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The five most significant songs in your life please. The songs that have changed your life - not necessarily your favourites.

Bobby has answered in the thread below but too quickly. This requires reflection and insight.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 18:55, 119 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
ta da!
Right let's have a go.
1. Queen - Who wants to live forever, the lyrics scared me as a child and I have always loved it as a grown up.
2. Billy Idol - Dancing with myself, was "our" song with my favourite ex.
3. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - My Lovely Man, was my first introduction to the Chillis and probably funk. Awesome track
4. Guns N Roses - Coma, first 10 plus minute song I had experienced and actually blew my mind a little bit.
5. Tiffany - I think we're alone now, guilty pleasure and first crush.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 18:58, Reply)
Still think you've come up with those too quickly
I've had 43 years on this world and only have two definates so far.

1 - The Smiths - "What difference does it make?" - Johnny Marr's opening 8 bars woke me from a dull life of New Romanticism and made me appreciate music created from love rather than money.

2 - Long Ryders - "Looking for Lewis and Clark" - for doing something very different at a mundane time and waking me up again.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:11, Reply)

Nah we have been having this conversation since we were teens blood!
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:15, Reply)
Plump DJs- Big Groovy Fucker
Nine Inch Nails- Closer
Joy Division- Twenty Four Hours
Manic Street Preachers- Yes
DJ Shadow- In/Flux
Onionz & Joeski- Hold on to Your Love
Liquid Liquid- Scraper
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:17, Reply)
We need explanations too, PD

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:33, Reply)
ok, in order,
BGF is fucking enormous. I loved that whole breaks thing at the time.
NIN were my favourite band as a nipper, and that song is just cool.
Sums up depression perfectly, and I love the album is from.
For the lyrics.
Seminal abstract hip hop science. Showed how sampling and digging is an artform of its own.
Made me realise it was ok to like house as well as DnB, hip hop and electronica.
Lastly, it was stuck in my head for ten years.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:00, Reply)
and I must disclaim here
These are just five records that I love, they did not change my life, nor are they my favourites.

That would be uber bent.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:22, Reply)
I've got a third
Faith No More - "Epic" - I'm not remotely into Faith No More or anything of that ilk, but Epic was a song in a place and time for me.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:30, Reply)
Oh God Yes
that was constantly playing amongst my mates for 3 or 4 years.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:30, Reply)
What a question!
1. Frank Turner- Photosynthesis. It made me realise life isn't so bad, and that you can go your own way, and the only person you have to answer to is yourself.
2. The Calling- Wherever you will go. Mine and my ex-fiancee's song. Still brings back good memories.
3. The Killers- All These Things That I've Done. Fine memories of my final year of university spent with good friends.
4. Anything by Tupac- I was forced to listen to this shit in my first year of university as the guy in the room next door didn't understand the concept of earphones. He was kicked out for being an idiot. This taught me sometimes people do have to face up to the consequences of their actions.
5. Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven. First album I ever bought.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:25, Reply)
alright piston?

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:31, Reply)
No song has ever changed my life.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:38, Reply)
not even this one?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D0zfB1l1x0
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:42, Reply)
No because I was already alone when I heard that.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:43, Reply)

well who is full of joy this evening then!
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:44, Reply)
Me!
And I'm also full of panic about driving to Heathrow tomorrow morning.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:59, Reply)
Stay in the middle lane at 60
When people honk their horns and flash their lights it means they're /talk posters.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:21, Reply)
*takes notes*

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:24, Reply)
OK - major milestones then.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:45, Reply)
I was trying to avoid thinking of songs with memories, as that'd change my answers a bit

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
I'm asking this
Because we have to take our five most significant tracks to my mate's 50th.

Maybe pivotal moments count. I've only got three so far.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:01, Reply)
Ahh, I see
Fucking hell, that'd be an interesting variation from my mates and I.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:02, Reply)

1.When you're young - The Jam - A snapshot of my teens.
2.Please please please - The Smiths - A snapshot of my life.
3.No ordinary morning - Chicane - A reminder never to let a guy use me again.
4.Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys - A reminder that life can be fun.
5.The Low album - David Bowie - The album I played to death when I first suffered with depression at the age of 18.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
Top man BGB
That's my 4th - Holiday in Cambodia - because music can churn your guts up too, and because East Bay Ray's guitar work on that is so scary.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:05, Reply)
The Dead Kennedys make me wish I hadn't been such a wuss as a teenager and been a proper punk.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:07, Reply)
I was a couple of years too young
My cousin Steve saw the Pistols at Lancaster on their last gig before McLaren saw fit to split them up and insert Sid "Simon Ritchie" Viscious.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:12, Reply)
I wouldn't say any song has changed my life
but there are a couple which are very very evocative of a time and a place and/or an emotional state, such as How Soon Is Now and Good Riddance, I'm ashamed to admit.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:52, Reply)
not even the feel of a song
causing a kind of 'epiphany' moment? I had one at Green Man, listening to Iron and Wine, but then I got lost and stressed on the way home and got stopped by the police.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:54, Reply)
Now then, you.
I may be away for a week or so, depending on how much time I get to spend on the laptop while I'm in full tour guide mode. so, in advance, here's a gentle nudge:

If you don't ask Playground Boy out for a drink on Monday, I will personally hound you until playground duty next term. Every day.

