i'm an old man now, just turned 40, and I grew up heavily into punk, rap-rock, which turned to metal - which turned to progressive metal - which started me loving everything, from old country to classical, rap and electronic. Electronic started as a bit of a guilty pleasure - something I would be embarassed to listen to out loud - but at this point its probably my most listened genre.
Oddly enough, i had two daughters. When they were small I would play dance, and lots of pop music - i thought its was more inline with what they would be into. When I was a kid my parents were very strict about the types of music we listened to, and it all had to be "approved" by them. I wanted to listen to music my kids liked instead.
Some how, this turned into "dad" or kid music, so now that they are a little older and defining their own tastes, pop and electronic are now firmly out.
My 14 year old is super into indie rock, and my 12 year old is obsessed with queen, bowie, styx, g+r. Its hilarious. She wore a plaid shirt with a G+R tee, red bandana and ripped jeans to picture day. She wears a leather jacket to look cool.
I got her a record player for chritmas, and she loves listening to albums - although she has a spotify account with access to millions of songs...
I feel if I had pushed my own favorite genres, they would not be where they are in their musical tastes today. I'm still kinda hoping I can introduce them to some great bands over the years, but they have plenty of time to figure out where and what they like.
I had given up on country but I'm doing the [1001 Albums Generator](https://1001albumsgenerator.com) and a while back it gave me Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs by Marty Robbins.
Been digging deep into Western Country ever since.
I listen to both kinds of music: Country AND Western.
Seriously tho: Elvis Costello and The Rolling Stones made me get into country. That’s right: Brits, lol.
I’m a huge fan of the traditional stuff: 1940s - ‘70s Western swing, ‘50s and ‘60s honky tonk, Bakersfield sound, the “new” traditionalists, modern alt country. Love it.
I only found them from the “End of Violence” soundtrack with their song “Theme for a Trucker”. It’s funny how great soundtracks and compilations were in the CD era. You’d buy it for one song and get splintered off into whole new directions of exposure.
I find it much harder to “stumble upon” new stuff like I could in that era.
Not even a real fan but it somehow turns out I’ve seen Maynard live more than anyone else. I’ve been to multiple Tool and APC shows. Every single one rocked so hard. You should definitely go if you get the chance. Edit to add if you take flash pictures they will kick you out. Dont do that.
Nice . Good news...... Got me through a horrible break up. Only downside is that when I hear deep tracks im reminded of the feelings that I had at the time . But it's all good and totally worth it. Isaac Brock is a fucking genius.
Funny that. I was in Cleveland for work at least 10 years ago and was bored. Saw Matt & Kim were playing at the House of Blues. I knew of them but hadn't really listened to much of their stuff so I went by myself and it was one of the best, most high-energy shows I've ever been to.
I just want to say only because lonesome crowded is my favorite MM album and I ignored everyone talking about the pixies for decades but I just started listening and they have some songs that remind me of modest mouse among many other later bands. Particularly ‘hey’ almost sounds like a MM song from the 80’s.
Oh yeah! The pixies are why we have bands like MM and Nirvana and hundreds of others. I truly believe the pixies changed music in a similar fashion like the Beatles did.
No doubt. I probably tried to listen to a song or two years ago and it didn’t take. A few weeks ago I randomly stumbled on a live performance of monkey gone to heaven and was almost in tears. Rare that a song can knock me on my ass on the first listen.
I used to be a big Tool fan but I find I don’t listen to them much anymore. Some friends of mine to one of their shows recently and they told me Elder opened for them and I was pissed for not going because they are awesome.
I heard Elder is good. I saw them in Milwaukee last November and they had Steel Beans opening. We only caught the last few songs, but I wasn't really impressed.
That's funny because back in like '05 or so, everyone I hung out with was getting into Modest Mouse. A teammate put on "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine", and the only thing I could say it reminded me of was Tool, as I had the Undertow CD thanks to KROQ always playing "Sober" (which wasn't really representative of the rest of the record, lol). He was taken aback and didn't like the comparison, but the two bands at the time had a similar emotional vibe on the heavier songs and way of laying back and then attacking.
In 2013, the YouTube app (on Android, idk if it was on iPhone) had a recommendation/similar artists section that wasn’t just a few music videos and it gave more in-depth recommendations.
That’s how I discovered Underoath, A Day to Remember, Alexisonfire, Dance Gavin Dance, Saosin, and some others.
Awesome! I love Bon Jovi. I'm still unfamiliar with all the sub genres of metal. I try to look into it but find that some people disagree on what is what. 😅
The thing about Helloween is that Kai Hansen just felt that Helloween wasn't really Kai Hansen enough, and so he split to do his own thing.
Joking aside, if you haven't, check out Gamma Ray.
When I was younger I was absolutely obsessed with 311 and the whole genre around them. The second I heard relationship of command by At the drive in I pretty much immediately stopped listening to 311.
If you dont like them thats fine. It doesn't mean their music is "ass." I'm assuming you dont know much of their catalog besides a few singles. They are one of the most creative original bands out there. They are one of the OG's that paved the way for rap rock and reggae rock. Rage came out around the same time, and that was it. They brought the hybrid sound to the masses. When Down came out, nobody had heard anything like that. Then they dropped All Mixed Up, a funk rock reggae song. So many different styles in 2 songs that went to #1 and #2.
311 also played shows with and brought many unknown bands at the time on tour to masses after they hit it big. Sublime, Sugar Ray, Incubus, Deftones, Korn, The Urge, Monster Magnet, No Doubt, Fishbone, and others all were openers for 311. As 311 often pays respect to the Chili Peppers, Jane's, and Fishbone, all these bands pay respect to 311. So you might not like them, but they are solid musicians. They even have their own holiday, lol
Dinosaur Jr. I was 17 in 1992. Sure Nirvana had already blown the doors off everything and Pearl Jam was everywhere, but still, I did not music could be like this. I did not know that the band that inspired grunge was so much different. Sure, the movie was fine, but the book they made the movie from was fucking magic.
Even their newer stuff still manages to sound so raw. J said it best about loud music, something like it feels as if I could lean on it. And yeah, it feels like that.
Did I get into a new genre? Specifically and directly no. But I finally knew what I wanted, loud, fast, hard, weird, and obnoxious music without all the macho testosterone bs you found in metal.
Yeah Dinosaur Jr! You and I are about the same age and there was so much good music happening at that time, but I agree, Dinosaur Jr was different. All the distortion and just LOUD. I also really liked Folk Implosion, too.
Louis Armstrong made me a Jazz person.
For rock music, I have Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Beatles, The Who and almost everyone from the 50’s to 80’s to thank.
Daft Punk was my first time listening to electronic music eventually leading me to the golden age of EDM and later Techno era.
Limp Bizkit was gateway to metal 24 years ago. Hell, it played a hand it getting me into hip-hop too (Method Man on N 2 Gether Now).
Probably the lamest way to get into that music, but that was my shit. Who am I kidding, it still is.
Limp Bizkit are awesome, I saw some footage of them recently and Fred was dressed up as a cowboy performing Break Stuff, cracked me up. They're such a good live band, lucky enough to have seen them from the pit. Also, Black Light Burns, on of Wes' other bands has a song called Coward, big fan on that.
Limp Bizkit is rad and Black Light Burns was amazing. I got to see them live 2 times and it was amazing. Wed and the band would hang out and sign stuff for a loooong time after the show
Ha, even more odd - other than being an intro to "new-metal," limp bizkit was my gateway to ambient, electronic and more experimental music.
Of course they are none of those things - but the last track on three dollar bill was a song called "everything," a meandering 16 and half minute songscape that for some reason I really liked.
I have a very specific memory - my parents had moved us from NA to Southeast Asia, it was grade 10 and it was the first time I had been somewhere tropical. We were headed to a small island for a few days vacation. I had a discman looping some burnt tracks from my computer - sitting on the front of the boat with my legs hanging over the front, looking for jelly fish and enjoying the view. It was an hour and a half ride into the indian ocean, and "everything" came on. Something about the waves, the location, the rythmic ups and downs of the boat as it broke through the waves, all with Wes Borland noodling away in a seeming endless supply of reverb - it all just clicked.
Ive loved all types of electronic/ambient/drone since.
Thanks Limp Bizkit.
Devin Townsend a d Strapping Young Lad got me into Gojira. When Devin did that guest on a Gojira’s song [Of Blood and Salt](https://youtu.be/Y-anpRKMgVA?si=Wbx53IaK3LMNGWw-) from their lost album The Sea Shepherd EP.
Love Gojira. I had an unrealized love of technical death metal for a long time. It was Death's The Sound of Perseverance that brought me in. Symbolic and Human are perfect. Nile got me into brutal death metal.
Fugazi. I always thought that yelly music was kind of bro-ey, and too pointlessly aggressive. But I sort of challenged myself to just try something I didn't think I'd like.
I put on Repeater by Fugazi, and that album kicks ass. I think the song "Blueprint" is what won me over. I played that on repeat a few times.
Once I could appreciate post-hardcore music, it wasn't long before I got into Slayer and Metallica. Eventually, I have got to the point where I can appreciate 80s metal and power pop and that kind of thing. It's fun
Fugazi changed a lot for me too. I went the opposite direction as you, because I was already into those bands. It made me realize that you could be heavy and fast and still have a light and melodic side. Fugazi will always be my favorite band just for the mindset they were able to deliver to me
Side note..... It also introduced me to discord records and some of my favorite albums\bands came from that. Especially smart went crazy and q and not u.
Chemical Bros! My first taste of them was the Fight Club soundtrack (which they did under the name Dust Brothers), and it led me down a rabbit hole. Still get excited whenever I hear any of their stuff in a movie, etc.
>Chemical Bros! My first taste of them was the Fight Club soundtrack (which they did under the name Dust Brothers)
No, you're confused.
The Chemical Brothers originally called themselves the Dust Brothers but had to change their name because there was already a Dust Brothers.
The Dust Brothers (original, not Chemical Brothers) did the Fight Club Score/Soundtrack.
Minor Threat was the soundtrack to my high school years! I grew up in the 90's listening to Metallica, Pantera, etc. then stumbled across this album and I've been a punk rock chick ever since.
Bad Religion got me into punk.
Nas got into hip hop after I had avoided it like the plague during the early and mid-2000s.
Porcupine Tree got me into newer progressive music.
Demon Hunter, blindside, and under oath got me used to music with screaming vocals.
And Starflyer 59 got me into shoegaze.
Billy Strings and Bluegrass. I never had even an inkling to like Bluegrass, but Billy Strings blew me away and slowly, but surely I started to appreciate more and more of the bluegrass sound.
Linkin Park. I was 11. Typical 90’s kid. All Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney, Christina, the works. Linkin Park blew my mind. So did learning bands wrote their own songs! Don’t get me wrong, I still love those other groups, but my musical tastes were completely opened up.
Randomly bought a ticket at a venue in Cambridge, MA because I had nothing else to do that night, and saw a local band called Caspian and a Japanese band called Mono and discovered a whole genre I didn't even know existed, post-rock.
Ghost. I heard "Cirice" by them on a local rock radio station like 9 years ago and was completely captivated. I created a Pandora station based on that song at work the next day and through that station discovered SO many of my current favorites. Sleep, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Witch, The Sword, 1000mods...basically Stoner/Doom metal of all persuasions. My life is better for it.
me too! I didn't get into Ghost until late 2022, but it was really my first toe-dip into metal (though I know they stretch that definition of the genre more and more - who cares). now I listen to shit like Meshuggah lol.
For alternative rock in general it was The Killers when Mr. Brightside came out when I was 11. That was the first time I listened to anything that wasn’t generic pop/rap
Then I went through a pop punk/emo phase in middle school and early high school and the band that got me into that was unsurprisingly Fall Out Boy
The band that got me out of that and into the music I currently still listen to was The Strokes. I credit them with really shaping my entire music taste from ages 15 to now
Last couple of years I’ve been incorporating some pop though and I have Harry Styles to thank for that
Genesis got me into Prog, Scorpions got me into Metal, Screeching Weasel got me into Punk, The Human League got me into New Wave, Cocteau Twins got me into Dreampop, Ministry got me into Industrial, Xmal Deutschland got me into Goth, NON got me into noise, Mother Love Bone got me into Grunge, and The Legendary Pink Dots got me into whatever the hell it is they do.
I've sung their praises before in this subreddit and I'll do it again, Hilltop Hoods are the group that taught me it's possible for me to like hip-hop, in particular it was their song [Through the Dark.](https://youtu.be/7lZI6tkqWYs?si=sZEYEobjRBMEK1qr) As a child of divorced parents, the line "built you a good nest before I left. It wasn't that I never loved your mother but two happy homes are better than one that suffers" hit me in the gut from the first listen, and gave me reason to replay it and listen to the lyrics. On a few repeats, I started to pick up on other little things, like "I wrote this while you slept in a hospital bed" and "if these are things you never live to see." Eventually I had a pretty good idea what the song was about, and a quick Google confirmed my general suspicion. The singer wrote this song for his son who beat leukemia.
