Albums That Changed My Life

[Luthien]

This is something a friend of mine started on Facebook today. I've been having and extrememly rough few days, and this got my mind into another place for while, I liked the idea, and thought I'd share it here. Hope you all enjoy!

My List. Some of these artist have faded to nothing but memories for me...'All of them impacted. I tried to include them in order of when they affected my life, rather than how great they are, or how much I like them now. I have a story for every album that made it here, and thinking of those memories was nice.

1. Van Halen- OU812
2. Billy Idol- Billy Idol
3. Genesis - We Cant Dance
4. The Guess Who- Wheatfield Soul
5. Queen- A Night At The Opera
6. Bad Company- Holy Water
7. Tears For Fears- The Hurting
8. Queensryche- Rage For Order
9. U2- The Joshua Tree
10. Ozzy Osbourne- Ozzmosis
11. Alice In Chains- Facelife
12. Collective Soul- Collective Soul
13. Deep Forest- Deep Forest
14. Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
15.Rob Dougan- Furious Angels
16. Phil Collins- Face Value
17. Uriah Heep- Magician's Birthday
18. Uriah Heep- Demons & Wizards
19.Dimmu Borgir- Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
20. Dream Theatre- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
21.Trans Siberian Orchestra-Beethoven's Last Night
22. Savatage- Poets and Madmen
23. Matisyahu- No Place to Be

Honourable mentions...

Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Credence Clearwater Revival-20 Greatest Hits (1976)
Rob Zombie- Past Present and Future
Nightwish- Once
Epica- Sensorium

If you'd like, think of albums that had such a profound effect on you that they changed your life, or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in, and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically, shaped your world. Then, add your list.

 

[Nicolette]

Hi Luthien

While I don't have a list of albums that have "Changed My Life" my CD collection is actually a story of my life....A list of songs I resonated to due to my life experiences at the time.

I could tell you my story by playing the songs in order...........A slightly different take but I do love music.

 

[Luthien]

If you'd ever like to share your "story by song", I'd like to see...I think that's a neat way of looking at it.

 

[fin]

This is something a friend of mine started on Facebook today. I've been having and extrememly rough few days, and this got my mind into another place for while, I liked the idea, and thought I'd share it here. Hope you all enjoy!

Neil Young-anythng by Neil Young Rod McKuen anyhting by rod Mckuen prettymuch also, erm... there are so many luth. i have included you list here with ,ine i hope that is alright because with just maybe one exception it almost runns concurrant with mine...maybe a differeing order somehow maybe and for differening reason also perhaps and i have more os many more...how much time do we have here and how much hard drive will this require... :) wowo... this is good stuff here, so many ermm... today for me looking back now i would included pink floyds dark side of the moon also... if it isnt here already (sorry ptsd here) ermm... also cat stevens...all and just about everything the kinks ever released and queen too, rush wishbone ash, rainbow, and deep purple too, ...hard to think for a minute... so many... rumours i bougfht that album so many times and people kept stealing it form me lol... bert bacharach and the other bert also... ok i have to stop that bit for now...

james morrisson, and paolo .. someone... gabriella cilmi, oh joan baez and judy collins, joanie mitchell and for reason I cant spell anymore... lol ok.. erm melanie, the stones, ufo, ...so many ... bachman turner , louis armstrong-always ,sarah vaughn, ella fitzgerald--- so many... the carpenters ... always the carpenters... ish klind of perhaps... sad though very sad, the beautiful south... oh wow to the beautiful south and the housemartins too, men at work ... ian hay what a voice- lov ethat song... overkill-(irony here I know but d just love it) kc an dthe sunshine band... bob dylan of course , ermmm... tom petty and the heartbreakers, jon cougar mellancamp, iron maiden, acdc (some of) black sabbath-(too obvioous really)... jack johnson- love that guy... I gave that album.. to vereyone I knew here... when it first came out... i couldnt stop listening t it... it helpd me live through a couple of years also.

