Which band or record changed your life?

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 in that order
 
 maybe...

[broadkat]

In particular order (that in which they changed my life, chronologically):
 
 The Smiths -- the world won't listen
 Nirvana -- nevermind
 Bikini Kill -- pussywhipped
 Sleater Kinney -- dig me out

[SPARX]

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Damn,how could i forgot them.Saw em at the Merriweather on their Freedom of Choice tour and my mind was melted.What a spectacle that boojie boy was.Any fans of Devo, I HIGHLY suggest purchasing the new
 book out on them Are We Not Men? We Are Devo:
 http://www.devobook.com/
 
 it is a great read. Pretty wild stories of their
 beginnings and such.

Originally posted by SPARX:
 Damn,how could i forgot them.Saw em at the Merriweather on their Freedom of Choice tour and my mind was melted.What a spectacle that boojie boy was.Any fans of Devo, I HIGHLY suggest purchasing the new
 book out on them Are We Not Men? We Are Devo:
  http://www.devobook.com/
 
 it is a great read. Pretty wild stories of their
 beginnings and such.

Hallelujah! Amen.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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this one did some serious damage on me as well.. along with a couple of singles from elvis costello and the clash, "numbers "by kraftwerk, "live at budakon" cheap trick, "one step beyond" madness, and the first stray cats record.

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 What an absolutely killer album.
 
 I've got the enhanced disc with three videos!  Gonna go watch 'em!

[ChampionshipVinyl]

Ride's Nowhere

[Santos L. Halper]

Weird Al - Even Worse

[Miss Mita]

Bruce Cockvurn's 1991 album, "Nothing But a Burning Light"
 
 And seeing REM in concert for the first time... that was truly a life changing experience...

[Miss Mita]

Bruce Cockburn's 1991 album, "Nothing But a Burning Light"
 
 And seeing REM in concert for the first time... that was truly a life changing experience...

[lily1]

yippee! someone else who thinks that song is the best on the album. or one of the best.
 
 they did perform that live on one of the dates of the tour that just ended a few weeks ago. i requested it thru the website for the dc show but didn't get it. but i did get "i believe" and "fall on me" so all ain't bad.
 
 

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  not to mention that "country feedback" is a fantastic song.

[Justin Tonation]

How about a single artist?
 
 For me, with little doubt, John Cage.
 
 Most recent major change: Merzbow.

[lily1]

david gray for me.
 
 

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
  How about a single artist?
 
 

[Yank]

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 This album sounds as vibrant today as it did the first time I heard it in the late '70s.  The grooves in the vinyl were worn white from the continuous play.

[Celeste]

at first I thought that these "change your life" threads were kind of overstatements...but in thinking more about it, I thinking that one's life can change a little every day...not be some big monumental thing...but, I guess I would say one of the more major thought-changing albums for me was XTCs Oranges and Lemons because I always thought that I hated the Beach Boys because my dad hated them (he was more of a Dead Head and Frank Zappa lover, though he did like the Flying Burrito Brothers and stuff like that) But, in hearing what I perceived to be a Beach Boys influence that I loved in Oranges and Lemons, with the bright poppiness and lush instrumentals, it opened me to this sound that is now one of the most common threads in all the music I like most...Wilco, Beulah, some Shins...I think the Beach Boys' music is among the most innovative of our century, if not the most...but it ws XTCs Oranges and Lemons that lead me to this...