What made you a music junkie?

[Briggins]

What bands or songs made you go from just liking music to loving it. I'm talking about when you only had a cd or two and listened to them over and over and over again.

For me I started off listening to some Christian bands, primarily DC Talk and the Newsboys.

And then Our Lady Peace. Soon I started listening to U2 and I just became obsessed and couldn't get enough. Now I listen to tonnes of bands.

[Kite]

The Foo Fighters

[busybeeburns]

I remember someone burning a Pearl Jam compilation, a new musical avenue so to speak

[VERVE]

Oasis

[kekita]

Silvio Rodriguez
even though as a kid my understanding of the lyrics was limited somehow his voice and the music carried the message across.

.....and erh...to some extent The Chipmunks....come on thier covers were groovey!

[julissofine]

Oasis
Same here! :nice:
It's Oasis. And Blur.
I still love Blur so much till now, but Oasis....I don't know. :(

[mc_squared]

Thank goodness nobody has said Hearsay, Steps, Boyzone, Backdoor Boys or NSick!!:P

[julissofine]

I actually was gonna say New Kids On The Block. :grin:
But at that time I just liked their faces and not their music, so I think it doesn't count on this subject. :tongue3:

[mc_squared]

I actually was gonna say New Kids On The Block. :grin:
But at that time I just liked their faces and not their music, so I think it doesn't count on this subject. :tongue3:

Exactly - and well done for admitting that!:D

[Gitta Rensolo]

I think it was Travis


I was listening to "the invisible band" the other day and thought that I it was my first CD by a "normal" band and that I loved it back then....I remember listening to it when we went to a class-trip....all my class mates used to talk about trash bands and I was sitting there listening to "the invisible band" on my discman...I felt a bit cool then hehe...ahhhh good feeling...

[berrywoman]

wow.. tough one. I've loved/lives music since I was a kid!!! But I'd have to say Coldplay really exposed me to a bunch of other bands I might not have ever heard of if it weren't for them. So, I guess Coldplay. :)

[mc_squared]

wow.. tough one. I've loved/lives music since I was a kid!!! But I'd have to say Coldplay really exposed me to a bunch of other bands I might not have ever heard of if it weren't for them. So, I guess Coldplay. :)

And if it wasn't for them you'd never have become an Interpol stalker!!:P

[julissofine]

Exactly - and well done for admitting that!:D
Well...it was years ago. I was 8 or 10. It's normal, right? :thinking: :laugh3:

Anyway, thank you, Mark! :smug:

[shesawsparks]

In all honesty, i'd have to say Coldplay :heart:

[mc_squared]

Well...it was years ago. I was 8 or 10. It's normal, right? :thinking: :laugh3:

Anyway, thank you, Mark! :smug:

You have to be smart to realise/admit that the reason you liked stuff like that was far more down to the image than the "music".
Fortunately most people later move on to proper music of one kind or another.;)

[Pony]

Pink Floyd was the first band I went complete bonkers over.
i saw PULSE on tv, hogged my dad's Pink Floyd vinyls and was listening to them non-stop for months, i just couldn't get enough. they are still my #1 favourite band of all time. :D

[Frozen_Entertainment]

when i was a little girl i was ashamed to say which bands i liked because all my friends were fans of 5ive and steps and the like at that age

so i always kept it a secret

i was a timid child who hated being laughed at

and my musical taste is quite obscure, my friends don't know who most of the bands i like are, even now

there can't be many who can say they saw radiohead live at 8 years old

also when i think of coldplay i think of travis, keane and so on, so i'm not sure which bands they influence/sound like who are decent

[mc_squared]

when i was a little girl i was ashamed to say which bands i liked because all my friends were fans of 5ive and steps and the like at that age

so i always kept it a secret

i was a timid child who hated being laughed at

and my musical taste is quite obscure, my friends don't know who most of the bands i like are, even now

there can't be many who can say they saw radiohead live at 8 years old

also when i think of coldplay i think of travis, keane and so on, so i'm not sure which bands they influence/sound like who are decent

The answer is they are all decent for that very reason.:smug:

[fudge]

Blur, Oasis, Radiohead mainly. Although I was about 13 or 14 when i started listening to them. I would say my music obsession has only really developed over the past few years.

