songs/bands that shaped your music taste

i think that makes sense. you know how you can trace your music taste back to a song that completely changed it. Like, if it wasn't for this song/artist you might be listening to completely different music? what are yours?

okay, i discovered alternative rock when i was 11 when i heard jimmy eat world. "bleed american" is probably one of the most important albums in my music taste history. after that i just looked up bands like them and stuff like that. i got into harder stuff when i was 13 like nirvana and chevelle and all these stereotypical alternative bands. then when i was 14, modest mouse made me discover music all over again. i heard "ocean breathes salty" and thought it was one of the strangest songs ever, but i loved it. i had never heard of indie, i had no idea what it even was. i listened to the album "good news for people who love bad news" for the longest time, thinking they were one of a kind. but since then, i've discovered even more interesting bands with weird sounds. now i'm a complete indie kid and i doubt that'll change any time soon.

children of bodom and kanye west

coz after cob i got into loads of metal music

and after kanye west i got into rap n hip hop n stuff

I grew up listening to IM BLUE DABEDEDABEDA

But then I discovered rock ;)

I think Kid Rock is the artist that shaped me into rockish music.

JME - Serious, started listening to UK Hip-Hop/grime again.

cos i liked it before then i was liek; OMG YEH MCR.

linkin park - in the end
without that song, and as a whole, that band, i doubt i would've started listening to rock music as early as i did. i probably would've just gotten into it.

Linkin park crawing

Best song ever!

Bands that shaped my music taste would have to be... Queen, GNR, Maiden, Apocalyptica, Enya, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel.

Well ever since I was old enough to be out of my mother's sight my next door neighbour who was in her 20s at the time would take me to sit with her in her car and just listen to Bon Jovi, so the Slippery When Wet album is basically the root of everything for me. Growing up the Bon Jovi mixtapes she made me and a Savage Garden one that my mum had were pretty much all I listened to, but also the early Now! CDs in the 90s. Up through primary and middle school that was pretty much it for me other than radio tunes, until I discovered Something Corporate and Get Up Kids around 2000.

Got to high school, got into Audioslave and (quite massively) Black Sabbath, as well as some other grunge and heavy rock bands. Became a big fan of the Misfits and still am, then around the age of 14 I got into rap through ICP (not much of a good reputation I know but I liked it :P) and later Tupac, Bone Thugs etc., but still mostly listened to rock or punk.

Having got to college, I was bombarded with, and quite bemused by, indie music which I see personally as extremely boring and samey, and was saved by a friend with his vast volumes of rap CDs, and that's what I mostly listen to now, but still all of the above too - nothing gets away from me :P Been quite a journey

Well i've been threw quite a few stages in my musical life..

Up until about 12 or so, I was just the convential kid that listened to the standard pop/hip hop tracks and whatever the hype song was at the moment. But then when I got to 13, I got into the whole 'nu-metal' scene with a few mates, inlcluding the whole Linkin Park thing, and some other mainstream metal bands at that time.

However when I was about 14 I think, I went into my local virgin megastores and went to buy the first Razorlight album that was out, but to get a good deal (I think it was 2 for £15 or something like that) I went to buy THE LIBERTINES second album for no particular reason at that time. When I got home I could not believe how amazing The Libertines were, it was like all I ever needed.. quirky lyrics, great melodies, two iconic rock n roll stars.

So from then on and still now I listen to The Libertines and bands like that, and the only other band I sort of kept from my past was linkin park. When I got to 16 though, I started broadening my horizons. Going to a school in east london I got the feel for grime music and also going to a grime rave i realised that I get the same sort of hype from a normal gig as I do listening to grime music. And also at this time i'm going out more, and because they don't exactly play indie music on the dancefloor I started getting into some more 'new-rave- bands.. Hadouken!, Late of The Pier etc etc, but also funky house music which they always play at the clubs

I also have a taste for 'pop-punk' atm, generally because it's a local scene thats kicking off in my area, although most of the bands only really have one major good song..

But yeah The Libertines = Favourite Band ever, Enter Shikari = Best Live band i've seen, Late of the Pier = Most band seen live [7 times] and Gallows/Pendulum = most band i'd like to see live

THE END :)

Nickelback, when I was 8 and heard the song "How You Remind Me" I loved rock and started getting into bands like Nickelback, Saliva, Blink-182 most punk/rock/grundge bands and still do t'day