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Title: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: walk,on,by on April 02, 2016, 02:11:29 pm
1.  pink Floyd -  when I lost my mind for a while when teenaged angst met the understandings of the trials of living as a soon to be adult hit, the wall and dark side controlled me and really contained the negative feelings inside tight.  no other music mattered but them and I loved the emotional issues it gave me.  don't listen to pink Floyd if you have mental problems.

2.  the dead milkmen  -  back after that, but still in the youth of high school days, this band got me through when I was feeling like a weirdo and some kind of introverted dork who could not relate to the jock or the redneck or the party people.  the dead milkmen speak to the unwelcome.

3.  ween -  the pod and pure guava were two albums that defined my upbringing when I became senior year and what was to be as a post high school into college craziness, where I finally blossomed into a socialable functioning freak.  ween helped me learn how to party.

4.  dinosaur jr.  -  I do love heavy guitar oriented music, and always have.  j defines what heavy and guitar god should be, to me.  never changing, always destroying.  yes, older age has mellowed the man, but during the days of green mind and where you been, my neck muscles from head banging and face muscles from smiling during solos, never hurt so good.

5.  phish  -  they were the band that started it all for me into jam.  this guy played  me a shitty sounding tape of a live show he got from trading god knows who for, and I just fell in love.  how does that happen?  you just listen and then you can't stop, and you have to see them and you have to find other people who listen to them and you have to then listen to every other damn jam band because you love that first band, so much.

the end.
 

 
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 02, 2016, 02:32:39 pm
Currently, or, of all time?
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: walk,on,by on April 02, 2016, 03:05:10 pm
I think, since the fact I chronicled my loser self as a human pupa, with music, I would say . . . all time.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: saintangelsin on April 02, 2016, 04:12:06 pm
I wish from the bottom of my heart that I could give a serious list. So many bands meant the world to me growing up and still mean a lot to me even now. I could easily write a book that would just be a giant love letter to all the bands I have loved. I know that I can name 2 bands right now that would always be on this list, but the other three spots is impossible for me. Also, if this was to include solo artists, I would absolutely be in deep shit. Oh the angst of being a music nerd.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Space Freely on April 02, 2016, 05:49:25 pm
I no order,

The Smiths
The Rolling Stones Drive By Truckers
Old 97's
Wilco
Neil Young

but that list is so male-centric so I'll add:

Lucinda Williams
Gillian Welch
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: hutch on April 02, 2016, 06:50:16 pm
well I think he said "bands" so I take that to not include "solo acts".....
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Space Freely on April 02, 2016, 07:03:25 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 02, 2016, 06:50:16 pm
well I think he said "bands" so I take that to not include "solo acts".....

A majority of bands have one chief songwriter/leader, and some other people playing with that person because that person can't play all the instruments on their own at the same time. Whether they call themselves some faux moniker "band name" or go by their birth name seems like a technicality, doesn't it?
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: gavroche on April 02, 2016, 07:40:32 pm
1) Fugazi - The kings of the DC scene that got me through middle school/high school when I felt terribly out of place and very lost and unsettled.  A relatively wholesome and protective scene that really helped me mature and grow. I am forever thankful that shows were all ages, that there was a straight edge component and that it really wasn't violent. 
2) Bikini Kill - Huge influence on my world view.  It was only much later that I realized just how much. 
3) Bob Dylan - Made me think about social justice in important ways.  Definitely helped shape my world view.  I wish that he wasn't such a disagreeable weirdo now, but his political music is still poignant to me even 50 years later.
4) Pete Seeger - Was really important to me at two distinct points in my life.  As a really young kid Pete Seeger sings animal songs was absolutely my favorite album and I listened to that thing till we'd worn the grooves down.  Later his labor songs were a huge part of my thought evolution.
5) Dead Kennedys - Yet another one of those bands that shaped my world view.  My cousin gave me a cassette of the Dead Kennedys when I was too young to understand them and what they were about.  I also thought the music was just horrible but I absolutely looked up to him so I kept trying.  Took me a long while before I appreciated it but no question is had a huge influence on my politics at a young age that continues today.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: hutch on April 02, 2016, 07:43:51 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on April 02, 2016, 07:03:25 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 02, 2016, 06:50:16 pm
well I think he said "bands" so I take that to not include "solo acts".....