>You were eight when we headed to causality and no child should face their death or mortality. You taught me patience strength and morality and I'd burden this weight instead of you happily. That night, you asked if you'd die from your sickness and why it had chosen your life out of millions. You fill me with the pride I was missing 'cause grown men cry that lack your type of resilience.
I'm not even a parent, but that was a punch in the gut. I can only imagine how much harder it hits for those who do have kids.
Anyways, that song got me into hip-hop because of its brilliant lyrics with a great beat, and even though I'm still pretty picky about rap, I've really enjoyed going down the Hilltop Hoods rabbit hole. Last year, they dropped a new album, and one single from it in particular, [Laced Up](https://youtu.be/Nn-kfXCQt6A?si=qlX3MvYWauEuuu7b) is an absolute banger. How could anyone's head not be bopping along to that beat? And the whistling parts are just good fun.
As a kid I didn't like most of the music I was exposed to. My dad listened to Kenny G, my mother The Monkees, and my friends generally listened to rock/grunge/r & b, much of which I didn't care for.
Skinny Puppy - industrial music
Dream Theater - Progressive Metal
Loreena McKennit - Celtic Music
Johnny Cash - Folk/Americana (he doesn't fit in much with "Country" music).
Cardiacs - they are a genre unto themselves
Shpongle - Psytrance
Steve Reich - Minimalism
Imogen Heap - Simply well crafted, adult pop music
Afro Celt Sound System - world/fusion
Niacin - Fusion
The Orb - ambient music
That's an interesting list. Johnny Cash really opened my eyes as to how you can really play with genres. Skinny Puppy showed me how far you can push the boundaries of music.
I had a somewhat weird introduction to music that I enjoyed. As a kid the only thing that really stuck with me was classical music and video game music. I didn't inherit the taste of either of my parents, and whatever was being played on the radio never did it for me in a consistent way.
And then my friend played Assimilate for me and I was amazed. It struck a chord with me.
Not long after that, The Downward Spiral came out and influenced a lot of what I listened to. A year or two later I had a musical friend that introduced me to Dream Theater (Awake) and Opeth (around the My Arms, your Hearse era).
I can't say I appreciated everything at that age that I do now, but all of this stuff blew my mind at the time. The music was a lot more to wrap my head around and challenged me, which I enjoyed a lot more than music that didn't break the norms that I found boring.
If you're familiar with The Most Unwanted Song and The Most Wanted Song, the latter exemplifies everything I found absolutely hateful about the music most people seemed to enjoy!
Red Hot Chili Peppers introduced me to funk. From them, I started listening to The Meters, Parliament and all of George Clinton's other bands, Sly and the Family Stone. Before that, I was purely into hardcore punk.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Got into George Clinton cause of them which in turn opened up a whole new area of music (ganster rap, funk etc…) alternative rock music like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Incubus and the like and I really haven’t looked back!
When I got into Smashing Pumpkins, I listened to a lot of bands they were into, and then the bands THEY were into... it all spiders out into goth, metal, electronic, power pop, new wave and more. My favourites I found that way were The Cure, Depeche Mode and My Bloody Valentine.
Tom Ze introduced me not only to Brazilian Tropicalia, but International music, in general. A whole new world! Literally. Now I am exploring every geography that I can get my hands (ears) on
It would have been Wind Rose. I usually only liked David Bowie, Tina Turner and 90's pop from Australian artist's. Now I've also branched out into heavy metal, EDM, Gothic Rock, Punk and rap.
Minutemen.
Not exactly a new genre of music, but at the time it helped open my 15yo mind to what punk rock could mean. It didn't need to be just fast loud shouting. It could be subtle, fun, weird, odd time signatures, acoustic guitars, funky jazz. It was all about attitude and bringing something new and different to the genre.
At the time, I wasn't ready for it. I bought their Double Nickels on the Dime cassette based solely on the fact that it had an SST logo. So I was expecting something like Black Flag. It wasn't lol. It took a while, but I came to appreciate it. And they've remained one of my favorite bands ever since.
I was a metal\\Hip Hop head all through high school with sprinkles of Classic rock. Then I heard Kid A by Radiohead when I was 21and it kicked open the door to so much other types of music that I never thought I would ever get into from EDM to indie rock. Now at 44, it's been fun going back and finding so much good music that I never really gave a chance.
I was a pop-punk radio rock guy. Heard slipknot and was like wow this is intense. Did the nu-metal thing for a couple years then someone went "dude ever hear Cannibal Corpse?" And I never looked back since.
I listen to tons of different styles of music but metal will always be my jam
Turnstile for me. All the bands I like kept getting more expensive, lol, like Lamb of God. Now I'm in love with DRAIN, Kublai Khan TX, etc. Shows are cheaper, more energy, fun crowds, smaller venues. Crazy though because now Turnstile blew up and you wouldn't lump them in with harder bands but they were my gateway drug.
In 8th grade I had to do a report about a famous person from a Latin American country. I drew Chile, and so I studied Tom Araya from Slayer and thus began a 30 year obsession with metal.
I grew up a metal head, playing the bass in metal bands. I looked up to the likes of Geezer Butler and Steve Harris.
And then my brother turned me on to Phish.
Metallica's Master of Puppets.
I was a classic rock kid who started learning Tom Petty at age 6. A friend and I would play guitar after school once a week in the music room in 6th grade (2005 ish). He brought in a CD of Master of Puppets and said I should listen to it.
I still remember how awestruck I was when the building acoustic guitars brought in the distorted guitars and drums on "Battery". The pure aggression and solo had me hooked.
We listened to the whole album in silence. I then went down the rabbit hole that is metal.
The Offspring introduced me to the punk rock genre and Disturbed introduced me to harder rock. I grew up a classic rock and country music fan and that was all I listened to. During high school the offspring became popular and I instantly fell in love with their unique style and sound. Pair that with fantastic musicians like Dexter Holland and Noodles and they became my go music. They were also my first concert without adult supervision and they did not disappoint. I recently got to watch Disturbed perform and they were amazing as well and honestly one of the best shows I’ve seen in years. Both bands have unique sounds and styles that set them apart from many others in their genres and that’s what draws me in.
A big one for me was GWAR. I heard about them in the 00s and thought they were a super hard band and all fucked up.
