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Posted by: SLASH91 Dec 29 2007, 03:29 AM

The title says it all; just list all the different styles of music that you've listened to over the years and how they have had affects on your present tastes. Here's my musical history:

Pretty much up to the time I was eleven I had no bands that I listened to. Luckily though,(actually pretty unlucky) most of the people that I was around listened to rap and hiphop. After a year of listening to rap, I kind of got into Slipknot, Korn, and some other nu-metal bands. I soon got out of this stage, and thankfully started listening to some good music. It was around this time that I got into classic rock ( Aerosmith, Van Halen, etc) and some blues (SRV and Hindrix). This music still didn't quite meet the mark with me though, and soon I was searching for something different. That's when I picked up a Metallica CD about a year ago. I havn't looked back. While I still highly enjoy blues, classic rock, and even a little modern rock, metal has become my absolute favorite genre of music. I kind of got stuck on Metallica for a while, but I'm definitely branching out.

Well, that's it. Any one else care to share their story? smile.gif

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 29 2007, 03:37 AM

Started with Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Judas Priest, and Black Sabbath, moved on to all the possible subgenres of metal, from Folk Metal to Death Metal. Ive also got into Blues, Jazz, Classical, Opera, Cultural, Instrumental and pretty much everything except country, and rap, those two just dont go with me well.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 29 2007, 03:46 AM

Well, when i was a kid i used to "hate" music, i always said i didnt like music everytime i asked what kind of music i liked. Then i listened to The Offspring which is a punk band, it became my favorite band and music right away, obviously. I stayed like that for quite a while, i never went on the search for more, then like 4 years ago i started to get into "Reggaeton", just cause it was what everybody listened to and what was played at parties. I even wanted to be a rapper with a friend. Then like 2 years ago (yeah that soon, makes me kinda angry sometimes) i started getting into Guns N Roses, Metallica, Megadeth, Rhapsody, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, Classical music, etc. And yeah, i acquired all that in that small amount of time. And well, here i am now, with the same musical tastes and preferences as of lately, and im sticking with that because i know, that thats the good music.

Posted by: shredmandan Dec 29 2007, 03:52 AM

I probably wouldnt have ever picked up a guitar if it wasent for Metallica ,thats how big of an impact they had on me.Honestly i still listen to the same bands i did ten years ago like Pantera,Megadeth,Alice in Chains, stuff like that .Music today just doesnt come out like it did in the 90's for me.Thrash is my biggest inspiration also other forms of rock,grunge,alterative,stuff like that.I donot care at all for rap and it never has moved me in any way musicaly.Country isnt a big one for me either however i do have respect for it and also after watching Murris country lesson i really want to mix that type of playing into my metal blink.gif biggrin.gif

Posted by: besip Dec 29 2007, 03:59 AM

When i'm was young i'm listen thet music what listen my friend rolleyes.gif
i'm also like freet dancer like rap but that's like20 years ago laugh.gif

i'm start changing and oriented to metal when im first time heard this 2 song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuGC3VhPmgg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgSKnzbIato


after that i'm start know what is Mettalicaa

heard firts time Master of Puppets and i'm oriented to metal rolleyes.gif
but actualy i'm can listen pretty everything if thats sound good..opera,nacionality music,folk no mather
but Metal is no.1

aaa almost forgot when i'm was realy young around 10-13 i'm do like Sandra,Bad boys Blues,Modern Talking, and Fun Factory biggrin.gif

Posted by: spdalton Dec 29 2007, 04:06 AM

I used to listen to Aqua, Vengaboys and rap like Xzibit when I was about 10 *shudders*.

Fortunately that phase went and I now listen to jazz, blues, classic rock, hard rock ... descent music.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 29 2007, 04:14 AM

QUOTE (spdalton @ Dec 28 2007, 09:06 PM) *
Fortunately that phase went and I now listen to jazz, blues, classic rock, hard rock ... descent music.



Amen cool.gif

Posted by: Robin Dec 29 2007, 04:19 AM

When I was about 6-7 years old I listened to a norwegian band called D.D.E. aswell as Øystein Sunde. I can't remember how long it lasted, but probably a few months.