A majority of bands have one chief songwriter/leader, and some other people playing with that person because that person can't play all the instruments on their own at the same time. Whether they call themselves some faux moniker "band name" or go by their birth name seems like a technicality, doesn't it?



your own list belies your assertion as the Smiths had two songwriters working together as did the Stones... moreover, a "band" is usually a working "live unit"....the Stones without Charlie Watts on drums are hard to imagine.... even on record- sometimes- his contributions have been very noticeable.. he has a very distinctive drumming style....

Wilco is definitely the Jeff Tweedy show and calling them a band is a joke...... I dont' know who does what in the Old 97s......

Crazy Horse matters a lot to a hell of a lot of Neil Young fans....and Neil....
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: hutch on April 02, 2016, 07:50:34 pm
Quote from: gavroche on April 02, 2016, 07:40:32 pm

4) Pete Seeger - Was really important to me at two distinct points in my life.  As a really young kid Pete Seeger sings animal songs was absolutely my favorite album and I listened to that thing till we'd worn the grooves down.  Later his labor songs were a huge part of my thought evolution.


I count myself very lucky to have seen him live around 2000....a privilege...
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 02, 2016, 10:43:38 pm
nine inch nails.  Nirvana.  Beastie Boys.  Radiohead.  Master P.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 02, 2016, 10:51:09 pm
Placebo.  the Strokes.  Neil Diamond.  Cat Stevens.  CCR.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 02, 2016, 10:54:25 pm
Pantera.  Helmet.  Quicksand.  Sepultura.  Metallica.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 02, 2016, 11:30:16 pm
Modest Mouse.  Death Cab for Cutie.  The Polyphonic Spree.  Pearl Jam.  Pink Floyd.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: walk,on,by on April 03, 2016, 12:10:11 am
Stop, cheating.  And please give some lengthy diatribe as to why such 5 bands control,  you so.  Please.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 03, 2016, 12:26:52 am
 :o
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 03, 2016, 12:31:26 am
All the music that I like is important to me, and I do not think I could make a top list of what is more important to me than other music.  Also I do not think I would want to get that deep into my personal life and explain stuff like why I was obsessed with Modest Mouse starting in 2004.  Maybe one day if we ever hang in person.  I try to watch out what I put out there in the digital world; always have, and always will.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Unsanity on April 03, 2016, 12:56:46 am
Black Sabbath - they started it all and are better than most that have come after. Been listening to my Mom's Paranoid LP my whole life.

At The Drive-In - My best friend was obsessed with them way back when and showed me the way. I wasn't into punk at all until I heard ATDI. I have followed everything the guys have done since the initial break-up too. Love it all. Shaped my entire life since middle school.

Helmet - Something about them always resonated with me. I always felt like Page Hamilton and I were....uh..on the same page. He always sounds like he is strangling his guitar and that mixed with John Stainer's excellent drumming grab me and don't let go.

Killing Joke - Most consistent band of all time? These guys can do no wrong and it pains me to keep seeing them cancel shows. I thank Dave Grohl for introducing me to these titans.

Faith No more - ever since I got a second hand copy of Angel Dust on cassette in the late 90's I have been a super fan of Mike Patton and the boys. I got turned on to tons of other music through my love of FNM.

Picking five was hard, really hard. These are bands I constantly go back to and mean a lot to me.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: dyecraig on April 03, 2016, 08:24:01 am
forever changing:
love
miles davis bands and his band member's bands
velvet underground
nick cave & the bad seeds and side projects
fela kuti & africa '70/egypt '80


Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Space Freely on April 03, 2016, 08:56:44 am
Quote from: walk,on,by on April 03, 2016, 12:10:11 am
Stop, cheating.  And please give some lengthy diatribe as to why such 5 bands control,  you so.  Please.

I enjoyed your diatribes, but can honestly say that though I'm a music fan, no band is all that important to me in the bigger picture of my life.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Yada on April 03, 2016, 09:17:55 am
killsally'd and hutch'd in less than a page, nice.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: hutch on April 03, 2016, 10:05:15 am
New Order/Joy Division- something about these guys really hit a nerve with me...from unknown pleasures up to technique its all pretty much perfect...musically.. the art aesthetic of the covers...technique is perfect..shame about republic..

