When it all Started

Sefrian

Can anyone remember when they first started to love this music? i Can My mate woh detested rap music came to me when he heard i liked it and told me to buy a metallica album I agreed and bought masters of puppets. The first song battery is the one i turned on first and i was hooked forever on... Plesse ppl tell your stories

loismustdie

i always liked nirvana from when i was about 8 or 9 so that got me into it i supose, never liked pop

j0e9o

when i was about 12 or so i bought the offspring's americana i ve been hooked to rock music ever since

Dathai

Since I was 8/9, System of a Down was a big fav of mine, then I started to get into it more around 10/11 now I'm 14 listening to gynormous ranges of metal from many parts of the world...I know it may not seem much but compared to other kids my age its well out of the ordinary.

Fuhrio

when i was 11 or 12 i heard creed on wrestling, i really liked them, so i bought one of their albums, they got me into rock. Im almost 17 now and im into all kinds of metal/rock all because i happened to watch wrestling at the time. Im just glad i dont listen to robbie williams anymore *buries head under pillow*

byte

My first rock album was Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast. A mate of mine was big into Rock at the time, and introduced me to Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, etc.

Karl Hungus

Probably from my parents... I grew up with the likes of Queen and all, then discovered Metallica at a rather young age, maybe 8 or 9? Pretty much went downhill from there, so to speak.

Extreme metal wise, probably Cradle Of Filth's album "Dusk And Her Imbrace" around '97.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i think maybe metallica's re-load album

or whenever i saw anthrax on married with children.. whichever came first

Fozzy

Used to listen to old Black Sabbath vinyls in my room as a kid, they really fascinated me. Always knew the songs of all these metal bands, but could never really say anything about them until I gave Metallica a proper listen. Then I just sort of started remembering songs and listening to more and more metal, aswell as loads of other kinds of music.

Sarky

I heard Iron Maiden's tracks on the Carmageddon 2 CD and decided I'd been listening to crap music for years. Never looked back.

Civilian_Target

Was really into the Beatles and Queen and stuff at the age of 10/11, and spent years being incredibly uncool in school (none of which I reget, **** them), but at age 15, I was made do a presentation on Heavy Metal music (everyone was doing a topic and given Heavy Metal, or I could be a Bowie fan by now). The guy I was doing it with had a vague idea of metal, and introduced me to a band named Motorhead.

This all occured at the time of the rise of Napster and the flames were fuelled. I bought an MP3 player and started listening to Metal. Can't really remember what I started listening to though, Motorhead aside, I remember building up enough metal to fill a whole CDR, and then I started buying the contents of my CD at wherever I could find it cheapest. Tastes diversified, and things went from there. The upshot is I acquired quite a lot of classic CDs (like RATM) or records on vinyl (like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) without even realising they were classics when I got them.

*edit*
I just dug up my Napster CD there, and discovered it wasn't the classic CD I'd imagined. It's got Maiden, Sabbath, Motorhead along with some lighter classics like Dexy's Midnight Runners, Garbage and Divine Comedy. And it's got some tripe, like Basement Jaxx and (cringe) The Vengaboys. But that's where I started, ugly as it is. DAMN YOU VERBATIM LONGLIFE CDRS!

Also reminded me of my other music source, Letterkenny library has some excellent rock CDs, including a substantial collection of Metallica, Judas Priest, Sabbath and Maiden. I rented them all, listened to them on loop for about a week, and returned, only to renew them about 3 weeks la

Pugsley

Heard a guy mention a band called 'In Flames' on a TFC server one day (half-life ) went onto kazaa, got most of the colony album and a good bit of Lunar Strain, never looked back
(from no music straight to in flames, great step to take tbh )

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I still can't understand the concept of 'no music' in your life

I've been listening to music of some kind for as long as I can remember..

dregin

Was at a group guitar lesson and a guy I knew started playing Polly as I spewed out some Oasis drivel. I knew of Nirvana but always thought of them as suicidal maniacs. He gave me a lend of a Nirvana Bootleg and Mellon Collie...My life changed Some melody maker review mentioned Nirvana in a blink182 review so I went bought them....nothing special but soon afterwards, I saw Pennywise and Rancid namechecked in some other review...went out and bought Rancid's self titled and Pennywise's "straight ahead" on the same day. Been mostly listening to hardcore punk ever since.

quank

Think first bands that got me into rock was The Offspring's Americana album which my friend played for me, or either Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, or Metallica's Enter Sandman. This was when I was around 10 or so.
Don't really like Nirvana that much, but they helped me .
Still listen to The Offspring now. Got 3 of their albums.

Later on, I went to a different friend's house and his brother played System of a Down. Loved them since, and have all their albums.

