Band that has changed your life!

Have you ever had a band that has changed your life or that you love so much it hurts?

I'd have to say for myself The Doors and most recently The Beatles. The Doors I've been into for years and they are just so timeless for me I never get sick of them. The Beatles I always sort liked but recently after hearing a bit more of their stuff and reading about them I have gotten obsessed!

 

Definatly the Grateful Dead. the dead has changed my life alot especially the way i look at things now.every since i first heard the dead i have loved them ever since.especially Garcia's and Weir's ability to play guitar and able to sing really well.also Bill Kreutzmann's and Micky Hart's heroic drum solos. Lesh;s Bass playin as well is very grate.theyr'e all so grate. i remember my first dead song frind of the devil i love that song. i have been attached to the Dead ever since.

 

Tori Amos! I discovered her right when I was very much into a transitional phase, mentally, and it was totally different from all other music I listened at the time (basically metal and metal only). To me her music still stands as a symbol of that change from the 'old me' into the 'new me' and her music still makes me very nostalgic to that period.

 

At first it was Greatful Dead....my first concert EVER

Then it was Sound Tribe Sector 9.....everything is just so organic.....ahhhhhhh

TRIBE!!!

 

Nirvana cause its songs are zen koans.

 

I was thinking the same thought as you! “The Doors changed my life!” They made me “hip”. At the beginning came the doors. There music became flesh. And the flesh became rak.

 

Vegan Reich, 7 Seconds, and Youth of today...they are good straight edge punk bands that brought me out of addiction and depression

 

modest mouse. you've no idea how many dirt roads we've driven down just smoking a bowl and talking over those beautiful lyrics. stacey and i were singing out of gas as we crossed through the monkey park barefoot with the car on empty in the distance. so many little things brock wrote in those lyrics that meant so much to me. i have so many memories with this band it really does hurt. it's not just how spectacular their music is, it's that it affected me so deeply. i don't see my friends from my MM days so it's nice to reminise. we all went our separate ways (or really everyone slept with everyone and we just could stand the site of one another). god, those were the days.

/endrant

 

Recently, Pink Floyd has had a very emotional and philosophical effect on me. Especially after watching-and truly UNDERSTANDING-The Wall, I have been left with alot of questions circling in my mind of my life and how I connect with those around me.

 

Right on.

 

Jon Crosby's VAST: I can't disentangle myself from him enough to make any sort of worthy observations of his music. Is just plain...good. So, so good.

 

Probably Ednaswap or Nirvana. Before I found them, I didn't really know what I liked musically, I would mainly listen to the radio and be pretty dissatisfied. Then I came to realize that I like harder music with good lyrics, and that really shapes what I like now, and has helped me to understand myself better.

hailtothekingbaby, you have great taste in music. I dated a girl who loved Tori and turned me on to her. She's got some awesome music. I was listening to "Datura" from "To Venus and Back" nonstop a few weeks ago.

 

Definitely Pink Floyd. Their early stuff is unlike anything else and then everything from the 70s is simply genius, especially Dark Side of the Moon and the Wall. When I first picked up Pink Floyd, I didn't like them much because I didn't understand them. But now Pink Floyd is my second favorite band after the Beatles.

 

I have a list from being a kid to now:

KoRn, best friend showed me them when we were around 8, before I only liked country cuz it was all I had heard

Tool, best friend again showed me them, around 13... first music I heard since I got into the smarter years of childhood

Grateful Dead/Tom Petty/Steppenwolf/The Who and on and on and on, when I learned the art of "Chillism"

 

Pink Floyd - I was on acid back in the seventies when Wish You Were Here came out. Needless to say, I saw God... :angel:

 

Grew up listening to the Allman Brothers. Duane is burried a 1/2 mile from my house. Panic would come 2nd.

 

Totally not the hippy sorta stuff etc but Good Charlotte, they properly got me into music when i was like 11 (looking back its not really that long ago)... Before that i didnt really care... Now i do... But i dont really love Good Charlotte anymore... Correction: I dont love them. I like them i guess... But they seriously annoyed me.

Linkin Park did too... But that was cos they were like the only band, I loved that didnt have to go and swear... Thus they were my favourite band for a long long time... Then they started swearing.... But i dont mind. I guess i use love as a loose term...

Then after that its no specific band - cos they all did a little bit...

 

first ten years after, than the von bondies, than alice in chains than the mars volta, than tool, than sleep, the john butler trio each of this bands influenced my thoughts on music in such a way that each of them kind of got me in a new period/stage of what kind of music i was listening to

 

jimi hendrix saved my mind once

sex pistols woke me up once

[nothing has happened to me since the seventies]