The first time you heard your favorite band, and your impression.

[brwnhawaiin]

My favorite band is Brand New. The first time I heard them was on MTV2, the video was "The quiet things that no one ever knows" and I dismissed them as typical pop-punk that was played out. But then my gf at the time wanted the cd so I went to fye to buy it for her, but first listened to it on those sample headphone things. I was blown away by the intro, and when i heard "sic transit.." that line "up the stairs the station where.." I was sold. I knew nothing of the band, and actually thought for a while there were multiple singers in the band.
The Mars Volta was another one, I HATED them for years, just thought it was noise and commotion. It wasnt until I heard Amputechture that sold me. And then I understood the music, and fell in love with all their stuff.
Muse I loved immediatly when I heard one of their songs on the radio, and love almost everything theyve released.

[TSLROCKS]

First heard The Starting Line on MTV. Best Of Me was ridiculously awesome so I bought the album and loved it immediately but still wasn't my favorite band at the time. Once I heard Based On A True Story for the first time I was sold that they were my favorite band

[JordanLML]

The Dangerous Summer. My band was set to play a show with them, and I had never heard of them, but our drummer thought they were really good. He showed me their myspace and my first impression upon hearing the intro to "The Permanent Rain" was "Is this Angels and Airwaves?" As I listened to that song the whole way through as well as several others, I fell in love and have never turned back.

[bradsonemanband]

the first time i heard Blink 182 was in 97 or 98. i turned on MTV and the "Dammit" video was playing. i immediately fell in love, but at the end of the video, it didn't say who they were or anything so i was stuck with just the main guitar riff playing through my head. i never found out it was Blink 182 until 1999 when i heard "What's My Age Again?" and i went out and bought Enema of the State. i fell in love with that record, listened to it all day every day. and after awhile, i was like, "i should buy their older cds too!" so i bought Dude Ranch, noticed a sticker on the front saying "featuring Dammit (Growing Up)" and so i was like, "could this be THE song that i have been looking for forever? needless to say, it was. and the rest is history...

[ImARealBoy]

I saw Say Anything's music video for "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" right around when ...Is A Real Boy came out. I thought they were really odd, but catchy. I didn't get into them until my friend bought me IDOTG, for Christmas though.

[UnderMyDreams]

The first time I heard blink 182 was probably All The Small Things or songs like that back when I was in middle school. A friend of mine was real into them and always listened to them, but I only listened to a little bit. Then another friend of mine tried to get me to join a band of his and they wanted to cover dammit (We never REALLY had a band haha) and after that I pretty much forgot about them. Then in the beginning of my 11th grade year(3-4 years ago) I started hanging out a lot with a few new friends who listened to pretty much all pop punk music. We started playing music together just for fun, and they gave me all of blink's CDs. At that point they became my favorite band haha

[brwnhawaiin]

I hate pop-punk. But if I was gonna listen to it, it would be Blink-182, or early brand new and TBS

[UnderMyDreams]

I hate pop-punk. But if I was gonna listen to it, it would be Blink-182, or early brand new and TBS

We're not only talking about pop punk, it just ends up that most people here like it i guess

[MADSTA]

The first time I heard Elliott Smith, I wasn't really listening. My dad used to play his self titled record a bunch, and I always remembered him as that swearing whispery guy because of the song Christian Brothers. Then one day, I was actually listening. I heard Alphabet Town and thought, "Wow, I really like this."

[jtsnazzy]

As soon as I heard Dallas Green sing, I felt this uncontrollable urge to sex. And that was it.

[MickShamrock]

Glassjaw. First heard them when I popped Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence into my discman. Was blown away.

[live.]

I fuckin' hated Coldplay (yes they are my favorite band). Every time their video for Yellow came on VH1 I left the room. Then I heard the rest of Parachutes and fell in love.

[Fin.]

Mae - I used to be a member of another music forum and when The Everglow first came the members there all seeemed to love it. I had never heard Mae so I figured I'd give them a listen sometime eventually. I was attending a music festival and there was tent set up selling random CD's and I saw The Everglow for a very reasonable price, so I decided to pick it up. The rest is history.

Anberlin - I first heard them on a christian radio station when they released their first album. The song was "Change The World". I thought it was a decent song, but nothing that really grabbed me. Sometime later I heard "Paperthin Hymn" and I thought it was a really good song. My friend bought the album, Never Take Friendship Personal and I listened to it and thought it was decent. It wasn't until Cities came out that I fell in love with this band. I bought the CD the day it came out just cause I was interested in checking it out and the album blew me away.

Life In Your Way - I really knew nothing at all about this band when I bought their album, Waking Giants. I knew they were on Solid State Records and I was in the mood for some heavy stuff so I decided to buy the album. I liked the album quite a bit and played it repeatedly for the next week or so, but it wasn't until I saw them play live that I really connected with the music. They played with so much energy and passion and skill and it just drew me in. I'm so sad that they are no longer a band, but I'm thankful for all the great music they released.

