YOUR influences

[idiottoast]

This is`nt in favorite order, can`t do that it`s far too difficult.It`s in order of first hearing them,and it all started twenty odd years ago with,
The Toy Dolls
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
The Exploited
Engine - i used to follow these round when they toured.
You Slosh - and these.
Bob Dylan
The WiLDHEARTS
Three Colours Red
Backyard Babies
The Yo-Yo`s
No Comply

[Roadie]

it started a little dodgy with fantasies about Donna Summer,
then went onto Electric Ligth orchestra (the musical influence not the fanasies)
Sad Cafe
Led Zeppelin
Aerosmith
Warrior Soul
Queensryche
Wildhearts
I'm still mad about most of these bands now but not so much the first two metioned.

[beerofthedark]

Bandswise growing up it was (in order of geeting obsessed):
Iron Maiden
The Almighty
The Wildhearts
but special mention has to go to GnR for Appetite.. cos hearing that on my older bro's stereo turned me on to heavy rock/metal.

[bennympls]

Kiss, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Circle Jerks, Jeff Beck, UFO, Husker Du, Minutemen, Beach Boys, Merle Haggard, MC5, Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes, The Suburbs, Kris Kristofferson, Elvis, Donny Osmond, Zepplin, Beatles, Stones, BOC, Agent Orange, Pat Travers, Blackmore, The Replacements, Riot, X, Dead Kennedys, Johnny Paycheck, Rush, Soft Boys, Bad Brains, 3 Dog Night, Steely Dan, Clash, Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, The Effigies, Don Mclean, Odus, Summit, Kansas, Steve Miller Band, Boston, Coltrane, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Doobie Brothers. Christopher Guest.

[chris_j]

Here's a list of all the bands that I loved until I turned 18. I have missed a lot of bands that I love off this list but they don't count if I didn't discover them until adultihood

Smashing Pumkpins
Metallica
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Paradise Lost
Oasis
Foo Fighters
Bush
Wildhearts
Manic Street Preachers
Offspring
Feeder
3 Colours Red

[geordierussell]

Iron Maiden
Bruce Dickinson
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
AC/DC
Ozzy Osbourne
System of a Down
Ginger
Def Leppard
David Bowie
Rush
The Wildhearts
Queen
Foo Fighters
Aerosmith
Motörhead
Genesis
Black Label Society
Scorpions
Judas Priest
Kansas
Rainbow
Van Halen
Pink Floyd
Pearl Jam
The Who
Wolfsbane
Eric Clapton
Mötley Crüe
T. Rex
Kiss
Billy Idol
Iced Earth
Prince
UFO
Led Zeppelin
Coheed and Cambria
INXS
Audioslave
Megadeth
The Cult
Electric Light Orchestra
Guns N' Roses
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
BREED77
U2
Golden Earring
Samson
Bon Jovi

[lob]

First post ever (anywhere)

For all but a very few bands/artists I have a rule - first three albums are best. As i am probably one of the oldest here my enthusiasms started in the 60's. In no real order except that the first was the first:-

Edgar Broughton Band (listen to Evil or Gone Blue - amazing)
Bowie
Dylan
Terry Reid
Clash
Neil Young
Clinic
Rammstein
Hendrix
Nick Drake
Small Faces/Faces/Ronnie Lane/Humble Pie
Johnny Winter
Kinks
Bonzo's
Appliance
Clearlake
God Speed You Black Emperor
Ruts
Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Ramones
and of course Ginger/Wildhearts

[kitescreech]

Growing up eh ?
1) Iron Maiden (1st gig, Powerslave at Birmingham Odeon !)
2) Magnum (Storytellers is still the mutts nuts)
3) Accept
4) Pop Will Eat Itself (Bit left field that one)
5) Sisters of Mercy/The Mission (Goth phase at college !)
6) Saxon (still rockin after all these years)
7) Rush
Dogs D'Amour (BTW did anyone else see Tyla at CJs gig in Wolves last night ?

Didnt discover Wildhearts til about 2 years back...