How did you get into music?

I remember I used to listen to the Backstreet Boys and N'sync when I first moved to the U.S from england. But then I got into porcupine tree thanks to a friend of mine. It was a mix of Porcupine tree, super furry animals, The Who, the kinks, blur, pink floyd, and The beatles that got me into music. Also my dad used to always listen to Hall and Oates, and The Eagles when I was a lad so I guess them too because I still listen to them:P

Back in teh day twas Green Day

My father's incessant record player, repeating Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan again and again

When I was really little all that was ever played in my house was country. My dad listened to alice cooper but I never really got into that. I remember being like.. 3 and the album cover with the bugs scared me for some reason. When I grew up I watched "the hit list" on YTV, then I started buying mix cds. In grade 8 when I started browsing the internet more I found a lot more music and changed my tastes a bit.XilePrincess

The internet was a big deal for me too, heck the internet has been revolutionary for finding music. My brother's band White Shoe Brown Shoe probably would not have been heard if it wasnt for the internet. Also i remember he and I used to argue over what boy band was the best back in the 90s. I liked N'sync the most by far:D

My brother.

Grew up listening to my parents selection, a lot of Queen, Pearl Jam and The Doors. I then discovered The Offspring and I was immediately drawn to them, my father buying the album Americana. Then a friend of mine introduced me to Metal when I was six. I believe it was in April 1999. His older brother who was 15 at the time had racks of all sorts of albums. So I went past and listened to some Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and iirc Deicide and Morbid Angel. It progressed from there, remaining a metalhead through out most of my life until a year or two ago when I got into progressive rock, Rush and Pink Floyd to start with. Not too long after that I got into industrial and electro based music thanks to Nine Inch Nails and other bands such as Velvet Acid Christ, so that further progressed my taste. All the while my tastes in Metal has also evolved, going from Thrash/Heavy Metal to Progressive Metal, then Death and Black Metal, and now its all sort of mixed together.

Well, I was listening to what my older sisters were listening to such as: Backstreet Boys ( :P ) and other boy-bands and also euro-dance and lastly some Scorpions' ballads. I still remember they had a casette which first song was Send Me An Angel. Great song.

Luckily, at the time, my sisters werent listening to any Greek music so, again luckily, never got into it. And also when I got my own room I used to listen to the radio pretty much always and got my radio-friendly songs from there.

And then from there when I was 15-16 I started to discover more about the Scorpions and thus I started listening to rock music. :)

Well, I always enjoyed listening to music in the car (whatever my dad had on), and then my dad bought Elect The Dead by Serj Tankian about 2 years ago. And then I realized music could be listened to OUTSIDE of an automobile, and with headphones.

I've gone from there.

TRL when it first came on. I remember getting angry when the song I liked wasn't #1 :oops:

my parents...

I listened to the radio in elementary school. I was pretty much into pop/punk, grunge, and post-grunge back then. I progressed onto nu-metal and those sorts of things. Then I realized that there's more to music than hooks and ABABCB song structures that you hear on the radio all the time, and then I started getting into a lot of harder genres, starting with some crossover and melodic death metal. Next came progressive death metal, blackened death metal, and plain old death metal, and then doom and black. Now I'm into pretty much every genre of metal bar Drone (with some exceptions) and Thrash.

Well my mom listens to a lot of music and when I was little we always used to listen to her old school funk stuff. So from there I got into disco, then a few crap rock bands when I got in middle school...and from there I have just been on a roll.

My dad used to sing Beatles songs to help me fall asleep as a baby.

I heard Freddy Mercury as a child, and loved his songs.

I have most of mymusic tastes influenced by my mother. That sounds kind oftragic, but she is big on 70s prog and bands like Led Zepplin. Yeah, not so tragic now is it :P Well in my opinion anyway. I used to hear music alot when traveling between places in cars, which was often. I didn't really start listening to music until I was something like ten, and even then not often. The first album I really bought that really got me into music, and the second album I ever bought, was There isNothing Left to Lose bythe Foo Fighters, which by the way is an excellent album and highly overlooked in my opinion. I didn't really start taking music all that seriously until a few years ago, andI've been playing catch up since.

I've always listened to classic rock, but Dragonforce got me into metal years ago. :oops: I got into progressive music through metal too.

Music in unavoidable. Kinda hard to not get into music when you hear it everywhere you go.

My sister would always blast Linkin Park, and Green day. I really liked them alot back then, but now I have grown onto better stuff

Video games actually. I remember playing Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds alot years ago and I loved the music. SoI went out and bought the Return of the Jedi complete soundtrack. Now I listen to just about everything.

mainly friends when i couldnt find any other bands to listen to

I have always loved country music blastin off the radio! I come from the country so I've been around it all my life.

Honestly? I have no freaking idea. I just know ive been listening to rock/metal since as far as i remember (but i dont mean metal as in the new supa fast supa heavy lick, i mean the old stuff like ace of spades and LZ).
Probably the radio or someone i know.
I got realy interested when i had a heavy crush on a girl when i was... erm 12-13, myb eaven 14 dunno :D
She listened to Linkin Park but i quickly moved on to more speed metal and ****cal heavy metal... Now she listens to Gothic wowzers :D

I started listening to music and then I started liking it.

Paul McCartney got me into the classics, Creed got me into rock, and Usher got me into Hip-Hop.

I dunno as I got older I started looking for music...:P

Before the age of 9 I was into whatever my dad would play (good stuff luckily). Then after I didn't care I got back into it starting at age 13 by going back to some of those bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

I liked Don Mclean when I was little. I then heard "Somebody Told me" on the radio, and instantly got hooked on The Killers, new wave revival, and 80's pop in general. I then just enjoyed synth-esque pop from the 80's and 90's, found REM and Radiohead- and there we are.

I too used to be all about the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and all of those other pop groups when I was younger. Then I drifted into classic rock for a while. Eventually, I started to accept that I like basically any genre as long as the music sounds good to me. And here I am today.krazykillaz