Who was the first "punk" band to get you into the music you listen to now?

[Clarett'sGreyGoose]

I'm bored, and curious.

I'm going to be completely honest and say that in 6th grade(2000) when Blink showed up on MTV, i liked the music and got their CD(enema), and then decided to see what else they put out, and got Dude Ranch and Cheshire Cat. Then I got into Green Day from "Good Riddance" and checked their shit out. i kept changing shit around, being an MTV whore, and then for some reason went to Warped 2001 and loved the Bouncing Souls and the Dropkick Murphys sets and have been in love ever since.

Now it's your turn. and don't lie and pretend that you never liked Blink or Green Day....they've brought so many kids to the scene, but whatever.

Discuss.

[kevin]

It really wasn't just one band, more like a combination. The bands were Blink 182, Saves The Day and Weezer. I started listening to a lot of them and eventuall discovered The Ataris, The Vandals, Fenix TX, Bad Religion, etc.

I use to really be into rap, then basically quit listening to music altogether. I was really big into sports at the time and didn't have much appreciation for music anymore. A few years later I got back into Classical Rock and Rap, then eventually into this.

Music is my life now, so there is no way I will quit listening to music ever again.

[steverocks33]

blink. i dont listen to them enough anymore

[SnowintheSummer]

well, when i was a little girl i always enjoyed blink and rock bands in style such as american hi-fi, but i didnt like the majority of mainstream music. i knew vaguely that there must be more music out there that i would like but i had no idea how to go about finding it, and didnt try to find out. instead i just bought the cds of various rock bands i heard on my local pop statino. then, when i was about 11 my friend introduced me to smaller bands, mostly the drive thru bands and some others, and showed me kazaa, and it took off from then

[theused_FSF]

old school blink, i bought chesire cat

[NFGFAN1112]

started listening to blink in 1998 then found out about bands like new found glory and afi then i started movin on to other bands

[kevin]

You have been into punk for five years and still haven't made it past New Found Glory. I'm really sorry.

[NFGFAN1112]

o well

[Clarett'sGreyGoose]

Originally posted by kevin
You have been into punk for five years and still haven't made it past New Found Glory. I'm really sorry.

me too. May God have mercy on your pathetic soul.

[TSLFINCH1227]

blink-182 but dead kennedys,misfits, and nofx were other bands that got me into older punk

[Greg]

something like

Blink 182 --->The Ataris---> Sum 41 --->Green Day---- who knows.....

[fezwik80]

hot water music and the misfits

[hot damn!]

ive always liked rock....listened to the latter years of hair metal bands when i was 8....moved on to nirvana and the whole grunge scene. then came across green day right around when they released dookie. got into the offspring, rancid and some mighty mighty bosstones.......progressed from there into bouncing souls, DKM, face to face, afi.

lately ive been more into blood brothers, desaparecidos, kols, minus the bear and cursive.

[MapleLeaf]

my friend bought be a copy of green day's kerplunk when i was eleven. after that i listened to a lot of pop punk shit and when enough people old me that stuff sucked i tried what they suggested and got into more of whati listen to now.

[fezwik80]

actually i was born with a mohawk and a ramones shirt on and black stomper boots because im just that fucking hardcore

[kevin]

Originally posted by enfilade
lately ive been more into blood brothers, desaparecidos, kols, minus the bear and cursive.

You're a good man, Bill.

[Hyperlite]

the first 'punk' i listened to was green day - dookie, but i never went looking for other bands until a few years later.

[Ronin]

When I was a little kid, I listened to Bon Jovi and Metallica alot.

Disparate taste huh?

Then I was at a party when I was in grade 8, and someone had a mixed tape with some Bad Religion and Pennywise.

Fast forward seven or eight years, and here we are.

I still love Bad Religion though.

[kevin]

Same here Colin. I own like six Bad Religion albums and love each one. They were probably my first favorite punk band.