Around 7-9 perhaps I listened to a fantastic norwegian band called Trang Fødsel. I listened to them quite a while but eventually stopped.

Around 9-10 I listened to stuff like Bloodhound Gang, The Offspring and that sort of things, my sister and dad listened to it, that's where I got it from.

The period 10-12 me and my best friend discovered techno and trance through my friends big brother. We were absolutely obsessed with it because we thought it was so incredibly amazing. We listened to it all the time, we bought stereos and these kind of lights you see in clubs, flashing with colors and everything. We never talked about anything else. I remember I used to put on the "disco lights" and listen to music for hours. Good times, good times, even though I can't stand trance/techno today.

Around the age 12 me and all my friends started skateboarding. Of course that led to all the music on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. Lots of great music there. I specifically liked Millencolin.

Later that year the norwegian championship in skateboarding was held here in our town. They played Iron Maiden's Run to The Hills there, and after hearing it I was speechless. I instantly fell in love with it(same happened to a guy that I didn't know at the time, wich today is the drummer in my band).

12-15 = Iron Maiden. I met my drummer through another friend of mine, all of us loved Maiden so we decided to make a band. We were all heavily influenced by Iron Maiden, so the music we made was pointing in the direction of the first Maiden albums.
We also liked Judas Priest and Black Sabbath, but not nearly as much as we worshipped Iron Maiden.

15-16 = In Flames, Arch Enemy and Children of Bodom for a short time, then Opeth. Discovering Opeth was great, just great.

We started to like growling vocals and a heavier music the past year wich led to black metal at the age of 16. Discovering black metal was just a coinsidence. One of the local music shops were closing, so they had 50% off everything. The drummer of my band just happened to buy Darkthrone's three fantastic classics: A Blaze In The Northern Sky, Under A Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger, only because he thought the album covers looked cool! We listened to A Blaze In The Northern Sky and was amazed of how different this was from everything else we had ever heard. It was pure magic!

The age 16-17 was just pure black metal all the way, maybe a little thrash and death aswell.

When I was 17, around christmas, my dad bought me some Jimi Hendrix CD's. This was what made me break out of this whole extreme metal bubble. A bit later my dad bought two Stevie Ray Vaughn albums and a Johnny Winter album. That was when I started to like blues.

From last christmas and till today I have discovered a huge amout of bands and artists, many through GMC. I think I can almost say that I like everything. I'd love to make a list, but, dude... no way.
This broad taste of music have influenced my playing alot in all kind of different directions.
I also started to listen to the bands that I listened to as a kid.

I think it's very important to listen to as much different things as possible or else the music you make will sound exactly the same as the style you're listening to. I know alot of people that only listen to metal, or only rock, or only rap, because they don't think that it's cool to listen to other genres. I don't know how many times people have said to me: "WHAT!? Are you listening to that xxx crap??"
Break the barrier and listen to as much different music possible!



Edit: Maybe a bit too many details that people don't care about tongue.gif sorry

Posted by: Spiderusalem Dec 29 2007, 04:52 AM

At first, I only got into songs that were in movies. Thats a lot of genres if you think about it.

I got into movie scores ala Back to the Future and Indiana Jones.

I got into theme songs and songs they played in movies like "Johnny B Good" in Back to the Future, "Dont lose your way" from Land Before Time, "Fight The Power" in Do the Right thing, and pretty much the whole soundtrack to Forrest Gump.

Eventually, I found my way to liking Papa Roach, Linkin Park, ect. until one day when my guitar teacher told me to listen to the music that influenced the music I listened to. That "homework assignment" changed my life forever. I put on some Black Sabbath and thought it was from another world. I threw away the nu-metal and emo punk and made room for Zeppelin and Maiden Cd's. And now my tastes are going into two very strange directions.

On one hand, I'm really starting to dig folk music and jazz arrangements.

On the other hand, I'm really getting into mash ups, turntablism, and DJ music (ever since I saw 'Cut Chemist' perform a scratch duet with R2-D2).

Posted by: shellshock1911 Dec 29 2007, 05:20 AM

Lol I'm only 16 and I've already got a pretty diverse and big musical history lol.

