The Official 'How did you get into this scene?' thread!

[chokeychicken]

c'mon, freaks. lets hear it. feed me a sob story.

[SickOfStars]

uh, friends that listened to the music?

a thriving local 'scene'

[chokeychicken]

uh, friends that listened to the music?

a thriving local 'scene'

don't act like i asked a dumb question. most people have a particular story, event, CD, or band that they identify with why or how they listen to the music they do.

[AP_Punk]

blink-182 - Enema of the State

i was watching a video game preview of some Mtv Sports snowboarding thing and "Don't Leave Me" was playing throughout it.

i went out and bought EOTS soon after and now here i am.

[xglassjawx]

I heard bands such as Linkin Park, Crazytown, Muse etc from TV/Radio. I then heard heavier stuff such as Ill Nino, 36 Crazyfists, Old Chimaira and it basically progressed from there.

[balenciaga]

boys night out - make yourself sick

When i was in 7th grade about four years agp, a friend whose opinion i revered mentioned something about them so i ended up downloading that entire album and fell in love with BNO. Then I went on to download alexisonfire and a static lullaby and so on.

[Drew Beringer]

Weezer's Blue Album started my rock taste off in 4th grade and it evolved from there and Deftones' White Pony began my taste for harder music.

[lightcollapse]

underoath - they're only chasing safety

[MIKEY_HORROR]

Green Days Dookie album started getting me into music

Jimi Hendrix's album are you experianced made me want to learn guitar

and Guns and Roses Paradise City video, is what made me want to be a rockstar.

honorable mentions for bands that got me into music (Motley Crue, Metallica, Pantera,Posion, and Ozzy)

[x togepi x]

here's my story:

so i'm 15 and was dating this girl like 2 years older than me. being 15, i was pretty damn stupid. we made all those stupid promises you make when you're in high school and don't know any better like "oh we promise to be together forever". eventually, i find out this girl is cheating on me with one of my friends, so being 15 i get really depressed about it because i wasn't smart enough to realize that i'm better off without some girl who'd cheat on me. i get on audiogalaxy (this makes me feel old) to download some songs to make a break up mix cd when i find out that this band called Fugazi wrote a song called "Promises" that had the lyric "promises are shit"

so of course i'm like OMG! THIS SONG IS TOTALLY ME, and i download it. after i burned the cd, which was mostly shitty pop punk and one fugazi song, i realized that the only song i really listened to on the cd was fugazi, so i downloaded a bunch of fugazi,my aunt told me they were emo, so then i got into rites of spring and indian summer after finding out what emo really was.

i basically listened to nothing but fugazi until i was a junior in high school and Thursday's "full collapse" drops. I buy it, originally think it sucks. Then one of my best friends gets in a car wreck that kills her best friend and i find myself listening to "understanding in a car crash" over and over, as well as realizing that full collapse is probably one of my favorite cds.

somwhere in that time, i also find out about at the drive-in. I heard One Armed Scissor on the radio and begged my parents to buy me a guitar. Eventually they do, I meet some people, we form an ATDI cover band, play one show in my hometown before breaking up (which fucking ruled, people still talk about it today). this makes makes me want to play music, which is why i still haven't transferred away from springfield yet.

then i go to college at missouri state, where springfield has a decent punk/hardcore scene, but an amazing DIY arty hardcore scene and find myself liking more and more diy/obscure stuff and less mainstream stuff.

then gnarls barkley comes out and i realize pop music can be good too.

there's my long and boring story. obviously more, like how i used american nightmare to get into real hardcore, but i'm lazy.

[Grant, Postla..]

cousin died when i was 14 i think it was they played for justin at his funeral somehow i went from dashboard through to where I am today. Which is mostly emo stuff, it didnt take me long to get from dashboard to real emo somehow though once i got into the emo stuff the rest of the hardcore scene kinda just follows on really. before you flame i know dashboard isnt emo im talking about rites of spring all the way through to transistor transistor.

Recently gotten into a lot of quieter stuff like post rock and acoustic stuff like Damien Rice and Jeff Buckley cant really give a reason for that just kinda happened.

[iHATEapril]

Coheed and Cambria.

[heyRomanticA__x]

5th grade, I was listening to green day and at the drive in. Then came Incubus and whatever else was on Mtv. Between the ages of 10 and 12 I Listened to Q101 and picked up cds from best-buy.

When I was 13, we got a computer; I found audiogalaxy, then I found ap.net in 04'. I started listening to ska and playing in a ska band. I started listening to punk and playing in a "punk" band.

Then there was this emo stuff....just like everyone else I thought Dashboard confessional was emo. Not too soon after thought, I listened to Heroin and found fourfa. I admit, I hated the music Heroin made, I called it noise and turned it off, but I like history, the music began to grow on me. Next I began learning about DIY, politics, zines and music. Then I actually started to post on ap.net in 05' instead of lurking.

[Juliana101]

I listened to the Starting Line who are indiginous to this area.

[Juliana101]

Also, the Emogame gave me band ideas.

Now I think a few of those bands are shit.

[RomeoAGoGo]

1999-2007

7th grade : Incubus - rock music is good.
8th grade : Linkin Park, Tool, Staind - rock music is very good.
9th grade : I had no friends
10th grade : Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, Rx Bandits - pop-punk is good.
11th grade : Finch and Thursday - screaming is good.
12th grade : I smoked a lot of pot.

Freshman year : Every Time I Die - ...is insane
Sophomore year : Gatsbys American Dream - you don't need to scream to be good.
Junior year : Post-rock, early emo, screamo, and post-hardcore blows my mind.


etc....

[Blueskyburning]

through my uncle when i was about 10; he played me some early millencolin and bought me the records.

