ITT: First experience with your favorite band

>First time listening to death grips in 2013
>Play "The Fever"
>Think it's some retarded hobo spouting incoherent nonsense
>Think the hook is dope though
>Never think I'm going to listen to them again
>Give The Money Store a try because I hear it's good from Sup Forums
>Hate it
>Seriously believe that I'm never going to get into this band
>Give it another try months later
>Start to warm up to it
>"Fuck Hustle Bones is dope too, maybe this ain't bad"
>Keep listening to it
>It's suddenly fucking great
>I GOTT THEEE FEEEVVEEERRRRR
>BIIIIITCCHHH PLEEAASSSEE
>S-S-S-SYSTEM BLOWER

How do they do it, Sup Forums?

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> Be me, 12 years old, summer of 2002.
> Dad hands me an album called "A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson".
> Listen to it, and I'm blown away by everything.
> Just the texture, the singing, just the technicality and raw power, just that feel.
> Finish the album and buy every king crimson album available at the time.

How does Robert Fripp and his constantly changing lineup be consistently great?

>freshmen year in high school
>came out of my geometry final really late
>thought i failed, wanted to cry
>wait for my mom to pick me up on side of my school in the rain
>had the glow pt 2 on my ipod cause i heard it was sad
>sit in the rain listening i want wind to blow
i didnt really get into them or the album until the following fall where a girl broke up with me one night and i walked around my neighborhood listening to it in full

>elementary school
>mom is playing an 80's greatest hits album
>what is this
>"I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo"
>months later I catch the video on MTV
>read about them
>fell for the OK computer is the best album ever
>it is

>come across this band while poking around the internet
>uwotm8.jpg
>find Duck Stab on Spotify because I saw a flowchart on Sup Forums wiki to start with that album
>listen to it
>well that was dumb
>couldn't get the song "Constantinople" out of my head
>okay I guess I'll listen to it again
>listen to it again
>this isn't that bad
>get a couple more songs stuck in my head
>listen to it yet again
>this is the best thing I've ever heard

And now I own several of their albums.

>80's greatest hits
>creep
?

perhaps a typo
idfk

This happened to anyone I introduced Death Grips to, had a friend apologize to me because he made fun of it.

My first song I ever heard from Death Grips was either Government Plates or Birds.

yeah i listened to it for the first time in high school too, but i realy didn't understand or feel the music, I liked a few songs but thought the rest was kind of weird.

I listened to it again when i was feeling down and it resonated much more strongly with me, one of my favorite albums

>in bed one night
>10pm
>friends love Death Grips
>don't get it
>listen to the first half of The Money Store
>follow the lyrics on genius
>decide that's enough for one night
>think about it nonstop that night
>didn't fall asleep till 4am
>woke up humming hustle bones
I love them now

>may this year
>listen to bbng for the first time
>its good
>listen to it many times since

I don't really have one favorite band but :
>find a Nevermind cassette copy in the attic when I was 11 and alone for the day in my apartment
>5 minutes later, I start jumping around and pretend to play guitar with a broom stick during the whole album.

>A few years later, a friend of my mom lend me a Sonic Youth DVD because there are "similar to Nirvana"
>First video is Dirty Boots, I find this really weird, but I keep listening
>Except Mildred Piece, I don't get it.
>At a innocent New Years Eve party with a few friends some months later, I download Dirty Boots and Titanium Expose
>I start to like it somehow and slowly ditch thrash-metal and Iron Maiden for the most similar stuff to SY I could discover with my new internet access and my adolescent brain.

Then I discovered the P4K's tops 100 of the 70s/80s/90s and rym, and I got into MBV, Pavement, The Fall, and Autechre each times in a similar way as SY, except I was in high school.
Autechre made me want to learn to use pd though, and I think they influenced me into transitioning from social sciences uni courses to more STEM-focused ones (them and psychedelic drugs too), and I guess they sort of made me wanna get good with computers and learn to code. So they have a special place in my heart.

I dont remember, i just know that all i listen to nowadays is either DG or MF DOOM. Whenever i listen to something else i cant get into it.

