Music and its Influence

[Esoomspark]

I think that most of us can say that we have that one song (or multiple(or a friggin lot)) that really gets to us, whether its memorable through its lyrics or sound. I've personally been influenced by fandom music to the point in which I'd like to invest my life into some form of a career in music whether it be education or otherwise.

I'd like to know, if any of you have had an experience where music has influenced you to do something, or believe in something or something like that.

 

[MysticToast]

I have so many songs/artists like this it's not even funny, so I'll just give my most recent example.

I've been on a Pink Floyd kick, and throughout the course of Dark Side of the Moon, I go through more mood swings than a teenage girl. Most music I listen to has some sort of effect on me, and I use it as a mood changer a lot.

Another example is I listen to a lot of electronic music (dubstep, hardstyle, edm, anything) and a lot of Ephixa's really early stuff is very powerful.

 

[Aerosteam]

Here's hoping this doesn't turn into a 'post a song' thread.

After listening to the radio for a few hours, this has lead me to believe that all good radio music is now extinct and what we have left is a hideous, decaying corpse called mainstream music, it's riddled with atrocities like Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber.

 

[Toasty Virus]

Lately I've went through some form of musical revamp, I cast anyway all my previous opinions and have been giving anything and everything a go.

You know Katy Perry is kinda catchy...

 

[Esoomspark]

Here's hoping this doesn't turn into a 'post a song' thread.

Yeah, lets hope not. Hopefully it'll be more "this song/artist/genre/whatever inspired me in this way" and less "DIS MAH FURVIRITE SONG HURRRRRRRR"

 

[darlarosa]

There are so manyh songs that have influenced me and really hit me hard but a few come to mind.

I'm a huge Morrissey fan and there is a song called "Black Cloud" basically about not being able to have the one you love and up until last year I had been desperately trying to deny my feelings for this guy...and then I listened to the song at a Morrissey concert and it hit me. That I did love the guy and it was hopeless at the time.
Then basically my ballad from the time I was 12 until...well I guess it kinda still is...is a song called "Last Night I dreamnt that Somebody Loved Me" it makes me cry every freaking time I hear it. In a sense it makes me open up more even if its just to myself... that's enough for me

 

[Shock and Awe]

One group that comes to mind for me is Sabaton [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaton_%28band%29]. There subject matter is mostly military history which is something I already love. However a lot of their work is about events that are a little obscure. However, the sheer passion and execution of these songs made me want to find out what they were singing about, who was Calolus Rex, where were the Poles fighting with the odds stacked 40:1, what made Gustavus Adolphus so great? Things like that. It made me learn more about something I love and appreciate other aspects about it more.

Oh, and welcome to the site. Remember, if its a versus thread, ET ES TRES MAL!

 

[octafish]

Here's hoping this doesn't turn into a 'post a song' thread.

After listening to the radio for a few hours, this has lead me to believe that all good radio music is now extinct and what we have left is a hideous, decaying corpse called mainstream music, it's riddled with atrocities like Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber.

Nope, you just need a better radio station.

At least we're doing better than the 80s.

Devo, Springsteen's Nebraska and Born to Run, The Wall, Talking Heads, The Pogues, Afrika Bambaataa, Pixies, De la Soul, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Queen, Husker Du, and Ministry.

The Tom Waits albums Heartattack and Vine, One From the Heart, Swordfishtrombone, Rain Dogs, and Frank's Wild Years.

Locally, The Moodists, The Bad Seeds, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Lime Spiders, Crime and the City Solution, God, and TISM.

Yeah the 80's didn't suck.

EDIT: Shit I forgot a lot, but it is terrible that I forgot the Tom Tom Club.

 

[BreakfastMan]

After I heard Black Sabbath for the first time, I pretty much instantly became a metal-head, enamored with the music, feel, and look of it all. Not sure if it was any one song (but if it was, it was probably Iron Man), but the works of the band (specifically, Ozzy era) has had a tremendous influence on me.