[shane hennessey]

8th grade- Blink 182, At The Drive In, MXPX
9th grade- Saves The Day, MXPX, Jimmy Eat World
10th Grade- Hot Rod Circuit, Alkaline Trio, Coheed And Cambria, My Chemical Romance
11th Grade- Glassjaw, Face To Face, HRC, Alkaline Trio, Receiving End Of Sirens, Yellowcard
12th Grade- Radiohead

Last 2 years- Good stuff.

I was really ahead of my time for the people I hung out with

[thejetstolehome]

midtown.

[karenxcore]

Incubus - Morning View

[.anarkhy]

linkin park is what got me into "rock", along with green day.

[wyverna]

Shitty bands at first, then I somehow came across this site. Which I have to thank for most of my current musical tastes.

[fob_groupie08]

When my friend gave me my first hardcore cd. I thought ok I'll listen to it, I did, and was hooked immediatly.

[indexfor...]

i heard there was a metal show, so i went, it was a bunch of metalcore bands and they were all super generic, but i was 13 and thought it was sweet they were screaming (if you call that screaming)


i got into the screamo/indie/punk scene when i was 15 and i picked up Circle Takes the Squares As the Roots Undo and Hot Cross's Cryonics, i don't listen to much metal anymore, only if its real metal, mostly death metal or tech metal.

[SickOfStars]

When my friend gave me my first hardcore cd. I thought ok I'll listen to it, I did, and was hooked immediatly.

what was this fabled hardcore CD?

i heard there was a metal show, so i went, it was a bunch of metalcore bands and they were all super generic, but i was 13 and thought it was sweet they were screaming (if you call that screaming)


i got into the screamo/indie/punk scene when i was 15 and i picked up Circle Takes the Squares As the Roots Undo and Hot Cross's Cryonics, i don't listen to much metal anymore, only if its real metal, mostly death metal or tech metal.

it's fucking crazy how fast the screamo/diy/emo scene engulfs you in less than a year, isn't it? Same thing happened to me with Orchid's "Chaos Is Me" and "Dance Tonight!"

[love_american_style]

i worked at a movie theater with this guy who let me borrow his Full Colapse c.d..... I loved it.

then he told me about other bands such as Finch, Poison the Well, etc..... i kinda just winged it from there.

[xhellalujahx]

A friend in the eighth grade who listened to The Ataris, Lagwagon, Millencolin and such was when it first began, as I was rather sheltered from music while growing up.

I went to see the Bouncing Souls and Hot Water Music that summer, and True Believers was a moment I'll never forget - probably one of the most pivotal moments as to why I began listening to music semi associated with this "scene".

[Speddy]

Linkin Park mostly because both of my olders sister were into them and I was forced to listen. And then I started to hear Incubus. And Taking Back Sunday was huge on the Long Island scene when Tell All Your Friends first came out.

[lawofaverages]

I got into the music via my parents, I guess. They love Black Flag and Black Sabbath. I got into all the stuff I listen to now pretty much once I got onto the internet (even though I did get into a few crucial bands before this). I think I was a freshman in high school. I don't really remember. I started frequently going to shows once I found people at my school who were into that kind of music (keyword, frequently). That was, I think, my junior year.

[Shatter590]

i drove past a NFG show, saw a kid in a mohawk and decided to see what it was about.

[SickOfStars]

i drove past a NFG show, saw a kid in a mohawk and decided to see what it was about.

winner!

[DroppedUrPocket]

Hanging out with Adam Lazarra.

[chelseatine]

my boyfriend brain washed me.

[nateisawesome]

my best friend took me to see Saves The Day, Taking Back Sunday, and Moneen back in 2003 and I instantly fell in love with Saves The Day

[headsick123]

i guess i started listening to blink when i was in like 5th grade, and then i just liked rap and then my sister and all her friends had a huge impression on me and i started to listen to blink and green day which eventually led me to litening to more metal stuff like every time i die and then i started listening to more emo/screamo stuff if thats what you want to call it, and then i became friends with some older kids, im 17, they are 21-25 and about 2 years ago we all met and i started to go to shows with them, and thats when i became big into music, and i like this day and age alot cause all thier buffalo shows are good, of course...everyone knows buffalo has the best shows.

[mybreakingpoint]

sooooooooooooooooooo who's idea was this again, eh?

[love_american_style]

you need to be a little more desciptive about the word "scene".

[wearitloud]

you need to be a little more desciptive about the word "scene".


Iawtc.

[love_american_style]

Iawtc.

???

[wearitloud]

Haha. "I agree with that comment."

[love_american_style]

Haha. "I agree with that comment."

ahhh...thanks

[chokeychicken]

1999-2007

7th grade : Incubus - rock music is good.
8th grade : Linkin Park, Tool, Staind - rock music is very good.
9th grade : I had no friends
10th grade : Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, Rx Bandits - pop-punk is good.
11th grade : Finch and Thursday - screaming is good.
12th grade : I smoked a lot of pot.

Freshman year : Every Time I Die - ...is insane
Sophomore year : Gatsbys American Dream - you don't need to scream to be good.
Junior year (currently) : Explosions in the Sky - post-rock blows my mind.


etc....

wow, throw in a little saves the day and get up kids, and that's almost EXACTLY what my timeline looks like.

[chokeychicken]

Haha. "I agree with that comment."

what the fuck. unncessary.

[iwasahero]

Saw a video for Your So Last Summer on Fuse in 7th grade, bought Tell All Your Friends, my life changed.

[Wobbie]

This thread makes me feel old.

[wearitloud]

what the fuck. unncessary.


Why was this unneccessary?
He asked what "iawtc" meant.
I told him. I see no problem.

[collapse]

Blink 182 then Box Car Racer.

Then in freshman year one of my friends showed me The Early November, Underoath, The Starting Line, Thursday, and Taking Back Sunday. I was hooked instantly.

[Scottt]

I blame Green Day.





Why was this unneccessary?
He asked what "iawtc" meant.
I told him. I see no problem.

