What was your first song, band or artist that got you into alternative music.

I go first because my mum got me into new romantic and as well as some new wave/punk rock with this band and this song..
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Atari Baby because it was the first one that came onto MTV channel when I was like 4 years old. Even though she wanted me to listen to Love Missile F1-11 first.
https://youtu.be/TP-liSOq758?si=3FHb_tY5sei93cv_

The Hooters with All you zombies.
https://youtu.be/2LE0KpcP05I?si=t2aTMvG0rr9D_5p0

Sweet - Peppermint twist.
https://youtu.be/OCKFO56CI44?si=FpaaskH6ob5Z6h9R

Slade - Mama weer all crazee now.
https://youtu.be/eEv6jy_7PQQ?si=YBeQWByaQIapPodu

Dr and the medics - Burning Love.
https://youtu.be/herK4JnJ_LE?si=BnKyjPdNwIctPS3P

Then from my dad side I got introduced to

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse rock
https://youtu.be/gj0Rz-uP4Mk?si=0_jkVit5cT5IMwDm

Jerry lee Lewis - Great balls of fire.
https://youtu.be/lgCNOsSYP4I?si=T3YADhFkCRRVAOhN

The Beatles - Helter Skelter
https://youtu.be/JR_qtYHPeiw?si=w0RhHrzmBfBtl2yQ

He was and still a big fan of the original smoking in the boys room by Brownsville station, he hates motley crue cover of it and I don't blame him either.
https://youtu.be/5K59EMGgrUA?si=LQK0Ar6ZJFaG8ebt

Fallout, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Mortal Kombat, TimeSplitter and Magic the gathering (both online and on paper)

I start this off first..
My guilty music pleasures are
Country music and Disco music.

Hello DoctorGoth. Welcome to the dead site call GG.

I been on and off here since 2008ish.. back when it was alot more active. This account was made last year but I am not new.
Used to be on VF and Gothwire but they were side websites to this.

This can be a great site for us, if we get it back from the dead and we do not allow people to control certain parts like people did on VF and Gothwire, which is why those sites died. in my opinion.

Hi all, sorry I not replied to any of these comments, I have been busy for the past few weeks and months, due to family stuff, mental health break etc.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this post and I agree with almost everyone, but I will reply to some people.

Karl.. unfortunately I have experienced it on Vampire Freaks and Goth wire. See I do not mind naming the gothic social sites because if they not changed the terms and conditions on here, we are allow to mention different sites. I was constantly told on my 13 years on and off VampireFreaks and my 2 years on Gothwire that I did not belong on there because of my music taste ranging from Ragtime, rock n roll, hard rock, soft rock, heavy metal, doom metal, hair metal, punk, post punk, sleaze and glam rock, black metal and so on. also mixing alternative style within my look was making gothic fashion a joke. which was funny before the gothic fashion came from British punk rock scene in the 1970's.

I am glad that you did not experience any of it Karl, but me and many others on those gothic social sites did experience shit like that, because they knew they would get away it because they were either close friends of the owner or admin team.

Also Karl, there is a few YouTubers that are gothic, emo, scene and punk that I used to watch but don't anymore because I can't agree with them, but when people disagree with them in the comments, those people seem to disappear from their channel and comments for good. So it kind of tells me what kind of person someone is when things like that happen.

Crower9 - Mate I completely agree with you. Life does change for all of us, unless we do the same job every day. However, individualism should not change, it can be adapted to daily life because of a job, toning it down because of children and family.

I mean I don't wear tones of makeup, style my hair or wear full out style every day because some days I like to sit back and relax in Pj'S, Jogger bottom, looking like a mess from the bottom of the swamp snake pit, but it does not stop me from expressing who I am and loving my music taste and that.

See I have friends who just listen to one style of music, but they know me, I could sit or be around them in full glitter makeup, leopard print shirt, black skinny jeans, cowboy boots, massive fluffy hair and looking like I should be long in Whitesnake or Quite Riot.. and rocking out to there music like Emperor, Immortal, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, The Speciemen, Siouxsie and The Banshee, NOFX, Sex Pistols, etc because I like all type of music within our community and yes my guilty pleasures are 70's disco and some 80's pop stuff

Why do people within the alternative community think it is okay to gatekeep.
Am sorry the alternative community has a ton of sub-genres from punk, goth, horror punk, shock rock, death and black metal and everyone likes and dislikes bands, everyone has their own individual way of dressing.
Can't we just be happy that alternative sites exist and allow us all to connect with others, instead of bullying and making someone feel like they don't belong because of how they dress or look isn't gothic enough, isn't punk enough, isn't emo enough.. Rotting corpses forbid the purification and gas leak that someone has to follow and obey someone order for a site to be kept to one style and one set of music taste only.