Songs/albums/artists that changed your life

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  1. Rock and Roll Doctor Who

    Rock and Roll Doctor Who Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Kentucky
    Any music that's changed your outlook, left a significant mark on you, et cetera.

    (Feel free to include anecdotes if you wish ~ music has such a varied and pervasive effect on most of our lives that it's endlessly interesting to hear about it IMO)
     
  2. Chemguy

    Chemguy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Western Canada
    None changed, many touched.
     
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  3. blackdograilroad

    blackdograilroad Forum Resident

    Location:
    Devon, UK
    Beatles (all through my first ten years)
    Black Sabbath (first heavy)
    Yes (first prog)
    John Martyn (unique eclectic fusion of styles)
    -and, specifically, the Who Live At Leeds (very specifically, the long My Generation and Entwistle's Boeing-747 bass)
     
  4. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

    Location:
    New Joisey
    Bongo Fury - Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart

    In the late 70s (roughly 12-13 years old) I had at that point only listened to top 40 radio. I knew who the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and a few others were from my parents, but only listened to what AM radio was playing at the time.....and didn't have older siblings or others around to tell me that "disco sucks" (though I still like some of it. I had heard "Dancin' Fool" at some point and thought it was funny....then someone let me hear Bongo Fury. It's the album that changed my music outlook on life.....not only being my introduction to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, but to shift listening to rock music.

    Both have done better material, but I can still listen to this album countless times and never get sick of it.
     
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  5. Duke Fame

    Duke Fame Sold out the Enormodome

    Location:
    Tampa, FL
    KISS - I was already into music at a very young age, Elton John specifically, but KISS put me over the top. A ton of people my age (born in 1969) probably feel the same.
     
  6. JohnnyQuest

    JohnnyQuest Forum Resident

    Location:
    Paradise
    Kanye - College Dropout
    My gateway Hip-Hop album. Prior to my listening experience with CG I thought Rap was mostly cars, jewelry and girls. :doh:

    Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    Changed my perception of music. I now view it as a art form, instead of background noise.

    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    *Sigh* Finally a genre that speaks to me. :love: The blissful atmospheres of my sweetest dreams has come to life.
     
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  7. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

    Location:
    Alexandria VA
    Kiss was the first band I really dug into big-time - and my first concert, too - but I don't know if they changed my life.

    I'd have to say the Beatles did that, because they were the first band I really invested in. Getting into them set me on a path to so many other artists I'd come to love...
     
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  8. the sands

    the sands Forum Resident

    Location:
    Oslo, Norway
    My interest in music has probably influenced my life. Where others choose to do a scheme of things with a purpose like homework at school and to find an interest in something that makes money, I could just sit and listen to records for hours... :whistle:
     
  9. Wedege

    Wedege Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Aalborg, Denmark
    Blur - 13
     
  10. Scott S.

    Scott S. lead singer for the best indie band on earth

    Location:
    Walmartville PA
    The only music I've ever heard that truly changed my life was when my sister gave me the 45 I Wanna Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There.

    oh one time I did a song myself that is still unreleased that caused me to believe I could make it in music. oh, dreams!
     
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  11. dennis the menace

    dennis the menace Forum Veteran

    Location:
    Montréal
    The Stones Honky Tonk Women. I was 9 or 10 years old when I heard it in a juke-box. Changed my life forever.
     
  12. Spruce

    Spruce Forum Resident

    Location:
    Brigg, England
    Bowie...Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
     
  13. 86mets

    86mets Counting Crows #1 Fan

    Counting Crows - August and Everything After...I was stationed at Osan AB Dec 93 - Dec 94...I picked the CD up at the PX in Seoul...I had heard "Mr Jones" on AFKN...so I am riding back on the bus from Seoul to Osan...I heard "Round Here" for the first time...became a lifelong fan right after that...(as if you can't tell from my avatar...:) )
     
  14. Folknik

    Folknik Forum Resident

    For better or for worse, Judy Collins' Whales and Nightingales album turned me into a diehard folksinger in the middle of the disco-drenched '70s.
     
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  15. Tristero

    Tristero In possession of the future tense

    Location:
    MI
    The Beach Boys' Smile. Along with Pet Sounds, it totally changed my perception of the band and opened me up to Wilson's extraordinary compositional abilities. It was a totally unique musical experience, particularly back before Brian finally went back and tackled it in 2003, because up until that point, the listener almost had to try to assemble it themselves, like the original interactive artwork. It was like trying to put together a puzzle where some of the pieces were missing and you weren't entirely sure what the finished picture was supposed to look like. In this way, it's a much more fluid and vital piece of work and even with the more recent releases, it's still a mystery.
     
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  16. Scooter59

    Scooter59 Forum Resident

    Location:
    North Shore, MA
    The Beatles - Help! ("This music speaks to me!" - Navin R. Johnson)
     
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  17. DJ LX

    DJ LX Forum Resident

    Location:
    Madison WI
    Hendrix - Electric Ladyland. Upon hearing this as a 12 year old, I went from disliking the guitar to playing it.

    Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira Street got me to put the guitar down (or at least quit pursuing it seriously - I could practice 10 hours a day for a hundred years and not get close to Gatton's mastery of the instrument!)
     
  18. John54

    John54 Senior Member

    Location:
    Burlington, ON
    Despite loving so many '60s songs, I would be hard-pressed to say that any "changed my life" (although I was barely a teenager by the end of the decade, so not much going on outside the usual).

    But in the '80s, I was quite perked up on first hearing Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by the Smiths, which fascinated me, and i liked most of the band's work. Then in the '90s, I bought that big Pulp LP (you know the one) and was immediately jolted awake by Mis-shapes, the first track, although I like almost everything on it and consider it the best LP of the decade.
     