I think when he said ''unncessary'' he meant about what someone said about 'scene' needing to be explained more.
Or maybe I'm wrong?

[punk shawn]

blink 182.

[bigmike]

I found Saves The Day's Through Being Cool at a kids house. Asked to borrow it and I loved it. Then I heard Midtown's Save the World, Lose the Girl and I was hooked.

Those are two of my top 5 favorite records from this "scene" of all time.

[wearitloud]

I think when he said ''unncessary'' he meant about what someone said about 'scene' needing to be explained more.
Or maybe I'm wrong?


Ah. Well in that cause, I can see his comment.
I didn't mean it in a mean way.
It's just I dunno if he means the music scene as a whole or what.
Cause if he's talking about a specific one, I may or may not fit into it.
Either way, I can see his point if that's what he meant, and I apologize.

[JohnnyG]

Well the first like album I got into that was in the scene was Dookie, but I really got into the scene when I went to my first Blink 182 concert with New Found Glory. Blink 182 and NFG def got me into the scene. NFG continues to be my all time favorite band.

[-whisp-]

as a young kid and growing up i listened to my brothers music which involved green day, offspring etc. then i heard blink 182 and it began properly from then on.

[cfear]

My friend was in love with Green Day when we were in first grade. From there, I took a break until middle school, and then started really getting into music. First more popy mainstream stuf, and eventually I found a lot of good DIY shit that kicked my ass.

[gamed247]

I use to be into hip-hop and some pop when I was in the 3rd grade, but when I started listening too Blink-182 and The Vines in the 6th grade and they really pushed me into the rock scene. Then my early high school years I started listening to My Chemical Romance and Armor For Sleep which then brought me into the emo scene. But the during the end of my senior year Norma Jean brought me into the hardcore metal scene. But now-a-days I'm listening to some of the screamo and grindcore bands, The Number 12 Looks Like You and Drop Dead, Gorgeous, and more "classic" rock bands, Pink Floyd; Nirvana; and Ramones. But I always like the bands that got me into the music scene Blink-182, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Ramones, and many more. I like alot of types/geners of music so I don't like to says I'm apart of a certian scene otherwise to me it would feel like I was a scenester if I did.

[TheBaroness]

I used to read Heckler magazine and buy a lot of the albums they gave favourable reviews. One issue Travis Keller (co-founder of Buddyhead) was raving about Jimmy Eat World's Clarity, so I went to Borders and bought Static Prevails (which was all they had by JEW). Anyway, the minute I heard it I knew I had found what I'd always been looking for in music. I then joined the band's egroup and learned of TGUK, Promise Ring, CFD, Mineral, bought their CD's and fell in love.
3 years later I met a Melbourne kid on the old JEW board who got me into Slint, Moss Icon, Indian Summer, Off Minor etc.

[x togepi x]

i like how mine's the only sob story.

[heyRomanticA__x]

I used to read Heckler magazine and buy a lot of the albums they gave favourable reviews. One issue Travis Keller (co-founder of Buddyhead) was raving about Jimmy Eat World's Clarity, so I went to Borders and bought Static Prevails (which was all they had by JEW). Anyway, the minute I heard it I knew I had found what I'd always been looking for in music. I then joined the band's egroup and learned of TGUK, Promise Ring, CFD, Mineral, bought their CD's and fell in love.
3 years later I met a Melbourne kid on the old JEW board who got me into Slint, Moss Icon, Indian Summer, Off Minor etc.

I thought you wrote "Hustler (http://hustler.com)" magazine.

[still]

when i was in 4th grade i faked sick so i could stay home and record really super awesome music videos, by bands like backstreet boys, n*sync, and crazy town. sum 41 came on and i thought something along the lines of, "whoa, this is sweet." how i liked sum 41 when i liked crazy town, i'm not sure.

so from 4th-6th grade i was obsessed with sum 41, and blink-182. when i got the interweb, i got into this program called rpgmaker2000. i'm sure some of you guys know what it is. well anyways, i joined a message board on rpg2knet, and in the music forum, people were of course talking about their favorite bands.

from there i started listening to real punk, like fugazi, and tons of other dischord record bands, and tonssss of modest mouse. yes, sum 41 to modest mouse. from 7th-9th grade all i listened to was punk and modest mouse.

anyways, since i'm the only person i know who's musical taste declines by age, i somehow got into "screamo." i put quotes around it, because i am referring to bands like finch and underoath. also, i became obsessed with rufio, and they still remain one of my favorite bands. about halfway through 9th grade i quit listening to "screamo" and got into "emo" (again, quotes) bands like daphne loves derby, the get up kids, brand new, taking back sunday, etc. being the curious kid i am, i looked online for information about "emo" and got into real emo and real screamo, like joshua fit for battle and saetia.

from real screamo i started listening to hardcore. from hardcore i started listening to metalcore, then to death metal, and now to grind.

good times.

[chokeychicken]

anyways, since i'm the only person i know who's musical taste declines by age, i somehow got into "screamo."


best sentence i've ever read on AP.net

[chokeychicken]

Ah. Well in that cause, I can see his comment.
I didn't mean it in a mean way.
It's just I dunno if he means the music scene as a whole or what.
Cause if he's talking about a specific one, I may or may not fit into it.
Either way, I can see his point if that's what he meant, and I apologize.

oops!

that's what i meant. no hate allowed in this thread.

[the thread]

i didnt get into any scene. i started listening to emo bands when i was in 8th grade, which was a step up from hardcore and skate punk that i used to listen to. i was the only person who listened to that kind of music, and i still am one of the very few people i know who listens to this stuff. ive never been a part of any scene.

