before the chems came around what did people listen to. did you listen to similar music or did you listen to another genre of music completly. have we any shamen fans on here or real 2 real, adamanski etc. maybe even micheal jackson fans!!!

michael jackson yeah :-//

but I stopped after dangerous, i swear!!!

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I listened to a lot of stuff before fell hard for the Chems. I pretty much followed U2 for about 15 years, they endured all the musical phases I went through - still love and respect the band but they haven't done anything musically that's intrigued me over the past few years.



Thanks to my older brother I was raised on everything from classic rock to reggae to alternative (in the 80's the alternative was new wave, real synth pop kindof stuff, in the late 80's/early 90's alt rock and over here in the States alt rock was anything coming out of England at the time). When I first started college I started listening to a little rap, but I was very selective. Dabbled in goth music for a while - but that really didn't last too long. Then when I met 'stash we listened to a lot of industrial music because those were the types of clubs we hit up.



Eventually we gravitated toward the more electronic variety (thanks to raves and such) and rediscovered the joys of Manchester bands like Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.



But during all these musical phases I never strictly listened to one type of music. The listening spectrum has always been pretty broad because I think there's a lot of great stuff out there and why limit yourself. I guess that might have a lot to do with my upbringing, influence from friends and working in a record store for a really long time.

nice repsonce. well i'll see you all in septmber

Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, and bands of their ilk. Nothing beat the Pumpkins until I really got into the Chems though, although the Pumpkins will always be MY band.

Propellerheads. That was about it for anything im not embaressed about. Then i saw the chems on tv at red rocks and it all began...

I was (now too) a great QUEEN fan, I have all their albums.



I began my journey in electronic music with the electro-rock APOLLO440's album "Gettin High on your Own Supply" and FATBOY SLIM's "You've Come a Long Way, Baby".



When, in mid 1999, I saw "Hey boy Hey girl" I was not very interested to buy Chems album. But when I saw "Let forever be", its amazing Gondry video, and the great difference between this song and HBHG, I undestood this "band" was very special, then I bought Surrender.



On first listen I tought it was the worse purchase I've ever done, but listening and listening again it growed, and now, for me, It's the best record of every time! :D

before i listened to my first chemical brothers single( Get Yourself High)

I listened to mostly rock and stuff.. Metalica, Maiden.. Korn.. U2.. alot of good stuff i didnt like any form of techno trance w.e i was totally narrowminded towards it.. still llike the Prodigy.. always have since i was about 7 to 8.. I really like Incubus, Deftones, Korn, RATM, Jamaraqaoi etc i like alot of rock music.. but then when i started to get into the chems i checked some stuff on these forums and been listened to alot of different types of music and really enjoy it.. I like Royksopp, Kraftwerk, Scooter, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, beastie Boys, 2manyDJs and still the stuff i liked before the chems!



I like alot of music.. im pretty much a fan of music in general.. when i think something is shit.. ill say it is but when i think something is good.. ill say it is.. y'kno that way like..

Mike Oldfield

Jean Michel Jarre

U96

2Unlimited

Rednex

OMD

Bad Boys Blue

Ultravox

The Communards

Enigma

Depeche Mode

Boney M



and much more of the 80's :D

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Mike Oldfield

Jean Michel Jarre

U96

2Unlimited

Rednex

OMD

Bad Boys Blue

Ultravox

The Communards

Enigma

Depeche Mode

Boney M



and much more of the 80's :D

Mike OLDFIELD, Jean Michel JARRE? :D



I'm a big Oldfield fan, I like Tubular Bells 1-2, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, QE2 and Platinum!





Now, I listen (and like) many music genres.