[wadejunkie]

green day>blink>nfg

slowly started listening to bands i read about at AP.

now im into everything from rap to punk to indie to country to classic rock

[**michelleV**]

BLINK-182 , green day, nfg. oh yeah and the offspring
i still like blink

[proeuthanasia]

i grew up with 90's rock and alternative like oasis, bush, etc. (ahh the good old stuff). i've been a fan of green day since i knew what music even was. call them what you want, but they'll always have a special place in my heart. i never really thought of music in categories, genres, though. hell, i didn't know there even was such a thing as punk till about 6 years ago. anyway, in 6th grade i got hold of a blink cd..but that didn't last long. next i got into grunge bands like nirvana and smashing pumpkins...i'd grown up with them too but they'd never meant so much to me as they did right then. then, couple years ago, i bummed some cd off one of my friends. i had tired of the same old crap and was ready for something new. popped it in the cd player and pop-punk shit bands like simple plan, starting line, new found glory, and the ataris filled my ears. fell in love. bought starting line's 'say it like you mean it' couple days later. then nfg's first release 'nothing gold can stay'. and yes, i'm indescribably ashamed to say, i even purchased a good charlotte cd. now, years later and looking back, i have no idea what i ever saw in the stuff...but it's how i got started so i guess i shouldn't be anything but thankful. somehow, though, that just doesn't satisfy me. something i'd just like to say before i end this: to hell with drive thru records and any other label that promotes the pollution of good old, real punk music. end of story.

[Ronin]

Originally posted by kevin
Same here Colin. I own like six Bad Religion albums and love each one. They were probably my first favorite punk band.

Apparently they're the precursor to good musical taste.

I think it's

intelligence + solid lyrics + emotion = solid band

learn that equation and you're set for life

[kevin]

I am not a fan of Drive Thru Records, but they are in no way promoting the pollution of punk rock.

[wadejunkie]

man i cant ever really get into bad religion

[OkayIBeliveYou]

i always listened to like pop and rap b/c i thought i was "cool" if i listened to rap. i always had a bit of an ear for blink 182/american hi-fi, then later sum41.

then i stopped listening to rap alltogether and went on my weezer/dashboard stage. then for some reason i went from that to bands like new found glory/starting line. I still listen to nfg and starting line, but ive stretched out to brand new, thrice, used, taking back sunday type stuff.

i still dont know how i listened to rap for so long:rolleyes:

[kevin]

Rap is really good if you are listening to the right stuff.

[drivthru182]

it all started about 5 years ago, i was hanging out with a bunch of my friends and one said something about blink 182, i bought enema and it was amazing. from there i got into green day to good charlotte to new found glory to midtown to saves the day to dashboard to taking back sunday to where i am today.

[steverocks33]

Originally posted by wadejunkie
man i cant ever really get into bad religion
im sorry. your missing alot.

so i started listening to blink really hardcore. then i heard some nfg and fenix tx. eventually i bought some nofx, pennywise, mxpx, descendents, etc. mainly because id heard blink talk about them. so ya, im here 100% because of blink.

[OkayIBeliveYou]

Originally posted by kevin
Rap is really good if you are listening to the right stuff.

your probally right. i was listening to nelly and ja rule type stuff:o which is not good.

[FallingOut]

It was Blink in 9th grade I believe. Went to their concert, made me want to go to more concerts. Saw NFG open a year later. And so on. I still like both of them. And whoever said you didnt get past NFG is stupid. Its not like youre suppose to realize they were bad. I still think they are good. Its just a matter of opinion.

[HIPVTENTSL]

in 6th grade i started listening to blink, enema of course..then i got chesire and dude and ive been listening to them everysince

but i am ashamed to say that in that same time period i started listening to good charlotte, how naive i was

[**michelleV**]

looks like blink-182 started it all for most of us!

[FishAlotNBePunk]

pennywise, anti-flag, and shortly after....nofx.

[sigh]

blink

[Absolute Mest]

I started out with Green Day when i was 6 and never listened to any other bands until Blink 4 years ago.

[BuriedAlive]

green day. i started listening to them whenever i heard good riddance (time of your life) on the radio and saw the video on mtv.

[the_champ_is_here]

Green day's dookie. Then I was really into rap for a few years then I heard Nofx's Linoleum, which got me into Bad Religion and NUFAN, which each progressed me in two seperate directions.