[rockthatpit]

Started back in 7th grade, with my sister (who was at one point extremely into Weezer) getting me into Weezer. I burned 3 of her cds, bought Maladroit. Fell in love, didn't listen to anything else for about a 6-month period. Then a friend got me into Good Charlotte, which progressed to Simple Plan, Blink 182, and Mest. Then I went to a Mest show 3 years ago, saw Fall Out Boy, and fell in love with them. They're been my favorite band ever since.

[utgjames]

One album:

Enema OF The State

-nuff said-

[grrximapirate]

i used to not like music at all, except DMB and incubus (forgive me, i was in high school, a long long time ago). but then, let's just say i went through a tough time, and my friend erik made me a mixed CD with a bunch of bands on it to make me feel better, and from there, it was a downward spiral into music craziness. plus i worked at tower records (r.i.p.) and interned at victory records (an interesting experience to say the least) so i got kind of immersed into a huge variety of stuff.

[AP_Punk]

here's my story:

so i'm 15 and was dating this girl like 2 years older than me. being 15, i was pretty damn stupid. we made all those stupid promises you make when you're in high school and don't know any better like "oh we promise to be together forever". eventually, i find out this girl is cheating on me with one of my friends, so being 15 i get really depressed about it because i wasn't smart enough to realize that i'm better off without some girl who'd cheat on me. i get on audiogalaxy (this makes me feel old) to download some songs to make a break up mix cd when i find out that this band called Fugazi wrote a song called "Promises" that had the lyric "promises are shit"
.

haha, Audiogalaxy.

neat story.

[youcomebeforeyo]

It started with an accident.

I went to download a Box Car Racer song after seeing a video for them on late night music tv at about 2am.

The Box Car Racer song happened to be Best of Me by the Starting Line.

I fucking loved it.

From there I found out about Drive-Thru records and downloaded two songs by every artist. RX Bandits, The Startling Line, New Found Glory and FINCH were the standouts. Especially Finch.

I bought What It Is to Burn and then saw the appreciation for Glassjaw.

I listened to Glassjaw, I got into Thursday and TBS.

And really it just balooned onwards.

My friend Sam has been huge for my tastes now. ISIS, Jakob and Converge are all thanks to him.

[singthblues]

I grew up on Green Day and the Offspring as well as early 90s grunge. in 8th grade, about 8 years ago I started to get into Reel Big Fish. For quite a while I had no idea what I really truly like, I had a rap phase, a classic rock phase, it wasn't until senior year of high school that I started down the indie/alternative/whatever scene. My little brother was an influence, I heard a lot of strike anywhere, bouncing souls, and old school yellowcard from him. What really did it was Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends, Saves The Day and to a lesser extent the Ataris - So Long Astoria. My girlfriend at the time worked at Media Play, and bought me both the Ataris disk and TAYF, so I guess I can't totally hate her, lol. That was....2002-2003, I got a bit of a late start, fall of 2003 was when i went away to college and that is truly when I started to get into the punk rock scene, everything previous to that was just the prologue.

[youcomebeforeyo]

I totally missed out how I got into Nu-metal as well as pop punk.

[XtreyLikesFireX]

But now-a-days I'm listening to some of the screamo and grindcore bands, The Number 12 Looks Like You and Drop Dead, Gorgeous,
im sorry?
was that a joke?

[Smithers]

i started with death metal, industrial, hardcore, and nu-metal. i was really into fear factory, slayer, hatebreed, vision of disorder, rammstein, ill nino, etc. then one of my fraternity brother's had me listen to What it is to Burn, and that put me where i am today.

[Urza13]

I borrowed my friends blink 182: Take Off Your Pants And Jacket cd in 6th grade.
I loved all the songs and got hooked. From there I went out and found more music.

[Alex Djaferis]

my friends older sister gave me a casette of Dookie and Smash in 1994. the rest is history.

[mybreakingpoint]

heard "the middle"

heard "swing swing"

bought Bleed American and the All-American Rejects

saw AAR, Limbeck, and Wakefield in concert

sat next to awesome girl in French

she burned me What It Is To Burn and mix CD with Thursday, TBS, and The Used

made me go out and buy TEN and Brand New

and everything just went from there. Midtown was one of the next CD's bought, then Saves The Day, then Copeland...

moved to MI

got into Northstar and the Get Up Kids, as well as countelss others

life has never been the same.

[charly horse]

Well, I was one of those girls who listened to pop music like the backstreet boys, and nsync,and christina aguilera, etc. But also a lot of european pop too. Then this guy who lived at my dad's house gave me dookie and I used to listen to it all the time because I thought it was cool that it sad a lot of curse words and shit. I was like 12 or something. Then I started listening to limp bizkit, and sum 41 and greenday more and in 7th grade I really liked blink 182 too. Then I when I was in 8th grade I really liked eminem. When I got into high school I started expanding my musical horizions. I started to really get into the Ataris, and greenday a lot more. And so one day I was searching for greenday buddy icons on google and I came across ap. And through ap I was introduced to a lot of good bands. Then in 10th grade I got into Brand New, and from there I've listened to pretty much the same type of music, mostly pop punk,etc,etc. Until I came to college and met my exboyfriend who was really into hardcore and shit (like somegirls and all that shit), then I began to like every time I die. But then I gave up on hardcore because I really don't like it. Then because of my friend bri I tried to listen to old school punk and from there I decided the only old school punk I can handle is punk that sings, so therefore I enjoy some ramones, and I can tolerate black flag because I like their song tv party and some others too. And so now, I'm sick of the old music I listened to because I overplayed it. So, I'm getting into Weezer and Gin Blossoms and like 90s alternative, etc, etc. And thats my story.

[mybreakingpoint]

this is a great thread.

even though it was my idea and i've recieved no credit lol

some good stories on here, very entertaining and interesting

[AP_Punk]

blink-182 - Enema of the State

i was watching a video game preview of some Mtv Sports snowboarding thing and "Don't Leave Me" was playing throughout it.

i went out and bought EOTS soon after and now here i am.