Age 5 to 13: My family loves country music so they played it on the radio all the time and I loved it, especially Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Brooks n' Dunn, and Garth Brooks. At one point, I could name any given country song that came on the radio at any time. Even though today my tastes in music are way different, those artists are still my favorite from the country genre, I can't stand most new country like Rascal Flatts.

Age 10 to 13: I liked country still but also listened to rap because I thought it was "cool." Listened to artists like Ludacris, Nelly, etc. However unlike country, looking back, I can say every single rap artist sucked.

Age 13: Big day. I was at a summer camp in Flat Rock, NC. We were riding back from a ski trip and Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong" came on the radio. Everyone in the van was screaming their head off trying to sing it and I thought it was just soooooooooooooooooooo awesome how it was so much more "free" and "open" than what I had been previously listening to. As soon as I got home a week later, I got Meteora and listened to Somewhere I Belong like 750 times, over, and over, and over, and over, and over, it was like a hobby, but I didn't listen to any other songs on the album. Then I listened to Breaking the Habit, I thought it was cool, so I listened to the rest of the album, loved it, went out and bought the rest of their albums, Hybrid Theory, Live in Texas, etc. For about a year all I did was listen to Linkin Park, that is it, I knew every song they had word for word. Then my dad noticed my new interest in "semi-rock" as he called it. So he showed me some of the stuff that he listened to as a teenager like Guns n' Roses, ACDC, KISS, Aerosmith, etc. And I thought it was awesome, so I started to like progressive rock/hair metal. This was the point when I began to notice the flashy guitar solos and dreamt about playing like Slash, Ace Frehley, etc. I also liked bands like Greenday, Shinedown, etc.

Age 14: Got a guitar for my birthday (October). Wasn't serious for about 8 months, for some reason, it was more fun to listen to music and just imagine myself playing it. After 8 months I could play a couple chords and that is it. Then I found Ultimate-Guitar.com and I was like "Wow I can learn to play any song I want to." So I just learned random intros and basic songs like American Idiot, When September Ends, Crazytrain, other 80's hair metal stuff and stuff like ACDC. Well those solos really started to make me mad because I couldn't play them so I went on quest into further guitar study. Learned some theory concepts...then got sucked into World of Warcraft and Runescape for 1.5 years. During my addiction to those games I loved to listen to Jimi Hendrix, he was one of my favorite.

Age 15, about March: I broke my MMORPG addiction and picked up the guitar again. Joined GMC, thought it was cool and all, but didn't grasp it's potential until about 2 months ago. Anyway earlier this January I heard Metallica and LOVED it. Like Somewhere I Belong two years before, I listened to Master of Puppets like 800 times non-stop. Then I listened to other stuff by them, got every single album, learned a couple of their songs. Then one day I hear about this rival band Megadeth...listen to them, forget Metallica, absolutely love Marty Friedman's style, listend to Holy Wars and Hangar 18 900 times then heard about Marty's earlier band, Cacophony. Listen to it, got sucked into the neo-classical genre, absolutely love it now. I heard about the inventor of neo-classical, Yngwie Malmsteen, listened to him, loved it. I heard about his influence, Niccolo Paganini, which is classical music, so I was a bit wary at first, but got the 24 Caprices, loved it, and thus further expanding my musical genres. Lately I've been listening to a ton of blues, jazz, classical, neo-classical, and metal...yep, thats about it. I got carried away a bit but whatever lol.

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 29 2007, 05:23 AM

Oh, and like last month, Rokchik got me into celtic music like....a month ago laugh.gif

Posted by: Wallimann Dec 29 2007, 02:39 PM

Started with rap... :-(
Even worse, I started with bad rap.. I used to like Vanilla Ice a lot when I was 14....
Then I discovered Metal.. :-)

Posted by: Iluha Dec 29 2007, 02:52 PM

Rap? my case is even worst, I started with pop sad.gif

When I was 10 I had no idea about music, and a female friend of mine introduced me to the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys, and well, I liked it lol, don't even know why.
after that it was rap for a couple of years, than it was bands like Nickelback, Stained, Slipknot, ETC. and after that it was In Flames, Children Of Bodom, Dream Theater and Symphony X, and finally my guitar teacher back then introduced me to Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, and the rest is history smile.gif