[papathomas]

i never got into punk

[ooklahthepunk]

i remember liking dookie when it first came out, but i didn't get in to the "alternative" scene until i saw no doubt on mtv and bought tragic kingdom. so i changed from the hip-hop radio station to the alternative one, and that's when i heard blink's dammit ::like, oh my gawd-- that is so, like, 8th grade!!:: i was COMPLETELY sold. of course the fact that i was in love with mark when i saw him on loveline with purple hair eased the transition. sublime, the ataris, saves the day, home grown, nfg... i loved it all.

[Frodo]

blink 182 and green day. i still love them both.

[SonnyPunk]

I was 12 when Dookie came out...that sparked an interest in punk music. Before that I listened to mainstream crap like everyone else. But when I heard this music I knew my passion would lie elsewhere...then in 1996 I heard MxPx for the first time and they completely changed the way I felt about music...from Pokinatcha to Teenage politics and on I was hooked...the rest is history.

[BrandNewDream]

when green day got popular when i was in like 4th grade, i loved them...they easily became one of my favorite bands...then i was more into bands like the smashing pumpkins in like 6th grade, from there it went into bands like korn and limp bizkit (i know, i feel sorry for myself too), unti about sophomore year when i got into NFG, dashboard, etc, which got me to where i am now, which is really into the scene. My main interest switched, you could say, but i always loved a few punks bands along the way...whether it be green day, blink, NFG, whoever, I never totally abandoned the music...I guess that's why I enjoy it so much now...I always did, in a way.

[BrandNewDream]

Originally posted by BrandNewDream
when green day got popular when i was in like 4th grade, i loved them...they easily became one of my favorite bands...then i was more into bands like the smashing pumpkins in like 6th grade, from there it went into bands like korn and limp bizkit (i know, i feel sorry for myself too), unti about sophomore year when i got into NFG, dashboard, etc, which got me to where i am now, which is really into the scene. My main interest switched, you could say, but i always loved a few punks bands along the way...whether it be green day, blink, NFG, sublime, no doubt, whoever, I never totally abandoned the music...I might've had other styles as my "favorite" at a time, but I always enjoyed punk...I guess that's why I enjoy it so much now...I always did, in a way.

I don't know why this posted twice?!

[AFittingLie]

I don't know. Never really became much of a punk fan really. I'd say Glassjaw and At The Drive-In got me into hardcore though.

[unsung_zero02]

sum 41

[StartingLine182]

Startied listening to Blink when Enema came out and loved it so I got into Dude Ranch and Chesire Cat. Then I saw them with NFG and liked them. Then for a year I really only listened to those 2 bands and then about a year ago I just started hearing all these new bands and now I like to listen all day.

[oc_dodo]

i started listening to green day when they first came out........but i really got into punk when i started to listen to the dead kennedys, mistfits, and crass. i love these bands......they take me back to the old days.

[ms y o o n]

jerry i got into blink at the same time as you.. i told you
when i was in gr 8 (2000)
uhm but before that it was sick i liked whatever was on radio

then i got enema, then just randomly got into bands like gc, lit, eve 6, green day.. and all that.
then i kind of stopped caring and just listened to wahtever cds i had

then last summer i got into good charlotte like woah.
kick me.. but i was a teenie pretty much! ergg :o its sad
anyways then i found out bands from people, websites..yea.. and the forum! heh

[pUnKrOcKgIrL917]

i owe it all to my cousin. if it wasn't for her, i would be a pop-loving little dipshit. when i was about 4 she fell in love with guns n roses and she made me listen to it and love it. then, she became devoted to aerosmith when i was about 6. i loved, and still love, aerosmith. there is no question that they're the best band ever. then she got into nirvana, bush, toadies, white zombie, and then later foo fighters, marilyn manson, green day...and she trained me to love it all. and then i didn't see her for a long time, and i ended up listening to my friends' music, i.e. rap, pop.....eeww. and then blink hit mtv and i remembered what music like that felt like. so i picked up enema. then i went back into pop and rap. then my cousin resurfaced again, with weezer, afi, and ours. and then i joined this site and learned about a lot of bands from you guys, so thanks a lot.

these days it's the strating line, brand new, yellocard, s.t.u.n., midtown, coheed and cambria, the used, etc.

