Top 15 Most Influential Tracks on YOU!

Top 15 Most Influential Tracks on YOU!

Not the coolest, the most obscure, most popular. The top 15 most influential tracks upon yourself. The tracks that made you, yourself. The tracks that had you not heard, you’d be a very different person. (I had to go 15, cause 10 just felt wrong!)


Mine:

Fazed Idjuts feat. Sally Rogers – Dust For Life
Bjork – Isobel
Laurent Garnier – Crispy Bacon 'Live version 1999'
Masters At Work – Love & Happiness
Jam & Spoon – Stella
Pink Floyd – Breathe
Don Carlos - Alone
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
Bis – Candy Pop
Joanna Law – First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Lil Louis & The World – French Kiss
Jackie Wilson – Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher
Pulp – She’s A Lady
Last Rhythm – Last Rhythm
St Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Re: Top 15 Most Influential Tracks on YOU!

Thats a tune and a half.


Good question actually. Will take me a while to think.

hmm here we go....... this could take a while!!

system f - out of the blue
satoshi tommie - love in traffic
dj elite - fuct camera
paul glazby - hostile
guns n roses - november rain
david gray - sail away
stereophonics - pick a part thats new
bon jovi - livin on a prayer
underworld - born slippy
da hool - meet her at the love parade
nirvana - smells like teen spirit
felix da housecat - silver screen shower scene
john lennon - stand by me
new order - blue monday
prodigy - voodoo people

bit of a mixed bag if ever you saw one, every ones got different memories tho all fuckin mint imo

tell me about it mate, I must be some kinda sadistic fucker. Can't believe I forgot to put Kylie in there! though maybe would have opted for Put Yourself In My Place.....

mine look random as fuck wrote down, from john lennon, guns n roses thru to indie to trance & hard house!!!!

what can i say................ ive a widespread music taste

Great thread tho i will reply 2moz when im awake enough!

What a good thread, could go on but these are the 15 I chose:

Counting Crows - Anna Begins
Counting Crows - Omaha
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
DJ Tiesto - Sparkles
Dido - White Flag
The Connells - 74/75
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To You
Blank & Jones - After Love
REM - Everybody Hurts
Greenday - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Housemartins - Caravan Of Love
Radiohead - Karma Police
Weezer - Island In The Sun
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
The Cosy Molars - Rehearsal

The last one is a song that a friend who I played in that band with wrote about me and my ex girlfriend. When I was playing the drums to it at our gigs/recordings I never used any fills or rolls because it would ruin the whole song for me

Basement Jaxx - Flylife
Primal Scream - Dont Fight It Feel it
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Leftfield - Inspection [check one]
Daft Punk - Phoenix
New Order - Blue Monday
Oasis - Married With Children
Adamski - Killer
Nu Yorican Soul - Runaway [Armand Van Helden Mix]
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Chemical Brothers - It Doesnt Matter
De-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart

couple of cheesey ones to finish

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
MC Hammer - U Cant Touch This
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Good

Dance and Trance tunes that have influenced me:

Chicane feat Bryan Adams - Dont Give Up
Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel
Paul Van Dyk - We Are Alive
POS - Remember
BT - Flamin June
Aalto - Rush (Super 8 Remix)
Ayuni Hamasaki - M (above and beyond mix)
Chicane - Halcyon
DJ Tiesto - Suburban Train
Hybrid - Unfinished Symphony
Gouryella - Ligaya
Nu NRG - Dreamland
Paul Van Dyk - The Riddle

Songs outside Dance & Trance:

Coldplay - Clocks
Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain
Aerosmith - I Donrt Wanna Miss A Thing
Enrique - Hero
Bon Jovi - Its My Life
Bon Jovi - Always
Fugees - Ready Or Not
Madonna - Frozen
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero
Micheal Jackson - Remember The Time
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

1, Jimmy Hendrix - Purple Haze
2, Areosmith - Dude looks like a lady
3, New Order - Blue Monday
4, Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
5, Jurrasic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
5, Biggie Smalls - Hypnotize
6, Joy Divison - Love will tear us apart
7, Andy C - Bodyrock
8, Wildchild - Renegade Master
9, Duran Duran - Own Way
10, The Slits - Heard it through the grapevine
11, Blues Brothers soundtrack
12, Pulp Fiction soundtrack
13, Mr Scruff - Ug
14, Squarepusher - Red hot car
15, Marolyn Manson - Beautiful People.

1. Don McLean - Crossroads
2. Thrillseakers - Synaesthesia
3. Micheal Jackson - Moonwalker
4. System of a Down - Chop Suey
5. Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
6. Cortina - Music is Moving
7. Oasis - Supersonic
8. Counting Crows - Mrs Potter's Lullaby
9. Dee-lite - Groove is in the Heart
10. Blur - Song 2
11. The Tramps - Disco Inferno
12. Portishead - Sour Times
13. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
14. Sasha & Maria - Be As One
15. CJ Bolland - The Prophet

wouldve loved to have seen them at their peak

transmission

you have impecible taste specially the 1st 2 songs!!!

did u c them at the arena last jan? if so did u c gamma hayes that girl is amazing!!! :chill:

for my songs....

everybody hurts - R.E.M
local boy in a photograph - stereophonics
omaha or rain king - counting crows
volcano - damien rice
california dreamin' - mama's & papa's
ran for miles - gemma hayes
tears in heaven - eric clapton
always & forever - jj72
space & time/velvet morning - the verve
with arms wide open - creed
trenches? (i think it's that track) - inme
get me off - basement jaxx
empty skies - kosheen
let it be/lucy in the sky or yesterday - beatles
my generation - the who
sunny afternoon - the kinks

i cud go on a lot longer an all!

that's cheating!

i can't believe i didn't mention the jackson 5 or michael jackson or bon jovi...i also misse dout my influences from takethat, nkotb & east 17!

excellent thread Mr E. hmmmmm, ill have to think of some defining moments in my life for this one....it may take a few edits...

Foo Fighters - Everlong
Jurrassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard - Got me Into HipHop
Roots Manuva - Witness
JohnnyShaker - Pearl River - Got me into Trance
Oasis - The MasterPlan - Got me into Playing the Guitar
Nirvana - Live + Unplugged in NYC (Whole albumn)
Stereophonics - Billy Davies Daughter
Techno wonderland (not sure who its by, old hardcore tune)
Tiesto - Urban Train

Ooh go on then I'll have a shot

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Roachford - Get Ready
U2 - Tryin To Throw Your Arms Round the World
U2 - One
Faithless - Insomnia
Paul van Dyk - For An Angel
David Morales - Needin U
Oasis - Columbia
Oasis - Rock n Roll Star
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
Three Drives - Greece (2000?)
Goodfellas - Soul Heaven (Dave Clarke remix)
Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Daft Punk - Da Funk

Took me ages to do that. Ooh i'm getin all sentimental!

Cheers! I missed them when they played because I had no money and spiralling debts. Begged me mum for cash but I had exhaused her already! Next time they are around I will be there in a heartbeat. I love their stuff, its perfect for comedowns (not that I ever have them ) and can be really chilled (raining in baltimore, perfect blue buildings, anna begins) or uplifting too (mr jones, omaha, american girls!)