My parents only listened to old school country, so I had a lot of exposure to Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, etc. They did listen to a bit of '80s country and at one point my favorite song was George Strait's "All my Exes live in Texas". Didn't get into rock music until grunge hit. My high school was obsessed with Pearl Jam.
Funnily enough, what got me into U2 were soundtracks. I and most of my high school was obsessed with the Reality Bites soundtrack and my favorite song was AIWIY. I also adored the Batman Forever soundtrack and to this day HMTMKMKM is one of my top 5 U2 songs.