Music That Defined You Growing Up

Looking back through the Grunge thread got me thinking.
There are bands that I loved growing up that don't fit into that thread.
Bands that would be wasted in the what are you listening to thread, but bands that influenced me heavily growing up.
What bands shaped your tastes and how good are they when you listen back.
Faith No More - Epic - [Official video]

Metallica - Enter Sandman Music Video

The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo6n75DxQS4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WdUgn0XkU&feature=relmfu



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUr1pSWTVI



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytMNBUR2CQ

Can't post youtube links cause I'm at work now, but there are quite a few. Nirvana were my first favorite band. I could listen to them all day long, non stop. They're one of the main reasons why I like rock.

Rolling Stones - the first rock band I ever listened to. My uncle gave me a tape with one of their concerts recorded when I was very little and I remember I was like... "Wow!". My fav song back then was Start Me Up, which nowadays I see as one of their worst, actually, but I still love it for all it means to me.

The Beatles - don't need to say much, I grew up listening to them, sometimes I would love them, then I'd suddenly turn to punk rock and forget them for years, just to come back asking for their pardon.

Ramones / The Clash - 2 of the most relevant, if not the most important bands in my life. There was a time in which I would only listen to Punk Rock. Thankfully these days are over cause as much as I still love punk rock, my horizons were too narrow back then. Anyway, those 2 bands defined my taste more than any other.

From the Ramones, I take the beauty of simplicity. I'm not against a guitar solo, or instrumental virtuosity (well, not anymore! ), but the Ramones taught me an important lesson about what's really important in music. It's music, after all, not a Guitar Hero contest.  

Thanks to the Clash - in my eyes, the best band ever -, I had my first contact with many different musical styles and rhythms, such as reggae and ska. I still remember the shock when I listened to the London Calling album for the 1st time. "Is it punk rock?". I had too many pre-concepts about music in my head and was not used to see so much stuff mixed and combined. With time this album grew on me and today I'd say it's just the best album in the history of rock

Huyton you seem to have similar taste to me! what do you think of these;

Blondie Heart of glass HD

dexys midnight runners come on eileen

Snatch Soundtrack - Golden Brown - The Stranglers

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Don't Do It)

Some more?

Tubeway Army / Gary Numan - Are 'friends' electric?

Kraftwerk "Tour de France" AS FEATURED IN BREAKDANCE 7" CUT

Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia (2003 Digital Remaster)

I went through different stages growing up, the first music I really got into (and still love) was Linkin Park.

Linkin Park - One Step Closer

07 Linkin Park - Faint

Then, I lead onto grunge (leave that to that thread) but I also discovered LED ZEPPELIN.

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (HQ)

Led Zeppelin - Australia 1972 (Immigrant Song)

You know whats funny though, my parents always got edgy when I discovered something new like when I started listening to Nirvana and stuff like that, thinking it would 'change me' - yet I discovered all the Led Zeppelin in amongst their childhood music collection, as well as other stuff

Me own taste is music was shaped by me mam and dad's music taste, but since me mam's taste in music is sh*t I took me arl fella's. Then as I grew into the Mod music I started listening to the Kinks and Small Faces a lot more and not as much of the Motown like me dad.

Then me own generation was central to Oasis and the Verve. Last few years it's been the Rifles and the Enemy. Always favoured music that says something to me and music I can generally relate to. One of the reasons why I weren't greatly influenced by music until me teens but as a kid was still finding meself enjoying Oasis' music.

When I was a litte kid, I listened to the Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls and Westlife alot.

Don't like boybands anymore but I liked punk rock bands now. Used to listen to Simple Plan but their songs are too weird now. Also loved Avril Lavigne's early albums.

Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, The City Drive, Drake Bell, 3 Doors Down and Blink 182 play the kind of music I like listening to but the two stand out bands I still love until today would be Green Day and Rilo Kiley.

Another band i completely forgot about was Blink 182. Listened to them a shitload, as well as Green Day.

Roller Coaster - Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket

Blink 182 Story of a Lonely Guy

Green Day - Basket Case (Official Music Video)

Green Day - Longview HQ + Lyrics

I was a soul and Tamla Motown girl    That was when I first started going out and hitting the clubs    Loved Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Four Tops, The Temptations etc - still do to this day 

I then grew up with the likes of Blondie, Michael Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, Queen, 10CC, T-Rex, the list could go on and on.....

I have quite a diverse taste in music and enjoy lots of different genres.  Even now, I love dance music- at my age !! ...think I need to grow up 

I love Mod and Soul music but I only got into it when I was older.

But I totally forgot to mention Blur in my first post, they were my favorite band for a few good years. I couldn't even like Oasis cause of the Blur vs Oasis fights, and as a good dedicated fan, I hated them for a while But then I saw how stupid it was, and that both were great, great bands.

My would be similar to Racer's plus BigV's lists with a few more thrown in.
I'll come back to this thread when my pc & broadband are up and running

I love Mod and Soul music but I only got into it when I was older.

But I totally forgot to mention Blur in my first post, they were my favorite band for a few good years. I couldn't even like Oasis cause of the Blur vs Oasis fights, and as a good dedicated fan, I hated them for a while But then I saw how stupid it was, and that both were great, great bands.

Never seen the attraction with Blur. They just bore me.

Oasis, Roses, Charlatans for me. Loved the nineties scene. Still listen to them, as well as the music they were influenced by as well as the bands these days that have been influenced by them ie Rifles, Courteeners and such like.

Thanks to the Clash - in my eyes, the best band ever -,

Totally agree.

The Clash - Best band ever

I grew up in a musical house and had a good influence. Plus, being a DJ for the last 6 or 7 years, I never really allowed myself to get tied into one genre, but tried so kinda specialise in a few. I did change styles an awful lot.