Oh yeah, and Napster helped out a lot, too.

[AP_Punk]

this is a great thread.

even though it was my idea and i've recieved no credit lol

some good stories on here, very entertaining and interesting

thanks for the thread

:thumbup:

[wearitloud]

oops!

that's what i meant. no hate allowed in this thread.



Ahaha. I didn't mean to give any. =]
Well...I got into like the Ataris and Dropkick Murphys with my friend's older brother. And since I liked them, he started telling me to listen to the Casualties and a few bands like that. Then he took me to a couple of his label's shows, which were mostly real underground punk bands. And then I started talking to the people there and seeing what they listened to, and one kid invited me to a show at Peabody's, and that's kinda where I got into the less raw punk, more just plain rock and alternative music. And I've just been searching bands on Myspace and places like this ever since. XD

[heyRomanticA__x]

Ahaha. I didn't mean to give any. =]
Well...I got into like the Ataris and Dropkick Murphys with my friend's older brother. And since I liked them, he started telling me to listen to the Casualties and a few bands like that. Then he took me to a couple of his label's shows, which were mostly real underground punk bands. And then I started talking to the people there and seeing what they listened to, and one kid invited me to a show at Peabody's, and that's kinda where I got into the less raw punk, more just plain rock and alternative music. And I've just been searching bands on Myspace and places like this ever since. XD

DKM are sweet. I dig flogging molly as well. I could never really get into the ataris though.

[lawofaverages]

im so glad i never had a nu-metal, pop punk, or radio rock phase.

[youcomebeforeyo]

im so glad i never had a nu-metal, pop punk, or radio rock phase.

You missed out man.

Blink 182 are such a brilliant band.

And Hybrid Theory from Linkin Park was great too.

[Sleepaway]

Enema of the State when I was 9.

[SickOfStars]

DKM are sweet. I dig flogging molly as well. I could never really get into the ataris though.

redundant, but... the dropkick murphys are so much fun!

[skillets]

my pops played me a lot of early dischord records stuff when i was a kid. the rest is history.

[Skapocalypse]

The first band I ever listened to was Bad Religion(Generator was the first CD I got) when I was about 6 years old. I instantly loved them. The second band was Catch 22's Keasbey Nights at about 7 or so, and from there on in, ska became my love. I've always loved playing horn/wind/brass etc. instraments, and when I heard the mix of a music I already loved with horns, I just fell in love. After hearing my first ever ska, I jumped around between punk and ska(at one point, I did make the drastic change to hardcore/metalcore and still like them, but not as much as ska), and eventually settled on thirdwave and skapunk. Lol, it was a blast.

[ArTkY_]

7th grade - Linkin Park and such
8th grade - AFI, NoFX, Thrice, Tool, Anti-Flag, Zebrahead, and such
9th grade - More Thrice, Thursday, Matchbook Romance, Fall Out Boy
10th grade - Taking Back Sunday, Everything else
11th grade - so on and so forth
12th grade - now

[wearitloud]

DKM are sweet. I dig flogging molly as well. I could never really get into the ataris though.


So weird. I love Dropkick Murphys, never got into Flogging Molly, haha.
The Ataris are like...driving aimlessly in the summer while blasting the stereo, type music, haha. I dunno. Haven't listened to them in the longest. I think I might tonight.

[wearitloud]

7th grade - Linkin Park and such
8th grade - AFI, NoFX, Thrice, Tool, Anti-Flag, Zebrahead, and such
9th grade - More Thrice, Thursday, Matchbook Romance, Fall Out Boy
10th grade - Taking Back Sunday, Everything else
11th grade - so on and so forth
12th grade - now


I remember listening to Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit at the roller rink in 7th and 8th grade and thinking I was so hardcore, lmao. Many good bands listed there, though.

[SickOfStars]

my pops played me a lot of early dischord records stuff when i was a kid. the rest is history.

welcome to AP!!!

[Branevember31]

Jimmy Eat World- Static Prevails when i was like 7 or 8, and i loved it..i started listening to stuff like Saves The Day and older bands like them, but i was mainly into rap. about 3 years ago i really got into this music, and just expanded from there.

[koala72]

Blink 182 - Take Off... in like year 4-5
Didnt really expand past sum 41, new found glory etc until early last year cause i got into OiNK since then my love for music has grown.

[chickendude]

My ex-gf introduced me to Saetia and Neil Perry. I realized everything else I was listening to sucked.

[UndertheTELE]

My cousin gave me a mighty mighty bosstones cd when i was like 10, things expanded from there.

Does anyone remember when not being a poser was a really important thing?

[wearitloud]

Does anyone remember when not being a poser was a really important thing?



Lmao. I remember that. When Good Charlotte became scum of the earth? Haha.

[SickOfStars]

My ex-gf introduced me to Saetia and Neil Perry. I realized then that I ccould be a DIY shirt-making God and an all-around good man.

:-) good story

[NickSyseJr]

i originally got into thursday, at the drive-in, grade and alkaline trio in freshman year of high school (fucking 6 years ago wtf)

i played basketball and was a prep but loved underground music. then i got into thrice, old my chem and poison the well.

then i quit basketball and started playing insane amounts of mmorpgs. awesome.

then i went into a shell and didn't leave my house forever.

my senior year i wore dobi t-shirts, studded belt, blue jeans.... i thought i was emo!!!! in wisconsin everyone is quite noobs. then after that summer i went with my friend to nj... and his cousin was a super scenester, actually legit. he wore girls pants and then i bought them there too. i bought a harddrive and copied all his music... ranging from botch - broken social scene - le tigre - yo la tengo - an albatross. then i became a scenester. w/ some fashioncore baby.

now two years later... omfg.

