I remembered last night about the first ever mixtape I was given. It was from my sister back when I was in primary school, around 1997-98 (so i'd have been nine or ten). It was awesome. Full of stuff I had never heard before and since my sister was a goth, full of stuff I wouldn't have had access to normally at that age.

 

Marilyn Manson, Coal Chamber, Sepultura, System of a Down.

Then stuff I still like today like Radiohead, Nirvana, Deftones.

 

I got it confiscated when I took it into school on a day where you could take a toy in and a girl listened and started crying half way through this song:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqIptv3Ez2g]Tourniquet - Marilyn Manson - YouTube[/ame]

 

It still makes me laugh looking back on it. I was a little blonde pacifist wandering around the playground with this stuff on full blast.

 

 

 

What was on your first playlist?

^ OOOH, System of a Down. :wacko:

 

I got my first-ever mixtape through the forum's mixtape exchange. :blush: When I first joined here, my taste was pretty limited, as I didn't know much. I remember seeing all the hype about Radiohead in the WoM, and I was like, "...Who?" Hahaha. (Thankfully, things have changed since then, and Radiohead are now one of my favorites.)

 

Anyway, about my first mixtape. It was from a girl named Gail (went by heartswarm on the forum), and she introduced me to people I'd never even heard of before. She's also the one who changed my perspective on Arcade Fire. She had put "Haiti" on the tape, and before then, I had heard "Neighborhood #3" and maybe one other song that I didn't like. I had no idea that Regine sang, and hearing that song made me want to give them another go.

 

The main thing I think I took from the tape other than that was Owen Pallett. I fell in love with him because of that tape. :heart: There were also some groups that I still keep meaning to look into, like Shearwater and Get Well Soon. There were a couple of things I wasn't quite fond of (e.g. Sunset Rubdown; vocals weren't to my liking), but overall, I really enjoyed it. Discovering stuff like that is why I still keep doing it after all this time, despite the fact that I'm not on this forum nearly as often as I used to be.