Prompted by a short discussion in another thread with Martin about Oasis, I started to reminisce on my early days. I was remembering how Oasis were basically the band that got me really really into rock music. They were my first favourite band, and the first gig I ever went to. It was the beginning of a long path indeed that would eventually lead to Iron Maiden who then gave me the meaning to my life. Then I began to think even earlier back in my life, and realised it was none other than Mr Michael Jackson who actually got me into listening to music. This was of course when I was about 5 years old, but none the less, it was definitely an important part of my childhood (I'm trying to avoid making some really obvious jokes here...). My earliest memory of truly enjoying music definitely does lie with Michael Jackson, and the Moonwalker film that I had on video and used to watch all the time.

Whoever would've thought this is where Michael Jackson would lead me to. What are your earliest musical memories of old? Can you remember what actually got you into music? Not just rock/metal music, but music in general.

Snap. Michael Jackson totally got me into music. I remember being bought a walkman and michael jackson tape for christmas. Happy days.

Infact I still listen to Jackson alot, I think he was a great pop artist.

When I was in year 6 i got into rap. eminem, dr dre etc. Then i got into metal in around year 7 with maiden. However i shunned most metal and kept it rock until someone lent me a megadeth cd. bam. I think that was year 10 maybe? Not sure.

Michael Jackson is about the only artist i remember listening to as a kid. That a shit load of random bands from the 80's, electro stuff mainly. To this day i still love take on me by aha.

As for getting into metal, number of the beast and bomber.

haha same here oasis got me into rock when I was like 7.

Bought a Black Sabbath CD when i was 8, it was great.........mmmmnnnn old times.....*tear*

When I was little I would listen to Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet was the first album I ever bought, on tape), Meat Loaf and Whitesnake. When I was about 11 I started listening to stuff like Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and whatever else I could hear through the music channels. As the years went by I listened to heavier and heavier stuff until about last year when I went full circle and started listening to pop music.

Michael Jackson
Oasis
Jimi Hendrix
Blur

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Well I was never really into any music until about year 7, when I started getting into some random blur and oasis bollocks. Then it got progressively worse, with sum 41, green day and alkaline trio.

I got saved by the most unlikliest of cd's though. St Anger came out in 03', I went through the metallica back catalogue, realised St Anger was bollocks, and with a little help from a mate or two, got into megadeth, anthrax et voila...

thrashduck wrote:Well I was never really into any music until about year 7, when I started getting into some random blur and oasis bollocks. Then it got progressively worse, with sum 41, green day and alkaline trio.

There's no way green day are worse than blur. First 2 or 3 green day albums are good.

thrashduck wrote:sum 41,

sun 41 rule!

'maiden and priest are the gods that we praised'

Yeah, and they did that right thrashy song too where they took the piss out of The Strokes. I'd still chin the fuckin singer though for stealing Avril Lavigne. Cunt.

I used to listen to The Prodigy and jungle music when I was young... all because of my sister really. I got a walkman from my nan one birthday and stole 'Jungle is massive' from my sister and used to listen to it around the house...
I never really cared too much about music until I started listening to the offspring i suppose... I would point blank reject anything my dad said about Deep Purple being better than anything I listened to. He said I'd come round... I did. Judas Priest were my first real favourite band.

Metalbrew Stu wrote:I used to listen to The Prodigy and jungle music when I was young... all because of my sister really. I got a walkman from my nan one birthday and stole 'Jungle is massive' from my sister and used to listen to it around the house...
I never really cared too much about music until I started listening to the offspring i suppose... I would point blank reject anything my dad said about Deep Purple being better than anything I listened to. He said I'd come round... I did. Judas Priest were my first real favourite band.

I got into Deep Purple the same time i did Michael Jackson funnily enough. My favourite song was space truckin

First music i ever bought was the cassette single of SpaceMan by Babylon Zoo, amazing! i listen to a bit of pop and rubbish and then i got into gangsta Rap, Snoop dogg, 2 Pac, Warren G etc when i was about 11. From that i started listening to Limp Bizcuit and Korn and other such appalling shit, and then a natural transgression onto real things and such.

after i was about 15 i was listening to what i would term now as decent metal. I had massive punk and skapunk madness for a while and then i started discovering all the elctronic stuff, reggea and other such non-metal releated joys, but i never stopped listening to metal.

basically thats it...

seems rather pointless now i have writen it all out. oh well!

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