[SingleDoubt]

well, i rly lyked panic! @ teh disco, so i started listening 2 otha bands lyke taht and 1 day i wuz serching on google and i found tihs website and now everyone1 at my skool thinks im the most scene person there.

[radjerryrad]

Enema of the State by blink in 4th grade i heard "Whats My Age Again" and fell in love with music

[lawofaverages]

my pops played me a lot of early dischord records stuff when i was a kid. the rest is history.

heres to having parents that are punk as fuck. yeee brah.

edit- i noticed people are mentioning how they dressed when they were in these phases of music they went through. I never really understood the point of any of these fashions or styles. I dunno, maybe its just me. I wear a lot of flannell.

[atainder]

Simple; My First Warped Tour in 2002. First band I ever saw was Sloth and than Glassjaw. No looking back. I don't consider myself to be a part of any 'scene'... more so just independent and rock music in general.

[Punk_Rockstar]

I was into the pop scene when I was 8 years old. As I got into my teenage years I was looking for something different. The lyrics were the repeative and the beats were the same. Then I saw Green Day's Basketcase video when I was in 6th grade and I was hooked. Billie Joe's lyrics were amazing. I'm still a HUGE Green Day fan but am always looking for other rocks fan as well. But if you wanna know the real truth I really got into rock when I was a little girl listening to oldies in my parents car specifically the Beatles. To this day they are my all time favorite band.

[absolutebriana]

my story is on my "about me" section on my profile.

[chokeychicken]

this is a great thread.

even though it was my idea and i've recieved no credit lol

some good stories on here, very entertaining and interesting

i love threads like these. they give me hope that everybody that posts on AP.net is not an ignorant asshole, but a real music fan.

and here is your credit! :dance:

DKM are sweet. I dig flogging molly as well. I could never really get into the ataris though.

flogging molly is one of the most fun bands ive ever seen live

my story is on my "about me" section on my profile.

briana banks posts on AP.net?!

well, i rly lyked panic! @ teh disco, so i started listening 2 otha bands lyke taht and 1 day i wuz serching on google and i found tihs website and now everyone1 at my skool thinks im the most scene person there.

winner!

[chickendude]

The lyrics were the repeative and the beats were the same. Then I saw Green Day's Basketcase video when I was in 6th grade and I was hooked.
Wait...what?

[indexfor...]

i got raped by G.G. Allin

[musicroxmysox]

in 5th grade i started listening to my older brothers and stepsisters music and one of my best friends, nick, liked Linkin Park so that's pretty much what started it for me

[birth_defect]

i was surffing the web looking for tickets for some band tht i like (embarassed to even mention) in my publisher class and this i guess you could say "metal" guy was sitting next to me saw and said there was some local gig at the mohn. he said he'd take me and even though i didn't know him i was curious to find new bands. when we went the bands played music turned out hardcore/emo/screamo. the fusion nearly blew my mind and now i go to local gigs whenever i can. its a great way to discover awesome bands and meet unforgetable ppl. children of pop step away from mainstream and give your ears a listen.

[mybreakingpoint]

i liked country, jazz, and oldies up until middle school haha

true story :-D

i'm not ashamed to admit it lol

i still enjoy some country-tented stuff, as well

The Sad Riders, Limbeck, etc.=good shit.

but for the most part, i can't stand country, and i can appreciate and respect and listen to without complaining in other people's cars jazz and oldies lol

[birth_defect]

i liked country, jazz, and oldies up until middle school haha

true story :-D

i'm not ashamed to admit it lol

i still enjoy some country-tented stuff, as well

The Sad Riders, Limbeck, etc.=good shit.

but for the most part, i can't stand country, and i can appreciate and respect and listen to without complaining in other people's cars jazz and oldies lol
ahh i can't stand country my mother is true redneck. i'll give exceptions to garth lol

[mybreakingpoint]

ahh i can't stand country my mother is true redneck. i'll give exceptions to garth lol

hahaha i can't stand country either, relaly

my mom listens to too much too hahah

Cowboy Troy may just be the worst thing in music: Rap + Country = Can you get any worse than that?

[Ilovepoprock]

In fourth grade i heard Drive by Incubus and bought my first CD. After buying make yourself i next bought dookie. Listened to it constantly for about 6 months. Greenday became my favorite band and by 6th grade i had all their CD's. In 6th grade, i went to my first concert, and saw greenday. That was what started it all. I was obsessed with greenday until freshman year, up until i got bored of american idiot after listening constantly for 5 months or so. I should note that up until freshman year i literally listened to almost NOTHING else. Then i went to my first local show.

It was a punk show with hanover saints, red tape, pressure point, street dogs, and whiskey rebbles.


After that i realized there was more to music than pop-punk. Oddly from there i started listening to would be "screamo" stuff. I bought their only chasing safety and let it infold you and loved them.

The summer after freshman year i started to listen to light poppier stuff. I discovered sherwood, and death cab for cutie. Then sophmore year, i started avidly going to local shows and spending lots of time and money on live music. slowly that year my tastes progressed into lighter and generally better music.

In the middle of the year i started listening to brand new, something corporate, and Showbread. Three very different bands. I was absolutely blown away. I would sit in my room and listen to deja entendu and leaving through the window and be astounded.

After that I started to gets lots of shit from nick lopez, this guy i knew from crew. I got into Gatsbys American Dream, Saves The Day, julliana theory, The Rocket Summer.

Then I joined AP and started taking random recs or picking up shit that was hyped like CRAZY. Since then it's like my eyes have been opened and everyday i've been trying to find and discover more music.

[SlightlyStoopid]

i listened to music cause its good, then some label society dragged me by my feet as i screamed into the pit of stereotypical hypocrites

true story

[charly horse]

BLACK!


label society.


I'm sure this has nothing to do with your post, but thats what it made me think of, and then remember how much I actually despise them. And people who wear their tshirts because they think it has to do with some black label and it's society.

