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Viney

14-09-06, 09:24 AM

So, there you are with your stack of CD's/Albums/MP3's but where did your taste in music come from? School? College? Parents? It just evolves?

I sort of got into music in the early 80's, starting with general pop, but through secondary, dance music started to creep in, with the likes of Electro, and early hip hop, then into general dance etc. Nowadays, i'll listen to most things, but my heart is always in dance music of all types.

So, where did yours come from?

Jester666

14-09-06, 09:28 AM

keithd

14-09-06, 09:30 AM

i got my "metal" head from my sister. first cassette i ever bought was saxon wheels of steel, this was on her recommendation. nay, insistance (either that or she'd give me a dead leg and a chinese burn! TOGETHER)

my parents had to listen to 4 continuous hours of Let there be Rock on one family holiday trip down to cornwall once, i'm sure they loved it!

my taste evolved to house music in the mid to late 80's as i entered my 20's and therefore started earning my own money and went on holidays with my mates, but the metal never really left me. my purchases these days are nearly always indie guitar based tunes, interpol, arctics, dirty pretty things etc etc

Jester666

14-09-06, 09:35 AM

Saxon, Wheels of Steel

Oh yes!! That was on there as well!

Cool track, must dig it out again!

Halonic

14-09-06, 10:12 AM

The Ilford Island, friday nights circa 1993/4, Clawfinger,Therapy?, Senser, Ministry, Sepultura etc.

Once down the dark path you go, forever will it haunt your destiny

Edit:

oh and should really mention the effect of the A-level Biology field trip and "Pretty Hate Machine"

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Warthog

14-09-06, 10:18 AM

Parent were old rockers. When my Dad showed me how to use his tape player, I got to choose a tape, so I chose one with a pretty cover with monsters on it. Turned out to be Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time. From there to Metallica and Megadeth in school, then joined Rock Society at Warwick Uni, got into heavier and heavier stuff like In Flames, Sepultura, Pantera etc, and now just seaching for and enjoying the most brilliant, dark, extreme, fast, heavy and skillful stuff on the planet.

fizzwheel

14-09-06, 10:22 AM

I get mine from my dad, also from listening to stuff on the radio and then going off an buying albums etc.

tigersaw

14-09-06, 10:25 AM

I lived in a pub when I was a nipper, and we had a Seeburg in the bar full of 60's music and Northern soul, it used to lullaby me to sleep each night.
Now I have a Seeburg in the lounge, pretty much full of the same stuff.

Alpinestarhero

14-09-06, 10:29 AM

My preferance started with my dad - he's into classic rock. I started playing guitar about 5 years ago, and slowly my preferances changed from sorta skater-punk stuff (blink182 etc) to metallica, megadeth, steve vai, symphony x - bassicly, as i got better at playing, i listened to music that was mopre challening for me to play on guitar!

Matt

Ceri JC

14-09-06, 11:01 AM

I first got into guitar based music when I was 6/7. Inspiral Carpets, Beatles and Rolling Stones in particular. Then, when I was about 10 I got into a lot of early 90s electronic music (mainly due to watching "The Chart Show"), in particular the Warp record label (LFO and Tricky Disco were my favourites). In my teens I really didn't like electronic music and really like Indie and Britpop. Then, at university I got back into electronic music (and hip hop and DnB) and stopped listening to chart music almost entirely. Now, I still listen predominantly to electronic music (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, etc.) but also listen to a lot of hip hop, drum and bass and most recently, mainly dubstep (Skream, Burial, Pinch).

I used to DJ quite a lot (still do occassionally, but I only do gigs where I can play my sort of music; had enough of weddings, etc. :) ) and I produce fairly heavily. Not signed to a major yet (as if! :D ), but I should have a release coming out on a small indie electronic label in the next couple of months. 8)

Supervox

14-09-06, 11:39 AM

My Aunt bought me a casette (Remember them?) called Axe Attack. It was full of what was then current rock stuff. Ted Nugent, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Accept etc.
I haven't looked back since!

Play it LOUD and keep it real!!

Rock on!! :lol: :twisted: :twisted: :lol:

I didn't have a tape player at that time, so my copy of Axe Attack is on (now sadly, VERY scratched) vinyl !!

glade

14-09-06, 11:52 AM

i was into pop-dance-radio-crap music before i went to university. Once i got there i mixed with people with similar but more specific tastes and got into the proper club scene - stuff you'd never hear on the radio.

I started to know lots of dj's and got into clubs free by either knowing the promoters or carying DJ's records.

Worked through trance (clubs like PaSSion, baby PaSSion) & hard house (Storm & Sundissential), to brakes & techy/tribaly house (tribal gathering rave thing, sankeys soap, the bomb in notts).

Now i've finished uni and don't go clubbing any more i seem to be buyign lots of D&B & breaks, i also like some hip-hop - the freestylers.

cuffy

14-09-06, 12:01 PM

Mine was during the late 70's-Early 80's with the start of the 2 tone movement, the specials, madness etc etc....I then got hooked on the earlier ska stuff, which i still dig out and play, sadly all on CD now, vinyl collection got sold years ago :cry:

But as i've grown older my musical tatse has broadened too, my collection now consists of classical wagner through to the sex pistols.