The Cure- these guys I started not into at all and finished loving..robert smith is a genius........ i guess i listened to disintegration at the perfect moment...so looking forward to show this summer at merriweather

AC/DC- my favorite rock and roll band.... i have to say that after back in black i'm not a huge fan.. but the bon scott era (and back in black which i can't help but think bon had a hand in) i can eat it up...these guys sort of gave me a new lease on life in my late 30s...just energized me...seeing them live in 2008 was a big deal.. if i could have a time machine and meet any rock and roller it would be bon...when Malcolm left it was over.

Ween (I may revisit this choice...kind of on the fence about this one....).. its hard for me to pick one "90s" band but for some reason i pick these guys even if I'm ticked off at their incredible fall over the past decade and change....such a perfect run between chocolate and cheese and white pepper.. i guess they sort of encapsulate good times for me... its all become a bit tinged with sadness as of late though...

Rolling Stones- masters of the chuck berry rock and roll which is my orange juice... I'm a Stones not Beatles guy.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Kubacheck on April 03, 2016, 10:12:41 am
my list is very "old-centric".... and in my case, getting heavily into a band also included researching them, reading as much about them as I could, as well as listening to the music.....

1) The Doors, first band I really got into as an early teen... read "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and wore out "Absolutely Live" and their self titled first album on my turntable.... from there I went on to....
2) The Who.... someone gave me a mix tape that included "My Generation" from the Smothers Brothers show.... read "Before I Get Old" and listened to "Live At Leeds" all the time..... first CD I ever bought when I got my first CD player in the mid 80's was "Live at Leeds"...
3) The Beatles.... read all the books and made my own mixtapes of what I considered to be their greatest hits, not what someone else thought were....
4) Pink Floyd.... pretty much everything they put out up to and including "Final Cut" spoke to me in some way...
5) Luna.... heard a song (IHOP) on the radio in the late 90's which completely grabbed my attention... which is funny because that song is not exactly representative of their "normal" sound.... bought everything they'd already put out, kept up with them, listen to them still currently more than any other band....but for some reason, never made it to a show, so I lucked out when they decided to do more shows last year and beyond.....
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Kubacheck on April 03, 2016, 10:17:25 am
Quote from: hutch on April 03, 2016, 10:05:15 am

Rolling Stones- masters of the chuck berry rock and roll which is my orange juice... I'm a Stones not Beatles guy.

I'm with you there, I think if you were able to look up the definitive audio definition of "Rock and Roll" as a music form, it'd be "Carol" from Ya-Ya's..... the Stones and Rockpile were by far the best at doing Chuck live, IMO.....
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: hutch on April 03, 2016, 10:29:24 am
Quote from: Kubacheck on April 03, 2016, 10:12:41 am

5) Luna.... heard a song (IHOP) on the radio in the late 90's which completely grabbed my attention... which is funny because that song is not exactly representative of their "normal" sound.... bought everything they'd already put out, kept up with them, listen to them still currently more than any other band....but for some reason, never made it to a show, so I lucked out when they decided to do more shows last year and beyond.....

yeah.. I almost put Luna in place of Ween.. I could see it either way... huge Luna fan here...and their reunion did not/does not have the horrible feel of what has happened to Ween...
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 03, 2016, 11:56:22 am
Quote from: Yada on April 03, 2016, 09:17:55 am
killsally'd and hutch'd in less than a page, nice.
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Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 03, 2016, 12:57:38 pm
Good thread.

1) The Beatles (age 5)  -- Cemented my love of music. What more can I add? 'Nuff said.
2) The Smiths (age 11) -- First band that made me realize I could find an identity through music...just be yourself. Be geeky, be strange, be uncool, be queer, be miserable, be happy, but be true to yourself.
3) The Pixies (age 14) -- The band that made my world of black and white go to technicolor. They completely changed how I listened to music, they opened up a door that I walked through, closed, locked and threw away the key...first concert I ever saw, and first band that I really felt was "my own". I was ridiculed for liking "the Pussies" by the numbskulls that listened to Metallica and Ice T. I guarantee you later on those people went to college and bought "Last Splash" by the Breeders to make a girl like them or listened to Pavement (okay, Pearl Jam). But the Pixies made some of the most difficult years of life bearable.
4) Elliott Smith (age 23) -- Technically not a band, but screw it, it's my list. Plus, he toured with a band and got his start in Heatmiser. One of those voices and songwriters that made me realize I was growing up and needed another voice, another direction. Still one of the most special people to ever grasp a guitar and stitch together words, music, and emotion into the most remarkable form of beauty and art.
5) Luna (age 34) -- I got to see Luna in the 90's but it wasn't until after they broke up that I really explored their discography and realized their extraordinary genius and that includes their last LP "Rendezvous". Sometimes it takes life experience to really appreciate the intricacy and detail of certain music. For me, Luna represents a step into adulthood where I finally became more secure in who and what I am. I discovered the bulk of their music at a time when I realized that I only have myself...I'm the one who chooses what I want and need from life. Seeing their tour last autumn was magical to me. I still keep discovering music that I obsess over and that makes me hear things differently. But I'm still a picky mofo.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: radley17 on April 03, 2016, 02:08:12 pm
The Who
Velvet Underground
The Clash
R.E.M.
Parliament Funkadelic