>Be me, working at pizza place
>New year's eve
>Delivery going out, come on
>Grab bike, dog follows me
>Ditch dog, arrive to delivery spot
>Take elevator, walk to room
>Door open, "hello?"
>Empty
>Look at address
>I C Wiener
>Fucking prank
>Decide fuckit, sit in chair
>Countdown
>"Here's to another lousy millenium"
>Monkey pushes my chair
>Fall in cryochamber
>Wake up defrosted in future
>2808
>Find album on table
>Listen to it
>Sweet music after being frozen
>Look out window
>World destroyed
>There's no summer in 2808

To be honest I don't even remember
I think was looking at random Fantano reviews and saw that he gave To be Kind a 10

>consider the Grateful Dead my favorite band/artist for 9-10 years
>still have never listened to anything past shakedown street or terrapin station... Whatever one is later... because i assume it's all dated 80s trash (their albums have a clear negative progression that you can use for trending purposes)
>still called them my favorite
>around the time of GP dropping, decide to finally listen to Death Grips after seeing them here plenty (and all the GP threads holy shit)
>listen to Exmil, figure it's good for working out, etc. Don't think much of them
>same goes for the rest of their shit, but Exmil was my favorite
>leave Sup Forums for awhile, not much changes
>NOTM gets released, still don't care about them that much, figured I'd wait til JD came out to build hype and listen to the finished product as a whole
>laying there the day JD came out listening (wasn't even that hype cause they were still just ok-pretty-good tier but I saw enough JDW threads to build a different hype)
>NOTM is really good
>I break mirrors with my face in the United States starts
>this is awesome, just the sound I'm looking for
>get up from laying down to see where I was in the album
>oh this is JD
>every song is awesome, a couple songs in I get on my computer and follow with the lyrics
>On GP holy fuck
>eventually I am listening to them nonstop
>still do
>I love every single thing they shit out
That's how I became the oldest fanboy and Sup Forumstard out there.

Maybe it will pass but right now I can't even lie to myself that they aren't my favorite.

>How does Robert Fripp and his constantly changing lineup be consistently great?
You say that as if a volatile line-up should be a bad thing. I think part of the reason Fripp has had such a consistently incredible career has been his willingness to work with a diverse pool of musicians.
Some rock bands tend to peak within' their first 3-4 albums and never match their first few albums which I'd partially blame on people going into an each album with the same people over and over and not being exposed to new creators with different ideas.
I think that's also why jazz artists rarely just have one or two creative albums at the start of their career. The way sidemen move along and work with other people so freely helps keep artists exposed to new collaborators and stops them getting in creative ruts.

>see MBV on Sup Forumscore charts
>"isn't that some emo punk pop band"
>listen to Loveless because why not
>fell in love immediately

>Watch Needle Drop review of Ex-Military in late 2014
>Listen to it
>Beware and guillotine are good.
>Sleep on them for about a year
>Late 2015
>Start browsing Sup Forums
>Holy shit these people love Death Grips
>Listen to The Money Store
>Holy shit I love this
>Listen to entire discography

I had a similar reaction. I listenend to Exmilitary and thought it was pretentious Sup Forums garbage. Eventually I started listening to it more and it just grew on me. Now I have a DG poster in my room

>confused my bloody valentine with bullet fro my valentine
>didn't listen to mbv for a long time because of this
>now it's one of my favorite bands

>see exm album art posted here
>recognize the art on a recommend video on youtube
>first listen: only like lord of the game
>second listen: beware is pretty cool
>third listen: I want it I need it is awesome
>get into death grips

Fucking this. Death Grips has that magical way of hooking in people. You listen to them for the first time and think "what? This is just loud noise with a shouting guy", but there's that ONE song you remember and enjoy, so you come back and listen again. Then you like two more. Then 3 more, then the album, then their whole discography.

the first time i heard death grips was before i ever heard of Sup Forums i stumbled across get got at like 2 in the morning and i was instantly hooked

same for me with modest mouse

Same, I judged a band without knowing anything about them, and now they're my favorite
>always see the album cover for LYSF posted on here
>based on the covert art, it looked like some shitty, pretentious, hipser, indie rock album
>look up the band name and album name
>noticed they had these long, nonsensical names
>wow, what pretentious hipster shit
>last year, I finally said fuck it and gave it a listen
>it's the most prefessional and passionate music I ever heard in my life
>the whole time I was listening, I was in awe of the music, and regretted judging it
>GYBE is now my favorite band
>they weren't even hipster, they were incredibly professional and well composed

>using hipster as an adjective to describe music

You know what I mean. By hipsters, for hipsters

I didn't even do that, I confused it with my chemical romance

Yep. My first was "Guillotine". Couldn't get into it. Then I checked out "I've Seen Footage" that summer and it just completely wrapped me in.

i do but it's still a very unintelligent way of describing music.

