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V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:08 pm

I won't lie but I am a huge Nine Inch Nails fan and I think i got the most convinced and inspired to get into music after I bought the "with Teeth" album.

I like Trents newer work but I still love his darker and heavier sound in Broken, TDS, The Fragile, With Teeth and some stuff from Ghosts.

I am a huge fan of nasty but musical noisy rip your face off stuff but it can't be too nasty. I remember hearing Trents soundtrack for Tetsuo Bullet man and thought that was just too nasty.

I also love Rammstein and Marilyn Manson and grew up listening to Ministry. Recently I just been listening to ZZ Top and have been enjoying Billy Gibbons guitar tones and riffs..

I want more time to learn Guitar and Piano..

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:19 pm

the pink floyd, syds guitar work especially.
throbbing gristle and coil both helped me see synthesisers as worthwhile for what i wanted to achieve.
growing up in the 70s most of the kids tv here was scored by the radiophonic orchestra, that helped give me a view that music was far more than what was being played on top of the pops.
getting high with my uncle and his mates when i was 12/13 listening to his record collection gave me insight in to a lot of different weird shit.
watching a lot of classic sci fi and slasher movies.
then just experimenting with what i could afford/find got me a fail in music at school, mainly because i dont like being told what i can and cant do with art. however didnt stop me achieving qualifications at a higher level where music wasnt compartmentalised into rules but guidellines instead. f**k you mrs jones!

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:28 pm

I find listening to music discouraging in context of learning or being inspired to make music. When I listen to something I like, I feel like it's something I would never be able to do myself, I have that feeling even when I listen to older stuff I made myself. And when I listen to something I don't like, it puts me off music in general. So I try not to listen.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:18 am

I was banging on whatever since I was a real little kid, I used to make kits out of kitchen items, I knew what a drum kit was from my father's record collection. It was my main interest by 10 years old. There was no particular record that made me into that. Later, I wanted to progress from The Monkees Mary, Mary to Jimi Hendrix Fire so my drum teacher worked with me so I could approach that. This is right after I got my mother to go with me to see Hendrix on May 9, I969. She thought I was too young to go out by myself. She bought me Electric Ladyland for Xmas that year, that was key. My drum teacher thought Chicago's drummer was better that night than Mitch Mitchell and I still disagree.

c_bomb · Post by **c_bomb** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:39 am

Richard D James

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:52 am

The Beatles - got my first guitar for Christmas 1964. The guitar didn't survive, but I still have the case!
The Monkees - introduced me to the sound of the moog modular.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:36 am

Various metal bands, such as, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Cynic...
Various rock and indy acts, such as, Muse, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley,...
Various electronic acts, such as, Global Communication, Quietman, Underworld, Terra Ferma,...
But most of all Bach

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:44 am

I can't think what really prompted me to go out and get a guitar, but I had already been playing other people's guitars for a little before I did. It was 1981 I think when I first bought it, but I think the Beatles were a big influence because so many people knew how to play their songs and could show me, and what I really aspired to play were songs from the Deep Purple album Deepest Purple and spent a ridiculous amount of time while learning trying to figure out the solos on Child in Time and Smoke on the Water.

I think the album that really got me to focus on finding a style though was Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees (the guitarist on which was the late, great John McGeogh), which is the point at which I started to get more interested in how people could sound different rather than following any kind of rules.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:52 am

Probably Depeche Mode. Getting Some Great Reward back in '85 was an eye opener about synthetics

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:04 pm

Many, too many to list them.

Besides my favorite band Depeche Mode (and other New Wave bands), my favorite producer is Michael Cretu!

Another great artist that I appreciate much is Karunesh!

And I like Dr. Dre & the older songs of Eminem...

And Rammstein...

and...I don't want to write 500 pages!

Blue-eyed Blonde Ape · Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:11 pm

Pink floyd, Tangerine Dream, Pete Namlook, Geir Jenssen.

Cimbasso · Post by **Cimbasso** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:15 pm

This one.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:19 pm

If I really go back to the roots, I might have said Kraftwerk but then even the whole NDW wave (Stephan Remmler, "Da-da-da") etc. kindled my interest in synthesizers as well as DJs like Sven Väth...

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:15 pm

Tangerine Dream, Tomito, Steve Roach, Klaus Schulze, Kitaro, Wagner, Jimmy Page, Al DiMeola.

Harry_HH · Post by **Harry_HH** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:19 pm

So the question is especially about the learning: only one true answer in the pop/rock music genre.
Namely: the whole Beatles catalog, this is the absolute foundation of the modern rock. H.

Which albums or artists have inspired you the most to learn music?