How much did Anime Music Videos shape your music tastes?

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Garlador

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This is going to mostly be for a certain age demographic - assuming mostly late 90s, early 2000s kids and teens - but that era of my music tastes was really defined by bands and songs I discovered through legions of sloppily-edited AMVs created by fans eager to smash DBZ and Linkin Park together over and over and over.

Well, MOSTLY DBZ and Linkin Park, but there was an AMV for every anime and every song at that time, it seemed. Tenchi Muyo and Papa Roach? Sure. POD and Rurouni Kenshi? Why not. Sailor Moon and Rob Zombie? Better believe it. Pokemon and Mindless Self Indulgence? Nothing is sacred.

So how much did those old AMVs shape your musical tastes... and, more importantly, which godless combination of shows and music were the ones you remember leaving an impact?
 
DBZ and Inside Out.

Best .rma of my life.

However, not much, since I just kind of like video game music and things similar to it i.e. Movie scores, instrumental stuff, etc.
 
It was less about shaping my music tastes, and more getting me into video editing. I used to go to AMV.org all the time during the early 2000s and check out the forums. Hell, I even stayed around on various other "producer" forums for a long time.
 
Initial D and the Super Eurobeat movement of the early 2000s. Good times.

Thanks a lot, Avex Music. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Oh it's AMVs specifically, not anime music...read it wrong. My bad. lol
 
Had no idea that was a thing. The artists you mentioned have only shaped my tastes in that my tastes are the opposite of whatever you'd consider those artists.
 
Garlador said:
Similar. It inspired me to try a few of them myself.

I did one years ago for Outlaw Star and Fuel.
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I worked on one in high school that was a bunch of different anime (Sailor Moon, Evangelion, Samurai Pizza Cats) but I don't remember what song anymore. I also did one with Sol Bianca, Card Captor Sakura, and Armitage set to No Doubt's "Just a Girl."

I kinda want to make another AMV now to something, but I just don't know what.
 
They showed AMVs at an anime club I went to years ago, between episodes and such.

AMVs permanently ruined every single song they were made from for me.
 
Zero. I've never really seen one, other than being referenced ironically in forums. I liked Linkin Park's first album though at the time!
 
As nostalgic as this kind of stuff makes me feel now, it didn't impact my musical tastes all that much. As a teenager I had my Linkin Park phase too but it was unrelated.

BigDes said:
Sitting silently in the dark thinking about my failures
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So any post-Soul Society Bleach AMVs
 
They hipped me to a few songs or groups that I wouldn't have heard otherwise. A DBZ video from the 90's clued me in on The Misfits. Bad DBZ video.
A Serial Experiments: Lain video taught me that Natalie Imbruglia had more than just one song and that she can actually make some decent music. Lain Smoke

But yeah, by and large they're 99% Papa Roach and Linkin Park, but at least they gave us the AMV Hell videos which were entertaining for a while back in the day.
 
It did get me into Imogen Heap... Frou Frou - Let Go was one of those songs that was plastered on more AMVs than necessary. Never got sick of it strangely..

Mindless Self Indulgence also for a bit, but that phase passed very quickly.
 
They didn't really, but some of the ones I made actually got me attention from producers I admire, so there's that.

AMV Hell was the shit though
 
Is this that vaporwave thing where someone takes an 80s funk song and filters it so it sounds like it's underwater and then puts it to a 3 second loop of an anime girl walking past car headlights at night?

I've seen those. They suck.
 
A fair bit in middle school, actually. Got me into those christian rock groups like Thousand Foot Krutch and Red. My taste in music has changed a lot since then, though.
 
Ben Folds Good Morning Son I first heard from a DBZ AMV. Also that Angel song from Sarah McLachlan I first heard from a Trigun AMV. That's about it.
 
Lynx_7 said:
As nostalgic as this kind of stuff makes me feel now, it didn't impact my musical tastes all that much. As a teenager I had my Linkin Park phase too but it was unrelated.
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I guess for me, yeah it got me into Linkin Park, but it also started to evolve beyond that as I found AMVs for anime I never heard of and encountered bands I never would have discovered otherwise, many that weren't exactly on my radar.

Vast- "Touched" - Rurouni Kenshin
Gravity Kills - "Enough"
- Akira
Nightwish - "10th Man Down"
- Gundam 08th MS Team
Kamelot - "Karma" -Bastard

AMVs were mired in a pit of teen angst, but I also was introduced to bands and singers like Sarah Brightman, Laura Turner, Enigma, Poets of the Fall, Foo Fighters, Assemblage 23, Matthew Good Band, Duran Duran, and basically everything from Phil Collins to Ultraspank through AMVs, and my music tastes greatly expanded beyond just nu metal and rock through exposure to AMVs.
 
This shit used to be my jam.

Even some of the more amateur ones turned out pretty good. There was a really good one with Dragon Force's Through the Fire and the Flames to Gurren Lagann, but youtube took it down for copy rights.

There's also this one that was pretty good. Both videos always get me hyped to watch Gurren Lagann again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_kSGJ5Zis
 
Euro Beat - Thanks Initial D

Stabbing westward: When Goku first turned SSJ back in the day I was looking for videos of the fight with my sweet sweet dial up modem. After a 45 minute download I got a video of the fight and stabbing westward- Save yourself was in played in the background.
 
When I was younger it introduced me to bands that either I hadn't come across or hadn't come over to the UK yet - a DBZ Sum 41 Makes No Difference AMV got me to import they're first EP, same with Incubus via a Rurouni Kenshin one with Drive. Other than that it was the usual stuff like Papa Roach and Linking Park (which I was into anyway, being 15 at the time), me and a friend went though a phase of just getting loads of them since they were easy to download on 56k - only took an hour and a half or so for a tiny 320x240 2 min Real Player file!
 
GamePnoy74 said:
Initial D and the Super Eurobeat movement of the early 2000s. Good times.

Thanks a lot, Avex Music. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Oh it's AMVs specifically, not anime music...read it wrong. My bad. lol
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Brother !!!!!

I remember my first album. Super Eurobeat 184.
 
Linkin Park and Daft Punk's anime music videos were pretty cool, but those fan made music videos using random cuts from popular animes? Nah.
 
That Evangelion/Bohemian Rhapsody AMV got me to appreciate live versions of Bohemian Rhapsody. I think that was the only AMV I really knew...
 
I visited the AMV Forums once. Worst community ever. Ego's bigger than Trump and snark only matched by reddit trolls.

I don't think the music ever changed my opinion on anything.
 
It didn't shape it. Much too late. I didn't get into anime until the end of high school and I learned about the Pillows when visiting Japan before seeing FLCL.

Oh strictly AMV? I didn't ever watch those. Didn't get the point. Unless someone uploaded a song I wanted to listen to. But never fell into a community or some youtube rabbit hole.
 
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