couldwinarabbit: How Did You Get Into Music?

couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	10/10 album art. List is very nostalgic
Knott- 01.13.11	sputnik, simple as
ffs 01.13.11	listened to some
eternium 01.13.11	I used my ears.
Josh D. 01.13.11	This will sound stupid, but since about 90% percent of the music I listen to (and probably 95% on on a daily basis) is stuff I've found on Sputnik, this site matured my musical interests. It's only because the site is geared towards more obscure music, so anything would have worked, but the user driven basis helped a lot.
SeaAnemone 01.13.11	My path to good music was a little rough and odd considering I've never had friends that listen to music really and my parents never instilled a sense of good music in me. I literally just never listened to music 'til high school... so I don't really have those same nostalgic bands like Linkin Park or Avenged Sevenfold or Limp Bizkit or whatever that a lot of people here seem to have. I discovered music almost entirely exlcusively through sputnik, which is bittersweet.
Urinetrouble 01.13.11	mom used to play classic rock radio in the car when i was ages 4-10. then i picked up a rage against the machine cd and it all startes from there
GhettoIndieshit 01.13.11	Dad got me into thrash(first 3 metallica albums, testament, slayer, etc.), said fuck that after awhile and listened to metalcore for a long ass time, listened to some 1st wave dm(death, morbid angel, c. corpse, deicide), got into a little deathcore(whitechapel, early JFAC, The Red Chord, etc.), Got back into more dm(decapitated, fleshgod apocalypse, suffocation, etc,), got interested in alt/indie shit(minus the bear, pixies, my bloody valentine-finally checking out the rest of their discography btw, R.E.M.,). Listen to all of it still but thrash, diggin' Mogwai right now.
EVedder27 01.13.11	Was into music long before sputnik, but the site has refined my taste considerably
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	but how did you find sputnik if you didn't already like music. I only went to rym because steve told me too Also It was like Linkin Park and dredg straight into this stuff.
Knott- 01.13.11	Well, I just rocked up here posting reviews of All-American Rejects and people were like dude, those guys suck, I still listen to a remarkable amount of the music I did when I first came here but all the expansion of my tastes through genuine indie to post-rock, post-hardcore, the tiny bits of metal I enjoy, the folk, all came from sputnik. I trust this place in terms of finding things that I enjoy. It's priceless.
Josh D. 01.13.11	I was relatively into music. Riding in the car with my dad listening to the 70's/80's/90's station in town got me into those decades. So if you read my Not Just Nostalgia list, that is the kind of stuff I grew up with. Through one of my friends, I got into Metallica and Iron Maiden, etc. Then together, got into In Flames and KsE. And then I branched off from his tastes by finding Sputnik and stuff.
Knott- 01.13.11	And yeah like Sea I've never had friends that are overly into music until my year abroad last year where I met people with much more interest in my type of music than I ever had before. Over the last few years as music has become more and more important to me I've started spending more time with people who listen to the same music as I do. But I'm rarely turned onto anything by a source outside of the net, in part 'cause I'm more active about searching out new things than most people are.
SeaAnemone 01.13.11	"but how did you find sputnik if you didn't already like music. I only went to rym because steve told me too" oh yeah that's important I guess... I had one friend who made me listen to Brand New and Minus the Bear when I was in 9th grade. I listened to those bands non-stop, expanded a tad through iTunes recommendations, then ended up on Sputnik when I was reading (I think) a Neutral Milk Hotel review (under a different account).
ffs 01.13.11	after i accepted that i was a Gay Man , i knew in my heart that part of my Gayness was love for music,,, i stopped denying my Gay urges and listened to music.
luci 01.13.11	I remember the first review I read on Sputnik was Nick Greer's review for Between The Buried And Me.
luci 01.13.11	Colors
Deviant. 01.13.11	In regards to my electronic leanings, I've just been lucky enough to grow up in a pretty vibrant local scene with friends and dj's who knew their shit and passed their knowledge and tastes onto me. As for everything else, just late night discoveries and recommendations from friends. I've discovered new bands through Sputnik, but it hasn't changed my tastes or opened me up to genres I had never heard before
Spec 01.13.11	I heard it.
