2 records that changed Your Life!

1-Modern world The Jam 1977ish
2-Level 42 Micro Kid 1983 (driving round City Rd in my cortina after passing driving test)

1- Also The Jam, but In the City; turned me on to punk big time and I've never looked back

2 - Teenage Rampage - The Sweet; age 14 it was glam rock at its best!! The precourser to the New York Dolls, Bowie, Stooges etc.

1. Do anything you wanna do - Eddie and the Hotrods, which was one of the very first Punk Rock singles

2. A New South Wales - The Alarm.

I always struggle when answering questions like this. I'll think.

1. Do anything you wanna do - Eddie and the Hotrods, which was one of the very first Punk Rock singles

2. A New South Wales - The Alarm.

Great songs - great days... Loved seeing Mike Stevens play live at the CCS the other week.

i have 4 albums that changed my life

trex....slider
led zeppelin..physical graffiti
bob dylan...blood on the tracks
miles davis....kind of blue

Chicago "If You Leave Me Now " Discovered what a young lady kept in her pants to this one,

Living For The City-Stevie Wonder Playing as i walked into the Old Wooden Grange End for the first time.

Kashmir-Led Zeppelin

Black Rose Thin Lizzy

Starman - David Bowie

Anarchy in the Uk - Sex Pistols

"19" Paul Hardcastle - changed my views on wars - was a bit gun-ho as a kid, not so now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCCmBwRjGw

"Oh Carole" - First song I ever sang on stage, won me a prelim competition at pontins many moons ago - that got me to a final, (and a free holiday for the family) singing in front of 2000+ people (sang an Elvis Medley - I know Annis would approve of that ), what a buzz, where I competed against 11 pros and finished 3rd not bad. That began a career in singing/entertaining

The first one is Hoppippolla by Sigur Ros because it really made me listen to a lot more ambient and epic music. The second one is Rebellion by Arcade Fire. I didn't really pay much attention to alternative music that was outside of the charts before then.

When I was younger my brothers to always play stuff by Stone Roses, Nirvana, Guns n Roses, Pearl Jam etc so they were always in my mind but I think because I was exposed to that from such a young age I drifted in the other direction and have since become a fan of dance/ trance/ drum n bass stuff such as Tiesto, Deadmau5 and Scratch Perverts.

Pink Floyd's the Wall defo changed my life

Baba O'Reilly also

2 of my all time favourite albums has to be:

Deftones - Around the fur
At the drive-in - Relationship of command

other classics:

the offspring - smash
nofx - punk in drublic
biffy clyro - blackened sky, and vertigo of bliss

Green Day - American Idiot
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Around The World/Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger from Daft Punk's Alive 2007 album. Heard it live in 06 and I've never looked back
Craig David feat. Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind

Ben - Micky jackson

Mary of the fourth form-The Boomtown rats


Reasons being very personal to myself

White Riot - The Clash. Fast and manic and loved it. Got me into Punk.

Because The Night - Patti Smith. Out when I was going out with my first girlfriend and became our song.

Ben - Micky jackson

Mary of the fourth form-The Boomtown rats


Reasons being very personal to myself

not scary mary???

Hard to think of really life changing records, but I can remember the exact moment I heard 'Venus in furs' by The Velvet Underground and thinking WTF as I've never heard anything like it. still play the CD regularly after 25 years.

Hard to think of really life changing records, but I can remember the exact moment I heard 'Venus in furs' by The Velvet Underground and thinking WTF as I've never heard anything like it. still play the CD regularly after 25 years.

classic -many illegal substances taken when that was written I think...

its 5 for me they are

Rancid Out Come The Wolves
Morbid Angel Alters of Madness
Lars Fredrikson & Bastards - Viking
Goldblade - Rebel Songs
Leftover Crack - f**k World Trade

The stairs INXS
Pretty Vacant SEX PISTOLS

Billy Hunt - "No one pushes Billy Hunt around, well they do but not for long, when I get big and grow bionic arms, the whole worlds gonna wish they wernt born". Class song.

Will have a think for number 2

Another Chance by Roger Sanchez comes close to my two as well. Just had my music on shuffle and this little beauty cropped up. Haddaway's 'What Is Love' introduced me to dance music though.

Jeff Buckley - "Grace". After discovering this I learned to play every track (granted not very well) on the guitar. I'd never bothered learning before.
A boring one, but heard Oasis - "What's The Story..." being played religiously by my older brothers when growing up. Must have had a massive effect on me because now I work in a record shop!

Why not 3?

Blitzgrieg Bop by the Ramones
London Lady by the Stranglers
Baby Baby Baby by the Vibrators

something by santana or clapton, that inspired the growth of my guitar love. failing that, red hot chili peppers, warpaint and eminem.. pick two tracks from any artist thats me

Why not 3?

Blitzgrieg Bop by the Ramones
London Lady by the Stranglers
Baby Baby Baby by the Vibrators

Look at this guy! Billy big balls!

1-Modern world The Jam 1977ish
2-Level 42 Micro Kid 1983 (driving round City Rd in my cortina after passing driving test)

Remember driving up to Manchester [City] fac 3, Jan 02, 1982 listening to the Level 42 tape, great band then.

The first and biggest one was - Please Operator by Tony and Tyrone. we played the guts out of it over and over and over again, early to mid 80's.
It's here on Youtube, well worth a listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSlFoBi-qQ

The second would be Liza Radley by The Jam. I'll keep why to myself.

Album wise:-
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
then Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths