What Music Did You Grow Up To?

[Seil]

In my family, I've got a few stereotypes - the indie, the rocker, the teen... Everyone's got their own musical tastes. I've got a little bit of every musical taste at home.

Now I grew up in the nineties, with all that goes with it, and as such I've got a love of Our Lady Peace, Counting Crows, Smashing Pumpkins and Live. (I also grew up with vintage rock, classical, and the progression of music from the early nineties to the early 00's - the listed four were just the ones I remember best.)Why do I bring this up? Simple - I've been on a huge CD buying binge.

You see, there's a music store called HMV that's been having financial troubles, this big chain type deal. As such, they've been offering deals left and right. Also, there's a few good thrift stores in my area and an okay used record shop that I've been pillaging weekly. My method is to take a notepad, copy down what looks interesting and Youtube it. If I like it, I'll pick it up the next day. Or... that was my method. Trouble with used record shops is that they often don't carry multiple copies.

But today, I went in to the thrift store and found a trove of CD's - Matthew Good, Dave Matthews, Weezer, Nelly Furtado, Feist, Incubus, Stabilo... Say what you want about my musical tastes (and many of you probably will) but I picked up nearly as much as I could carry. It was two bucks a CD, how could I pass it up?

Not all of it is music that I grew up to, but enough of it brought back enough nostalgia to mellow out for most of the afternoon and hang out with the headphones.

Now, I've grown in the past two decades, my music tastes have changed over time. There are some songs and musicians that I loved then that I cannae stand now. But most of them are hear to stay. (Intended.) I love classical - I dressed up as Pavarotti for my fifth or sixth Halloween - and I love all the new stuff like Needtobreathe, John Butler Trio, and Airborne Toxic Event, but the old stuff is as much a part of my growth as the other weird growths I have.

My question to you is what music did you grow up to? Is there a song you still love from way back when? Maybe you can turn us on to an old, great band, like Pavement!



Or maybe not, because Pavement sucks, yo.

[3stan]

When I was a kid and was taking naps, my mother would play heavy metal while she cleaned the house.

Now, when i try to listen to heavy metal, I find it so boring it actually puts me to sleep.

Coincidence? You decide!

[Amake]

The Final Countdown and other such masterpieces of that era haunts my childhood. Around ages 10-15 I worshipped some local talents in the vein of Weird Al, enjoying their sarcastic social commentary and caring little for their sound. And I when was about 16 I noticed there was good music and started listening actively to it. Thanks in large part to the white supremacist band Ultima Thule.

Looking back, I don't know how I could turn out such an adequately rocking well-adjusted boy.

[Bells]

And i'm not even kidding.

Guess i should be glad i found the rock and the roll

[A Zarkin' Frood]

When a kid I listened to Queen's immortal classic Bohemian Rhapsody and Billy Joel's Piano Man. In my youth I was all about the metal and now I have the best taste ever. In my opinion anyway.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Untz untz untz.

[Osterbaum]

Not counting all the different tracks and artists I was exposed to via society and others, the first band I remember actively listening to was AC/DC. I had a brief metal phase when I was 13-16 and then during gymnasium I got the London Calling album as a present and started listening to The Clash a lot. At some point during that time I also listened to some bands that in retrospect were pretty awful like Bowling for Soup. I still listen to Reel Big Fish though. Now I listen to all kinds of stuff with Ska-punk, ska-rock and punk predominating.

[Flarecobra]

I was exposed to everything from Ozzy to Sinatra.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Smash Mouth.

[Nique]

You can get into pretty much whatever genre by listening to Weird Al. Like, any of the polka mixes are rad and exposes you to a bunch of music at once that you can go back and check out the real version of if you want later.