Posted by: rokchik Dec 29 2007, 02:58 PM

QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Dec 29 2007, 12:23 AM) *
Oh, and like last month, Rokchik got me into celtic music like....a month ago laugh.gif


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As for my musical tastes well they have always been varied. I've had my 80's glam metal phase as a kid, a hip hop phase as a teenager, and well my 20's have been a mix of everything from Frank Sinatra to Rob Zombie. About the only constants were bands like Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, GNR, Johnny Cash, The Tragically Hip and Metallica. I also had celtic music around me as a child so I've always had a love for it. Celtic punk is a new one for me though but it has quickly become a favourite.

Since I've picked up the guitar at age 28 my tastes in music have changed a bit but I think the biggest difference is how I listen to music. It's like I have new ears. I concentrate more now on the technical aspects of songs. Like the guitar techniques, or the song composition. I have a greater appreciation now for music. I'm listening to more metal and blues but also a lot of 90's alternative. It's been 2 yrs since I picked up the guitar and I've learned to love music more in that short time then in the 28 yrs prior.

Posted by: botoxfox Dec 29 2007, 03:32 PM

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Posted by: GospelHenrik Dec 29 2007, 03:42 PM

I started to listen to metallica when i was like 10 years old, but the thing that convinced me to pick up the guitar was when i saw Yngwie Malmsteen on a children program called "Alrram est" it was so funny! He sat in a chair with all his jewellery, talking to a kind of crazy muppet and playing a crazy guitar solo at the same time..

these days i mostly listen to jazz and fusion, and some dream theater biggrin.gif

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 29 2007, 05:15 PM

QUOTE (Iluha @ Dec 29 2007, 07:52 AM) *
When I was 10 I had no idea about music, and a female friend of mine introduced me to the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys, and well, I liked it lol, don't even know why.



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Posted by: SLASH91 Dec 29 2007, 05:25 PM

Good stories guys. smile.gif

I'm so glad that I never got into emo like My Chemical Romance and other garbage like that; It probably would have happened if I hadn't gotten that Metallica cd though. tongue.gif

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 29 2007, 05:52 PM

QUOTE (SLASH91 @ Dec 29 2007, 10:25 AM) *
Good stories guys. smile.gif

I'm so glad that I never got into emo like My Chemical Romance and other garbage like that; It probably would have happened if I hadn't gotten that Metallica cd though. tongue.gif


Metallica has saved our lives laugh.gif

Posted by: SLASH91 Dec 29 2007, 05:58 PM

QUOTE (FretDancer69 @ Dec 29 2007, 10:52 AM) *
Metallica has saved our lives laugh.gif


Yeah, it has; and to think, I don't even really like the Metallica cd that I started off with( the Black Album)
Love all of their other old stuff though.

Posted by: Fsgdjv Dec 29 2007, 06:09 PM

Great topic! I'll try not to write to much.

0-5: When I was really young I mostly listened to a cd called "Örongodis" by Lars Ros, a swedish piano player. That was basically all music I enjoyed at that age.

6-9: I started getting into the Kingston Trio, I always listened to a tape that I got from my father when I was at home. At the same time, Backstreet Boys were the big thing in my school, so I listened to it. All the boys listened to backstreet boys, and in retrospective, I can't really understand how something like that could happen. I also liked a swedish artist called Nordman, folkish pop, it was better than the other things that were famous at the time, but still horrible. I remember that I stopped listening to him when I heard he had been in prison. laugh.gif

10-12: At this point, music was the last thing I cared about, I just listened to the radio sometimes, but I didn't *listen* to music, it was just there.

13: I started developing a taste for music, even if it was rap. Mostly decent rap at least like looptroop and similar stuff.

14: I hadn't listened to rap for very long when I first heard of Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down, so I started getting into rock music, and even some metal. I remember the first time a friend sent me a song by In Flames, at first I really didn't like the vocals, but then I loved it so much. Even though, I'm still proud of the fact that I always thought of Children of Bodom and Cradle of Filth, etc as pure garbage, something I still think. Later during this period, I tried to find as much metal as I could, always discussing it and sending songs back and forth with a friend on msn.

15: I kept listening to what I listened to earlier, but I discovered two of my favourite bands: Opeth and Isis. At first, I couldn't take Åkerfeldt's vocals (much darker growls than In Flames and other bands like that), but I learned to like it, and even love it.

16: This was the year I discovered black metal. Or well, when I was 14 a friend always sent me songs by dark funeral, but they were horrible, so I always thought it was crap. This year, I got into Burzum, Ulver, Mayhem, Immortal and some other bands. Other than the black metal, I discovered bloodbath and other death metal bands, but I tried to keep some diversity. I also started listening to Sigur Rós this year, something that's really far from black and death metal.

17-18: After having built a solid ground of musical taste the year before, I started just digging deeper into the musical genres that I like, and learning more about progressive rock and post rock. For example, I got into Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparrowes, Pelican and lots of other post rock bands. But mostly, I'm developing my metal taste, and discovering new bands.

18-??: I think I'm just continuing to explore music, digging deeper into the genres I'm into, but I'm also trying to get more open minded. I've started enjoying more acoustic music and even some fusion Jazz (ok, just McLaughlin, but everything he's touched is awesome!). And today, I would say that my favourite bands are Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Ulver, Agalloch, Katatonia, Isis, Explosions in the Sky, Bloodbath, Cult of Luna and Sigur Rós. And I'm definetly looking forward to discovering more bands and more musical styles.

Posted by: superize Dec 29 2007, 06:12 PM

At first i listened to almost everything besides rock and metal.

Then for like maybe 5 years ago a friend of mine came over to put some music on our new cumputer and i remember that he had like 2 songs by hammerfall. i started listening to Hammerfall all the time and they became my favorite band. Later i started looking new bands to listened to and then i found bands like Blind Guardian Iced earth etc... Time wentby and i found more and more bands to listened to and now i listen to all kinds of metal and one of my favorite genre is Melodic death metal(Bands like Arch Enemy, Mors Principium est and COB).

So i have gone from hating metal to love it.

And now metal is the only thng i want to listened to

Posted by: ActiveX Dec 29 2007, 08:36 PM

As a very young child, I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash, CCR, and the Eagles (thanks to my Dad). I was a teenager in the 80's and started getting into the "glam metal" of the day (Cinderella, Poison, Ratt, the 80's version of KISS, etc). Soon after I started to play the guitar, and I discovered other bands with great guitarists such as Dokken (George Lynch), GNR (Slash), Van Halen, White Lion (Vito Bratta), Exteme (Nuno Bettencourt), Judas Priest, and Def Leppard just to name a few. Then grunge came along...this was the kiss of death to many of my favorite bands. Other than Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, I never really got into this type of music; this was also the time that I stopped playing the guitar.
During the mid-90's I went through a phase where I wasn't digging the "rock" music that was popular, and I started listening to a lot of rap / hip-hop - Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., and Snoop Dogg to name a few. This phase only lasted a couple of years, but I still listen to some of my rap cd's. The next few years, I'm sad to say I really didn't listen to music much at all. I mean, I had music on the radio in my car, or on my mp3 player when I was working outside etc, but it was just for background music...I was hearing it, but I wasn't really LISTENING to it. Besides that, my personal life was so crazy during this time with working, going to school, having kids, starting a new career, and all the other "joys" of being an adult.
A few months ago, for some reason I had the urge to pick up my guitar, which had been pretty much dormant for over 15 years...and I have hardly put it down since. I have also really started to enjoy listening to music again. Another thing is, I thought you were supposed to get more mellow with age...Not Me! I've started listening to a lot of heavier music and metal right now; I wasn't really into the really heavy bands when I was younger, I just didn't like it back then. In a way, I'm kind of glad that I didn't, because it's all new music to me now. So right now I'm listening to a lot of old Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, and thanks to the very diverse group of GMC members, I'm discovering new music all the time...and LOVING it!

Posted by: Tomy Jeon Dec 29 2007, 09:55 PM

I listened to Green Day then Crazy Frog then to Metallica blink.gif

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