Just wondering what records and tracks you would say have changed you life. For example the following tracks have with me.......



It Like That - Run DMC

The first record I owned. When it was my 13th birthday I really wanted a radio controlled car which I wanted to convert into a robot to fight in robot wars. Sadly I did not get this, and instead my parents brought me a cd player. At the time I was quite pissed off as I had no interest in music. However When being givern the track that was number 1 that week I started to quite like listening to music, especially this track which was on repeat all day long.



Gangster Trippin - Fatboyslim

First dance track I ever purchased. Remember seeing the video on top of the pops and loving the track. This was the beginning of dance music for me and lead to me buying his album and mix cds and then had a link to the chems. The track pointed me in the right musical direction and changed my outlook on music that I listen to.



Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers

Remember this track really turned me towards the chems. I had herd block rockin beats before and liked it. But what really started me loving the chems music when putting on radio and hereing this track live from homelands 1999. This record was just so strange and like nothing I had ever herd before. Quite a spooky tune to a 13 year old. When listening to this festival it made me realise I wanted to mix records just like all the amazing djs.



Born Slippy - Underworld

A real dance anthem. First herd this played by FBS at the linx voodoo ecipse party in 1999 on radio one. After buying a FBS mix tape with this track on again, I really started to love underworld. This lead to me following there music and seeing them in concert with my dad.



Electonic Battle Weapon 7 - The Chemical Brothers

Hereing this at the ledgendary wolves gig confirmed my love for the chems again. At the time I jumped outta my skin though! This got me into acid house more. And made me feel like living for the moment more.



So whats yours?

The first single I can remember buying (I've sort of blotted out any dodgy musical purchases) was Catatonia - Dead From The Waist Down, it was the first 'alternative' type track I'd bought. By alternative, I mean it wasn't some crappy pop artist that seemed to fill the local radio stations. There's was the first album I bought too (more blotting here, I'm sure!).



Everything Acidchildren has said about Hey Boy Hey Girl can be applied to me, it was the record that put me on the road to lovin' dance music. I'd liked some dance tunes before, but it was the pop crap variety, a few years earlier (crap like Sash! - come on, I was like 12 and it was on the radio all the time!). Before I heard Hey Boy Hey Girl, I was getting into Brit-pop & indie, mainly fueled by my brother. but I can remember revising for my GCSEs (or something like that), lying on the sofa and the video for HBHG came on, and it just turned me onto dance music. After that came Fatboy Slim & Underworld, and then it just progressed from there really. Yep, I've got a lot to thank the Chems for in terms of music - if it wasn't for Hey Boy Hey Girl & it's video, I'd probably have turned out as a punk or death metal fan or something. Nope, I'm happy just looking like one :P

Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim



The first time I heard that, it was in the Adidas ad... I was 9years old and I stayed mouth opened in front of the TV, wondering "damn, what's that song ??"



Amon Tobin - Sordid



My friend came in with the album Permutation, he told me "you've got to hear that tune, it's so wicked !" I listened, and I loved...





The Chemical Brothers - Music:Response



it was the first time I heard the chems AND loved them, becaus I had already seen Star Guitar video but didn't liked the music that much... And then i borrowed Surrender at the mediateque, and you know what appened next... I became addicted

oh yeah and others by the Chems :



The Sunshine Underground

EBW 6 live ... It was such a shock the first time I saw it on the live DVD... And even more better when I saw that live :D

Oooooo. Fantastic topic!!



I will respond to this. Oh yes, I will.



I just need time but I want to do it right, and I don't have enough time right now to give a proper response.

Oooooooooh I like this thread! I think I must be a bit older than everyone here unless I just got into music much earlier...



