First Time Listening to your Favorite Band~

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So, I was just now, listening to my favorite band (yeah, you guessed it) Panic! at the Disco. The first time I listened to them, was I think around December 05' and I would hear the beginning of 'I write sins' their first single all the time before December on Yahoo! video. I didn't really like them at first, they sounded kinda wierd. One day, I could remember it like it was yesterday, my computer was going super slow, and my Yahoo! video window thinger wouldn't let me skip this one video, it was (yeah you guessed it again) 'I Write Sins' by Panic at the Disco! I was getting angry cause at the time I didn't like it, but it got to the part where he starts singing and I just said 'Hey, this isn't as bad as I thought..Hey! It's not bad at all!' And from then on, I LOVED them, as you can see now. I'm practically obsessed now. I eventually bought the CD, and whenever I saw anything with Panic! at the Disco, I wanted it. All thanks to my slow ass computer.

So, share your experiences listening to your favorite band for the first time.

[Jojee]

I haven't had a really really favorite band for a while now ^^ I have lots of bands that I like. Savage Garden was my favorite band for aaaaages and I still love them but they've been broken up for a long time now ._.~ I thought they were heavenly when I first heard them <font size="1">I've cried over their songs before ;-; It was a long time ago</font>.

[Ryth]

The first time I heard my favourite band, Modest Mouse, was on vh1. It was Float On, I loved it. I would get all excited when the video came on. xD At the time I didn't really search them out, but now I have all four albums and I love them with a passion.

[Rocket Edge]

Good idea for a thread ff+.

I remember the first time i heard 2Pac (my favourite musician). It was a night in the summer of 2000, and my cousin persuaded me to listen to the song California Love. At the time i didn't think much of it, tapping my feet almost to please my cousin who i thought felt was besotted with.
On the way home from his house, something clicked in my head. It's like discovering a song you love for the first time, but so much more. Something like it never happened to me previously, and to be honest i don't think it's likely to happen again. As soon as i got home i rushed to the phone and dialed my cousin's phone number, & told him to place the phone up to the CD player. I listened to California Love through the phone the whole night, i almost new the whole rap when i hung up!

It was an experience i won't forget, because as strong feelings go, this was the strongest i felt towards music. I still listen to 2Pac frequently to this day.

[Araciel]

tool. WAY back in 1992 on muchmusic...i didn't even get into music until 1994 when i was 12 though

[Bunny]

Three and a half years ago at the behest of my then-girlfriend, I bought Radiohead's Amnesiac and listened to it almost exclusively.

Recently, I was introduced to Pain of Salvation's Remedy Lane and listened to that almost exclusively for about three weeks.

I'm not sure which of the two is my favorite band.

[Mitch]

The Datsuns - I had heard a lot about them as they got big in Europe as it was on the news quite a bit in NZ. They only played a few snippets of their songs, though, which was enough to get me into a positive state of mind about the band. Then I saw them tear up Harmonic Generator on some like CD:UK and the love just kept on growing into what it is today.

[escobert]

Puff Daddy had beat up Steve Stout (Nas's manager) because MTV aired a version of the Nas song Hate Me Now that showed P-Diddy On the Cross like Jesus. That was my first true taste of Nas.

[Spammerman]

hawk Nelson had opened at the Rock The Sound concert in Bridgeport a while back. my friend brought me to see them. It was awesome. I was hooked. They were the first real band ive ever heard at a concert.

[White Raven]

My parents took me to a Pink Floyd concert in '92, and ever since I've been hooked. I liked them at the time cause I thought it was cool, but since then I've discovered that they're the most awesomeness band ever!

[Bloodline666]

First time I listened to Slayer (my favorite band), was when I bought the Headbangers Ball CD volume 1, and it had a live version of Raining Blood. I liked the song so much that I saw them in concert a month later. I liked that show so much that the next day, I bought their Reign In Blood CD. And I've been a Slayer fan ever since.

[The Captain]

I also agree, this is a very interesting topic.

The first time I ever heard Bruce Springsteen, fittingly, I was driving to New Jersey on my way to work at 6am. The song was "Racing In The Street" and as I drove, the music and words just washed over me and for an instant, I saw my life flash before me. Now if anyone knows that song, it's a very sad song, so I hope that this isn't some omen of a sad life, but the pathos of the song, the lyrics and how very real they felt to me, it haunted me frankly. I spent all day at work thinking about it and when I was released, stopped at a local Best Buy to pick up whatever Springsteen albums they had. Then, for the entire 2 hour ride home, I rapidly became a lifelong fan of The Boss.

For whatever reason, I'd always been aware of his music but had never really listened to it. Now, I wonder why I waited so long.


Take care all.

[DarkLadyNyara]

My grandma used to play Pink Floyd all the time. The first time I remember actually listening was when she was watching PULSE, and called me in to see Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

[Rocket Edge]

I also agree, this is a very interesting topic.

The first time I ever heard Bruce Springsteen, fittingly, I was driving to New Jersey on my way to work at 6am. The song was "Racing In The Street" and as I drove, the music and words just washed over me and for an instant, I saw my life flash before me. Now if anyone knows that song, it's a very sad song, so I hope that this isn't some omen of a sad life, but the pathos of the song, the lyrics and how very real they felt to me, it haunted me frankly. I spent all day at work thinking about it and when I was released, stopped at a local Best Buy to pick up whatever Springsteen albums they had. Then, for the entire 2 hour ride home, I rapidly became a lifelong fan of The Boss.

For whatever reason, I'd always been aware of his music but had never really listened to it. Now, I wonder why I waited so long.


Take care all.

Good song.

I had experienced something similiar, but with the song 'One step up' from him. I was visiting my cousins for the night, and seeing as how they listen to Bruce all the time, i heard this song playing from the CD player that i just loved it, instantly. I went upto the bedroom with a CD walkman and the Tunnel of Love album and put the song on repeat for the night. There's something amazing about the song, it just sticks with you. I do believe that is Springsteen's best trait, he is a musician for the people (probably unlike Cash or Dylan in that way).

I still listen to Bruce alot today, and he is one of my favourite musicians.

[Xander]

Hmm, for my favourite band these days, Of Montreal, it was not really that long ago, maybe like a year or less and I think I just found them on lastfm then downloaded a song..then went wowww. Not very exciting story.

I have quite an old memory of when I first heard Blink 182 though, who were my favourite band throughout my end of school and college life (and still have a special place in my heart <3). Some guy brought the CD Enema of the State and played it in our Art lesson at school. I thought it was great and then went and got all the CDs!