But still a lil ol skinhead at heart :oops:

Peter Henry

14-09-06, 12:36 PM

Once I had seen The Inkspots live I was hooked. :wink:

Jabba

14-09-06, 01:27 PM

Music: Where does your prefrence come from?

My natural good taste :thumbsup:

TVR_Tracy

14-09-06, 01:30 PM

My musical tastes are pretty eclectic, I like most styles (Jazz, gothic, indutrial, pop, rock, classical, 80s, dance)... I get the rock part of my tastes from my 'rents, as I grew up with the likes of the Police, Chris Rea, Dire Straits etc. 8)

Viney

14-09-06, 01:33 PM

Music: Where does your prefrence come from?

My natural good taste :thumbsup:
Which you have none, So Chamber music for you then?

keithd

14-09-06, 01:36 PM

I get the rock part of my tastes from my 'rents, as I grew up with the likes of the Police, Chris D' Burgh, Dire Straits etc. 8)

:shock:

laydeee in reeeeeeeeddddd

Jabba

14-09-06, 01:37 PM

Music: Where does your prefrence come from?

My natural good taste :thumbsup:
Which you have none, So Chamber music for you then?

Cheeky git* :lol:

I always thought that chamber music was that musak sometime played in public conveniences.

* you're only jealous of my Hornet :wink:

TVR_Tracy

14-09-06, 01:50 PM

I get the rock part of my tastes from my 'rents, as I grew up with the likes of the Police, Chris D' Burgh, Dire Straits etc. 8)

:shock:

laydeee in reeeeeeeeddddd

Yep that old geezer too!!!

Hahaha on a side note, have you seen Bill Bailey's "part troll"? hahaha the chris de burgh bit, tooo funny...

TAXI!!!

Ping

14-09-06, 02:42 PM

.. and yay did it start with the father, who was verrily into good rockin' base. From thence as a child, did it grow upon the watching the likes of ZZ Top on 'Friday Night Videos' in the land of the Kanuk. Yonder did it evolve from the days of skool when 'Def Leppard is soft, try this!' into Guns'n'Roses. Metallica was the next borne... Hitherto the first dark years of serfdom upon the minimum wage whenst Pearl Jam came unto Nirvana...

Etc... :lol:

Jester666

14-09-06, 03:34 PM

northwind

14-09-06, 03:43 PM

The death of Freddie Mercury.

No, wait, hear me out :) I never listened to music at all before that. Then, he died, and along came the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. Metallica opened it with Enter Sandman, and that was all it took. I don't think I'd ever really listened to metal at all before.

Then, Monsters of Rock '94 sealed the deal- I listened to it all on the radio and what a bill... Therapy?, the Wildhearts, Headswim, Pantera, Sepultura, Aerosmith, Terrorvision, Biohazard, Pride and Glory, Skin (the proper Skin, not the Skunk Anansie bird) yep, and Extreme. I still listen to the recordings I made ;) That was what really opened my eyes, all those brilliant bands at their absolute best, wish like hell I'd been there. Therapy? and the Wildhearts, what a pair. "Greetings from rock and roll central... Yeah, ah, You're now watching the band... what's the savior of british rock. According to some people, we're the next Rolling Stones. But we're just a bunch of ****s at the end of the day, and what you give a **** for, we don't know" :)

...and if it takes me all my life, just to get you out of my head... I think, over the decade since, I've seen those two about 50 times.

Kylie

14-09-06, 03:51 PM

Grew up in Peterborough, local radio (Hereward) had a good indie show (Mick and Sarah Jane I think). That got me in to "proper" music; wonderstuff, roses, cure, etc. That graduated me from Smash Hits to Select magazine (RIP), bought stuff they recommended.
Went to loads of gigs and discos at college, expanded my indie horizons and got in to some house/electronic stuff too. Since then its been swapping recommendations with mates.
Oh, and I've a wee brother 14 years younger who tells me who is good now, he got me in to bloc party and hope of the states, I educate him on Indie classics.

Tara

14-09-06, 03:54 PM

Not sure where mine came from i'll listen to most things except Jazz - my parents were into Cliff Richard and Buddy Holly - i'm wouldn't say i'm a metal head but i prefer rock and cheesy 80's music to anything else - i've got the Best of Motley Crue in the car at the min with Snow Patrol as well

ArtyLady

14-09-06, 03:55 PM

As a teenager while all the others were dancing round their handbags to disco I was into Zappa, Rory G, Hendrix, Pink Fairies, Quo, Deep Purple, Free, Zepplin, Floyd, Who, Alice Cooper to mention but a few - influenced by my big sis I spose.

Grew up listening to my Dad playing Classical piano and guitar, Im still into the above but also now very into Classical, Blues, Jazz, Funk, Soul anything that I can try :roll: to play on the piano (or flute). 8)