Prodigy - No Good (start the dance)



I heard this at my friends birthday party which happened to be at a scout hut! And we found sheets of tabs in the toilets (i didn't take any tho - I was v scared and young!) But when I heard this I was just liek what the hell is this? This is fucking great! I found out what it was and borrowed some CDs of off my friends and I was hooked on the Prodge then! I actually knew alot of their tracks already (out of space, Wind it Up etc were all on my crappy Now Dance 92 tapes). The Prodigy also introduced me to the Chemical Brothers because Liam use to alwayts say how much he respected them and of course they use to play the Dust Bros remix of Voodoo People on MTV quite a bit... So yeah that track got me into (cool) electronic music... They also got me into listening to music like Public Enemy and Rage against the Machine too,,,



Nirvana - Nevermind (smells like teen spirit mostly)



I heard this due to my friends brother hammering this everytime I went to their house. I just really like the energy and it got me listening to other harder alternative bands...



Chemical Brothers - Setting sun



I was into dance music then but I was just like this track is amazing! I really liked Oasis at the time so it was a double bonus for me. That kind of Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow sound was the nuts! I use to listen to it on repeat all the time and piss off my neighbours! I liked the video too with the dancing policemen...



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KLF -3am Eternal



I use to think this was a proper rave track which it probably wasn't but I really liked it and it kind of made me thought that was the kind of music people were going out dancing tto in fields in all their funky clothes!



Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam



Seriously this track was wicked when u were 5 years old! Anthem at many a school disco and I use to be able to rap all the words



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Respek da female MCs yo!



De La Soul - Magic Number



I still really dig De La Soul, but as a kid I really loved their music coz it just sounded so happy and summery. And I loved all the samples they used in this track... Its all about Flower Power Rap! Use to know the words to this too... The shame!



The Smiths - How soon is now



I only got into them really recently but I love them now... I'd say the Smiths have got me appreciating and listening to more modern alternative music too... Just stuff like Radiohead, which everyone loved but use to just 'whooosh' my head!



Stone Roses - Fools Gold



Funky Indie at its best! Music u can dance around too...

Nice topic, its gonna be difficult for me to do this right now cos I'm at work and can't have a quick look through my cd collection but these are the tracks that spring to mind...



Robert Miles - Children

1995 was the year I started listening to music (I listened to the top 40 every Sunday!) Probably the first ever track I fell in love with, still love this today (second favourite of all time). Never actually bought the single but acquired it a couple of years later when I recieved the album Dreamland for Christmas, now have it on a SimplyVinyl 12" 8).



New Order - Blue Monday

I think I first heard this around 1996 / 97, my dad has the 83 original on 12", I used to listen to the instrumental 'The Beach' (I think I knew the whole song by heart at one time :o). Put the vocal version onto minidisc last year and rediscovered the magic that is!



Chems - Hey boy hey girl

Bit like chemfan and Acid really, was into stuff like Fat Boy Slim, Sash and Space (Female of the species anyone?) at the time, remember listening to Radio 1 one evening and hearing this mysterious track with the lyrics "Hey boy hey girl, superstar DJs here we go!" I became obsessed with it and I later heard it was by the Chemical Brothers, a group I had heard about before - going back to '95 when I listened to the Top 40, I remember a track by them which I forgot the name of but found out in 2001 it was called Loops of Fury (I actually set out to buy it about a week after it was released but couldn't find it, anyone who owns the UK version can probably guess why!) Anyway HBHG was the track which made me sit up and take notice, I still remember going to Virgin Megastores in Leeds and buying it when it came out. To cut a long story short, that song got me into the chems and (apart from another brief Sash phase) I've never looked back since!



Theres a few more but can't think of them at the moment (thats how much they've changed my life I hear you say! X-D ), will put them on here when I get home.

Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings



The tune that really got me into music. This tune (along with 'Tonight, Tonight') inspired me to pick up Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The rest, as they say, is history. The beginnings of a long love affair and expensive addiction.



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Aerosmith - Cryin'



One of the first songs I ever fell in love with. Still absolutely slays me to listen to it. Steven Tyler has never sounded better.



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Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun



The tune that got me interested. Bizarre sounds, crazy sirens, Noel Gallagher's detached yet interested vocals, phat breakbeats, and the stellar Dom & Nic video. It took me a couple years to really get into the Chems, but this is the song that started the journey.



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Primal Scream - Movin' On Up



The sound of a million sunny days. Instant mood changer. I knew Screamadelica was special the instant this song started. My summer tune. I don't listen to this album during the winter b/c the season isn't worthy. If I need to have a good day, this goes in the CD player.



