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Which friend or acquaintance most influenced your taste in music? 
Submitted by Rev Stan.

I can't say any one person did, because for the most part I discovered stuff on my own. It all started in the summer of '94, when I saw the video for Soundgarden's 'Black Hole Sun' on MTV:

Delving into their back catalogue led me to their first album, Ultramega OK, which was released on SST Records, and came with a little folded paper catalogue from the label, listing records by some of the most celebrated 'underground' artists in the canon -- from Black Flag to the Meat Puppets to Husker Du to Sonic Youth to Dinosaur Jr to the Minutemen, and many many more.

From that one little paper catalogue, seriously, you can pretty much trace your way to almost every existing branch of the musical tree. (I'm not kidding; name any genre and I can probably cite at least one SST artist who has a connection to it.) And that's what I've been doing for the past 11 years, more or less.