Under the Bridge by the Chili Peppers - hits very close to home for me
Bobcaygeon by the Hip - not exactly sure why
Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog - beautiful song with amazing vocals
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Under the Bridge by the Chili Peppers - hits very close to home for me Bobcaygeon by the Hip - not exactly sure why
Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog - beautiful song with amazing vocals
Music (appreciating, not playing) has been my biggest hobby since I was about 7, sans a few years when I played football every waking hour. The song that changed it all? No chance I could name one.....well, maybe The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...I can remember being emotionally moved with a physical reaction to that song when it first came out...I'm thinking 1976? That would've made me 5. I had no comprehension of the tragedy the song was about at the time. It was the music that moved me. I guess I would add Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water as well as I can remember my dad singing this to me to put me to sleep when I was very young.
Here are some songs that influenced my musical tastes in a big way....
A Day In The Life- The Beatles This song made me realize the Beatles were more than a pop group. Changed my opinion of The Beatles forever.
Man In the Box - Alice In Chains Caught my attention and drew me to the Seattle scene long before Smells Like Teen Spirit changed the entire music industry. This is not Alice's best song, it's not my favorite...but it was so different and grabbed me. They are probably still my favorite band of all time.
Songs that give me goosebumps (I think that is a tingle!)
Indian Sunset- Elton John
Empty Garden - Elton John
When The Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd
The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Nautical Disaster - The Tragically Hip
Black - Pearl Jam
Couduroy - Pearl Jam
Ghost- Live
Lightning Crashes - Live
School - Supertramp
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Golddust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
I could go on and on.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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The first time I heard "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols. It was like anti-music had risen up and given the world a punch in the face - and I loved it.
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Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.
Pretty much any time someone covers that Leonhard Cohen song it's a masterpiece, so I have to give that overall credit to Cohen.
Others that do stuff to me:
Bob Marley's live version of No Woman, No Cry
The Beatles song Tomorrow Never Knows I think is one of the most important songs ever made
The Decemberists song Eli the Barrow Boy is a song I can't listen to because it makes me so depressed
The New Pornographers song The Bleeding Heart Show, when Neko starts singing, especially live, it makes me shiver.
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Who is in charge of this product and why haven't they been fired yet?
My Dad listend to mostly folk type music (Stan Rogers etc) so this was a departure from what I'd always known. This song still gives me goosebumps. The beginning makes me start to wild out. I remember the first time I ever heard this. 9 years old, back in Calgary, with my Grandma driving me to Jumbo Video. This song came on the radio, and I refused to get out of the car until it ended. Love it musically and lyrically, and it made me a lifelong Living Colour fan.
I was 15 when I first herd Phish and I hated them. My friend was a big Phish fan and I thought it was just music for hippies. Then one night a bunch of us partied really hard and crashed at his place in the living room and he woke us all up the next morning by playing this song on his stereo. It starts off with this sort of quirky nursery rhyme-ish part and then goes into a jazzy interlude before a powerful improvised jam builds up over several minutes then stops suddenly at its peak to reprise the beginning section.
I have to say that the jam in the middle of that song is one of my favorite musical moments ever. It definitely changed music for me, got me into more progressive stuff and made me keep an open mind when it came to music and life.
My Dad listend to mostly folk type music (Stan Rogers etc) so this was a departure from what I'd always known. This song still gives me goosebumps. The beginning makes me start to wild out. I remember the first time I ever heard this. 9 years old, back in Calgary, with my Grandma driving me to Jumbo Video. This song came on the radio, and I refused to get out of the car until it ended. Love it musically and lyrically, and it made me a lifelong Living Colour fan.
Vernon Reid is a witch. Dude is super fast.
I believe Corey Glover has been doing some Broadway stuff recently.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Amazing Grace on the bagpipes - Played at an adult friends funeral when I was 12-13. I was a pretty naive kid and the whole situaion of him being murdered and the funeral really opened my eyes.
Good mother - Jann Arden - Makes me think about how truly lucky I am with an amazing family.
No Fear - Terri Clark - Made me think about living my life to make me happy instead of always trying to please everyone else.
hmm, I was lucky enough to have The Beatles, Zep, Elton John and all sorts of other good rock played from before I can remember. The first album I bought was Kiss Destroyer (grade 3). The next band I really remember getting into was AC/DC around 1980 (Dirty Deeds was getting tons of airplay, and my older brother's influence was there. That album was a 1981 release). I was introduced to Black Sabbath's Iron Man later that year. Then Metallica's Ride the Lightning grabbed me and never let go.
Later, Alice in Chains' Man in the Box got me into grunge (Nirvana's Nevermind, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Pearl Jam 10 were great (1991 was an amazing year for albums) )
Recently, nothing has really stood out for me. I'm stuck on mostly the old standards. Metal has terrific musicianship, but the cookie monster vocals kill it for me. And "rock" has been lame for quite some time.
Recently, nothing has really stood out for me. I'm stuck on mostly the old standards. Metal has terrific musicianship, but the cookie monster vocals kill it for me. And "rock" has been lame for quite some time.
This is me too.
I bought an Opeth CD a few years ago on recommendation from someone here. The music was incredible. The vocals just killed it for me. I sold it.
There are a few very good bands these days still. Tool, Queens of the Stone Age and Pearl Jam are all worthy of my adoration.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
I don't know if this song changed my life, but a song that still gives me shivers is "Unsatisfied" by The Replacements. I love the beginning of the song, as well as Westerberg's raw vocals.
There are many others in this thread that I would make my list as well, and some songs I haven't heard which is awesome because it gives me some new music to listen to
I was fifteen in 1992. I grew up in Okotoks. At that point, enjoyed music in kind of a surface way - I'd liked AC/DC a lot since first hearing them, and for the last couple of years I'd gotten more and more into REM. But like I say, music wasn't particularly important to me.
A friend of mine went into the city and the Southcentre HMV. Asked the guy at the counter for something new and good, and was given Copper Blue, by Sugar. I will never forget hearing that record for the first time.
I'd never heard anything like it. I new in one of those complete epiphany kind of moments that 1) if there was more music out there like that, I'd have to hear it, as much of it as I could, and 2) that I would have to learn how to do it myself.
So yeah, that record changed my life probably more completely than anything else that's ever happened to me.
There were other songs that would have similar effects (I can still remember equally vividly the first time I heard Heroin by the Velvet Underground, Silent Kid by Pavement and the first Drive Like Jehu record) but the first chords of Copper Blue were the real defining thing, the 'everything is different from now on' moment.
I also immediately fell in love with the album Copper Blue by Sugar, but I was already a huge Husker Du fan. It was great to hear Bob Mould back in the power trio format, and could still make great music. Favourite song on the album is probably A Good Idea (sound influenced by the Pixies, who were influenced heavily by Husker Du).
Songs which influenced me heavily thus far:
Heroin, by Velvet Underground
Thick as Thieves, by the Jam
Redemption Song, by Bob Marley
Clampdown, by the Clash
Almost Crimes, by Broken Social Scene
Tomorrow Never Knows, by the Beatles
__________________ You don't stay up at night wondering if you'll get an Oleg Saprykin.