  19. mtruslow

    mtruslow Forum Resident

    Location:
    Towson, Maryland
    "Trace" Son Volt and "Stranger's Almanac" Whiskeytown Got me into Alt Country big time.
     
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  20. keoni

    keoni Senior Member

    The Shins - "New Slang"
     
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  21. zbase

    zbase Forum Resident

    Location:
    Northeast
    Kansas - The Wall
     
  22. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

    Location:
    Syracuse, NY USA
    We're An American Band - Grand Funk--first album I bought, which snowballed into me having to have a separate room in the house to keep my albums in. If I had expanded as much energy obsessing over finance than I did over music, I'd probably be able to retire some day.
     
  23. Davey

    Davey NP: Hania Rani/Dobrawa Czocher ~ Inner Symphonies

    Location:
    SF Bay Area, USA
    Great song, even soundtracked a McDonald's commercial at the time, if I recall, but curious how it changed your life? Guess every new artist or song or album we hear changes our life a bit, some of course more than others, but the Shins never struck me as the type of band that would often be a catalyst for one of those big life changing events. Care to elaborate? I'd guess the album in your avatar has probably changed a few lives.

    For me, maybe the first Kraftwerk record I bought, it was a mysterious import UK Vertigo double LP with the spaceship label, think this was the second issue sometime in 1973 (initially came out in 1972 with the rare spiral label). In any case, it combined the first two Kraftwerk releases and might still be my favorite Kraftwerk album. Some of the most amazing sounds I had ever heard, really started a change in how I appreciated music. And the sound quality was phenomenal also, just like they were sitting around in your living room with a big drum kit and instruments and keyboards spread all about, with cables running haphazardly all about the place. Very live sounding. They were really insane, and a little of that rubbed off on a young me too.
     
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  24. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident

    Location:
    PennsylBama
    My Dad singing in the car
    Methodist Hymnal
    Both my Aunts on either side of the family were good pianists
    My older Sister bringing home 45's starting in 1963
    My Dad's Country and Hillbilly 78's from 40's/50's
    The Beatles..music went from B&W to color thanks to Ed Sullivan when I was 8
    The Dave Clark Five-Weekend In London first LP I bought with my own money
    All Bob Dylan albums through Desire
    All Rolling Stones albums through GHS
    All CCR LP's
    All Neil Young LP's through Comes A Time
    Buffalo Springfield
    The Gordon Lightfoot Reprise LP's
    The Band...everything
    Boz Scaggs first Atlantic LP
    Dave Mason-Alone Together one of the greatest Rock LP's of all time
    Little Richard
    Van Morrison...pretty much everything
    Carl Perkins,Johnny Cash,Steve Cropper and James Burton
    Al Green,Otis Redding,Percy Sledge,Wilson Pickett,Garnett Mimms,Candi Staton,Eddie Floyd,Arthur Conley,Brenda Holloway,Mary Wells,Barbara Lynn
    Leon Redbone and Leon Russell
    Tom Paley-Hard Luck Papa
    J D Crowe and The New South
    Richard and Linda Thompson-Bright Lights,Pour Down,Sunnyvista,Shoot Out and Richard solo Hand Of Kindness,Rumor And Sigh,Mock Tudor
    Nick Drake-Fruit Tree Box
    Norman Blake and Norman and Nancy Blake together and The Rising Fawn String Ensemble
    Elizabeth Cotten and David Bromberg for inspiring me to learn finger style acoustic guitar
    Kevin Burke the great Irish Fiddler of Bothy Band fame and one of my favorite LP's ,Portland, with Michael O'Dohminail
    Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill-The Lonesome Touch
    The Allman Brothers Band
    Muscle Shoals,Fame,Stax,Hi,Atlantic,Motown,Checker,Chess,Capricorn and all the small R&B,Soul,Blues labels
    Rod Stewart and Jackson Browne's first 4 or 5 LP's
    Mississippi John Hurt,Son House,and Rev. Gary Davis
    Ry Cooder
    Pierre Bensusuan-Pres De Paris
    Leo Kottke and John Fahey
    Will Ackerman,Michael Hedges, Alex DeGrassi,and George Winston
    Fleetwood Mac
    Peter,Paul,And Mary
    Hank Williams
    The Louvin Brothers
    Flatt & Scruggs,The Stanley Brothers,Bill Monroe,Reno and Smiley
    Gram Parsons and Emylou Harris
    Jerry Jeff Walker
    The Ozark Mountain Daredevils-Quilt debut album,It'll Shine When It Shines,The Car Over The Lake Album with The Little Red Record...huge influence those Daredevils
    The Everly Brothers
    Rick Nelson
    Elvis
    Fats Domino
    Delaney and Bonnie
    Eric Clapton,Cream,Derek and The Dominos
    Traffic
    Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits
    Steely Dan first 3LP's
    The Faces and Ronnie Lane solo


    I'm not done,just tired. Thanks to these and so many more.


    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Will The Circle Be Unbroken
     
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  25. Michael Sutter

    Michael Sutter Forum Resident

    Location:
    Holbrook, NY
    Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
    Completely changed my perception on what an album could (or even should) be. With its blistering sarcasm and unadulterated childish frustration, along with moodiness that perfectly fit the mind of a high schooler, just spoke to young me in a way that no other music ever had.

    Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
    Showed me that the flow of pop music can be just as fickle as classical or jazz, that eccentricity can be very vividly conveyed in songwriting, and set the bar for how emotive music can be.
     
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