ok I think i have maybe rambled enough now... I have sopmething else i wrote but it will have togo t my diary as i think i may well off off topic (sorry if I have done this wrong here luth...carried away again somehow with music... always happens sometimes _ so many
carol king, james taylor, lol amy winehouse, more of all of it ... say when ok... bruce... doris day also..(a little van morrisson) neil diamond

oh and for now in bold too I love these guys songs... Bare Naked Ladies so totally for sure, also (psychologists paradise now) kate bush wuthering heights ( hah!) The Beatles... frank sinatra, crsoby stills nash and young easy, right now also kate rusby... and seth lakeman ( Ithink I go that right.. maybe) fantastic all music almost just about al music says somehtin to me, lynard skynard, stevie ray vaughn, ray charles, ... ok nough now fin.. sorry eds if toomuch and sorry luthien also if too much too... blair (just one track there) beyonce-halo, seal... manfred manns earth band, the commodores... say when... lol


ok so am posting now... there is more tho' am sorry I didnt do this better ~

 

[PerfectEmpire]

9. U2- The Joshua Tree

Good list. Thanks for starting this thread. I am a huge U2 fan, so my list definitely includes that album.

U2 - Boy
U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby (possibly the most influential album for me)
U2 - Zooropa
U2 - POP
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Paul Van Dyk - Global
Information Society - Don't Be Afraid
Gary Numan - Jagged Edge (<--- what I'm currently stuck on)

My list could go on forever. Like others, my life could be told in songs. It could be a fun activity to make a playlist of my life. It would take a few hours though, as there is sooooo much to contemplate.

 

[ISupportHer]

Alter Bridge

I listen to their 2 Cd's a lot. Some of the lyrics are really stirring. At least I feel that way. Everyone's interpretation of music and lyrics vary and thus tastes vary.

Take the song "Burried Alive" on the "Blackbird" CD. First listen and it could be about someone with alcohol or substance abuse. Listen again and it could be about someone with depression or other issue. Both with very depressive message. But yet, if you listen from the perspective of the end of the song it's about someone who is trying to change their life.

Many of the songs have very deep messages. More than something like "I want to rock and roll and party every night"

I'll have to listen again to some of the albums listed above.

Uriah Heep! Geez, I those albums when they first came out. That shows my age, I guess. Now, if I just had a turntable to be able to play the hundreds of albums I have in the basement..............

 

[shiraz]

Hi Luthien, great thread!

I have quite a list too, but the one album that stands out for me is Sade - Lover's Rock ... so many great lyrics which helped me when I was so alone I hadn't spoken to another human being in weeks and thought it was the end ... When I couldn't feel, these lyrics (and so many others from this album) stirred emotion ...

It`s Only Love That Gets You Through

Girl you are rich even with nothing
And you know tenderness comes from pain
It's amazing how you love
And love is kind and love can give
And get no gain

It's down a rugged road you've come
Though you had every reason
You didn't come undone
Somehow you made it to the other side
You didn't suffer in vain

You forgive those who have trespassed against you
And you know tenderness comes from pain
It's amazing how you love
And love is kind and love can give
And love needs no gain

[Repeat 1]

You didn't suffer in vain
You know it's only love
That gets you through
Only love, it's only love
It's only love that gets you through

 

[ningamer]

The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

I've found the song The Becoming describes going crazy very accurately

I beat my machine
it's a part of me
it's inside of me
I'm stuck in this dream
it's changing me
I am becoming

the me that you know he had some second thoughts
he's covered with scabs he is broken and sore
the me that you know he doesn't come around much
that part of me isn't here anymore

all pain disappears
it's the nature of
of my circuitry
drowns out all i hear
no escape from this
my new conciousness

the me that you know he used to have feelings
but the blood has stopped pumping and he is left to decay
the me that you know is now made up of wires
and even when i'm right with you i'm so far away

I can try to get away but I've strapped myself in
I can try to scratch away the sound in my ears
I can see it killing away all of my bad parts
I don't want to listen, but it's all too clear

hiding backwards inside of me
I feel so unafraid
annie, hold a little tighter
I might just slip away

it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up, it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head

 

[cragger65]

Hmmm... a few albums spring to mind as life changing.

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young - Live Rust
Marillion - Childhood Memories
Big Sugar - 500 Pounds
Billy Joel - ***
Elton John - ***
Bonnie Raitt - ***
(sorry, can't think of the album names there)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Muddy Waters - Electric Mud
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix - Midnight Lightning (rare and AMAZING album)
Bebop Deluxe - Live in the Airage

Hmmmm.... there are many more, I'll have to take a further stroll down memory lane later. Great idea for a thread, thanks.