embarrasing bands/artists you liked before getting into metal

[Zhou Tai 04]

I used to listen to CCM (like Sonic Flood, Kutless, Jeremy Camp, Audio Adrenaline, etc.) way back when I first started listening to music (I was 14) because I didn't know any other music at the time, but I got rid of all of those cds a few years later when I started listening to metal.

 

[E6V6I6L]

Weird Al and Milli Vanilli

Weird Al is fucking badass. i listen to him all the time.

i remember having Milli Vanilli tape when i was a kid.

 

[Kreator/Destroyer]

...i was the BIGGEST Linkin Park fan in the world and 9 years ago a seven year old me liked nsync

 

[Zephyrus]

I've liked a lot of classic rock before getting into metal, as well as classical music. All the while I despised the pop and rap my sister was listening to.

My road to metal started about 3 years ago with each band on this list leading to the next:

Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Adema
System of a Down

after that were what I call my transition phase bands that helped me get further into real metal:

Rammstein
Metallica
The Kovenant

The Kovenant lead by association to Arcturus, then Borknagar, and the rest of black metal and death metal.

 

[Solipsist]

all these bands sucks

 

[CF87]

I was into the horrible band static-x when younger. I remember seeing the video for 'push it' one morning on MTV and compared to everyhing else on MTV it seemed really odd and something that parents would find bad. I only bought the first album. This is during the time my dad would take my cds and put them in a bag. My dad is really oldschool and a lot of music sounds evil or is just really bad music to him.

 

[Narg n Lamb]

im sure everyone listened to slipknot at one time, I did but then I discovered tons of other bands.

i thank god every day i never liked or listened to green day, no punk ever in my musical diet

 

[Astrum]

i have more embarrassing bands i liked after getting into metal

edit-wait shit you changed your name

i thank god every day i never liked or listened to green day, no punk ever in my musical diet

Well it doesnt matter cause its not like Green Day is real punk.

 

[R.I.P.2]

im sure everyone listened to slipknot at one time, I did

s/t is reasonable

np glassjaw

 

[PowerMetal1984]

im sure everyone listened to slipknot at one time, I did but then I discovered tons of other bands.

i thank god every day i never liked or listened to green day, no punk ever in my musical diet

I actually like some punk. I believe real punk died after about 1984. I like punk bands such as Misfits, Samhain, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, GBH, Exploited, 45 Grave, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Crass, UK Subs, US Bombs, Subhumanz, Testors, Plasmatics, Black Flag, etc. This is real punk though. Pop punk bands like Green Day, Blink 182, and Good Charlotte, are some if the gayest shit I've ever heard.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

great thread

I used to listen to alot of horrendous bubblegum pop rap artists (I cringe just thinking about)

used to listen to stuff like disturbed, korn, limp bizkit before I seriously got into metal

 

[MasterOLightning]

I never listened to nu-metal or anything. It's not like everyone who listens to metal started with that. I never seriously listened to music until I was 15 or so.

 

[Spydaman_69_2001]

Before I got into metal I listened to stuff like the Backstreet Boys, 5ive and Eminem but I'm not really "embarassed" by it.

 

[Satanstoenail]

The only albums I ever got into that I find a tad embarrassing were Extreme's "3 Sides" album and Dream Theater's "Awake". It was an awkward time when I compromised my musical taste because of my love of technicality and technique.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Bah, Awake is a great album.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Bah, Awake is a great album.

Way too cheesy for me.

 

[entanglement]

Britney Spears.
I still own her entire discography.

And its nothing to be embarrassed about.. past makes you who you are. My musical tastes have progressed along with age.

Got into rock with Matchbox Twenty.
Got into metal with Nightwish.

 

[Alongside Death]

Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Blink 182. I can't believe that I actually listened to those bands 5 years ago.

 

[Amogh]

SOAD
Linkin Park

 

[Karasu]

Y'all gonna shoot me for this...Good Charlotte.

I still have a wide range of music in my collection (metal is actually a fraction) that I still listen to and can defend.