sonic youth where through a friend, a battered tape of sonic death and confusion is sex.

The metal clique I used to hang around with at college turned me into loads of metal bands. Amongst others:

Slayer
Venom
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Manowar
Death SS
Cathedral
Iron Maiden

Blah blah blah.

The Cure
Neil Young
Talking Heads
Björk
Cocteau Twins
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
The Notwist
The Beatles
Tindersticks

I have a mate who has recommended lot's of great hip-hop acts over the years, including MF Doom, Edan, El-P, Kool Keith and loads others.
If i call my Dad a 'friend', he got me into punk at an early age with groups like Slaughter and the Dogs, Crass, Wire, Buzzcocks etc. This pretty much changed my life.

I think nothing.

aphex twin
venetian snares (or "ThePoorMansAphexTwin" as some very rude poeple say)
bug

Against me
Mr. Bungle
Mew
Taking back sunday ( I know, I know)
Aesop Rock

Archers of Loaf from my friend barnaby and my brother

Phish

The Misfits (when I was 13)

Minor Threat (when I was 13)

slayer

My friends have practically shaped my music taste single-handedly.

Nearly.

Nothing.

Wait, The Unicorns.

One drove me to the Beach Boys.

One lead me to DMX.

That's it.

you should have said "as some very stupid people say"

generally, I do more turning on than turned on

against me isn't shit.

Well it was actually this board that turned me on to The Fall. My pal Morgan has turned me on to most industrial stuff like Skinny Puppy/Download. I think his biggest contribution to my musical journey has been Negativland. Oh and Kool Keith. This really hot chick I know let me stay with her a few days. She turned me on to Wolfmother. I was RABID about them for a few weeks, now I can barely put the CD in. Kinda like empty calories, that band.

Mr.Clone turned me on to Spacemen 3, Acid Mothers Temple, Throbbing Gristle,Ghost,Loop, among many more.

I remember turning my friend on to Portishead.

I thought me and my friend were the only people on the planet who liked this band.

Bands who friends have got me into include:

Sonic youth, slint, my bloody valentine, rorschach, deep wound, bikini kill, siege, unwound, scarling, unholy grave, morbid saint, carcass, zyklon too many to mention really.