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	"Brand New and Minus the Bear" ya that has been the funniest thing about me since I have come to sputnik. Since the first 4gigs of music where essentially of the same "strangeness" of what I listen to today I completely skipped over bands like that until I came to sputnik not to say "hamburger" bands are worse than the "steak" bands it is just I have a ery strange progression. Cause the first things recced to me were by someone trying harder than B4k...k maybe not.
Jash 01.13.11	it started out with watching School of Rock and getting into the whole classic rock thing, and the it branched out a bit from there into indie and stuff. then when i was in grade 10 i had a friend who was really into listening to the album as a whole and i also starting getting into recording at this same time so i had a greater appreciation for all the layers, techniques and little details that go into making a record. He started branching me out musically giving me some classics like Neutral Milk Hotel, Godspeed, The Microphones, My Bloody Valentine and from there i started seaching for myself. A few years later i joined sputnik and from there ive only gotten even further into my passion for music
liledman 01.13.11	started learning guitar when i was 8, then found out a few years later that i enjoyed music, when i think one of my sisters friends showed me sum 41. my parents raised me on the beatles so thats about the only early education i had. also around that time my friend and i watched the up in smoke tour dvd and started worshipping eminem, dre and snoop, and also 2pac. once i was about 15 or so i was finding the more popular artists of different genres, through random older family and friends, then i got a new guitar teacher and he exposed me to much more jazz and metal etc. then i spent more and more time on the internet and one of my friends who liked similar stuff to myself showed me sputnik, and i was like 'fuck yeah pie charts' and signed up. through sputnik, blogs and rym i have slowly refined my taste, but the basis of it and what styles i like have been there for a while.
Grignard 01.13.11	Tool -> Explosions in the Sky -> Buckethead -> This site
acADHDemy 01.13.11	No Doubt's video for "Don't Speak" --> Tragic Kingdom CD. and the rest is history
musicConsumer 01.13.11	This Steven guy sounds creepy. Did he get you into anything else?
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	school of rock wins lists.
Deviant. 01.13.11	Jesus, I remember that album @ academy
Jash 01.13.11	hahahaha fuck yeeeeee
Sowing 01.13.11	through a few college friends and sputnik
acorncheese 01.13.11	Through The Mars Volta circa 2004/5
acADHDemy 01.13.11	i was 10 years old... :D
Deviant. 01.13.11	Yeah, so was I
TomArnoldsArmpit 01.13.11	Music? I listened to it.
acADHDemy 01.13.11	deviant, as we are of similar age but wildly different hemispheres, what was the first concert you went to? if need be, skip until it's a band that i would know... my first: The Temptations
Deviant. 01.13.11	Fuck, deftones (I think)
acADHDemy 01.13.11	dam urs s cooler
Josh D. 01.13.11	No, definitely fuck them.
acADHDemy 01.13.11	lol
Deviant. 01.13.11	Josh Deftone
TomArnoldsArmpit 01.13.11	That is funny
Josh D. 01.13.11	Somebody said "damn, where's the drink", it's chilling in the middle of the kitchen sink.
Satellite 01.13.11	my dad used to write a rock zine in the early 90's and had a massive record/cd collection, so i was around music constantly. i remember listening to all sorts of shit (black sabbath, springsteen, paul simon, etc.). he went to woodstock in 1994 and i ended up listening to a lot of the bands that played there (green day, rhcp, blind melon, metallica, etc.) for some reason.
Josh D. 01.13.11	If you could only see the way she loves me Then maybe you would understand Why I feel this way about our love And what I must do If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says When she says she loves me
North0House 01.13.11	My dad used to listen to Enya, The Cure, The Smiths, and Toad the Wet Sprocket when I was little... It just bent me towards that style of music. I found a Relient K CD one day when I was looking around at a book store. I picked it up, and listened to it nonstop for a good year. Then, I checked out Coldplay, found that I liked the minor style of Parachutes more than their other releases... So, I hung out with that for awhile, transitioned to indie when I started listening to an indie podcast, which led me to Band of Horses. After that, I stumbled upon Brand New. Picked up TDAGARIM immediately. Listened to that for years, and I still do. But, that led me into the metal scene, along with the post-rock scene due to Untitled and Welcome to Bangkok. From there, I just kept getting deeper and deeper into different off-shoots of music.
wyankeif1337 01.13.11	linkin park brah.