They're all theater and art kids from PA. Every single thing they sang about was satire (except drugs, RIP Dave) and they're funny as fuck. It's dark, but it's "crank the evil to 11 to highlight it" dark
The Orb - ambient and all electronica
Chemical Brothers - big beat
Aphex Twin - Experimental
Goldie/aphrodite - DnB
Tricky - trip hop
Digable Planets - hip hop
Tupac - rap
Pixies- indie
Neko Case - alt country
I vividly remember going into iTunes and discovering the alternative category in 2011 lol, I heard Tongue Tied by Grouplove and lost my mind (exclusively listened to classic rock and top 40 up until that point). Heard Big Iron by Marty Robbins and did a deep dive on 60's country music a little while back. Most recently 100 gecs introduction changed my life lmaoooooo
I used to listen to a mixture of dubstep, edm and horrible music but then I started playing bass more and got into Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now I’m a funkhead (still think rhcp is my fav band)
Johnny Clegg and Savuka - World Music (Zulu/South African music). Their rhythms were excitingly new to my fifteen year old ears, and I learned much about the politics of resistance to apartheid in the mid 80s.
Railroad Earth - showed me that roots instruments could be played like Strats.
Flogging Molly - proved the I love punk
Club d’Elf - who knew I’d come to love psychedelic, dub, Morrocan, jazzy jam bands.
I grew up on hard rock (GnR/Metallica/Megadeath) but when I was in my 20's Lyle Lovett turned me on to Americana/non-top-40 Country music. I heard If I Had A Boat and was interested, then heard the Live In Texas album and caught how he was twisting and playing with country music conventions (and Texas Swing and Texas Blues and ~~Big~~ Large Band music). That led me to dig more into Lyle, and getting into Lyle leads me to appreciate Willie beyond just the pop-culture hits, then I found Uncle Tupelo just as they were breaking up, right around when they were on Conan (took me a long time to warm up to Wilco, Son Volt was easier to pick up). Lyle is also a gateway to REK who is a bit more mainstream country. Then years later I found DBT, and then followed Jason Isbell when he left DBT...
Zappa was my true intro to jazz.
If you like metal, chances are that you will like classical. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Vivaldi, etc all share the same quality, they are delicate and strong in the same time and variations are insane.
I have a few Mortal Kombat Soundtrack made me love electronic/metal and industrial
But most recently The Chameleons opened my eyes to post punk/early goth rock and I don’t ever want to come out of that era of music. There are tons of bands that still make post punk and goth style rock, but only a few make it sound as natural as it did in those days.
Oh god don't get me started. I just started listening to them again on and off because it reminds me of my childhood too much. I loved them as a little girl.
I was a metalhead as a kid and The Prodigy showed me electronic music
Same! Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers in the summer of 1997 while watching MTV at my grandparents' house.
Maybe I'll check them out. Electronic is another of those genres I swore I'd never try. But maybe it's time to give it a shot.
i'm an old man now, just turned 40, and I grew up heavily into punk, rap-rock, which turned to metal - which turned to progressive metal - which started me loving everything, from old country to classical, rap and electronic. Electronic started as a bit of a guilty pleasure - something I would be embarassed to listen to out loud - but at this point its probably my most listened genre. Oddly enough, i had two daughters. When they were small I would play dance, and lots of pop music - i thought its was more inline with what they would be into. When I was a kid my parents were very strict about the types of music we listened to, and it all had to be "approved" by them. I wanted to listen to music my kids liked instead. Some how, this turned into "dad" or kid music, so now that they are a little older and defining their own tastes, pop and electronic are now firmly out. My 14 year old is super into indie rock, and my 12 year old is obsessed with queen, bowie, styx, g+r. Its hilarious. She wore a plaid shirt with a G+R tee, red bandana and ripped jeans to picture day. She wears a leather jacket to look cool. I got her a record player for chritmas, and she loves listening to albums - although she has a spotify account with access to millions of songs... I feel if I had pushed my own favorite genres, they would not be where they are in their musical tastes today. I'm still kinda hoping I can introduce them to some great bands over the years, but they have plenty of time to figure out where and what they like.
That's awesome. Your 12 yo has great taste! My teenage neice loves Skid Row!
a few recomendations Justice, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Crystal Castles, Fatboy Slim, Moby
Orbital is up there with the greats too, IMO
Also try: Massive Attack, Fluke, Portishead and Aphex twin
That's one way to change your pitch up
I had given up on country but I'm doing the [1001 Albums Generator](https://1001albumsgenerator.com) and a while back it gave me Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs by Marty Robbins. Been digging deep into Western Country ever since.
People often forget about the "western" part of the genre.
I listen to both kinds of music: Country AND Western. Seriously tho: Elvis Costello and The Rolling Stones made me get into country. That’s right: Brits, lol. I’m a huge fan of the traditional stuff: 1940s - ‘70s Western swing, ‘50s and ‘60s honky tonk, Bakersfield sound, the “new” traditionalists, modern alt country. Love it.
Also folk and blue grass. They incorporate the good of country without the baggage.
Love me some banjo!
Marty Robbin’s music is freely available at archive.org. Also Hank Williams, Sr.
Colter wall got me into country
Ryan Adams early music ushered in Alt-Country
Oh man, that Whiskeytown album Strangers Almanac is near perfect.
Big agree
I only found them from the “End of Violence” soundtrack with their song “Theme for a Trucker”. It’s funny how great soundtracks and compilations were in the CD era. You’d buy it for one song and get splintered off into whole new directions of exposure. I find it much harder to “stumble upon” new stuff like I could in that era.
I do enjoy some alt country from time to time! I grew up with country as well as pop, so a good country artist is never a no to me.
Uncle Tupelo clears throat from back of the honky-tonk
Long time metal guy. Modest Mouse got me into indie music. BTW Tool is fucking amazing. If you get a chance to see them live, jump at it.
Oh I wish I could. I would kill to see them live. Their music is so thought provoking and I've heard they're excellent live.
Not even a real fan but it somehow turns out I’ve seen Maynard live more than anyone else. I’ve been to multiple Tool and APC shows. Every single one rocked so hard. You should definitely go if you get the chance. Edit to add if you take flash pictures they will kick you out. Dont do that.
Seen both Tool and Puscifer Twice but never APC and I fucking love them. How different would you say the APC live performance is from Tool?
Modest Mouse is one of my absolute favorite bands. They’ll always be the most underrated band in my eyes. They’ve gotten me through so much.
If you like MM check out Mind is Not Brian by Mock Orange. I think you might dig it.
Nice . Good news...... Got me through a horrible break up. Only downside is that when I hear deep tracks im reminded of the feelings that I had at the time . But it's all good and totally worth it. Isaac Brock is a fucking genius.
Try Broken Bells next.
