A list of the most influential singles of my life.
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#1

Far Above the Clouds
by Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells III)
1998
During elementary school, I spent countless hours alone with my grandma. She had a stereo and a collection of CDs from my aunt. I remember going through ALL of them, track by track, until I found this one... I spent years listening to this track in loop. I was so young that I couldn't even tell that what I was hearing was Mike's guitar solo. For me it was just a perfect wall of sound. Funnywise, next time I heard the words `Tubular Bells` it was 15 years later, when I was studying progressive Rock at Uni. The name came out and I went home to find this track again. I almost freak out when I found it after all those years.
#2

Entangled
by Genesis (A Trick of the Tail)
1976
I still cannot believe how good this track is. It just gets better and in the end when the mellotron hits... Uff...
#3

I See You
by Yes (Yes)
1969
Best rock song ever.
#4

Zurawie
by Wydech/Ugory (Cyberpunk 2077 OST)
2020
Found on the TV show. When a good track matches a good anime scene there's nothing more powerful.
#5

The Perfect Drug
by Nine Inch Nails (Lost Highway (OST with VA))
1997
When I started playing drums for Lunakid, one of the main inspirations of artist director Kons was NIN. I went to look for their music and I came upon this one. Funnywise, he didn't know about this one yet. We were both amazed...
#6

Vespers: Bless the Lord, O my Soul
by Finnish National Opera Chorus (The Very Best of Rachmaninov)
2005
This is just too good.
#7

Simple Man
by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)
1973
Beautiful lovely track.
#8

Watermelon Man
by Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters)
1973
I remember my sound teacher showing me this when I was 18. I didn't like it at that time. I didn't even consider non-techno music to be relevant to me. Later...
#9

What Reason Could I Give
by Ornette Coleman (The Complete Science Fiction Sessions)
1982
No words needed/can discribe this. If you are a fan of Ornette as I am, you will understand.
#10

Acting
by Sweet Trip (You WIll Never Know Why)
2021
Sweet trip is too good.
#11

Driving South
by Jimi Hendrix (BBC Sessions)
1967
A friend showed to me and planted a seed on me (as he says). Years later, I appreciated the recommendation and found one of the most amazing solos I ever heard.
#12

My Favorite Things
by John Coltrane (My Favorite Things)
1960
The piano solo is mesmerizing.
#13

Tender Surrender
by Steve Vai (Alien Love Secrets)
1995
The long solo and the amount of different guitar colours put this live performance to the top of the ever recorded guitar solos.
#14

The End
by The Doors (The Doors)
1967
The Doors was not put on the albums section because I could not choose one. But if I had created a bands section, it would be one of the firsts. And here one of my favorite tracks of them.
#15

Children's Corner Suite: I. The Snow Is Dancing
by Claude Debussy (François-Joël Thiollier (Piano Favorites)
1906
Once I heard this track a 100 times in one day.
#16

Before the Beginning
by John Frusciante (The Empyrean)
2009
Recommended to me by one of my best friends. He came home once and told me: 'dig this, because I just cried with it'.
#17

Outro
by M83 (Hurry up, We're Dreaming)
2011
Found this one in a VIMEO video where they mixed images from Yosemite. It really had a huge impact on me. I even went to San Francisco once just to go there... and the roads were closed because of the snow.
#18

Fight Fire with Fire
by Metallica (Ride the Lightning)
1984
Let's break a hotel room with this.
#19

Enas Mythos
by Nana Mouskouri (I Nana Mouskouri Tragouda Hadjidaki)
1967
This track broke my heart when I heard it the first time. I found it randomly on the record collection I once bought.
#20

Eternal Harvest
by Nobuo Uematsu (FFIX - Piano Collections)
2001
Believe it or not, once I was able to play 70% of this track (until the last fast part starts again). I should get back to it!!!
#21

Ma Il Cielo E' Sempre Più Blue
by Rino Gaetano (Gianna e le altre...)
1975
I was at a restaurant when I heard it for the first time and had to ask the waiter to tell me the name of it. I was blown away. What an artist!
#22

Way Back Home
by Steve Gadd Band (Way Back Home Live at Rochester)
2016
Steve Gadd is so good and influential that after hearing this track a few times I used many of the fills he play unconsciously on an album I recorded for a punk band. The musicality just sticks with you.
#23

Higher Ground / Roxanne
by Stevie Wonder & Sting (The 25th Anniversay R&R Hall of Fame)
2013
This was the first time that I heard Stanley Randolf (the drummer of Stevie). Oh my God those drums... And that Hi Hat...
#24

ABC Cafe / Red and Black
by Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, Claude-Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables)
2012
I loved the movie and the music in it! This is one of my favorites.
#25

Nightstalker
by Kenji Kawai (incl. collabs) (Ghost In The Shell)
1995
I did spend once a whole morning working and listening to this track in a loop. The mixture of tension (string instrument) and relaxing pads it's very intense. It was also a big inspiration to later do my track called (Death's waiting room, from Tot Fosk)
- Childish Japes - Go Own Them All (feat. Dave Vives) (After You're Born, 2017)
- John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown (Snap, Crackle & Bop, 1980)
- Zombie Zombie - Thème de fin (L'heure de la sortie OST, 2019)
- Masamichi Amano - Professeur et élèves (Final Battle) (Battle Royale OST, 2000)
- Jocelyn Pook - Flood, 1999)
almost made it...