How did you find out about your favorite band(s)?

Question

Family and relatives? Friends? Internet?

I learned about the Beatles from my dad. Led Zeppelin was pretty much from the internet. And I found out about the Ramones through a student in my math class last year.

What about you?

Answer 1

I hear songs on videos and the radio and did my own research.

the oddest way I ever got introduced to an album was in 1982 when my car broke down and I got a ride. The Montana water skiing friends were listening to a band called Louisiana's LeRoux, and the album Up! turned out to be just wonderful. Took me 20 years to find a CD for it but I have it.

Answer 2

I grew up in a Country & Western house (especially Johnny Cash, my dad really liked him). Then one day while visiting relatives (I was 12), my older cousins played "Electric Funeral" (Black Sabbath) and I was hooked! A few years later, a buddy in High School and I would frequent a particular record store because they carried imports and pretty much anything not mainstream. We discovered a LOT of great music. He discovered Iron Maiden. I discovered Judas Priest (because they had a really cool album cover of all things on "Stained Class"). The Beatles I heard on the radio; the Rolling Stones, as well. Some Zeppelin, Who, Deep Purple from the radio led to buying albums. But mostly it was my buddy and I hanging out at that one record store.

Answer 3

VH1, hehe.

There was a show on that channel called Greatest Songs from the 80's or something like that. I don't usually watch much TV but I was really bored that day so I watched it.

Some time through the show, i saw a fellow plugging his guitar cable thingy into his amp, and playing a riff that i thought was just incredible, then the rest of the instruments came in and i stared at the screen like..wow.
Later on in the same song, the same brilliant riff man [who I'd later find out was Slash] played his extraordinary solo and at that moment my "mild" obsession with Guns N' Roses was born.

I made it sound so dramatic, hehe.

RQ.

Answer 4

My mom was mainly into Foreigner, Journey, that sort of thing. So I started out with those, and found my own favorites from there by way of the radio and friends.

The Beatles, man. That's real music.

Answer 5

TV,radio,friends

Answer 6

Elvis was just always around. You heard the name Elvis anywhere.

The Stray Cats? I remember all those 80s compilation commercials and Rock this town was on one.

Bauhaus? Internet. I was looking up goth bands.

Misfits? In junior high, you always saw people sporting Misfits stuff, and so yeah.

Answer 7

i found out about Muse from a book called twilight.
The author was in love with them and she had this playlist of songs that helped her to write her books. I heard one song from them and i was blown away. yea.... pretty weird place to find out about a band.
The other ones are from the radio and beatles from my dad, of course.
Some I just find from the internet from pure boredom
hehe yea

Answer 8

Elvis from my mom, the Beatles from my Aunt and Led Zeppelin from my Godfather who gave me an 8 track tape of them for my 6th bday.

Answer 9

Journey my mom used to listen to when I was growing up and Breaking Benjamin, I'd heard some of their older songs before on the radio. Then a friend of mine had their newer ones on a cd he listened to and my obsession with BB was born.

Answer 10

Some websites like last.fm, and certain friends.
last.fm is an amazing site and has introduced me to a good number of bands.
Kaizers Orchestra I found through a friend wanting to know what language they were singing it.