music Songs/Groups that got you into a particular genre of music?

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,967]

Finding the love for a particular music genre can happen in many different ways, most commonly I have noticed, it either happens in a barrage of music from that genre where you hear a lot of it and it sticks with you or sometimes, there is one particular band or song that gets you hooked that the genre they belong to. What are some of these for you? You explain in detail if you wish to or you can just list it.

 

For me it is:

 

Genre: Aggro-tech - Band: Psyclon Nine

 

Genre: Symphonic Metal - Band: Nightwish

 

Genre: Doom Metal - Band: Paradise Lost

[Frostgage 7,977]

A couple for me:

 

Genre: Synthpop - CHVRCHΞS

 

Genre: Grunge - Soundgarden

[Sporemane 546]

My genre of music is anything that's instrumental. Like military marches, Big Band Jazz, and anything that Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin recorded.

[Nightfall Gloam 18,272]

Well, Green Day is what got me into Rock music

[Lisa 5,553]

Death Grips got me into the weird world of experimental hiphop.

Edited November 18, 2015 by Holiday on the Moon

[Biggybrony 244]

I'll keep it general.

 

Metal - Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold

 

Punk - Blink 182

 

Jazz - Django Reinhardt

 

Moody trip-hoppy stuff - Second Person

 

Classic rock - The Darkness

[Randimaxis 8,659]

Oh, where to begin?  Well, let's begin at the beginning, I suppose:

 

 

Folk/Bluegrass : My father and his acoustic guitar  <3

Golden Oldies: Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode"

Classical: J.S. Bach - "Toccata & Fugue In D Minor"

Classic Rock: The Who - "Pinball Wizard"

80's Glam Metal: Quiet Riot - "Slick Black Cadillac"

Heavy Metal: Metallica - "Metal Militia"

Rap/Hip-Hop: LL Cool J - "Go Cut Creator Go"

Alternative/Pop Rock: R.E.M. - "Orange Crush"

Country: Jerry Reed - "Eastbound & Down"

Polka: Weird Al Yankovic - "Polkas On 45"

Novelty: Stan Freberg - "Heartbreak Hotel"

Nu Wave: Berlin - "The Metro"

Goth Metal: Type O Negative - "Summer Breeze"

Industrial Techno: KMFDM - "Juke Joint Jezebel"

Grunge Rock: Nirvana - "Breed"

Gangsta Rap: Bone Thugs 'N' Harmony - "Thuggish Ruggish Bone"

Dubstep: Skrillex - "Bangarang"

Nerdcore: MC Chris - "Fette's Vette" AND The Great Luke Ski - "What's Up Spock?"

Modern Metal: OTEP - "Buried Alive"

70's Funk: K.C. & The Sunshine Band - "Get Down Tonight"

 

... and there's a great deal more, but I don't want this list to go on forever.  

[honk friend 1,978]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g

This song was the one that got me in to electronic music

Say what you want about Skrillex, this is still one of my favorite songs

Edited November 18, 2015 by Kitty~

[redaxted 1,765]

Well, Fall Out Boy got me into the alternative rock and almost punk rock kinda genre. An internet friend of mine requested that I make an AJMV of The Phoenix. I assumed, considering the name of the band, that maybe the song would not be to my taste. But soon I found myself listening to it happily on repeat, and exploring the rest of FOB's music!

Edited November 18, 2015 by Wolves

[Ziltoid the Omniscient 286]

G-Punk/Rip-Hop: (Hed) P.E. - Pac Bell

 

Alternative: Incubus - Pardon Me

 

Classic Rock: Aerosmith - Dream On

 

Classical: Gustav Holst - Mars

 

Rock/Metal: Metallica - Enter Sandman

 

Funk: George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop

 

Horrorcore: Insane Clown Posse - Boogie Woogie Wu

 

Grunge: Pearl Jam - Jeremy

 

Reggae: Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry

 

Video Game Music: Nobuo Uematsu - Opening~Bomb Mission

[DND 2,355]

All I remember in terms of what band got me interested in a genre are all more obscure ones, haha

 

Nunjabes aka Samurai Champloo OST - instrumental hip-hop

Various memes + friend - vaporwave

Vaporwave + YouTube tutorial video - futurefunk

Evan Awake: Transmigration Circle + tumblr user - triphop

Gorrilaz + electronica + alternative

[Envy 6,263]

I'll give every one I can remember, or point at specifically. I can give rough dates, too, to give some more perspective, too.

