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Tori Amos. I was also 12. :) I'd liked other bands (mostly stuff my older sis listened to) before her, but Little Earthquakes was the 1st album I felt was truly my own discovery and I was pretty obsessed with her for through the next 4 albums (it was all down hill after that:p).

First CD I ever bought was The Simpsons: Songs In The Key Of Springfield, at which point my dad told me how "I must not be into music that much". So I went on the hunt for a "real band" to impress my dad and fell in love with Billy Joel. He wasn't that into him - it's The Beatles or nothing with him - but he thought it was a step up from The Simpsons. Still in love with BJ to this day :)

Super Deluxe. 

I listened to music very casually as a child, though I do remember being in my living room when I was a kid and trying to do the 'I Can't Dance' dance. Ha!

The first band that really got me into music and that I had an unhealthy obsession with was Blur, however. I found Parklife in a bargain bin at a local record chain and went nuts for it. Sounded nothing like anything my friends were listening to nor what was being played on MTV/radio at the time (because back in the olden days before the internet, those outlets actually influenced what you listened to! Imagine that!). I scrambled to buy every single, cover, live album & compilation in existence. At the time, that involved lots of special orders and forking over 4x the normal price for imports, because I lived in a tiny town & our local record chain just made funny faces at me when I would ask if they had any Blur records. Every time I got my hands on an interview with them I would then seek out all the bands they were talking about, so I was turned on to XTC, The Kinks (who I only knew through their two big hits), etc. I've seen them 2 times, which is something of a feat given how infrequently they toured the states and the fact that I didn't live on a coast.

Yeah, Bustin & Dronin probably introduced me to the remix as well. Duran Duran's Nite Versions probably was the first real exposure to remixes, but I don't think I thought of those as remixes at the time. B&D was also my first time hearing 'Popscene' because I had the UK version of Modern Life which didn't include it.

Quad City DJs and my musical taste has gone downhill ever since. :p

But in all seriousness, I would say it was Rage Against The Machine. They are the first band I can recall as my "favorite" when I was just starting to develop my music taste.

hahaha i fucking love that song.

If we're going for 1st purchases - 1st Vinyl = The Monkees, 1st tape = Debbie Gibson, 1st CD = Sarah McLachlan. The 1st songs I learned the lyrics to were "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult & "We Built This City on Rock 'n' Roll" by Jefferson Starship.