My parents got these Time Life Legends of Country Music box sets, each featuring one artist and consisting of 6 LPs, in the mail every month. They were sort of like surveys or career retrospectives. I liked a lot of the songs I heard when I was about 7, so my dad showed me how to use the turntable. I listened to Hank Williams and Willie Nelson mostly - my favorites were "Jambalaya" and "Whiskey River."

Then I took a step backwards. I wanted to listen to "cool" music like my friends did, so I asked for and got for Christmas the Purple Rain soundtrack, Culture Club's Colour by Numbers, and Michael Jackson's Thriller. It was 1983-4. Thriller was the one I played most - I guess I loved it. The bassline in "Billie Jean" gave dumb 8-year-old me something almost like sexual pleasure. I think the record had been out for more than a year and I remember being upset to the point of grief about missing out on a year of listening to it.

Iron Maiden-Piece of mind
The Pixies-Surfer Rosa

I bought them both on cassette when I was a kid and now I love music.

it was probably metal. probably metallica or megadeath. or shit, maybe even def leopard. i can't recall. too many years of abuse since then. that was mid 80's.

First band I remember?

Definitely something my parents played records of

Harry Chapin
and
John Denver

I'm sure I liked something they played before that, but that's the earliest memory I have of liking music...very young.

six acre lake wrote:

sphincter wrote:My son is three years old, his favourite band is The Vandals. He also requests Shellac, Weezer and The Giddy Motors.

I don't let him listen to Shellac and The Giddy motors anymore because he goes fucking crazy when it's on and starts running into me and jumping into the wall.

My son, who is 7, is a fan of Brainiac, The Ramones, Devo, Deerhoof, and Mates of State. All of these bands get him in a dancing / wall bouncing frenzy. Im just glad he like some of the stuff i listen to. I fucking hated my folks taste in music as a wee lad.

a 7 year old fan of Brainiac.
you just can't beat that.

KoRn.

But then I grew up and started listening to Nine Inch Nails.

Molly Hatchet, fuckers. I was 10, I had no interest in music and was dragged to a show by a 16 year stoner whom my parents would leave me with while they went to drink on the avenue.

Changed my life.

We smoked weed, and threw stuff. I think MH had like 26 people on stage, most of them were fat. I was fat. Cool.

Grand Funk Railroad opened, the Ohio Center in Columbus, 1978.

It was Santana... I'm not ashamed of this. The first three Santana records are fucking excellent.

Them and Kansas are the first two bands I really liked.

I still like Kansas. Fuck You.

Duuuuuuuust in the wiiiiiind! All we are is duuuuuust in the wiiiiiiiind!