You have been warned.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
oh man
I'm building up to it. If nothing else I shall ask him to join me for coffee at lunchtime.

So, what are you tourguiding? Is this your friends from America?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:59, Reply)
yeah, they're arriving tomorrow.
I have to go find them at heathrow.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:10, Reply)
at least it's not gatwick, I suppose
where are you taking them?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:13, Reply)
all over.
London on saturday, Liverpool on wednesday, Longleat on thursday, Bath on friday.

DEon't tell Jeff, but I'm taking them on the pier this friday, too.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:16, Reply)
oh man, you've spoiled it all now
unless you consider it a reccy
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:20, Reply)
"recce"
it's a bugbear of mine, sorry.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:35, Reply)
i had no idea how it was spelt
it was just a guess
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:35, Reply)
So now you know
useful in Scrabble. I just kicked arse in FB "Words with Friends" aka Scrabble having been repeatedly crushed in several previous games. Think I've got the hang of it now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:59, Reply)
I think you should probably have a bath before Friday, b3th.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:32, Reply)
Can't say any particular songs have changed my life
which may be a tad unhelpful in the context of this thread. Sorry.

Significant periods, though:

1. Chris de Burgh album Sleeping in Light always reminds me of driving with my dad, because he played it constantly in his car when I was twelve.
2. James - Sit Down is the theme for my lower sixth summer term.
3. Meatloaf bat out of Hell 2 album is my first year of uni album.
4. Will Smith - Summertime is summer 1993. I was in Germany and it was bastard hot.
5. Steeleye Span - The Two Magicians will always remind me of mr b3th. He is a total 'folker' and this is my favourite of the songs he keeps trying to get me to like.

But I still don't think any of them have changed my life.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:55, Reply)
Do you mean the album
Into The Light? Me too! That's in my CD collection for my eternal shame. There are some really good songs it though.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:14, Reply)
Hmmm
1. The Prison Song - System Of A Down - The first heavy track I ever heard and liked.

2. Scars Of The Crucifix - Deicide - Made me realise that music can be heavy as fuck, but still enjoyable.

3. You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers - Speaks for itself really.

4. Killing In The Name Of - RATM - I never liked this track, which was a helpful way of realising that just because all of your mates like a track, doesn't stop it being shit.

5. I Do Believe In Fairies - James Newton Howard - It's only an instrumental from a film, but it's such an uplifting piece of music. I used to listen to it on my way into work when things weren't going well, it would help me to face the day, per se. I still use it for relaxing, even now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:57, Reply)
Ah, you're keeping Green Day 'just for you'

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:45, Reply)
Only 26 days left of sleep, young man.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:52, Reply)
'Significant' is more acceptable that 'life changing'. As BGB alluded to, YOU change your life and the music acts as an instigator/soundtrack
Aphex Twin - Digiridoo, electronic music from the future. Made all the insipid rave stuff sound foolish and flaccid.

Faust - Tapes, electronic music from the past. Incredible cut up journey that oscillates between aural angels of mercy and angels of death. Opened the doors of Krautrock.

Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont, gravelly preacher man psychedelic blues. No one sounds like the Captain.

Crooked Jades - Sandy Boys, heard this by pure chance on Radio 2. Stunning track by a truly unbelievable band. Changed everything I believed about live music.

Nick Drake - Cello Song, left me stunned and dazed. Beautifully timeless
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:02, Reply)
I'm not sure if that's true
Sometimes you vacciliate, and a musical message resonates and pushes you on.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:19, Reply)
Didgeridoo is tremendous.
Come to Daddy was equally seminal. Windowlicker even more so. Windowlicker still sounds like some future science shit, but it's over ten years old now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:24, Reply)
I love Windowlicker.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:25, Reply)
You are a windowlicker.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:29, Reply)
It's an incredible piece of music.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:30, Reply)
The video blew me away too.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:31, Reply)
Have you seen the one for Come to Daddy?

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:34, Reply)
No, I will youtube now.
Edit - Ah yes I have. I fucking love their videos : )
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:35, Reply)
Chris Cunningham is great.
He also did this one for Bjork

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxBO28j3vug
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:42, Reply)
I like that.
Great song too. I've never heard that song before.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:46, Reply)
It's a beautiful video.
JAPANESE ROBOT LESBIANS KISSING!

