My music preference has changed from time to time. When I was 5 I used to like Michael Jackson and Madonna cause theirs was the only music I could hear everywhere that decade. When I was 8 I had an obsession with the band New Kids On the Block because I enjoyed looking at five handsome guys dancing around and singing with sensitive and girlish voices.

At the same time classical music education from my parents and traditional Greek music gave some quality to my innocent musical taste. In the summer of 1994 everything changed for me when I discovered two bands that I have loved ever since, guiding me through difficult times and improving the good times: Manowar and The Cranberries.

Finally a new path had opened, a path that led to the rock and metal scene. Throughout these years I have listened to so many rock and metal bands and different styles such as alternative rock, progressive rock, jazz-rock, epic metal, heavy metal, power metal, black and death metal and progressive metal. I loved bands like Deep purple, Kansas, Styx, Rush, Marillion, Cranberries, Oasis, The verve, Alanis Morissette, Melissa Etheridge, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton, Saxon, Manowar, Blind Guardian, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Paradise Lost, Haggard, Dissection, Dream Theater, Anathema, Opeth and many more! Also, during the last few years, I got into the jazz trip a little bit and into other experimental styles, but all the time never forgetting my love of rock and metal.

So I have decided to keep a weekly diary with a top five of my preferences, which will hopefully express my moods, my new tastes and the way I explore music now. I’m always wondering what will come up in the end of the year. What am I going to learn this year in Anglia Ruskin University? What am I going to learn from England, where it has always been a dream of mine to live, study and work?

And now….

My first top 5!

1.mack the knife – Robbie Williams (new version)

2.Rats – Tiger Lillies

3.Red Sector A – Rush

4.Anesthetize – Porcupine Tree

5.This is the day – The Cranberries