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For me? It was Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

It literally changed my life. What has music done for you?

James Taylor.

Pink Floyd 'wish you were here' - it blew me away when it first came out and it carries on doing so...for different reasons :)

It's great, great, great music and so cool 8)

For me? It was Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

It literally changed my life. What has music done for you?

That sounds really big! And i'd really like to hear about that...if you felt able to tell - here or by tg.

One thing for sure...ya have good taste! :D

The Cure - Disintegration

Closest thing I've ever had to a religous experience

I was as a youth heavily influenced by Pink Floyd.. To this day they remain my favorite band of all time.

I was as a youth heavily influenced by Pink Floyd.. To this day they remain my favorite band of all time.

Makes you sound positively ancient Stephi :D

Country/Western music, but in a bad way. When I started college, I had to commute on a shuttle bus an hour each way. The driver insisted on playing a country music station. Oh the misery. It got to the point I felt like asking him to let me out so I could hitch hike home. I couldn't bear to go to class anymore so I dropped out. :?

For me? It was Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

It literally changed my life. What has music done for you?

That sounds really big! And i'd really like to hear about that...if you felt able to tell - here or by tg.

One thing for sure...ya have good taste! :D

Basically, I'm a yung 'un when it comes to elderly music. I'm fifteen. Basically, it was a hard time when I first started listening to it. It was last christmas, and my dad (who lives in Idaho) gave it to me. The only other Pink cd I had listened to was Dark Side of the Moon (hasn't everybody :) ) It was a pretty hard time for my mom. My dad had been gone for two years, working. This was around the time when my parents were trying to work out whether or not to get a divorce, so he didn't call much. All I really had was some pictures of him in an old book. Snapshots in a family album... still gives me the shivers. At first listen, I thought it was really good. I listened to it, and didn't know it was a concept albumn. At first, I thought it was just a cd about all the different conflicts we face (our "Walls".) Psychotic parents, abusive teachers, and drugs. Around the end of school, my mom finally told me my parents were divorcing. They had certaintly been through some hardships (not saying what) and it really hit me hard. I began declining in school and losing myself in the cd. I read an analysis of the CD, and learned that it was a story. I had been seeing a psychiatrist. I had never gotten entirely through the cd. I had always stopped near the end of "Waiting for the Worms." At first, it was because it was too depressing. After that, it was because I was afraid what would happen to Pink. I had the feeling if he killed himself, then I would too. Finally, I got through it. I was in agony over "Stop." Pink's longing for past times made me wonder if he was going to try to join his father in death. "The Trial" made me had me close to a breakdown. When the judje cried to "Tear down the wall!" I am convinced I had a minor heart palpitation. Then, after the wall came tumbling down, it was very... different. I felt at peace. Pink had lived, in my opinion. I was better for it. And though it's not easy, I am getting better. Still on meds, but getting better :) . And so here I am now.
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And Prudence, I bought "Wish you were here" on vinyl recently. It's hanging on my wall.

Lol, that should have been my 475 post.

Radiohead, Exit music (for a film)
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New Model Army. But then I am an old git. :wink:

i am dating myself...

i like many styles and genres of music, and think that the intent, words, mood, and spirit behind the music is just as important as the skill in which it is played.

as a kid i walked by a music station that had changed its genre from rock to country and western. int the trach bin was over 100 lps and 500 45 vinyls. i called my uncle and he secured them for me. i had them till i joined the navy and my unscrupulous cousins sold them to charity for $1000 dollars. :evil:

the older i get the more attracted i am to christian artists of most genres.

music that affected me negatively:

Pink Floyd Dark--especially Dark Side of the Moon
Frank Zappa (most of his music with the exception of the more comedic like Joe's Garage).
the Disciples--almost all
Black Sabbath--almost all
Jethro Tull--almost all
Janis Joplin --some
King Crimson--almost all
blue oyster cult
velvet underground
captain beefheart
rocky horror picture show
alice cooper
PussBloodyScabs
half the things played on the Dr. Demento Show

music that effected me objectively (i actually listenned to the words and contemplated the philosophical ramifications whether or not i came to agree with them):

some Bob Dylan
some Larry Norman
Gratefull Dead
Crosby, Nash, Stills, Young, and any combination thereof (buffallo springfield etc) .
simon and/or Garfunkel
styx
rush
Tonio K
kansas
some Gary S Paxton

music that i liked to listen to but had litted effect:
beach boys
beatles
jefferson airplane/airship/starship etc.
taj mahal
elvis costello
tarwater
cougars (local group)
ccr
springstein
monkees
neil diamond
johhny cash
weird al
manfred mann
marvin hamlisch (composer)
john barry (composer)
rick wakeman
maynard fergeson
doc severenson

music that had a positive effect:
2nd Chapter of Acts
Larry Norman
Gary S. Paxton
Rez Band
Daniel Amos (and all their pseudonyms from DA to Swirling Eddies),
Terry Scott Taylor
Talbot Brothers
barry mcguire
crumbacher
the Daniel Band (not to be confused with the Charlie Daniels Band)
Jerusalem
Randy Stonehill
Keith Green
Evie
shewbread
crumbacher
don francisco
steve taylor
magdala
barren cross
sweet comfort band
lovesong
petra
farrell and farrell
michael and/or stormie omartian
undercover
jacob's trouble
honeytree
a band called david
steve camp
etc.

music i avoided like the plague

slim whitman
anything disco
most things country (as apposed to western--some western is ok).
any form of hate music (ghetto rap, white supremacist rock, etc.)
serious speed metal polka (unless it is weird al or the like)
songs that wallow in self pity, or narcissism.

