Songs that changed you forever...

[debassr]

I was thinking about this the other day so I put together a playlist in iTunes of songs that had a major impact on me over the years. I guess these could be considered "influences".

What songs changed YOU forever? I'm sure that I'm forgetting a ton.

Here's my list to kick things off...

Would? - Alice in Chains
Midnight Rider - The Allman Brothers Band
The New Style - Beastie Boys
Come Together - The Beatles
Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier
BEP Empire - Black Eyed Peas
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll - Blue Oyster Cult
Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers
More Than a Feeling - Boston
20th Century - Brad
The Distance - Cake
Just What I Needed - The Cars
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Clash
Dance Of The Dead - Corrosion of Conformity
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Dark Star - Crosby, Stills & Nash
How I Could Just Kill a Man - Cypress Hill
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
Free Ride - Edgar Winter
Microphone Fiend - Eric B. & Rakim
Hey Man, Nice Shot - Filter
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Basket Case - Green Day
American Woman - The Guess Who
You Borrowed - Helmet
Privilege - Incubus
The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
May This Be Love - Jimi Hendrix
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
The Bucket - Kings of Leon
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss
My Sharona - The Knacks
Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
Rumble - Link Wray
A Place For My Head - Linkin Park
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Working For The Weekend - Loverboy
One - Metallica
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Someday I Suppose - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Looks That Kill - Mötley Crüe
Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More - Mudhoney
F*** Tha Police - N.W.A.
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Mr. Pitiful - Otis Redding
Cut Your Hair - Pavement
Alive - Pearl Jam
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
Synchronicity II - The Police
Volcano - Presidents of the United States of America
Kiss - Prince
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Unfulfilled - Quicksand
Cum on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
Creep - Radiohead
Freedom - Rage Against the Machine
Rock 'N' Roll High School - The Ramones
(Night Time Is) The Right Time - Ray Charles
Give It Away - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
What I Like About You - The Romantics
Walk This Way/Album Version - Run-D.M.C.
Anarchy In The UK - The Sex Pistols
Drown - The Smashing Pumpkins
Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
My Wave - Soundgarden
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Santeria - Sublime
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
You Don't Know How it Feels - Tom Petty
Looking For A Place To Happen - The Tragically Hip
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
Comfortably Numb - Van Morrison with Roger Waters
El Scorcho - Weezer
The Seeker - The Who
She Sends Kisses - The Wrens
La Grange - ZZ Top
Hold on Loosely - .38 Special
Evolution - 311

[bkbirge]

School Days - Stanley Clarke
Buffalo - Stump
Upright Man - Bill Laswell
Mosaic - Mark Egan
Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones
Devil in the Drain - Henry Kaiser
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
October File - Die Kreuzen
Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
The Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin
Computer Love - Zapp
Underground - Thelonious Monk
Telegram Sam - Bauhaus version
Timesteps - Wendy Carlos

[vegas532]

In no particular order:
Rush - Distant Early Warning
King Crimson - Elephant Talk
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
Metallica (Cliff, actually) - Anesthesia (Pullin' Teeth)
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Tool - Flood
Soundgarden - 4th of July
Botch - all of "An Anthology of Dead Ends"
Melvins - Night Goat

[j.a.e.r.i.p]

The Who-Overture (tommy)
Weather Report-Black Market (8:30 Version)
Weather Report-Teen Town (8:30 Version)
Stanley Clarke-School Days
Stanley Clarke-Silly Putty
Chick Corea-Spain
Parliament-P Funk wants to get funked up
James Brown-Funky Drummer
Donny Hathaway-The Ghetto
Marvin Gaye-What's Going On
Marvin Gaye-Inner City Blues (Make me wanna holler)
Bill Withers-Use Me
Bill Withers-Ain't no Sunshine
Marcus Miller-3 Deuces
Marcus Miller-Power
etc.
etc.
etc...

[Valerus]

Right now...

Iron Maiden - The Fallen Angel, because when I downloaded it on Morpheus, it got me into Iron Maiden (which is my favorite band of all time). Then I got into more metal, like Iced Earth (which is my second favorite band of all time). So yeah...it changed me forever.

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray (as a whole song) & Queensrÿche - The Mission, because these two were my introductions into both bands and into Progressive Metal as a whole. They are both high on my favorite bands of all time list.

Agalloch - In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion - amazing band. They are easily my third favorite band of all time. This song got me into harsh vocals, which then allowed me to listen to Amon Amarth & Opeth (which are two more of my favorite bands of all time).

Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore, because it got me into loving Zeppelin, and allowed me to branch out into older, classic rock.

Deep Purple - Child In Time, same reason for Zeppelin.

Metallica - Enter Sandman, my first taste of metal.

Rush - La Villa Strangiato, got me into loving Rush. Nuff said.

U2 - New Years Day, allowed me to get into old awesome rock like U2 and the like.

Explosions In The Sky - The Birth And Death Of Day - my first taste of Post-Rock. I LOVE this genre!!

Godsmack - Keep Away. This got me into hard rock, and I love this song still...have been for 11 years!

Witchcraft - Walk In Between The Lines - got me into Stoner Rock/Doom Metal!!!

[trb6pJM2]

Dreamer- Ozzy Osbourne
School Days- Stanley Clarke
Hallowed Be Thy Name-Iron Maiden
Metropolis pt1- Dream Theater
POT- Jaco


#1 though is 'As I Am' by Dream Theater, it taught me what talent was in music, and that slipknot sucks.

long story.