For example I like also System of a Down (new album Mezmerize is amazing!)

when i was 3 i was into dianna derbin - apparenbtly i used to go and put the record on/take it off on my own at 6.00am, waking my house up X-D



between 6/8 i was into dire straits money for nothing and micheal jackson. i also had a soft spot of kylie.



when i was 10'ish i was really into new kids on the block - i used to have the video and dance along (why the feck am i admitting this on a public forum :-// )



i heard you could be mine by guns n roses when i was 11/12 and i really got into g n r, and metallica and the real heavy rock.



then i heard nirvana when i was 13 and that was it man - i was a proper grunger - pearl jam, soundgarden, mudhoney, the works. had a nofx/pennywise fetush for a while, and i still love the pumpkins (well, everything mellon collie and before)



i was really into metal/puniky stuff till i was 16 then my mates started feeding me weed and trying to get me into goa trance 8O theyre goiung 'chekc the riffs man, heavy as metal' hahaha bloody hippies - i never really got into it but it started to open my mind to listening to stuff without guitars - dj shadow endtroducing, portishead and orbital were all doing it for me.



then i heard dig your own hole when i was 18 and it was game over :)

when i was really young it was kris kross



then when i was a little older beck



then when i was 15 the chemical brothers :D (first chems album and still my fav. COME WITH US!!!!!!!)

Yeah me too Michael Jackson although Dangerous was also my last album. Then Prodigy became my favourite band and I've been a Chemhead since Exit planet dust/Setting sun.

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I've only heard Phorever People by Shamen. I was mostly listening to euro house, pop trance and pop dance :-// ... 2 Unlimited, Maxx, 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor, Blumchen, Sash!, etc

Bad AnType, very bad :x What do you have with Holland anyway?

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I've only heard Phorever People by Shamen. I was mostly listening to euro house, pop trance and pop dance :-// ... 2 Unlimited, Maxx, 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor, Blumchen, Sash!, etc

Oh my god, you did listen to Bl�mchen???? That's a joke, isn't it??? I'm sorry but i can't hold . . .

I was once a mainstream pop princess at the age of 11...loving all from hanson, The Spice Girls and The BackStreet Boys (I know, the memories hurt)...then i turned 13, said screw that and literally smashed all those cds and started listening to bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, Crazy town, Slip Knot and Marliyn Manson....I was always know as the only girl who didn't listen to crappy cheese like the Vegaboys and crappy rnb at the time...



At one stage of my life most dance music to me was just crap but I always remembered loving the sound of setting sun when I heard it on the radio during the time and I had no idea about the chems till around surrender days.

clung to pink floyd, nofx, they might be giants, and pieces of the pumpkins all through high school.



tcm-vegas, beastie boys, and the leave home remixes were my gateway.



then in college deftones, tool, faith no more, unkle, hybrid, and moby hit me all at once. at the same time i picked up the loops of fury, life is sweet, and surrender.



sadly tho, i descended into a pit of trance, from which i only just recently emerged.

80's pop to hip hop to trance to Prodigy to gabba to techno to jungle to Chems.

I listened to mainstream pop music from 1995 until around 97 when I lost interest. Christmas 96 I recieved Robert Miles' album Dreamland, as I loved Children - Its still one of my favourite tracks of all time, listened to that for while. 1997 I was listening to Space (Female of the Species anyone? ;-) ), I bought their first two albums and went to see them live, they were pretty good actually :) . 1998 I bought You've Come a Long Way Baby and started listening to FatBoy slim, funnily enough its the only FBS album I've ever listened to. Before The Chems I didn't really buy that much music, probably cos I was a kid and didn't have the cash to hunt round record stores. I would say my tastes in music weren't fully developed, I could name a song I liked but would find it difficult to name artists, if that makes sense!



May 1999 I became obsessed with Hey boy hey girl after hearing it on Radio 1, I remember vividly going into Virgin Megastores in Leeds and buying it! Shortly after I joined the 'Moby bandwagon' and bought Play, love the album, but haven't listened to it for a while. I became a Chems fan very gradually, I bought EPD sometime in the Spring of 2001, but wasn't fully into them until the summer of 2001 when I bought Dig Your Own Hole. DYOH is one of those albums that never fails to blow me away every time I listen to it. Its the kind of album which for me I can come home from a difficult day at work, put it on and by the end my frustrations have pretty much disappeared!!



Music has always been an escape for me, its helped me through some difficult times and in the end its always there when you need it!!