>spend my life on youtube
>only watched intentionally bad meme videos
>some would feature Guillotine and such
>thought it was cool but wasnt into music
>2-3 later
>2014
>heard NoTM dropped
>remember them from meme videos
>decided to listen to it
>loved it ever since

>listen to radiohead's top tracks on spotify
>enjoy EIIRP, creep and karma police
>sleep on it for a year
>hear a new album is coming out
>listen to their whole discography cause why not
>fall in love and constantly change opinion on their best album (it's Kid A)

>play rock band on my PSP a few years ago
>like playing song called "float on" by modest mouse on hard difficulty
>think this band is nice, I need to listen to them more
>"yeah it's ok, but nothing special"
>a few years later, decided to give them another chance
>"now I will try something different of them"
> Found their old albums and other recordings
>"damn that's a really good shit"

>Start browsing Sup Forums when I'm 16
>people keep shitposting NMH
>say i'll try it out
>ew these courds are so simple someone with Parkinsons could play them
>basic as fuck
>power through to Holland 1945
>I think it's alright, download it, and listen to it
>over 6 months I start continuity listening to this song
>start to like ITAOTS
>start to love ITAOTS

three years of loving this fucking album, Sup Forums didn't fail me this time

I listened to this and thought it was the most generic 90s shit ever.

> hear friends talk about Joanna Newsom
> they say it sounds like Kate Bush, am intrigued
> go listen to a few songs of HOOM, live videos etc.
> its okay, she's cute
> listen to Ys
> first listen - vocals are a bit weird, not bad though
> second listen - holy shit
> literal spiritual/almost immediate emotional reaction to it
> still my favourite album

>be me, 15
>had had Either/Or on computer from dad's CD pile for a while at this point, had listened to it a few times, liked it
>really got into it summer between freshman and sophomore year though. like started analyzing chord progressions, learning every word
>damn i really like this guy
>should DL more of his stuff
>familiarize myself with Roman Candle first, hooked further
>around October, I spin this for the first time
>literally greatest album i have ever heard. every note is pitch perfect. this is my fucking life now
>tracks like "The White Lady Loves You More", "Satellite", "Southern Belle" illuminate parts of me i didn't even know were there
>honestly moves me to invest myself further in every aspect of life, school, girls, thinking/reading, music
>top 20 all time to this day. 11/10

It's been about three years, Elliott's probably my favorite songwriter bar none, maybe Brian Wilson. I know and love every album, every song

>When I was fifteen, sixteen when I started really to play the guitar
>I definately wanted to become a musician
>It was almost impossible because the dream was so big
>I didn't see any chance because I was living in a little town, I was studying.
>And when I finally broke away from school and became a musician
>I thought "well now I may have a little bit of a chance"
>Because all i really wanted to do is music but not only play music
>But compose music.

>At that time, in Germany, in 69-70, they had already discotheques
>So I would take my car, would go to a discotheque and sing maybe 30 minutes
>I think I had about 7-8 songs. I would partially sleep in the car
>Because i didn't want to drive home and that help me for about almost 2 years
>To survive. In the beginning, I wanted to do a album with the sound of the 50s, the sound of the 60s, of the 70s and then have a sound of the future.
>And I said: "Wait a second?
>I know the synthesizer, why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future." And I didn't have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click so we put a click on the 24 track which then was synched to the moog modular. I knew that it could be a sound of the future but I didn't realise how much impact it would be.

>My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio.

No one cares holy shit like let people live m8

you're actually right, it was an unnessecary remark. i apologize

I respect that man

thanks man

First time hearing Morphine was at the end of a Hate By Numbers video on the old Cracked.com
Instantly loved it, googled the lyrics l, loved it more when I heard the whole thing
Looked into the lead singer, Mark Sandman, found out he's a pretty groovy dude who made his own instruments and was actually pretty experimental with recording. Not too mention his crazy name. Then I found out we had the same birthday and I was sold.

Thanks guys

How are you both anyway?

i'm pretty good, thanks for asking. What about you

Single File is another really really good song, and once I understood what elliott was saying in Biggest Lie, that song has a completely different meaning to me now than it did when I was younger, fucking love that guy.