Josh D. 01.13.11	"linkin park brah. " Reported.
North0House 01.13.11	I feel like I wrote too much.
deepintheorchard 01.13.11	My mom was a dead head and a huge Dylan fan, so I always had the whole classic rock/hippie thing in my roots, but I got really scene in middle school and liked the crappiest metalcore and deathcore BS. Then I started listening to some acoustic things. And eventually I found the Tallest Man on Earth/Sputnik. It may be profound but I can really say that I owe most of my musical development and also my urge to actually learn to play music to The Tallest Man on Earth. Now I'm a freak who's got hundreds of songs and bands running through my head at once, yet my musical thirst is never quenched which is why I open up this site just as often as I turn on the PC.
whywontyoudie 01.13.11	i have a few friends that i consider to have great tastes in music, and we all share opinions with one another on a regular basis and show each other new bands.
wyankeif1337 01.13.11	"Reported." hella sick bro
Josh D. 01.13.11	That's what you and LP get.
qwe3 01.13.11	i took the stairs
Winsomniac 01.13.11	Fuckin' Disney movies, man. Naaaaaaaaanttts igonyaaaaaaaamaaaaa babithi babaaaa!
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	qwe was born with $200 sennheiser headphones on.
tombits 01.13.11	came to this site looking for blink-182 reviews. not even kidding.
Kimm 01.13.11	I always listened to what my older brother listened to, subconciously trying tonimpress him. So I was into bands like Linkin Park, Sum 41, and the Offspring. Then I started liking what my friends listened to...went through a rap phase, had my days of Atreyu and Bullet For My Valentine and then eventually my personality did a 180 degree rotation and now I listen to what I want and could not give a flying f*** who I'm impressing.
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	so...Atreyu and Bullet For My Valentine was your giving a flying f*** who you were impressing stage?
Wolfhorde 01.13.11	Got internet, started checking out music on my own and listening to it. Since then I started collecting good music.
Kimm 01.13.11	A flying fish.
Kimm 01.13.11	And yes haha in grade eight when I thought Atreyu was the shit. Embarrassing.
Wolfhorde 01.13.11	She's lying. Now she's trying to impress Cheesus with what she's listening to.
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	ya you really grew up you are elite now.
whywontyoudie 01.13.11	Sum 41 rules live Kimm.
Kimm 01.13.11	Never said I consider myself elite. whywon'tyoudie - it would be fun to see them
AbyssalCreation 01.13.11	I really got into music around 14-15 me and my friends were all into Slipknot, Mudvayne, Killswitch Engage etc. Met a guy in a school who was in a Metalcore band, he introduced me to the other members they all gave me bands to check out(and became some of my best friends)Started going to a lot of their local shows, and other shows with signed bands. Once I got internet I started listening to the bands in some of my favorites top 8 on Myspace, discovered a lot of bands that way.I then learned about Limewire/soulseek and starting looking for anything that remotely sounded like Misery Signals, or deathcore, while still getting constant recommendations from friends. Stumbled upon Sputnik while looking for Mirrors reviews, fell in love with the site and everything it offered.Asked for recs, starting downloading like crazy, began gradually expanding my taste and the rest is history tl;dr Friends,Myspace, Sputnik also inb4 Cool Story,Bro
tombits 01.13.11	ool corey crob
Aids 01.13.11	this list contains way too many good albums, stop it you're going to break sputnik I just got into Since I Left You, it's sooooooo good.
couldwinarabbit 01.13.11	to be fair that merzbow and sigur ros albums aren't that great.
