Simply Mel(Formerly Mama Monoblogs)

The 15 Albums That Changed My Life

I got "tagged" by my friend , Lisa, for this note on Facebook and thought I'd share it on my blog as well.  It took me a while to come up with this list. This list includes albums that I listened to growing up to the present day. I listened to mostly what my parent's listened to until I developed  tastes of my own. That is why there is such an ecclectic mix on here! I do associate people, emotions and feelings with these albums. Just writing this brought me down memory lane. It's amazing how certain songs bring back smells, feelings, certain people and emotional attachments.My musical tastes have changed through the years so some of these I don't even listen to anymore. But here they are in no particular order.

*(Original Tag Note on FB)*

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people and emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world.

This is not a favorite albums list, but a list of albums that had a profound impact on you.


1. Mariah Carey-Music Box (evokes memories of mooning over my crushes and writing about them in  my journal) ((highschool)

2. Mariah Carey-Emotions (highschool)

3. Celine Dion- The Colour Of My Love(  highschool and college)

4. The Beach Boys-Endless Summer (highschool)

5. Kenny Loggins- Return To Pooh Corner (This reminds me of my first "real" job. The infant room at a day care I worked at. We listened to this CD all the time. I love it. I play it for my girls' naptimes now. It's soothing and beautiful) (early college years until present)

6. DC Talk-Free At Last(highschool)

7. Michael W Smith-Change Your World  (evokes more memories of mooning over boys and writing in my journal) (highschool)

8. Amy Grant-Compilation tape that included songs from Age To Age,The Collection And Heart In Motion  ( The first solo performance I did for highschool choir was "Father's Eyes" by Amy Grant)(highschool)

9. Backstreet Boys- Backstreet's Back.  I was a HUGE BSB fan!! (early college years)

10. The Carpenters- The Singles (For some reason this album evokes memories of planning my wedding. I love this album and so many of these songs are classic love songs) (college years until present)

11.Josh Groban- Josh Groban (present day)

12.Maranatha Music- (I'm not sure what album it was but it was a collection of praise songs that we listened to all the time. Some of them we sang as a family on deputation)(elementary school)

13. John Denver-Back Home Again( My dad listened to this so I think this is the album. It has all the songs I know on it. We even sang "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" as a family at a church function once) (elementary and junior high school)

14. Steve Green-People Need The Lord (another album my parents listened to that I learned all the words to. One of the first solos I ever did was "People Need The Lord") ( elementary school)

15. Unknown Oldies Tape- I loooved this tape.It had classics from the 50's and 60's. Don't know what the tape was called and I can't seem to find it online. I listened to it in highschool.

 

This was fun! It took a lot of thought, work and googling but it brought back some good memories and made me pull out some CD's I want to listen to again.

Now I need to write in my journal and listen to some BSB, or Josh Groban ....or Mariah Carey...

Sigh.

 

It's A Family Affair!!

I come from a musical family. My parents sing and play piano and guitar. My mom even plays the accordion!

(insert Partridge Family comment here)

I sing and play piano. My sister sings and plays piano, guitar and drums. My brother sings and plays guitar. And apparently is learning all sorts of other instruments in his quest to be a better worship leader.

My grandparents sing and/or play instruments. My aunts, uncles and cousins all sing and/or play an instrument.

Music is a way of life for us.

 When I am able to get together with my siblings we like to sing together. Growing up my brother was always shy and didn't really do much musically. He has grown into a very musically talented young man and is now the worship leader at my parent's church! My sister and I have sung together for years. When we were on deputation as missionaries, way back when, we would always sing a children's song in portuguese and english together. If it was the same song in both languages-even better!! Most people thought it was cute. Well, we've evolved since then and have sung many songs together at many different places.

(Insert Indigo Girls comparison here)

 Now that my brother has come out of his musical shell the three of us make pretty good music together.

(insert Hanson comparison here)

That is one thing I really miss living so far away from them. I wish I could be around more to sing with them.

Here is a song we sang this past Sunday together. My brother didn't sing with us on this song. He played guitar, my cousin David is playing bass and my brother in law, Waylon(not seen in the video), is playing drums. Hopefully, soon, I'll post a video of the three of us singing.

I hope and pray Katelyn and Madelyn get the music gene.

Oh, and any other future children I may have.

Can't forget them....

 

*Oh, and the reason there are two videos is that the camera accidently got shut off for a sec while filming and then started back up. So the first video has several seconds and the second one has the rest of the song on it*