When did music become part of your life?

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    When did you really start to listen to music that your really liked, from a specific genre or a band? How does music play a part in your everyday life?

    I didn't have any interest in music besides the stuff on the radio until I was about 13. For me it began with discovering and following a YouTube channel that posted mixes of EDM music. I listened to them and found some standout songs from some of the playlists. It was then I discovered another YouTube channel (MrSuicicdeSheep) from searching around and liked their videos so much I subscribed and haven't looked back.

    I listen to music whenever I'm traveling to pass time - getting to school or going on long distance trips. Other occasions where I listen to music are when I'm in need of some relaxing music to chill out after a long day.
     
    I think when I really started feeling the power music had was around sixteen. That was probably the turning point for me right there. It started out with Simple Plan, and from there I discovered more. I kind of lost interest in them for a while, and began getting into japanese rock. Now, I'm back to listening to whatever I did when I used to be sixteen.

    Simple Plan has saved my life. They've let me know that it's okay to be myself. As for most music, I usually listen to it because it helps me concentrate on my writing and stuff. I also listen to it when I'm feeling really down and depressed as well.
     
    Killer by ATB was the first tape I ever purchased with my pocket money.



    It was released in 1999 so I would have been 8.

    First album was the first Gorillaz album a couple of years later. I also had a RHCP album pretty early on.

    Other than music I liked music my mum played was a pretty big part of my early life. I didn't like it then but Bob Dylan is a favourite of mine now.
     
    it's always been a part of my life.

    at ages 4-9 I liked The Beatles, Meat Loaf, ZZ Top, Grand Funk Railroad...... y'know, your traditional 'dadrock.' (even though I loathe that term)

    at ages 10-13 or so I branched out and started listening to the XM '90s alternative/grunge station. I got super into all that stuff and became something of a grunge fanatic. I still like some of that stuff now but most of it is really hamfisted and I can't really get behind it anymore.

    at age 13, when I met a couple internet friends, the foundations of my current taste were pretty much built. I was shown pitchfork, and I was shown the /mu/core chart, and I was shown last.fm, and a whole new goddamn world opened up for me. it started with Radiohead and Arcade Fire and bands like that, then I started digging into the aforementioned /mu/core chart and I started getting really into bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, etc. around halfway through last year (at age 14) I found this nifty site called rateyourmusic, and the rest is history, I guess. now I like to think I have a pretty eclectic music taste, especially for a 15 year old (that sounds self-righteous, sorry), and I've pretty much crafted a niche for myself in the music world. and I love it. music is now my #1 favorite thing, and I can see it being that for a very long time.
     
    Since Day in my Life. My family is a very musical family My Mother, Grandmother, and sister are members of our church choirs. My cousins and brother are local rappers. My uncle and grandfather are Djs. And my uncle also produces music for many of the local rapper in our city.
    Me other can't sing a lick but have mess around with music with way or other.

    When I found out what type of music I like is high school. When I kind of fall in love with Jazz and old school R&B.
    Then for a little bit I became kind of metal head in my senior of high school.
    But I've always been a ICP Fan or Jugglo since middle school thanks to some of my best friends than.
     
    Music has always been a part of my life. Even when I was so little that my way of listening to music was on my little colorful toy radio that I'd carry around the house. I'd listen to either children's music, or country music, because at the time my mom was big into Tim McGraw and some of the bigger country artists of the time. So I'd listen to that stuff all the time.

    Was into pop from the time I was 7 up until I was about.. 12 or so, when I got into rock for a while. Now I like music in general, regardless of genre.

    Music has had a lot of impact on me my whole life, and I love to sing and write songs. -w-
     
    I'm sure it was before this, because I know I listened to music in the car.

    But I joined the band when I was in 4th grade, and stuck with it until I graduated high school. And I think that contributed to my appreciation for music. I remember when I was in middle school, I thought real music was all instrumentals. I remember having a problem listening to the radio anymore because of the singing. I liked listening to soundtracks and instrumentals and classical compositions.

    Now I listen to pretty much every single thing you can think of, but I gravitate towards this sort of folk-singer songwriter with a dash of pop sound and label it as indie and hip and cool, because that's the image that intrigues me the most. I also really adore shoegaze.
     
