So tell me what's your music history?

[Saar°berry]

Heya... just was thinking... about my musical life... ;D So i started listening to music since my zero years... Went to festivals each year since my zero years... with my mum and dad (which are very young... they had me when my mum was 19 and dad was 21) So my first music love was 'The Ramones'. I was obsessed by them at my 5 years... wanted to marry Joey... ;D LOL! My dad is a total music nut. He has now a collection of 2000 elpees and a i think a same amount cd's. i know... so i grew up with the ledgends... Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Led Zepplin, ... He introduced me to PJ Harvey when i was 14 or 15. At the same time i got into Tori Amos which is from then on my absolute fairy... At the same time i was into all hard rock bands... At my 16 i was crazy about The Cure and such... hehehehe! But only one fairy was always there... My dad didn't introduce me to Tori. I found out about her, myself. My dad keeps on getting first!!!! grrrrrrrr ;D ;D ;D He's still young... i mean he still is into 'the new bands' He bought lately Muse and The Hives, ... So it's nice... i hardly have to buy music... But there are bands i'm more into then he is... Like Lamb, An Pierlé, Tool, Ani Difranco, ... And Tori. Which he always makes fun off... just to laugh with my reaction He calls her 'Aunt Tori' ;D Okay enough of my musical history... what about you? (and i play the flute since 3 years... only children songs mind you... Always wanted to play the bass guitar and the piano... maybe one day...)

[Shlozm]

hehehe...... i'm always first to reply, need to get a life one of these days...
i didn't have much music around the house growing up, my falks arn't that young... they're past 50 now (but i'm the youngest). i played recorders from age 6 so i started out with classical.i was actually increadibally good, and was suppossed to have a real future in it, but i didn't wan't it... started piano along with recorders age 9. quit age 12 (i sucked). i also tap danced 7 years, so rythem i guess... i started listening to music around age 11, everything i did was influenced by my sister. so i started out pretty bad, like she did... take that, east 17... but then still age 11 my sis introduced me to bjork, and we went to her show (along with our daddy) . that's when i started to realize how great music can be. i got into bjork alot, skunk anasie, k's choice for a while, garbage for a while... and later on tori and pj. i also started the violin and quit recorders at age 13. now i'm reallt pretty good at violin, but i'll never be great like i could have been on recorders. i don't really care, i hate performing, and love playing just for the fun of it. my next musical challenges are radiohead and bob dylan. i think i've written quite enough now ;D

[bugg]

SO MY STORY IS VERY ORIGINAL (not). I was into crap music for about one year when at a part-tay, a slow came up, and i was enlightened by this soft, smooth, enchanting amazingly beautiful voice. (Billy's of course ). I went out to ask the DJ. "Smashing Pumpkins". ("a joke from God" would later be the answer from Billy Corgan to the question "so why smashing pumpkins?" ). So the next day, i ran home and asked my dad. He lended me Adore, for it was the only album of the Pumpkins he had. That's kinda when EVERYTHING clicked. One must know that since i'm born, i knew the songs Walk on the Wild Side of Lou Reed, i was also very familiar with Leonard Cohen, i had heard many times Into my Arms of Nick Cave though i didn't know he was the one to sing it. I also knew my dad was a big Pj Harvey fan and had went to a concert during the IS This Desire tour? I also knew my dad had seen Iggy Pop and Nick Cave as well, and Bob Dylan too a few times. I also knew he loves Joni Mitchell. But when you're 10 in a typical american town such as Chicago, with around you at school only spoiled vicious american brats, the only music you hear is basically Spice Girls, Nsync and Britney. I must say my first real bad was Blondie at around 10. I was a big fan. I was a big No Doubt fan too for a while. But that day my dad lent me Adore, i didn't know EVERYTHING in my life was changed and that i was to become a COMPLETELY different person So i was 11 or 12. And i listenned to Adore more and more, and it blew me away like nothing else ever had before. I discovered beauty seriously. Nothing had enlightened me so, nothing had touched me so deeply, no music ever made me get tears and gooze bumps, it's such a special album to me. So anyways after that, Machina came out I was the biggest during Adore, and when i heard their new song Everlasting Gaze, i was sooooooooo disappointed, and then i started liking it by hearing it more and more, and then one day, i just read the Stand Inside Your love lyrics while listenning to that song on the radio. And BAM!, the Pumpkins are still here! Aha, i went to this Tower Records free show they were giving, i saw Billy's naked skull and James Iha' back ;D It was one the groopviets day of my life! We went there by bus with Dad, it was so awsome, i mean, i had school the next day, never had Dad brought me anywhere cool with school the next morning, it was always "bed at 9h30"
So anhyhoo, i felt terrible grow up And Smashing Pumpkins' fans ALL AROUND was the best thing a big fan like me could ever want So anyways...
Yes so, Chicago time was ONLY Smashing Pumpkins. I was into Foo Fighters too. And Blondie always. Oh yes! and Radiohead! I was a big fan of them although i only knew Ok Computer. I think that's kinda it. And then when i came back to France, i was fucking depressed and where i live being a shit hole, i relied on music, and now that i had all of the Pumpkins' albums and that i knew them by heart, i needed MORE music. I was 13. My friend Sarah Ross, i love her muchly, she was the one who came up to me the first day of school in 8th grade and said "i like your Smashing Pumpkin's sticker on your bag" We knew then we'd get along. And it's funny cause she had caught my attentiion too that first day. She was different as the others, simple as that. So that great sould became my best friend at school, and she got me into Joni Mitchell, into the Beatles, into Nirvana and other good stuff... And i always needed more and more music. So yes. And then one day, i head A Placa Called Home on the radio. Was madly in love with the song. Didnt like Good Fortune much though. So i knew it was Pj , i knew her by name for quite a long time now. So i finally managed to borrow Stories from Dad, which i adored. And then i asked if he had other of her. And so he lent me Is This Desire? and Rid of Me and To Bring you my Love etc... So i became a humongous Polly fan. And then, Grace would pass regularly on the radio, i asked if he had any Jeff Buckley, and POOF!, he lent me Grace. Amazed by the beauty And it just kept going like this. Also, Bilbo having told me The Boatman's Call was one of his favourite album EVER, i really wanted to listen to it. And i did, and it's one of my favorite albums EVER too. and so on and so on, i listen to music, i discover artists, Dad's always got some of their music ;D And Rasp totally got me into Tori Amos And Bilbo got me into Hole And they're some of my favoruite artists ever now Lou Reed i dunno... I knew my dad was this gigantic fan sinc i'm born. And then one day, i just bought Transformer, and i had seen the clip Perfect on Laucn etc........................