[Throwback]

I owe my introduction to Relient K and New Found Glory. I loved Nothing Gold Can Stay and Rk's self-titled and have been hooked since.

[brandnewfan9]

Originally posted by PlaysWithFire
I'm bored, and curious.

I'm going to be completely honest and say that in 6th grade(2000) when Blink showed up on MTV, i liked the music and got their CD(enema), and then decided to see what else they put out, and got Dude Ranch and Cheshire Cat. Then I got into Green Day from "Good Riddance" and checked their shit out.
Discuss.

that was exactly like me only i was in second grade. (im young)

[alpha21]

Green Day and Offspring - but was never a huge fan.
NOFX - like alot!
Blink - '97 hooked

[Jim Morgan]

Greenday owned mtv when i was growing up.... but i thought it was rock same with offspring

till 6th grade, i discovered blink 182

then in 7th, nfg came around for me,

ive been hooked ever since, getting into midtown, the ataris, the rest of the dtr roster and other bands from that

[BleedingMe]

I've listened to The Ramones since I was in the womb. My mom loved them. I remember always listening to The Ramones, The Misfits, The Damned, Iron Maiden, Bouncing Souls, etc. I got really into Nirvana, I was like in first grade. I've been into punk/rock music for as long as I can remember.

[Frodo]

Originally posted by coheed&cambria
blink 182 and green day. i still love them both.

oh yeah and offspring and 3rd eye blind

[BrandNewRock05]

Blink, because of the potty mouth humor. I thought they were hilarious after seeing Josie so I bought Dude Ranch. After hearing that I started listening to Green Day and stuff like that..., sorta the pop punk crap. But then Sum 41 came along and I decided to jump off of a bridge into a watery grave because the music world was full of crap...but then I got a taste of a little thing called Jimmy Eat World...and that got me hooked on Brand New.

[blaarg]

the first 'punk' cd i bought was smash from the offspring, and i still listen to it

[asubtledaggerx]

In grade 6 I got into Blink, Offspring, Green Day but then from grade 8 to the beginning of grade 10 I was into only rap/r&b. And then I listened to The Ataris and I stopped listening to rap.

[NickyDaewoo]

I would have to say that the first group that got me turned on to the punk scene would be NFG-From the Screen to the Stereo.

[richter915]

it was blink, back in 97...my friend put dude ranch on and blasted "pathetic" since then i've been a fan of punk.

[halfpricepizza]

I first got into "The Colour and The Shape" by Foo Fighters and into "Sparkle and Fade" and "So much For the Afterglow". Then a counselor at a camp I was at played Slowly Going the Way by MxPx and I was hooked. Went and bought that and I saw Life in General so I bought that too. And I pretty much took it from there.

[Oxbig1106]

green day in like 95 - then blink in 2000 - then i found thissite when it was a blink site - then when it changed i found tons more bands

[Oxbig1106]

green day in like 95 - then blink in 1999 - then i found thissite when it was a blink site - then when it changed i found tons more bands

[torch]

I listened to blink alot in junior high, and then i listened to fenix tx. Then MXPX, and that's when my musical taste put on the afterburners.

[ThriceOwnsYou]

AFI

[KiSSDONTKiLL624]

Sum 41 and MxPx got me into the music im into know. Oh yea Green Day too.

[Korvans]

3rd grade.....Green Day - Dookie

[sococraze03]

the two bands that got me into punk rock are still my current two favorite bands, no they arent classics or old school, but they are however you may accept it, something corporate and saves the day

[In Your Eyes]

When i first started getting into music i loved greenday more than ever, and then i did like sum41 and Lit at one time.