    Hard to say for me, but I'm more leaning around when I was 12 or 13. However , I could also say around 10 cause that's when I bought my first CD/album. Though until I was about 12, pretty much forced to listen to Radio Disney in the car (though my dad played bands he liked such as The Beatles and Pink Floyd on his record player. My first CD was an Aaron Carter album when I was 10 (and that's embarrassing to me. I don't like his music now though.However if his song "Aaron' Party" comes on at a party or club, I'll probably dance my butt off cause it's nostalgic lol.) I only liked Aaron Carter because a friend did and he wanted me to get into him. That kind of kicked off my love for music, but it wasn't until I stop listening to the Radio Disney edited pop crap, and listened to more secular, mainstream radio that music became my life. Then I got more into adult Top 40. My first favorite band were The Black Eyed Peas. You know, back when they were good R nB/ Hip-Hop and not the crappy electronic over-autotuned club music they make now. I bought theur album Monkey Business and borrowed their previous albums from the library. I joined their website's fan forum and chatted with other fans and I kept update to date with the band's newsletters and blogs.

    I really get even more into music around 16 and while I still mostly enjoyed top 40, I explored some more genres like pop punk like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, All Time Low, Blink-182 and Forever The Sickest Kids and some indie rock (well mostly just Death Cab For Cutie). And as I got into the youth group I went to, I also listened to cleaner and Christian rock/ worship (Relient K, Switchfoot, Casting Crowns, David Crowder Band, etc) 2009 is when I discovered Owl City and quickly became obessed with his music.

    More recently I've enjoyed a decent variety of music. Arists with electronic influences like Owl City,Lights, Ellie Goulding, Twenty One Pilots, Passion Pit and The Postal Service. Indie rock like Arctic Monkeys, Alt-J, Death Cab For Cutie, Phoenix, Foster The People, Grouplove, Imagine Dragons, The Neighbourhood , The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club, Young the Giant, (maybe Lorde fits here? Not really though. She' a mix of a lot of genres.) etc. And some hard rock like Foo Fighters, Blink 182, Red, Skillet, A Day To Remember and some metalcore like August Burns Red.

    (I've mostly leaned towards the indie rock side in the last year or so though.)
     
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    I can't remember the age, but somewhere around 12-13 I got my first mp3 player. Prior to that, my music exposure mostly consisted of 90s one hit wonders and whatever music my dad played. When I got the mp3 player the first band I really took interest in was the Smashing Pumpkins, as my dad played them a lot. From then on, I just expanded my music horizons, coming back to the 90s and the Pumpkins, even to this day.

    These days music is probably one of the most important things in my life. Everyday I find time to listen, whether it's on the way to school or when I'm trying to fall asleep. I have a lot of emotional connections with the songs and artists I listen to, so it's more of an experience rather than background noise.
     
    I didn't listen to music until midway through junior high, and didn't really start to form my own tastes until some time in high school. I dunno, I just wasn't really exposed to music, I suppose. I'm kind of tone deaf though, and had some bad experiences with my elementary school band (a.k.a. I couldn't play an instrument to save my life) and maybe that put me off for a while. It was only when other people started to show me the music they were listening to did I start to take an interest.

    But now, complete opposite. I have music on a lot, whenever I can, and I know exactly what I like and want to hear and don't really listen to other people's suggestions or, if I do, not very often. It's something I use to relax and de-stress.
     
    I'm going to give you the history of music in the life of Krieg.
    In order, I've gotten hooked on these bands:

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    Yeah, I've been hooked on music pretty much since I was born. It's a huge part of my life. I listen to basically every genre, and don't dislike much music. There are some bands (|-/) that I can't stand. (If you don't know what |-/ means, it's Twenty One Pilots, and I hate Tyler Joseph's voice so much. You don't even know.)
     
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    When did you really start to listen to music that your really liked? - I started listening to Metal when I was in second grade. We had direct tv and one of the music channels was called liquid metal. I listened to it all day every day. I never really understood what they were saying, but it was heavy and it was awesome.

    How does music play a part in your everyday life? - I listen to music every single day. It doesn't matter for how long, music runs my life. And I am in band, so it runs my life a lot.
     