GEEZUS. so long

[Smurph]

Hmm...some of my musical history is a bit odd if not embarassing. Here goes...
Music didnt realy grab me till my sister started DJing when I was about 15/16, before that I just got swept along with the phases like most kids (chart crap etc). Only one thing I have stayed true to for the past decade or so is the RHCP. Anyway, I started getting into the underground dance stuff from my sister, learning tricks/scratching and beatmatching on my sisters turntables till I got my own a couple of years later. In the meantime I had played about with sequencers and acquired a naff accoustic guitar. My interest in 'real' bands had become rather stagnant. (still with me? god you must be bored! ) Enter my newfound bassist friend Derren - I would go round his house with a mutual DJ friend and try to add effects/samples with my decks to his band's jam sessions. Then all of a sudden their drummer went to Canada (as you do). I had been pottering about with the drums while the drummer was back and forth when Derren said "hey, d'you wanna be in a band?" After protesting I couldnt play I agreed and found myself learning to play drums by listening to bands I should have listened to years before. Ash (they used to be good! ), Pumpkins, earlier Nirvana, NOFX. I had since bought Beck-Odelay on impulse which took my imagination into uncharted territory. About the same time I started full time work when I was 18 I was introduced to 2 landmark artists by a workmate. PJ Harvey of course, and then there was FearFactory. From then on it got heavier. The band split and I joined a more angry bunch which lasted abou a year. After that I joined an even heavier outfit called Grind ( www.grindnet.freeserve.co.uk/nomore.mp3 cover your ears!! ) which continued up until April 2002.
Basically igone through several phases -
1. Barely no interest in music
2. DJing to a crowds of 300 plus
3. Learning to play a real musical instrument
4. Rocking it out big style in pokey little venues
Ah and last but not least - Grind were on national TV at Cardiff Student Union (HTV Wales) on a show called Shotgun Slideshow www.htvwales.co.uk/shotgunslideshow. They've pulled the site now. Gutted I cant show off anymore! ;D

Wow, thats pretty long!

[Smurph]

Aha, I lie. I just got the link wrong www.htvwales.com/shotgunslideshow/
If you can be bothered with all the hassle I think you need the RealPlayer from www.real.com
Your not missing much tho!

[japfles]

I was born in the sixties so my earliest memory is listening to my parents' Shirley Bassey records and really enjoying classical music.

The first single I bought was "The Legend Of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (!) and I really got into glam rock in the 1970's - T.Rex, The Sweet, Bowie etc.

Then I discovered heavy rock and loved Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and lighter rock stuff such as Genesis.

In 1975 I started playing drums and was in many groups over the years but was never successful really. I loved it though.

I loved punk and new wave and in the 80's I listened to Psychedelic Furs, New Order and the Human League. Then I rediscovered rock and heavy metal again. In the 90's my tastes broadened further as did my ever-growing record collection and I bought anything and everything.

Today, you can find me listening to classical, film scores, pop, metal, punk...just about anything.

[monique]

Well, my mom always listened to 50's rock and roll and folk from the 60's, 70's and on...
I first liked "silly songs" like "on top of spaghetti" and stuff like that, then i started to like folk, like "puff the magic dragon" and "leavin' on a jet plane", "time in a bottle" etc.

My older brothers and sisters liked Rock, like Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush, The Who, etc etc... which i never really liked.

When i was 12 or so i liked Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, etc (typical pop from that era)

By the time i was 14 i was into Metallica, Motley Crue, Ozzy, Megadeth, etc.

At age 19 i started to get into "alternative" like Tori, Pearl Jam, XTC, REM, etc.


i still like ALL those mentioned above... my taste just grows and my extreme passions change, but i will always have a place in my heart for all the different kinds of music. Anything that "speaks" to me is my friend.
I just hope that something "new" will eventually come around again that i can enjoy. It's been a few years since that happened.

[witchy]

Till i was 12 years old i never really listened to modern music...all i was interested were fairytales...

But when i was 12, i found out there was more to life than just fairytales and i started listening to pop. I taped a lot of songs played on the radio and never was a fan of a certain artist or group. When i was 15 i liked Bon Jovi a lot and thought i might be a fan of them. Which i was not, because i never ever did even buy an album by them... ;D A year later or so, i discovered The Cranberries and i started to buy albums by them, i still like their music very much. I also loved listening to Enya and other new age music. But it wasn't till i became 17 when i discovered Tori. And she's the one and only for me. I have other albums by other artists as well...but Tori...she's just it....

So my history isn't much 'yoohoo' and 'wowie'