S/t > X/O > Roman Candle > Either/Or > Figure 8 > Basement

fucking CHECKED

>First time listening to Radiohead was in the 4th grade.
>Go to my friends house and notice he has a garage sale.
>This is when my love of music starting developing.
>Friend's hipster dad sees me going through box of CDs.
>Mostly shitty singer-songwriter, indie pop and local music.
>See Radiohead's Greatest Hits.
>Get it for free because my friend's parents didn't really care.
>After playing video games with my friend decided to listen to album with him.
>Sit there listening to the whole album.
>Listen to it everyday.
>Overtime lose interest in music.
>Several years later my love of music comes back
>Grade 9 mid-terms.
>I was behind in my classes and stressed the fuck out.
>Listen to Kid A because I was bored and music calms me down.
>Fell in love again.
>Listen to Amnesiac and Kid A nonstop.
>Then In Rainbows.
>Then King of Limbs for a day until I realized it was shit.
>Then no music.
>Then music.
>Now I can't stop listening to Moon Shaped Pool.

youtube.com/watch?v=bhi2jGfPiuk

This vid was my introduction to Death Grips. When I looked up the actual song I really liked the guitar (at the time I didn't know it sampled Interstellar Overdrive). Then one day I was listening to ATDI and wishing there was a modern band that could come close to being as exciting and heavy. Remembered this and picked up The Money Store.

This reddit post: reddit.com/r/videos/comments/35uloy/oh_shit_im_feeling_it/?st=ir6y3pvi&sh=9b8f2e64

>damn that's a really good shit

>2009
>just started junior year in high school
>been browsing this RYM site quite a bit
>noticed that 90s albums are getting a lot of love so decide to check some out
>Swans is a pretty cool name
>Soundtracks For The Blind, even cooler album name
>140 minute length wtf is this even an album?
>start listening to it
>is this even music? It's just random noise going through
>"everyone knows that you, are fucked up"
>"everyone knows that I, am fucked up"
>"but does everyone know that you are more fucked up than me?"
>oh my god
>helpless child happens
>alright finally some actual riffs like the metal I love
>the acoustic guitar starts playing while the main drone riff happens
>oh shit that's so cool
>that other electric guitar riff happens on top of that
>holy shit this is awesome
>that one short two more riff comes in while that happens
>this just might be the best thing I have ever heard
>You Live Through Me having this melancholic catchy bit
>Yum Yab Killers starts, I go wtf, family comes in and says what the hell are you listening to, user?
>I stop listening and go back to the daily Metallica/Megadeth/Ozzy listening

That's cool Elliott actually inspired you to do better when many here wallow in their misery while jamming him.

It was honestly Lake's vocals that really got to me first time.

Not gonna lie my first time with these guys (Dead Flag Blues) was hella memorable, too.

When you gonna make good music again, faggot?

>Rock radio station
>Hear Hole in the Earth by Deftones
>think it's pretty good
>years later fucking around in an arcade, find guitar hero
>try to find a song I recognize to play
>Hole in the Earth is one of the songs
>pick it and play it, remember how good the song is
>afterwards get into their other hits like My Own Summer and Change, and later entire albums

>Pick up the album from a sharethread
>Listen to it kind of not paying attention because I'm an absolute plebean
>Suddenly
>I HOPE YOU DIE
>I HOPE WE BOTH DIE
>Album has my full and undivided attention
>Listen to it many times in the weeks to come
>Learn to love the pain.

What kind of music is it? Genre

Folk rock.

>12
>friend a couple years older than me recogmends it
>pretty meh, can't understand it
>7 months later, have to go on lots of train and car rides through countryside with this being the only thing on phone
>cums when realises it

Was it Doomsday m8?

>be me
>early 2015 (can't remember exactly the month)
>be with my friend at my house playing videogames
>youtube random playlist I can't remember
>and your bird can sing starts playing
>friend starts singing like it's his favorite song of all time
>"hey man I didn't know you liked beatles" i said
>"haven't you listened to any album by them?" he said
>"only listened to the 1 compilation album because of my mom" i said
>"try abbey road" he said
>he left
>started playing abbey road
>I have already listened to songs like come together, something, here comes the sun, so I kinda felt related to the album at first listen
>the album is about to end and I had enjoyed it all
>golden slumbers starts playing
>GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLDEEEEEEN SLUUUMBEEERRSS FILL YOUR EYEEEEEEES
>feels.jpg
>carry that weight reprises you never give me your money
>I NEVER GIVE YOU MY PILLOW
>YOU ONLY GIVE ME YOUR INVITATIONS
>I started crying
>the end starts
>"and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"
>went to everyone that was in my house and hugged them and told them I loved them

