Let me guess, it scarred you emotionally for life.

Okay NFD

Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
This was the first pink floyd song that I really listened to. I remember it was on a sunday morning and I was still in bed and my parents were playing it really loud on my dads awesome sound system. I remember being totally blowen away by it. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. After that I got very much into pink floyd which lead me onto other types of music.

The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
I got into the sex pistols in year 8. It was in about 1986. The pistols was the first band of the heavier (guitar based) "dangerous" rock bands that I got into. I became very interested in the whole idea of punk. I bough the great rock n roll swindle video and thought the sex pistols were a very interesting band. They didn't really lead me onto other punk bands until about 5 years laster. As in the meantime I discovered metal.

Black Sabbath - War Pigs
I borrowed a best of black sabbath tape a short time after I got into the sex pistols. I though the band seemed very dark, mysterious and evil. I though it was great.

Metallica - Fight fire with fire Later on that year I remember a mate of mine saying to me "hey man I have some really heavy shit here" I listened to his walkman and I could no believe my ears. It was a song off ride the lightning and I think it was fight fire with fire. I could not work it how, how could a band play so fast and with such intensity. I had to have more so I went straight out and bought the record. This lead me onto slayer, anthrax, exodus, celtiuc frost, bathory, coroner, death angel etc etc.

The Pixies Gougeaway.
A few years later I heard the pixies and it opened a whole new genre of music to me. Music could be interesting and heavy without it being metal!! The pixies lead me onto the whole alternative thing, sonic youth, mudhoney, nirvana, alice donut, husker du etc. It also reintroduced punk rock back into my life, DK's bad brains, etc etc.

so there you go 5 songs that changed my life, goodnight.

my bloody valentine - soft as snow
velvet underground - sister ray
pink floyd - echoes
aphex twin - the entire selected ambient works volume II album
tool - third eye

For a little history, most of these musical revelations happened in my early/mid teens. I had no friends interested in music and had to make my own slow discoveries through whatever means I could (( especially difficult considering that there were no good music stores where I lived, my parents forbade ordering things online, and once file trading happened I had an internet connection of 22kbps dial-up and had no burner, which pretty much killed that option. )).

In any case, I managed to get into whatever music I could, and it was a wonderful process of discovery...here are some memerable landmarks:

King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man" ---- Yes, progressive rock is my favorite rock style, but that didn't happen until I heard this song. It's still one of my favorite tracks of all time, regardless of genre...

Miles Davis - "So What" --- The album opener to the album that single-handedly got me into Jazz, what is now probably my favorite Genre of music to listen to.

Aphex Twin - "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" ---- This was the song that spawned my interest in electronic music; I was 15 at the time and thought it was one of the coolest things I'd ever heard!

Cecil Taylor - "Abyss" --- The first track to the album "Silent Tongues". As a crappy pianist myself, hearing Taylor tear into his piano with such ferocity and power (( I didn't know an acoustic piano could make sounds like that at that age! )) was astounding to me. This is what led me to my love of Avant/Free Jazz, and quite possibly Avant-Garde music in general...

Public Enemy - "Bring The Noise" --- The music of Public Enemy brought to light the fact that the garbage that was passed off as Rap through mainstream outlets was horrible and that the genre did have quite a few artistic merits. I now regard rap and hip-hop as highly as any other form, although I can hardly claim to be an expert.

im gonna do mine again

comfort me by pacifier still... even though its not one of my favourite songs now, i fell in love with the heaviness when i heard it at a concert... got me into heavier music

like suicide by soundgarden- my favourite song of all time.... need i say more? im with llama... i get a natural high when i hear this song, along with:

4th of July by soundgarden- my bad mood song.... such a bitter, disturbing song, but still fucking awesome.

climbing up the walls by radiohead- such an eerie song... got me into radiohead

for whom the bell tolls by metallica- another natural high song... sweeet guitar work on this..... got me into metallica's pre black album stuff

