Music Discussion thread

[Wooderson]

Having grown up in a house of 7, music was all over the place. Although I wouldn't say anyone in my family is as enthusiastic or as much as an explorer as I am.

My mum is the oldest and her favourite genre is Motown. I have to admit I really do like me some good Motown like The Temptations and Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross etc.

My dad is quite strange. He grew up as a rocker/punk so he claims but his knowledge of music is very poor. He was probably in it for the movement rather than the music. I always remember the glorious Bruce Springsteen CD's playing.

My sisters listened to pop from the late 80s throughout to the 90s. Had no influence on me whatsoever.

My brothers... They share quite the same tastes. They grew up listening mostly to Eminem, had all his first few albums. I do like the earlier albums if i'm honest. They listened to a variety of other stuff too, only the contemporary stuff that was popular at the time like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park. Those three were the bands they had CD's of. Other than that they'd just listen to whatever was on MTV back then. Will always remember Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal and Good Charlotte first few singles! So to sum them up they stuck pretty close to what the music industry was feeding them.

When the first Ipod was released my brothers filled them up with tonnes of music, to which I would listen to and find artists I liked.

I guess the first big breakthrough of music I had was my first album I bought. It was Dead Letters by The Rasmus. It was probably the first thing that ONLY I actually liked. My brothers didn't like them yet I did. To this day I am proud to say that was my first album because it still rocks. I've always swayed more to the alternative side I suppose.