For me it was Andrew Bird (who I am currently on a binge of) and Fleet Foxes.

To a lesser extend, Radiohead and the Flaming Lips. Though I mostly just didn't care about them until I was older.

  • charles_xcx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    metal like iron maiden and metallica. all the people i knew in high school who listened to metal were either weird or the older guys dating/married to my friends' older sisters. i was more into punk and metalcore stuff, but after listening to street fight radio and hearing them talk about metal encouraged me to give it a try. now i love iron maiden and like a lot of metallica and similar bands like slayer and megadeth and all that

    • asaharyev [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I will not listen to Metallica anymore, but Iron Maiden is fantastic, and Eddie is the best band mascot on the planet.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I will not listen to Metallica anymore

        Same here, but it only applies to listening to them legally - I've been holding onto this grudge since I was a tween and they killed Napster.

        • asaharyev [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I just get mad when I hear them. And not in a good way. So I stopped listening to them.

      • charles_xcx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        yeahhhhh metallica are terrible people, but they've made some good music and every once in a while I like to listen to a few of their songs. iron maiden is definitely my favorite, sometimes I'll just start at the beginning of their discography and listen through it for a day.