[laura smells]

The Offspring in 1998 i think it was, when "pretty fly for a white guy" first came out. That was when i was in year 7, then at the start of year 8 i heard blink 182- yes it was "all the small things" but i quickly went back and bought all other albums- dude ranch clearly is the best. then i downloaded some of the cover songs by new found glory, then downloaded some other songs they have sung, bought all the albums and then went into fenix tx. through fenix tx i found this site, and since then nothings held me back.

and thats my life story.

i'm seeing new found glory next weekend...TWICE!!!!!

[punk_drummer]

the offspring's 'pretty fly for a white guy' when i was really small and then my dad took me to a greenday gig when i got older...awsome

[DaveySxe]

AFI

[MaybeOneDay]

Definitely Blink, I owe it all to them. My cousin who used to live in California somewhere hooked me up with a copy of Flyswatter (yes, a real copy) way back in the day when Blink first released it. Even though the recording and quality is terrible, I still loved it to death. So from then on, as the blink releases came out, I got them all. And then I found this site back when it was a blink site, around 4 years ago I think and was hooked on the site. Then jason converted it over to ap.net, where I learnt about tons and tons of more bands. I still love blink to death, always will, but my musical tastes have expanded into tons of genres making me listen to hundreds of awesome bands. Mainly all in the punk, hardcore, pop-punk and ska genres. Way back I saw Blink play with Fenix Tx and Bad Religion in Toronto and that basically hot me hooked on those two bands as well. And then I kept growing and growing into hundreds of bands. And thats basically the story of how I got to what I listen to today.

If anyone is wondering, some of my favourite bands are (these are just a few, not even close to all): Blink, green day, senses fail, from autumn to ashes, rise against, nofx, the bouncing souls, anti flag, less than jake, catch 22, anberlin, 504 plan, afi, billy talent, alkaline trio, autopilot off, bodyjar, brand new, cauterize, jersey, coheed and cambria, fall out boy, far from heroes, cursive, fm static, funeral for a friend, graveltrap, halifax, justin sane (he put out an amazing solo album), pennywise, lucky boys confusion, fenix tx, mae, matchbook romance, thrice, thursday, alexisonfire, rufio, rage against the machine, summer hero, taking back sunday, the early november, distillers, the living end, thousand foot krutch, the transplants, yellowcard, zebrahead, boys night out, flashlight brown, strike anywhere, rancid, lucky 7, mad caddies, name taken, midtown, mxpx, millencolin, the ataris, third eye blind, wakefield, every time i die, etc etc etc etc.

[punknskakid722]

I HAVE TO SAY BLINK, SUM41, GreenDay, And Weezer probably. Now i don't l isten to any of them anymore, but i started listenin to old blink again, and it sounds soo wierd. Dude ranch is always good though.

[takingbackSVR]

When I was in 6th grade, I wanted to break from the mold, be something different. I was sick of listening to whatever was promoted musically in media (radio, television).

At that time, I was changing dramatically with friends and my style in general.

I picked up Homegrown - "Act Your Age". That shit influenced me to be myself.. That album pretty much molded me to who I am today. Even though that band may not be considered "punk", and although I don't like their style of music now, they pretty much made me..

Now that I have matured, I listen to a WAYY different sound.. I'm really into Cursive, Coheed and Cambria, Converge, Norma Jean, Bright Eyes, American Nightmare, glassJAw, and such.. I'm into a variety of bands..

(p.s., emo is a joke.. :D )

[CornerKid5]

I heard and loved Eve 6, Green Day, and Fenix TX first ... but when I heard Blink in Can't Hardly Wait ... my life was changed forever.

[xforgetdecember]

I was never into music until I met this guy on IRC when I was starting Junior High. He was.. older than me by quite a bit, but still talked to me and stuff. He introduced me to a lot of the old school emo, like Bikini Kill, Fugazi, Jawbreaker, Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, Lincoln, and Current..

And from there I got into a lot of other stuff.

[jgirv17]

i'm about the same as everyone else...i started off with blink and greenday. then, like, i had a falling off from punk...really just sick of a lot of things i heard. then, around 9th grade or so, i started to listen to Catch 22 and stuff....which got me back into it.

im still more of an "alternative hip hop" fan (like jurassic 5, blackalicious, etc) than punk anymore, but its definitely gotten much more play in my life than it had....especially ska.