Honorable Mention

Sonic Youth
Dead Kennedys
Cramps
Grateful Dead
Public Enemy
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: bob72 on April 03, 2016, 08:14:08 pm
I was introduced to the following bands pre-1990. They represent a very specific time and place for me. Time travel doesn't exist, but these bands are the next best thing:

And yes, I know she's not a band, but #5 is Bjork. Not just a musician to me, but a phenomenal artist in general.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Here's the thing on April 03, 2016, 08:31:13 pm
Feelies
REM
Neutral Milk Hotel
Springsteen
David Bowie
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: saintangelsin on April 03, 2016, 09:27:07 pm
Quote from: killsaly on April 03, 2016, 12:31:26 am
All the music that I like is important to me, and I do not think I could make a top list of what is more important to me than other music.  Also I do not think I would want to get that deep into my personal life and explain stuff like why I was obsessed with Modest Mouse starting in 2004.  Maybe one day if we ever hang in person.  I try to watch out what I put out there in the digital world; always have, and always will.

Glad to know I'm not the only one. I don't mind sharing stories as to why or how I love all this music.

I must say all these lists I've seen so far makes me smile a lot. It's a nice reminder that I'm still a part of a likeminded community of music nerds. Also that I'm not the only one who's had similar experiences with Fugazi, bikini kill, the smiths, the pixies, joy division & new order. And then there's Dylan and Bowie. (Is it any wonder I can't make a list?! Ahh)
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on April 04, 2016, 11:09:57 am
Led Zeppelin
Queens Of The Stone Age
Death From Above 1979
The Doors
Pink Floyd
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: slappy on April 04, 2016, 05:08:04 pm
Starship
Damn Yankees
Mike + the Mechanics
Chickenfoot
The Firm
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: SeriousSideFX lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2016, 09:52:19 pm
Quote from: DeathFromAbove1979 on April 04, 2016, 11:09:57 am
Led Zeppelin
Queens Of The Stone Age
Death From Above 1979
The Doors
Pink Floyd
only reason this surprises me it you are a DJ that I think would never play a song from one of these artists

...disclaimer, I've never heard or even know what genre the Clown Prince is
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: SeriousSideFX lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2016, 09:52:41 pm
Quote from: slappy on April 04, 2016, 05:08:04 pm
Starship
Damn Yankees
Mike + the Mechanics
Chickenfoot
The Firm

That's solid!
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: hutch on April 04, 2016, 09:56:06 pm
Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 04, 2016, 09:52:41 pm
Quote from: slappy on April 04, 2016, 05:08:04 pm
Starship
Damn Yankees
Mike + the Mechanics
Chickenfoot
The Firm

That's solid!

I don't know.. I'd like to see him substitute Seal for The Firm...
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Kubacheck on April 04, 2016, 10:05:24 pm
Quote from: slappy on April 04, 2016, 05:08:04 pm
Starship
Damn Yankees
Mike + the Mechanics
Chickenfoot
The Firm


I see a pattern here...  :)
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: SeriousSideFX lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2016, 10:08:38 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 04, 2016, 09:56:06 pm
Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 04, 2016, 09:52:41 pm
Quote from: slappy on April 04, 2016, 05:08:04 pm
Starship
Damn Yankees
Mike + the Mechanics
Chickenfoot
The Firm

That's solid!

