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• [1] James from Brooklyn July 03, 2009 - 02:14PM

  Ween, The Pod.

  
  
• [2] bob from NYC July 03, 2009 - 02:17PM

  music certainly has a potential to change ones life. for couple of days. then there is another record, and another. r

  
  
• [3] Ruth from Manhattan July 03, 2009 - 02:17PM

  BLUE by Joni Mitchell

  
  
• [4] Carrie from brooklyn July 03, 2009 - 02:18PM

  Jeff Buckley's Grace.

  
  
• [5] bob from NYC July 03, 2009 - 02:20PM

  music certainly has a potential to change ones life. for couple of days. then there is another record. than another. r

  
  
• [6] Filip from New York July 03, 2009 - 02:20PM

  For me it was Sly & the Family Stone's "There's a Riot Goin' On". In 1971 I was a 13 yr old in Warsaw Poland and I owned 3 LPs: Sgt Pepper and the soundtrack of the Yellow Submarine by The Beatles and then the Sly's album that a friend of my parents brought for me from France. Mind you at the time you could not buy in a store in Poland any western popular music. I did not know the word funk, but I listened to this album thousands of times. And I still love it today!

  
  
• [7] danielle from brooklyn July 03, 2009 - 02:24PM

  Dry by PJ Harvey (1992). The first time I heard "Dress" I knew I wanted to be in a band, and I wanted a girlfriend just like PJ.

  Ahhh those were the days. -danielle

  
  
• [8] Tucker Ranson from Manhattan July 03, 2009 - 02:24PM

  Original cast recording of Threepenny Opera. First heard it as age 23 and it changed my political point of view for the rest of my life (now 63) as well as the music.

  
  
• [9] Tucker Ranson from Manhattan July 03, 2009 - 02:24PM

  Original cast recording of Threepenny Opera. First heard it as age 23 and it changed my political point of view for the rest of my life (now 63) as well as the music.

  
  
• [10] Juline from Brooklyn July 03, 2009 - 02:27PM

  When I was about 18 someone played me Big Black's "Rich man's 8 track tape". The song "Bad Houses" really hit me and I realized I wanted to play the drums. I am a drummer now, but I'm embarassed to admit that the first drummer that really inspired me was "Roland".

  
  
• [11] Emily from Brooklyn, NY July 03, 2009 - 02:27PM

  Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

  I heard it for the first time in middle school. I'd never heard anything like it... and knowing that the musicians came from the town next to mine was exciting.

  
  
• [12] darrin from staten island July 03, 2009 - 02:30PM

  Donna Summers "A Love Trilogy"....a disco masterpiece

  
  
• [13] Eleni from NYC July 03, 2009 - 02:30PM

  I suppose every phase of your life has a theme album connected to it. Although I was born in the same year as

  The White Album. The 1st album I bought second hand

  Beatles/ Sgt. Pepper

  At 11y.o, I realized change is good, but this is a real trip.

  
  
• [14] roger from NJ July 03, 2009 - 02:37PM

  THe year was 1969. I was 12 yrs old. The album was Crosby Stills and Nash. I realized that there was other music out there besides what was playing on my AM radio and that it was better.

  
  
• [15] Ken from Upper West Side July 03, 2009 - 02:38PM

  Without a doubt, the album that has the best claim on "changing my life" is Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. I discovered it at the age of 15, two years after its release (you do the math). It never left my little portable turntable for about 5 days straight. I made everyone in my family listen to it, whether they wanted to or not. It was my introduction to the genius of Bob Dylan, and without that as a companion and soundtrack, I cannot imagine my life.

  
  
• [16] Solomon Jazz from Brooklyn NY www.solomonjazz.com July 03, 2009 - 02:42PM

  "Fear of A Black Planet" by Public Enemy.

  It changed my life because it introduced to me a form of hip hop expression that was so soulful and fearless. Yes, the album title is controversial, but just like a book you can not judge this album by it's cover (or it's title).

  
  
• [17] Andrea from Brooklyn July 03, 2009 - 02:50PM

  Also, "Fear of A Black Planet" by Public Enemy, "RUN D.M.C" and most of James Brown's tracks.

  Could this show be more smug and tame???

  Hip Hop, Soul and Funk are grossly under-represented.

  
  
• [18] isa kocher from istanbul July 03, 2009 - 03:11PM

  my friend put on john coletrane~thelonius monk. my universe stopped. i suddenly understood MUSIC. I saw the place where it exists in that place beyond ersatz. i could see music's bones and flesh like i was inside it looking out.

  
  
• [19] isa kocher from istanbul July 03, 2009 - 03:14PM

  At the beginning, 15 billion years ago, the singularity expanded and the first reality was music. [that's basic cosmology physics. not BS] Since that day billy holliday johnny cash jussi bjorling illahi neshid shakuhachi Russian liturgy Tibetan chant Bach the tenor aria in Pearl Fishers gospel/spiritual West Side Story Satyagraha eric satie all are real, music is real. [btw, no i wasn't toking smoking drinking tequila, tripping. it was just the truth of that music.]

  john coltrane thelonious monk changed the universe i live in

  
  
• [20] isa kocher from istanbul July 03, 2009 - 03:30PM

  1962 my freshman math teacher was serving dinner, and played joab baez, and i realized that song was an art form not just an entertainment.

  it opened for me the universe of art in a way nothing else ever did.

  especially her rendition of the dylan lyric,

  Perhaps it's the colour of the sun cut flat

  And covering the crossroads I'm standing at,

  Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,

  But Daddy, you been on my mind.

  her voice and those word made a 17 year old[not so innocent] being romanced by a professor suddenly understand that the universe was bigger better and more interesting

  
  
• [21] Cliff Sloane from Korat, Thailand July 07, 2009 - 02:16AM

  When I was in 8th grade in 1965, our band teacher played us "Poeme Electronique" by Varese. Of the MANY musical experiences that changed me or my outlook, this was probably the most dramatic.

  If anyone knows whatever became of Peter Hertling, I would appreciate a note.

  
  
• [22] Jack Kramer from Newfield, NY September 17, 2009 - 04:08PM

  To Cliff Sloane,...If we are talking about the same Varese-loving Pete Hertling, he is one of my closest friends. We taught together in Northport, NY, and Pete was teaching in Merrick and Brentwood before that. Just yesterday (9-16-09) he had a hip replacement operation. I will speak to his wife tonight. Pete retired a while back from Rocky Point schools and is living in Wading River, out toward Riverhead. Pete is one of the finest teachers I have ever known, and having Pete and Chet as friends for almost 40 years has been just wonderful. I hope this helps you out. If not, simply carry on...and don't give up your search.

  Jack Kramer, Newfield, NY