 

Classical:

Baroque: Water Music - Andante by Handel (Summer of 2005)

Classic Era: Clarinet Concerto - Adagio by Mozart (2005/2006)

French Impressionism: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Clarinet & String Quartet (early 2008)

Renaissance (choral): With All Our Hearts - Thomas Tallis (2010)

Renaissance (instrumental): Courtly Aires and Dances - II. Basse Danse by Ron Nelson (an adapted piece for band, obviously not Renaissance in of itself, but it led me to look for the original composer [Claude Gervaise] and listen to his actual music.) (Early 2013)

 

Pop/Other Genres:

British Folk: The Unquiet Grave by Gryphon (Fall 2013)

Ska Punk: Streetlight Manifesto (Very Late 2009)

Brass Rock: Chicago (Summer 2003... Late Summer 2008)

70s Soft Rock: America/Bread (Fall 2004/2005)

 

I'm afraid I can't think of any of the other genres I listen to having any clearly defined group/song that got me into them.

Edited November 25, 2015 by Envy

[El Duderino 879]

Celtic punk: Flogging Molly

Folk Punk: Andrew Jackson Jihad

Bluegrass: Old Crow Medicine Show

 

I can't really contribute me listening to other genres to specific bands. for example,  I love rock, but there is not one band that started me on rock.

[pook 37]

Death Grips got me into the weird world of experimental hiphop.

 

I feel like we're siblings separated from birth or something lol. Death Grips is the best.

 

Also, Tyler the Creator got me into rap outside of the mainstream. (my name is a dead giveaway lol)

[LunaDream 331]

Genre: Classical

 

Reason: Beethoven's 9th Symphony- Ode to Joy 

or Reason: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Edited November 22, 2015 by LunaDream

[Alex Z 848]

I hated Electronic Music until I listened to WoodenToaster and The Living Tombstone.

[Moony the Cat 3,707]

For me it were this Bands :

 

Edelweiss - Eurodance

 

Dune - Happy Hard Core

 

LemminoMusic - Dubstep

 

Lost Horizon - Metal/Power Metal

 

The Toy Dolls - Punk Rock

 

Enigma - New Age

 

Marky Mark - Rap

 

Michael Jackson - Pop

 

Thats all i can think of. 

[Denim&Venöm 19,732]

Well early on, there wasn't a distinction between metal and rock for me, let alone any of metal's subgenres. I heard Fuel by Metallica while playing a hotwheels game. At age 12 I head Raining Blood by Slayer. Thought it was cool, but then went back to my radio rock. Same thing for when I bought Metallica's Black album, and started listening to Bullet For my Valentine, Trivium & All That Remains, along with my Linkin Park & Disturbed. 

It wasn't till I started listening to Machine Head & Pantera did I begin to think there might be more to this. The day I truly became a metalhead, it was on 11-11-11, and VH1 classic was doing National metal Week. I suppsoed I was a metal head then, so I was open to it, and just got a massive blast of heavy metal culture though my TV screen. So I pretty much dove in headfirst. One of the featrues that was on was Behind The Music Remastered: Megadeth. And that got me a real look into the band.

And that helped me find this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIYUSvyuqgQ

 

That is what got me into metal. 

 

Outside of other Genre's. I guess you can say that this got me into rock. Heard this back when I was still strapped to a car seat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZglshkDLLYs

[Roseluck1 245]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g

This song was the one that got me in to electronic music

Say what you want about Skrillex, this is still one of my favorite songs

Same here.

Skrillex got decently popular around here, and that was the first song I heard.

I wasn't really too hooked, but I didn't want to be "the lame person who doesn't like normal things" xP

 

Then I found this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5qYm6kvw0

This one I really liked

 

Then I got into Brostep, which eventually led me to Glitchhop/Glitchstep, DnB, and Trap.

Trap eventually got me into Dubstep (Skream, Coki, Benga, DatsiK, etc.) because I'm a huge basshead ^^'

 

Although I'm fine with anything electronic, from Melbourne Bounce to Trance.

[Morning Glory 177]

Kpop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dww9UjJ4Dt8

Though admittedly there are much better songs I've discovered c: 

 

Gorillaz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKVdhyslVQo

 

Tyler the Creator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzHpB9aB2p4

[Clawdeen 15,951]

The group Dream got me into jpop

 

First heard this song when I was young and it was one of the ending themes to Inuyasha

 

 

From there I got into BoA, Ayumi Hamasaki, Koda Kumi and so on.

 

Since I was young I can't really remember what the first kpop song I listened to was sadly. It had to have been one of BoA's. For some reason I can remember the first jpop song but not kpop.

Edited November 28, 2015 by Meowlala

[Bogrick Grey Mane 2,594]

 

 

Reason: Beethoven's 9th Symphony- Ode to Joy or Reason: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Second reason is a better one

It's one of the few things I can sort of play on the piano. I used to play clarinet when I was younger

[retrobakon 57]

Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up got me into the Rick Astley genre. I seriously consider his music its own genre, don't ask why. Just know that I had his entire Greatest Hits album on my iPod, that is before i broke it...   

[Sporemane 546]

Dean Martin and Sinatra got me into Big Band music

[Lost 1,410]

Pentatonix got me into Acapella, im not that into it but i do like to listen to it now and then and i respect it too.