I wouldn't say they changed my life but they affected me greatly.




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Yes! Looking In is my all time favorite Mariah song. She was my favorite artist growing up but I stopped liking her after Butterfly.

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain.
This album truly changed my LIFE. I first listened to it when I was 14. It changed so many things in terms of how I listened to music. I think what affected me the most were Prince's simple, yet extremely complex lyrics - I don't really know what the fuck I'm trying to say but this album truly was life-changing .nod:

errant said:

"Gold, pure gold; and still one of the best compilation of 80's funk/soul"
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Alej said:

amessing

Imago said:

ota

I forgot The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. That album is special cause it made me hate rap a bit less

Alej said:

Purple Rain touched a lot of people. It deserves more credit than it got



The rest of your choices were very gay

Hey, sorry, but I'm gonna get all Supa on your thread and tell you my life's story about and through music! Man, don't you hate that?


in order. from birth:



Elton John - Greatest Hits vol 1 & 2 ... was probably my most vivid and continuous introduction to music when I was very young.



Muppet Movie and Xanadu soundtracks. My first loves. And they are still loves.




I was OBSESSED with these bitches in 1987 and 1991, respectively. A general obsession with music itself didn't continue on until the later, though.




I was obsessed with Paula until 1992 when the above 2 took over my life for a summer and I realized there was more to life than Paula Abdul... like the 2 people she was cloned from



It's funny because in 1984, we were ALL about Madonna's first album in my neighborhood. But our mothers made us ditch her quick when Like a Virgin came out. Ironic, because 8 years later, it was Erotica that made me figure out that I was gay. It was awhile before I was okay with it.

As for Prince, I knew his hits of course. We were kinda-sorta allowed to listen to 1999 and Purple Rain at the same time as Madonna until some lyrics were overheard by the neighborkid's mom. We didn't even know what they hell he was saying in anything but the big hits, because that's all we cared about. (We were 7). And, you know, what 12 year old wasn't having his first eargasm over Batdance in 1989, especially since it was tied to the cooooolest movie any of us had ever been allowed to see up to that point. Anyway, it was with the Hits/B-Sides that I delved back into him without looking back. He made me gay too. And he made me like music, too, beyond dance pop bitch divas. Though he's probably the dance-pop-bitch-diva-est one of them all

My mother was not really pleased with my re-discovery of Prince and Madonna at the time. She threatened to throw it all away. And I was threatened with death if my 10 year old brother ever heard any of it.





So, then, I was obsessed with Prince, Madonna, Janet, MJ, George Michael and a couple of others through most of the 90's, until like 1998/1999 when I went all weird at 21 and started listening to a bunch of stuff that wasn't pop for the charts. (Yes, I've always been a late music bloomer.) Had quit school, had my heart broken by a straight best friend, etc. Anyway, I've included above probably the most important and the ones that have stuck with me the most. Yeah, I was super-depressed.




1999/2000 started going completely the other direction and getting around to the classics, starting with the above 2.




Fell in love for the first time with these as the soundtrack. 'Nuff said.


Then, I don't know, I was pretty stagnant for most of the decade. I was broke as hell and content and I was into music, but I'd mostly just get obsessed with one artist I was into by that time already or obsessed with a compilation project to work on. Not even sure if I was really into the music at all. It was more of a crutch/distraction, really.

Then last year, and since, I've totally been absorbing all kinds of stuff, new and old. Anything and everything. Too many to even pick any out, but music is back in my life in a big way and I'm devouring everything I can.



So, anyway, looking back on it all those... jeeze, what a fag I am.

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very cool. thorough.

Imago said:

And that's the goal, ishn't it?

JoeTyler said:

This is Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit...

Didn't know anyone else had this boxset. Thought it was just me. I like Toni. She was the best dj ever. Well she was a slut so that's why I have the fondness. Lazlow was/is obviously the greatest ever.