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KLF - 3AM Eternal



Had this on cassette from a 1993 dance compilation that was one of the few musical items I owned as a youngin'. Loved it then, love it now. The origins of my interest in dance music.



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Smashing Pumpkins - Thru the Eyes of Ruby



Simply the greatest song. Anthemic, roaring. Easily my favourite song ever. Easily. Can't say how it's changed my life, but it has.



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Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees/ Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been



My sad, break-up songs. Emotion changers that allowed me to find feelings I never knew I had and which forced me to think about and consider where I was in life at a few certain moments. A few other songs fall into this category, but these are the two best examples.



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Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air



Midnight this NYE was special to me for so many reasons, not least of which is because this song was life-altering at that moment. I can't say anymore about it, just that I was touched by music in a way I've rarely been before.



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Too many more songs to list, but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

Just The Chemical Brothers & Led Zeppelin.

I can't explain why... :-//

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Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air



Midnight this NYE was special to me for so many reasons, not least of which is because this song was life-altering at that moment. I can't say anymore about it, just that I was touched by music in a way I've rarely been before.

Whoa man, that is incredible! It was a completely stellar moment, I must agree. It's cool that you rate it as life-altering though, that's amazing :D

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Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air



Midnight this NYE was special to me for so many reasons, not least of which is because this song was life-altering at that moment. I can't say anymore about it, just that I was touched by music in a way I've rarely been before.

Whoa man, that is incredible! It was a completely stellar moment, I must agree. It's cool that you rate it as life-altering though, that's amazing :D

My week in London was such a great time: so good to get away from school and work, to meet a lot of cool new people, to see a lot of great sights, and to hear a lot of great music. One of the best weeks I've ever had. It was well-deserved and well-needed.



Midnight on NYE was pretty much the culmination of all the cool shit that went down over that week.



Plus, I was just coming up on pills at the time..... X-D I timed it so I'd be starting to peak around 12 AM. :D Knew midnight would be special.

Leftfield - Leftism



Just the most influential dance record of all time.



The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole



This caused the big beat hype.



Jim White - Wrong Eyed Jesus



Alt. Country at it's best.



FSOL - Dead Cities



When I first heard this it blew me away, and it still does. Should be in every record collection.



R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts



Played this a lot when I broke up with my girlfriend. Still brings a tear to the eye. Wonderful song.



Fluke - Six Wheels On My wagon



This was the music that got me into Progressive House.



The Orb - Orbvs Terrarvm



First Orb album I bought, and it also got me interested in ambient music. This record is amazing. So many different layers of sound, all morphing like a disturbed ocean. Must be Orb's best album till date.

The Dead Kennedys- Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death



The first album I ever purchased, at the age of 16, right after a spectacularly bad first date, the first date I'd ever been on.



Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine



Started 6 years of Goth-dom, also listened to it for the first time right after breaking up with the first girl I ever kissed.



Psychic TV- Jack the Tab



I discovered this gem, the first ever 'techno' album right around the time I started using acid. It would (the acid and the techno) influence my life for years to come.



Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space and The Chemical Brothers (all of them really)



Convinced me that there was actually some good music made after 1991.

hearing private psychadelic reel for the first time was probably the most bizzare and pivotal time in my life so far. I experienced the power of music first hand and it felt so overwhelming that words can't describe it.

Mine are kinda in order from when i heard them



Beck- Devils Haircut



i was young and i hated music before this point, then saw beck perform this on SNL.......i started to begin to like music



Weird Al Yankovic- Gump/Amish Paradise



i once went through a big weird al stage, where i actually thought this was the best music ever..... :P



Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit



even though i discovered this song later in my ages.....it got me back on track with my musical tastes ( as of today im not a big nivana fan, however i must give credit to this track. :? )



Beck- Sexx Laws



Loved the way this song sounded right out of the gate, sounded fun, and made me happy :D started to listen to alot more music because of this



The Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Scar Tissue



loved the music video and fell in the love with the song ( as a result from this song i started to listen to jimi hendrix)



Jimi Hendrix- Purple Haze



This song made me start paying attention more to the insrumental part of music rather then the singing part.