[undonesweater93]

For Weezer, I first heard Beverly Hills in what I will call my "Bad-Music Period" and I thought it was a decent song with presence. What got me into them was Say It Ain't So, however. I got their self-titled blue album for christmas, and it has been my favorite CD since.

[fly_guy]

I randomly found The Early November on the internet back in 06. I then saw them at Warped Tour.

[more heart]

Well it's one of my favorite bands...

I read Alt Press' review for Set Your Goals' Mutiny! and since it was compared to NFG, I gave them a listen. I checked out their Purevolume page and from the very beginning of the song "Mutiny" I was forever hooked.

[Chromefox]

"Boring".

And that was Radiohead.

[maxvsmaradona]

My favorite band is Brand New, and the first time I ever even like heard it, it was on someones myspace. It was Sic Transit Gloria, and my only thought was "What is this shit?". I didn't like it, and now, I have grown to nut over it lolz

[TalkShowsOnMute]

I first heard Incubus on some weird show from way back in the day called Farm Club (I think). They played a couple songs off Make Yourself and I was hooked, and that was the second CD I ever bought with my own money (first was Third Eye Blind).

[just.Starla.]

Bright Eyes- I had seen the Easy/Lucky/Free video before, but I had no idea of who he was. Over Thanksgiving when I was in 11th grade I saw the First Day of My Life video and immediately fell in love with Connor's music.

[softhands]

I've Been Gone A Long Time - Every Time I Die. I wanted to learn more about the band that was coming with Alexisonfire, back in 06 and ever since, they have been my favorite, but a very close second is Alexis, the first time I heard 44 Caliber, I was sold.

[11:11]

I was flipping through dumb music videos on TV when all of a sudden this band named Gatsby's American Dream came on, playing a song called "Theatre". After listening, two thoughts crossed my mind:

1. "That was the most fucking disgusting music video I've ever seen. What did they spend making it, like five bucks?"
2. "Holy shit that song was good."

[fly_guy]

Oh yeah, my first impression of the Early November was something like this, "Hmm, they're good.". The rest was history.

[Shanooty]

My favorite band is Say Anything. I went to the same Jewish summer camp in Ojai, CA where Max and Coby met. I'm actually friends with Joel Bemis, Max's younger brother. They had performed at the camp right around the time they had released Baseball, and I started going the year after, so all the kids already knew about the band and all the songs. One day of the summer there is a color war, in Hebrew it's called "Macabbia," and campers would compete in various activities throughout the day. When they announced the winning team, which happened to be Joel's, "The Last Great Punk Rock Song" started and Joel ran up with his team triumphantally to accept their trophy. I immediately related to the band. I mean the lyrics of "The Last Great Punk Rock Song" had been in my conscience foryears before i had ever heard that song. I had always wondered why in this scene of punk or emo or whatever we want to call it why there was such a fucking need to belittle other people's tastes and be pretensious. To me it was more "punk" to not give a fuck what anybody listened to than it was to say "Fuck you if you aren't into this band!" or "you are a douche for liking Fall Out Boy!" The song told us that we should be vomfortable with ourselves.

[hells army]

the first time i herd Metallica was on 96wave a radio station where i live the first song i herd was ''the unforgiven 2'' and instantly thought it was awsome as hell.

[oddwithoutend]

"Boring".

And that was Radiohead.

You like Radiohead more than Brand New? I'm disappointed.

[boxingwithstars]

i was in middle school and my friend was staying the night at my house. we wanted to listen to music and she complained that i had no good music on my computer... so she started downloading random songs for us to listen to. one of them was Hurricane by Something Corporate. i fell in love with that song right away and had her burn me Audioboxer. i listened to them steadily throughout the years, and then i heard North which locked them in as my favorite band.

[thesafeword]

I heard Underoath on MySpace and I was like fuck yeah brootal as fuck and Jesus as fuck. I knew that I was in fucking manlove with a great band and since they're religious it means that they have fucking deep lyrics. Fuck yeah.

[bard]

favorite band: mewithoutYou

i went to a concert a long time ago to see Beloved (who are amazing by the way) open for Norma Jean, and some band called mewithoutYou was between them. they came out wearing alaskan winter coats and blew my mind. i bought [A->B] Life and my life was never the same.

so incredible. best show ever.

[thespearkid]

Loved Neutral Milk Hotel since the first moment I heard them. My friend is a DJ at Chapel Hill's radio station and he let me come to the station and burn as many CD's as I liked. He asked me if I'd ever heard of Neutral Milk Hotel and I said no so he handed me the CD. I probably listened to King of Carrot Flowers pt. 1 five times before I could even move on the second song.

[Caitie110]

I have two favourite bands....
1: Pixies. I heard them when I was going to a summer camp when I was like... 12 or 13 maybe? My counselor, who I thought was one of the coolest chicks I have ever met, was blasting them from another room. It was a totally unique sound.. unlike anything I had ever heard before. I asked her what it was and she told me. I bought the CD and I have been obsessed with them since.

2: Modest Mouse. I'm pretty sure the first song I heard was Float On. I didn't pay a lot attention to it; I really wasn't impressed. It didn't sound overly unique to me, so I just shrugged it off. Then an old friend of my played Wild Pack of Family Dogs and I was totally taken aback. I thought it was the coolest song I had ever heard. That definitely made me a huge Modest Mouse man. (And now I totally appreciate the song Float On as a wicked song)

[Neo Cassady]

Bright Eyes. Bought I'm Wide Awake... on a whim at a used record store for $3. First impression was eh, but then it grew on me...and grew...and grew. Now it's my favorite album.

[makeasound]

I first heard Autopilot Off on the Atticus: Dragging the Lake vol.1 comp in 2002. I was taken with Chris Johnson's voice immediately, I hadn't heard anything like it. I listened to the song ("Long Way to Fall") on repeat for days and then picked up their s/t EP. Every word hit me. It was instant, and I went searching for their back catalog.

Saw them live for the first time in August 2003. They've been my favorite band ever since.

[chipdip18]

Well first time i heard Bright Eyes was in 2003 with the release of Lifted, and i bought the album on a whim. I could only really get into a few songs, Method Acting, Bowl of Oranges, Lover I Don't Have to Love and Nothing Gets Crossed Out. I revisted it a year or two later and fell in love.

[Chromefox]

You like Radiohead more than Brand New? I'm disappointed. Fuck Brand New. Yeah. I said it.

When it comes down to it, Radiohead have three albums I love, two albums I really like, and one okay album. Brand New have one album I love, one album I really like, and one okay album. I did the math.

[sandra92]

I first listened to Arctic Monkeys on MTV and liked it from the beginning.
The first song I listened from Interpol was Evil and I loved it . The other songs didn't call my attention that much . But a few months later I really started to get into them .
I can't remember where I first listened to Blink-182 but have always liked them .
And Linkin Park (they are no longer my fave band) I first heard with my cousin .

[Jumpoff]

First time I heard Propagandhi, I thought "wow these guys are kind of boring. They suck"

Yeah. Shit happens.

[batmannj]

Incubus when I used to listen to Top 40 radio and I heard the song Drive. I really enjoyed the song and I purchased the album Make Yourself

Norma Jean when a friend and I were shooting a TV show for my broadcasting class. We were driving to a friends house and he said that I should check them out. We listened to Bless The Martyr and Kiss the Child and I loved it.

[h1pbones]

I remember having a conversation with a friend on another forum, and we were talking about oranges for some reason. Another friend decided to pop in and posted something to the effect of "Bowl of oranges? O___O .....Bright Eyes?"

I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about at the time.

A week or two later, I decided "Eh, what the hell." and decided to check the band out. Went to one of their Myspaces (they had a slew of fan-made Myspaces, like most bands.) and listened to A Perfect Sonnet. At first listen, I was confused. How could this actually be considered good? Then I realized I wasn't really listening, so I played it again. And again. And Again. And, you guessed it-- again!

So, ever since sometime in the summer of '06 I've been in love with Conor Oberst and anything he's ever done musically. End 'o story.

[TreyForest]

i bought Box Car Racer when it came out cause im a blink fan and dude ranch got me into the fast punk rock music. So yeah, listened through that record and heard cat like theif and fucking loved that song. So i checked out who the singer was, found out it was Tim Armstrong and then i bought Out come the wolves and ever since Rancid has been my go to band and completely influenced what i listen to today

[flks511]

I was at my friend's house (this was before I was even into music at all) and there was a song playing in his room while we played video games. It had this dark, really cool sounding hook "I wasn't asking for the world." I always thought the song was cool, but I didn't know what it was called or who it was by.

Later, when I got my first iPod for Christmas, I asked my friend to give me recs for bands to put on it, and one of the bands he suggested was Silverstein. Sure enough, when I listened to them one day, and I heard the opening riff, I was like "This sounds familiar." Then, Told delivered the lyric that had amazed me before, and Silverstein became my favorite band.

[Montauk1222]

First time I heard Bayside was on purevolume and by complete accident, but I listened to Masterpiece then I believe it was a demo of Devotion And Desire because it was before the Self-titled came out. At first I thought it was really good but never thought they'd be my favorite band, that was before I heard the whole self-titled.

[pblest]

texas is the reason - when i was a freshman in high school, i was friends with a girl who called herself emo because she listened to slipknot. i went on this message board and tried to tell the regulars there what was emo, and i got my ass handed to me pretty much. somehow, someone gave me a link or something to "do you know who you are?" and from the first time i heard "jack with one eye" i was absolutely blown away. it just fucking rocked.

sigur ros - i don't remember the first time i heard these guys, but i've been in love with them ever since hearing agaetis byrjun for the first time.