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How far back did you get into music? Did you buy any CD's or whatever when you were a kid? If so, what was the first band you remember listening to?
I'll start with mine. I believe it was Huey Lewis. This was before Back to the Future[/i], as the first song I heard was "The Heart of Rock n Roll", not "Power of Love".

I didn't own any cds or tapes, but my parent did. My mom says that whenever I had the choice, I would put in The Monkees tape and sing and dance along. And I can remember that... sorta. I mean, it was in kindergarten and earlier.

The first band I really got into on my own was Linkin Park, believe it or not. It all started when I was ten, when my brother borrowed their Hybrid Theory CD (later, he bought his own copy). I resisted it for a long time, but my brother would always put it on when we were playing LEGOs (yeah, lol), and eventually I caved in and had to admit that I liked it too. They're still my favorite band today.

I suppose, before I really accepted LP, I was pretty into Nikki Leonti, a Canadian Christian hip-hop sort of singer, and I still like her for the nostalgia. (I was given her CD for my eleventh birthday.)

Even further back, my mom had a cassette tape of Michael Card's album Scandalon, which I listened to incessantly, and still love. "Scandalon" and "The Lamb is a Lion" ftw!

The first band I got into was Ocarina. I was so happy listening to it with a portable cassette player...with headphones!

The next band I got really into was Orbital. That was in the era of CDs though.

The Starting Line. When I was in the 8th grade, my brother gave me a sampler disc from a New Found Glory album he had, and my favorite song on it was The Starting Line's "Best of Me." Later, he burned me a copy of their full-length album from Drive Thru records, "Say it Like You Mean It," and I listened to it so many times. XD Shortly following The Starting Line was The Early November, another Drive Thru band, and also bands like Jimmy Eat World and Mae. The rest is pretty much history. XD

Before that, the musician I remember hearing earliest was Billy Joel when I was three or four-ish. Also, I was introduced to MxPx when I was six or seven. XD But I didn't really get into listening to music as a hobby until I was in middle school. XD

It was Switchfoot. I found them from an AMV for Naruto (Back when it was decent) around sixth grade. They were the first album I ever bought. Before that it was Avril because my mom bought her cd and played the song mobile because we moved a lot. It was the family "song" of sorts. Then it was Three Days Grace when mom bought one of those Now Cds. I adored I Hate Everything About You, but mom detested the song. I was about 7 at the time.

The first few songs I remember ever really getting into were Linkin Park's "In The End" (2001), Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" (2001), P!nk's "Just Like a Pill" (2002), and Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" (2003)

My first two Christian songs were Relient K's "Pressing On" and dc Talk's "Jesus Freak" sometime between 2003 and 2004.

DC talk - Intermission
was the first cd i ever owned, it played it ALL the time for about 2 years lol

I didn't get into music till after high school... I just didn't care for music much cause nothing was really my thing. Till I discovered metal First band I ever got into were Blind Guardian and Nightwish. I got into those at about the same time. From those two I found others that were similar and just branched off from there. Blind Guradian's Nightfall in Middle Earth, Night at the Opera and Nightwish's Once were the first CDs I ever owned. Got all 3 for a birthday present or something.

Hmm...can't entirely remember...but maybe Billy Joel? I certainly remember connecting with his music and him probably being the first musician I cared enough about to read about on the Internet. "Uptown Girl" and "River of Dreams" were obsessions of my youth, as was pretty much the entire third greatest hits CD.

Well...Probably Brian Duncan, Steve Camp and Petra when I was super young...Then Michael W Smith and Audio Adrenaline...

But the band that pretty much opened my doors for the love of music was....
MxPx.
They were the ones that really got me into music more than any other.

Back in the early days, it would have been DC Talk's Free at Last. That was my brother's CD that we used to listen to a lot. I wasn't heaps into music at that stage, and it really only started at the start of high school, when I was exposed to local (Christian) bands Seraphs Coal and Lessie Does... then the latter lead singer became my bass teacher and my brother's guitar teacher.

Scarecrow (post: 1443182) wrote:I didn't get into music till after high school...

i don't know how i would have survived thus far into high school without music lol

I didn't know there was actual good music out there. 99.9% stuff I like never gets radio play and don't know anyone IRL who likes the stuff I do. So I just found everything on my own and pretty much by accident. Now I'm a music freak

And in regards to my other post, I actually made a mistake. Evanescence was the first band I got into. Fallen was the first album I ever bought. Forgot about that one. For the longest time though, that was my only album

you like power/prog metal right? i have only met one person irl that likes that kind of music (besides me) and he is a random dude i met once that i will probably never see again... some of my friends like dragonforce, but they aren't really power metal fans, they just like the one band

Linkin Park was probably the first band I really got into.

Linkin Park for me as well. Also, Evanescence.

Why is it everyone seems to have stuck with their original tastes? I'll be the odd one out, then.

As a kid, I listened to ZoeGirl, and later on, I couldn't stand the sound. Like now. When I first got into metal, more specifically, metalcore, my favorite band was Demon hunter. I was about 12 or 13 at the time, and I was starting to get into more stuff that my mom wouldn't have liked to listen to (way too loud for her tastes). Later, I was exploring even more rock, and such, and such, and etc...

I was raised on a healthy supply of oldies/classic rock, which more or less set me down the musical paths I tread today. The first band I remember claiming as my favorite was The Beach Boys, and Little Deuce Coupe was the first album I ever owned (well, that and the Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? album) but I think that had more to do with the fact that they were one of the first artists whose name I could easily remember. The Beatles were the first band I actually got serious about listening to.

Back in the early days - DC Talk, then Seraph's Coal and after leaving highschool - P.O.D.

there's been music playing in the house as long as i can remember. the first band that i really got into was Within Temptation shortly followed by Evanescence. there are still some tapes lurking around the house i think, but i mostly remember CDs.

Technically, I guess I could say my mom listening to FFH and Point of Grace (mainly the former) got me into music in general. Other than that I didn't really care much about music until my friends introduced me to Falling Up/Skillet/Kutless/Thousand Foot Krutch/Switchfoot (all at once, basically). I credit Falling Up (specifically the song "Broken Heart") with getting me into rock and Christian music. After that, it was mostly Demon Hunter that got me into metal. Lastly, I would have to say it was probably Linkin Park that got me interested in any secular music.

The first CD I ever bought for myself was Relient K's MMHMM. The first metal album for me was Define the Great Line from Underoath.

I guess FFH, but what got me into listening in general was Relient K

Evanescence was possibly my first secular band, now that I think of it... (i.e. first that i started liking.)

5 Iron Frenzy

kj-52 (not a *band* but whatevs)