY got into tool. I was sitting on my bed playing jedi academy and I heard Schism, not just heard it though I listened to it.

I...I......I nevefr turned back since that day....

After that I got every album ever made by them and basically listened to that and some other crap for a few years until I got Porcupine Tree and a LOT of other stuff from here, definitely broadened my horizons.

I was such a tool freak when I bought 10k days I looped it on my comp and in my truck for like 2 weeks straight.

Last Edit: July 10, 2008, 10:02:42 pm by Harry Manback

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ThugTears666

#4 July 10, 2008, 11:14:49 am

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Tool/APC are so good man, I sung my heart out when I saw Tool live last year.

I know everyone says it but holy fuck! The atmosphere was amazing.

GW basically got me into most of my favorite bands until I discovered blogs and soulseek.

Last Edit: July 10, 2008, 11:40:00 am by Afura

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Shepperd

#5 July 10, 2008, 03:38:14 pm

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Minutemen - History Lesson pt 2

ideally

actually
RHCP was the band, I'll develop this later g2g

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blood hell

#6 July 10, 2008, 04:56:31 pm

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it was rhcp for me too. flea and john and really changed my perspective of music philosophy and tastes from asshole prog only kid to a more free and humble person and musician.

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cowardknower

#7 July 10, 2008, 05:28:40 pm

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yeah, I had two.

CREED
got me into music when I was like 11. (i know shameful whatever!)

Dream Theater
got me into prog when i was like 15.

between the buried and me
was what kinda became a turning point and made me branch out to other kinds of music I guess.

no, you know what, it was sufjan stevens because after getting really into his music I started to feel songs a lot more. being capable of having emotional reactions to them (which i really didnt have at all when i was younger because i didnt really GET a lot of songs back then).

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headphonics

#8 July 10, 2008, 05:31:39 pm

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Well, I think it was probably the Chili Peppers or uh... Jimmy Eat World. FUUUUUCK I really hate that I have to admit this but yeah! When I was like 13 or so I didn't really give a fuck about music at all. My brothers all listened to a ton of shit and I would just say YEAH WHATEVER YOU'RE INTO, and then I saw the video for Otherside and rushed out and bought Californication, and it is the album that is more or less single-handedly responsible for getting me into music at all. I just listened to it over and over again for like a year, but unfortunately it didn't really get me into anything else and all it made me do was like the Chili Peppers!

Then I think it was like 1999 and I was probably fourteen or so and my friend gave me Clarity which, TO BE HONEST, is still not an altogether bad album in retrospect. So that got me into JEW (shut up you're gay) and I liked them a lot for a few years and got into them, which in turn got me into other random emo, which again in turn lead me to a fondness of indie rock, which developed into a fondness of rock and roll in general. I don't really like most of that shit anymore, but it was still pretty important for my musical tastes!

So yeah, the Chili Peppers got me into listening to music on my own with no one around, which was something totally foreign to me, and Jimmy Eat World got me into actually caring about music, and constantly wanting new shit. It was like this two-step process of going from not caring, to caring a little, to caring a lot. I'm grateful for the role they played, because I think I easily could've turned up with worse taste or just have been a guy who wasn't that into music in general.

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Puppet Master

#9 July 10, 2008, 07:17:43 pm

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Sadly, for me it had to have been blink 182 or Good Charlotte. I almost despise these bands now, but in fifth grade or whatever this was music I could get excited about. I think that if I never started playing an instrument I would have still listened to this kind of stuff today.

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#10 July 10, 2008, 07:59:45 pm

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The Who, I guess... I never had any interest in music at all until I was about 14, when I started rooting through my dad's country albums and listening to the faster paced stuff. Then I found their album 'Quadrophenia' in a box of old tapes and stuck it on, and it completely blew my mind. It's pretty funny how tame it sounds now, but it was the first real rock album I'd ever heard and it seemed incredibly powerful and raw to me. So yeah, that was what started really getting me into music in the first place. It also meant I started to talk about music with guys in my class and found we had some similar interests, and one of them burned me an album by this band called 'Gray Matter' which was kind of my introduction to punk.
The funny thing is that one of the other tapes I found along with the Who album was the Velvet Underground's debut... I remember listening to that and just completely hating it all the way through!

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ThugTears666

#11 July 10, 2008, 09:42:55 pm

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Dammit when I saw thecatamites had replied here I was hoping he had listened to Aaron Cater or Hanson or something first ahahaha.

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The Riddler

#12 July 10, 2008, 09:58:20 pm

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Eh, I didn't really get into music 'till quite late. So, I guess I would have to say The Strokes. I absolutely adored this band back in 2001 when "Is This It" came out. It was the first album I went out and bought and got really excited about. I loved every song, listened to them all the time and talked about them to my friends all the time. It was awesome, really got me enthused in music. I was just as excited about "Room On Fire" as well. But lately I've taken a real, serious interest in music and it started with Air - Moon Safari. It is my favourite album ever and it encouraged me to go out and find new music that wasn't brought to me by NME or Kerrang! (UK users will know what these are, possibly US - I don't know) because my friend gave it to me even though I have never heard of them before. It was completely new and to me, completely unheard of. So, because of this I have taken a keen interest in finding new music and broadening my horizons. So, yeah. The Strokes then Air. Also, honourable mention goes to Sufjan Stevens' Seven Swans album because that made me seek out a lot of great music too.

