Didn't listen to much music pre JHS...remember listening to some Top 40 stuff.... JHS I became a big Iron Maiden fan.
I really didn't have a favorite band until high school. Unfortunately that would be Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, Styx and Foreigner. Bleeeh.
I really didn't listen to music in grade school - we didn't get MTV until I was 9 and I didn't even have a radio until I was 11. So I basically only knew about top 40 radio. The first band that I really got into was Iron Maiden when I was 13. A friend of mine dubbed me a mix tape that had bits of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son on it. Being an art freak, I also really liked Iron Maiden's album covers. It wasn't long before I owned all of Maiden's albums and had their posters all over my walls. I still have some of them somewhere. Not long after that, I heard Masters of Puppets by Metallica and I immediately liked them just as much as Iron Maiden. Given how lame their music and image is now, it's hard for people who grew up after the Black album to understand how important Metallica was back in the day. They were a band that made intense, challenging music that skipped all the image-consciousness and p***y-pandering of bands like Poison and Night Ranger, yet they were still immensely popular. It gave all of us hope that the butt-metal era would end eventually, and sure enough, it did. Metallica became one of the biggest bands of the world, although at a musical cost. Still, they deserve credit for being a band that made the market cater to them, not the other way around.
I am serious. Night Ranger rocked. Rumours in the Air You can Still Rock in America When you Close your Eyes All classics.
Hey, Freak....... 'Tis great to see another Mott the Hoople fan out there. Am surprised you remembered my fondness for the Sweet. I had forgotten I had mentioned that here. Anyway, tragically, I never did get to see Mott the Hoople live. I did however get to see the remnants of the band (then, just Mott) who put out a couple decent albulms after Ian Hunter left. They were backing up Kiss at the old Houston colliseum (76-77?).
i liked many genres of music and still do. but pink floyd tops them all. there is no band in my opinion that can top them in your youth for making you understand the feelings you have a little better. those are some smart chaps. all hail syd, roger, david...
Public Enemy (still best rap group ever) NWA The Chronic Album (cruised to that for about 2 years!) Too Short
I really liked NR back in the day....but there is a drastic dropoff in the quality of the songs from the first album to the third album... They did the same thing that happened to Journey...Journey started off rocking early on...and as time went by...they started playing more to the poprock side....once they put out Escape....it was a downward slide... a couple of other bands I forgot to mention that I liked in my jr high years....Styx, REO and Journey
The first band i can openly remember when i was about 5 or 6 would have to be Men at Work and the song "i come from a land down under" that song i remember when i was a kid and fell in love with it and even to this day if i hear it on the radio i have to listen to it all the way.
