What band or artist turned you on to music in a big way?

For me it's probably the sex pistols, nirvana, and meat puppets. I grew up with split parents who had very similar music tastes and liked older bands. I remember the first time I heard the sex pistols (I was like 4) and I instantly knew from then on that I would pursue a career in music.

for sure the mouth albums by neil cicierega--they really opened up my mind to more music than whatever i was listening to at the time, which wasn't much lol

songs like 'annoyed grunt' and 'best' are the kind of mashup chaos that made me realize how much music is actually out there

edit: wait i read that wrong. weezer is my answer

system of a down got me into music in general, but dead kennedys were the ones who really opened my eyes got me onto the path i'm on now

I started out with pretty much a traditional heavy metal band/rock band called Black Sabbath and a little bit of old school Green Day. What actually got me into music originally was pop music. Stars like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Iyaz, Rihanna, Jason Derulo, you name it. I had a sudden shift in genres after listening to my brother and sister's playlists. It exposed me to Paramore, Saosin, Eyes Set To Kill (mainly), Falling In Reverse, and Fall Out Boy. It just got heavier and more hardcore punkier and skramz-er over time. To bands such as Portraits of Past, to well... Infant Annihilator.

For me it was Pink Floyd (thanks dad lol) and probably Metallica 

I've been pushed to learn classical music by parents for a lot of my life and hated it, the pretention and, the push to play something as it as written, it's just so, unartful? Like it's skilled, but anytime you deviate from the path it's all, "you think you know better than Listz?" and if you're just playing the same black dots on a page that some dead dude has, it's a craft, but is it an art?

But I started getting drawn to old coldplay stuff and it just, maybe wasn't the most complex or exciting music but that sense of strange feeling you get in your chest, not good or bad, just complex in emotion, that got me. Like good tea, it's complex and the beauty is in the way you feel, i guess. 

So yeah, sorry if that was uninteresting, but i feel that the music that gets to you is something that transcends music altogether sometimes.

Get Scared 

It is not a particular artist, there are many, it drives me to create music to communicate my thoughts, my personality.

The band that got me into making music was a band called ace of hearts. The band that mainly describes my current music taste is will wood and the tapeworms.

The Caretaker was the first musical awakening, and Ed Banger Records was the second musical awakening, still love them to bits to this day!

Aaliyah(My pfp) also her last album is one of the first albums I truly enjoyed back to back

I was brought up listening to Pink Floyd and Mike Oldfield, what ever was on the radio was a part of my listening diet, but it wasn't until I came across Vanessa Mae's "The Violin player" that I got into learning music properly. 

That then compounded when I first discovered the Eurythmics. They are the main ones that got me into music properly. My granddad also showed me groups like Ian Dury and the Blockheads

I'll be showing my age, but oh well. I'm a 90's kid who had no choice but to feed on to the mainstream music that was out at the time: Britney Spears, Monica, NSync, Backstreet Boys, Brandy, Christina Aguilera, TLC, etc. 

Still, my parents exposed me to music they grew up listening to. My dad exposed me to these artists: The Gap Band, Anita Baker, Patti Labelle, Ann Nesby, Kenny G, Dave Koz, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Earth Wind & Fire, Quincy Jones, and more. My mom exposed me to BeBe & CeCe Winans, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass, Amy Grant, Celine Dion, En Vogue, Xscape, and more.

As I continued to grow, I still listened to mostly mainstream artists, yet still found and heard of these artists: Puff Daddy, Biggie, Faith Evans, Dru Hill, K-Ci & Jojo, Coolio, Lou Bega (Mambo No 5 guy), Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Ja Rule, Ashanti, LL Cool J, Fat Joe, Blaque, Shakira, Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Blink-182, Jay-Z, and more.

Death Grips!

When I was around 12 my friend told me of a "satanic" band that he found (he was super religious so anything loud and violent was satanic to him).

This band was Death grips. I listened to their album "The Money Store" after school that day and I hated it so much, I couldn't understand how anyone would enjoy this type of music, let alone make it.

Although I hated it and couldn't understand it, something about it interested me so I kept listening to it over and over again and at some point it just made sense to me. 

I got the art and how this could be entertaining to anyone.

Because of this I now have a really open mind to music and the artist intention, and the art they are trying to make.

For me it was black veil brides cause i found them at a time where i truly needed them and them been with me ever since 

probaly Have a Nice Life and Tiny Little Houses

Glaive

I can not describe with  any  words how good Glaive is. His music style has changed so much over the years and honestly has inspired me to make some of the music I have today. I have tons of unpublished songs that exist because of Glaive. I highly recommend you check him out on Spotify. 

Glaive

I can not describe with  any  words how good Glaive is. His music style has changed so much over the years and honestly has inspired me to make some of the music I have today. I have tons of unpublished songs that exist because of Glaive. I highly recommend you check him out on Spotify. 

hatsune miku……

Honestly, the song that got me into guitar and then bigger into music as a whole is Boys Don't Cry by The Cure. I first heard that song during a bad time in my life and I related to the lyrics in a deeper way than any other song I've heard before and since. I wanted to play it. I needed to perform it. So I picked up the guitar and just started. It's still my dream to perform a cover of it in front of an audience.