For the lower of brow among us.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:51, Reply)
ALWAYS A WINNA!!!

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:52, Reply)
For more Japanese schoolgirl Chris Cunningham goodness...
LFO's Freak and Squarepusher's Come on my Selector.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:54, Reply)
that's made me watch it
*touches chin with brow*
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:00, Reply)
Did you like it?
Dancing Japanese schoolgirls in the Freak video.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:09, Reply)
very bjorky

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:30, Reply)
I really can't say any track has changed my life significantly.
At a push I'd say maybe Shake the Disease by Depeche Mode as it really hit me at the time it came out and got me properly interested in music, as opposed to "Yeah, that's an alright tune".

A Night Like This by The Cure, as it reminds me of my first love.

I hate the Beatles, but there's a local band does a cover of Eleanor Rigby, utilising a cello, and it sends shivers down my spine every time they play it. The original could come on the radio straight afterwards, and I'd think 'meh'.

Marian by the Sisters of Mercy. Hearing it for the first time in 1987 heralded the start of my goth phase at a significant point in my life anyway.

Struggling for a fifth.

*Edit* Rue des Tempetes by the Young Gods, as it's a phenomenal tune and reminds me when I got to do work experience at the now defunct Riverside venue in Newcastle, which got me onto the guest list for any band I wanted after that. The Young Gods was the first of those.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:27, Reply)
A band with a bunch of mates in 20 years ago
did a very grungy version of Eleanor Rigby at a Christmas gig as a one-off and then had people shouting for it at every gig for the next year...
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:38, Reply)
Hmm
Apollo 440's cover of Don't Fear the Reaper lured me from general prog rock and metal into a much wider world of music.

Since the first album I ever bought was Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" (see above) I'll throw in Forgotten Sons from that album.

I had a deep tongue session with Mandy Welch when I was 15 to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Spellbound

I had several dates with a bird called Kim on the strength of intially lending her the Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime album.

Can't think of any more right now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:29, Reply)
Siouxsie- I definitely would.
Only if Fiona didn't mind.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:29, Reply)
Have you seen Siouxsie's Dreamshow concert?
It's the fucking dog's. Her and Budgie supported by a full orchestra. Utterly superb, even if her voice does start to crack in a few places.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:31, Reply)
I think I saw this on TV.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:32, Reply)
It might have been at ours.
We put it on one night after a bash.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:32, Reply)
Ah! probably then.

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:33, Reply)
Forgotten Sons
Hats off - All the wank that Marillion subsequently came up with is eclipsed by that.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:37, Reply)
Just another coffin on its way down the Emerald Aisle
My favourite from the album. Just *enough* artwank wordplay and a decent tune.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:40, Reply)
Straight in at number 5.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:53, Reply)
i used to play that on recorder when I was 6 or something

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:55, Reply)
LIC hums it to himself all day long

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:56, Reply)
I learnt to play Puppet on a String on the recorder
for a Music exam pre O level. I think I got a B on the strength of being one of two out of fifteen boys who actually had a sort of alright attempt.

I can still hear it in my head 30 years later, bum notes and overbreathing and all.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:03, Reply)
awww
one of the things I am secretly proud of is that I have grade 2 descant recorder. I was 2% off a distinction, too. Most importantly it was 30% more than I guy who (years later) got 5 As at A level
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:07, Reply)
Combichrist - fuck THAT shit
Achingly beautiful in parts, I banged my first supermodel whilst listening to it. Troo story.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:41, Reply)
Christy or Helena?

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:42, Reply)
Twiggy
She were right grateful for it an all
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:44, Reply)
I didn't think you were into skinny birds : (

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:47, Reply)
I just can't get enough of fried egg tits
I like to add my little sausage and pretend it's a fry up
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:48, Reply)
C'mon Rory - it's got to be a fucking Corrs dirge for your most significant tune
Or Goombay Dance Band
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:46, Reply)
Christy Moore IF YOU MUST KNOW

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:47, Reply)
seven tears are flowing to the riiiiver

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:47, Reply)
Lol

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:48, Reply)
my mum loved it
when I was a kid so we taped if off the radio for her
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:51, Reply)
I bet you wish you were on the N17 too

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:52, Reply)
i think radio 6 just played a proper
internet shut-in song. Morrisey was just singing something along the lines of "if you're so good looking, why do you sleep alone tonight".

