A song that changed my life? Look mate, I don’t think I have an answer that will satisfy your doom scroll today. But none the less, I will try to provide some kind of answer, maybe even two.
Sleep To Dream by Fiona Apple from her debut album, Tidal.
That song was my gateway drug into exploring and expressing contempt, resentment, and heartache. I been in one bad relationship after another for my entire life. Maybe it is fair to say that, for my entire life, I’ve been the bad relationship that other people lament. In either case, Fiona Apple gave a voice to the smoldering ache from what I had done, and what had been done to me.
The Great Pumpkin Waltz by Vince Gauraldi
On a brighter note, A song that changed my life for the better was something you might find quite unexpected: The Great Pumpkin Waltz by Vince Gauraldi, for the Peanuts animated special, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Listen to that chord progression! It’s savagely beautiful. This was where My adult musical sensibilities really began to take shape. Even listening to it now, I feel a complicated wash of warm nostalgia and welcome sadness for a time that we lost.
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