[chickendude]

Oddly from there i started listening to would be "screamo" stuff. I bought their only chasing safety and let it infold you and loved them.

Sorry, but not screamo; still more of a pop-punk sound.

[mybreakingpoint]

i love threads like these. they give me hope that everybody that posts on AP.net is not an ignorant asshole, but a real music fan.

and here is your credit! :dance:



exactly. there are some really good stories in here. i really do find it interesting how everyone found there way into this scene, and in turn, onto this site.

[atainder]

5th grade: A Perfect Circle, Incubus, and Butthole Surfers.
6th grade: Still A Perfect Circle, Incubus, now add Blink 182 and...(cough)sugar ray...i'm ashamed.
7th grade: had a Korn stage...still Incubus & APC...and even had a little hip hop bullshit stage.
8th grade: found Our Lady Peace, Weezer, The Ataris, NFG, still Incubus & APC, and System of a Down...yea, i know..
9th grade: Saw my first show...Sloth...it was wild..than saw Glassjaw, The Used, Less Than Jake and I was reborn.
10th grade: Started listening to Coheed, Alexisonfire and saw My Chemical Romance live at Warped(who will be cool no matter how big they get) Senses Fail, Rufio, Taking Back Sunday, From First to Last
11th grade: Reggie and the Full Effect found me, Fear Before the March of Flames, Circa Survive, Showbread, UnderOATH and so on... starting listening to a lot of southern rock like He Is Legend.
12th grade: Found Gatsbys, mewithoutYou, Paulson, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, and a lot of Christian rock even though...I'm not a Christian.

FRESHMAN YEAR: Now i'm still listening to Gatsbys a lot, TREOS, Nightmare of You and less grindcore/metal than I used to.

[Clarett'sGreyGoose]

8th grade- Blink 182, At The Drive In, MXPX
9th grade- Saves The Day, MXPX, Jimmy Eat World
10th Grade- Hot Rod Circuit, Alkaline Trio, Coheed And Cambria, My Chemical Romance
11th Grade- Glassjaw, Face To Face, HRC, Alkaline Trio, Receiving End Of Sirens, Yellowcard
12th Grade- Radiohead

Last 2 years- Good stuff.

I was really ahead of my time for the people I hung out with

7th grade - blink-182 & Good Charlotte (cause they were on MTV) Korn, Limp Bizkit (everyone liked them then), Slipknot, Mudvayne, Papa Roach, etc. all of that SHIT.

this summer I went to Warped 2001. I loved everything there. The atmosphere, music, etc.

8th grade- Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, Bouncing Souls, Face to Face, Alkaline Trio, the Movielife were probably my top 5 (6)

9th grade - pretty much the same stuff, got into some AFI, some ska bands, some of the "street punk", old-school punk, etc. This is when I got into Thrice, and I believe Brand New's Deja Entendu dropped between 9th and 10th grade....

10th grade- Thrice and the Alkaline Trio were by far my favorite bands then The Movielife (broke up in October of 10th grade, I was devastated), Brand New and the Bouncing Souls

Near the end of 10th grade, I started to grow out of my hardcore punkrawker dressing stage, but still stayed with the music.

11th grade- Thrice, Brand New, FOB, Cursive and Death Cab For Cutie, top 5 for sure.

12th grade- Still Thrice (Vhiessu, of course), as well as Death Cab, Jack's Mannequin, a renewed interest in Midtown, and lots of classic rock.

Now: Thrice, Jack's Mannequin, The Receiving End of Sirens, Punchline, O.A.R. (summer time jams) and a soft spot for Quietdrive and Hit the Lights.

I've been all over the map man, from KoRn to Slipknot to Dead Kennedys to Death Cab, you name it, I've probably liked it at some point in time (shit, I even don't mind SOME country)

[Ilovepoprock]

Sorry, but not screamo; still more of a pop-punk sound.

good thing i put screamo in quotes to indicate that's what i thought it was at the time, isn't it?

[Steps&Numbers]

I got really into Weezer and Nirvana near the end of 6th grade. For my 13th birthday I ended up getting Through Being Cool by Saves the Day and bought Something to Write Home About with a giftcard. Thus began my love affair.

[iihungrieii]

i was flipping through my tv and i saw the starting line video on mtv2. i listened to a little here and there but that song is what got me.

[murphy77]

Warped Tour 2002 comp changed my music taste

[mybreakingpoint]

i liked music.

and then i liked better music.

the end.

[chokeychicken]

i liked music.

and then i liked better music.

the end.

:clap:

[mybreakingpoint]

:clap:

the clap!

lol

that's what i always think of when i see that smiley hahahahhaa

[chokeychicken]

the clap!

lol

that's what i always think of when i see that smiley hahahahhaa

i dont think i would enjoy admitting that an internet message board smiley face made me think of a sexually transmitted disease :giveup:

[mybreakingpoint]

i dont think i would enjoy admitting that an internet message board smiley face made me think of a sexually transmitted disease :giveup:

:shrug: hahaha i think it's funny

[chokeychicken]

:shrug: hahaha i think it's funny

your face is funny.

zing!

[mybreakingpoint]

your face is funny.

zing!

:-(

[Inthenickoftime]

The Classic Blink 182 Story:

Started listening to Blink.
Got a drum set.
Joined a band.

[mybreakingpoint]

^ heh that's the way it was for a lot of my friends.

[alex6243]

i used to listen to the stuff that was on the radio but one day i heard, i cant remember who from, about this band call fall out boy who had just released an album (TTTYG) that was really cool. I finally found a store that had it and absolutely loved it and thats the end of that.

[then she said]

i listened to eve 6 and everclear all through elementary school, then went through the cliche rap/hip-hop phase. in 8th grade i was really intrigued by the small kids sitting on the floor of the hallways during lunch who didn't brush their hair or shower all the time or wear abercrombie, and i bummed a cigarette off one of them wearing a kurt cobain t-shirt. being the naive middle-schooler i was, i asked who was on their shirt, leading to my 2-year obsession with nirvana, which branched into classic rock when i accidentally downloaded bowie's 'man who sold the world' instead of kurt's. i kind of travelled through the decades of music... clapton, zeppelin to tears for fears to 80's punk to pearl jam and nirvana to early ska and now just whatever. my CD collection is incredibly diverse, and it's all thanks to one skipped soccer practice when i didn't have my pack on me. although my taste for bands like thrice came from interning at a college radio station in 9th grade and hearing 'artist in the ambulance.' then i went out and bought one of those mix CD's with thrice a bunch of other bands on it.

[laryssa]

Um, I grew up listening to classic rock and a local rock station, so that's where I got my first tastes from. From the radio I heard Blink 182, Weezer, Nirvana, NFG..
Then I got the internet with a faster connection, met some internet peepz (at this time I was paranoid and only a few didn't totally creep me out, haha)/local music site (that's still in existance today), had Napster and the real obsession began. This is when I discovered Deftones, then Glassjaw, which led to Finch who became a favourite band of mine for a LONG time.

It was weird being pretty young and going to local shows, though. I was hanging out with kids at least three to five years older than me, haha. The scene here at that time was a bunch of punk rock so I went through a phase of Rancid, Dead Kennedys, Dropkick, too.

[mybreakingpoint]

i listened to eve 6 and everclear all through elementary school, then went through the cliche rap/hip-hop phase. in 8th grade i was really intrigued by the small kids sitting on the floor of the hallways during lunch who didn't brush their hair or shower all the time or wear abercrombie, and i bummed a cigarette off one of them wearing a kurt cobain t-shirt. being the naive middle-schooler i was, i asked who was on their shirt, leading to my 2-year obsession with nirvana, which branched into classic rock when i accidentally downloaded bowie's 'man who sold the world' instead of kurt's. i kind of travelled through the decades of music... clapton, zeppelin to tears for fears to 80's punk to pearl jam and nirvana to early ska and now just whatever. my CD collection is incredibly diverse, and it's all thanks to one skipped soccer practice when i didn't have my pack on me. although my taste for bands like thrice came from interning at a college radio station in 9th grade and hearing 'artist in the ambulance.' then i went out and bought one of those mix CD's with thrice a bunch of other bands on it.

THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU TOUCH MY GIRL

COME AROUND, I'LL LET YOU FEEL THE BURN!

[lyrics&notes]

For me it was just basically 9th grade and people thrusting music on me. Most of my friends were into things like Blink 182, Dashboard, Linkin Park, stuff like that. Went from there.

[laryssa]

THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU TOUCH MY GIRL

COME AROUND, I'LL LET YOU FEEL THE BURN!

LOLOL my boyfriend at the time listened to that song constantly on repeat. ***.

[theESCO]

I got a skateboard for my 9th birthday, all down hill from there.

[jenno]

Up until 8th grade I had been a total Whitesnake, Y&T, The Scorpions, The Who, etc etc kid. I was the child all the parents loved to talk to; because I knew about "their" music scene. I was a daddy's girl growing up, so I wanted to be just like him, and go to all the concerts he had gone to as a teenager.
Thanksgiving 03' my cousin forced me to listen to Saosin's Translating The Name EP.
And I've only evolved from there.

[then she said]

i got raped by G.G. Allin

i can relate.

[make_this_hurt]

I was shanghaied.

[katbledtodeath]

I borrowed a lot of CDs from my sister. Funeral For A Friend and Finch were pretty influential I think. Then i got into DC and spent an awful lot of time on the internet and just picked it up from there on I guess.

Incidently, my sister hates every single one of these bands now.

[MADSTA]

Grade 5 : Blink 182 and Sum 41
Grade 6 : Avril Lavigne and Sum 41
Grade 7 : Sum 41, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne
Grade 8 : My Chemical Romance, The Used, Fall Out Boy
Grade 9 : From First To Last, Blink 182, Alexisonfire, Taking Back Sunday, The Matches, Escape The Fate

And here I am now.

[mybreakingpoint]

Grade 5 : Blink 182 and Sum 41
Grade 6 : Avril Lavigne and Sum 41
Grade 7 : Sum 41, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne
Grade 8 : My Chemical Romance, The Used, Fall Out Boy
Grade 9 : From First To Last, Blink 182, Alexisonfire, Taking Back Sunday, The Matches, Escape The Fate

And here I am now.

is whoever is on your avatar a dude or a chick?

sorry if i sound like a dick but, i honestly can't tell hahaha

[piaffeprncess98]

I went to a Lifehouse concert as my first rock concert and somehow got started on Good Charlotte (I think I saw a video on MTV) and NFG, saw them at an arena tour, and then found out about this site. I went to Warped in 2003 and found out about alot of bands. Some of the first bands I saw and heard about on this site were Spitalfield, Watashi Wa and NFG. Good times.

[goodnote]

my dad took me to a jimmy eat world show in I think the fourth grade. and then, in the fifth I discovered sum 41, then I found this girl who threw matchbook romance at me.

[chronomic]

getting dragged to a knockout show and falling completely in love. i believe 504 and fob played that day too.

[suckersdream]

started with a love for AFI three years ago.

[This_Is_The_End]

When i was a junior in high school (i'm now a senior) my friend who i haven't seen since 8th grade was in my lunch. me and him were always best friends, so we sat together at our table. he we just constantly influencing me to go to shows and to listen to all different types of music. so i went to go see the atlantic (friends band from south jersey) and i fell in love with going to shows ... they covered cute without the e ... even tho i wasn't into that kind of music when TAYF came out... i still knew the song. From that moment on I knew that this was going to be a big part of my life