I seem to go through phases were I don't listen to music much...but I don't know why...I absolutely love the stuff.

I'm happy to see the trend carry over into my kid. She plays piano and can remember a song after hearing it once or twice.

She even taught herself the Godzilla theme on the piano.

Kiss - Black Diamond (from Alive).

As a 7 or 8 year old, this song solidified my life long love for guitar driven rock.



I totally hear you about going through phases. I used to listen to / seek out new stuff constantly. Now I can go days without listening to anything.

In kid news, when my 2 year old wakes up we hear him singing the Ultraseven song from his room. And when he hears the real song he swings his arms through the song and pumps his fist at the seven seven seven part. He used to demand I play it over and over in the car on the way to daycare. Lately he demands Devo since he's familiar with them from yo gabba gabba. I hope these aren't songs that change his life, but it's not a terrible way to start.

Just thought i would tell you the song creep by radiohead was wrote in my hometown of exeter when they were in university down here they played alot around exeter before they made it big

in 1988 i was in 11th grade and this kid gave me a tape with the raw deal demo, the sick of it all 7" and some other nyhc on one side and the reverse was nothing but 7 seconds. that tape changed my life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2LupsLlx1M

Stay Free-The Clash

It was mid 80s--when me and a few kids in high school in Manila started listening to a music selection of punk, hardcore and new wave stuffs via "pirate radio" WXB 102. It had a 1 Kilowatt transmitter so, their signal was pretty fucked up, we thought all those "noise" / distortions were part of the music.

The station opened different doors for me in terms of different genres in music. Ended up liking The Clash until now...

It was during this era when I started buying cassette tapes, a handful of vinyl records and music-relatedshirts. We'd make one if its not available locally or don't have the money, or atleast "improvise".

Dean, we have had nearly the exact same experience, except instead of Disney as the second record it was The Beatles White Album. Oh, and my Gershwin had An American in Paris on the B side, which built my understanding of how music could be made to sound like anything, including a traffic jam.

As a teenager, that I loved Nina Simone was a carefully hidden secret. While Feelin' Good has recently gotten overplay from certain reality shows, there's nothing like her growling voice to Lift my spirits.

How that relates to my love of Radiohead's Bones is beyond me, but there are so many genres of music that affect me that I can't narrow it to just one.

When I was 9, I heard Black Sabbath’ Iron Man for the first time in a hockey room and was hooked for life.
A few years later – DK’s Religious Vomit and the couple minutes of jolly good time following that song gave me another direction,
until Skinny Puppy’s Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, as a whole.

Also, around those years, Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky shatered my brain.

Nirvana "smells like teen spirit"
Pixies "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
Dinosaur Jr. "Out There"
Biohazard "Punishment"
Fishbone "Swim"
Sunny Day Real Estate "Seven"
Promise Ring "E. Texas Ave"
Cap 'n Jazz "Little League"
IDAHO "Fuel" (pretty much anything this guy writes)

my life changes with the push of a button.

oh, and this song got me off my ass and back into practicing the drums harder. single pedal. this guy is nuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHsKrk3rJQ

Nirvana : Territorial pissing
The ventures : the cruel sea
Black Sabbath : paranoid
Motorhead : ace of spades
Ramones : bonzo goes to bitburg
Pixies : The Sad Punk
Doors : Break on Through
Beck : loser

But I think all start with the ACDC live from78 ''If you want blood you've got it'', I was 10 when I bought the tape and I was listening all day long. All the guys in school were listening to dance music...

'Art Lover' by The Kinks.

The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going To Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQu1TBIMSSk

Pantera - Mouth For War

I remember seeing this on Headbangers Ball and I was never the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3JSbOt7CLo

9th grade, Negative Approach's "Can't Tell No One" pretty much why I don't give a shit about what people think about me or what I do (ie Toy collecting).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwBm0FsCJOM

Slim Skit by Wiz Khalifa....
.... not necessarily a life changing song, but definitely words of wisdom
listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRae-d5aqO8
.... the lyrics are short, but he pretty much sums it up, pretty funny too!

Some more words of wisdom;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfiXprwIrEU&feature=fvst

I guess it would have to be The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

or pretty much all of Joy Division's Closer

Rush "moving pictures whole album- (The soundtrack to my 6th grade life)
Morphine -"the night" (This song makes me want to cry)
Public Enemy- " fear of a black planet whole album" (because I was a white kid in BFE colorado)
Led Zepplin- moby dick - (RIP John)
Cannonball Adderley Miles Davis-Autumn Leaves-(If you like jazz and havent heard it yet you have not been born yet)
DJ Shadow-Influx--(This is the jam!)
Midnight Star- Freak-a-zoid- (frist time I heard a computer voice in a song)
Peter tosh- Leagliz it- (I smoke alot!!!)
Charlie Brown Christmas The whole album (kinda weird because I don't like christmas that much)

They are not in order of importance. These are the songs that shaped Computer hair

Wishful Thinking by Scarub.made me realize to go after what i want in life and express myself. and as cheesy as the lyrics are, Toxic Waltz by Exodus. that song made me want to play guitar and i ended up forming a bunch of bands when i was up in the BAY!

Kerosene by Big Black in '86 on Maximum R'n'R Radio. I loaded my pants.

I was 16-17 when I first heard most of these songs. I can't really say for sure how they changed my life but I'm pretty certain they were a big chunk of the soundtrack to good and bad times which are long forgotten by now. I remember all the music though, and still own and listen to the cds every so often.

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil
When Mama was Moth - Cocteau Twins
Five Ten Fiftyfold - Cocteau Twins
Adoration - Cranes
To Here Knows When - My Bloody Valentine
Soon - My Bloody Valentine
Belle Epoque - In the Nursery
Throwing Back the Apple - Pale Saints
Along the Avenues of Hell - Kirlian Camera
Everyday is Halloween - Ministry

fuck yeah!