Aids 01.13.11	as far as my interest in music goes, to be honest, sputnik really kept me listening to music through periods in my life that I otherwise probably would have stopped. I owe almost everything I listen to now to this site and it's incredibly diverse tastes. and while that may sound gay as fuck, don't lie, you guys love this place (and hate this place) just as much as I do. edit: reading the comments, seeing I'm knott alone at all. "I discovered music almost entirely exlcusively through sputnik, which is bittersweet." Sea pretty much said it right there. My favourite band is Pink Floyd (who I heard of through my dad, not sputnik) and will probably always be, but besides that, most of my favourite albums were rec'd here by you awesome people.
elephantREVOLUTION 01.13.11	i grew up listening to tool and nine inch nails (that's what my parents were into) so i guess i had a good starting point.
Captain North 01.13.11	Really mainly through sputnik. I do like most of what my mum listens to aka Coldplay, REM etc but then I've changed her music tastes massively by getting her to listen to Triple J and now she digs indie heaps. If I was a teen when my dad was, I probably would have ended up with similar tastes as him but he's had very little impact on me because he never played any of his stuff (The Clash etc).
ConsiderPhlebas 01.13.11	Drifted around after leaving school, listening to chart stuff like Oasis and Chemical Brothers, then a couple of dudes I barely knew from school dropped round and asked if I wanted to be in a band. They introduced me to Green Day. Went through various elitist stages (pop-punk, metalcore, hardcore, dnb) then realised it's all good and stopped worrying about what was cool.
Curse. 01.13.11	I went from shitty nu-metal and at the same time 90s alternative, to shitty metalcore and bands like The Used, to more refined heavy music. Indie came out of nowhere for me, I don't exactly know how I got to it.
DaveyBoy 01.13.11	As much as I hate technology & all (the i is evil), I think when MP3 players (& to a lesser extent CD walkmens back in the day) flooded the market, it made a big impact on me. I used to listen to the bands I already had decided I liked because I only had so much spare time in a week to listen to music. But with MP3 players, that can almost be any hour of the day doing whatever... This led to looking into more new music, discovering new bands, new websites (like Sputnik) & basically one big domino effect.
Curse. 01.13.11	Hanson wore out my tape player when I was six
ARuinedEmpire 01.13.11	I had an older friend who listened to Yellowcard and evanescence in the car, so I started liking that sort of music. Then I heard Jude Law and a semester abroad by brand new one day back in like '04 and I listened to that song constantly. Than a few months later I bought the whole album, which lead me to buy TDAGRIM. Than I sough out other music like that. Then when I saw Friday night lights I found out about Refused and Explosions in the sky, which blossomed my interests in those genres. Than A few year later I found sputnik and in the past 4 or 5 months of actually being an active member I grew my tasts tremendously.
NorwichScene 01.13.11	I wasn't really into music much as a kid and just listened to Queen, Mchael Jackson and chart stuff. Then in the late 90's/2000 era I only listened to rap/hip hop as most peeps did back in school. That soon got boring around 2003 then I started listening to Blink, Sum 41, Yellowcard etc and since then Sputnik has got me into a lot of scremo, post-hardcore and some metal bands and appreciating bands who actually play instruments! The mp3/iPod has changed lives no doubt. I listen to so much more music nowadays.
seifer 01.13.11	in my high school almost everybody listened to some kind of rock derivatives (hardrock, classic, metal,grunge) and well in bid to find more bands started looking on the web and stumbled across sputnik and lurked for almost a year and then to get more recs i joined in
alachlahol 01.13.11	couldwinarabbit how well did you know this boy 'steven' did you share more than just music
alachlahol 01.13.11	also people here are like "hmm let me think about when i started actually listening to good music" which is major funny man cause most of you still listen to nothing but shit all day every day just shit in your ears all the time then it comes out your mouth here on sputnik or rather your fingers since its typed god i hate you
omnipanzer 01.13.11	My father had a vast collection of vinyl, reel to reel and cassettes. He then brought home the first CD and CD player I had ever seen and amassed the largest collection of Cd's I had known until I dwarfed it. I have never known anyone who loved music as much as he until I hit my twenties. The exception to the rule would be my punk, and industrial influences which would have come in Jr. High.
