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So this is a thread to talk about your development as a music listener. Not necessarily as a musician or anything, but if that factors in please bring it to your story. This is where you can talk about what was going on in your life when you first heard something which ended up changing your perspective on or relationship with music to a significant extent. These don't have to be like, the most incredible stories in the world (but if you have those, pls share), but they should be your stories. For example, my introduction to metal was really nothing terribly special compared to the average person, but when I started college last school year and was making my own money for the first time, I started buying music more regularly. That pared with having very few albums left to buy from my favorite bands, led me to check out bands and sub-genres I'd shied away from in the past. Eventually, I wanted to get my head around this whole metal thing, so I checked out ...AJFA from my local library. This wasn't the first metal album I'd ever listened to, nor was it the first one I thought was awesome or anything like that. I'd heartily enjoyed Paranoid in the past, and I had a CD of Screaming For Vengeance. However, this was the one that really got me wondering what I was missing out on. The first time I played it, I found it just kind of curious, until the violined guitars on To Live Is To Die, which I thought was really awesome. That got me to listen to it a few more times, where I was just starting to appreciate a lot more of it when I had to give it back to the library. Then, when my next paycheck came in, I'd been doing some research and read about roughly seven really important bands that I needed to keep my eye out for it I wanted to get into metal at all, being Sabbath, Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth. I went searching for these bands albums on iTunes, and I found that Anthrax, of all of them, had what appeared to be their best album at the lowest price, for only 6 bucks. It was Among The Living. I took a chance and bought it, knowing I'd recognize one of the songs from guitar hero but not really knowing what to expect. I could immediately appreciate the sense of melody I was hearing in bits and pieces, but the speed and thrashiness were major stumbling blocks for me at first. But since I bought it, I made sure to listen to it more intently and let the everything about it sink it, and a strange thing happened. I found myself getting some of the songs stuck in my head, then humming them or singing them as I went about my day. From that moment on, and especially once I really started taking a look at Priest and Megadeth, my metal fandom was secured. And here I am today having gone from like, roughly one metal album (discounting Dream Theater) in my entire collection, to 6 Metallica albums, 4 Megadeth albums, 4 Anthrax albums, 3 Slayer albums, 6 great Priest albums, 3 Maiden albums, 5 Sabbath albums, two Ozzy albums, one from Queensryche, one Devin Townsend Project album, and probably a couple more I'm forgetting. By no means is it a complete collection, but it's a constantly growing one that didn't really exist 18 months ago. What's a story of yours?