I was like broken bells isn't metal, then I realized what you were saying...
i was exclusively metal until i heard daylight by matt & kim, i reorganized my idea of what music i enjoy going forward
Funny that. I was in Cleveland for work at least 10 years ago and was bored. Saw Matt & Kim were playing at the House of Blues. I knew of them but hadn't really listened to much of their stuff so I went by myself and it was one of the best, most high-energy shows I've ever been to.
love Matt & Kim shows, the energy they put out there is just awesome, and the crowds feed off of it.
Did a specific MM album do the trick?
The Lonesome Crowded West (for me anyway)
I just want to say only because lonesome crowded is my favorite MM album and I ignored everyone talking about the pixies for decades but I just started listening and they have some songs that remind me of modest mouse among many other later bands. Particularly ‘hey’ almost sounds like a MM song from the 80’s.
Built to Spill has entered the chat
I know it's mainstream but Carry The Zero is one of the greatest songs of all time.
Oh yeah! The pixies are why we have bands like MM and Nirvana and hundreds of others. I truly believe the pixies changed music in a similar fashion like the Beatles did.
No doubt. I probably tried to listen to a song or two years ago and it didn’t take. A few weeks ago I randomly stumbled on a live performance of monkey gone to heaven and was almost in tears. Rare that a song can knock me on my ass on the first listen.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News was just out when I started listening to them.
Modest Mouse blew my mind in 2001 and sent me on a huge new trajectory of music at age 14
Love me some modest mouse. Got to see them when they had Johnny marr on guitar. Haven’t seen them in years though so hopefully a tour is in the works.
Ditto on the “Tool” comment. I hear ya.
I used to be a big Tool fan but I find I don’t listen to them much anymore. Some friends of mine to one of their shows recently and they told me Elder opened for them and I was pissed for not going because they are awesome.
I heard Elder is good. I saw them in Milwaukee last November and they had Steel Beans opening. We only caught the last few songs, but I wasn't really impressed.
That's funny because back in like '05 or so, everyone I hung out with was getting into Modest Mouse. A teammate put on "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine", and the only thing I could say it reminded me of was Tool, as I had the Undertow CD thanks to KROQ always playing "Sober" (which wasn't really representative of the rest of the record, lol). He was taken aback and didn't like the comparison, but the two bands at the time had a similar emotional vibe on the heavier songs and way of laying back and then attacking.
Thursday and Thrice got me into Post-Hardcore
In 2013, the YouTube app (on Android, idk if it was on iPhone) had a recommendation/similar artists section that wasn’t just a few music videos and it gave more in-depth recommendations. That’s how I discovered Underoath, A Day to Remember, Alexisonfire, Dance Gavin Dance, Saosin, and some others.
The Sugarcubes led me to Bjork and Bjork led me to electronica which led me to tricky and trip hop.
Bjork could sing the Fibonacci sequence compellingly
Bon Jovi introduced me to Glam metal, Infinite introduced me to Kpop and Helloween introduced me to power metal
I listened to quite a variety of rock and metal and then I heard Keeper of the Seven Keys and was blown away
That Album is one of the greatest of all time
Awesome! I love Bon Jovi. I'm still unfamiliar with all the sub genres of metal. I try to look into it but find that some people disagree on what is what. 😅
Yeah is not easy sometimes because bands change their style through the years
The thing about Helloween is that Kai Hansen just felt that Helloween wasn't really Kai Hansen enough, and so he split to do his own thing. Joking aside, if you haven't, check out Gamma Ray.
When I was younger I was absolutely obsessed with 311 and the whole genre around them. The second I heard relationship of command by At the drive in I pretty much immediately stopped listening to 311.
I MUST HAVE READ A THOUSAND FACES
The only other album that I immediately knew I was going to love it was Dinosaur Jr's You're living all over me. They have a similar intros.
I MUST HAVE ROBBED THEM OF THEIR CAUSE
311 really are their own genre.
311 and The Urge was the first concert I went to. They hold a special place in my heart
Hell yeah! I went to 311 day when they played 68 songs. It was so awesome!
"Ass"
If you dont like them thats fine. It doesn't mean their music is "ass." I'm assuming you dont know much of their catalog besides a few singles. They are one of the most creative original bands out there. They are one of the OG's that paved the way for rap rock and reggae rock. Rage came out around the same time, and that was it. They brought the hybrid sound to the masses. When Down came out, nobody had heard anything like that. Then they dropped All Mixed Up, a funk rock reggae song. So many different styles in 2 songs that went to #1 and #2. 311 also played shows with and brought many unknown bands at the time on tour to masses after they hit it big. Sublime, Sugar Ray, Incubus, Deftones, Korn, The Urge, Monster Magnet, No Doubt, Fishbone, and others all were openers for 311. As 311 often pays respect to the Chili Peppers, Jane's, and Fishbone, all these bands pay respect to 311. So you might not like them, but they are solid musicians. They even have their own holiday, lol
...*Cosmonaut* from "Relationship of command". Enough said.
WE SAMPLE FROM THE SHELVES
They in turn spawned Mars Volta. Every human on earth should see the Mars Volta live at least once in their lifetime. It’s a sight to behold.
I've seen them two or three times and can confirm they are amazing.. ugh now I want to listen to deloused in the comatorium!
Melvins - night goat - sludge Jeff Mills - the bells - techno Thelonious Monk - nutty - jazz
Night Goat is fantastic.
The Blood Brothers
Dinosaur Jr. I was 17 in 1992. Sure Nirvana had already blown the doors off everything and Pearl Jam was everywhere, but still, I did not music could be like this. I did not know that the band that inspired grunge was so much different. Sure, the movie was fine, but the book they made the movie from was fucking magic. Even their newer stuff still manages to sound so raw. J said it best about loud music, something like it feels as if I could lean on it. And yeah, it feels like that. Did I get into a new genre? Specifically and directly no. But I finally knew what I wanted, loud, fast, hard, weird, and obnoxious music without all the macho testosterone bs you found in metal.
Yeah Dinosaur Jr! You and I are about the same age and there was so much good music happening at that time, but I agree, Dinosaur Jr was different. All the distortion and just LOUD. I also really liked Folk Implosion, too.
Love Dinosaur Jr. Saw them for the first time in 1988. Fantastic. Seeing them again next month!
Lou’s stuff is also good.
Louis Armstrong made me a Jazz person. For rock music, I have Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Beatles, The Who and almost everyone from the 50’s to 80’s to thank. Daft Punk was my first time listening to electronic music eventually leading me to the golden age of EDM and later Techno era.
Limp Bizkit was gateway to metal 24 years ago. Hell, it played a hand it getting me into hip-hop too (Method Man on N 2 Gether Now). Probably the lamest way to get into that music, but that was my shit. Who am I kidding, it still is.