MO 01.13.11	My mom was an avid listener of the classics like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, all that Classic Rock and Jazz. Dad died when I was young so my older brother was basically my father figure and I followed him around and did what he did. 6 years older than me so when he got into the teen angst years of grade 7-8 he got into Marilyn Manson, NIN and Metallica to name a few. I followed Metallica into more Thrash then got into Opeth. Opeth truelly developed my ear musically and I haven't looked back ever since. This site kicks the big one though in terms of helping me find even more music nowadays.
climactic 01.13.11	my dad used to play floyd and zeppelin in the car. elementary school was green day and blink-182. then 6th-7th grade i liked a7x and shit, and got into the classics (maiden, metallica etc.). 8th grade i stared liking dream theater and Opeth and rush and stuff, then by high school i had a pretty dece taste. by sophmore year i started liking radiohead as well as godspeed and sigur ros and stuff, then joined sputnik and got into lots more stuff, and here we are
AnotherBrick 01.13.11	I grew up with my dad listening to pink floyd and I eventually began to like it, so I grabbed his copy of the wall and decided to research it conceptually, which showed me there is more to music than just what you hear. so I expanded from there looking for meaningful music
BigHans 01.13.11	My Dad was playing Beatles and Lennon solo albums to me when I was like 3, so thats where it started.
NorwichScene 01.13.11	My dad only listens to Elvis : (
UnderDaIce 01.13.11	2nd grade I heard Eminem on the radio which got me into other hip hop like Jay-Z, Dr Dre, Snoop, DMX, etc. Then I got into nu metal like Slipknot, Mudvayne, and Korn in 7th grade which then led me into thrahs metal like Pantera and Megadeth and metalcore like As I Lay Dying and Killswitch Engage. Then I progressively got into more and more different kinds of music
Shadein 01.13.11	I really listened to music in like 7th grade, i was into pop and radio rock like 3 Days Grace. Then i moved to heavier music like nu-metal like Disturbed, post-hardcore like Silverstein, and metalcore like Bullet for my Valentine. In 9th grade i got into pop punk and stuck with my post-hardcore and shitty metalcore. 10th grade was when I started to get interested in music as I just got into deathcore and "pop"core. I found Sputnikmusic in the summer after 10th grade and I started listening to better bands in the genres I liked. Now my music tastes have branched out and I've become more open-minded to music thanks to Sputnik
robertsona 01.13.11	one word: radiohead
bab808 01.14.11	long story, i have a friend who was actually my teacher and he showed me some good indie shit (editors, the national, decemberists, etc.) in like 7th grade. Before that, the only stuff I listened to that I still do today is probably Blink's self titled (first CD), The Beatles and Led Zeppelin (Mommy lol). Other than that- shitty pop-punk, avenged sevenfold, and Linkin Park (still like Meteora though). Found pitchfork in 9th grade and got into AC and LCD Soundsystem. Then I went through basically every staff list on that site and found amazzzzzing music (slint, mbv, sonic youth). Came to this site when i searched a slint review and found Ryan Flatley's review. Been on this sight since and found a lot of cool shit (Sun Kil Moon, American Football, Cynic)... shit
couldwinarabbit 01.14.11	robertsona is the new winner
dong chavez 01.14.11	I'm the youngest of seven. When growing up my one sister was very into rap, my one brother was very into hardcore, thrash, and just weird stuff, and my one sister was into emo. (my oldest siblings were in college and then med school while I was growing up). Pretty much explains everything.
hectorkemp 01.19.11	quick personal note before story: i cant think for myself my mother used to play tapes of the doors/fleetwood mac/pink floyd in the ol' mazda, and once i reached high school, i dabbled in faux-indie for a while. then i discovered thrash, death, black metal and grindcore. so for a period of a year, the only music was metal music. then i found sites like this one when looking for metal reviews. then pavement came along and destroyed my monotone tastes. then LRD came along and affirmed my propensity to like obscure bands. now, i am just one big messed up obscure rock encyclopedia (or id like to think so)