Your musical journey

[thespearkid]

Basically, what are the major bands that have lead you to your current music tastes?

Usher, Aliyah, and other R&B > Creed (first rock band I ever liked) > Evanesence > My Chemical Romance > Say Anything > Weatherbox > Paul Baribeau (got me into songwriting and a love for the acoustic guitar) > Neutral Milk Hotel (my favorite band for the past year or so) > Dirty Projectors (current favorite band).

[bard]

started with christian music my parents let me listen to - dc talk, between thieves

changed to the christian metal music my brother got into - luti-kriss, norma jean, living sacrifice, zao

started listening to more metal than anything else - same as above, dillinger escape plan, the bled, every time i die, maylene

saw mewithoutYou live opening for norma jean - mewithoutYou, "indie bands", etc.....

idk, from where mwY came in, i started branching out from mainly metal and whatnot to the "indie" scene and kept going. my main genre of choice now is electronic - m83, black moth super rainbow, etc...

[oddwithoutend]

Brand New's The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me got me into music. The Microphones' The Glow Pt. 2 got me into great music.

[flks511]

Saw TBS's "Makedamnsure" video on youtube,

clicked related videos and began listening to mainstream bands like Papa Roach, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, etc.,

discovered post-hardcore at a friend's house (very first song was "Your Sword vs. My Dagger" by Silverstein),

found AP and ditched the mainstream shit,

discovered a bunch of great bands and awesome music.

[Takk...Ros]

I heard Full Collapse by Thursday and here I am today :-)

[CollectiveConfusion]

lit - my own worst enemy... to blink... passed through the korn phase... then i saw a video of "jude law" and that got me into brand new, tell all your friends, jimmy eat world.. i still listen to all that but now im in an explosions in the sky/american football kind of phase

[fanberlinboy]

I listened to Disney music at one point, then a friend got me into Switchfoot which got me into all things rock. Hawk Nelson got me into pop-punk and then I grew out of them and found a lot more talented and mature pop-punk bands. I found out about Anberlin through some friends and they got me into Mae because they were both on Tooth & Nail. Anberlin also got me into the Warped Tour scene, and I listen to a lot of stuff from that now. Mae got me into piano rock a little and I found Between the Trees, Jack's Mannequin, the Rocket Summer, etc. I also started listening to Underoath and now also listen to some harder stuff like that and like August Burns Red and stuff. Also some more down tempo stuff is in there.

[boxingwithstars]

i listened to a lot of country music growing up, both mainstream and the classics thanks to my parents. the first band i really got into and cared about (besides boy bands, haha) was Third Eye Blind. after that, i started to listen to pop-rock/pop-punk more... but just mainstream bands like Blink 182 and Jimmy Eat World. in middle school, i discovered NFG through a friend and they lead me to the whole Drive-Thru pop-punk scene. i started listening to Something Corporate, they became my favorite band. i was also listening to Midtown, Yellowcard, The Movielife, TSL, TBS, Brand New, etc.

then in high school, i started to get more into indie music and farther away from mainstream stuff. i started listening to Bright Eyes because of a friend... then Rilo Kiley, The Format, Elliott Smith, Death Cab, and Modest Mouse (just Good News at first, and then i eventually got into ther older stuff). and it's just evolved from there, i guess.

[murrich]

Started listening to Rap music because my brothers liked it (Eminem, Method Man, etc). Then moved on to Pop Rock cause my friends liked it (Blink 182, Sum 41). Somehow started liking bands like UnderOath and Thrice. Loved Thrice heaps, and the lead singer was into Dr. Dog (which got me into "indie") and also he liked Tom Waits, who expanded my view of music vastly.
Also around the Tom Waits/Dr. Dog time my mum started showing me Neil Young, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, etc. Been using magazines/last.fm reccs since then.
THE END

[SickOfStars]

Alkaline Trio, Piebald, and New Found Glory when I was 13.