I don't know.. I'd like to see him substitute Seal for The Firm...
I will say that one video (https://youtu.be/OvjVGh0jmzY)
The Firm - Satisfaction Guaranteed
where page takes the beer bottle...quite honestly changed my life
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ed/e4/d7/ede4d7d87bae64a37c8ddabb4d0165ca.jpg)

unlike punk false promise...it really broke the boundary between the audience and the performer
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: walk,on,by on April 04, 2016, 10:19:42 pm
Thank you for your help and support to the thread, but each post would be that much more awesome if you give a brief description of why the band is so important to you.  If you can break it down to just 5 bands,  for your life . . . then I am sure they must mean something more than just a boring list of band names.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 04, 2016, 10:34:34 pm
Okie Dokie.

The Beatles - my first true love. The one you never forget. Greatest band ever and there is no arguing otherwise.

Led Zeppelin - the internet has exposed them as thieves but they were the first band I liked that my parents hated.

Sex Pistols - first punk band I ever heard.  They changed everything for me.  For the better.

Killing Joke - first "punk" band to really challenged me.  Has any other artist lasted 36+ years and remained as vital as they have? Nope. No one comes close.

The Replacements - the band I grew up with. The soundtrack to my drunken early 20s.

How's that?
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: walk,on,by on April 04, 2016, 10:36:15 pm
I, touched myself.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 05, 2016, 01:15:12 am
I am going to keep mine to music from my childhood to early teenage years.  I had to think about this one for a couple days. (also I might want to edit this later so feel free to not copy and paste this)

Neil Diamond - My mother loved his music and it was often the soundtrack of my 80s childhood (along with some of the stuff my dad really liked, like America and CCR, but I will have to go with Neil if I had to pick one).  I will forever be a huge fan of his music and I feel like he instilled in me a bit of a love for a good melody. 

Nirvana - They were the first "cool" band that I ever liked.  I actually got Nevermind because of the Weird Al parody.  When I heard that riff... I was sold.  One of my best friends and I would play the crap out of their discography (among way too much other stuff to list here and only pick five of) and I still have my cassette copy of In Utero sitting on my shelf in my home office with my other tapes, new and old.

the Beastie Boys - I did not get into the Beastie Boys until a bit after Check Your Head was released.  I had two uncles who are only like 6 and 7 years older than me, and they both had good sized CD collections - full of so much good stuff and a variety of it (especially Sam's collection).  They would let my cousin and I listen to their stuff and look through it, and found out about a lot of shit from doing that and reading their old Spin and Rolling Stones from over the years.   I grew up in the country - but not like it is where they are from.  They are from a place with like zero red lights.  300 people.  Anyway, I was able to check out stuff like Guns N Roses, Faith No More, NWA, Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, RHCP, Dr Dre, Alice in Chains... Basically their house was a candy store for me when I became interested in music in 1992.  I always thought the Beastie Boys were the coolest.  I tried to dress a bit like them in junior high and would rap the lyrics with my friends.  Thankfully I was able to see them live at Virgin Fest 2007 and then again at their Bonnaroo set in 2009.  I wish I was old enough to go to shows during their Ill Communication or Check your Head days...

NoFX - I would have to say this was the first punk band that I heard and really enjoyed.  Young teen me dug the hell of Punk in Drublic... it was rebellious, it didn't give a fuck, and most importantly to shape my punk taste for at least the next decade, it sounded pretty good in the production department.  I had heard some 80s punk that sounded like crap and was not sold on them... But when my slightly older neighbor brought over Punk in Drublic - I was hooked.  After that I loved bands like Lagwagon, Swinging Utters, Down By Law, Bad Religion, Wizo, Frenzel Rhomb...

nine inch nails - The final band was hard to choose, but i guess I will go with nin.  In seventh grade I was hanging out a lot with Tammy, who was in my grade and a childhood friend of my best friend/neighbor.  Tammy's house was cool. Her mom would let us drink Schnapps and once took me to another town to go to a mall without my parents permission (I told her it would be fine, I got in trouble).  Tammy gave me my first CDs, before I had a CD player (Smashing Pumpkins - Today single with Hello Kitty Kat and Obscured on the B-side and the La Sexoristo album by White Zombie).  She was also into crazy (to me as a junior high student) music that I started to get into.  Her favorite band was nine inch nails.  She had the shirts.  All the releases.  I believe Broken was the first one I listened to and fell in love with, but also Pretty Hate Machine and the Downward Spiral. She also was down with a lot of the alternative stuff from the time, like Afghan Whigs and Matthew Sweet, and I became a fan as well.  Post script: when we got to high school she became a Christian and gave all of her CDs to myself and the mutual friend I mentioned, and gave us all of her nine inch nails band t shirts and videos and posters and basically all the devil shit... I think this phase lasted for a while.  We quit being friends, she moved off, but now I am friends with her on Facebook and she seems normal.  Back to nin, this was the first really dark music that I got into, and I think this colored my tastes to the present.  I have seen nine inch nails three times so far and plan to keep going. 