The Chemical Brothers- Star Guitar



Came upon this music video by accedent while watching MTV2 late one night and immediately fell in love with both the song and the video. Picked up "Come With Us" within the week i saw the music video. A week after that picked up "Dig Your Own Hole"



The Chemical Brothers-Block Rockin' Beats



This insured my intrest in The Chemical Brothers... it sounded so cool when i heard it........and it still does today

Aye



Discovery --Daft Punk

Before this, I never really listened to music at all. I first heard it on that one Cartoon Network special and was finally so obsessed with it I got the CD and a CD player. I then got the other Daft Punk CD which was pretty good also in its own way.



Dig Your Own Hole --Chemical Brothers

After being board as hell with listening to Daft Punk over and over and over and then buying some other (not very good) french techno, I bought this album along with Vegas by the Crystal Method. This album was brilliant! Totally different sounds from what I was used to, but it was mesmerizing.



Singles 93-03 --Chemical Brothers

Well, I got this a few months after DYOH... at first I was like "WTF, none of this other stuff sounds like the Chems" but then I heard Let Forever Be and had it stuck in my head A-lot. I then went and snatched up any other Chemical CDs I could find locally.



Becoming X --Sneaker Pimps

Got this about the same time I started to get over this thing in my life (well, sorta) and, well, its probably my favorite mainstream-ish album that might actually be accepted by all the yahoos down here in Oklahoma.



And, now my quest for music is ongoing...

dire straits - money for nothin



used to listen to this when i was about 8, over and over and over before i went to school. made me want to play guitar 8)



guns n roses - u could be mine



was about 11, saw this on the uk chart show or something, rattly riff, very inspring at the time!



nirvana - smells like teen spirit



yes. this was the one. crunching, alternative, powerfull, played far too many times to make listening to it enjoyable anymore :P a real classic. shaped my teenage years ;)



smashing pumpkins - today



yeh. cant explain why, totally different emotion to teen spirit. remember singing it to myself whilst delivering milk in the dark at 4.30am and looking at the stars. hugely optimistic, and spacious.



chemical brothers - dig your own hole



i was just getting into dance music and mchebne was like 'listen to this'. i did. i liked. a lot.



joey beltram - energy flash



first time in a club (turnmills!), off my knackers, coming up really hard and richard fearless dropped this. amazing 8)

The Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Generation

When i was just a little kid my brother used to put this on and I don't know i guess i just loved it, hah, I've liked it ever since.



2Pac[b] - Makaveli

When i was into Rap, this was one of the first albums i'd listened too, Still one of my favorites.



[b]Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

Back in the day when i just hit around about 9 years old, i listened to this album and it litturally changed my life, it opened gateways to all sorts of new music, Just like the Chemical Brothers did :D



Chemical Brothers - Every Album

I can't pick any album.. it was them in all really, and if i were to pick an album i wouldnt hesitate to pick all of them so...





Most of them Artists/Albums was sort of a gateway to a new era in my musical life, like when i listened to 2pac i was mainly listening to Rap music, then Limp Bizkit i was mainly listening to Rock music and now Chemical Brothers made me Open my mind about music, which is why i love them so much :D

k - this is going to be one of those long whirly posts. Lots of music over the years. I'm going to exclude the Chems discoveries for now because... because after everything I've said here over the years, it's a given how much they've affected me, how they've made me feel, how the music's seen me through good and bad. I could write a novel on them, so perhaps in another post. But here we go for now. I look at this as the pre-motherhood days:



MLK - U2 : In 1984 on the day of release, my brother went out and bought Unforgettable. A little while later he called into my room and said, "Mia, come here. This is a band you should pay attention to." So being 12 and having nothing better to do, there we sat, listening intently to Unforgettable Fire on his turntable as we were transported into a world where ambient meets rock n'roll, and it all started to fall into place. The last song was MLK, short for Martin Luther King, and it's more lullaby type vocals sung softly over a humming, droning sound. That was the first time I ever got the chills listening to a song, made me fall in love with the band and with music in general.



