It would be interesting to know which bands you like and which bands you liked at what age to get some new ideas.
Most important bands/artists over the years:
Teenage years:
Nirvana
Early Twens (I hope you know what I mean. Just realised that this a pseudo-anglicism quite common in German nowadays
Tool, Radiohead
Later Twens up until now (which is a little later than that):
PJ Harvey
started in the 60s/70s:
Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath, Kraftwerk, Ton Steine Scherben (German band)
started in the 80s:
Nirvana, Melvins, Big Black, Sonic Youth, Pixies, The Cure, Soundgarden, Green River, Metallica, Sinead O'Connor
started in the 90s
Tool, Radiohead, Portishead, Björk, Goldie, Aphex Twin, Orbital, gusgus, Moloko, Nine Inch Nails, Prodigy, Air + German bands: Atari Teenage Riot, Tocotronic, Blumfeld
from Poland: Maciej Malenczuk (used to be cool until showing up in one of these imbecile superstar casting shows )
from Russia: Linda - some of her music is really great, some is not)
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f9r1M_7 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkekv-U ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtmGePE9 ... re=related