Also, Hair Metal and New Wave were instrumental in helping me pull through a spot of major depression, but that is a story for another time...

 

[Ashhearth]

I have a tendency to look for stuff that uses piano and/or violins in rock. The stuff just seems to click with me for some reason. The piano I guess because I could learn it if I took the time but the violins I don't really get.

Thus Goo Goo Dolls alllllll the way. Iris still kicks the crap out of most things they play on the radio.

*Edit* forgot an experience whoops

Coldplay definitely got me through some not so good times especially Fix You. The song just gives off a vibe that I love about being able to help people that always gets me going again.

 

[Nouw]

The Beastie Boys have definitely influenced me with their style and wacky lyrics. Whenever I need a reminder to lighten up I think of them and start rapping like life's a fucked up commercial.

 

[BeeGeenie]

The Bee Gees are my go to band for any occasion. And no, not just "Stayin' Alive." They have stuff for any mood, but I'm talking "Heart Like Mine" "Morning of My Life" "Wish You Were Here." I could go on.

Also, I sing high tenor, and I love to sing harmony. They're my heroes.

When Maurice and Robin died, manly tears were shed.

 

[octafish]

-cut-

Yeah. Those are cool. Just like I could make the 2010s look kick ass by listing a bunch of kick ass artists. But, like the 2010s, for THE MOST PART, the 80s really blew. The pop was the same synth/new wave dreck. I'll take autotune any day thanks.

Also, you forgot DEVO when you were listing kick ass artists. And Kate Bush, too.

As a spud I'll have to point out that Devo was the first band I mentioned. My point was there is always good music. Pat Boone sold more records than Little Richard.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Well 'Say It Ain't So' by Weezer led me to pick up music again and take my music seriously. I have a whole bunch, too many to even start making a list.

 

[Smeatza]

It should be compulsory for every radio station to play Akala's Find No Enemy at least once a day.
Just to remind us that hip hop is not dead yet, and it's not all about drugs, bitches and money.
That Man (Akala is his name, I'll write it again, Akala) is some kind of prophet.

 

[Overusedname]

Here's my little white boy moment: I somehow came across Old school/soul hip hop when I was at a very young age. I don't even know how, no one introduced it to me, but I did. I just flicked on VH1 soul and saw a common music video. He wasn't rapping about banging five super models a day, he was rapping about the need to respect women, and how he saw the passion of god when he looked at his lovers face, and contemplated the lesson he's learned simply by watching his daughter grow up.

I got hooked on ebonics. (<- the single worst pun ever.)

I loved hip hop and grew to have a deep appreciation of the culture. It was such amazing, experimental and new music. I'd never heard anything like it before, and I started to make performance poetry. I gained more confidence and started to perform live at my writing camp. I got a warm reception, and began to stop being so shy and introverted. I performed for hundreds of strangers when I was 14, and got a standing ovation. I hosted events in highschool, made a bunch of friends, started a game dev team, wrote a crap ton of poetry, started a creative writing club, and just started a little web series that's already being followed by a couple hundred people. I've been humbled by that support.

I owe a lot of that confidence to hip-hop. It was loud, powerful and exciting to me, and as corny as it seems, it made me want to be heard.

In addition, I think it's what opened me up to my love of different culture. I'm a major foreign culture nerd now.

Lil Wayne, 50 cent and all their impersonators...I hate you so much. This genre was so special.

At least I'll always have the underground. It's still amazing.

 

[KINGBeerZ]

Nobuo Uematsu, loved FFIX since i was five and have only in more recent years realised the beauty of the music in it, i can't honestly say that many things have touched my soul as deeply as his music.

It was in fact a rendition of Melodies of Life on piano that inspired me to learn to play piano. And the first piano piece i learned to play independently is actually Rose of May from FFIX, this is why i beleve that videogames can be true art.