Albums / Music that changed my life
by Johnnyo 
I'm using a topic which goldminemag has used where they have asked musicians to pick the albums that have changed their lives.
This will be a slow builder for me but we'll see where it goes
- Chart updated: 10/16/2025 14:15
- (Created: 09/02/2025 07:24).
- Chart size: 14 albums.
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It’s not actually this album that changed my life but what it represents. Punk! (NB Some great tracks on this compilation)
1976 & 1977 were pivotal years in my musically development. I've always been a sponge as far as soaking up music, even to this day, but back then I was trying to listen to everything that I could get my hands on, or that my friends had discovered.
Punk was so out there and like nothing we had heard before although my mom compared it to when she first heard Elvis and Bill Haley which I think is a fair comparison. My dad hated punk and also glam before it. He didn't get Bowie at all
This was the first time that it felt like people like me were making music. Prog had been great in the early days but by 1976 it felt like you needed a masters in musicology to really appreciate what you were listening to and if you criticised it, you just weren't musically aware enough to understand it.
Three of my friends at the time were in three different punk bands. None of those bands lasted long or were actually much good but that didn't matter.
Barbarellas in Birmingham was the home of punk for a couple of years seeing bands like The Vibrators, The Clash and many others, also adjacent acts like The Solid Senders and The Runaways (I was in love with Joan Jett).
The music felt real and relevant to us in a city that was always on the brink of another strike and I guess the grimness of being in a city which felt a little chaotic at the time. This was also when I started getting into politics seriously so I appreciated the environment around punk more
There was also a change in the clothes that we were wearing so the whole thing felt like it really belonged to us and not those older than us. I was 18 / 19 at the time [First added to this chart: 09/03/2025]
1976 & 1977 were pivotal years in my musically development. I've always been a sponge as far as soaking up music, even to this day, but back then I was trying to listen to everything that I could get my hands on, or that my friends had discovered.
Punk was so out there and like nothing we had heard before although my mom compared it to when she first heard Elvis and Bill Haley which I think is a fair comparison. My dad hated punk and also glam before it. He didn't get Bowie at all
This was the first time that it felt like people like me were making music. Prog had been great in the early days but by 1976 it felt like you needed a masters in musicology to really appreciate what you were listening to and if you criticised it, you just weren't musically aware enough to understand it.
Three of my friends at the time were in three different punk bands. None of those bands lasted long or were actually much good but that didn't matter.
Barbarellas in Birmingham was the home of punk for a couple of years seeing bands like The Vibrators, The Clash and many others, also adjacent acts like The Solid Senders and The Runaways (I was in love with Joan Jett).
The music felt real and relevant to us in a city that was always on the brink of another strike and I guess the grimness of being in a city which felt a little chaotic at the time. This was also when I started getting into politics seriously so I appreciated the environment around punk more
There was also a change in the clothes that we were wearing so the whole thing felt like it really belonged to us and not those older than us. I was 18 / 19 at the time [First added to this chart: 09/03/2025]
[First added to this chart: 09/04/2025]
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Albums / Music that changed my life composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 5 | 36% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 29% | |
| 1990s | 4 | 29% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Various Artists | 2 | 14% | |
| R.E.M. | 1 | 7% | |
| The Dream Syndicate | 1 | 7% | |
| Paul Simon | 1 | 7% | |
| Jimmy Page & Robert Plant | 1 | 7% | |
| Neil Young | 1 | 7% | |
| Massive Attack | 1 | 7% | |
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