DISCO

as a child of the 60s (i was 12 in 1969) i was used to intense relevant music. music that was about SOMETHING
when disco came in and flooded the airwaves i stopped listening to the radio and popular music of any kind.
i never went back to it
now ( in the past 10 years) i listen to country and only really like drippy love songs that i can sing along with and not sound obscene

Kiss, i grew up listening to them all through my childhood.

a couple.
first, the beatles make me who i am today. hugely. I can't stress that enough.

second, "Agnus Dei", followed by "The Lord is My Shepherd" by John Rutter.
My choir was invited to sing in carnegie hall this past year, with john rutter conducting. How on earth could we have passed the opportunity? So I was in the rehearsal room, and we were all practicing... and there is a big number of people, surrounded by people I don't know.

But we were all singing the same song... and it got to this massive moment in "agnus dei", like all hell is breaking loose. John Rutter described it as being "like christ carrying the cross... a load of suffering."
he wrote it after his son was killed by a car.

So we were all singing, and everything just overwhelmed me. I was singing, my throat got all tight, and tears were running down my face. I looked around, and I wasn't the only one.

The following song, the lord is my shepherd, was an incredible antidote. I cried in a certain moment in that too.

They were trancendant experiences... I will never forget them. Carnegie is incredible.

Probably grunge. Grunge is the one style of music I've consistantly liked since I was about 8 years old.

Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, those were the first bands I really liked.

Other then that maybe industrial, after I first heard Ministry and Front Line Assembly I was hooked.

Even now, as a result of my industrial fan-dom I've been more then willing to incorporate electronic sounds into my band's sound.

Emo+grindcore+techno style drum machines. :P

there's this one creed song. i dont even remember what it was, but it was like a slap in the face.

Punk rock runs my life.

For me? It was Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

It literally changed my life. What has music done for you?Really? I've only listened to Disc 1, and it makes good sense. I mean...you really are a brick in the wall.

But...apart from that...

*searches for lyrics*

Dream Theater's "Scenes From A Memory."

Any fan of Progressive Rock knows this album. It is an excellent and consistent concept album..with every kind of song you could expect of the rock or metal genre. The story and theme is great as well. I am a musician though..so music like this is kind of an acquired taste..you mainstream listeners may find it a little odd if you've never listened to Prog Rock before.

Also..

Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue"

One of the best and most definitive Jazz albums of all time. It literally molded most jazz that came after it. Though its not Miles' more technical stuff, it is fabulous to listen to and immerse yourself in.

Local bands in my area...

Last One Out
Larraine
Sub-Motive

I don't think any of you would know of them but they changed my life

Probably grunge. Grunge is the one style of music I've consistantly liked since I was about 8 years old.

:D Hell Yeah.

I was as a youth heavily influenced by Pink Floyd.. To this day they remain my favorite band of all time.

Makes you sound positively ancient Stephi :D

I resent that. Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands of all time, and I've appreciated them as long as I can remember. I have to say that I think Dark Side of the Moon is their best album, though.

Pixies, Radiohead, David Bowie, The Beatles...

I was as a youth heavily influenced by Pink Floyd.. To this day they remain my favorite band of all time.

Favorite song off of favorite album?

For me it was Nirvana. They are the reason i've started my band.

*lickes BS's arm then streaks out of thread*

*lickes BS's arm then streaks out of thread*

Eww.....that was....moist.

listening to the local oldies station (104.3 wmjk) got me on the road to liking new, crappy music, and i've more or less followed it ever since. sure, i listen to some alternative rock nowadays, but the roots are all from hearing the beatles and the stones.

MC Hammer's "Don't Hurt um, Hammer"

my life has never been the same.

Im more into Classical (dont hurt me) lol

Im more into Classical (dont hurt me) lol

nothing wrong with it. i happen to like classical music, too. i'll be damned if i can name any, but i still think it sounds good. i don't consider it life-changing, though.

just about anything performed by a symphony is good. look at the soundtracks to star wars, medal of honor allied assault, and star wars again because it's that leet. oh right, and wagner and strauss and beethoven and the geniuses. pffff.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the true genious

Im more into Classical (dont hurt me) lol

Be not ashamed to listen to Classical Music.

Especially Bach.

NWA "Fuck the Police" taught me alot way back when I was 5. It taught me that I didn't want to be a rapper when I grew up. Radiohead also had a way of hitting me hard. Same with modest mouse

NWA "f--- the Police" taught me alot way back when I was 5. It taught me that I didn't want to be a rapper when I grew up. Radiohead also had a way of hitting me hard. Same with modest mouse

"Creep" is one of the best songs EVER.

anyone listen to LoveLine with Adam Carolla and Dr.Drew?