[piebaldkid42]

i used to go over to my friends house and his brother used to listen to the offspring, fenix tx, and rage against the machine constanly, i dont really like the offspring much but fenix tx and rage were what broke me into something different, though age isnt punk. the first cd i bought after that was NFG and i just loved them so much, now of course i didnt really listen to them but still it was like my first love of punk so i still respect it, and i listen to rage still constantly

[mirtizzle]

i listened to rap when i was really young. i still get a kick out of that. i was in 4th grade and i thought snoop dogg was the greatest thing in the world. and i'm proud to say snoop dogg was my first concert ever. (i wasn't in 4th grade though.)
middle school, that's when i started getting into the whole alt. rock thing.. i worshipped the smashing pumpkins, soundgarden, alanis morrisette, foo fighters, oasis, jane's addiction... and i listened to stuff like sheryl crow, no doubt, greenday, fiona apple..
then in high school, my friend was listening to sugarcult... and i really liked the cd.. so that was the transition point into the whole "punk" kit. and then i got into finch, taking back sunday, brand new.. started listening to dashboard... bright eyes... now it's onto cursive, desaparecidos, the good life, son ambulance.. i'm a saddle creek whore.
i still listen to everything i did listen to and new stuff that comes out. i'm not going to lie and say i don't listen to the radio. there's a lot of good stuff that gets put out there.

[Evo]

hmm i think it was green day,nofx and weezer

[WRV12]

DEFINITELY GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!

Still cant get enough of them

[DriveThruRawker]

blink,nfg,green day

[depthsofdreams]

I liked No Doubt. I started listening to crappy Stroke9. Then I discovered a New Found Glory because I thought their music was similar. How little did I know. It progressed to the Ataris and Weezer. Through NFG I discovered Drive-Thru. I still love NFG and the Ataris a lot. My first real "show" was NFG.

[Milonater]

Ghoti Hook, an old band from tooth and nail records. I heard their CD from my cousin at camp and instantly fell in love.

[decisionpending]

blink and the living end back in '97/'98 was the start and then unwritten law's self titled album was the bomb in '99 and also millencolin with pennybridge in '00, chuck in some one dollar short and admittedly good charlotte's 'little things' and it all exploded since then. thats not to say other music bad... gimme some delta goodrem any day of the week!

[Trainsaw]

Blink, right before they released dude ranch...no cd has topped it ever since

[steveo1022]

taking back sunday.

[steveo1022]

i know they rnt punk but thats the only thing that got me into this music

[In Your Eyes]

greenday and blink

[em0]

blink-182 - dude ranch, my older brother bought it the day it came out. i had a listen and i was hooked.

[EastCoastPunk]

definitely blink and NFG. still like both of them a lot.

[punklet2101]

Originally posted by steverocks33
blink. i dont listen to them enough anymore

yeah, same .. old school blink.

[LessThanJade]

green day, blink, ataris

[LiedMyFaceOff]

ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES!!!

and as soon as "dude ranch" by blink, was out, i was all over punk like a fat kid on a smartie.

[sdsufreak182]

blink 182 was my first punk rock show in 1997 with LTJ, what can i say, ive been a huge fan ever since

[angie710]

Wow... I grew up listening to alot of 80's hair metal bands, then...My sister was into the Sex Pistols and The Ramones, so when I was like 10, I had that in my cassette player instead of like, New Kids On The Block... Ha Ha...I switched off for a while..Id say about 2-3 years listening to heavy hip hop and reggea, primarily when I interned at a hip hop station... I always had a soft spot for rock.. Like I started out with Blind Melon, 311, Sublime...Nirvana, then slowly progressed to Green Day, Offspring and Weezer... Im a softy for the old school..So Im going w/ The Ramones, Bad Religion and The Sex Pistols....

