>Five bands from folks' earliest 
>of music listening 'careers' that forever changed, shaped, molded,
influenced 
>and enhanced your life, putting you on the road to ridiculous expenditures
on 
>music. A bit nebulous, but possibly fun and simple one w/o a lot of thought

>as it's almost an instinctive response for most.

For me:

The Beatles
The Sex Pistols
R.E.M.
The Smiths
The Housemartins

Once you get out of the top 5, it becomes a blur, but those are definitely
the groups that set me on the path to credit card debt...:-)

Latah,

WILL