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headphonics

#13 July 10, 2008, 10:04:35 pm

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weren't you like 11 in 2001

that's not very late!

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The Riddler

#14 July 10, 2008, 10:07:50 pm

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Actually, yeah I was. It just feels late cos now all my favourite music is from late 70s and 80s. But, yeah. I guess 11 is not late!

EDIT: Also, although kinda unconnected. It's still about early experiences with music. When I was about 6 or 7 my Dad used to take me and my sister this 3 hour drive to see our grandparents. And the album he always played (on repeat, basically) was OK Computer. I loved the album but didn't know what it was. When I eventually rediscovered the album, only to find it was that album, it was a very weird experience. Cos now it's probably one of my favourite albums and I grew up with it. So, yeah. It didn't get me excited but I can honestly say my first favourite album was OK Computer.

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Lars

#15 July 10, 2008, 10:11:30 pm

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Metallica without doubt. They made me decide to pick up a couple of instruments and since musicianship is generally where I'm taking my life if I get accepted for Music Technology, they've been pretty lifechanging for me in that sense.

Other than that, Pink Floyd further developed a lot of the ideas I have about what music is supposed to be. After Pink Floyd I haven't been able to get into a single artist or band to influence me but rather I try to play on as many fields as possible and get all kinds of inspirations. I realised that focusing too much on a band or artist in the end makes you more narrow-minded and I don't wanna go down that path again (first, MANOWAR was the only true music (best band ever), then METAL was the only true music (best genre ever), then ACOUSTIC MUSIC was the only true music (ugh electronics) and now I dig electronic music a lot. I'm not quite sure if there's much more mind-opening to do, at least on a major plane, but shit like japfagrock and contemporary emo and punk is stuff I get fucking sick of. Maybe one day.............

So yeah I could list a bunch of bands that have been important to me (Manowar and Pink Floyd would be the top 3, respectively for getting me into music in the first place and getting me out of the narrow-minded METAL mindset), but no one comes close to Metallica.

edit: To be honest though Warlocks was what first got me into music back when I was 11 but I never really followed the thread so after listening for their Mic Knights album for about a year I just gave up on music since I couldn't find anything else I liked (I should've checked Tommy Tee's Bonds, Beats & Beliefs at once, in retrospect).

edit2: I still pop in a Metallica album every once in a while, and it's honestly just about the only metal I can stand anymore, but Master of Puppets and ...And Justice For All really are excellent albums. That I don't like them as much as I did is just because I don't like metal in general as well, but those two albums... damn!

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The Riddler

#16 July 10, 2008, 10:16:48 pm

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Hey headphonics I almost put the Chili's. Me and my friends were pretty big on them back in 2001/2002, but The Strokes came first I would say. I still like The Strokes, but I can't listen to the Chili's any more. Their music just sounds really immature and shallow to me now. I can't get into it.

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#17 July 10, 2008, 10:23:34 pm

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Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers pretty much conveyed the idea of music as art to my young ears and, perhaps most importantly of all in interviews were never shy about talking about bands they loved. I'm certain that Kurt Cobain's and John Frusciante's respective famed encyclopedic knowledge of rock history influenced my semi-conscious decision to attempt to absorb as much music, whatever the age or style or popularity status as I possibly could. They also offered a difference to my view as to what a rock musician was. Rock music was never intelligent, or off-kilter, or feminine or full of ideas. My perception of a rock band as a child was basically ZZ Top or Motorhead (both are pretty cool as it turns out, but as a child I was scared of them). So yeah, essentially offering a different view to what being a rock musician meant, and opening the doors to a whole world of great music.

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headphonics

#18 July 10, 2008, 10:34:19 pm

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Quote from: el capitano on July 10, 2008, 10:16:48 pm

Hey headphonics I almost put the Chili's. Me and my friends were pretty big on them back in 2001/2002, but The Strokes came first I would say. I still like The Strokes, but I can't listen to the Chili's any more. Their music just sounds really immature and shallow to me now. I can't get into it.

All of it? I don't get that out of it! Frusciante and Flea are both very good songwriters for the most part, I would say. I'm not really huge into Stadium Arcadium, but I like parts of By The Way a lot, and BSSM/Californication are still basically two of my favorite albums. In hindsight, what I liked about Californication in 1999 wasn't what I like about it right now, but it's nice to think back to sitting around in my room listening to it back to back to back. I liked Is This It a lot when I heard it, and in hindsight I still like it and Room On Fire a lot, but man was I ever disappointed by First Impressions! I'm kind of surprised you like it, since I thought most hardcore fans of the first two albums were like fuuuuuuuuuck this.

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The Riddler

#19 July 10, 2008, 10:36:51 pm

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I just cannot get into any of the chili's at all. It's weird because I used to like it so much, I think I just got sick of it and now none of it appeals.

And yeah, as much as I like Is This It and Room on Fire so much more, I still think First Impressions is good. It's different which is what they needed since the first two were like one album split apart basically.

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ThugTears666

#20 July 10, 2008, 10:37:11 pm

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When I saw the Strokes live they were opening for Metallica (worst placing ever) and they finished early and the audience cheered them for doing it. They were so wasted, the singer and guitarist fell over several times, like face down fell over hahaha thats so awesome.

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