My first love...

Kevin Chavez3 said:... so MC Hammer (a total outlier 😁),...

🙂

I think I had some MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice 🤮 and Snap
tapes lying around about ten years ago.

First one, but seriously, the very first.
Queen
oh, yes, I'm a great pretender 😁

My first love and forever the greatestDepeche Mode 🙂

I actually have two original copies by Em Sijati! Now I can't help but regret not picking up those two albums on vinyl when I stumbled upon them at a flea market in $3.25... "U Can't Touch This" is pure chaos!

Like Black Flag - Nothing Left Inside... lonely lonely lonely lonely boooooooooyyyyyyy... it's brutal.

Nofx, then Dead Kennedys... yeah, somewhere around 7th grade.

Before that, I was into whatever heavy stuff was around—Metallica was alright back then, but honestly, I can't even wrap my head around them anymore.

Same goes for listening to old school rock bands like Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty; I just can't get into them today. I might catch a track here or there, but rarely a whole album.

But yeah, Nofx was definitely the turning point that pushed me toward punk.

The Beatles are my absolute favorites, much like my beloved Led Zeppelin and the music of Pink Floyd 😳 😍 ☕

Hey man, just testing this out for a second...😢 😳 🙂

stormyridge38 said:One of my favorite memories has to be
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

👍 👍 👍

Pure gold 🙂

That track is still legendary even today 😛

Nirvana was my first real love affair.
I still get goosebumps watching that Unplugged set, and honestly, some tracks still hit me hard enough to get me fired up...

My parents claim I used to have nightmares about scary movie villains when I was a kid, which is basically proof my childhood was a total wreck. 😁

But honestly, ever since I’ve been able to think for myself...
Chronologically speaking, it might seem a little weird,

I grew up on The Beatles, Prodigy, Biohazard, Sepultura, Tool, and Primus... 😁
But my first real love? That was definitely The Beatles. 🙂

The Beatles, back in fifth grade 🙂
I used to hunt down those little vinyl records the old guys didn't bother with 😁

Bryan Barrett said:First one, hands down.
Queen
oh, yes, I'm a great pretender 😁

🙂 🙂 total nonsense 🙂 🙂 🙂

Justin Taylor said:🙂 🙂 weak weak 🙂 🙂 🙂

Go tell that to Mike Portnoy and Mike Portnoy! 😠

😁

How on earth did I manage to miss this entire thread until now?
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Judas Priest!!!

I mean, I liked most of their stuff leading up to this point, more or less, but Judas Priest 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙂 🙂 🙂

Carl Ross34

from the so-called "local" scene: Peking Duck; Haustor

as for those "outsiders": Joy Division; The Stranglers

I suppose "Talking Heads" is the first thing that comes to mind. There was definitely more of that kind of stuff back then.
It started with housewives, but during my era, a whole new wave kicked off—you know, all those big-city vibes from places like New York or Chicago, those bundled travel packages and whatnot.

Ian Curtis.
(Joy Division)

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