[JoeShow]

Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition circa 1996

and the Ramones cause i always had a some Ramones tapes, Rock and Roll High School was my favorite movie growing up

[13th hour]

Green Day, Blink, and when I was younger, my aunt married this dude who was 100% into the clash. I remember I was listening to RATM and he heard it and said,"Im gonna play some good stuff for you." and he put on London Calling by the Clash. I remember I was blown away. This was like in 8th grade I think, and I couldnt believe it. Ive been slowly and slowly going more and more underground since. Also, the first time I heard Op. Ivy, I knew there was something special about this kind of music.

My 400th post!!!

[punk rock angel]

my first true love...greendAy <3 i fell in love w/them in 6th grade.
shortly after i discovered blink. now even though i like more of the hardcore punk such as the casualties or rancid im still way into blink and greenday :)

[Poor Excuse]

bon jovi

[Glory Fades]

Saves the day, NFG, Blink, Fenix TX, how could I not listen to punk?! c'mon

[takingbackrufio]

Blink 182 was my first ever liked punk band. Shortly after, Sum 41 (Oh Canada!). This was too long ago to remember, about 2000 or before. Grade 6 or somethin, so about 4 years ago. Now I have developed into about a hundred bands. Or, maybe a bit less.

[Lueda Alia]

Blink 182.

[mikeduin620]

Blink, absolutely. I got into them from more mainstream stuff on the radio, like Foo Fighters and Bush and stuff, and then after Blink came NFG and all the drive thru bands and the Ataris and the like.....and most of it i still listen to today.

[boy bleeds]

im going to be an echo. blink started it fer me. bak with the buddha cd. that was awhile bak. but i dont listen to blink mutch anymore. theyre catchy. obviously. now im into brand new, tbs, a3, onelinedrawing, blah blah blah.

[punkpixie]

Blink. I still love em even now, plus loads of other stuff, brand new, tbs, poison the well..........

[Unopened Letter]

greenday...i got dookie from this guy and i fell in love with it.....

[Chalie22]

Playing a game called Top Skater back in 99 I discovered a band known as Pennywise! That lead me to Epitaph and many other punk bands along the way.

[worldstheory]

New Found Glory > The Ataris > MxPx > Finch > Something Corporate > Dashboard Confessional > Saves the Day

Here's my story:

From grade school up through middle school, I didn't listen to any music. I didn't listen to the radio, I never had MTV, I never bought CDs (or tapes... at the time there wasn't a CD player in my whole entire house)

When I was in ninth grade I started getting into mainstream music. Don't ask me why. I guess I thought I would be seen as "cool" if I could tell Nelly from NSYNC. I never actually owned any of these CDs, but I would listen to the radio in the car, and I would downloaded top 40 songs. I listened to Shaggy, I listened to Christina Aguilera, and I pretended to enjoy it. But I was always struck by how impersonal the lyrics were. I couldn't relate to any of it. All of it was like "bitches and hos and bling-bling"... whatever. At that time, I only had a vague familiarity with "punk". I had heard Blink and American Hi-Fi on the radio, and had enjoyed them somewhat, but never cared enough to get into them. I wouldn't have even known to call them punk.

When I was in 10th grade I had a friend who was into punk. I started to recognize band names from T-shirts that he would wear, such as Saves the Day, New Found Glory, NOFX, MxPx, and so forth. But I never heard any of it.

He and I were in the same World History class, and we were about to take a test, and he got the bright idea that he would read his notes into a microphone on his computer and burn the resulting sound file onto a CD. To make it less suspicious, he included the first five tracks from New Found Glory's self-titled album onto the CD as well, so that just in case the teacher got nosey about what he was listening to, he would just hit the skip button and pretend like he was listening to NFG.

At the end of the day, he was telling me about it, and he was about to throw the CD away, but I took it, brought it home and listened to it, and I fell in love. From the moment I heard the line "The needle on my record player has been wearing thin, this record has been playing since the day you've been with him," it dawned on me that there were actually music artists who feel real emotions and aren't just spouting dribble about escalades and ice around their neck. For the next month or two, that burned CD never left my CD player. I listen to it over and over, even though I had to program it to not play the tracks that contained my friend's sneaky voice reading his notes. Finally when Christmas showed up, I got my parents to get me that album, and I listened to it all day and all night of the whole rest of the winter break. With my Christmas money, I ended up buying The Ataris: Blue Skies, Broken Hearts, Next 12 Exits based on customer reviews from Amazon.com (basically telling me "Customers who bought New Found Glory also bought...!")and MxPx: Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo (another friend lent me his copy, and I listened to it over and over for about a week before buying it myself).

