What was your introduction to music?

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Well it's all fine and dandy telling us what your first ever album was, but what really matters is your tastes. Where did you get yours from? Mine would probably be this, got it brought home from the library one day and well, that was it:

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[B]Disc: 1[/B]
1. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
2. Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
3. That's All - Genesis
4. Down Under - Men At Work
5. Our House - Madness
6. Town Called Malice - The Jam
7. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
8. Radar Love - Golden Earring
9. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. One Way Or Another - Blondie
11. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)? - Buzzcocks
12. Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
13. Let's Stick Together - Bryan Ferry
14. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
15. Up The Junction - Squeeze
16. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
17. The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
18. Over My Shoulder - Mike And The Mechanics
19. Golden Brown - The Stranglers
20. JCB Song - Nizlopi

[B]Disc: 2[/B]
1. Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
2. Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Andy Williams
3. I Get Around - The Beach Boys
4. Summer In The City - The Lovin' Spoonful
5. American Pie - Don McLean
6. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
7. The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
8. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
9. We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
10. Love Potion No. 9 (Single Version) - The Clovers
11. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
12. Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
13. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
14. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
15. If I Had A Hammer - Trini Lopez
16. Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats
17. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
18. Bus Stop - The Hollies
19. Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann
20. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
21. On Days Like These - Matt Monro
22. How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning - Helen O'Connell/Dean Martin
23. Papa Loves Mambo - Nat King Cole
24. Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins
 
Started several years ago with the Alessi brothers (I'd like to stay in love with you, all summer...................) and now love Asher Roth (Times not wasted if you're getting wasted.....................) with many, many points in between
 
Born in 1958 to a musical household and my Daddy was in a band with 'Aunty' Jackie Trent who went on to big things.
1969 Daddy taught me guitar and in 1970 I went out to gig with him but music didn't mean anything up until that point.
Later in 1970 my life changed when I saw Marc Bolan on the TV and I knew why I was holding a guitar.
It wasn't until late 1970 that I first heard Led Zeppelin and that was it.
 
Probably being taken to a Selecter gig when I was three. I guess 2 tone and ska could have influenced me a lot, I'm much more into music that fuses different elements, rather than any straight musical styles.
 
After buying my first album (Morning Glory) and developing a reasonably understandable obsession with all that was Britpop to the point of a having a slight crush on Miki from Lush, or at the very least a vague memory that has survived to this day of that beaut (anywhere inbetween), I was encouraged by a friend to delve into the depths of metal and shred guitar, so to a moderate degree, I studied the tabs for Master Of Puppets, Surfing With The Alien and Passion and Warfare. I looked up Napalm Death and Morbid Angel. These days I'm somewhere inbetween with a strong fascination for current acts such as Kataonia and Puscifier (believe this is personal taste) and sheer admiration for all that is metal and massive nostalgia for all that is Britpop, don't look back in anger. My dad liked Deep Purple. Mtv. Until I was 13 I thoroughly disapproved of girls deciding whom their fave was of various members of Take That/ East 17 and the mongolians who enjoyed Inspiral Carpets and "Uh Oh We're In Trouble, Someone's Come Along And Burst Our Bubble". So God Knows, really. Gomez are still cool though, right? Kurt Cobain moreso though.
 
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I grew up listening to all sorts.

Dylan, Donovan, Led Zep, The Monkeys, the Beatles, The Kinks, Small faces, Neil Young ect ect...

Still listen to most of this music now.

My first ever album, well that I bought with my own money? Californication by the Red Hot Chili peppers probably.

My dad used to buy tonnes of music, so I got most of my music from him :)

I remember sitting and listening to Nirvana MTV Unplugged with him and loving that :) same goes for a lot of music.
 
Didn't really care at all about music till I was 14. My friends lent me CDs by Green Day, RHCP, Guns N Roses and tbh I was a pretty much meh, wasn't really my stuff.

Then one day my brother brought home The Stone Roses best of, The Futureheads first album and Dogs Die in hot Cars first album. Those three albums blew my mind!
 
My dad used to work in a radio station so I always got pretty much all mainstream music for free when it came out. Michael Jackson my favourite when I was little and one day my dad got 10 free tickets to his concert so I went with all my friends. I was about 9, awesome. My parents also listened to Queen a lot so I took after that. I used to play whatever song was popular at the time over and over again on the CD player in the living room so my dad ended up putting it away..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_the_90s Pretty much 90% of the songs on that list is guaranteed that I have overplayed at some point :p

My first introduction to the music that I listen to now tho was when playing Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. Started with My Chemical Romance into Linkin Park and now more into heavy metal instead :D Nice transition
 
I don't remember much from when I was very young but I think that the main thing that influenced me was when i went to junior school. There we had a chance to learn instruments and I took up the French Horn.

I played this from then until I went to University in quote a few different bands and orchestras at various different levels. This was a lot of fun and was probably very good for me as I am a very shy person.

It did change my view of music quite a bit too. Now I will listen to most things as long as it has a melody, (basically if you can whistle it then there's a good chance I'll at least try it to see if I like it).
 
When I was about 8 the old lady who used to baby sit my brother and I, gave us both a Johnny Cash album tape each. I never much really liked it at the time but it was the first bit of music I ever played for myself and it gave me a starting place which led me to go:

Johnny Cash > Bob Dylan > Grateful Dead > Jefferson Airplane > WIN

And thus from that chain the rest of my musical experiences and the formation of the tastes I have at the moment.

Not a bad journey :)
 
Aged 13/14, listening to the first Bon Jovi album, Ratt, Iron Maiden and ACDC. Also got into the Gong which was my first taste of progressive music.

Now I'm a massive prog fan.
 
My mum's Michael Jackson albums, namely Dangerous. Bred a love of the guitar solo thanks to Slash's work on 'Give In To Me'.
 
I always remember sitting against the wall in the living room when i was tiny listening to my dads vinyls, I always recall sat there listening to one particular song, Mrs robinson by simon and garfunkel, that one song I think made me love music the way I do today, but the one song that got me widely interested in music, guitars, etc was Blink 182 All the small things, when it was first released I heard it in my friends bedroom on the radio, since then, music is my life.
 
Well my dad is big into funk stuff, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Commodores, Kool & The Gang etc.
My mams favourite band is the Bay City Rollers (ewww).

Luckily the had some common ground with the likes of INXS, Hall and Oates, Queen, The Beatles and a few more which is usually what was played. So i guess that was the music i grew up with.

No wonder my tastes are so eclectic :p
 
Mum has been a music teacher for as long as I can remember, was first introduced to the piano when I was 5!
 
My brother bought Never Mind The ******** when it originally came out and when I heard it I was hooked. I was 10 at the time and it's still my favourite album.
 
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