I listened to mostly country music up until my parents split. After that I remember sitting in my dad's truck on the beach every weekend, instead of swimming with the kids I was hooked on Casey Casem's top 40 countdown. Hanson's "Mmm Bop" was the first #1 song I remember. So for about three years that was a thing. Smash Mouth, Savage Garden and whatever else was mainstream in the late 90s. Then I thought I'd found the holy grail when discovering TRL in '99, as I was on team nu-metal with the likes of Korn, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock, rooting against the boy bands and pop princesses (though usually coming out on the losing end). Eventually I outgrew them for more "mature" metal like Slipknot, System of a Down,, Disturbed and Tool. That was most of high school, until in my senior year I got into classic rock. I amassed a very large CD collection including the entire discographies of the likes of Zeppelin, Floyd, Queen, Creedence, etc. Again I thought I had reached the top or the mountain... until Bob Dylan came along (Dylan may be considered classic rock, but not in the south lol). Yeah, let's just go with that. Bob Dylan got me into music... Except not really. But I like to think he did.
The Beatles introduced me
The Velvet Underground seduced me
and The Grateful Dead won my heart.
Well said.
Geez... this is hard for me because I am the youngest of a family with 5 kids and two hippie parents.
My Dad grew up in Florida in the 50's and 60's - he'd run off away from his white family and visit the tent churches. He got into what I'll call black people music - soul, gospel, R&B, which naturally lent to Motown and early rock and roll etc. So Ray Charles, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, etc.
My oldest brother... actually I ain't got time to write more - my family had really good musical taste (imo and I'm grateful for it), that's probably all I'll say. Except my mom did torture me with like The Carpenters and Julio Inglecias from time to time.
Here are the records that really started my musical beginnings at like 5 to 10 years old and really shaped me musically.
My second oldest brother worshiped Mahler, so a wide variety of it was playing (we shared a room).
The 3 B's (Beethoven, Bach, Brahms) was a CD I remember playing along with Vivaldi. (more my Dad)
But these were on rotation on every car trip, etc.
It wasn't one particular band but the music of the seventies in general, because since I was 5 or 6 years old I was glued to the radio and especially Classic Rock Radio and oldies radio. And in those days that mostly meant 60s and early 70s music. And you know how awesome that was. And even when I was a teenager in the 1980s, classic rock and oldies stations still played 60's and 70's music. Which I preferred to the 80s music. Although I also got into that.
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The band that pushed the doors wide open for me were New Order - hearing Blue Monday for the first time was my musical epiphany and as a pre-teen I nagged my Mum to take me to the local branch of WHSmith to pick up a copy of this on cassette:
I dare say I had a Beatles 'phase' but it was mostly down to back-tracking through other bands' influences (especially through the early Britpop years) rather than them opening any doors. In any event they were kinda always there in the ether for me, if you know what I mean... _________________ 'Reggae' & t'ing Folk 'n Stuff SHAMELESS RECORD DEALER PLUG
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