Every single indie/punk/poppunk kid I was friends with took me by the hand from there. I took what I liked and ditched what I didn't.

Kids I knew in my high school started a band called Bravo Fucking Bravo when I was about 15 or so. I got into all sorts of hardcore/punk/screamo/skramo/whatever from there.

By the time I was 17, I decided that I wanted to hear stuff that wasn't part of those scenes too.


and presto.

[zonto]

Parent's radio stations: smooth jazz 97.9 the breeze, and FM100.3 "classic soft rock hits"
My own radio: basically top 40 stuff
Parent's CDs/Tapes: Martina McBride, Richard Marx (still love thinking about this CD), James Taylor (glorious!)
My own radio still: Mariah Carey, Selina (yes one time they played her single on four different radio stations at the same time), Boyz II Men, etc...

First CD I owned was Seal's self-titled album!

Then I heard Blink-182 on my friends boom box inside while we were cleaning his house. One of the guys from our neighborhood was playing the CD. Loved it!

First rock CD I got was Creed - Human Clay. Then I got into Blink-182. Sum 41. Linkin Park. Heard and liked Good Charlotte's first release. Bought all of Blink's albums. Bought a few other ones based off of crappy magazine reviews (such as Cave In - Antenna, etc...)

My friend and I would always watch Best Buy and our local Graywhale for new releases, then go sample if we could. Then we discovered torrents later in high school after we both got fed up trying to sample bands using KaAzA. Got into Taking Back Sunday. Brand New. Fenix TX. Basically all Drive-Thru bands except the really old, ska-type stuff.

Got a little sick of the immature, high-school whiny sound so I got into more acoustic-y and rarer stuff I guess (compared to my old standards.) Tried to break free of the mold that, for instance, All Time Low fills today. And then I started finding older stuff again recently that I had missed (JEW - Clarity, etc...) Listened to a few recommendations from bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Joshua Radin, etc... And here I am today! :)

yay!

[xJesusFreakx]

"Jesus Freak" by dc Talk and "Flood" by Jars of Clay on a tape when I was in middle school.
Then to Disciple, Audio Adrenaline, the O.C. Supertones, P.O.D., Pillar, and (for a touch of secular music) Linkin Park.
Let Go by Avril Lavigne broke me into mainstream pop.
When Everything Falls by Haste the Day broke me into heavier music.
American Gangster by Jay-Z broke me into rap.
Between HTD and Jay-Z, got into mewithoutYou.
Got into Thrice before seeing BN/Thrice/mwY, and got into Brand New afterwards.
Over the past few months, I've been finally finalizing what I like and why, with the help of this site.

[Five-Star]

Started out with hiphop: Jay-z, Kanye, Lupe, Dipset and others.

Little rnb phase: Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Usher and Ne-yo. Didn't last very long.

Mcr, The Killers, FOB other rock stuff on tv.

Chiodos, Alesana, Enter Shikari, Underoath and other hardcore bands.

Post-hardcore is pretty much my fav.

[murrich]

Started out with hiphop: Jay-z, Kanye, Lupe, Dipset and others.

Little rnb phase: Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Usher and Ne-yo. Didn't last very long.

Mcr, The Killers, FOB other rock stuff on tv.

Chiodos, Alesana, Enter Shikari, Underoath and other hardcore bands.

Post-hardcore is pretty much my fav.

You ddn't post any Post-Hardcore?

[Five-Star]

You ddn't post any Post-Hardcore?

Hardcore I should say.

[bradsonemanband]

Everclear was the first band that i fell in love with, followed by Blink 182

[TheBestBet]

I was always a rock kid growing up. This is pretty much the core bands that really got me into the music that I listened to

Nirvana/Soundgarden/STP > Rage Against The Machine/Deftones/Incubus > Glassjaw/Saves The Day/Jimmy Eat World

[murrich]

Started out with hiphop: Jay-z, Kanye, Lupe, Dipset and others.

Little rnb phase: Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Usher and Ne-yo. Didn't last very long.