Then I shared what music I had with my friends, and they shared theirs.

Got into Rage Against The Machine. Megadeth. Deftones. And many others.

I'm getting into more punk and other 'types' of rock since then. I'm now 16.

lordsippa

Used to listen to Queen and U2 as a kid and have great memories of watching music videos like Therapy? - Diane, and Metallica - Until It Sleeps when I was younger. But it was probably my sister and cousins listening to metal that got me into it.

My first real "rock" cd was Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation which was a present from a cousin (before I'd had a few queen and u2 tapes). After that I dove straight for Maiden and Metallica and bought and bought and bought...

Nowadays I'm kinda more into blues stuff (or at least for now), but I keep digging through the ol' metal collection when I'm in the mood.

Pugsley

Originally posted by Mordeth
I still can't understand the concept of 'no music' in your life

I've been listening to music of some kind for as long as I can remember..

Not no music, just I followed none, or particularly enjoyed any of what I heard, as all i had was the radio, and I only listened to it in the car out of boredom, which is why I went and got everything I could from the first band I heard of on-line

Creamy Goodness

remember getting our first real pc which had windows 95 on it and it came with the windows95 cd and that had the weezer - buddy holly video on it.

Sefrian

WOW my first thread is at the top thanks guys sum kool memories of albums i love there

Explosive_Cornflake

3rd year. I think. When ever amen supported morbid angel. Was trying out different styles of music just to see what i liked. Don't now how it started, got machine head - burn my eyes. loved, got all their albums.
Then i got the haunted made me do it. That is still my favorite album. Then i went through a nothing but death metal stage, and then went off it. That was due to the fact that most of the good death metal bands are the popular ones. My friend got some seriosly dodgey **** off some guy. I swear he just buys cd for the sake of buying them, he owns about 5000 (five thousand) DM cd's between himself, his brother, and a friend. A lot of it is pure crap. Also, i was working nights in a shop, and a friend was playing Queens of the stone age and audioslave and that type of stuff, and it stuck in my head and i stopped listening to DM then. Kinda rediscovering it now. Six Feet Under - Grayeyard Classics, is an album i love. Was in at some acoustic thing tonight, they were playing stepping stone, and i was like, i know that song, and i then i realised i have chris barnes version at home.

Found 3D glasses in my pocket. WTF.

So i'm listening to lot more varied stuff now. Thrash, DM and lighter also, like AS and QOTSA.

Civilian_Target

Burn My Eyes is an excellent album.

Machine Head are playing Mandella Hall Belfast on June 2nd. It's a small venue, there are still tickets (and they're cheap) and it'll be a brilliant gig.

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Explosive_Cornflake

It is briallant. My first metal album. gateways to annihilation (sp) was another early one. and the bleeding by CC. I think the title track of the bleeding is sexy, and thats the only time i've ever described a song like that. It was just mesmerising to watch when they played the TBMC a few years back.

Doctor J

Got interested in the videos from Whitesnake's 1987 album which were doing the rounds at the time (anyone remember the chick sprawled over the bonnet of the Jag?). Got into more rock bands like AC/DC and less salubrious acts like Motley Crue. Then on the 10th of May 1988 I went to the Olympic Ballroom off Camden Street to see Megadeth, supported by Sanctuary (two of whom would later go on to form Nevermore). That was the clincher.

ferdi

got a lend of a tape of dookie when i was about 10.

that was that.

ThenComesDudley

When i was about 11/12 heard some ministry, think it was..... the song theives, then i got the psalm 69 album, ive been hooked ever since

The jock

I grew up listening to jeff buckley and Bon jovi my two icons.
I was around 9 or 10 years old.
i just felt that whenever i listened to music it would make me feel happy when i'm down

cournioni

Bout 5 or 6 watching Headbangers ball with my cousin. I was really big into Metallica, Guns 'n' Roses and Pantera back then. It was 95 or 96 when I got into the likes of Morbid Angel after I saw them on Beavis and Butthead I think it was.

Lainey

Originally posted by Doctor J
Got interested in the videos from Whitesnake's 1987 album which were doing the rounds at the time (anyone remember the chick sprawled over the bonnet of the Jag?).

oh yes.. i remember her.. had my hair like hers ha ha (only bit of me like her).. she was my idol

loved whitesnake, bon jovi, journey, aerosmith and queen.. never music at home cept for brendan boyer :rolleyes:
so was always round my older cousins.. using them for their 'tapes' - sheesh, i'm old:(

Doctor J

Ahhhhhh you can't beat big hair

Lainey

Originally posted by Doctor J
Ahhhhhh you can't beat big hair

def.. brilliant.. was proud owner of biker jacket with denim one over it with no sleeves and loads of patches sewn on..

