What Bands were you Raised on?
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Whenever i was out with my dad he used to play lots of Genesis.
I used to adore Robbery, Assault and Battery... Come to think of it I still do
I used to adore Robbery, Assault and Battery... Come to think of it I still do
My parents didn't listen to a lot of music around the house when I was a kid. If they did it was usually something from the radio. Anyway, I looked up bands by myself and listened to a lot of Prodigy. Then I found Marilyn Manson and it was all downhill from there on. 
Oh, I also liked Gorillaz. Even during the most headbanging heavy metal teenage years. During the last few years I've started to like them even more.
Oh, I also liked Gorillaz. Even during the most headbanging heavy metal teenage years. During the last few years I've started to like them even more.
Only music I listened to when I was little was on road trips, when my dad put in his "80's anthology" CD's. Queensryche, Scorpions, IRON MAIDEN, Accept, AC/DC. Then after those were done, Styx and Green Day.
I didn't really comprehend anything except a few words of each song, but I sure did love Run To The Hills.
I didn't really comprehend anything except a few words of each song, but I sure did love Run To The Hills.
I can't tell you how much I envy you both. I only recently discovered Pink Floyd myself, quickly became one of my favourite bands. I know what you mean though, we had one holiday in France on which my parents constantly played the Just Be album from DJ Tiësto (don't consider being raised on it, since it was only a few years ago). Even though I usually not listen to trance, it's a beautiful album and the music fitted the place we went to (Dordogne, lots of prehistoric stuff, lots of valley's and peaks, gorgeous) for some odd reason. I'll always remember that.RAND00M said:
Growing up my mom would listen to a lot of mexican/latin pop type stuff Julio Eglasias (apologies for the massacre on that spelling), etc. I didn't inherit her taste in music, but I definitely inherited her love of music.
My family hit the road a lot when I was growing, and while I was the typical unappreciative kid bored out of my mind in the back of the car, I decided it might be a good time to get into music, buy a tape (or cd) player, some cds, might make the trips better.
So I bought some stuff that was typical for my age, enjoyed it to some extent...first band that really honest to god got me into music was the Smashing Pumpkins, I thought that they were the bees knees. I really hated the whole grunge thing by the way, even at the time I thought it was dumb as shit.
Couple of years later I got into ska, it was third wave, definetly something I grew out of over time (although anytime I hear Reel Big Fish's "Sellout" I get nostalgic), and ska got me into punk (as third wave ska was more or less punk with a horn section).
Punk was an epiphany to me, I never really realized how into music I could get till I got into punk. I did what everybody does when they get into a genre, I grabbed onto anything and everything I could get my grubby little paws on. The shittiest punk bands, and I'd listen to them. I loved the first Clash album but was sorta disappointed by their followups, which is ironic considering the fact that today my favorite Clash stuff was their least typical-punk rock stuff, and I really can't listen to your straight ahead punk band anymore. I enjoy the earliest of the early stuff that didn't have a set sound yet, everything sounds so much more interesting.
My family hit the road a lot when I was growing, and while I was the typical unappreciative kid bored out of my mind in the back of the car, I decided it might be a good time to get into music, buy a tape (or cd) player, some cds, might make the trips better.
So I bought some stuff that was typical for my age, enjoyed it to some extent...first band that really honest to god got me into music was the Smashing Pumpkins, I thought that they were the bees knees. I really hated the whole grunge thing by the way, even at the time I thought it was dumb as shit.
Couple of years later I got into ska, it was third wave, definetly something I grew out of over time (although anytime I hear Reel Big Fish's "Sellout" I get nostalgic), and ska got me into punk (as third wave ska was more or less punk with a horn section).
Punk was an epiphany to me, I never really realized how into music I could get till I got into punk. I did what everybody does when they get into a genre, I grabbed onto anything and everything I could get my grubby little paws on. The shittiest punk bands, and I'd listen to them. I loved the first Clash album but was sorta disappointed by their followups, which is ironic considering the fact that today my favorite Clash stuff was their least typical-punk rock stuff, and I really can't listen to your straight ahead punk band anymore. I enjoy the earliest of the early stuff that didn't have a set sound yet, everything sounds so much more interesting.
During my childhood in the eighties I picked up a lot of what are now known as the rock classics. But also a lot of my mom´s music (my dad liked stuff that my mom didn't want to be played around the house so I only discovered that later, King Crimson for instance).
Mostly Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Sting and Simon & Garfunkel stick out as artists I remember from when I was very young. I still listen to them now.
Mostly Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Sting and Simon & Garfunkel stick out as artists I remember from when I was very young. I still listen to them now.
There´s a name you don´t hear too often anymore. I've got a record of her lying around somewhere (record as in vynil).TheSeventhLoneWolf said:
My mom played a lot of classics when I was young
-Bob Marley
-Tracy Chapman
-Jim Croce
But I usually went to find my own music and I fell in love with post-punk English bands and 90's rock
-The Smashing Pumpkins(favorite)
-Stone Temple Pilots
-The Smiths(second favorite)
-Morrissey
-Stevie Wonders
-Pearl Jam
-Kanye West
-Prince
-Depeche Mode
-New Order
-Silverchair
-Metallica
-Nirvana
Most recently, I've been listening to Yasunori Mitsuda, the main composer for masterpieces like Chrono Trigger/Cross and Xenogears and Morrissey's recent albums like Years of Refusal.
-Bob Marley
-Tracy Chapman
-Jim Croce
But I usually went to find my own music and I fell in love with post-punk English bands and 90's rock
-The Smashing Pumpkins(favorite)
-Stone Temple Pilots
-The Smiths(second favorite)
-Morrissey
-Stevie Wonders
-Pearl Jam
-Kanye West
-Prince
-Depeche Mode
-New Order
-Silverchair
-Metallica
-Nirvana
Most recently, I've been listening to Yasunori Mitsuda, the main composer for masterpieces like Chrono Trigger/Cross and Xenogears and Morrissey's recent albums like Years of Refusal.
A whole load of whatever. Seriously, my parents listen to nothing in particular, they just go from one thing to another, like gypsies.