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[-] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

I can’t be the only one who can’t parse this sentence.

I’m sorry, can you rephrase this? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The title does indeed not make much sense, but I imagine OP is trying to ask: "What grown up music did you listen to that you, and not a grown up, put on."

Answering that question, the first artists I remember looking up and having on my phone/mp3 Player were 30 seconds to Mars, Foo Fighters, and Linking Park. The latter because it was all the rage when I first got into music, not because the songs were especially good.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Thank you, that makes sense. I wasn’t sure if the sleep deprivation was just making me (more of) an idiot.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

NP, OP might as well have been asking what songs turned you on as a kid. I just think the other explanation makes more sense. :p

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Can you please edit the post and clarify what you mean by "turn on"? I'm not smart enough. Thank you.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Turn on meaning cause the music to play. OP means what non-kids music did you listen to when you were first in control of what music to play.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My first album was They Might Be Giants - Flood.

What can I say, I still have great taste.

Also nice to know my first band has had good politics since their first show was at a Sandanista rally.

I gotta admit though, I first heard them on Tiny Toon Adventures.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

oh man probably me too. either that or Evanescence.

i was a angsty lil’ dickhead omg

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Queen. One of their best of albums. And Michael Jackson. Dangerous and History album (which had a best of disc too).

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I assume you're asking what was the first non kids music I listened to and picked out myself? Instead of listening to the Lion King sound track, my first CD was Boston's greatest hits.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

In the mid 1970s, we could borrow cassettes from the library. I started with Neil Diamond “His 12 Greatest Hits”, then moved on to Electric Light Orchestra, Roxy Music, and Mike Oldfield.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Kiss - God of Thunder (Destroyer was the first album I owned)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Found my parents "Business as usual" - Men at work vinyl.

Memorized "Down Under" listening with Sony DR-S5s. I always thought that's how you were supposed to listen since the cord matched the one on the album cover.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Rush - Tom Sawyer

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My parents were young so I never had kid music. I listened to their stuff. The earliest I can recall I had 45s and albums in my room: Three Dog Night, Eagles- Hotel California, Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover on 45, the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. I had several Beach Boys albums, and The Bay City Rollers album whichever one had Saturday Night on it. Oh, and KISS Double Platinum.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My parents music made me into a closeted Jimmy Buffet fan.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The first CD I ever owned was O zone - Dragon Sta Din Tei aka the Numa Numa song. No idea why or where I got it from but I would listen to that on my little cd player

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My first album was the self titled Gorillaz. If you put it in a computer there was a game!

I'd been listening to my older brother's music for a while before that though - Green Day Dookie, Blink-182 Enema of the State, Weezer Blue Album, Korn Issues were all in the mix.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It might have been Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Eminem curtain call. My grandma brought it for me having no idea what it was. I was listening to it for a few days before my mum was like wtf is that and then listened to the first song on the album which was fack. I was 9 or 10 and she confiscated it and I had to steal it back and rip it to the computer and create copies incase she got those.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I remember making back up's of songs I liked that had swearing in them when i was like 8 in case my mom found them. I think I had like 5 or 6 copies of Damnit by Blink 182 hidden in my folder on the family computer, which had an 8gb hard drive.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The Macarena. I still have a cassette tape that is front to back The Macarena on repeat.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’m not sure of the first song, but the first music I ever bought myself was II by Boyz II Men.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The first few I remember were Third Eye Blind-semi charmed kind of life and Smashmouth - All-star (before it was in Shrek)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

One of the first albums I purchased was Back in Black by AC/DC. I also purchased a compilation album called Certified Gold. About half the songs on that were good, I remember liking a Pat Benatar song.

Before that I remember having a little portable boombox with cassette recorder and I recorded Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap also by AC/DC and Destroyer by The Kinks. I listened to them over and over.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I loved playing with my bigger sister's cheap hi-fi, I would put on a vinyl record and without power turned the record manually save heard whispering ^(🎵cherry cherry lady...🎶), so there's Modern Talking, then when she bought a CD player it was Crush by Jennifer Page

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Brooks and Dunn - Boot Scootin' Boogy Travis Tritt - Achey Breaky Heart

Lots of country songs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

System of a Downs 'Toxicity'

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I found a burned CD in my older brothers rooms. On it was Symphony X's album "Twilight in Olympus" and I loved it

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The sound track to Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and then all the artists on there- kiss, slaughter, winger, faith no more, megadeath, etc.

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