>be me, 16, browsing youtube
>not even sure how I found the video
>wind up listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Dazzle
>hadn't ever been "moved" by a band prior to this
>holy shit, what is this feeling?
>rape the replay button until I'm worn-out
>start listening to more SATB via related videos
>buy Hyaena the very next day; it becomes the CD I play ad infinitum in my car for the rest of high school

Here's the crazy part:

>fast forward to me being 20, on a road trip with my dad
>dad lets it slip that it tripped him out when I started listenening to SATB
>turns out that my biological mom used to listen to them all the time when she was pregnant with me
>I didn't know that, and had lost her a long time ago
>it's entirely possible that my favorite band was the first sound I ever heard, even before I was born
>this happens a few times following that; I'll find a band I really like and start playing them constantly, only to find out from my dad later that it was one of her favorite bands

damn dude, proud of you

I know it's silly. but don't know, I consider it my most important experience in music

Well it sounds like it, some people get this caught up & I cant, so you must be in tune with yourself

Thats some sick shit right there, sounds like a subplot in a movie

Dude, I get it. It's hard to put those moving experiences into words. You just want to force a pair of headphones onto somebody and force them to have the same experience with the album.

Besides, it's Abbey Road. You might as well have been losing your virginity or trying acid for the first time.

>Thats some sick shit right there, sounds like a subplot in a movie
What was nuts about it to me was the reveal. SATB was already my favorite band for years and a huge part of who I was. I blasted that shit every day on my car's speakers on the way to school and work or just driving around town, and during pretty much every formative experience of my teen years. It was the soundtrack for my life, and the people around me knew it. It was all that got me out of bed some days, and it's what I would turn to when I was feeling good or bad.

Then I found out that it was something my mom loved, too, and it was something we had heard together before I was even born. That painted it in a different light for me. I never got to know my mom, but knowing that made me feel like I knew her really well on some level, and like she had actually been with me the whole way. You know the bond you have with somebody who just "gets" your taste in music? It's that. I feel like I actually know her better than anybody.

It'd be one thing if I had sought out the music because I knew it was what my mom liked, but the spontaneous way it resonated with me even without knowing it was the crazy part. I can't imagine how nutty it must have been for my dad.

Dude, just listen to it. trust me. Not even the guy you're replying to. Mountain Goats is genuinely good.

One day back when Skate 3 was a popular I would play it a shit ton with my friends. Chilling and fucking around then I hear Summertime Clothes by AnCo. I didn't know it was them and I thought it was a pretty good song.
>Fast Forward like 4 years to last month
Listening to MPP because I saw it a bunch here. Start hearing Summertime Clothes instantly feel nostalgic. Since then I've listened to a lot of AnCo. Definitely one of the best AnCo songs imo.

I wish I could right now, but im running on slow phone internet, I will make a reminder though, are there any similar artists or albums to compare it to?

>Dude, I get it. It's hard to put those moving experiences into words. You just want to force a pair of headphones onto somebody and force them to have the same experience with the album.

You just described me

>browsing mucore charts, really first starting to try to get into music, see spiderland
>listen to it in august and think it's a neat album
>listen to it again in a month, slightly better but still good
>dont really listen to it for awhile until around february of this year, completely coinciding with a really rough patch in my life
>album completely clicks, 10/10

>see a comic about that guy who goes "what should I listen to today?"
>he listens to STGSTV
>decide to check it out
>begin listening and remember my ears kinda hearing
>think "I don't think it's good music is you probably need drugs to enjoy it"

>a year or so later I find this place
>see thread about the feels album
>decide to listen to it I dunno why
>kind of liked it
>sort of reminded me of mgmt for some reason
>listened to grass, purple bottle, and banshee beat for days

>eventually hear more of their music
>noticed that there seemed to be two singers
>decide to learn more about band
>fuck yeah Wikipedia.jpeg
>fall in love with panda
>sometimes dream about sacking his dick
>straight BTW

underrated

nah when i first saw the video 4 guillotine i was hooked instantly

>be 11
>hear Karma Police on radio
>For a minute there I lost myself
>makes me feel good
>ask older sister what song it is
>download and listen to it a hundred times
>get mom to buy Ok Computer
>listen to it a thousand times

I was too young to appreciate Kid A when it came out though. Took me a few years before I got into it and their later stuff.