What band or artiste has influenced your life most? (lyrics, album)

Trollheart · 11-19-2008, 08:02 AM

Music affects us all, and for some of us hearing that one song or album or band can change our lives completely. So it was with me and Marillion: this band opened up whole new vistas of imagination I had never before envisioned, and every album was a journey of discovery.
So what music artiste(s) would you say influenced your life (in a positive or negative, but hopefully positive) way, and how?

~~The Unfan~~ · 11-19-2008, 08:23 AM

Stabbing Westward opened my mind to new styles of music way early in my youth. They influenced me to want to expand my taste in music and look past the radio.

Roygbiv · 11-19-2008, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by The Unfan

Stabbing Westward opened my mind to new styles of music way early in my youth. They influenced me to want to expand my taste in music and look past the radio.

It's hard to find Stabbing Westward fans nowadays. I used to obsess over them when I was way young as well.

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea changed my life the most. Its track progression and eclectic lyrics changed the way I write, read, and experience entertainment. This is why I obsess over it :P

jackhammer · 11-19-2008, 09:39 AM

Iron Maiden-Live After Death. It created a friendship that is now 22 years old and set me on my musical path.

Veronica Lodge · 11-19-2008, 10:35 AM

Thelonius Monk.
Made me play the piano 20 times more as a kid, and still does to this day.

Son of JayJamJah · 11-19-2008, 10:50 AM

Probably Ray Charles, Van Morrison and Led Zeppelin

My parents Ray Charles records got me into music

and Morrison and Zeppelin are two of my earliest influences and still in my top five, probably 1 and 2.

Veronica Lodge · 11-19-2008, 10:53 AM

Morrison is amazing.
I assisted for an engineer who recorded his most recent. - Keep It Simple...

dac · 11-19-2008, 01:11 PM

Probably Radiohead. I had a hard time delving into bands that did things different before I listened to Radiohead. Now I'll give most anything an honest listen.

Tobias · 11-19-2008, 02:14 PM

Probably Fall Out Boy, reason being that they did alot of covers and as I listened to their covers and other bands' covers of songs, I had to listen to the original songs and really liked them so it broadened my taste immensely.

Piss Me Off · 11-19-2008, 02:17 PM

The Sex Pistols, the first band that just hit me as being fresh, timeless and had a proper X factor feel to it. I've found better bands as times gone on but they properly started it really.

11-19-2008, 08:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	What band or artiste has influenced your life most? Music affects us all, and for some of us hearing that one song or album or band can change our lives completely. So it was with me and Marillion: this band opened up whole new vistas of imagination I had never before envisioned, and every album was a journey of discovery. So what music artiste(s) would you say influenced your life (in a positive or negative, but hopefully positive) way, and how? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Iron Maiden-Live After Death. It created a friendship that is now 22 years old and set me on my musical path. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Veronica Lodge Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Riverdale. Posts: 174	Thelonius Monk. Made me play the piano 20 times more as a kid, and still does to this day. __________________ - Veronica Lodge - Yes, that IS what I said.

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Veronica Lodge Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Riverdale. Posts: 174	Morrison is amazing. I assisted for an engineer who recorded his most recent. - Keep It Simple... __________________ - Veronica Lodge - Yes, that IS what I said.

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dac MB's Biggest Fanboy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 2,852	Probably Radiohead. I had a hard time delving into bands that did things different before I listened to Radiohead. Now I'll give most anything an honest listen. __________________

11-19-2008, 08:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
~~The Unfan~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Methville Posts: 2,116	Stabbing Westward opened my mind to new styles of music way early in my youth. They influenced me to want to expand my taste in music and look past the radio.

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Tobias Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Maryland Posts: 60	Probably Fall Out Boy, reason being that they did alot of covers and as I listened to their covers and other bands' covers of songs, I had to listen to the original songs and really liked them so it broadened my taste immensely.

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Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,512	The Sex Pistols, the first band that just hit me as being fresh, timeless and had a proper X factor feel to it. I've found better bands as times gone on but they properly started it really. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape