One song that has changed your life

[Rastafari]

Alright, folks, here's where we seperate the boys and girls from the men and womyn. Or something competitive like that.

In reality, this little "excercise" focuses on you as a person and how one song has changed your life more than any other particular song. There will be no anger at other people's posts (even if they have Micheal Bolton or Yanni or...Kenny G!), just reflection on your own. I don't know why I'm doing this, but its sort of cruel when you think about it.

I am not only cruel, but uninspired, so I will post mine and the experiences within at a later time.

OM
-Rastafari

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

L'Internationale

[Sasafrás]

It's hard. I bought Lauryn Hill's UNPlugged album a couple months ago and I just started listening to Disc 1 recently. The songs "Adam Lives in Theory" and "I Gotta Find Peace of Mind" are some of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in life, I swear. Lauryn is so deep. I think the songs, especially "Adam" has really sort of changed my perspective on the existence of a Higher Power and has opened my mind up about it. Additionally, they both have made me cry.

[suffianr]

Incubus's Aqueous Transmission might not have "changed my life", but it's what I listen to whenever I'm in a traffic jam or after a particularly lousy day at work...It's one of those timeless songs that always makes you feel like you're in a dream.

Im floating down a river
Oars freed from their homes long ago
Lying face up on the floor
Of my vessel
I marvel at the stars
And feel my heart overflow

[Alejandro C]

The End by the doors.

first time i heard it i was probably 8 or 9. i was listening to it on my new discman. i was just sitting in my room and the first notes made me close my eyes and i just got lost. i remember feeling like god while i listened to that song with my head bowed and my eyes closed. i had visions and thoughts i'd never had before. the violence washed over me and terrified me. it was like falling in love

[Purple]

The Dope Show by Marilyn Manson... In some strange way he introdused me to a goth enviroment, so it changed alot for me...

[Goldfinger]

Purple Rain.

Maybe Rammstein's marching songs.

[Danton]

Mine are unfortunatley drug related...


A tribe called quest - "When the papes come"
My bedroom;1990 welcome to Marijuana and stonation

A guy called Gerald - "Voodoo ray"
Ibiza: 1991 The Cafe del mar, Coming up on my first E...

Adam F; "Circles"
Central London 1995 A club called Speed where Drum & Bass tunes shaped London club culture

Ella Fitzgerald's version of "Sunshine of your love"
The beat bar;1999 A track I used to play in this cool little bar on Portabello road

More later.... :che:

[Goldfinger]

nu jazz always seems to increase my libido

[Sabocat]

Bob Marley's song War. When I heard it for the first time almost 20 years ago, it changed everything for me.

Jimmy Buffett's songs Cowboy in the Jungle and Changing Channels. Shows the absurdity of the American lifesyle and highlights living simply. Besides....no sailor doesn't practice "Buffettism" :lol:

Rage Against the Machine's song Know your Enemy

[Rastafari]

I said one, but its good.


I'd say Pharoah Sander's "The Creator has a Masterplan." that and "A Love Supreme" almost make me beleive in god.

[Esperanza]

Radiohead's [B]KID A
has helped me through thick and thin

[Danton]

Pharoah Sander's "The Creator has a Masterplan." that and "A Love Supreme" almost make me beleive in god.

"Peace and happiness to every man"

Two great, great records with a definate nod to the man upstairs.... Masterplan is epic, from the first cow bells to it's multi instrumented crescendo about ten minutes later.... A love Supreme is simply one of the greatest Jazz records of all times, that circular bassline and shit when he blows, hairs on the back of the neck stand to attention...

Rastafari, have you heard Alice Coltranes psychedelic version of her late husbands masterpiece?

[Hampton]

It would probally Tupac's Changes

I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under, I wonder what it take to make this
one better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
Cause both black and white are smokin' crack tonight
And only time we deal is when we kill each other
It takes skills to be real, time to heal each other
And though it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President, huh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but stayin' in da dope game
Tell me whats a mother to do being real don't appeal to da brother in you
Ya gotta operate the easy way
[I made a G today]
But you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin' dope to the kids
[I gotta get paid]
Well hey, that way it is

Or his Me Against the World:

With all this extra stressin
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
they punish the people that's askin questions
And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference
Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
It wasn't nuttin like the game
It's just me against the world

[Rastafari]

Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2003, 09:25 AM
Pharoah Sander's "The Creator has a Masterplan." that and "A Love Supreme" almost make me beleive in god.

"Peace and happiness to every man"

Two great, great records with a definate nod to the man upstairs.... Masterplan is epic, from the first cow bells to it's multi instrumented crescendo about ten minutes later.... A love Supreme is simply one of the greatest Jazz records of all times, that circular bassline and shit when he blows, hairs on the back of the neck stand to attention...

Rastafari, have you heard Alice Coltranes psychedelic version of her late husbands masterpiece?
I have indeed Danton. It is very interesting to hear and a sometimes brilliant testimonial to her husband.

I think, as heinous as it sounds, that these two albums are equals on terms of greatness. Not to say that Sanders is better than Coltrane, they cant even compare on some things. But. Great albums, both.

What would your contribution be, I'd be curious to hear it

[Politrickian]

Youth Of Today - Modern Love Story

A boy a girl a love story
but why did it end in misery
taking our chances getting our thrills
taking and taking but never getting our fill
And this is what I see a modern love story
love defined on our TV
telling us teaching us what we need
are we in love or just so alone
that we're looking for anyone to hold
And this is what I see a modern love story
when the prey is caught, the thrill gone
so we'll switch partners and move along
and we won't use our brains
because our lust is too strong
overlooking the person to whom
the body belongs
And this is what I see a modern love story

[Invader Zim]

Slave to the Wage - Placebo

[Hate Is Art]

Phish - Farmhouse, i just love the whole groove of it and feel.

Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun

and

The Stone - Satisfaction

[Silent Eye]

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden, and down in a hole by Alice in Chains.

They changed the way i look at the world. But what is a womyn?

[Rastafari]

I said one, thats the hard part!

Black Hole Sun is a good choice.
We all know what womyn are. I do it to get a rise out of pee-ple

[Socialmalfunction]

hmm, definitely ode to my family by the cranberries. but also back to good by matchbox 20.
both of these songs i found in the seventh grade and i was one depressed suicidal kid back then. these songs may not have been happy ones but they are songs that always hit home to me and ones that will possibly always make me want to cry. the way we were (redone by gladys knight works too). but those two songs are really important to me... both relate back to family and my family is really important to me.

ODE TO MY FAMILY
Understand the things I say
Don't turn away from me
Cause I spent half my life out there
You wouldn't disagree
D'you see me, d'you see
Do you like me. Do you like me standing there
D'you notice, d'you know
Do you see me, do you see me
Does anyone care

Unhappiness, was when I was young
And we didn't give a damn
'Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she hold me
Did she hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father, he liked me
Oh he liked me, does anyone care

Understand what I've become
It wasn't my design
And people everywhere think
Something better than I am
But I miss you. I miss
'Cause I liked it. 'Cause I liked it
When I was out there
D'you know this, d'you know
You did not find me, you did not find
Does anyone care

Unhappiness was when I was young
And we didn't give a damn
'Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she hold me
Did she hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father, he liked me
Oh he liked me, does anyone care

Does anyone care


BACK TO GOOD
it's nothing, it's so normal you
just stand there I could say so much
but I don't go there cuz I don't want to
I was thinking if you were lonely
maybe we could leave here and no one would know
at least not to the point that we would think so

everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking about
somebody else
it's best if we all keep this under our heads..and
I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do
but I'm lonely now, and I don't know how
to get it back to good

this don't mean that, you own me..well
this ain't no good, in fact it's phony as hell, yeah
but things worked out just like you wanted too
if you see me out you don't know me
try to turn your head, try to give me some room
to figure out just what I'm going to do

cuz everyone here, hates everyone here for doing just like
they do
it's best if we all keep this quiet instead
and I couldn't tell, why everyone here was doing me like
they do
but I'm sorry now, and I don't know how
to get it back to good

well everyone here, is wondering what it's like to be with
somebody else
and everyone here's to blame, everyone here
gets caught up in the pleasure of the pain, well everyone here hides
shades of shame, but looking inside we're the same, we're
the same
and we're all grown now, yeah but we don't know how
to get it back to good

well everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking 'bout
somebody else
and it's best if we all keep this under our heads
see, I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do
but it's over now, and I don't know how, it's over now
there's no getting back to good

[truthaddict11]

White Man In Hammersmith Palais- The Clash

[Rastafari]

They took ol' Hammersmith Palais down, but they gave the sign to Joe

[synthesis]

Heroin - The Velvet Underground

Now, although my experience with heroin has been limited to having several former users as friends and trying opium, this number sort of changed the way that I thought songs should be written. Around the time I heard it, I had tried writing songs of my own but was frustrated by my inability to create songs that resembled any "good songwriters" I could think of... either they were utterly horrible or they were just far too derivative.

When I heard Heroin, I was like, shit! If I used heroin, and decided to write a song about it, it'd probably sound exactly like this! And then I thought of how incredibly influential and boundary-pushing the Velvet were considered (and still are). I thought to myself, if these dudes can make it big, so can I! It was sort of like what a lot of people describe as their revelations involving The Clash or the Sex Pistols.

...yeah. The Velvet Underground were brilliant.

[Rastafari]

excellent song. I am suprised that so many of the members have such impeccable musical tastes. Not what I expected from D'yer Mak'er, but its all good!

The Velvet Underground had two great Albums (or maybe one Velvet Underground and one Lou Reed?)
They got crappy as time progressed I guess

[synthesis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2003, 02:22 AM
excellent song. I am suprised that so many of the members have such impeccable musical tastes. Not what I expected from D'yer Mak'er, but its all good!
I listen to a lot of different music ;)

[Rastafari]

variety is the spice of life. To be honest with you though, I thought I'd get a lot of Sex Pistols and Marilyn Manson and that kind of stuff, but am very happy that hasn't happen to any great extent thus far. Not that I have anything against those kinds of music (and I did say this wasn't a 'bashing' thread), but it feels good to think that the future people of the world don't listen quite as much to this day's music.

or something

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I'm gonna have to go with Blue by Eiffel 65 :lol:

but seriously, On the Turning Away by Pink Floyd is a very beatiful and very profound song

[Danton]

What would your contribution be, I'd be curious to hear it

Rewind, I posted four near the beginning of the thread...
They're not my favourite tracks but ones that have had a specific impact on my life.....

One is too difficult...

[RyeN]

That song punk rock girl by the dead milkmen made me think I could be in a monogomist relationship.

[Danton]

They took ol' Hammersmith Palais down

Yes, now they hold a night there called school disco, where rotten louts and loose women go to hear 80's "classics" and drink alchopops and chaep lager....

[Rastafari]

Ella Fitzgerald's version of Sunshine of Your Loveis awesome. Those loud horns at the beginning and the bass. great stuff. About as good as the original. Ella's voice is amazing, and better than Billie Holliday's (i've gotten in serious arguements over this).

[Lefty]

Fly Like an Eagle- Steve Miller Band- My favorite song for like 7 years, and the first song on the first tape I ever owned. Still a great song, and a socialist one at that.

Maria/Wake Up- RATM- My parents got me the first RATM cd and The Battle of L.A. for Christmas one year. I went to bed completely ignorant of politics Christmas eve, and by that time the next day I was a radical leftist thanks largely to those two songs.

Entire Legend album, especially Redemption Song and Exodus-Bob Marley-Some of the best music ever recorded, period.

Castles Made of Sand-Jimi Hendrix- My favorite song.

I have quite a few more songs that have influenced me in various other ways, but these were the biggest ones.

[Rastafari]

pick one next time :)
If I were to pick one from that list, I'd have an easy choice:

Castles Made of Sand-Jimi Hendrix- My favorite song.

Axis:Bold As Love is probably his best album, and this and One Rainy Wish are the two best from that album. This song speaks tomes to me, and it one of the most well-written and most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

[EneME]

I would have to say Sade - Pearls...always makes me tear, specially at her concert...think cuz it reminds me of the suffering of 3rd world populations, and i think of my mom and womyn in my family who've gone through shit, that I cannot even IMAGINE going through...how strong they are to even survive, i could never ***** about my life cuz i've had it easy in comparison....

"there is a woman in somalia
scraping for pearls on the roadside
there's a force stronger than nature
keeps her will alive
this is how she's dying
she's dying to survive
don't know what she's made of
i would like to be that brave

she cries to the heaven above
there is a stone in my heart
she lives a life she didn't choose
and it hurts like brand-new shoes

hurts like brand-new shoes

there is a woman in somalia
the sun gives her no mercy
the same sky we lay under
burns her to the bone
long as afternoon shadows
it's gonna take her to get home
each grain carefully wrapped up
pearls for her little girl "

[Eastside Revolt]

I wouldn't say there is one song that changed my life...


.... more like an album.

Ice T - OG

It was the first music I ever got into. I was 9 years old.

This album layed the ground-work for the music I listened to since then. It was politically charged, with little comic skits inbetween. It was also a hardcore rap album, with a rock & roll twist, because of this album; it wasn't long before I was into RATM, Nirvana, Jimi, The Doors, and Led Zeppelin.

Also it was the first time I gained even any slight understanding of politics, It was through this album that I understood the problems of the black people in the United States, and I gained an understanding of the first Gulf War and the yankee prison system.

I think alot of the album could be summed-up through this acapella:

Prepared to die!

Watch me flip and rip
On the freedom tip
Open your mind
See the point of the ice pick
I stand tall
While my brothers
Still choose to crawl
Black power its in effect yall
But you don't understand
You're still a slave to the man
Prepare for revolution
Some sucker say we're free
I gotta disagree
Half my posse's in the penitentiary
So I'm a drop and kick the science
With defiance
Because I have no alliance
With suckas who choose
Not to act Black
When they are Black
Get out my face with that
You better ease back
Cause Mandela did 27 hard ones
Not in a windowed room
But in a barred one
While his wife had tears in her eyes
The man is a hero
He needs a Nobel Prize
But that will never happen
So I'm gonna keep rappin'
Freein' my brothers' minds
From their entrapment
To silence the Ice, they'll probably
Put a bullet in me
But I'm prepared to die
And Mandela's free!


Or this line from New Jack Hustla:


So think twice if you're coming down my block,
You wanna journey through hell? Well shit gets hot.
Pregnant teens, children's screams,
Life is weighed on the scales of a triple beam.
You don't come here much, and ya better not.
Wrong move (bang), ambulance cot.

[Indysocialist]

Ashes in the Fall (so I was late political bloomer, feck off! :P )

The lyrics to that song basically really openned the door to the left for me.

And I know some people here wont like my choice, but Haile Salassie Up your Ass by Propaghandi. I was really bummed out during the War in Iraq (like all my friends) that after all the protests and activism the war machine rolled on and this song basically voiced my feelings about the Middle East.

[YKTMX]

Creep - Radiohead or Basket Case by Green Day.

[Bazza]

"Keep On Keepin' On" by the Redskins.

I saw the band play this on The Tube back in 1984 when I was 14. The song was all about the miners strike at the time. The band even brought on a striking Durham miner called Norman Strike (yes that's his real name) to say a few words about the strike. But his microphone was dead so you couldn't hear anything. Still, the bands image and song lyrics inspired me. I became a big fan of the Redskins and also joined the S.W.P. (the party to which the band belonged to).

[commieboy]

It takes alot to Laugh by Bob Dylan

and "Where is the love" by the Black Eyed peas......This is the best song...or atleast most touching, and life changing...Usually i'm like the stiff upper-lip type, but the first time i saw this song...I cried!!! It actually MADE ME CRY!!!

So Where is the loves got to be on my list.

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Well, I've got to say that the song that most changed my life isn't my favorite song...But you see, awhile back, like maybe 5-6 years ago, I was in a musical wasteland, and didn't really care about any music. But I heard this Peter Tosh song while riding in a carpool, called "Pick Myself Up," and I really liked it. So I went home and downloaded it, along with a bunch of his other songs. Reggae opened me up to other types of non-mainstream music, and before you know it, here I am.

So basically, me downloading "Pick Myself Up" brought me to where I am now, musically.