Mcr, The Killers, FOB other rock stuff on tv.

Chiodos, Alesana, Enter Shikari, Underoath and other hardcore bands.

Post-hardcore is pretty much my fav.

You ddn't post any Post-Hardcore?

Hardcore I should say.

Are you talking about different bands? Because the ones you posted aren't Post-Hardcore or Hardcore.

[Five-Star]

Are you talking about different bands? Because the ones you posted aren't Post-Hardcore or Hardcore.

Well whatever the genre, band's like them.

[zonto]

Well whatever the genre, band's like them.

Bands or 'band is'? If the latter, to which band are you referring?

[Five-Star]

Bands or 'band is'? If the latter, to which band are you referring?

My bad, meant to say whatever genre those band's are.

[acemvivere]

Beatles, Queen => Seattle musicians (Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, etc.) => mainstream rock => "indie" bands
=> Jazz (bebop, "cool jazz) => Seattle hip hop

[The Personist]

I started with Linkin Park and Cradle of Filth, and tended toward heavier shit and black metal (like Gorgoroth, who were probably the most ridiculous band I've ever listened to...and still do), but then there was somewhat of a paradigm shift when I liked MCR's single ("I'm Not Okay") and started gradually to love Fall Out Boy. Opeth remained my favorite band, though (they came in between CoF and Gorgoroth), until around my senior year, when I took a decidedly more pop-punk musical path. I was a whore for Say Anything my freshman year of college, and then, thanks to this site and others, I started getting into more indie stuff. The Libertines were what set me down the path I'm on today, though. So props to my old roommate for that.

[Robototron]

To keep it simple:

Bubblegum Pop & Boy Bands -> Gangsta Rap & R&B -> Alt Rock -> Indie Rock -> Post-Punk -> Dance-Punk & other "Indie Dance" - > Various genres of Electronic music

[MADSTA]

Avril Lavigne - Blink - Evanescence - Motion City Soundtrack - FFTL - Other Shit - Now.

[MADSTA]

My bad, meant to say whatever genre those band's are.
Band's = band is/possessive form of band
Bands = plural of band

[lonelysuperstar]

"Jesus Freak" by dc Talk and "Flood" by Jars of Clay on a tape when I was in middle school.
Then to Disciple, Audio Adrenaline, the O.C. Supertones, P.O.D., Pillar, and (for a touch of secular music) Linkin Park.
Let Go by Avril Lavigne broke me into mainstream pop.
When Everything Falls by Haste the Day broke me into heavier music.
American Gangster by Jay-Z broke me into rap.
Between HTD and Jay-Z, got into mewithoutYou.
Got into Thrice before seeing BN/Thrice/mwY, and got into Brand New afterwards.
Over the past few months, I've been finally finalizing what I like and why, with the help of this site.

My story is very similar to this.

[bowl of oranges]

I listened to mostly crappy music up until my freshman year of high-school.

[GuitarR0cker1]

Breaking Benjamin(for about 3 months) - Fall Out Boy/Blink-182/Green Day - All Time Low/Mayday Parade/Hit The Lights - Saves The Day/Brand New/Motion City Soundtrack/Say Anything - Death Cab For Cutie/Modest Mouse/Radiohead.

This progression thing doesn't make much sense because I still like about everything on this phase thing except Breaking Benjamin, Mayday Parade and Hit The Lights.

[thespearkid]

To keep it simple:

Bubblegum Pop & Boy Bands -> Gangsta Rap & R&B -> Alt Rock -> Indie Rock -> Post-Punk -> Dance-Punk & other "Indie Dance" - > Various genres of Electronic music
Pretty bad ass transition there haha.

[The Personist]

Breaking Benjamin(for about 3 months) - Fall Out Boy/Blink-182/Green Day - All Time Low/Mayday Parade/Hit The Lights - Saves The Day/Brand New/Motion City Soundtrack/Say Anything - Death Cab For Cutie/Modest Mouse/Radiohead.