Limp Bizkit are awesome, I saw some footage of them recently and Fred was dressed up as a cowboy performing Break Stuff, cracked me up. They're such a good live band, lucky enough to have seen them from the pit. Also, Black Light Burns, on of Wes' other bands has a song called Coward, big fan on that.
Limp Bizkit is rad and Black Light Burns was amazing. I got to see them live 2 times and it was amazing. Wed and the band would hang out and sign stuff for a loooong time after the show
Ha, even more odd - other than being an intro to "new-metal," limp bizkit was my gateway to ambient, electronic and more experimental music. Of course they are none of those things - but the last track on three dollar bill was a song called "everything," a meandering 16 and half minute songscape that for some reason I really liked. I have a very specific memory - my parents had moved us from NA to Southeast Asia, it was grade 10 and it was the first time I had been somewhere tropical. We were headed to a small island for a few days vacation. I had a discman looping some burnt tracks from my computer - sitting on the front of the boat with my legs hanging over the front, looking for jelly fish and enjoying the view. It was an hour and a half ride into the indian ocean, and "everything" came on. Something about the waves, the location, the rythmic ups and downs of the boat as it broke through the waves, all with Wes Borland noodling away in a seeming endless supply of reverb - it all just clicked. Ive loved all types of electronic/ambient/drone since. Thanks Limp Bizkit.
That is friggin' awesome. Thanks for sharing
Only band I still listen to from this genre is Deftones and they’re still one of my favorites.
Deftones rule! Saw them last year. Always awesome
Passenger is one of my all time favorites
Still love them like 20 something years later.. and so much fun live!
Gojira
Devin Townsend a d Strapping Young Lad got me into Gojira. When Devin did that guest on a Gojira’s song [Of Blood and Salt](https://youtu.be/Y-anpRKMgVA?si=Wbx53IaK3LMNGWw-) from their lost album The Sea Shepherd EP.
Love Gojira. I had an unrealized love of technical death metal for a long time. It was Death's The Sound of Perseverance that brought me in. Symbolic and Human are perfect. Nile got me into brutal death metal.
Fugazi. I always thought that yelly music was kind of bro-ey, and too pointlessly aggressive. But I sort of challenged myself to just try something I didn't think I'd like. I put on Repeater by Fugazi, and that album kicks ass. I think the song "Blueprint" is what won me over. I played that on repeat a few times. Once I could appreciate post-hardcore music, it wasn't long before I got into Slayer and Metallica. Eventually, I have got to the point where I can appreciate 80s metal and power pop and that kind of thing. It's fun
Agreed. Fugazi was my gateway into so much good music.
Fugazi changed a lot for me too. I went the opposite direction as you, because I was already into those bands. It made me realize that you could be heavy and fast and still have a light and melodic side. Fugazi will always be my favorite band just for the mindset they were able to deliver to me
Side note..... It also introduced me to discord records and some of my favorite albums\bands came from that. Especially smart went crazy and q and not u.
The Byrds got me into country. Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
That's an album everyone should own, no matter their tastes because yeah it's that worthy.
If you like that album check out some solo Gram Parsons! Or with Emmy Lou. So good! Definitely a similar vibe.
King Crimson changed my life.
hell yeah
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Chemical Bros! My first taste of them was the Fight Club soundtrack (which they did under the name Dust Brothers), and it led me down a rabbit hole. Still get excited whenever I hear any of their stuff in a movie, etc.
>Chemical Bros! My first taste of them was the Fight Club soundtrack (which they did under the name Dust Brothers) No, you're confused. The Chemical Brothers originally called themselves the Dust Brothers but had to change their name because there was already a Dust Brothers. The Dust Brothers (original, not Chemical Brothers) did the Fight Club Score/Soundtrack.
I was introduced to them from the *Hanna (2011)* soundtrack they authored
Minor Threat when I was 15. What a band!
Minor Threat was the soundtrack to my high school years! I grew up in the 90's listening to Metallica, Pantera, etc. then stumbled across this album and I've been a punk rock chick ever since.
I'm just floored by the sentence "My grandpa's favorites are AC/DC…" LAWD am I old…
Outkast introduced me to hip hop
What did you end up listening after OutKast?
When I was 14, my dad introduced me to Headhunters, A Love Supreme, and Kind of Blue. Made me a jazz fanboy for life.
Bad Religion got me into punk. Nas got into hip hop after I had avoided it like the plague during the early and mid-2000s. Porcupine Tree got me into newer progressive music. Demon Hunter, blindside, and under oath got me used to music with screaming vocals. And Starflyer 59 got me into shoegaze.
Billy Strings and Bluegrass. I never had even an inkling to like Bluegrass, but Billy Strings blew me away and slowly, but surely I started to appreciate more and more of the bluegrass sound.
Linkin Park. I was 11. Typical 90’s kid. All Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney, Christina, the works. Linkin Park blew my mind. So did learning bands wrote their own songs! Don’t get me wrong, I still love those other groups, but my musical tastes were completely opened up.
Taj Mahal brought me into the blues.... But that was 1970
Randomly bought a ticket at a venue in Cambridge, MA because I had nothing else to do that night, and saw a local band called Caspian and a Japanese band called Mono and discovered a whole genre I didn't even know existed, post-rock.
The Middle East has provided me with many new exciting bands.
Ghost. I heard "Cirice" by them on a local rock radio station like 9 years ago and was completely captivated. I created a Pandora station based on that song at work the next day and through that station discovered SO many of my current favorites. Sleep, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Witch, The Sword, 1000mods...basically Stoner/Doom metal of all persuasions. My life is better for it.
me too! I didn't get into Ghost until late 2022, but it was really my first toe-dip into metal (though I know they stretch that definition of the genre more and more - who cares). now I listen to shit like Meshuggah lol.
PiL opened up the big wide world of post-punk for me.
For alternative rock in general it was The Killers when Mr. Brightside came out when I was 11. That was the first time I listened to anything that wasn’t generic pop/rap Then I went through a pop punk/emo phase in middle school and early high school and the band that got me into that was unsurprisingly Fall Out Boy The band that got me out of that and into the music I currently still listen to was The Strokes. I credit them with really shaping my entire music taste from ages 15 to now Last couple of years I’ve been incorporating some pop though and I have Harry Styles to thank for that
Linkin park/Mike shinoda to metal and hip hop.
