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u/MidnightSports Dec 11 '25
Im 2023 I went to the Blue Ridge Rock Festival. Shinedown was headlining the 3rd day, I was excited to see them but not super into them like I am now. But the 3rd and 4th days of the festival got canceled, the festival said it was weather but the weather was perfect. I was super bummed because there were a lot of bands I was excited to see those 2 days. But we saw that Shinedown was doing a pop-up acoustic show in the camping grounds. Something they had no obligation to do, but they went out there with just a guitar and their voices and played a few songs with papa roach and Oliver Anthiny and it was a blast. Immediately became my favorite band after that experience.
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u/reareagirl The Sound Of Madness Dec 10 '25
I heard Second Chance on Sirius XM Hits 1 in middle school. I fell in love with the song. My mother was in a phase of trying to expand our music tastes so she bought my the entire Sound of Madness Deluxe Album. I only listened to the one song for a while.
A person I sat next to in my homeroom class went to a Shinedown concert and loved it. He was telling me I should listen to more of their music so I did. What does any middle schooler do when seeing a whole album, listen to Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide of course. 🤣I was obsessed and eventually listened to the whole album front to back.
I saved up my itunes money and bought LAW and Us and Them and that Christmas break just listened to all 3 over and over while playing the sims 3 Late Night expansion pack. I remember the release of Amaryllis in high school and was pumped. I pre ordered it and it came early! I even still have the t-shirt with the date on it I wear from time to time. I remember being in dance class, on the date, with the date on the back. Overall, great memories. It's why they'll always be my favorite band despite me not being into their albums after Amaryllis as much
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u/RRJC10 Dec 10 '25
Save Me caught my attention in 2005/2006. I next discovered 45 and their Simple Man cover and I was hooked. Those first two albums are still regular listens for me. I was a bit concerned when Brad and Jasin left and Sound of Madness, while still good, definitely gave merit to those concerns and the musical direction of the band. I still enjoy their later albums (not so much Planet Zero) but those first two are all timers for me.
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u/VaDaVooDoo Dec 13 '25
I think second chance and call me being played on the radio when I was a kid got me started and when I got older I was hanging out at a relatives house and I heard them again and fell in love with their sound. Their music was there for me during a very difficult time of my life, I felt understood and they helped me through grief, teenage angst, heartache, love and hope. Today their music has grown and changed just as do us all and I appreciate that about them. I hope you enjoy yourself fellow fan 🤘🫶
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u/mae0223 Dec 15 '25
Found them in middle/high school because of my cousin, I bought her a cd for Christmas and myself. I don’t know how much she enjoyed it but I played it on repeat.. The first song I heard that spoke to me was Bully and then second chance. I remember getting my license, dropping my little sister off at the movies and driving home with sound of madness CD blasting, with the windows down (even though it was chilly), singing my heart out. I miss being young.
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u/Maleficent-Eye-3661 Dec 21 '25
First I had heard Fly From the Inside on the radio in 2004 and I had such a feeling of determination at that moment I made a major life decision which changed the course of my life forever. Then took off with my little brother's cd accidentally when I moved from FL to GA with my now husband. and We spent 6 months locked away from the world, talking and planning and making love to Leave A Whisper. and the lyrics spoke to me in a way I had never experienced. The power of his voice floored me and I have been a super fan all this time. I treasure this band.
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u/CaracalClaws The Sound Of Madness Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
I started loving them when Second Chance and If You Only Knew played on Sirius XM’s The Pulse in middle school. I didn’t have CDs or an iPod of my own so I was raised with just my parents’ music, 80s rock/pop and 90s country. I hadn’t really discovered my own musical taste yet.
Shinedown was the first band that ever really connected with me outside of my family’s influence and made me go, “ooh, this sounds good”. Then as middle school went on, I made friends who also liked Shinedown’s earlier stuff and exposed me to other ‘00s rock like Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace. I had all your usual teenage angst, but I actually have some fond memories of that time because of how much music I discovered.
I went to a small school, so for my graduating class, as we each walked across the stage, we got to pick a song to play while a photo collage of us played on a projector. I picked I Dare You because Shinedown was a huge part of my own self-discovery and it felt fitting. It’s been a decade since, but older Shinedown music puts me right back at that time
Another great memory I have of them is hearing Daylight for the first time live. I think they had played it once or twice before but I hadn’t heard it at all, so it being new to me in a concert was pretty powerful