This progression thing doesn't make much sense because I still like about everything on this phase thing except Breaking Benjamin, Mayday Parade and Hit The Lights.

Breaking Benjamin annoys the shit out of me...

But I still like HTL and MP.

[GuitarR0cker1]

Breaking Benjamin annoys the shit out of me...

But I still like HTL and MP.
Yeah I hate them with a passion now too haha.

[The Personist]

Yeah I hate them with a passion now too haha.

Haha...

I dunno. I feel like they're not my core listening, which, interestingly, has taken a turn for the indie of late. The Mountain Goats ftw.

[wewascontenders]

blink-182/thursday > brand new/osker/american nightmare > all the shit i listen to now, which still includes the others ones.

[RecklessXRandy]

I've always loved blink

[envytheliving]

The Beatles and The Monkees -> Boy bands -> Bowling For Soup -> Blink-182, Green Day, Weezer -> Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Cute Is What We Aim For -> (now) Fall Out Boy, Say Anything, Jack's Mannequin, Blink-182, et cetera.

[Robototron]

Pretty bad ass transition there haha.

Ha, well that's what my parents and family members listened to when I was a kid, so it was an easy transition to make.

[IWasaCamera]

Radio shit ---> scene shit ----> singer-songwriter shit ---> current shit.

[zonto]

My bad, meant to say whatever genre those band's are.

My question still stands: Do you mean 'band is' or showing possession of something by one band?

[Burn That Shit]

Radio rock ====> Goldfinger and Streetlight Manifesto and NOFX ====> shitty scene shit ====> better scene shit ====> the worst scene shit.

[Neo Cassady]

Classic Rock (dad) and Country (mom).
Green Day via my best friend in 2nd grade.
Blink-182 via the radio in middle school.
My own discovery/sharing with friends/ap.net/etc. from then until now.

[laurenleif]

green day/blink 182 > thrice/thursday > the receiving end of sirens > as cities burn/moving mountains

[thespearkid]

I just realized AP.net really didn't have as huge an effect on my tastes as I originally thought. This site introduced me to a ton of great bands but all of the pivotal bands in my musical journey, I've discovered on my own or through friends.

[Cuddleworthy]

2Pac -> Radiohead

[Cuddleworthy]

green day/blink 182 > thrice/thursday > the receiving end of sirens > as cities burn/moving mountains

going to that moving mountains show in cambridge? BOO YAR!

[laurenleif]

going to that moving mountains show in cambridge? BOO YAR!

yep! did you go to the last one? hopefully they'll play a full set this time.

[thespearkid]

2Pac -> Radiohead
That was pretty much all I was listening to last week.

[Cuddleworthy]

yep! did you go to the last one? hopefully they'll play a full set this time.

haha no, i've actually missed like 3 of their shows in the past year or so and it's been quite frustrating. definitely making this upcoming one! how were they?

[Cuddleworthy]

That was pretty much all I was listening to last week.

hilarious juxtaposition

[laurenleif]

haha no, i've actually missed like 3 of their shows in the past year or so and it's been quite frustrating. definitely making this upcoming one! how were they?

they only played a couple of songs when i saw them. it was winter, so i think a couple of them were sick, but they were still really, really good. i'm definitely excited to see them again.

[Cuddleworthy]

they only played a couple of songs when i saw them. it was winter, so i think a couple of them were sick, but they were still really, really good. i'm definitely excited to see them again.

understandable. my issue with them is that they don't know how to play ode live, and that's my favorite song of theirs! those bastids. i'm friends with the singer on lastfm and always give him shit about it but he never replies hahaha

[PengusNiugnep]

