What are some songs that introduced you to some of your favorite bands?

[d3bates]

Here's some of mine:

Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Prayer of the Refugee - Rise Against
Bubble Toes - Jack Johnson
Tougher Than It Is - Cake
Pain - Three Days Grace
Prelude 12/21 - AFI
Red Flag - Billy Talent
Help! - The Beatles
Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie

BQ: Out of the ones you listed, which one(s) have you known about longest?

I don't know which one of these three are it, but here are the ones I've known about longest (no particular order):

Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Beatles
Jack Johnson

 

[Reginald Flemmingsatire]

We Are Devo - Devo

We are the Monkees - The Monkees

Hello - Lionel Ritchie

Welcome to the Jungle - GnR

Enter Sandman - Metallica

 

[Imperfect since 1986]

(one of the first rock albums I ever listened to)
KISS-"Destroyer"
Song: Detroit Rock City; King Of The Night Time World

The Beatles
Songs: Let It Be; Hey Jude
(Eight Days a Week was one of the first rock songs I learned on guitar)

Linkin Park-"Hybrid Theory"
Song: One Step Closer

Blink 182-"Enema of the State"
Song: All the Small Things

Sum 41-"All Killer, No Filler"
Song: Fat Lip

Green Day-"Nimrod"
Song: Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

The Ramones-
Song: Rock and Roll High School; Blitzkrieg Bop

AFI-"Sing the Sorrow"
Song: Dancing Through Sunday

Bring Me the Horizon-"Count Your Blessings"
Song: Pray For Plagues

The Devil Wears Prada-"Plagues"
Song: Hey John, What's Your Name Again


...I could go on and on...

 

[Roger Waters' Puppet]

"Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
"Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab for Cutie
"Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine
"Misty Mountain Hop" - Led Zeppelin
"Rock Rock ('Till you drop)" - Def Leppard
"Sober" - Tool
"Push It" - Static-X
"Geek Stink Breath" - Green Day
"Today" - Smashing Pumpkins

BQ - I was introduced to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin before most of the other bands existed.
I LOVED the Mother's Milk Album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but haven't liked much from them, since.

 

[bond]

well rancid, sublime and nofx got me into everything i listen to now

 

[Stay Away (Krass)]

Nirvana introduced me to 4/5 of my favourite bands...

so really I should like Smells Like Teen Spirit a lot more than I do...

 

[Omar]

the darkest nights-as i lay dying
when everything falls-haste the day
our sick story-atreyu
hester prynne-as blood runs black
through the black-demon hunter
ive known as i lay dying for like 7 years

 

[Alieh]

"Sgt Pepper" introduced me to the Beatles
"Tangerine" to Led Zeppelin
"Time Stand Still" to Rush

"Champagne Bath" and "The Cage" to Sonata Arctica - and those two were basically what got me into all metal, really. Once I started singing along and airguitaring to The Cage I suddenly found I loved all metal I heard.

BQ: The Beatles, by far. They've been my favourite band siince I was six or so. I was about eleven before I ever really listened to anything else.

 

[Elliott Moulster]

Well i used to be into rap such as eminem. But thanks to playing guitar hero 3 i have found rock and heavy metal and expanded into a much wider range of bands from there. Just to name a few bands:
in to deep: sum 41 (from malcom in the middle lol)
all the small things: blink 182
when september ends: green day
one step closer: linkin park
thanks for the memories: fall out boy
firefly: breaking benjamin
pray of the refugee: rise against
Just to name a few.

 

[Kayla]

Bohemian Rhapsody introduced me to Queen

Thriller introduced me to Michael Jackson

He ain't heavy, he's my brother introduced me to The Hollies

Little Willy introduced me to Sweet

Baby Blue introduced me to Badfinger

I pretty much 'discovered' these artists all at the same time. I knew about them but I had never listened to their music. Lol it's not like I DIDN'T know who Michael Jackson was.

 

[Johnny Bliss]

On Your Own - Blur
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
The Golden Age - Beck
I'm Trying To Break Your Heart - Wilco
Apocalypse Please - Muse
The King Of Carrot Flowers pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel

BQ: Radiohead.

 

[HalfieH full of stupid Qs]

Death of an Interior Decorator - Death Cab for Cutie
Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day
Almost Easy - Avenged Sevenfold
Paradise City - Guns n Roses
Friendly Ghost - EELS
I Should Have Known Better - Beatles
This War is Ours - Escape the Fate
10's - Pantera

 

[The Southern Killer]

Green Day - American Idiot
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
The Clash - their cover of I Fought The Law
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Blondie - Maria

BQ : American Idiot
The longest I've known is Green Day. Well, there was this one episode of Jimmy Neutron that I saw when I was 5, Battle of the Bands, and when they performed in their garage, the song was Warning by Green Day, and I liked it, but never knew the name of the song or who it was by until years later.

 

[abrahamcomesfromiraq]

Californication - RHCP
Rock and Roll All Nite - KISS
Bulls One Parade - RATM
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Master Of Puppets - Metallica
Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
Freak On A Leash - KoRn
Blood And Thunder - Mastodon
Smooth - Santana
Panic Attack - Dream Theater
Mother - Pink Floyd
Infected - Bad Religion
I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
The Tarzan Soundtrack - Phil Collins
The Pretender - Foo Fighters

BQ: KISS by far

 

[?Problem Child?]

Pink Floyd:
Another Brick In The Wall

AC/DC:
Let There Be Rock

Led Zeppelin:
Communication Breakdown

 

[John K]

Most bands I got into were bands I read about first in music paper.

ex:

R.E.M. via a review of "Murmur" in the Village Voice
Smashing Pumpkins via a review of "Siamese Dream" in Spin
Funkadelic because Robert Christgau rhapsodized about them
My Bloody Valentine from a NME article about "Loveless"
I read about XTC's "Skylarking" somewhere, when it was out

Bands I discovered via one song via the radio or something include:

The Beatles via "Yellow Submarine" (I was a toddler, this was around 1970)
Elton John via "Bennie and the Jets" (new single, I was a little kid)
The Rolling Stones via "Emotional Rescue" (it was their new single at the time, I ran right out and bought Hot Rocks, for the real thing...)
The Smiths via "How Soon Is Now?"
Brian Jonestown Massacre via "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth"
Camper Van Beethoven via "Let's Take the Skinheads Bowling"
Patti Smith Group via "Gloria"
Oasis via "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Tom Waits via "The Clapping Song"
Verve via "Bittersweet Symphony"
Blue Oyster Cult via "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Uriah Heep via "The Wizard"
Grateful Dead via "Uncle John's Band"
Pearl Jam via "Even Flow"
X via "Los Angeles"