Music always helps. No matter what you’re going through. When you’re happy, grieving, loving, heartbroken, defeated—music always has your back. It is the one constant you know will always be there for you. The bars of a song have the power to take you away from the bars trapping you in life and help you find warmth to replace the emptiness inside. With music in your life, you are never alone.

People change. Life will change. Music, the moments it helps define, and what it means to you—it never will change.

For one reason or another, I have attached a memory to each song in this list. A song has made me smile when I felt like embracing defeat. A song that has marked some of the best days of my life. Songs played in times where I have never felt so loved, or so hurt.

Every song on this list, I remember the first time I heard it. I can remember what I was feeling. What was going on in my world, and somehow, or another the song stayed with me.

Nothing in this world is pure coincidence. I firmly believe things find you when you need them to be found, in particular song lyrics. There is nothing more amazing than basic instruments unifying together to create musical greatness to reinforce our faith in greatness in ourselves, or just to reassure us we are not alone. At the end of the day, we are all the same; we are looking for something to believe in, and I believe music is just the thing that will change the world.

Thank you to every soul brave enough to share their art with the world. To every artist I have every listed to, I thank you.

Thank you music, you saved my life.

Enjoy.

1. Nada Surf – Always Love
2. The Cure – Love Song
3. Sixx:AM: Life is Beautiful
4. The Cure – Pictures of You
5. Lupe Fiasco – Never Forget You
6. CKY – Afterworld
7. Johnny Cash – Hurt (NIN Cover)
8. Kanye West – Jesus Walks
9. Foo Fighters – Wheels
10. Common – Retrospect For Life
11. Johnny Cash- You Are My Sunshine
12. Placebo – Running Up That Hill (Cover)
13. India Arie – Heart of the Matter
14. The Weepies – The World Spins Madly On
15. Aesthetic Perfection – All Beauty Destroyed
16. Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky
17. Common – I Used To Love H.E.R
18. Radiohead – Creep
19. Pink Floyd (or Van Morrison’s version) – Comfortably Numb
20. Yelawolf – Have A Great Flight
21. Method Man – Judgement Day
22. Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changing
23. Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks
24. John Legend – Ordinary People
25. David Beddingfield – If You’re Not The One
    
26. Lyfe Jennings – Statistics
27. The Doors – People Are Strange
28. David Bowie – The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
29. Yelawolf – Write Your Name
30. Aesthetic Perfection – Living The Wasted Life
31. Alice Cooper – Ballad of Dwight Fry
32. Mary J.Blige – Take Me As I Am
33. Concrete Blonde – Joey
34. Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass
35. Lupe Fiasco – Beautiful Lasers (part 2)
36. Lyfe Jennings – Goodbye
37. White Lies – To Lose My Life
38. Beanie Siegel – Feel It In The Air
39. The Cure – Kyoto Song
40. HIM – Don’t Fear The Reaper (Cover)
41. The Cure – To Wish Impossible Things
42. Fallout Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
43. Jacks Mannequin – The Mixed Tape
44. Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do
45. 2pac – Unconditional Love
46. Lana Del Rey – Ride
47. MGMT – Electric Feel
48. Somewhere Over The Rainbow [All Versions]
49. The Sounds – Rock and Roll
50. Nas – Can’t Forget About You
51. Ed Sheeran – Photograph
52. Garbage – I’m Only Happy When It Rains
53. Slayer – South of Heaven
54. Kanye West – Never Let Me Down
55. Eels – Fresh Blood
56. The Beatles – Let It Be
57. Kate Voegele – Sweet Silver Lining
58. Nas – Dance
59. Aerosmith + Run DMC – Walk This Way
60. Mobb Deep – Drink Away The Pain
61. AWOLNATION – Everybody’s Got A Secret
62. Missy Higgins- Where I stood
63. Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
64. David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
65. Guns ‘N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
66. Turbonego – All My Friends Are Dead
67. Korn – Freak On A Leash
68. Ice Cube – Today Was A Good Day
69. Coldplay – Fix You
70. DJ Tiesto – Just Be
71. Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
72. 2pac –California Love
73. Donovan – Season of the Witch
74. HIM – Wicked Game (Cover)
75. Korn – Falling Away From Me
76. Eminem – Beautiful
77. The Cure – Lullaby
78. Trent Reznor + Karen-O- Immigrant Song (Cover)
79. Audioslave – Be Yourself
80. White Lies – E.S.T
81. Simon and Garfunkel – The Sounds of Silence
82. Bruno Mars – It Will Rain
83. Smashing Pumpkins-1979
84. Pete Rock – They Reminsce Over You (T.R.O.Y)
85. The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
86. Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
87. Kanye West – Hey Mama (Grammy Remix)
88. DMX – Slippin’
89. Eminem – The Way I Am
90. Lauryn Hill – Ex-Factor
91. Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
92. Nas – Daughters
93. Live – Lightning Crashes
94. Coldplay – Us Against The World
95. 2pac – Where Do We Go From Here?
96. Korn – Got The Life
97. Miley Cyrus – The Climb
98. Feeder – Feeling A Moment
99. Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls
100. Beastie Boys- You Gotta Fight (For Your Right) To Party