Out of laziness, quoting myself from sonicl's similarly themed thread from a couple of year's ago.
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Originally Posted by Pookie
Mine was Never Mind The Bollocks.
The year was 1978, I was about 11 and my favourite band was Showaddywaddy. I shared a bedroom with my older brother & he played NMTB constantly, to my disgust.
We had pretty violent fights over it for months until one day I found myself actually LOVING it. I didn't admit it for a while, but eventually ripped down all my Showaddywaddy posters and bought The Clash's first LP.
It was no looking back after that: The Clash led to The Damned led to Ramones led to Dead Kennedys led to Minor Threat, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Sonic Youth........etc.
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