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1. queen - greatest hits
about 9, i went to see wayne's world and loved it, my friends in school found out, through their older brothers, that the song they sang in the car was by them, so i asked my mom for it, she was surprised because it was one of her favorite bands.
2. guns n' roses - bootleg compilation.
about 9, after the queen tape*, i kept reading "guns n' roses" everywhere and found out they were a band, so i tracked down a pirate tape at a flea market with songs from appetite and the illusions (i think it had patience too), i played the hell out of that tape.
3. metallica - metallica (a.k.a. black album)
about 10, after a while, people kept telling me "if you like guns, you should try listening to metallica" so i finally folded and bought it (again, it was a pirate tape, but this time it was the actual album). the first time i listened to it, it was rewinded to side b (or maybe it was mislabelled) and for the longest time though the album opened with "through the never", great song.
4. bon jovi - keep the faith.
about ten, i think i had heard one of their songs ad thought they were good, so i bought it; it was good, i actually still like bon jovi, but more because it's funny/fun than because of the music. they were my first concert too and it was awesome!!!
5. iron maiden - a real live one
about 10 too, word on the playground (literally) was that maiden were satanic so i thought that was awesome, i remember, before i got into music, i would go to stores and see ads for maiden's fear of the dark and kinda being nervous (not scared but anxious, i guess) over the cover art, but actually heard their song "be quick or be dead" and thought it was cool, so i bought the one with "be quick or be dead", little did i know this was a live album, but it had some good songs. the next one i got from them was the maiden japan ep.
*all of these were bought on cassette, i still have them, actually.
**in the interim of 2 and 5, i also bought the guns n' roses discography, although i don't quite remember in what order in relationship with these others, i thought i just stick with different artists; i bough use your illusion I three time because the tape kept snapping.
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