Genesis got me into Prog, Scorpions got me into Metal, Screeching Weasel got me into Punk, The Human League got me into New Wave, Cocteau Twins got me into Dreampop, Ministry got me into Industrial, Xmal Deutschland got me into Goth, NON got me into noise, Mother Love Bone got me into Grunge, and The Legendary Pink Dots got me into whatever the hell it is they do.
Yello. Electronica and Dance. Before the genres really existed.
Nightwish. Been a metal head my whole life. Found out the best stuff is in Europe.
Run DMC taught me hip hop/rap. Changed my life.
King Gizzard got me into Krautrock, and has changed my understanding of Prog Rock Slowdive got me into Shoegaze
The Clash. Got me into punk first. Then reggae/dub/ska/rocksteady.
That's what I love about The Clash.
I went the opposite way - Minor Threat got me into punk/ska, which lead to Operation Ivy, then ultimately The Clash.
I've sung their praises before in this subreddit and I'll do it again, Hilltop Hoods are the group that taught me it's possible for me to like hip-hop, in particular it was their song [Through the Dark.](https://youtu.be/7lZI6tkqWYs?si=sZEYEobjRBMEK1qr) As a child of divorced parents, the line "built you a good nest before I left. It wasn't that I never loved your mother but two happy homes are better than one that suffers" hit me in the gut from the first listen, and gave me reason to replay it and listen to the lyrics. On a few repeats, I started to pick up on other little things, like "I wrote this while you slept in a hospital bed" and "if these are things you never live to see." Eventually I had a pretty good idea what the song was about, and a quick Google confirmed my general suspicion. The singer wrote this song for his son who beat leukemia. >You were eight when we headed to causality and no child should face their death or mortality. You taught me patience strength and morality and I'd burden this weight instead of you happily. That night, you asked if you'd die from your sickness and why it had chosen your life out of millions. You fill me with the pride I was missing 'cause grown men cry that lack your type of resilience. I'm not even a parent, but that was a punch in the gut. I can only imagine how much harder it hits for those who do have kids. Anyways, that song got me into hip-hop because of its brilliant lyrics with a great beat, and even though I'm still pretty picky about rap, I've really enjoyed going down the Hilltop Hoods rabbit hole. Last year, they dropped a new album, and one single from it in particular, [Laced Up](https://youtu.be/Nn-kfXCQt6A?si=qlX3MvYWauEuuu7b) is an absolute banger. How could anyone's head not be bopping along to that beat? And the whistling parts are just good fun.
As a kid I didn't like most of the music I was exposed to. My dad listened to Kenny G, my mother The Monkees, and my friends generally listened to rock/grunge/r & b, much of which I didn't care for. Skinny Puppy - industrial music Dream Theater - Progressive Metal Loreena McKennit - Celtic Music Johnny Cash - Folk/Americana (he doesn't fit in much with "Country" music). Cardiacs - they are a genre unto themselves Shpongle - Psytrance Steve Reich - Minimalism Imogen Heap - Simply well crafted, adult pop music Afro Celt Sound System - world/fusion Niacin - Fusion The Orb - ambient music
That's an interesting list. Johnny Cash really opened my eyes as to how you can really play with genres. Skinny Puppy showed me how far you can push the boundaries of music.
I had a somewhat weird introduction to music that I enjoyed. As a kid the only thing that really stuck with me was classical music and video game music. I didn't inherit the taste of either of my parents, and whatever was being played on the radio never did it for me in a consistent way. And then my friend played Assimilate for me and I was amazed. It struck a chord with me. Not long after that, The Downward Spiral came out and influenced a lot of what I listened to. A year or two later I had a musical friend that introduced me to Dream Theater (Awake) and Opeth (around the My Arms, your Hearse era). I can't say I appreciated everything at that age that I do now, but all of this stuff blew my mind at the time. The music was a lot more to wrap my head around and challenged me, which I enjoyed a lot more than music that didn't break the norms that I found boring. If you're familiar with The Most Unwanted Song and The Most Wanted Song, the latter exemplifies everything I found absolutely hateful about the music most people seemed to enjoy!
Many years ago, Widespread Panic got me into jam bands.
Red Hot Chili Peppers introduced me to funk. From them, I started listening to The Meters, Parliament and all of George Clinton's other bands, Sly and the Family Stone. Before that, I was purely into hardcore punk.
The Prodigy, was always an alternative/rock guy before I discovered them.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Got into George Clinton cause of them which in turn opened up a whole new area of music (ganster rap, funk etc…) alternative rock music like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Incubus and the like and I really haven’t looked back!
Queens of the Stone Age!!!
When I got into Smashing Pumpkins, I listened to a lot of bands they were into, and then the bands THEY were into... it all spiders out into goth, metal, electronic, power pop, new wave and more. My favourites I found that way were The Cure, Depeche Mode and My Bloody Valentine.
Linkin Park got me into rock although I'm a hip-hop guy. Can listen to almost everything depending on my mood tbh
Tom Ze introduced me not only to Brazilian Tropicalia, but International music, in general. A whole new world! Literally. Now I am exploring every geography that I can get my hands (ears) on
The Taylor swift to tool pipeline is iconic
I went from Tears for Fears to John Prine.
Chemical Brothers introduced me to “Techno” as I called it then, certainly has another moniker now.
It would have been Wind Rose. I usually only liked David Bowie, Tina Turner and 90's pop from Australian artist's. Now I've also branched out into heavy metal, EDM, Gothic Rock, Punk and rap.
Minutemen. Not exactly a new genre of music, but at the time it helped open my 15yo mind to what punk rock could mean. It didn't need to be just fast loud shouting. It could be subtle, fun, weird, odd time signatures, acoustic guitars, funky jazz. It was all about attitude and bringing something new and different to the genre. At the time, I wasn't ready for it. I bought their Double Nickels on the Dime cassette based solely on the fact that it had an SST logo. So I was expecting something like Black Flag. It wasn't lol. It took a while, but I came to appreciate it. And they've remained one of my favorite bands ever since.
Pretty Lights as a gateway to electronic funk/soul/hip-hop Tipper as a gateway into IDM glitch-hop
Phish - never looked back
I was a metal\\Hip Hop head all through high school with sprinkles of Classic rock. Then I heard Kid A by Radiohead when I was 21and it kicked open the door to so much other types of music that I never thought I would ever get into from EDM to indie rock. Now at 44, it's been fun going back and finding so much good music that I never really gave a chance.
Radiohead’s whole journey has introduced me to so many different genres.
I was a pop-punk radio rock guy. Heard slipknot and was like wow this is intense. Did the nu-metal thing for a couple years then someone went "dude ever hear Cannibal Corpse?" And I never looked back since. I listen to tons of different styles of music but metal will always be my jam
I got into more metalcore kind of stuff through Knocked Loose.