I listened to boy bands & pop. Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, etc. Oddly enough, now I can't stand any of it. I did listen to a lot of 90s alternative (I'm bad with genres, so bear with me...) like Green Day, Fastball, Third Eye Blind, etc. I never really started listening to a lot of music until 8th grade, I started with some Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and The Killers. The radio brought me to a few other bands like Panic At The Disco. One of my friends was a huge PATD addict, so she got me into other FBR bands like Cobra Starship and The Academy Is.... My friend showed me Death Cab For Cutie on the bus, then I started listening to more light stuff. Hawthorne Heights was probably the first band I'd ever liked with screaming. Got into Jack's Mannequin, Say Anything & a lot of pop-punk when my friends & I searched through Warped music before going last year (All Time Low, Mayday Parade, FTSK, We The Kings, The Pink Spiders). Besides Evanescence, Paramore was the first band I liked with a female singer. I'm finally opening up to some pop after rejecting it for a while--Avril Lavigne, Mika, etc. So yeah, I basically listen to all of that now, except for the boy bands/bubblegum pop. Woo?

[laurenleif]

understandable. my issue with them is that they don't know how to play ode live, and that's my favorite song of theirs! those bastids. i'm friends with the singer on lastfm and always give him shit about it but he never replies hahaha

hahah, i love that song so much. such an amazing ending to that album.
i honestly don't think i could ever get sick of moving mountains, at all.

[TheSkyline]

Started off listening to Dave Matthews and John Mayer (still listen to them) because my parents would play them, but then besides liking blinks stuff that was on the radio, I didn't get into much other music until my friend got the Move Along album by All American Rejects when I was in like 5th grade, and we all thought it was awesome at the time. That got me into other pop punk stuff (LOTS of blink, New Found Glory, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy) then somehow led me into falling in love with Say Anything, and shortly there after discovering Brand New. From there my music tastes kind of shoot off into different directions. Today I still like DMB and stuff, but I also like pop punk, and more chill rock kind of stuff. Indie-rockish I guess. Right now I'm really into American Football, which I guess is one of those midwest emo bands, but I'm horrible with genres so I have no idea what I'm talking about. haha

[MikeTheManR]

In the beginning, there was Raffi
Around 5th grade, I went through an annoying phase where I was convinced that The Beatles were the only band worth listening to.
6th grade, I purchased Smash Mouth's Astro Lounge, Goo Goo Doll's Dizzy Up The Girl, Matchbox 20's Yourself Or Someone Like You, The Offspring's Americana, and Third Eye Blind's self-titled.
Middle School was all about Green Day, Blink 182, New Found Glory and Good Charlotte.
In High School, I started listening to Jimmy Eat World, Saves The Day, The Movielife, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Ataris, Fall Out Boy, ect...
Near the end of high school I got into Bright Eyes, Death Cab, Rilo Kiley, Cursive.
Jack's Mannequin's Everything in Transit and The Format's Interventions in Lullabies, and Motion City Soundrack's Commit This to Memory were pretty much the only 3 albums I listened to during the summer of '05
During college, I discovered Kevin Devine, Manchester Orchestra, and Say Anything. I also went through separate Cat Stevens and The Velvet Undergroud phases.
I've spent the past few years going back and forth between listening to new music and listening to bands from the 80's and early 90's that I missed out on. Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Replacements, Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil, The Pixies, Belle and Sebastian, and The Smiths have been getting alot of play lately. I had drifted away from listening to pop punk for a few years, untill the guy at the record store was listening to The Ergs while I was browsing throught the records, and for the last month, they're pretty much the only band I've been listening to. My only regret is that I didnt become aware of their existence untill just recently. And that's where I am today.

[sweepthenation]

As a kid was into the whole boy band thing. NSYNC and Backstreet Boys. Then I started getting into Blink 182 alot, which led me to Green Day and Sum 41 around middle school. Had a brief foray into rap which I now look back on with shame. Then started getting into Sublime, RX Bandits, RHCP, Less Than Jake, and some (gasp) Creed and Alter Bridge. Around 10th grade started listening to bands such as Fall Out Boy and Taking Back Sunday, which led me to TAI and then on to MCR and Cartel. Started to fall in love with pop punk with stuff like All Time Low. Listened to that for a bit, than starting end of senior year I heard Silverstein and they turned me on to ADTR, TDWP and alot of metalcore and post hardcore, and while I still love som epop punk like Mayday Parade and Cartel and ATL, lately Ive been into metalcore like TDWP, Parkway Drive, Miss May I, Underoath and Vanna.