Main ones through my teens were like Eminem, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Blink 182, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen or anything from the 80's rock-y wise. I did change so much it's hard to even name bands, let alone songs.

Not a music from a band, but by the best film score composer, Hans Zimmer.

I grew up watching this again and again and again. And again

Le Roi Lion *L'histoire de la vie (final)* HD

The bands I listened to growing up was the likes of Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Will Smith, Kid N Play and many others. I had quite the collection of random bands of different genres of music. I remember dancing to Bon Jovi songs in my Aunt's garage while my older cousin went to see Bon Jovi. It was my way of being at the concert. I think I was about 7 or 8 years old.

it"s got to be madness,baggy trousers.

Seeing how the title specifies a time in my life I can answer this one a lot easier than the other music related threads.

I started finding my own way in music when I was about 14. My first album was Under A Blood Red Sky and I was all about U2.

Still one of my favorite U2 songs:
U2 - Party Girl

Probably the second band I was into was The Cure and The Head on the Door was my first. Favorite track would (still) be:
Push-The Cure

Other than these two, it was what was then called "college rock"... REM, The Smiths, etc.

Growing up I often had the sound of classical and Celtic folk music entering my ears thanks to my Dad. It was pretty good but the first band as a kid I admired and I bonded to was The Beatles. Whether it was singing When I'm Sixty Four or Yellow Submarine and the such in Primary School or watching The Bootleg Beatles on Blue Peter perform Hello Goodbye I was captivated. It'd be years before I got all their albums because I then found U2 who became just awe inspiring to me. Also being a sucker for Coldplay their performance of Clocks at the 2003 Brit Awards on tv when I was 12 really awed me.

Brilliant thread this! Can't believe I missed this before. Very interesting read aswell.

My mother loved soul music. Sam Cooke, Sam & Dave, Marvin Gaye etc. But my favourite by far was Otis Redding, what a voice. Still absolutely love his music. My father listened to old rock mostly, The Who, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones. But Led Zeppelin was by far the most listened to by him and myself. Then there was my older brother, who was really into hip-hop. A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, stuff like that. He really got me hooked on hip-hop for a while. The Wu-Tang Clan being one of my all-time favourites there besides the ones I just mentioned. But I also really loved and still love grunge, Nirvana the most. That's what defined me early on. A bit later on I mostly listened to Radiohead, The Shins, Tool, Joy Division and Sigur Ros.

First record bought for me - Michael Jacksons , Thriller (aged

First record I bought for myself - Bon Jovis , Slippery When Wet (aged 12)

Record that turned me to metal (and nothin but metal from there on) - Iron Maidens , Powerslave (aged 14)

Record that showed me there is more to music than just metal - Radioheads , The Bends (specifically "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (aged 21)

Growing up I often had the sound of Celtic folk music entering my ears...

Yeah, when I was a child my mother always had music on. If it wasn't traditional Irish, it was the showbands (who we always used to go see, too). There was also a good amount of old country music and AM radio fare (think Reservoir Dogs soundtrack).

My father generally just listened to whatever my mother had on, but he was also into doo-wop.

I guess I should have put this into my original post as my mother's tastes definitely affected me. I'm still crazy for Irish (not so much the showbands) and old country music.

Brilliant thread this! Can't believe I missed this before. Very interesting read aswell.

My mother loved soul music. Sam Cooke, Sam & Dave, Marvin Gaye etc. But my favourite by far was Otis Redding, what a voice. Still absolutely love his music. My father listened to old rock mostly, The Who, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones.

Know exactly where you are coming from, my mum was exactly the same into a lot of soul and Motown music. Definitely picked up a liking for Queen and Ultravox from my dad as well as the occasional Genesis song too!

The only band my dad was into I couldn't stand was Yes, my younger brother got more into them, even went to see them live with my dad and my uncle.  

Really started liking the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin as I got older, even got an appreciation for Nirvana now, although I hated them when as at school.

Being a mod in my teens it was Wilson Picket,Sam & Dave,Aretha Franklin,Marvyn Gaye,Joe Tex,Percy Sledge,The Temptations and of course The Small Faces and the Kinks who I saw in a college concert with Long John Baldry there were so many but the top man,the ultimate soul man was Otis Redding-I was devo'd when he tragically died.
In the late teen period it was Jimi Hendrix,Led Zep,Floyd,Fleetwood mac-the early years.
Know what you're saying HR about Yes some people thought they were ultra cool Used to bore me shitless.
 

My dad loves his music (I take after him) and I was introduced to the works of Elvis, The Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield, the original Fleetwood Mac and the Doors.  Later on I developed a liking for Bay City Rollers, Donny Osmond, Queen, Blondie, Gary Numan, Bruce Springsteen and U2.  I'm very proud of the fact that I got my dad interested in U2    I still listen to their stuff as well as Peter Green and the Splinter group, Eva Cassidy, Jamie Cullum, Scissor Sisters, Manic Street Preachers, Katie Melua, Guns 'n' roses, Cheap Trick, Michael Jackson etc.  Oh and who can forget Liverpool FC's Anfield Rap ?

My dad was way in to Pink Floyd growing up, and so was I. Collera and My early mid 20s have been all about The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, and the Psychedelic Furs.

 It's a bit out of sync but this band was brilliant in it's day, years ahead of it's time.
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin

Couldn't name any group as such but, the late great John Peel really influenced what I listened to when growing up and as such, many styles of music from far and wide, were listened to by myself while growing up. Something which continues to this day.

I have so much to thank that guy for as, I always loved music for as long as I can remember but, without his radio show, I would probably never have heard of half of the music I did.