Think of 15 albums, CDs, LPs (if you're over 40) that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life. Dug into your soul. Music that brought you to life when you heard it. Royally affected you, kicked you in the wazoo, literally socked you in the gut, is what I mean. Then when you finish, tag 15 others, including moi. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it!


AS YOU ALL KNOW...I DO NOT TAG...I LEAVE THIS OPEN TO ANYONE ELSE WHO THINKS IT IS INTERESTING AND DECIDES TO DO IT.

Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
The inspiration for my novel came while listening to Downward Spiral. The entire novel was written while listening to NOTHING but NIN--18 months. During that time The Fragile came out and I was EVER so glad it was a double!!! LOL!

The Crow - Movie Soundtrack
August and Everything After - The Counting Crows
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
Rotting Pinata - Sponge (I actually use to hang out in the studio where this was recorded, but it was YEARS before Sponge was there)
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
Teaser and the Fire Cat - Cat Stevens
Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
The Head on the Door - The Cure
The Violent Femmes - The Violent Femmes
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
The Lost Boys - Movie Soundtrack
Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
Purple Rain - Prince

Yes, I went over by two.
It was actually difficult to make it even just 17.... When you love music and it is a huge portion of your life, many songs mean something...you are lucky if whole albums hold importance. They say scent is the sense that links to memory, but for me, it has always been MUSIC...A song can transport me through time with no effort at all. I pinpoint time lines by music/song releases. If we watch Cold Case and I miss the date at the beginning, I can still tell the "when" if it was within the last 60 or so years, because they always play the music from that time.

Each of these albums is a like a snapshot in the scrapbook of my life.
For Example: Jagged Little Pill. We drove out to Ocean City, MD for our honeymoon (also visited Salem Mass and McGuire AFB on that trip) for our honeymoon. On your way to OC there is a long stretch of road that seems to take forever because by now you have been driving for 11 hours and you can smell the sea and all you want now is to HURRY UP and get to your hotel so you can change clothes and dive into the waves...we listened to that album with windows down and moon roof wide open and drove as fast as traffic would allow...and every time I hear one of those songs, I am back on the road to the ocean and a cheesy hotel room right on the boardwalk directly underneath what used to be Tavern By The Sea...