I go into different phases.
There's traces of about 50 kinds of Rock on my laptop, but it's never gone into rap or country.
My earliest memory is of me playing with Play-dough while REM was playing, but I don't like REM at all now. When I was 11 or 12, my dad told me he had some music I should like, and he put on The Ramones. It was a best-of CD, 3rd track - "Do You Remember Rock 'N Roll Radio?"
Immediately bumped me into music, and I've listened to the Ramones for at least 3 hours a week for about 4 years and I'm still not NEARLY tired of them. I've got 8 CDs of 'em.
After Ramones, I went from raw, pissed punk like the Sex Pistols to Black Sabbath and the likes of that, and from there I touched onto Judas Priest and hit my metal phase of Iron Maiden, glam metal and stuff. Then it went to what I now consider crap, like Slipknot and Disturbed, and from there it went into Death Metal like In Flames. After leaning towards Marilyn Manson and goth
in general, I went depressed-goth-y music like Jack Off Jill and even Rasputina. Then Emo came around and I wanted nothing to do with that crowd and their music was getting boring anyway. I never liked AFI and MCR and complete and total pointless noise like that, don't castrate me. I got into Billy Idol and pretty normal rock and some softer Metal, and this summer I discovered Rob Zombie and fell in love with songs like Living Dead Girl and House of 1000 Corpses.
Then Nirvana found me at a party, and although I'd heard them before, I never thought much of them, but all of a sudden it clicked. Now it's Nirvana and Alice in Chains that rank the top of the list, but I've still got favorite bands from almost all the subcategories.
At school, everyone listed the best bands they'd ever heard and we all traded lists, which broadened everyone's knowledge considerably, I suggest doing the same no matter how stupid it sounds. It's worth it.
Goddamn, this turned out long.
Anyone know Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Bronx, X, or fIREHOSE?
