Reply With QuoteGrowing up...Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Ted Nugent, Todd Rundgren, Neil Young, Jackson Browne all come to mind.
Early Musical Influences
Please post the musical interests you had growing up.
Qualifications: Must be music no later than your senior year in high school but can include earlier stuff if that was truly what you listened to.
I had older siblings so I started early:
Influnces of older siblings
Journey
REO Speedwagon
Rush
Genesis
Phil Collins
Chicago
Brief Christain Rock Phase (involved in Church Youth Group)
Amy Grant
Sandi Patti
Michael W. Smith
80's Popular Music (Pre High School)
Kiss FM
Quiet Riot (7th grade and parachute pants!)
Devo (Whip It!)
Duran Duran
Petshop Boys
Intro to Classic Rock (High School)
Q102 and The Zoo!
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Alternative Rock (when alternative really was alternative) High School
I still remember this crazy new radio station, 94.5 The Edge? I still have some bumper strips some where.
Front 242
Depeche Mode
The Cure
U2 (The Joshua Tree album was HUGE)
Growing up...Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Ted Nugent, Todd Rundgren, Neil Young, Jackson Browne all come to mind.
Oasis, the Cranberries, Smashing Pumkins, Nirvana, early Green Day
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Beginning in the 5th grade, and through high school, Mr. Austin, the band director. The usual composers, the five "B"s. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Brubeck and the Beatles. Plus local bands like the Bill Tanner Band and the Jet Tones. Then and now, my musical taste were/are eclectic.
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I was up late the other night and flipped over to FUSE TV. I was amazed at how much the music reminded me of the stuff from my days in school.
There was a period when I heard nothing new that I liked - even the remakes of some of my old favorites.
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I grew up when "new wave" music was really taking off, so a lot of the stuff I listened to early was was stuff like Depeche Mode, The Cure, the Cult, Joy Division, Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jane's Addiction, etc.
I also got into a lot of the early "industrial" music - KMFDM, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult... I've got a huge box of old 12"s in a closet somewhere, including some really rare WaxTrax! stuff.
I was in my late teens when grunge hit, and I've got plenty of Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, and Pearl Jam CDs to prove it.
I also had a thing for '60/'70s psychedlic music - The Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and similar stuff.
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Originally Posted by MadMerv
Tell us what life was like before rock and roll! Big bands, swing, etc?
Mine were Styx, Boston, Queen, and Judas Priest before moving into the New Wave stuff... ABC, A Flock of Seagulls, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Yaz, etc...
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Mad_monkey sent me a PM and asked if I could reply for him. He said he was emarassed to say that his influences were mainly Britney and the Spice girls.
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- Grand Funk Railroad
The earliest stuff I recall would be Handel, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Heart, Chicago, John Denver, Neil Diamond. These were all things I heard because of the parents. Let's say anything on KVIL or WRR.
From there, got into hard rock/heavy metal, such as Def Leppard (two arms), Quiet Riot, Dio, Queensryche, Metallica, Slayer, Killer Dwarves. There was also some mid-80s glam thrown in, primarily Poison, but I'm sure there were others.
My sister, two years older than me, got me into new wave near the end of all that. I acquired tastes for New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths and the other nifty stuff heard on 120 minutes and 94.5, the Edge.
Confusion ensued, and I found myself with releases by Genesis, Madonna and lord knows what else in addition to the metal and new wave/alternative.
Front 242 and Nine Inch Nails found their way into rotation during high school. Accidentally attending a Skinny Puppy show in '92 got me into the rest of the industrial scene at the time. Puppy, Godflesh, Front Line Assembly, Pigface, Thrill Kill Kult...much of the Wax Trax lineup, plus the folks who played with 'em.
Also hit the club music (mostly house at the time, I think) and various crossover stuff, like Lords of Acid.
Good thing we're stopping at high school, or I'd have to get into all sorts of other stuff...
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I remember the days of 97.1 the eagle (magma remembers). I have a little metal in me. I listened to all kinds of music, though.
Pantera, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Deftones, Tool, Rage Against the Machine...
Dad was a rock freak who never let go of the glory days... it rubbed off.
Led Zepplin, Cream, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Greatful Dead...
I listen to any genre except pop and country nowadays.
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What about KZEW (The Zoo) and Q102 (before it became the Edge) ? Damn kids, get off my yard!
Big Band: Benny Goodmand, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller
50's and 60's Rock: Fats Dominoe, Beatles.
Country:Hank Williams jr and sr., John Anderson, Jerry Reaves
Pop: Foreigner, Abba, Cream,
Alternative Rock: Men with Hats, They might be giants.
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I was listening to the Zoo in Waco when it quit playing rock back around Christmas in 1989. Weak signal, but beter than any of the Waco stations.What about KZEW (The Zoo) and Q102 (before it became the Edge) ? Damn kids, get off my yard!
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The Cars and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Yes, I had a mullet. Yes, there are three Cars CDs in my Miata right now. Yes, I occasionally listen to my Lynyrd Skynyrd CD when no one else can hear.
I generaly keep newer stuff in the Acura.
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