Best song of the past 25 years?
Jun. 11th, 2003 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonVH1's latest "greatest" list and a conversation elsewhere got me to thinking - what are the songs that really made an impact on my musical tastes (I hesitate to say "life" - it is JUST music, after all)?
Given that I've not kept up with the latest musical trends very well, I automatically think back to my teens/early 20s, when music really MATTERED to me, in a passionate, sanity-maintaning kind of way. These two spring immediately to mind:
Joy Division "Atmosphere" - hauntingly beautiful and so wonderfully somber, I'd listen to this one when I needed a really good cry. I still love JD's work, but it is so emotional it's difficult for me to listen to now. This is the one track I can think of that should never be remixed/covered/tampered with - it's breathless as it is.
808 State - "Pacific" - it wasn't love at first listen (more like 3rd or 4th), but this turned my musical landscape upside down my senior year of high school - good-bye goth, hello proto-raver! I had to wait 4 years to go to my first "proper" rave, but this music introduced me to the genre that has influenced my life in so many ways - found me good friends, encouraged me to travel, fed my need for adrenaline, fueled many a road-tripping weekend, and ultimately, led me to D. (ok, so maybe music did affect my life, after all!)
What about y'all?
Given that I've not kept up with the latest musical trends very well, I automatically think back to my teens/early 20s, when music really MATTERED to me, in a passionate, sanity-maintaning kind of way. These two spring immediately to mind:
Joy Division "Atmosphere" - hauntingly beautiful and so wonderfully somber, I'd listen to this one when I needed a really good cry. I still love JD's work, but it is so emotional it's difficult for me to listen to now. This is the one track I can think of that should never be remixed/covered/tampered with - it's breathless as it is.
808 State - "Pacific" - it wasn't love at first listen (more like 3rd or 4th), but this turned my musical landscape upside down my senior year of high school - good-bye goth, hello proto-raver! I had to wait 4 years to go to my first "proper" rave, but this music introduced me to the genre that has influenced my life in so many ways - found me good friends, encouraged me to travel, fed my need for adrenaline, fueled many a road-tripping weekend, and ultimately, led me to D. (ok, so maybe music did affect my life, after all!)
What about y'all?