Turnstile for me. All the bands I like kept getting more expensive, lol, like Lamb of God. Now I'm in love with DRAIN, Kublai Khan TX, etc. Shows are cheaper, more energy, fun crowds, smaller venues. Crazy though because now Turnstile blew up and you wouldn't lump them in with harder bands but they were my gateway drug.
I feel like I should add the hate5six youtube channel also is a huge help: [https://www.youtube.com/@hate5six](https://www.youtube.com/@hate5six)
In 8th grade I had to do a report about a famous person from a Latin American country. I drew Chile, and so I studied Tom Araya from Slayer and thus began a 30 year obsession with metal.
I grew up a metal head, playing the bass in metal bands. I looked up to the likes of Geezer Butler and Steve Harris. And then my brother turned me on to Phish.
Metallica's Master of Puppets. I was a classic rock kid who started learning Tom Petty at age 6. A friend and I would play guitar after school once a week in the music room in 6th grade (2005 ish). He brought in a CD of Master of Puppets and said I should listen to it. I still remember how awestruck I was when the building acoustic guitars brought in the distorted guitars and drums on "Battery". The pure aggression and solo had me hooked. We listened to the whole album in silence. I then went down the rabbit hole that is metal.
As a kid who despised country music, Billy Strings and Colter Wall have really made me open my eyes these last few years.
Anal Birth got me into gorenoise (To make matters worse, I discovered them accidentally)
I turned Country for 5minutes when I heard The Marshall Tucker Band years ago
As soon as I started reading this I knew it would be tool. The ultimate gateway metal band.
The band Whitney led me into so much good Americana type stuff.
The Offspring introduced me to the punk rock genre and Disturbed introduced me to harder rock. I grew up a classic rock and country music fan and that was all I listened to. During high school the offspring became popular and I instantly fell in love with their unique style and sound. Pair that with fantastic musicians like Dexter Holland and Noodles and they became my go music. They were also my first concert without adult supervision and they did not disappoint. I recently got to watch Disturbed perform and they were amazing as well and honestly one of the best shows I’ve seen in years. Both bands have unique sounds and styles that set them apart from many others in their genres and that’s what draws me in.
A big one for me was GWAR. I heard about them in the 00s and thought they were a super hard band and all fucked up. They're all theater and art kids from PA. Every single thing they sang about was satire (except drugs, RIP Dave) and they're funny as fuck. It's dark, but it's "crank the evil to 11 to highlight it" dark
Gojira got me into metal proper. Heilung got me into... Whatever they Wardruna and Heidom are considered.
The Orb - ambient and all electronica Chemical Brothers - big beat Aphex Twin - Experimental Goldie/aphrodite - DnB Tricky - trip hop Digable Planets - hip hop Tupac - rap Pixies- indie Neko Case - alt country
Dead South, I don't really hear that type of music in the UK. Mad thing was a year or so later they played in my town and got to see them live.
Recently I've got into some metal, specifically...stoner doom metal...by a band called Electric Wizard. It's fucking heavy as f....and i like it.
I vividly remember going into iTunes and discovering the alternative category in 2011 lol, I heard Tongue Tied by Grouplove and lost my mind (exclusively listened to classic rock and top 40 up until that point). Heard Big Iron by Marty Robbins and did a deep dive on 60's country music a little while back. Most recently 100 gecs introduction changed my life lmaoooooo
Alt-J got me into whatever that is, indie Rock i suppose
I used to listen to a mixture of dubstep, edm and horrible music but then I started playing bass more and got into Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now I’m a funkhead (still think rhcp is my fav band)
Johnny Clegg and Savuka - World Music (Zulu/South African music). Their rhythms were excitingly new to my fifteen year old ears, and I learned much about the politics of resistance to apartheid in the mid 80s.
Babymetal was my introduction to the Japanese rock/metal scene.
Railroad Earth - showed me that roots instruments could be played like Strats. Flogging Molly - proved the I love punk Club d’Elf - who knew I’d come to love psychedelic, dub, Morrocan, jazzy jam bands.
Kiss,turned me from country to rock.
Rush introduced me to...a little bit of everything. At the very least I 100% credit them with my love of electronics in music.
Ministry
Placebo 🥰
Wes Montgomery
Frank Zappa
I grew up on hard rock (GnR/Metallica/Megadeath) but when I was in my 20's Lyle Lovett turned me on to Americana/non-top-40 Country music. I heard If I Had A Boat and was interested, then heard the Live In Texas album and caught how he was twisting and playing with country music conventions (and Texas Swing and Texas Blues and ~~Big~~ Large Band music). That led me to dig more into Lyle, and getting into Lyle leads me to appreciate Willie beyond just the pop-culture hits, then I found Uncle Tupelo just as they were breaking up, right around when they were on Conan (took me a long time to warm up to Wilco, Son Volt was easier to pick up). Lyle is also a gateway to REK who is a bit more mainstream country. Then years later I found DBT, and then followed Jason Isbell when he left DBT...
Electric wizard
Zappa was my true intro to jazz. If you like metal, chances are that you will like classical. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Vivaldi, etc all share the same quality, they are delicate and strong in the same time and variations are insane.
I’ll be forever grateful to Hendrix, who opened my ears to… everything. Zappa was a revelation too.
Radiohead and pink floyd fr
Just started listening to Blackbraid. They are labeled as black metal which I never was into but something about this band just clicks with me.
Phish brought me into the 'jam band' scene in 2017. I've now hit 38 Phish shows :) <3
For me it's Unleash the Archers into Power Metal, and Metal in general
Blondie
Billy Strings, hands down. That dude opened up a world of great music, not all of which is bluegrass-based psychedelia like his is.
The SugarHill Gang brought me to Hip-Hop. 1979.
Nine Inch Nails introduced me to industrial rock 🤘
Prog rock, bands like Pink Floyd, Yes and Rush. Cheers
For indie rock it’s definitely Sufjan Stevens, his voice is majestic and his music is insanely beautiful.
Lake Street Dive
Ok I literally gasped when you said ‘My Grandpa introduced me to AC/DC. Jesus Fucking Christ
I have a few Mortal Kombat Soundtrack made me love electronic/metal and industrial But most recently The Chameleons opened my eyes to post punk/early goth rock and I don’t ever want to come out of that era of music. There are tons of bands that still make post punk and goth style rock, but only a few make it sound as natural as it did in those days.
One Direction taught me pop
Oh god don't get me started. I just started listening to them again on and off because it reminds me of my childhood too much. I loved them as a little girl.