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I've found that lots of people find their favorite music through silly or embarassing ways, and I realized I had my own. So let's share!

Artist(s): Naomi
First Song Heard: Everyone Loves You

How I first heard it: I was on 4chan and somebody was doing a request thread where they were looking for some porn video of two lesbians doing something or other , and he had the file name, file size, etc., but he just couldn't find the file. I figured my search skills were pretty good, so I decided to give it a shot. The file I found wasn't the right one, but it was a 10-minute long video of this woman posing nude around an indoor pool with this song on constant loop. The vid itself was eh, but the music was enchanting so I looked for it and found Naomi, which is now one of my favorite artists.

Next one's not at as interesting, but it's still dumb.

Artist(s): Sixx AM
First Song Heard: Life is Beautiful

How I first heard it: In my very first AMV contest at a convention that I entered, this was one of the AMVs that played, and it stuck with me, stuck in my head, and just felt powerful in general. The vid above is actually that AMV! So I went looking for the song and found The Heroin Diaries, the album by the artist, which has become one of my favorite albums to listen to ever.

That's me, what about you fine folks?

I found out I like Florence and the Machine from the Seven Devils trailer for Season 2 of Game of Thrones, then realized I'd heard clips of Rabbit Heart as podcast bumps since like 2010.

I was watching a porn compilation on some random porn tube site and the music caught my attention enough to completely ignore the porn so I had to track down who it was.



I really dig these guys.

It was pretty silly, actually. There I was sitting in my room, when I realized in a past life I was Charles Nelson Reilly and I am a closeted homosexual.

Loves me some mens.

Frank said:

I was watching a porn compilation on some random porn tube site and the music caught my attention enough to completely ignore the porn so I had to track down who it was.

I really dig these guys.

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That is pretty sweet music for porn. I may need to check them out.

So that's 2 bands from porn so far.

Ha ha ha, that's pretty funny. I just read your post. Porn videos for the music.

I watch a ridiculous amount of AMV's (Anime Music Videos) and find quite a lot of music I love from that.

The Levellers are one of my absolute favorite bands and probably my favorite song of all time, by them, I stumbled across watching a Wolfs Rain AMV. I also find an insane amount of techno music, which I also adore (Isn't that pretty silly in and of itself? Liking techno music so much, I mean?), from AMV's.

This is my favorite song from The Levellers if anyone is interested. (And am prepared to be mocked for my taste in music.. )

I'm trying to rack my brain on embarassing stories for favorite bands...and I shit you not, I have none. All the badass bands I listen to I've found out through sheer badassery.

/so cool

Don't know if this is dumb enough, but I listened to this song a dozen times one Valentine's Day, after a friend of mine posted it on his girlfriend's wall.

One time I got pulled over by a sexy police officer for speeding, and when I was handcuffed in the back of the squad car, I started hearing this



I'll never forget that night.

I hope you haven't changed your ringtone Officer_Charon

Was on first date with my wife, at the pub watching the 2000 Muchmusic Video Awards and this band is accepting Song of the year. Having not heard of them before, I ask her who the guy with the tinted sunglasses is...

Matthew Good?

I figured, I just looked it up and the only Song of the Year type award I could find was given to the Matthew Good Band.

Well shit Frank. Looks like I'm remembering the award wrong. It must have been the MtV music awards

Ah HA! I dunno, that's not that embarrassing.

Never having heard of U2 until 2000? That's pretty embarrassing. Although it meant she had to take me back to her place so she could play me all their songs.

I always feel like a jerk when I find a song I love in commercials. This one, for example:


I love this song. The remix (the one linked here) is better than the original, in my opinion. I think it was used in a car commercial, I forget which.

Adam said:

Never having heard of U2 until 2000? That's pretty embarrassing. Although it meant she had to take me back to her place so she could play me all their songs.

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I've always hated U2. I had a gf who was obsessed with them, and it was incredibly hard to keep from cringing when she would drive as that's all we'd listen to.

I've overplayed them significantly as well. The only redeeming feature of my iPod however is U2. The rest is John Williams and trailer music.

I'm more embarassed by liking the song than how I found it.

Faster Pussycat by Brittany Murphy(yes, the now deceased actress).

It's got a catchy beat.

One of the biggest things I miss about being a DJ is all the music people would bring in for me.

Does the story have to be embarrassing, or can I be embarrassed by my choice of bands? Because I actually have quite normal stories of how I came to like Steps and the Backstreet Boys and Westlife.

