Music you grew up to...

Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg
TLC
Aaliyah
Naughty By Nature
And a lot more... The above are a few examples.
 
Snoop, 2pac, Biggie, etc...


I grew up listening to underground radio stations that you could only get in the hood. I can't quite remember the radio station, but I believe it was 88.7. If you went into the Liberty City area of Miami back then, you could pick it up.
 
ill never forget i heard metallica "enter sandman" and cypress hill "insane in the brain" in the same nght for the first time for each during as sleepover ast my neighbors house when i was about 7
 
My dad always had me listening to classic rock. Rush, Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, Rolling Stones, etc. I listened to more Rush than anything, and still to this day listen to them quite often. Nowadays I mostly listen to jazz and metal.
 
I remember liking N'Sync and shit like that when I was in elementary school..... that was a dark time in my life. My parents were never really into music that much but my Dad did have a copy of Nevermind which really influenced me. I think the first CD I ever bought was Third Eye Blind in the 5th grade. Me and my friends would just blare that shit out of an old boombox and do BMX haha. The second CD I bought was By The Way. I would listen to that album like everyday on the bus. In middle school I loved Linkin Park, Blink-182, Sum 41 shit like that. Then in 8th grade I got introduced to metal by my friend Wes. He gave me some Slipknot CD's that I didn't really like at first but they grew on me. So all through high school I was a huge metal head. College really opened my eyes to how much different music is out there so now I listen to a lot of different stuff. I still love just about everything I used to listen to but I've explored a lot more genres that I never listened to in high school. I think drugs (weed especially) really opened my mind to music and a lot of other things because in high school I strictly liked metal and everything else was crap. Now I like so much music that its hard to keep track of.
 
Bill said:
I remember riding in my mom's Thunderbird with her and her putting on Dark Side of the Moon when I was only 5 or 6.
Man I was blown away to say the least.

She would sing and I would watch her, I remember thinking she was the coolest

She also loved Stevie Ray Vaughn and Zeppelin, John Mellencamp and The Doors.
I knew good music at a very young age.

Oh and something totally different we would listen to besides old rock would be Patsy Cline.
She grew up to her mother singing it to her :]
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Your Mom sounds cool! %) Want to swap? heh



Posted here already in a thread merged with this, akin to this but not dealing with the same theme so...
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My Dad had a love of music which I always bonded with him over, he was pretty outwardly conservative but had a passion for some funky tunes.

The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is the main one that stick's out in my memory. Also Manfred Mann, E.L.O., the Animals..



Personally, I used to like certain classical music as a kid Mozart's Marriage of Figaro was my fav, which I had on casette and listened to religiously but it wasnt an intellectual interest-just liked the sound of some Classical tunes on the radio.
Also because of a family member was into some Swing.(was a swinger from a very early age! ;))
Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, Madness, Bad Manners.
Aside from that was into alot of the usual, Michael Jackson, Rick Astley(ha ha), U2 ]Madonna, Prince, the Bangles,.....then progressed to Guns n' Roses nd other types of rock, REM, RHCP's, FNM, then Dance/Rave and Grunge/Alt in my mid teen's along with alot of 60's 70's stuff like Jimi, Janice, Bob Marley Doors, N. Young and also got into Metal(of various descriptions), Classical Jazz, World Music etc and other miscellanious stuff and it's been miscellanious from there on in.
 
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Bill said:
I remember riding in my mom's Thunderbird with her and her putting on Dark Side of the Moon when I was only 5 or 6.
Man I was blown away to say the least.

She would sing and I would watch her, I remember thinking she was the coolest

She also loved Stevie Ray Vaughn and Zeppelin, John Mellencamp and The Doors.
I knew good music at a very young age.

Oh and something totally different we would listen to besides old rock would be Patsy Cline.
She grew up to her mother singing it to her :]
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Kinda like this! My mom was still doing gigs when i was a little kid, and she would cover lots of Johnny Cougar, Joni Mitchell, Townes Van Zandt, Carly Simon, the like. Some of my earliest memories are of her singing these songs and me sitting on the side of the stage.

My dad on the other hand was a roadie for some shit metal band, and his tastes ran the Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin/Metal vein.

I didn't really develop my own musical taste until high school, didn't really need one :)
 
I've always liked music, but other than raffi and kids music the first thing I remember listening to was npr classical stuff or the music for the musicals I sang/acted in at an early age[only part of those I enjoyed were the reception at the very end due to all the desserts available...].

Radio disney later in elementary school and other ~turn-of-the-millennium pop was next as that's what was available, as well as a few cd's of christian rock my parents had lying around...i did like stephen curtis chapman if i remember correctly.

