What did ya rock out to as a kid?

[Verbal Kint]

I mean like, when you first discovered music.
1976, I was 12 and UFO-era, Michael Schenker was some groovy shit to me!! Long before Scorpions..
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1852751175

[izzy izkowitz]

the first song I remember getting into when I was a kid was the eagles hotel california. of course I had no idea what it was aboot at the time, but it was a cool sound when I was like 7 or 8.

[Smokezilla]

When I was a kid, the kids in my elementary school were split down the middle between KISS and Elvis Presley. . . fist-fights would breakout on the playground everyday about who was better. This was about 1976. . . I'm an old bastard.:p

[CallmeQtie]

Weird Al

[Nothing Sound]

Zeppelin
Sabbath
Pink Floyd

[norton23]

Guns 'N Roses

[fkornre]

LL Cool J
Digital Underground
Young MC

[Arc Lite]

First thing I remember really liking or hearing for that matter was when I was in 3rd grade, hanging out at a friend's house was Pinball Wizard. Don't remember if it was The Who or Elton John version.

Never was really into any bands until I was in like 6th or 7th grade.

[YaHearIHearMe]

The Motley Crue
Led Zeppelin
Twisted Sister

[Hudson]

zep
beatles
Van Halen (not Van Hagar)
For some reason I took a shine to Jimmy Buffett

[jsc315]

guns n roses
ac/dc
led zepplin
arosmith
and yea a lot of that stuff

[angrybeerguy]

Guns and roses
meticlla

[Budyzir]

1978, Van Halen's first album came out. I was 13 and I was hooked.

[Creeping Douche]

Metallica, Guns N' Roses, The Doors, Testament, and a lot of oldies.


Then around middle school it was out with the mullets and in with the grunge but I still liked metal.

[blazin]

The first album I bought was Quiet Riot - Mental Health, then Twister Sister shortly after. This was probably 1983/84.

[Ballbuster1]

Beatles and the Stones. In the mid 60's they were on top of it all.

[Mother Shucker]

The first album I wore out (yes, had to buy another one because the grooves got worn) was Billy Joel's "The Stranger".

[DeltaPin]

Zeppelin
Sabbath
Rush

[Glenn Dandy]

my first 8 track was black sabbath Paranoid.
then kansas Leftoverature.
then zeppelin II

[UnOriginal]

Greenday
Steve Miller Band
NIN

[Razor Roman]

Debbie Gibson
Bon Jovi
Huey Lewis

[AssOrgy]

-2 live crew
-Beastie Boys
-Eazy-E (RIP)

I guess I wam younger than most replying. I'm in college like Op.

[wes mantooth]

KISS
Blondie
Beatles
The Romantics
Led Zep
Sex Pistols
The Ramones

The first cassette I bought was Rush's Moving Pictures. I remember that distinctly. I bought it at K-Mart.

[fandango86]

My first cassette tapes were:
Men at Work - Business as Usual
The Police - Synchronicity
The Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Miami Vice Soundtrack
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry

Not a bad collection, I guess. I remember really wanting Def Leppard's Pyromania during those years and not being able to get it because K-Mart never had it.

I'll throw myself under the bus and say I also bought the LP version of 'Raising Hell' by Run DMC. No shame in that except that I wanted the LP version so I could 'scratch'. I get douche chills just thinking about it.

[o&a addict84]

The earliest ones I can remember really liking were on MTV when they played music:

Enter Sandman & The Unforgiven-Metallica
November Rain-Guns N Roses
Crazy & Jannies got a gun-Aerosmith
Smells like teen spirit-Nirvana

Anything between then and mid-high school I'm too ashamed to acknowledge.:icon_redf

[BeerBelly]

Led Zeppelin
Nugent
AC/DC
Judas Priest
Pat Travers
Aerosmith
Boston
RUSH
Edgar Winter
Pink Floyd

[ruckstande]

Rush
Queensryche
Dream Theater
Hum
Sponge

[Death Metal Moe]

I was fucked up musically as a kid. I probably sang a lot of Sunday School songs with my mother. She's also play me the soundtrack to "Oklahoma!" the musical as we hung around the house. I'm surprised I don't have a member in my mouth as I type this.

Then I got my own record player and listened to stupid kid's records from like Disney and shit.

But my 1st tape I ever bought was the Digital Underground album "Sex Packets" from Columbia House. I was into hip hop back then. Slick Rick and shit like that. LL Cool J, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

It wasn't until the middle of high school that I was introduced to Metal. I had never even heard a full Sabbath album until then, it was all new to me. It was pretty much done after that. Metal is the only music I've ever wanted to play myself and the music I listen to more often than not. But my weird background in music had led to me enjoying a very wide range of styles.

[WhiskeyWhispers]

I was into music more as a little kid than I am now.

When I was like 7-9 I listened to radio music, I remember having the Men At Work album and John Cougar American Fool, stuff like that.

I always loved ACDC, since I was about 8 years old. They are the only band I've liked throughout my life. That was a harbinger to my obsession with metal in my teen years. Highschool was all about thrash, punk, and hardcore.

Nowadays I listen to a somewhat large range of music, I've kind of outgrew the metal stuff, still listen to punk. Whatever music I like has to have guitar in there somewhere.

[NuttyJim]

Motley Crue, Guns N Roses (Appetite for Destruction) , Poison, Metallica (back in Kill Em All and Ride the Lightning days)

[AHideoutHeretic]

i rock out to it now but never as a kid O-zone dragostea din tei(numa numa dance

[Taintkisser]

Iron Maiden-- Somewhere In Time
Guns-n-Roses
Metallica
Megadeth
Aerosmith (I know, I know)
but mostly Maiden

[Slow Bollards]

Beatles
Grateful Dead
Arlo Guthrie
Stones

All major faults aside my parents started me off right as far as music goes, i think. For whatever reason I used to make my folks play Alice's Restaurant for me almostr every night for a year. Ant bitches about having to hear it every thanksgiving, after hearing it years later I should call my folks and apologyzzz-eh.

[turdfrgsn]

KISS
Zeppelin
Aerosmith
Nugent
Van Halen (strictly Dave era)
Stones
Beatles
The Who (just the word, the who)
AC/DC
OZZY
Sabbath
DIO

[Death Metal Moe]

I usually just listen to whatever [you] listens to. They have really good taste.

[The Stormrider]

Back in elementary school, I had a trio of tapes called "Wacky Favorites" which featured primarily old comedy/funny/strange songs. I played those tapes near to death, and annoyed by singing every song.

If we're talking earlier than that, my parents used to put on Sharon, Louis and Brahm as well as Rosenshontz.

[jfragons]

In grade school: Weird Al and RunDMC

In Jr. HIgh+:
Iron Madien
Metallica
Slayer
Anthrax
mostly thrash and speed metal

[CrazyMrPoopSex]

In grade school I really liked Mr. Big

[Hudson]

I remember listening to 1984 in the back of the school bus on one of those shitty rectangle tape recorders.

[ChimneyFish]

First music I ever rocked out to was "Fly like an Eagle" and "The Wall" on my dad's 8-track!!!!

First albums I bought were "1984", ZZTop "Eliminator", Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms", and Ratt "Out of the Cellar".:xyxthumbs