runner up: Pantera

Pantera was the first heavy band that I heard and liked. I ordered the Crow soundtrack off of BMG or Columbia House, and the first time I listened to it, with one of my friends, we immediately went to the music catalog to find more of their music with one of us saying "Can you imagine a whole album like this???"  Before that Metallica,  Guns N Roses, and MAYBE when our older neighbor played Iron Maiden, which I personally thought was lame till recently, was the heaviest stuff.  Far Beyond Driven was out (I guess this was 1994 or 95) and it was ordered and devoured.  I started playing music with my friends around 1996 and Pantera was definitely a big influence in the heaviness and style of the music we were doing.  The mail order method ending up being how I was able to get music, in my tiny town with a bs music shop across the river charging 18 bucks for a damn CD.

But this is still leaving off bands like Prodigy, that made me start listening to electronic music - or Aphex Twin a man who's music was played at crucial points, or Modest Mouse helping me get through depression post tragedy or Cloud Cult helping me through my first breakup with someone I dated for more than a couple of years, or the joy I get from the Polyphonic Spree... Or the Strokes, when I heard their debut I started migrating from listening to mostly dance music to mostly rock music... Or Radiohead... When I saw them at MPP in 2003 I started going to rock shows instead of raves/electronic music events...
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 05, 2016, 08:57:43 am
Beatles
Springsteen
The Who
REM
The Banana Splits
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on April 05, 2016, 10:26:35 am
Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 04, 2016, 09:52:19 pm
Quote from: DeathFromAbove1979 on April 04, 2016, 11:09:57 am
Led Zeppelin
Queens Of The Stone Age
Death From Above 1979
The Doors
Pink Floyd
only reason this surprises me it you are a DJ that I think would never play a song from one of these artists

...disclaimer, I've never heard or even know what genre the Clown Prince is
I haven't listened to *just* Dance music my whole life. I'm El Salvadorean so I was raised on Latin music and hip hop. The rock side came from my stepdad, but I always listened to everything. "Clown Prince" plays mostly Dance music, but if I'm DJing by myself all night I'll always throw in 80s stuff, random 90s rock songs, and tons of pop stuff to keep people guessing. I listen to everything! Rock and Roll owns my heart though. Although if it was top 6, Daft Punk is right there.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 05, 2016, 11:05:54 am
Pink Floyd --> Dead --> LCD Soundsystem
Smashing Pumpkins --> Silversun Pickups
Dylan --> Neil Young --> Neutral Milk Hotel --> Mountain Goats
Velvet Underground --> Bowie --> R.E.M.
Zeppelin --> White Stripes --> Jack White

This list is imperfect
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: chaz on April 05, 2016, 11:24:27 am
David Bowie
Velvet Underground
Spacemen 3
The Misfits
Roky Erickson
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 11:30:51 am
hell, of a reply there, kill,sally.
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: slappy on April 06, 2016, 01:50:53 pm
Quote from: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 11:30:51 am
hell, of a reply there, kill,sally.

Even better if you read it in the voice of Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.
(http://www.relatably.com/m/img/meme-american-psycho/1764f81e530972bc59d34b0c8588efb9.jpg)
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 01:52:41 pm
How did you know that he was my spirit animal?
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: SeriousSideFX lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2016, 01:59:50 pm
Quote from: slappy on April 06, 2016, 01:50:53 pm
Quote from: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 11:30:51 am
hell, of a reply there, kill,sally.

Even better if you read it in the voice of Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.
(http://www.relatably.com/m/img/meme-american-psycho/1764f81e530972bc59d34b0c8588efb9.jpg)
(http://reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chang_spits_milk.gif)
Title: Re: the five, most important bands in your life
Post by: Yada on April 06, 2016, 02:14:51 pm
Quote from: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 11:30:51 am
hell, of a reply there, kill,sally.

I personally kind of like how my man jad'ed's response laid out a little strategic map of where his tastes were born and in some cases died, ie: Jack White.

But bravo to killsally who nearly derailed the whole thread on page 1 but brought it all back home with a helluva reply.