Looks Like We're Shy One Horse/Shoot Out - Colourbox : Thank you to my brother again. I don't even remember how old I was when I heard this, maybe 14? Anyway, my brother and I were riding around town in his little car and he put this on. There was something hypnotic about the long bridge that escalated into the second half of the song - the best bridge in a song ever - dark, kind of spooky, trasnports you to another place. The song also has samples in it and I remember not having heard anything quite like it at the time.



With God On Our Side - Bob Dylan : My brother, being my musical guru, introduced me to this song along with the cover by the Neville Brothers which is also good (but not like how an original is good). I was about 17 at the time - in high school, idealistic, realizing there was a world out there, and I knew everything at that age. ;) Growing up in the 80's with the ever present threat of the consequences of an escalating cold war, this song struck a chord with me and sent shivers down my spine. Especially the last verse "if God's on our side, then he'll stop the next war." It made perfect sense then, makes perfect sense now. Timeless and timely.



Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad : It's sung in Gaelic and it's gorgeous, haunting, ethereal, like it's being carried on the wind. My friend's dad let me listen to it for the first time, and it's one of those songs that goes right through your skin.



Achtung Baby - U2 : The whole album gets a mention. I was in England when this came out in 1991. It about sums up the life altering experience I had when I spent my time there. The first time I got to listen to it uninterrupted and all the way through was when I was travelling from Cambridge to London. I listened to it on the train, hit repeat, and listened to it again as I went from the train station and wandering on the tubes til I reached my destination. I hear it now and I can smell that smell you only get when you are in the tube stations and can feel that warm wind whipping through the tunnel and through my hair as the train approaches.



Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil : Haha, made you look! ;) The same namesake of the Chems song but in actuality what I'm talking about is a cover of the original Tim Buckley song. It's beautiful, and achingly so. I heard this when I was taking an art class in college and my teacher used to put on music to "inspire" us. I sort of stopped what I was doing, kind of transfixed on the song and not on my project. I noticed my teacher walking toward me, scribbling something on a piece of paper. Thought she going to write me up for not paying attention. She dropped the paper on my desk and it read: Thought you'd like this, it's 'Song To The Siren' by This Mortal Coil. It made me delve a bit deeper into my trip to the more ethereal side of alternative music.



Cantera - Dead Can Dance : Ain't heard nothing like it before or since, but someone at an old job I had recommended it to me since we were chatting about This Mortal Coil. This one went straight into my core for some reason, the slow build, the rythmic yet controlled percussion climax. This opened up my ears in ways I didn't think possible - like what happens when old influences collide with new.



Star Sail - The Verve : Got a late start and didn't hear this until 1994, right when my life was getting to take a big turn. The gentle gliding guitar in this song that basks in its own reverance permeated every pore and settled straight into my bones. When I heard it, nothing else existed - time didn't exist, places didn't exist - only this song. It had been a long time since a song made every hair stand on end.



Sway - Spiritualized : I heard this at a party and a friend of ours started yapping on how Lazerguided Melodies changed his life. He had cancer and nobody thought he'd make it. He explained how he wouldn't be here if it weren't for this album and he said, "Life sure is weird..." A week later stash and I bought the album and this song, Sway, it's summed up a lot of things for me over the years. I don't think I could've managed to go through the pain of child birth if I didn't have this album or this song to fall back on. And how fitting, too. As that cold drip of the epidural flowed through my veins this song was flowing in my ears as the pain melted away - Life sure is weird, you know. This song was like a door that was opening, especially at that moment when everything was about to change forever.

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The Smiths - How soon is now



I only got into them really recently but I love them now... I'd say the Smiths have got me appreciating and listening to more modern alternative music too... Just stuff like Radiohead, which everyone loved but use to just 'whooosh' my head!

Ah, The Smiths. A true staple of the alternative music station I grew up with. They were truly a gateway band, they opened up a lot of ears. :)



There's something about that synth in How Soon Is Now, how it just wavers, it's really poignant. I love the break in the song when it's just that synth. It's wicked hearing this when you're driving along on a dark road late at night, the white lines dividing the road illuminated in the headlights.