The first cd I bought was POD's Satellite in about 6th grade; i was always enraptured by rock and this was certainly something awesome...still is. About a year later, my bro and I got a radio/cd player for christmas[so my parents didn't have to listen to our 'annoying' hard rock].
--I've been on a huge exploratory musical journey from there as all the radio stations available really opened up my sheltered musical horizon.
classic rock led me to all I know now...in some degree or measure.

Some flashbulb moments of mine would be seeing the californication music video which was so cutting edge; listening to hybrid theory with my friends--brothers alex and max--on the way back from bowling at amf lanes; my friend christian letting me hear the new by the way album while we were waiting to get picked up from school...and one of the most euphoric moments of my life--hearing a song on the radio which to this day I cannot identify; maybe I'll never find it, but that's what I'm looking for...what a wonderment of all the things I've stumbled across in that ongoing search.

Obviously drugs, people, experiences and habits have also expanded my appreciation of different styles of music.
 
My dad always had me listening to his smooth jazz when I was younger and I developed a great liking to it. Artists like Boney James, Dave Koz, Pat Metheny Group etc. To this day.. listening to all those tracks just remind me of when he was alive.
 
Everything '90s, man, and like all things '90s, the music was OK, nothing spectacular, nothing great but nothing too terrible either.




... and I won't tell 'em your name, do do do...
 
I like to think about the old rap, ya know? Like when creativity extended past guns,booty,guns,weed,and booty.
 
hmmm...I think Weird Al was my favorite musician at an early age. He was my first idol I suppose. They Might Be Giants was a very very early favorite too. They were probably the first band I downloaded from Napster.

Actually I remember the first pop song that I ever really loved, It was in 2nd grade, was Des'ree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvl7240TZTc
That was my very first song that I played out over and over. It's still awesome! I remember a music teacher asking us our favorite songs, and I told her I liked Des'ree's "you Gotta Be' and she frowned and was like "no I mean KID songs..." I had never considered listening to "kids songs" before then...lol

Then I was into POD and Creed for a bit during my pre-teens and early teens. I never liked the other alternative rock bands that were around with them. POD and Creed struck me as creative, and I never heard Pearl Jam then so I didn't know the singer was totally copying Eddie Vedder's voice. I was Christian and serious about it then, really trying to go to heaven and save souls (some things never change...), and those two bands were far more interesting than other Christian metal/rock bands I heard.
The Baha Men "Who Let The Dogs Out" was another favorite now that I think about it haha. My older sister also played Britney Spears and NSync all the time and, I'm not ashamed to admit, I enjoyed listening to them. Eventually I was "too cool" to admit I was ever into pop music like that. lol Like when I started getting more into the guitar.

Then Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin were my two main bands for the rest of my junior high and highschool years. The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, The Who, some Bob Dylan(it wouldn't be till recently that I completely immersed myself in Bob Dylan's music), AC/DC, SOME Metallica, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, those were my guitar heros. I wanted to be a shredder!
Then, about junior year, I was introduced to Keller Williams and HE was THE man in my eyes. It wasn't until I listened to him that I ever bothered with any "jam bands," and I got into Phish and The Dead, The Allman Brothers, Little Feat after that. Then came Sublime and Bob Marley and Peter Tosh after I had my first toke.
I was surprisingly sheltered from the Beatles during most of this time, I have no idea, but I never went out of my way to listen to them, but once I started having girlfriends, the later part of Junior year, I finally got into them.

Then I went to college and got into jazz, hip-hop, electronic, and a million other musics, and now I'm here today.

Isn't that the coolest story ever?
 
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Also I remember my mom playing Eric Clapton, Marc Cohn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Stevie Ray Vaughan in addition to some other ones I forget, but those 4 were great influences on me.
My dad showed me Steely Dan, The Moody Blues, Traffic, Creedence Clearwater, Procul Harum, Pink Floyd (never The Wall or anything later though), Allison Krauss, The Dixie Chicks and some others.
Those musicians all formed in my memory a group known to my family as "Mountain Songs" because those would be the albums they would play when we went on our yearly vacations to the Adirondack Mountains, and it was about 5 hour drive each way. So those would be the songs we'd play coming and going, and I always will have an extra special place in my heart for those musicians. The whole mountain experience was wrapped up by those songs, and their moods just seemed so perfect.
It was funny because they eventually started letting me pick some CDs once my own taste developed, but they very rarely let my sister choose anything and she's always sit there grumpy lol haha good times.
 
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