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Before you liked dance music... (pg. 2)
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| Sykonee |
Boney M was one of the very first groups I ever listened to. Does that count as dance music? :p
But, if you mean prior to my 'big plunge' after hearing 2 Unlimited for the first time in '92, most of my listening habits were influenced by what my father would play in bands and for mobile DJing gigs. Stuff like Steve Miller Band, Dire Straits, The Police, Northern Pikes, Roxette, Loverboy, Yes... a lot of the sort of music you'd hear on a JACK.FM radio station, really.
I also developed a fondness for The Beach Boys during that time. |
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| Darkarbiter |
Not too sure Tool are hard rock.
I don't think there was a before :D iirc I was listening to trance, tribal ambient, synth classical and god knows what else at 3. |
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| palm |
| i hated all kind of music until i heard the prodigy for the first time in 91. i was 9 |
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| Ted Promo |
I was into mallcore rock like Korn and System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine. At that point in time I was rather stuck on that. Since getting into electronic I've branched out into folk, jazz, neo-classical, indie rock, and more leftfield electronic as well as occasionally listening to house and techno and sometimes plurtrance.
Not to say that electronic is the best and most diverse phylum of music, it did certainly help me branch out. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Erm... nothing. The first track I ever liked was 2 Unlimited's "No Limit" when I was about six years old, and my first big musical love was glowstick trance around 2000. Looking back at the odd tracks I did like as a kid between 1994 and 2000, they were all poppy dance records that were in the charts. I can trace my entire love of electronic music back to 2 Unlimited.
The only exceptions when I was a kid were Simon & Garfunkel and Jeff Wayne's "War of The Worlds" concept album, which were bizarre exceptions indeed. |
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| Soeder |
| 70's rock mostly. Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Hendrix, Emerson Lake & Palmer etc. |
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| mphreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Erm... nothing. |
Same here. First track I ever loved was "Robert Miles - Children". I was 10 years old :). |
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| Trance-MB |
I'm 34 now, so maybe I shouldn't go back to far....
In the 80's A-ha, Pet Shop Boys, Level42, Simple Minds, Talk Talk, U2, UB40, Queen, Duran Duran, Toto, Culture Club, Wham and not to forget Propaganda and Franky Goes To Hollywood.
Late 80's my love for Synthesizers came with Axel F, Vangelis, J.M.J., Jan Hammer.
Begin 90's next to above (Acid) House started taking attention: Technotronic, Tony Scott, FPI Project, Blackbox, M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy and many more.
Also Eurodance started to submerge with Twenty4Seven, 2Unlimited, Culture Beat, Capella, 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor, C + C Music Factory.
Also KLF, The Ultimate Seduction, Westbam, The Shamen and Nomad I need to mention.
Trance started for me around 1993/1994 with: Dance2Trance, Scooter(yes Scooter),The Age Of Love and so many more.
Next and at the same time I listend to Rave, (German)Techno and Happy Hardcore. A bit Hardcore, because I thought it was ridiculous hard, but also interesting and funny. Happy Hardcore with more melody was hard enough to me.
I was a Faithless, Jam&Spoon and Scooter fan.
Bought lots of trance compilations like Trance Nation and Trancemaster. Bought many cd's in Germany and Belgium. Both borders are with 15 km :)
Hardtrance also was nice and Belgium Bonzai stuff (Yves DeRuyter, The Mackenzie) really was awesome.
Around 2000 I also went to clubs and enjoyed (Club)Techno like King of my Castle, Plastic Dreams, Olav Basoski.
Looking at the uplifting (cheesy) stuff I like now compared to the synthesizer tracks of the late 80's does make some sense to me.
I guess I listened all a lot of EDM although there still was much more to listen....enough for serveral lifes I guess.... |
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| Scoops |
Metal:
W.A.S.P
Iron Maiden
Anthrax
Metallica
PanterA
Slayer
HardCore:
Biohazard
Life of Agony
Clutch
Orange 9mm
Sick of it All |
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| Ghost Raver |
| Basically anything that came out of the TV and radio. I didn't really listen to any genre or anything, I just listened to everything, I think. |
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| elFreak |
i've always had exposure to dance music (my uncle was a house dj in chicago when he was a student at Columbia), and i would say my musical tastes still are as broad as they have ever been.
I still listen to rock and all sub genres (although less and less of the newer stuff because i just don't have that teen angst)
still listen to hip/rnb (same as rock, although once in awhile the newer stuff is good)
same with almost any other genre. I am pretty lucky that i have a big record collection that i have collected from a young age (either bought, donated from my uncle (man i have some old house gems), or through trades.) Every now and then i will pick one crate or shelf and just go through listening to the records i have in them regardless of genre with a glass of wine. This is one of my favorite things to do when i get the house to myself. Good music is good music, and it is rare i grow out of it completely. (heck i even listen to trance sometimes believe it or not...although i did give my little cousin a lot of the records to practice with, kinda like his dad did for me...he doesn't really like them haha, so i gave him some hip hop and some of the cheesier house stuff i bought around 2005) |
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| Psy-T |
| rock & metal at early adolescence, musicals and classical music at childhood. |
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