This Record Could Change Your Life

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Has your life ever been changed by music? And could it still? If not, why not?

― Tom, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i wrote about this on my blog. Nirvanna saved my life ,

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lotion: Nobody's Cool

― JM, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose Nirvana "Nevermind " did. As in I possibly wouldn't have been into music (thats doubtful as I always was although not to the degree I was after that), I would have hung out with different people at school, I would have been into sports at school, I wouldn't have taken drugs.

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure, David Bowie and his many fab records way back when changed my life. Made me feel like I might possibly belong somewhere and it sure as hell wasn't where I came from so I better get out as soon as possible. I don't think it could happen again, it's a frusrated, angry teenager thing. Records inspire me often these days, but they're not life-changing.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Prepare to yawn...it was 'The Queen Is Dead', becasue it stopped me buying Britpop rubbish. Good Lord, if it weren't for that I might well be a Charlatans fan now. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

― DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

3 times. "17 Seconds" by Cure, "Transformer" by Lou, the first Smiths record. It could still, although... am i not a bit old for this ? ;-)

― Simon, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who are you? you mysterious person you

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh wait, yer name wouldnt show on my screen. That's why I asked. Now that I see it I feel like a gobshite. I'm off to bed now. Bye

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I ponder this often. A great song can change my hour--can make me a few minutes late for work because I couldn't resist listening to it just one more time. I'm tempted to say that as I've gotten older music doesn't change my life so often anymore, but I'm not sure it ever "changed my life" as often as I used to assume it did: it diverted my attention, aided me in depression (or the opposite), gave me a reason to jump around my bedroom. It can still sometimes feel at the time (while jumping) that it's "changing my life" (and I suppose you could argue that that's enough), but then I still have to go to my dumb job afterwards. In truth, my life has changed very, very little in the last 15 years, during which time I've listened to, written about, and purchased an awful lot of music.

― scott, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In this order:

Beethoven's 9th Symphony Keiji Haino's A CHALLENGE TO FATE C.C.C.C.'s FLASH

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"If You're Feeling Sinister", Belle and Sebastian. Led fairly directly to my move to London, my trips to DC and, ultimately, my marriage.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose my life was changed by Run-DMC's "My Adidas" (1986), which made me discover there was a whole world of exciting music outside of the chart. It put me on the path of Hip-Hop which is still the core of my musical outlook, possibly. Since hardcore Hip-Hop in the mid-Eighties was played especially on an alternative station here in the Netherlands (in between The Jesus & Mary Chain and whatever) I got into that as well. I know work at said station myself. Another record that maybe changed my life was the compilation CD "RetroTechno: EmotionsElectric" (1991) which opened up my ears to electronic (dance) music. I probably know too much now to ever have my life changed again by a record, but who knows... I'm up for it.

― JoB, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Abbey Road", The Beatles

It made me become a musician.

― dleone, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Insert Generic Answer About You Know What Here. As I am still looking for the next record to stun me that much, of course my life could be changed by it yet. But if you're asking if the actual way I think about the world/philosophy/people etc. has been changed by music -- I don't think so.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"If You're Feeling Sinister" by Belle & Sebastian. Followed me incorrigibly from Queen's Park to Woolwich, up a hill and down the other side, and thence led fairly indirectly to my creative marriages to one or two mysterious spouses, I mean, collaborators.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Teenage Fanclub: What you do to me, cassette single. This was one of the first non-metal pieces of music I ever got. It set me on the grunge/ alternative path and led eventually to Dinosaur Jr, which is the sort of guitar noise I had always wanted to hear. So, that cass- single was a turning point, may not sound that ground breaking, but it was to my unrefined ears.

― jel, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pulp's Common People brought me here.

XTC's Skylarking kept me here.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My choice for what record changed my life always changes about every 3 months. So I'll be damned if I could answer this one. I will say that I thought differently about a lot of of things after I listened to A Night at the Opera by Queen.

― Luptune Pitman, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince's Sign 'o' the Times. I was 13 when I first heard it (a year after it came out), and about the tenth or twelfth play I had an epiphanic moment when I realized that A) it was every bit as good as any classic-rock album that Rolling Stone championed, better in fact and B) therefore current music was every bit as valid artistically as anything made by dead people--not a popular idea during the whole 20th-anniversary-of-Sgt. Pepper barrage happening around that time. I wasn't aware of Spin and its modernist aesthetic yet, either--I was living in the Minneapolis suburbs and college rock, hip-hop, etc. was like another planet; we had classic-rock radio and top forty, and not that much else in between. I caught up quickly enough, of course, but this was incredibly revelatory to me.

― M. Matos, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur, did you ever find the place Bowie made you think you might belong? I sure haven't, and I've given up trying.

― Sean, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, New York City, the early Eighties.

― Arthur, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It seemed magic to me then, as well, but it may have been because I was in my early teens and easily excited. Did you shop at Fiorucci?

― Sean, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, Sean, it was too uptown, too expensive and too new wave for me (at the time). I loved window shopping there, though, especially when Joey Arias was the live mannequin in the display. I usually stuck with the stuff my friends who worked at downtown thriftshops like Cheap Jack's would let me walk off with . I was in my late teens/early twenties and somewhat jaded, but still, it was a wonderful time/place.

― Arthur, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

Neil Diamond: I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight (don't laugh, I was 4 years old but there was something in that album that made me want to sing and play guitar)

Nirvana: nevermind Pearl Jam: ten <--These two taken together because of their close release dates and the high school drama surrounding them.

Phish: Rift <--not their best outing, for certain, but it did inspire a lot of road trips to shows.

radiohead: OK Computer Lotion: Nobody's Cool or Telephone Dismemberment Plan: Emergency and I <--These three because they made me believe in rock 'n roll again.

― doug mckenna, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Patti Smith's "Horses," when I was 18. The first album which truly seemed to open onto a whole new world for me--and close behind it my childhood.

― X. Y. Zedd, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(1) yeah (2) no (3) too old.

― duane, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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