Ameirgin

Hmmm....grew up listening to Cream, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Aerosmith, Status Quo and the like, because my Dad likes 'em all. First album I ever bought was a compilation which came out in 1980 (yes, I am that old! ) called "Axe Attack" (I still have the original vinyl). On this LP was a track by a new band called Iron Maiden - the song was "Running Free". Pure class

I listened to as many rock/metal bands as I could during the 80's - Motley Crue, Ratt, Whitesnake, Twisted Sister, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead etc. I had the long hair and the sleeveless denim (embroidered with logos - no patches) over the biker jacket. I remember a mate of mine coming back from a holiday in California with a demo tape he had picked up of a new American band - Metallica! This was about 6 months or so before the release of the "Kill 'Em All" album. By the late 80's, I had started to go to gigs - I remember the first time that Metallica played in Ireland (supported by Anthrax) on the "Master of Puppets" tour.

Great times, great bands, great songs.

bluedog

I remember listening to music since i can...remember, but only really got into stuff when i found my dad's best of clapton cd about 10 yrs ago, then me and a mate of mine dowloaded a couple of Zep songs (Stairway and Immigrant song) and then i bought the Early Days......haven't looked back since....

Those two illegal files from Napster have introduced me to all types of blues/Cream/Santana/Deep Purple/Sabbath/Rory Gallagher/GNR/jazz/all guitar music/.....the list is endless and is continuing and i've prob spent hundreds and hundreds as a result.

Where would i be without Napster? Who knows? But i'd porb be listening to some crap or the other and not welcome in this forum for sure.

:rolleyes:

B

honru

Ah, I listened to alot of modern punk when I was young, about 12. My favourite bands were the "big three"; blink-182, Green Day and The Offspring. But by the time I had all their albums and listened to all their songs, I was stuck in a rut. Punk just wasn't appealing to me anymore, especially with all the comparably mudane punk bands at the time (and, of course, I hadn't heard of The Clash, The Ramones, X, etc.).

So I left punk behind, started listening to alternative rock bands like Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins. Big sprawl after that, don't know what happened or how I got here.

I really have to thank Napster and the internet for opening the door to me. They were truely great days to grow up to music with.

Civilian_Target

Same about the Napster thing, see my massive post further up.

ThrAx

When I was about 12 or 13 my dad bought me a metallica album for christmas. I remember not liking it at first but metal soon grew on me. Me parents were big 'sabbath heads as well, so i started to get interested in Black Sabbath when I realised it wasn't boring old parents ****e.

Kersh

When I was 13 I got my hands on Metallica Ride the lightning. Then on to slayer, Sepultura, Machine head, and Ministry (my Favourite). I listen to anything now from Specials thru Depeche mode, Cure, Deicide, etc etc.

the cat

When i was 11, when i heard my neighbour playing nirvana.:cool:

Marq

1993, siamese dream, the majestic sound of the electroharmonix bigg muff - sold.

Liquorice

My dad was the one who got me into it. When I was younger Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Horslips, Santana and Eric Clapton were always playing around the house, so I liked it from when I was a toddler. Then my old childminder's son got me into more modern bands like Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Metallica, SOAD etc., and it progressed from there.

nadir

For me it was Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for destruction.
then it was onto zeppelin and from there into all sorts of stuff from benediction to leonard Cohen

exiot

I havent been listening to Metal/Rock for long, since Im only 15 but I first learned to love it two summers ago when I was in Spain and met up with a guy from Dublin.

He was listening to Metallica - Fade to Black, and I loved it, he also had the tape of GNR Sweet Child O Mine.

So I got two birds with one stone, and I still listen to their music but moved on to more stuff

David-[RLD]-

When I was 13 (16 now) I was turning into a bit of a skanger. I liked rap like Eminem and stuff and was watching MTV one day when Papa Roach's "Last Resort" came on. Immediately I thought "why do I listen to that other ****e when I can listen to this??"

Since then I've been a fan of bands from Metallica to Muse to Slayer.

Thank God for Papa Roach. I'd probably be a skanger now if it weren't for them.

sound_wave

It was first year in secondary school, i never listened to music before then unless the radio was on. I sat next to this guy who became my best friend up until 3rd year when he got mixed up with drugs and just left school. He asked me one day what music i liked, i told him i didnt listen to much music, next day he brought in a cd wallet full of cds and said take these home listen to them and come back to me. Nirvana, Pumpkins, Pixies, Metallica, Maiden, Ozzy,Deftones etc....Id never heard music like it before,so i took up the guitar soon after as well and i never looked back! Nice guy that fella.... i still wonder what hes up to :dunno: