When I was in 4th grade, my sister was in 7th grade. She got a lot of bands on Drive-Thru Records, such as Thursday, Senses Fail, The Movielife, New Found Glory, etc. I thought it was cool that all of these bands weren't as popular. She also liked Brand New and Taking Back Sunday. At this point in 4th grade I wasn't listening to the music on my own. Sometime between 4th and 5th grade, I went to a friends house for a sleepover. At sleepovers, I would always have a hard time falling asleep. At one particular sleepover, I brought a CD player and one of my sister's CDs, the compilation CD for Warped Tour 2003. The night after everyone went to sleep, I put it on. I don't remember if it was like a huge epiphany, or if my interest in music happened slowly. At this same time, I also played the Tony Hawk Underground videogames. The soundtrack from the games had some decent punk music. Since this was 2004-2005, and we had dial-up internet, downloading music wasn't impossible but not exactly convenient. I downloaded music on this program called WinMX. My sister and I would start downloading about 40 songs at night. We would leave the computer on all night and check the next morning to see which songs had finished downloading. Sometimes the internet would lose connection during the night and no songs would finish. With WinMX, you could only download song by song. You couldn't download a full album with one click. I would burn my downloaded music to CDs and listen to them on a walkman. Some of the bands included Thrice, and I actually can't think of the other bands. I didn't get heavily into one band During September 2005, WinMx shut down so I switched to Limewire.
As I used Limewire for the next four years, the internet was becoming faster and more reliable. My library got bigger and bigger. However, it was far from organized. I didn't have many full albums. For these four years, my taste was improving a bit, but not much. The first music I got into in my WinMX phase wasn't bad, but I didn't listen to enough music to have any "taste". This wasn't even the "first music" for me. I started to listen to pop punk. Horrible pop punk like Boys Like Girls, Cute Is What We Aim For and all of that bullshit. Like most "scene" kids, (I didn't actually dress scene) I got into metalcore/ screamo after awhile. Stuff like Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, August Burns Red, A Skylit Drive. I was in middle school at the time. The only good band I liked was Brand New, but I didn't even listen to The Devil and God, just Your Favorite Weapon and Deja Entendu. In 9th grade, I became friends with older people, giving me access to shows. One band that I've seen frequently throughout high school is Vanna, also one of my favorite bands. I also started using Mediafire, which let me get full albums. There was one group of bands I was getting into. It wasn't a solid group, but it was in my mind. It included Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, Tides of Man, Closure in Moscow, Lower Definition, etc. In 10th/11th grade I mellowed out a little bit and started listening to stuff like Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes. I also It hurt to listen to the music I used to, since things were changing. There was a period were I listened to Radiohead and Nirvana; I wanted to feel normal for some reason.
My music taste this year is great for many reasons. The music I listen to is part of a new group of bands emerging. Also, it is the first "scene" that I have felt a part of. I go to almost all of the shows that come to my area. It is inspired me to be in a band myself. It's almost hard to listen to any music that is not a part of this group. This "group" includes La Dispute, Touche Amore, Defeater, Balance and Composure, The Wonder Years, etc. I am so grateful that they tour frequently at come to Massachusetts.
As I used Limewire for the next four years, the internet was becoming faster and more reliable. My library got bigger and bigger. However, it was far from organized. I didn't have many full albums. For these four years, my taste was improving a bit, but not much. The first music I got into in my WinMX phase wasn't bad, but I didn't listen to enough music to have any "taste". This wasn't even the "first music" for me. I started to listen to pop punk. Horrible pop punk like Boys Like Girls, Cute Is What We Aim For and all of that bullshit. Like most "scene" kids, (I didn't actually dress scene) I got into metalcore/ screamo after awhile. Stuff like Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, August Burns Red, A Skylit Drive. I was in middle school at the time. The only good band I liked was Brand New, but I didn't even listen to The Devil and God, just Your Favorite Weapon and Deja Entendu. In 9th grade, I became friends with older people, giving me access to shows. One band that I've seen frequently throughout high school is Vanna, also one of my favorite bands. I also started using Mediafire, which let me get full albums. There was one group of bands I was getting into. It wasn't a solid group, but it was in my mind. It included Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, Tides of Man, Closure in Moscow, Lower Definition, etc. In 10th/11th grade I mellowed out a little bit and started listening to stuff like Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes. I also It hurt to listen to the music I used to, since things were changing. There was a period were I listened to Radiohead and Nirvana; I wanted to feel normal for some reason.
My music taste this year is great for many reasons. The music I listen to is part of a new group of bands emerging. Also, it is the first "scene" that I have felt a part of. I go to almost all of the shows that come to my area. It is inspired me to be in a band myself. It's almost hard to listen to any music that is not a part of this group. This "group" includes La Dispute, Touche Amore, Defeater, Balance and Composure, The Wonder Years, etc. I am so grateful that they tour frequently at come to Massachusetts.
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