Music and me

"Music is an art form whose medium is sound" is music's definition on Wikipedia, i agree entirely, it is what I get from this sound that is why I am writing this blog. a homage to the music that has enchanced my life in every single way, I would not be this person I am today if it weren't for my music.

I will outline my favourite genres, bands, albums and songs by these specific bands. The genres I will speak about will be the main genres that tie together my main interest.

Growing up I was exposed to a massive spectrum of music, I apparently used to go mental in my mum's tum when she was pregnant with me when The Prodigy came on, this was obviously a sign of my love for music, well I hope at least, haha. The vivid memories of some muiscal influences are listening to a Nirvana cassette tape in my mum's car, Shakespeare's Sister and Eurthymics CD's, Madness 's videos on VHS and Metallica's Black Album. Most of these were listened on the way down to our caravan site in Wales. This really started the process of planting the seeds of bands, lyrics and genres in my mind that would later grow until the fruits I cherish now.

Through years 7-9 in secondary school I was all over the place with my music tastes, ranging from MCR to Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake, I was literally picking up anything anyone was talking about. In year 9 I got Re-animation, the remixed Linkin Park album of Hybrid Theory (Which still remains one of my all time favourite albums) so I was getting slightly heavier. The beginning of year 10 was when a few chain of events set off a metal explosion in my mind. The first being a science lesson where the teacher foolishly let us on the PCs to do work and a good friend told me to listen to this, it was Davidian by Machine Head. I didn't pay much attention to it at the start then it stayed with me for a few weeks. My next one was when another friend showed me the video to the newly found band "Dragonforce" Through the Fire and the Flames had just hit the internet and Britain and was creating a storm. My final and probably the major major one that set me off was when a mate lent me a copy of KoRn - Follow The Leader. I remember listening to it and instantly liking every single minute of it, I played Freak on A Leash so many times it was unture, something like 90 times in 2 days. I then knew which I had to go.

Part 2 soon