[crawlinwithin]

linkin park was the starter (i couldn't put hybrid theory away) but fortunately i moved on to bigger and better things like the beatles

[mc_squared]

Blur, Oasis, Radiohead mainly. Although I was about 13 or 14 when i started listening to them. I would say my music obsession has only really developed over the past few years.

And now you're compulsively obsessed!!:P

[Frozen_Entertainment]

and muse

AND GENESIS OF COURSE

[mc_squared]

linkin park was the starter (i couldn't put hybrid theory away) but fortunately i moved on to bigger and better things like the beatles

Well thank goodness for that!!;)

[fudge]

And now you're compulsively obsessed!!:P

Indeed ;)

[mc_squared]

Indeed ;)

There is treatment available, you know!:P

[eglantine]

Let me think. Probably a Slovene singer; Tinkara Kovač (she was performing with that man from Jethro Tull as well I think) and later Metallica and Apocalyptica. These 3 artists influenced me somehow - i started developping my musical taste - i had none before.

[mc_squared]

Let me think. Probably a Slovene singer; Tinkara Kovač (she was performing with that man from Jethro Tull as well I think) and later Metallica and Apocalyptica. These 3 artists influenced me somehow - i started developping my musical taste - i had none before.

Wow! You're a headbanger!!:stunned:

[bedofroses]

first coldplay

[eglantine]

Wow! You're a headbanger!!:stunned:I was. ;) though i still like music like that from time to time.

[mc_squared]

I was. ;) though i still like music like that from time to time.

Well mind it doesn't make your brain fall out!!:P

[fudge]

There is treatment available, you know!:P

Really? Do i need to pay or can I get it on the NHS?

[Space Cadet]

In my case, it wasn't bands, it was hobbits- Dom Monaghan and Elijah Wood have to be two of the biggest music geeks on the planet (and both have reputations as amazing djs too). Reading interviews with them while they were filming LotR back in 99 and 2000 was the first time I was ever really exposed to the idea that there was more music out there than just what was played on the radio. I don't know if anyone else has ever heard Elijah babble on about what he's listeing to but it's scary. Twice as scary if you don't know anything about music.

Oh, and what band did they mention the most back then- to the point that I really needed to know what it sounded like? Coldplay. The rest is history.


For me I started off listening to some Christian bands, primarily DC Talk and the Newsboys.

:laugh3: The first concert I ever saw was the Newsboys. I still wasn't allowed to listen to any kind of rock or pop back then, but when my class found out about that big concert in Woodstock New Brunswick, it became the official grade 12 class trip, and not being one to miss a road trip I talked my parents into letting me go.

Not being a person who listened to rock at all, it was a traumatic experience to say the least. I didn't know it was even possible for anything to be that loud, I didn't know any of the songs, and I probably wouldn't have been able to tell what they were if I had known the speakers were so overloaded. I just plain wasn't sure what was happening or why or anything, and no one wanted to be near that looser stick in the mud, so it was a pretty lonely experience.

Funny that I'm such a concert junkie now all these years later after a disaster like that. :thinking:

[mc_squared]

Really? Do i need to pay or can I get it on the NHS?

Well I think you can get it on the NME or FHM, if that helps......................... :rolleyes:

[Knight Of Cydonia]

Hmm the doors! yes! :D

[Briggins]

Woah Nat, you went to a Radiohead concert when you were 8? Did you listen to them alot when you were that young?

[eglantine]

Well mind it doesn't make your brain fall out!!:P ah no, they'll stay right where they are now. ;)

Oh and Siddharta! how could I forget them? :thinking:

[winigwl]

for me it wwasn't artists as much as specific songs. i used to like pop and rap and other bad stuff, and then i heard a few songs, and i started to appreciate rock more. songs like drive by incubus and one thing by finger eleven were early songs i liked. then came clocks by coldplay and meet virginia by train... now i'm all rock all the time

[berrywoman]

And if it wasn't for them you'd never have become an Interpol stalker!!:P

righty-o!! :wideeyed: :P