[AndrewIcex]

My bad, meant to say whatever genre those band's are.
It would be Post-Hardcore, you were right... but people always argue genre shit here... Post-Hardcore has become Screamo music... not so much in the 80's and 90's but now, that is what it is... people don't seem to agree but it is what it is.

[AndrewIcex]

I don't know how I got where I am at... but it definitely was started by RHCP and other semi-older bands.

[Five-Star]

It would be Post-Hardcore, you were right... but people always argue genre shit here... Post-Hardcore has become Screamo music... not so much in the 80's and 90's but now, that is what it is... people don't seem to agree but it is what it is.

Yea I know, It's like that on youtube too. People always arguing about genre's. Not that serious to me. But it def sais post-hardcore on all those bands wiki's.

[AndrewIcex]

Yea I know, It's like that on youtube too. People always arguing about genre's. Not that serious to me. But it def sais post-hardcore on all those bands wiki's.
Yeah, just go to Urban Dictionary... there is a lot of the different views of the definition there... so really... its a pointless argument, hold your ground though... and if you have any questions... just google it, it will tell you what people say, that can answer your question most of the time.

[Five-Star]

Yeah, just go to Urban Dictionary... there is a lot of the different views of the definition there... so really... its a pointless argument, hold your ground though... and if you have any questions... just google it, it will tell you what people say, that can answer your question most of the time.

Yea I read about it a while ago on wiki and in the urban dictionary. Both pretty much said the same thing. It has changed a lot since the 80's and 90's but it is still post-hardcore.

[AndrewIcex]

Yea I read about it a while ago on wiki and in the urban dictionary. Both pretty much said the same thing. It has changed a lot since the 80's and 90's but it is still post-hardcore.
Yeah, very much so... every genre has changed, but people don't let that happen, but it is what it is... its whatever.

[matchbox202006]

My first music was country music. My parents would crank KAT country wctk all day everyday. I was exposed to the songs of Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Leanne Womak and Garth Brooks.

Gradually, i began to notice pop stations more where i chilled back with Five For Fighting, Train, and Matchbox Twenty

The first time i heard Matchbox Twenty, i knew rock music was my calling. From there, the 90s gave me Collective Soul, popular Goo Goo Dolls, Gin Blossoms, Nirvana, and Hootie and the Blowfish

[Regards]

3 Doors Down/Sugar Ray --> System Of A Down/Rage Against The Machine/Korn --> Thursday/At The Drive-in/Glassjaw --> Underoath/The Devil Wears Prada --> Now

I love how big of a step back I took from ATDI to tdwp. Ah well, that's life.

[fenderrock89]

Hmm, trying to think about it. Eminem/Blink/Greenday ---> Chevelle/Muse/Incubus ----> Jimmy Eat World/Brand New/Bayside ----> Say Anything/Manchester Orchestra/Death Cab for Cutie

I still listen to almost all of these bands/artists along with others. But this is just what I could think of right now.

[evvandflow]

I've always liked me music.

Deja Entendu by Brand New made me fall in love with music.

[Poe-tryGirl]

Hilary Duff...Simple Plan...Good Charlotte...Aiden...My Chemical Romance

I'm a joke.

[AlexEnglish]

Elementary School-6th grade= backstreet boys
7-8th grade= my chemical romance/ fall out boy
9th grade= norma jean/from first to last/
10th grade =STARTING LINE

[tommy's ghost]

Okay way from the top.

N*Sync -> Good Charlotte ->Green Day -> Fall Out Boy/Panic! at the Disco/My Chemical Romance (big pop-punk/post-hardcore phase) -> Say Anything/Brand New/Cursive-> Neutral Milk Hotel (indie phase) -> The Mars Volta (prog-ish phase)

Really hooked on more guitar-based music at the moment. It's likely to change though. I dunno, I'll listen to most anything that has some correlation with the last three phases.

