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.
- Nada Surf – Always Love
- The Cure – Love Song
- Sixx:AM: Life is Beautiful
- The Cure – Pictures of You
- Lupe Fiasco – Never Forget You
- CKY – Afterworld
- Johnny Cash – Hurt (NIN Cover)
- Kanye West – Jesus Walks
- Foo Fighters – Wheels
- Common – Retrospect For Life
- Johnny Cash- You Are My Sunshine
- Placebo – Running Up That Hill (Cover)
- India Arie – Heart of the Matter
- The Weepies – The World Spins Madly On
- Aesthetic Perfection – All Beauty Destroyed
- Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky
- Common – I Used To Love H.E.R
- Radiohead – Creep
- Pink Floyd (or Van Morrison’s version) – Comfortably Numb
- Yelawolf – Have A Great Flight
- Method Man – Judgement Day
- Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changing
- Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks
- John Legend – Ordinary People
- David Beddingfield – If You’re Not The One
- Lyfe Jennings – Statistics
- The Doors – People Are Strange
- David Bowie – The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
- Yelawolf – Write Your Name
- Aesthetic Perfection – Living The Wasted Life
- Alice Cooper – Ballad of Dwight Fry
- Mary J.Blige – Take Me As I Am
- Concrete Blonde – Joey
- Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass
- Lupe Fiasco – Beautiful Lasers (part 2)
- Lyfe Jennings – Goodbye
- White Lies – To Lose My Life
- Beanie Siegel – Feel It In The Air
- The Cure – Kyoto Song
- HIM – Don’t Fear The Reaper (Cover)
- The Cure – To Wish Impossible Things
- Fallout Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
- Jacks Mannequin – The Mixed Tape
- Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do
- 2pac – Unconditional Love
- Lana Del Rey – Ride
- MGMT – Electric Feel
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow [All Versions]
- The Sounds – Rock and Roll
- Nas – Can’t Forget About You
- Ed Sheeran – Photograph
- Garbage – I’m Only Happy When It Rains
- Slayer – South of Heaven
- Kanye West – Never Let Me Down
- Eels – Fresh Blood
- The Beatles – Let It Be
- Kate Voegele – Sweet Silver Lining
- Nas – Dance
- Aerosmith + Run DMC – Walk This Way
- Mobb Deep – Drink Away The Pain
- AWOLNATION – Everybody’s Got A Secret
- Missy Higgins- Where I stood
- Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
- David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
- Guns ‘N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
- Turbonego – All My Friends Are Dead
- Korn – Freak On A Leash
- Ice Cube – Today Was A Good Day
- Coldplay – Fix You
- DJ Tiesto – Just Be
- Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
- 2pac –California Love
- Donovan – Season of the Witch
- HIM – Wicked Game (Cover)
- Korn – Falling Away From Me
- Eminem – Beautiful
- The Cure – Lullaby
- Trent Reznor + Karen-O- Immigrant Song (Cover)
- Audioslave – Be Yourself
- White Lies – E.S.T
- Simon and Garfunkel – The Sounds of Silence
- Bruno Mars – It Will Rain
- Smashing Pumpkins-1979
- Pete Rock – They Reminsce Over You (T.R.O.Y)
- The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
- Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
- Kanye West – Hey Mama (Grammy Remix)
- DMX – Slippin’
- Eminem – The Way I Am
- Lauryn Hill – Ex-Factor
- Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
- Nas – Daughters
- Live – Lightning Crashes
- Coldplay – Us Against The World
- 2pac – Where Do We Go From Here?
- Korn – Got The Life
- Miley Cyrus – The Climb
- Feeder – Feeling A Moment
- Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Beastie Boys- You Gotta Fight (For Your Right) To Party