Your Music Evolution

I was really into music when I was very young (read: pop), so like in Kindergarten I was getting George Washington confused with George Michaels. And I liked/hated Madonna. Then around 4th grade I didn't listen to anything really, save for oldies, classic rock and whatever until 7th grade. A friend got me into listening to music while drawing and *boom* I was hooked.

::My Dad's Music::
Metallica
My dad's old fave band, definitely a big influence. My mother hated it, my dad and I loved it. I still like them, regardless of what other people say (well, even I can't really bring myself to like St. Anger).
Led Zepplin
God I love them. The ultimate classic, and I love their lyrics.
also, Black Sabbath/Van Halen/Dire Straits

::My Mom's Music::
The Beatles
Can't hate the Beatles...their sound evolved so much over the years that there's little not to like.
Aerosmith
Classic American rock. Period.
Queen
OMG my favorite band ever. Freddie Mercury has one of the greatest voices, and the band itself has a very operatic sound.
also, Tom Petty/David Bowie/REM

From this, I derived a base and got into other things, some of which are quite embarassing now:

Korn, Limp Bizkit (OMG), SoaD, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Creed

Out of these, the only ones I still listen to are SoaD and Pearl Jam, on occasion. PJ is actually quite good, in my opinion. But all this was a stepping stone to my senior year, when I was introduced to many things besides different music. At this time I also got into Apocalyptica, which was most definitely not a bad thing.

E Nomine/In Extremo/Nightwish/Rammstein/Therion/Luca Turilli
German bands, symphonic metal, etc. etc. Started me on a path of looking for similar bands, like Corvus Corax, Janus, Parzival, Ulver and others. Around the same time I was also turned onto non-metal bands, like QOTSA, Muse, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Moi dix Mois/Malice Mizer, Royal Crown Revue, Flogging Molly, Seven Nations and other things.

With the discovery of orchestra fused with metal, I accidentally stumbled onto the greatest band evah, KAIZERS ORCHESTRA. And that just caused all sorts of things to do with Norway and Scandinavia, like Folk metal and stuff.
Ulver, Finntroll, Einherjer, Dimmu Borgir, Cloroform, Skambankt, and Tom Waits, along with a desire to learn Norwegian.

Going to England brought about a brief flirt with UK bands, like The Darkness, Muse (which still continues), the Divine Comedy, HIM(not UK, I know, but I bought my first album of theirs while there), but ultimately I lost interest in a lot of it.

I still listen to a huge variety of different groups, languages and genres, as well as expanding my classical music composer interests; I didn't feel like that was worth putting down as well. Really, if it's a good song, then I'll listen to it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.