I done a lol
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:45, Reply)
then I wept into my indivdual fruit cup

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:46, Reply)
Yes - it was "Why do you sleep alone tonight?"
(Also has 6 Music on.)
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:48, Reply)
I am not familiar with his work
and so had not heard it before
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:49, Reply)
It's Smith's - off "The Queen is Dead".
Buy it so Mike Joyce can get some more money.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:51, Reply)
I don't think I like it enough for that

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:52, Reply)
In unrelated musical news, Kunt & the Gang is playing at my local in November for the sum of three whole pounds.
I feel like I should go, but also feel he's a one trick pony.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:52, Reply)
Probably worth £3
To shout in some requests and see what comes up.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:58, Reply)
If a mate wants to go I might go with him.
Otherwise I think I'll stay at home. I'm amazed they've got him, the place is a dive. Although they got Miles Hunt to do a solo gig there a few years back.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:00, Reply)
shout for Eleanor Rigby
and "Suppers Ready"
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:04, Reply)
You never know
My local got Scott Morris (ex-Bluetones bassist) for a solo gig a year or so ago.

Scott lives up here now I believe, because one of the last Bluetones gigs is Leeds O2 next weekend.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:08, Reply)
This bar does do a lot of live music, it has to be said.
Which is great. They've had a very highly regarded band called the Brew there a few times. They've garnered some very good reviews in the UK, but are absolutely massive in Europe, regularly playing big rock festivals and such like. The drummer is just a kid (probably about 23 now, but was about 18 when I first saw them), but is, hand on heart, THE best drummer I have ever witnessed. Absolutely phenomenal.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:17, Reply)
And the votes from Bradford
I'm too old to remember songs
So albums will have to do

1) Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
2) KLF - The White Room
3) The Cult - Love
4) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5) Alice Cooper - Trash
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:14, Reply)
and best gig
"one last one"

Wild Willi Beckett's last outing with the Psycho Surgeons
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:18, Reply)
I'm voting from Bradford too - but from the posh side
Smiths - What difference does it make
Long Ryders - Looking for Lewis and Clark
Faith no More - Epic
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Elliot Smith - Son of Sam

Night. x
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:21, Reply)
Posting from Leeds?

(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:37, Reply)
I love the white room.
Especially when I was a drug fiend.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:32, Reply)
Yeah
Good for sound checking at raves too
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:33, Reply)
A bugger of a question at such short notice, but here goes...
Dylan: Like a rolling stone.
Don't fall into the trap of living a vicarious life.
Polly Jean Harvey: Shame.
It's the shadow of love, doncha know?
Captain Beefheart: My head is my only house unless it rains.
My arms are just 2 things in the way until I can wrap them around you again. Also it was my door into the cap'n, which obviously changed things.
Nick Cave: Do you love me?
Like a brutal version of a John Irving novel set to music?
Nick Harper: Love is music (from Double Life)
The inter-connectedness of things.

And Seasons in the sun too, I can remember he melancholy from my early childhood..
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:11, Reply)
We had joy, we had fun, we chased spackers in the sun...
Was how it went in the playground. Alright B?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:20, Reply)
We kicked spackers just for fun is how I remember it...
Not bad dude, been a heavy 6 months but taking a wee sabbatical these next few weeks ;) hoping to re-align my chakras and ting.
You guys ok?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:26, Reply)
Reasonable is about as fair a summation of things at the moment.
About to have dinner; the fucking oven conked out again. We must get a new one...
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:39, Reply)
Dinner at this time of night?
Chuffing Norah, mate! That's slack, that is ;)
Ja would have resorted to a kerry-oot yonks ago, bonny lad ;)
Achly I would've just got lashed into some peeve...
And then roasted a badger over an open fire or summink.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:01, Reply)
we flicked bogies at the sun
but the sun was too hot
and it melted all the snot
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:03, Reply)
D'ya reckon supressed childhood lyric recollections could be worth a thread?
;)
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:11, Reply)
I need bed soon
so "do as thou wilt"
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:12, Reply)
Oh Christ, I didn't mean tonight ;)
I'm tired and emotional.
I was musing for future times...
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:30, Reply)
too late for anyone to read it but here goes:
Bob Dylan - Idiot wind: Reminds me of my divorce
Mr Rogers theme - Mr Rogers: reminds me of being very jet-lagged and down in LA and finding simple pleasure in a nice man being nice
Johnny Cash - Hurt: The theme tune to my life on my less good days
Abba - Does you mother know: My son's favourite song
The Auteurs - Upper classes - one of the most beautify=ul songs I have ever heard, included for purely aesthetic reasons.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:15, Reply)

crapola
(, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 0:00, Reply)
cheers bobster
love you too.
(, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 0:24, Reply)
OK here goes. Will probably end up thinking of replacements as soon as I switch my laptop off.
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere
Pearl Jam - Black
Soundgarden - JesusChristPose
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 0:07, Reply)

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