Guns n roses

Only listened to classical and film scores for my entire life (because I was and still am a classical pianist and composer). When I was much younger, Fireflies by Owl City would play on the radio. Only about a few months ago, I rediscovered that song, and now Owl City inspired me to branch out from a classical composer to become a singer and producer of electronic pop music myself.

MCR made me actually start liking music lol...

for me, it was Tyler, the creator after listening to "foreword".

En mi caso es el anónimo cantante Sodikken mí interés por el empezó simplemente porque nadie sabia quien era, pero al escuchar una de sus canciones (Hansel) me pude llegar a poner en su lugar y me llegue a identificar con la canción, después de un tiempo me interese por las demás canciones, de las mezclas de sonidos y de los diferentes significados que tiene cada canción. En fin quiero llegar a ser como sodikken por ir eso soy música ahora mismo

probably nirvana, The Beatles and David bowie. my dad showed me a lot of music when I was younger and those were the only ones I still listen to :)

Probably SOAD. I remember I first heard them when I was like ten years old at a drumming competition (I was starting to play that instrument during that time) and some kid started playing Toxicity. And I was like "woah, what is THIS!". And ever since that day I had my very first favorite band :)

definitively mike patton and everything he's done 

starting with Faith No More. when I was a kid, I used to wait for them to come on MTV

when my dad started playing his old beatles cds on his 5-disc player in the living room. that cemented my love for early rock

Nirvana was the band to really get me into rock but when I heard Saturday Night Wrist for the first time I knew that was the greatest rock album I'd ever heard, deftones has been my favorite band ever since

For me it was odd future and frank ocean mostly R&B and rap like Earl sweatshirt.

for me,,, deffo the downward spiral by nine inch nails.

It was Gorillaz, then Radiohead, then the /mu/core pipeline.

Blink-182, Sum 41, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Underoath and basically every single pop punk/emo/screamo/metalcore/heavy/hardcore band out there!!!

Muse, big time! Say what you like about Simulation Theory, and I'd deffo agree with you now looking back, but as an at-the-time 13-yro kid who hadn't really discovered his own music taste yet, hearing that album front to back and then asking one of my sisters what Muse album I should listen to next... it basically set off my unwavering love for music, especially alternative rock. Met some friends who also loved Muse, started my first band with one of them, and then a semi-official one a couple years later with another one of those friends. Matt Bellamy inspired me to start writing songs (and those songs will certainly remain happily untouched... they were about as "I'm 13, and this is deep" as you could possibly get), and Chris Wolstenholme inspired me to start learning bass. 

Still love their run of albums from Showbiz to The Resistance to bits, and ofc Sim Theory brings back some fond memories, but I'm not the biggest fan of their music as of late. Funnily enough, The Jaded Hearts Club, a Bellamy side project, introduced me to Miles Kane in 2018/19, so Muse really have been a driving force for me musically ahaha. GET STARTED ON MUSE WITH: New Born.

probably arctic monkeys!!

That's cool, I love Sparks! 

It was Twenty One Pilots for me. I got really into them to impress a guy I liked. Turns out he only knew like 3 songs and didn't like their older stuff. I didn't know that so I ended up listening to all their albums and trying to talk to him about their deep cuts. I continued to be into them long after I stopped being friends with this guy. This phase of my life was embarrassing so I pretended to hate them for a few years but I don't do that anymore.

Nirvana and Black Flag mostly. Once I started getting into Nirvana I read Kurt's Journal, found his top 50 albums list in there, figured if he made good music his taste must be good so checked everything on there out. That's basically how I was introduced to punk. Black Flag was just about the only hardcore band on there, but since I had taken quite a liking to them I dove down that rabbit hole, learned about the Southern California and D.C. scene, so discovered a lot of hardcore bands that way.

It was the prog rock band Porcupine Tree. I was 12. I was on a winding mountain road in an old truck with my mom at around 10 PM, and a real big blizzard was just starting. somehow we had a radio signal, and this song came on. "Arriving somewhere but not here" it was 12 minutes long and by the time it ended, we had rounded the mountain and managed to find a motel before we got snowed in. if theres such a thing as a heart song, that one is mine. 

The beatles and Led zeppelin tbh, my grandma is a big fan of them so I've been hearing so many of their songs since I was a kid and as I grew older I just look up to them the most when it comes to musics. But personally, there is a german artist where she mixed up middle east traditional instrumental and hiphop together in her song, her name is Namika and she really is the sht! 
and I also love fairuz her songs are so good aswell 

There is this Estonian artist named Misha Panfilov. I highly recommend. His music brings me to a place literally not a single artist has ever done. I adore it so much

tyler the creator's older stuff reminded me that i have a 200 dollar program specifically to make music lmao

Without tryna sound corny, Kevin Parker. Was already my top artist and then i saw him live. I make completely different music to him, but being from the same country as bro really helped lmao