I was watching Scott pilgrim vs the world and there's the scene where his ex lady friend who's a big deal sings a song and I'm all like "oh hey that's a nice song" and then it turned out to be muse and I'm all "oh hey they have that other song or three on the radio, that's really good for them" and now I'm probably going to go listen to that now.

Tl;dr: uninteresting things happen to me.

Edit: I meant metric. I'm bad with names.

bhamv3 said:

Does the story have to be embarrassing, or can I be embarrassed by my choice of bands? Because I actually have quite normal stories of how I came to like Steps and the Backstreet Boys and Westlife.

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Hey, I will not apologize for liking Steps

CynicismKills said:

I always feel like a jerk when I find a song I love in commercials. This one, for example:


I love this song. The remix (the one linked here) is better than the original, in my opinion. I think it was used in a car commercial, I forget which.

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Hey, that happens to me too.

Found Sigur Ros by seeing this commercial:

never played the game, but have bought almost all of the band's CDs now.

and found the band Rogue Wave and specifically the album Asleep at Heaven's Gate due to this Zune ad:

A hugely embarrassing chunk of my favorite bands come from hearing them in TV/Movies. Sometimes in bad TV or movies! I think I picked up The Shins from Garden State, Muse from a Watchmen trailer, I got into a couple random bands from Adventureland and (500) days of Summer soundtracks.......I never really liked Talking Heads until I saw Stop Making Sense, too.

Gusto said:

Don't know if this is dumb enough, but I listened to this song a dozen times one Valentine's Day, after a friend of mine posted it on his girlfriend's wall.

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My wife wound them through a make-up tutorial series on Youtube.

Like Juski, I'm trying hard to think of any. I've found songs I liked from movies, like Charlie, but never full bands. Some faves were word of mouth, others through Pandora. Composers come from movies and games, but that's no surprise.

...I discovered some through my wife? Is that embarrassing or dumb?

Ooh, I've got one. I was introduced to Pendulum through a Team Fortress 2 video:



In my defense, it's a really cool video.

I found this one band I kinda like through some pretty embarrassing internet forum thingie. Not exactly 4Chan but not where you want to be seen in polite company....
Band's "Paddy Gone Wild".

Tinwhistler

I used to be a fan of the Spice Girls. That alone is embarrassing beyond belief, methinks.

Granted, that was during the time of my life when 90% of my body hair was concentrated on top of my head, but still.

North_Ranger said:

I used to be a fan of the Spice Girls. That alone is embarrassing beyond belief, methinks.

Granted, that was during the time of my life when 90% of my body hair was concentrated on top of my head, but still.

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Me too, but in my defense, they reached the height of their popularity riiiight around the time I hit puberty.

Gusto said:

Me too, but in my defense, they reached the height of their popularity riiiight around the time I hit puberty.

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For me it was when I was in my teens.

So... tit appeal?

That's my excuse. Because I can remember being a "fan" but I can't actually remember liking any of their songs...

Three male friends and I all went to see Spice World in theaters. We were the only non-parent males in the theater. Also, the sole people representing the age group of 13-19. We were in grade 9.

I'm sure everyone there was terrified of us.

By listening to Pacifica Radio.

ohhh I do have one. I fell in love with Cage the Elephant after I played Borderlands. At first I thought Cage the Elephant was some bullshit Jack White derivative garbage. But then "Ain't No Rest For the Wicked" is such an irresistable earworm. And then it dawned on me that they're basically the Pixies' next of kin. And now I love them.

"Ain't No Rest For the Wicked" caught my ear for it's sweet blues riff handed down from music generation to music generation. Also, they're fucking loony at live shows.

I randomly bought Matt & Kim's album Grand and wound up really liking the whole thing.

I don't know if I'd call it embarrassing, really, but I did buy Say Anything's About A Boy on a whim, having no idea what they sounded like or who they were. Ended up loving the album and the band, though I don't think anything they've done since is as good.

Bumble the Boy Wonder said:

"Ain't No Rest For the Wicked" caught my ear for it's sweet blues riff handed down from music generation to music generation. Also, they're fucking loony at live shows.

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Still sounded to me like a cheap Jack White knockoff by a bunch of jerks to me at first. But like I said before, I have fully flip-flopped on Cage and now they're one of my favorite current bands (the excellent second album last summer pretty much confirmed it)

Yeah I remember always skipping that Borderlands intro after the first time because of that song. I'm going to listen to it again, however, see if maybe it just wasn't my thing at the time. I've had a few bands grow on me that I used to despise, the worst offense of that being Nirvana, actually.