[Thomas Balkcom]

I blame my current musical tastes on someone introducing me to Thursday back in 2004

[xJesusFreakx]

3 Doors Down/Sugar Ray --> System Of A Down/Rage Against The Machine/Korn --> Thursday/At The Drive-in/Glassjaw --> Underoath/The Devil Wears Prada --> Now

I love how big of a step back I took from ATDI to tdwp. Ah well, that's life.

Ha, that really is a pretty big step back. :p

What do you think of the new Sleeping Giant? I love it.

[Regards]

Ha, that really is a pretty big step back. :p

What do you think of the new Sleeping Giant? I love it.
Well, I won't be getting a copy for a while. No record stores in the area, but I might download it tonight, its killing me not hearing it.

[xJesusFreakx]

Well, I won't be getting a copy for a while. No record stores in the area, but I might download it tonight, its killing me not hearing it.

Stream it on their MySpace.

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistal bums&artistid=4662376&albumid=12645471

[Animalhill]

1st Grade- My mom who is still cooler than me got me into the Clash, the Sex Pistols, and the Doors.
3rd Grade- Greenday (Dookie and Nimrod) Blink 182 (Dude Ranch, Cheshire Cat)
7th Grade- Glassjaw, TBS,Cursive
9th Grade- Northstar, Glassjaw, The Blood Brothers,
X grade = NOW: Modest Mouse, Cursive, White Rabbits, Miles Davis.

[TheMisanthrope]

started listening to music and 1st was: in 6th grade-8th grade limp bizkit,marlyin manson,rage agaisnt the machine,korn,etc

then when i got into HS i got into rap: 9th-10th grade eminem,the game,dr dre,dipset,kanye west,etc

then i started to phase out of rap but still like "lyrical rap" and "light rock": 11th-12th grade death cab for cutie, royce da 5'9, good eminem,canibus,relient k,the spill canvas,etc

then at the end of senior year i went to bamboozle(07) so i started getting into lots of the music i saw there: taking back sunday,scary kids scaring kids, plain white ts,etc

then in the last two years i dropped some of the pop rock and got more into screaming and also i discovered brand new: so brand new,chiodos,attack attack!, anberlin,alesana,etc

[Mesthead!]

When I was young, I listened to Britney Spears.
(elmentary school? )Then, I started listening to wannabee rap and Good Charlotte/Simple Plan/Blink-182.
(5th-6th grade)Then, I started listening to Mest/Green Day/New Found Glory/Sum 41.
Then, IDK why I started listening to My Chemical Romance/Linkin Park/Atreyu. I grew out of that really fast. That was probably in 7th grade?
(7th grade)Then, I started listening to Nofx, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Goldfinger, The Clash, The Ramones etc.
(8th grade) Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish lots of ska =D and Cobra Starship and Midtown
(9th grade) I liked Metro Station and FTSK for a month. I got sick of it and realized how much it sucked. Started listening to he Descendents, The Vandals etc.
(10th grade and about now since I just finished tenth grade) I like a lot of pop-punk and ska. I prefer the older stuff.

[OnLettingGo]

simple plan > three doors down > linkin park > lostprophets > brand new > everything (sigur ros, blood brothers, kanye west, the smiths, brad paisley)

i'm open to anything now.

[Shattered Glass]

all sorts of rap-ride wit me by nelly was my favorite song, NFG, blink 182 basically all the mainstream stuff in the early 2000's, then i was into slipknot/korn because of my cousin who was 2 years older than me and i thought he was the coolest, then came senses fail/atreyu/taking back sunday/underoath, then a lot of Christian music and back to rap, then i was finding all this great music from the 90s(neutral milk hotel, modest mouse, sunny day real estate, etc.) and now basically i listen to everything(except all that nu metal crap my cousin got me into)