The Legend of Zelda and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
The Zelda series was my earliest musical love. Up until I was like 15 years old, I literally did not care about music and had no music I cared for...except Zelda music. The game's soundtracks simply enchanted me, possibly because I was so engrossed in the worlds anyway. Then Weird Al, I'm guessing I have him to thank for my "I love everything", too, since listening to all his stuff religiously basically means that I grew up with every single genre equally, from rap to country to electronic music to piano ballads to what-have-you. It wasn't 'til 2010 I started actually caring about music, though, which I have Owl City to thank for (yeah yeah). I dunno, his lyrics just represented the desire to get away from reality into some abstract dream world for me and he reminded me of myself, so I identified with a lot of stuff and just liked the dreamy music. At this point I mostly listened to pop and electronic music.
Sometime in late 2011 was probably when my
obsession with music started. That was spurred on by myself when I was getting sick of saying "I don't like x genre" and wondering if I could just shut down my mental barriers and get myself to like things that people tell me "you just don't like it, that's fine, you can't change that". Obviously, it worked. I can't really recall if there was a singular artist that kickstarted it...
65daysofstatic was recommended by a friend and they had the first instrumental music I've ever liked. From there I found Port Blue, which still remains my favourite. I guess my taste was just diversifying as I found myself wanting to know as many artists as possible and experience a massive range of music; I was just really hungry for music, wanting to find more and more and more. That's around the point I started asking friends to recommend things to me, then made a little thread here tentatively asking for people to recommend me stuff, thinking nobody would really care enough to do so. So I've got you guys to thank, to, for giving me tons of pages of music. :]
Anyway, yeah, it sucks that I can't really track which artists made me do what and when very well, but I can very easily say Weird Al and Owl City are the two main reasons I listen to music like I do. And now that Arcade Fire has done the once-per-eon dethroning of my favourite musical artist, I feel confident that my taste is maturing too. I'm feeling less and less satisfied with more simple and generic artists...though I'm not letting that get to my head and getting all pretentious, superior, arrogant and egotistical about my taste.
So yeah music and things