How much did Anime Music Videos shape your music tastes?

people on YT make music videos for regular movies and tv shows, Marvel films etc, but there is no reddit or community for them?

I haven't seen any, anyone know?
 
I got a chuckle out of seeing MSI listed in the OP. Ahh, love that band.

I almost answered "Not at all" right away to the OP; I never watched many AMVs back when they were a big thing and I never cared for the music I heard in most or had already heard it before that if I did like the song. But then I remembered that maybe 7 years ago or so I was browsing YouTube and came across a Devilman AMV. It made Devilman look like a pretty cool show (never had a chance to watch it since then) but it was memorable to me because it was the first time I heard Blind Guardian's "Into the Storm." I sought out the song and ripped it to a couple CDs to listen to in the car and made a ringtone for it and some other stuff, but I would still say that that didn't shape my tastes in anything at that time other than that song. I already liked metal and power metal specifically at that time anyway and didn't really get "into" Blind Guardian until several years later.
 
Not much. A guy who went by C-ko years ago did one wth Kiki's and Every Little Thing she Does is Magic which gave me a small appreciation for the Police, but that's about it.
 
Less than you would expect given the amount that I watched during my teenage years but more than I'm comfortable with admitting. Shitty alternative rock is still a bit of a guilty pleasure and I got into that through AMVs.
 
Well... thanks to initial d, I like eurobeat

Doesn't count as AMV but it's still music that was integrated to the anime
 
My all time favorite song, Kryptonite, was strongly influenced my a Yugioh GX AWV featuring the dual between Zane and Camilla. I think the vid itself was taken down, but I still have a crappy quality version saved on an old PC.
 
jay said:
There are anime music videos?
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It's a strange subculture in the western anime community. Fans will take their favourite songs and stitch together clips from their favourite anime into a "music video" for it. From what I remember it's usually stuff like Linkin Park, or older nerd favourites like The Final Countdown.
 
I liked AMV mainly for the video editing. That Lain video with the track "E Nomine" was amazing.
Also the Key the Metal Idol AMV "Closer"

Never had a taste for any genre or particular band
 
Addi said:
Daft Punk had some anime music videos for Discovery, that was pretty cool as a teen
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is still pretty good (it is one single movie though).

Violence Jack said:
It didn't one bit. However, I loved the old DDR Project AMV compilations, and found some good tunes out of that.
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I have DDR Project 1 and 2 on my HDD right now.

jstripes said:
It's a strange subculture in the western anime community. Fans will take their favourite songs and stitch together clips from their favourite anime into a "music video" for it. From what I remember it's usually stuff like Linkin Park, or older nerd favourites like The Final Countdown.
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Not really. But it's still 50 shitty AMVs for every good one.
 
AMVs still shape my music tastes :p.

To be fair these are examples of discovering new artists rather than strictly shaping my tastes since I was already into these sounds to some extent. The biggest influence from these types of videos wasn't from an AMV, it was two videos which edited together video game cinematics and battle sequences from films to what is now one of my favourite bands, Rhapsody of Fire.
 
None, but I did have a few ideas for possible AMVs using my music tastes.

Thankfully they never came into fruition.
 
I mean, I was already listening to nu metal without the need for AMVs to help it along. I can't think of a single band an AMV introduced me to.

I remember some Naruto x Dane Cook crossups though. Mitch Hedburg as well.
 
I was the right age (started high school in 2000), but while I watched a shitload of AMVs, I didn't really get into too many bands from them. Anime intros, on the other hand, did start me down a long path of Japanese rock.

I've tried for years to find one particular DBZ / Linkin Park "With You" AMV I remember from a thousand years ago, but I've never been able to find the same one.
 
All the music in the OP just sounds like the stuff that was on the radio at the time. If it wasn't from AMV you'd have got it from listening to the radio as you order Subway.

Imo the whole reason AMVs of that era felt a bit laughable is because they would tie together obscure anime/games with really mainstream music taste. Put a top 40 pop-rock song overtop of Rurouni Kenshin... which is just ridiculously inappropriate but they're two things that a late 90s/early 2000s tween would have access to and think were cool.

"Linkin Park overtop of FFVIII cutscenes" strikes me as similar to "Sonic reading the Bible fan art", in just being a weird mashup borne from the strange life of turn of the millennium American teenagers.
 
Back in high school I was really into jrock and jpop music, mainly hearing them from Bleach, Naruto and whatever was on Adult swim around the 2006-2011 area, but I haven't been into them since.
 
Not too much as I was already into EDM, but one of my favorite AMVs was for Final Fantasy X set to Robert Miles' Fable (Message Version).

That AMV basically introduced me to Robert Miles.
 
Not at all. I like anime but I don't listen to any anime music. The only anime music I have ever listened to was Orange Road, the Japanese version when I was a teenager.
 
They didn't. I listened to many AMVs in my teens, but don't think they shaped my tastes at all. I mostly listen to 90s thru early 00s gangster rap, and instrumental video game music. Not Linkin Park lol.

My mom probably shaped my taste in music the most. She introduced me to Eminem, DMX, Tupac, 50 Cent, and many others lol.
 
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