Interested in hearing what all of you were listening to as a kid whether it was bands, classical music, or even School House Rock.
When I was just a toddler, my dad played a lot of classical and jazz. Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland was what I remember most of music as that was played all the time when we were on road trips when I was really young. The first band I ever got into was Cake when I was either eight or nine at the time. I got introduced to them when I saw them at a free concert with a friend. I really wasn't into music before that time, so that concert had a big impact on me and still to this day, Cake are one of my favorite bands. I also got heavily into The Offspring who's sound fit my rebelliousness of my teen years. There were other bands like Green Day, Metallica, Eve 6, Garbage, Third Eye Blind that I was into but not as much as the above bands. I was pretty much into rock until my first year in high school where I found a group called The Gorillaz which completely opened me up to new styles of music and made me think to not keep myself in a shell of just listening to rock.
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My dad was always into the big 'classic' rock bands like Zep, The Who, The Stones, Rush etc, but then he was always down with the whole alternative 'grunge' thing when I was still pretty little so I would hear a lot of Sonic Youth, Pixies, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr. Along with my mother's obsession with R&B and soul, I'm talking Aretha, Otis, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green and so on, that pretty much formed the basis of my music growing up.
First bands I got into completely independently I think were probably Korn and Rage Against The Machine in the early 90s. They had elements I recognised from lots of my parents music but also represented something very new and specific to my generation, so part of the attraction was feeling like they were mine, something I didn't have to share with my folks because it wasn't something they could understand.
I started out with Nirvana and Metallica when I was in Grade 2.
Bought Nevermind thinking it was an Wierd Al Yankovic CD. Black Album was bought because I couldnt get enough of Enter Sandman.
My step dad listened to alot of 60's music. More importantly, the Doors. My dad on the other hand, well, he didnt have the greatest taste in music but the song I most remember hearing was Eye in the Sky by the Allen Parsons Project.
when I was little, all I would be listening to was the Grateful Dead. I got into Fall Out Boy when I was in, I think, fifth grade and then when I started liking the sound of Marilyn Manson, my dad made me listen to Radio Disney and nothing else. Eventually he let me listen to other radio stations, but I can never have my iPod near him or any of my CDs (he will freak out!)
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up until i was about 9, i didnt bother listening to music reguarly, i was to busy playing with my action figures. I guess i listened to my brother playing classical music though
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Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder, Electric Light Orchestra, Beatles, Michael Jackson.
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It's an image worth pondering for a moment. Maybe, when you cut past the instrumental and songwriting virtuosity, the funny voices and characters, what is left is a man alone in his recording studio for days at a time.
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Jun 23rd, 2007 06:51 AM
(he will freak out!)