Pulp - Disco 2000
i was only 14, been introduced to the greatest brit stuff called Pulp,
like their other stuff, an heartmelting story with an overmoderate rhythym
and perfect vocal. Reminds me my early failures in love ages ago.
U2 - Until the End Of The World
Probably one of their best compositions
from their definetely best album Achtung Baby.
Its cool and depressive Lyrics w/in a mellow mood makes me up.
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
the most crying song and the most non-kitch song simultanously @all.
Placebo - Every Me Every You
it was the video taken from a live performance and the guy later on i got his name
was so passionate in vocal. It was an excellent glam and still is.
PJ Harvey - the Dancer
the giveaway expressions of Polly against her lovers is something beyond the strong words,
especially this song not only includes excellent lyrics in this sense
but also challenges by using an extraordinary chizophrenic vocal
with staggering up and downs. keeps me down.

No, 5 certainly is not enough! I guess these songs were milestones for the discovery of something new.
Lake of Fire - Nirvana
Yes, Nirvana were the first loves. They were the platform to spring into Shonen Knife, the Pixies, the Breeders, Sonic Youth.
Janis Joplin- Summertime
I must have been about 14 and had never heard anybody sing like this before. It was a state of revelation and shock and I liked it immediately. Not just the novelty of hearing a voice such as hers but just the simple confessional, utterly bereft and plaintive but defiant tone. Janis was courageous. Janis is inimitable.
Keep on Rotting in the Free World - Carcass
Oh these guys. Thank you for expanding my vocabulary and scaring my mother. Although now I'm in the "free" world...but not quite rotting yet. Forgive me, Carcass.
I put a spell on you - Diamanda Galas
Ditto for the scaring of mother bit. Hm. What can I say about Diamanda Galas but it was rather like the Janis Joplin episode, except that it occurred a few years later. Galas inspired the urgency to uncover other artists who create music that is entrenched in a more lyrical, traditional (as in folklore or narrative) approach.
Dub Housing - Pere Ubu
I'm not sure what happened here. I think I was less shocked than simply really fucking bemused. I don't know if it's just me. It's like the best song ever written.
Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill
Haha. Had to include the little Riotgrrls. And it was fun.
Square Heart - The Black Heart Procession
Now TBHP are poetry. They accompanied me through many insomnia plague nights, and were comforting in the morning where you aren't sure whether you slept at all.
Horsetears- Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp almost reduced me to tears 4 years ago with Felt Mountain. Haunting, cinematic, jaded, but gleeful at times like a naughty child romping in the woods at midnight only to come home and find everyone is murdered.
Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie
Thanks largely to the Beat movement, hello jazz.

My Friends- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Really I was on my high horse about some shit, then I listened to this song and realized I had a really important friendship i could lose.

Judith- A Perfect Circle
You know it's like the song says, it's not like you killed someone

Napalm Death - The Kill
There I was, just a wee whippersnapper of a boy, just starting to get interested in indie and metal, when John Peel plays this track by Napalm Death. "Wooargh" go the vocals. The music sounds like people with instruments falling downstairs. It lasts for 23 seconds. It was the coolest thing I'd ever heard, at that point in my life.

Bauhaus - Double Dare
The first song on "In the Flat Field", the album which turned me into the saddo music geek I am today. Booming, grinding bass, with guitars that make weird noises, that was me pretty much hooked.

Clock DVA - The Hacker
Probably the first purely electronic song that I absolutely loved. From their "Buried Dreams" album, which still stands up as one of the greatest, darkest electronic albums ever made, imo.

Current 93 - The Blue Gates of Death (Before and Beyond them)
Current 93 are indisputably my favourite band, and have been for a long time now. This was on their "Earth Covers Earth" album, which I'd picked up, without knowing what they were like, based upon a recommendation by Edward Ka-Spel. Without this, I'd probably never have got into folk music, or some of the more bizarre experimental/avant-garde stuff out there. The song I want played at my funeral, gorgeous, and joyful.

Incredible String Band - A very Cellular Song
Very probably responsible for my belief that folk music can be as essential as any other form of music out there. Trippy, experimental, light, fun, and oh so long, this is pretty much 60s folk perfection, in my book.

"The music sounds like people with instruments falling downstairs" ha.