[gkbass13]

oh man....in no particular order...

jeff buckley-hallelujiah
tom waits-black rider
radiohead-exit music
radiohead-street spirit
pearl jam-black
pearl jam-i got ID
bob dylan-masters of war
bob dylan-hurricane
bob dylan-like a rolling stone
rolling stones-sympathy for the devil
rolling stones-sweet virginia
rod stuart-maggie may
the bogmen-suddenly
dave matthews band-warehouse
nicole atkins-bleeding diamonds
nicole atkins-the way it is
jaco-portrait of tracy
paul simon-diamonds on the soles of her shoes
alice in chains-nutshell
john lennon-imagine
the beatles-let it be
the beatles-yesterday
ccr-fortunate son
portishead-roads
dj shadow-organ donor
the roots-things fall apart
talib kweli-just to get by
notorious BIG-gimme the loot
rage against the machine-down rodeo
rage against the machine-freedom
bob marley-no woman no cry
bob marley-could you be loved
sigur ros-staralfur
david bowie-rebel rebel
david bowie-pressure
pulp-common people
iggy pop-lust for life
tragically hip-in view
tragically hip-nautical disaster
elvis costello-pump it up
curtis mayfield-freddy's dead
jackie wilson-your love
van morrison-domino
van morrison-caravan
sly and the family stone-everyday people
rancid-roots and radicals
dusty springfield-son of a preacher man
pink floyd-comfortably numb
simon and garfunkel-bridge over troubled water
wu tang-tears
wu tang-triumph
ghost face killah-the champ
wilco-theologeons
wilco-she's a jar
wilco-hell is chrome
michael jackson-thriller
michael jackson-billy jean
tool-46 and 2
daft punk-da funk

way too many songs.

[debassr]

more more more keep going!

[Bassin']

The Two of Us- The Beatles

I first heard this song at a friends house when I was probably 9 or 10 years old and I thought it was the coolest song ever. I was never into music before then but I convinced my parents to get me some of their albums. They ended up buying me the Red Album (62-66) and I later bought the Blue Album (67-70) with money I saved. That song wasn't on either one of those recordings and, in fact, it wasn't until years later that I found it was on the Let It Be album but by that time I was totally into the Beatles and, in turn, total into music. I've never looked back. So I can honestly say that it was that one song that started it all for me.

[laboitenoire]

For me:

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
One - Metallica
Master of Puppets - Metallica
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Hunchback of Notre Dame - ARK

just what comes to mind at the moment.

[Matt Till]

Too many to name as far as being a musician: The album "Animals" by Pink Floyd made me want to be a better person and to not let anger control me.

[Blackbird]

"Blowin' in the Wind" - Bob Dylan
"Hungry Like the Wolf" - Duran Duran
"La Bamba" Richie Valens (Interpreted by Los Lobos)
"Stupid Cupid" - Neil Sedaka
"She Loves You"
"We can work it out"
"Help"
"Ticket to Ride"
"Eleanor Rigby" - The Beatles
"ABC"
"I want You Back" - The Jackson 5
"The Sounds of Silence"
"Bridge over Troubled Water"
"The Boxer" - Simon & Garfunkel
"You can Call Me Al"
"Homeless"
"Graceland"
"The Boy in the Bubble" - Paul Simon
"Billie Jean"
"Thriller"
"Beat It" - Michael Jackson
"The Queen Is Dead"
"There is a Light that Never Goes Out"- The Smiths
(Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads

Still incoomplete. I'll add to it later

[Coelho]

Ok, changed me forever (this will sound funny...)

-I love it loud, by Kiss.
I got interested in being a musician because of this. Don't ask me why, because I just don't know, but ths started it all for me...

-Breaking all the rules - Frampton.
First song I played live. Borrowed a guitar from a friend, didn't know how to tune, so I busted the high E and B strings. Played the theme of the song and an improvised bass line, and that was it. Became bass player after that.

[funkalicious101]

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[debassr]

Loving this - it's a great way to remember which songs I forgot about and need to add to my mp3 collection!

[soong]

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish (such a beautiful song)
Master of Puppets - Metallica

All so beautiful!

[lewislngvw]

guns and roses................"November Rain"....the live version was what made me want to play music....my favorite of all time.....drunk or sober...lol

[KrispyJones]

sliver & been a son & Nirvana Unplugged (made me think about playin music)
carousel - blink and old green day
marley stuff ! (more "chilled" lifestyle and way to play bass)
whats going on (there are FLATWOUND strings out there ^^ ;-) and WHAT the ?$)(/ is he playing)
rock around the clock & rose of the devils garden from tiger army (made me addicted to rockabilly slap bass
also beat it MJ, and various cash, dylan and singer songwirter songs

[Hoover]

"Changed you forever"???

the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle notwithstanding (which implies more or less that you can not not be changed by hearing any piece of music), I find it hard to believe that so many posters are listing so many tunes. OP listed 88 tunes that "changed him forever"! Dude, get some backbone! Don't be so easily swayed by every little song that comes down the pike!


(j/k)


The only album I owned from the age of 4 until the age of 10 was The Beatles' Rubber Soul, so I'm gonna bet that some of the tunes on that album changed me forever.

[debassr]

Originally Posted by Hoover

"Changed you forever"???

the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle notwithstanding (which implies more or less that you can not not be changed by hearing any piece of music), I find it hard to believe that so many posters are listing so many tunes. OP listed 88 tunes that "changed him forever"! Dude, get some backbone! Don't be so easily swayed by every little song that comes down the pike!


(j/k)


The only album I owned from the age of 4 until the age of 10 was The Beatles' Rubber Soul, so I'm gonna bet that some of the tunes on that album changed me forever.

Are you serious with this response? Is it so difficult just to list some of your favorite tracks without the psychoanalysis?