February 2012
11 posts
The Song That Changed My Life: Tom Pitts
Tom Pitts (@MrTomPitts) is a San Francisco writer. Find more of his work at http://tom-pitts.blogspot.com/
In 1992, I was 25 and stuck in rehab. Well, not really a rehab, but an Arizona ranch posing to be a rehab where we baked under the merciless sun outside of Tucson, cut off from the real world and our lives. I was told that there’d be music up there, that there were musicians—even the old...
The Song That Changed My Life: Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff (@mattrosoff) is the West Coast Editor of Business Insider SAI. He used to blog about digital music for CNET.com and play bass in lots of bands you’ve never heard of.
Perry Farrell pouring Rosoff a drink in 2011
They’re a sad joke now, a washed-up sold-out Los Angelized imitation of their former selves, but Jane’s Addiction changed my life. In high school, I was...
The Song That Changed My Life: Joe Clifford
Joe Clifford’s a writer. He’s been to jail, but never prison. www.joeclifford.com
MTV’s 120 Minutes started airing around the time I turned 18, and I was introduced to this new brand of music. Up until then I’d been raised on a steady musical diet of mainstream radio, classic rock, Springsteen, the Stones, the Who, shit you can find on the dial just about any time of day,...
The Song That Changed My Life: Graham Nash
By Graham Nash: Los Angeles, CA / September 15, 2011
My best friend Allan Clarke and I were 15 years old in 1957, living in Salford, which is very close to Manchester in the North of England…
It was a Saturday night and we were going to the local school dance….
I remember going down the stairs to the dance and handing over our tickets….
You Send Me by the great Sam Cooke had just finished...
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The Song That Changed My Life: Steve Silberman
By Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman): Investigative reporter for Wired & other magazines; Writing a book about autism/neurodiversity for Avery/Penguin 2013; One of @Time’s selected science tweeters. NeuroTribes Blog.
In 1970 or so, when I was about 12, I walked into a sandal shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts and heard music more strange and beautiful than any I had ever heard...
The Song That Changed My Life: Davis Webster
Davis Webster is an early Rexly power user and all around great guy. He’s got excellent taste in music, so follow him!
In the summer between fourth and fifth grade, my family was making our annual pilgrimage to Missouri to visit my mother’s side of the family, a trip not only miserable because you spend two days driving there, but once you get there you have to spend a week in Missouri...
The Song That Changed My Life: Parth Shah
Parth Shah (@parth16) hacks the cloud with @VMWare. He’s a Carnegie Mellon alum, and ex-Yahoo. He’s passionate about consumer web, mobile, e-commerce & public clouds: http://about.me/parth
For me the greatest power of music lies in its ability to create a deep emotional attachment. It is remarkable how music can bring back memories about people and places in a powerful way. There is...
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The Song That Changed My Life: Jarod Reyes
Jarod Reyes (@jreyesdesign) is a designer with Voxy. http://jarodreyes.tumblr.com
The formative moments sometime happen when you’re passed out, when the musical gods plant a seed that changes your life. I was a freshman at college, in a dorm full of guys whose musical epiphanies usually involved rebellious teenage-angst rock… or at the time every post-punk piece of garbage on the radio. I...
The Song That Changed My Life: James Bailey
James (@jameshbailey) is a full-time husband and father, part-time venture capitalist with GRP Partners, surfing and active lifestyle enthusiast, amateur foodie and style connoisseur.
Instead of really dating myself and telling the story of when I bought a Kriss Kross tape, I’ll tell the story of the first music that moved me. When I was 11 I bought the Led Zeppelin 4-disc box set with the...
The Song That Changed My Life: Jeff Morris
Jeff Morris (@jmj) works at Zaarly: http://about.me/jeffmorrisjr
I was the only student in my high school class with a CD burner. In the early 2000’s, this was a very big deal. When one of my dude friends needed to be romantic, I was the first person to get the call. “Hey Jeff, my girlfriend is mad at me. Can you burn her a CD? I think she likes Goo Goo Dolls.” “Yo, Morris. We’ve been dating...
The Song That Changed My Life: Semil Shah
Semil Shah works on operations at Votizen and is a contributor to Techcrunch. He is also a super awesome advisor to Rexly.
I don’t think of my formative musical experiences as tied to a specific song, or a live show, or some experience — for me, it’s about the full length album. Albums that we all remember, first to last song, and have played over and over again. For me, those albums...