Ever since then, I've got a good selection of bands that I really love, and I listen to music pretty much all the time. It seems strange to remember a time when I didn't listen to any music at all.

Looking back to the time when I listened to mainstream music in an effort to be "cool", it reminds me that at the same time I also spent my money on shirts from Abercrombie and American Eagle and Old Navy, merely because I thought that if I was seen wearing them, I'd be hailed as cool. By finding music that really appeals to ME instead of finding music that appeals to "the in-crowd", it's really changed me as a person. I used to feel really desperate to be popular, and I was the farthest thing from it. Now that I've found the comfortable world of liking what *I* like, I actually AM "popular". Not that I'm part of the in-crowd or anything (I don't want to have anything to do with those jackasses), but I've found that I really am well-loved at my school. When last year, some crap started brewing up, I was surprised to see how many people were on MY side. It really opened my eyes.

You have been into punk for five years and still haven't made it past New Found Glory. I'm really sorry.There it is!! Ever since I first got into this kind of music, I've found that there are people who see hardcore/indie/whatever music as "more punk" than pop-punk or emo. As if it's some kind of progression like you're starting with MxPx and in only a matter of time you'll work your way "up" to Misfits or something. That's a load of crap. Cut it out.

[nards228]

Nobody asked for your life story.

Blink and New Found Glory were probably the two bands that got me going in the right direction.

And I hate all you bastards who used to listen to Good Charlotte and now scream at the top of your lungs at least twelve times a day that GC are sell out pussies who suckle the teat of the MTV generation. You're hypocritical morons, and you should go to hell. You go to hell and you die.



Rennard

[Alex Djaferis]

Originally posted by Milonater
Ghoti Hook, an old band from tooth and nail records. I heard their CD from my cousin at camp and instantly fell in love.

they were awesome

[teaz0r]

screeching weasel

<3 ben weasel.

[Shatter590]

i was gonna say blink until i realised i started with punk back in 1998 when The Offspring had that Pretty Fly for a White Guy song.

So I guess for me it went

"Americana Offspring"> "Ignition Offspring" > Lit > Suicide Machines > Blink > the explosion of 2001, 2002 (aka Rancid, NFG, The Ataris, Midtown etc etc etc)

[Sensesfail187]

offsprings and blink.. havent even heard of punk before and its genre,
but probably nofx/ataris/finch first time i really liked the stuff

[Jack123]

throughout my life my entire family has been into music, my dad has been playing guitar for over 30 years, played in a band, and always wanted me to play guitar. i was never really into music until the 6th grade when i honestly thougt nsync was cool, just bc everyone else at school did. my friend got the blink cd enema of the state and we would jsut listen to adams song, all the small things, and whats my age again. i've always liked blink 182 and had a thing for alterntive punk. when i got the game crazi taxi with my dreamcast they had an offspring song in it and i thought it was really cool, also in tony hawk 1 they was a goldfinger song and i liked it alot too. then in 7th grade i got really into sports and didnt care much for music. in 8th grade my friend introduced me to the world of kazaa/morpheus and told me to download this green day song, and i really liked it. i really started getting into punk music and enjoyed, blink, nfg, green day, jimmy eat world, and other bands. i started to learn bass bc i've always liked the sound of that instument and discovered this site when i was looking for blink buddy icons. it was way before this site was where it is today back in 2001. it intoduced me to a whole world of music and bc of it i found out abut many great bands. so basically i got into this whole scene of music bc of:

blink
video games
ap.net

[kevin]

Weezer

The Blue Album got me out of Rap.

[worldstheory]

Originally posted by Jack123
i was never really into music until the 6th grade when i honestly thougt nsync was cool, just bc everyone else at school did. Dude, nsync WAS cool... at least half the time.