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| Gateway Bands
So I was jamming Ulver's Nattens Madrigal on the train to a friends house yesterday, and later in the day I needed to charge it so put it in the charge section for speakers at his house and it started BLARING black metal through his house. This guy listens to nothing but hip-hop and he thought it was fucked, and that made me wonder why I listen to the kind of music I listen to now. So I thought I'd make a little list dedicated to the most important band in my listening career (Dream Theater) and other gateway bands that I've grown up with | | 1 |  | Dream Theater
Train of Thought
So here's my life-story through music. All I ever used to listen to was Linkin Park singles and Weird Al, never went out of my way to listen to music really until I was 14 and my best friend picked up the drums. He insisted I listen to "As I Am" because it made him want to play drums, and I couldn't believe the shit these guys could do. I had no idea people could play instruments as fast as these guys, and so I got him to give me the album. After searching them online and seeing a live video of "In the Name of God" I was completely hooked. | | 2 |  | Dream Theater
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
I wasn't really sure where to go after that, so I looked around and everyone seemed to agree Scenes from a Memory was their best album. I went and found a CD of it and listened to it at home, but just didn't get it. They had spoken word sections and orchestral stuff and I was expecting more crazy guitar and drums, so was disappointed initially. I listened to it again weeks later and suddenly, in Finally Free, when the atmosphere becomes darker and you can hear struggling, gunshots and screaming, I got shivers. I'd never had shivers listening to music before, and that made me keep listening to it, until eventually I started to love the album. | | 3 |  | Dream Theater
Octavarium
I picked up a guitar from a garage sale around the corner from my house, and started rabidly trying to learn so I could play like John Petrucci. At the same time, a bunch of friends had started playing Guitar hero and Rock Band, so I borrowed Rock Band 2 and a guitar controller from one of them and started playing around with it. Towards the end of the game, there is the song 'Panic Attack' from this album, and it blew my mind. I downloaded this album, and fell in love with the final song. I'd never heard a song like that, listening to it was an adventure for me, culminating in the screamed "TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM" that gave me an even bigger case of shivers. | | 4 |  | Dream Theater
A Change of Seasons
I sought out another Dream Theater epic like Octavarium, and this was my next download. Though it wasn't similar to Octavarium, it quickly became my favorite Dream Theater song, and still is. Contains a little bit of everything I love about DT, not nearly as much instrumental wankery as is typical of the band, some of their most impressive riffs and a way better vocal performance than I'd heard on the other albums (due to the vocal chord rupture in 1994, that crippled his vocal range). | | 5 |  | Dream Theater
Images and Words
I wanted more Labrie high vocals, and this was the most acclaimed of their older albums so this is where I went next. Some songs here will always have a special place for me; Another Day was the first DT song I ever learned on guitar in it's entirety, and Wait for Sleep was the first DT song I learned on keyboard. It's also from this point that I started expanding to other prog artists, and was the first time I really went outside of just listening to DT for music. | | 6 |  | In Flames
Come Clarity
This was one of the first metal albums I listened to outside of Dream Theater, and was a bit of a shock to start with. "Take This Life" was a bonus track on Guitar Hero 3, and the riff was always stuck in my head so I got a hold of this, and didn't make it halfway before the screaming got to be too much. Eventually I went back to it after jamming 'Honor thy Father' and wanting more metal, and this album is what led me to Dark Tranquillity and Insomnium, who I never stopped listening to through my later teens. | | 7 |  | Fall of Troy
Doppelganger
Another GH3 song (F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X) that got me into an album. By now I had adjusted to screaming somewhat and the guitar was unlike anything I'd heard. This bands page on this site is also has Ling Tosite Sigure in similar artists, and following that link is what led me to one of my favorite bands. | | 8 |  | Camel
Mirage
The first prog I listened to outside of Dream Theater. I don't even remember what led me here, but it led me further into the genre and was the first I properly explored. | | 9 |  | The Birthday Massacre
Walking With Strangers
Downloaded this at a time when all I listened to was Trivium and KSE, I thought these guys would be metal strictly based on their name, but I enjoyed it a bunch and started looking around for unusual things, to try to expand my tastes. | | 10 |  | Brand New
Deja Entendu
A school friend who would drive me 30min into school every day only had this cd in his car, so eventually I started to get attached to the album and explored their discography/indie/pop-punk in general. | | 11 |  | Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver was fairly popular here when I started using the site, and this was my first exposure to anything folky. Eventually led me to Tigers on Trains and Radical Face, which are 2 of my favorite artists now. | | 12 |  | Submotion Orchestra
Finest Hour
Got me into jazz, ty Deviant. | | 13 |  | Coroner
No More Color
Got me into thrash, ty KILL. | | 14 |  | El-P
Cancer 4 Cure
Got me into hip-hop, ty Sobhi. | | 15 |  | Paysage d'Hiver
Winterkaelte
Got me into black metal, ty Crysis. | | 16 |  | Ludovico Einaudi
Divenire
Gateway to classical, mainly thanks to the film 'The Intouchables'. Both the movie and album remain favorites of mine. | | 17 |  | The Smith Street Band
No One Gets Lost Anymore
Gateway to punk. They're a local band who performed with Frank Turner one time, and I'd never heard any punk outside of Rise Against so these guys were really important to me. | | 18 |  | Hammock
Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo
Gateway to ambient, and also my most listened to artist. | | 19 |  | The Angelic Process
Weighing Souls With Sand
Gateway to drone. | | 20 |  | Moving Mountains
Pneuma
Gateway to emo. The album isn't really similar to the majority of the genre, but slowly led me in that direction while exploring similar bands. | |
ComeToDaddy
07.09.14 | No idea what's up with that album art for Doppelganger, but not sure what to do about that really. Anyway, what's up guys? It's weird to think back and realise that a band I never listen to now can be accredited with almost everything I've gone on to listen to, and as such was an important part of my life. What weird bands got you into the music you jam now? | Trebor.
07.09.14 | emo: Sunny Day Real Estate, A Bunny's Caravan, Jimmy Eat World
screamo: Pianos Become The Teeth, Gospel, Off Minor
| ComeToDaddy
07.09.14 | hngg Pianos were my intro to screamo as well. Thanks for reminding me I still haven't gotten around to hearing Heat Death though | Deviant.
07.09.14 | The only time my name and Jazz will appear in the same sentence | BMDrummer
07.09.14 | Tool and Floyd were the big gateway bands for me when it comes to larger music in general. No way I could've liked Swans or Neurosis without those two. Neurosis also led to DM and all sorts of stuff like that for me. | ComeToDaddy
07.09.14 | Yeah I can only imagine how far I'd run away from an album like The Seer if I started using this site when that was big | Slut
07.09.14 | Pg. 99 for me so goddamn hard.
Also I thought this list would be filled with LP and breaking Benjamin stuff like that lol | ComeToDaddy
07.09.14 | heh I was pretty lucky with the way I was introduced to music, starting on prog and expanding from there through review sites. LP will always be fun though | dimsim3478
07.09.14 | gateway jazz is just like Davis and Coltrane |
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