What was the defining moment in your life that made you choose the type of music you liked?

Question

I like the 80's music, because of one dude that played "Only Shooting Love" http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=rhkOPNRV8Pk How about you? What moment made you realize that this was the music you'd be listening to for the rest of your life. No matter what!

Answer 1

I like Country - the first song that really got to me was Heart by Gene Rockwell, guys like Jim Reeves, Foster and Allen .........well mostly 60 to 80's music is still evergreen to me

Answer 2

Like s****. I'm also and have been for many years, a huge Guns 'n Roses fan, also Metallica, but to a lesser degree, I also had tickets to the Guns show at the My Coke Fest, we were bitterly disappointed when they pulled out.

I basically became a fan while in a lift club for school, one of the girls in my class had an older brother who would drive us to school on a Monday and Wednesday, he would always play Iron Maiden and Motorhead, which I never really enjoyed but I struck an instant liking to a mixed tape his girlfriend had made him and specifically to the songs Fade to Black (Metallica) and Sweet Child 'O Mine (Guns), from there I went out and bought Metallica's Ride the Lightning album and Gun's Appetite for Destruction album and I've pretty much been a fan of that genre ever since.

I really despise Rap, R&B and Hip Hop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7C90sLh5...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oobDQ0vdm...

Answer 3

when i was 14 or so, the guy that i totally worshipped was a huge metallica fan and other heavy metal. on a forbidden date one time, he was jamming the ride the lightning tape(hah! cassette tape! how old am i?) i knew right then that rock and roll, especially hard rock was the music for me!!

Answer 4

These days I listen to any sort of music if it is cool. I am still a huge fan of Metallica and Guns. Depeche Mode is also in my collection.

My love of metal started probably when I was 16 and watched and I by accident turned the radio to 5fm and Barney Simon's night zoo was kicking and playing best of Metallica.

I was addicted from then on.

I saw Metallica live in cape town at the my coke fest. I had tickets to see Guns the following year by sadly they dissapointed by not showing and therefore i never went.

Answer 5

An ex-girlfriend from Germany got me to listen to European rock music, now I love it.

I always liked classical music and when I lived in a big house at one stage of my life, I use to crank up the volume. Now I like to listen to it while I'm reading or just lazying around.

Answer 6

I've gone trhough many phases and my parents werent really sure who I really was. I've been on the Goth side, I was a hip hop honey wearing baggy pants and Dr Martins, then I first heard Erykha Bhadu and fell in love with those soulful wails. I knew then and there I wanted to be a soulful turban wearing soul queen. I wore big hoop earings, a turban, long skirts and a lot of bangles and beads. I must admit I miss that style, but I looked like a rope or apparell stand in a jewellery store. I still love RnB, the soulful kind, but my boyfriend introduced me to rock and pop and I must say I dig a lot of tunes. I like music that not only calms me but makes me strive for living s**y...:)

Big ups to : Erykah Bhadu, Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, Dwele and many more....

India Arie although pissed me off with "brown skin" I loved that song so much but often got the same comment about my skin not having been kissed by the sun... blah!

But soul really redefined me and gave me a new confidence. i delved deeper into the world of poetry and self expression and can proudly say I found the much more mature and confident me through Jill Scotts lyrics and those skin tight tank tops and long skirts because when I felt s**y i felt my most confident. Okay... I've gone off the page, but I hope you get what I mean.

Answer 7

I have an older brother and he contributed to me choosing the music I liked today, he and his friends waited till my parents went out and then he put his  7 single Heat of the moment by Asia on the "Hi-Fi" and nearly blasted me and my little  friends out of the house, he told me listen to the drums, nobody plays drums like that, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTvWvfEM... and I must have listened or I had no choice, he also played Nazareth, Slade, Styx, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath etc. I also like Guns and Roses and Metallica, those are real bands, you can hear the drums, guitars etc. so thanks to my brother I have good taste in music. I Love depeche Mode Shake the disease and this song is my favourite, I really had a lot of parties on this one http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuaHs2y2I... Yes I loved the 80ties BEST music ever!!

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Porgie I also love Depeche Mode, but the other 2 song s are a bit too "rustig", okay, but not to party on!

Answer 8

Grew up in the sixties that was won h**l of a defining moment I grew up with rock it was just that it got heavier over the years. Favourites are Pink Floyd AC/DC Ramstein Guns n Roses I have thirty four gig of it on computer. Your last link is one of my dislikes in music but the first two are ok.

Hey bully boy we have something in common don't that just make your heart sing.