    I started really getting into music around my freshman year of high school when I got my first MP3 player on Christmas 2005. I was a huge fan of 3 Doors Down (still am) and I slowly immersed myself into the world of rock music. Now it is a very important part of my life (playing, writing, and listening).
     
    I didn't really listen to much music until middle school or so. But I was a weird ♥♥♥♥er so I mostly listened to video game music and other weird stuff like that. Then I think around my freshman year or so I listened to Ke$ha for the first time and I fell in love with that catchy, poppy sound. It's kinda sad, but Ke$ha really opened up my musical horizons and now I listen to music all the time. I mostly listen to rap, hip-hop, pop, dance, trap, and other "mainstream" stuff like that.
     
    Music first became a big part of my life when I was about eight. My mum randomly brought a John Williamson CD back from the library one day (he's a country music icon in Australia) and played it in the car. I absolutely loved it and for the next couple of years I was mad into country with he and Johnny Cash being my preferred choices (an Aussie and an American icon, interesting). This started a long standing love music and a cover sung by Williamson is still my favourite song - although I switched to this song several years later.

    When I got to be about eleven or twelve my musical tastes shifted considerably. I listened to a lot of the chart countdowns and there were some pop songs I really liked but the shift was primarily towards rock and hard rock. By the time I was thirteen I was primarily listening to AC/DC, Linkin Park, Guns n' Roses, Led Zepplin, Pink (just a weird one to be in this list I know) and a few other rock groups. I started getting more into metal and rap during the next year and by the time I was fifteen I had grown more into the eclectic taste I have now. There is not a genre I don't like at least one song of.

    I listen to music a lot, although the bands and genres I listen to change a lot bar a few constants. Music is an essential to me when I'm in the car or doing the dishes although I tend to listen to music near constantly.
     
    I'd think maybe two years ago? Before that I was just listening to whatever either a) came on the radio or b) my friends were listening to in class or walking around or told me about, etc. After that was when I started developing my own musical identity, though I do admit that the one artist that started it was a suggestion from someone else, but I'm not concerned, aha. I've taken that and developed musical tastes for most genre, but alternative is kinda my favorite.
     
    My music taste has changed dramatically over the years. I can't stand half the stuff I used to listen to back then aha

    When I was like 4/5 years old one of my sisters was in her early teens, which meant I was exposed to her blasting her music out loud whenever she was home. (she used to go to a boarding school) She would play a lot of pop music like Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne, while also sometimes blasting out pop punk too like Blink-182 and Sum 41. Obviously because of this I started to really like that kind of stuff, and I was also strangely really into Nickleback.

    A few years down the road I discovered Linkin Park through a cousin of mine. He played In The End to me and I was instantly hooked to them. I pleaded my mum to buy Hybrid Theory and I used to just play that in repeat all the time. Think my parents hated me back then aha. They became the only music I listened to besides whatever that topped the charts.

    When I turned 11 and started high school I was introduced to rap and hip-hop from guys I hung out with back then. After that I became really into hip-hop for a few years, especially Eminem and whoever he was associated with, like Snoop Dog and Nate Dogg. My sister also showed me a Dumbfoundead rap battle, and I started to like him as well. I did have a small phase with electronic music, especially dubstep, when I was 14/15 but that went out pretty quickly.

    Rap is actually how I got into my current taste in music; one of my favourite rappers then called Intuition had done a full mixtape of him rapping to non-rap songs and trying to fit a verse in the songs without changing the song too much at all. One of the songs he did was Under Cover of Darkness, and I really digged the riff from the song. So I checked who the band was, and through that I discovered The Strokes, or at least their fourth LP Angles. The first couple of months I just kinda stayed listening to hip-hop while sometimes listening to some Strokes in the side, 'til one day I decided to look into the Strokes a little more. Upon finding out that their first album were given several 5* star ratings and huge critical acclaim, I gave Is This it a spin, and that's when everything changed. And the rest was history.

    Nowadays I listen to the vast ocean called alternative rock, and I discover a new band within this genre like every week. I do have some favourite bands, but I tend to focus more on individual albums. Like lately I've been really into the new The War On Drugs album called Lost in a Dream; if you're into indie kinda stuff I highly suggest you check it out.
     
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