What music did you really find spiritual as a teenager?

Question

Most of us truly developed a love for music of some kind during our adolescence, and it might even be fair to say that the music we embraced at that time helped to shape who we were then, and perhaps even to this day.

What music 'spoke to you' during your growing up? Was it a particular artist, or maybe one significant album? What was it about that music that resonated with you?

Also, are you still a fan?

Answer 1

imagine by john lennon.

Answer 2

The music I really, really fell in love with was the music of eels. I must have been 15 when I first heard "Last Stop: this town", and I must say the video drew me in as much as the song. But I bought the album "electro-shock blues" probably the next day. Many of the lyrics are extremely sad, yet somehow hope shines through in ways you can't explain. This is a part of every eels album. At least for me it is. I think "P.S. You Rock My World", the closing song of electro-shock blues, is the most genuinely uplifting song ever. For a couple of months I listened to that album every evening, and this was the last thing I heard before I went to sleep:

I was at a funeral the day i realized
I wanted to spend my life with you
Sitting down on the steps at the old post office
The flag was flying at half mast
And i was thinking 'bout how
Everyone is dying
And maybe it is time to live

I don't know where we're going
I don't know what we'll do

Walked in to the thrif-tee
Saw the man with the hollow eyes
Who didn't give me all my change
But it didn't bother me this time
'cause i know i've only got
This moment
And it's good
I went to the gas station
Old woman honked her horn
Waiting for me to fix her car

I don't know where we're going
I don't know what we'll do

Laying in bed tonight i was thinking
And listening to all the dogs
And the sirens and the shots
And how a careful man tries
To dodge the bullets
While a happy man takes a walk

And maybe it is time to live


thanks for reminding me.

Answer 3

I was and always will be a Beatlemaniac. I also liked the group Bread, was a big fan of Simon and Garfunkel. Buffy Sainte-Marie was awesome and very relevant to the times. Joanie Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, America, Eagles, Beach Boys, Doors, Badfinger, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Dave Clark Five, Petula Clark, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Grass Roots, Norman Greenbaum, Hall and Oates, and Blondie.

atheist (THINK)

Answer 4

I know it is lame but for me it was Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. Yes I am still a fan.

There were time when; Infest - Papa Roach and These Days - Bon Jovi spoke to me soul as well and yes I am still a fan.

All of the music meant something to me, With Papa Roach and Bon Jovi is was the feeling that there were other that felt like me. With the classical music it was get lost in the music. I would lay on my bed and close my eyes and all of the sudden I was in my own world with not pain or hurt just peace.

Answer 5

I liked a lot of different music, old and new.

Savage Garden, Placebo, Marilyn Manson, Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, the Monkeys, Wet Wet Wet, etc, etc. Most of that's from my late teens as I wasn't a huge music lover before then, I preferred to sink into a book.

I grew up listening to a lot of my parents' music, and as such have a lot of love for classical and opera.

I listened to music for the most part to help me escape, a soundtrack to my daydreams. But I still listen to the same stuff now, it still helps me run away from the real world every now and then.

Answer 6

I was really into the Cure as a teenager, although I hardly found it spiritual. As I got into my later high school years I started to listen to more folksy kind of rock, and then became a huge Neil Young fan above all else. He's still my favorite, especially since the release of Prairie Wind, which probably resonates with me more than any other album.

Answer 7

while you're Christian, then you definately ought to settle for which you are the pot, and that god is the potter. God has molded you into what he needs you to be at this element on your existence. do no longer make the errors of thinking that he has "stable" issues in concepts on your existence or that he needs you to look different on your friends. this may be what you go with, yet you could’t assume to appreciate the concepts of the god or what he intends for you. The bible reads that god made the two the stable and the evil and that no longer each vessel has been arranged for noble deeds. The war you experience must be you suffering against his molding. while you're no longer a Christian, then i've got confidence which you will reject this answer. What does it mean to be fairly unfastened? it incredibly is a rhetorical question. to answer your question greater in the present day I advise the e book titled "Enders interest" Written by Orsan Scott Card. he's a Mormon by the way.

Answer 8

I was really influenced by the grunge rock, alternative music scene. Some of my favorites then and still today are Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, REM, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, and the Wallflowers. I find this genre of music to really speak to me in a profound way. It's almost as if the song writers can read my complex thoughts and put them into the form of music.

Answer 9

Metallica.

I can't say I'm a fan anymore, especially after a bad experience with some moshing fans at a concert.

Now I love Bob Marley. Very spiritual stuff.

I also love John Lenon's Imagine.

Answer 10

I loved Amy Grants early Christian music it helped me through a very tough time and I also love Michael Card he is also very anionted and his songs talk about the Bible those were the artists that helped me grow in my walk with the Lord.

Answer 11

I listened to Jimmy Buffett way back before all the parrothead madness. He was my favorite...

If I was feeling melancholy I listened to Willie Nelson's red headed stranger. It seemed to fit those troubled years. ( I was married at 14 and had 3 kids in high school.)

These songs did shape who I was, and am, to some extent. My kids even though grown up and have kids of their own, still will hear Jimmy and call me. They call it their nursery rhymes....I just smile...and say thanks Jimmy for all the great tunes.

Just an ole parrot head~vicki