Originally Posted by lily.
(Post 6597946)
I was a rebel in the 80s, so I didn't listen to 'mainstream' music. That's when I got into metal (black sabbath, iron maiden, metallica, deep purple, jimi hendrix).
Then I found my own taste, which was mostly hair metal (guns n roses, poison, bon jovi, whitesnake, kiss, l.a. guns, faster pussycat, vain, motley crue, skid row).
There was a brief goth phase [sisters of mercy, the cure, the cult, the damned), followed by a slightly longer punk phase (the clash, the sex pistols, dead kennedys, the stranglers, stiff little fingers, angelic upstarts, sham 69).
In the 90s I went through the inevitable rave phase. It's a bit of a haze, for obvious reasons.
Then I left the rave scene and had an indie phase (blur, stone roses, pulp, happy mondays, the lightning seeds).
I missed the first coming of Nirvana. I didn't really catch on to them until a few years later. But I didn't miss the punk revival of 94. That's when I discovered Green Day <3 (who are still my favourite band 20 years later).
From then, I kinda went full circle, and tend to favour Rock/Metal over other stuff. I have a weird selection of stuff on my itunes, but it's probably 75% punk/rock/metal. Some of it is older (linkin park, metallica, guns n roses etc) and some of it is more up to date (A7X, Bullet, Escape the Fate, Patent Pending, ). It doesn't mean I don't listen to Britney Spears, but you know...
I found metal in the first place because of my older brother and cousin. After that, I just found stuff I liked. In the 80s there was no internet, not much in the way of music on TV or in magazines, but we did have record shops. And the guy who owned the record shop would tell you about new bands, and let you hear singles/albums in the shop to see if you liked it before you bought it. We went to town every Saturday and went to the same record shop, and that's how we found music. Everyone knew the guy who ran the shop. He was the guy who got access to new bands, and he was the one who told people about them. I don't know how it worked in other places, but that's how it worked here.
So that was probably a longer reply than necessary.. lol
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