When has music played the biggest part in your life?

Tricky question, it's always played a big part for me and in different ways at different times. I probably used it most to relax and took it most seriously late 1980s and early 1990s....particularly listening to Depeche Mode's 101 and Violator, lots of New Order and The Smiths and getting in to the Manchester scene with The Stone Roses, a great soundtrack to many good nights out!
 
It's always played a big part really. From framing my teenage years to providing a soundtrack to some of the most important decisions a few years down the line. I guess most recently it gave me the inspiration and courage to move to a different country, which proved to be a pretty inspired decision in the end.

My tastes have changed fairly wildly over the years too, so if i was going to make a playlist of my life nobody would know what the hell was going on... a bit like me at the time 😬
 
There are a couple of times.

My mum was an opera singer and music was everywhere in our house, when she died 8 years the silence was awful. I had my ipod on constantly playing the same songs over and over again.

My son had trouble at school and couldnt manage normal classes, he also couldnt sustain many hobbies. I bought him a very basic guitar to see if it would spark some interest, he enjoyed it and I enjoyed teaching him and playing together. Out of some money that my mum left him in her will we bought a semi acoustic Gretch in orange. Before I knew it he was on stage at school performing in the battle of the bands. Then started playing in school concerts. He left school at sixteen and went to college to study the bass, followed by university in a degree in music production. He now writes music for film scores as well as other animation projects. Music changed his life and has made me a very proud Dad.
 
Listening to Queen, and motown tapes in the car with mam and dad as a little kid will always stick in my mind. Always get a little bit emotional when certain motown tracks are played.

Apart from that, It's been a bigger part of my life since I was 13, am 45 now. Started off playing drums, joined a rock band when at Redcar Tech at 16 and played loads locally, left Boro at 19 to study music at Uni, started work at a record label as an admin assistant after Uni, and now head up one of the departments at the same label 21 years later. and I still play in a band (well, not right now due to Covid, but usually)

It's all been equally as important to me. Have been to hundreds of gigs and festivals during this time too, God knows what I'd be doing now if it wasn't for music.

My 13 year old son has recently started playing my drum kit every day after lockdown started, and has taken to it like a duck to water which fills me with pride. He also loves proper bands like GnR, Queen, Kiss, ACDC... many of the bands I love too.
 
Music has always been a massive part of my life and continues to be so but strangely the musical memory that sticks with me was not a happy one at the time. I was always woken on a Sunday morning by the sounds of Jim Reeves - Bimbo Bimbo, John Hansen - Drinking Song or countless Mario Lanza songs played by my dad on our Radiogram. Often it was after a heavy night out but also when I was younger. Used to share a room with my brother.
As I said at the time it was not a happy memory then but all these years later with my parents both gone its a memory I think of fondly as its a link to happy times.
 
Lying in a dark room, headphones on a teac reference 500 listening to dark side of the moon .
changed my life

no drugs either , just the pure quality of 4 Top of their game musicians
 
Music was my first love (see what I did there?). Like others have already said, different tunes bring back different memories but in my teens/early twenties I was obsessed. I'm still an avid listener and collector but the main era would be 1975 to 1985.
 
Late 1968 and into 1969 - a sad time of my life that shaped me for the rest of my life in a positive way if that makes sense.
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Eloise - Barry Ryan
If paradise is half as Nice - Amen Corner
Where do you go to my lovely - Peter Starstedt
A few more, and if I hear any of them I re-live the feeling.
 
It has never stopped, from being a wee thing playing a small radio every chance I got to my Grandads entire collection over and over on their strangely casket like radiogram every time we visited through to pretty high end HiFi and now streaming today. I don't think I've ever had a day without it and one moment never bigger than any other. It's a constant
 
I remember going by myself to see Fairground Attraction in central London in the late 1980s. I think it was close to Tottenham Court Road. At the Dominion Theatre. Not long after I had separated from my first wife. I feel like music like that kept me alive during a time of immense sadness.
 
Smog in Wilts said:
There are a couple of times.

My mum was an opera singer and music was everywhere in our house, when she died 8 years the silence was awful. I had my ipod on constantly playing the same songs over and over again.

My son had trouble at school and couldnt manage normal classes, he also couldnt sustain many hobbies. I bought him a very basic guitar to see if it would spark some interest, he enjoyed it and I enjoyed teaching him and playing together. Out of some money that my mum left him in her will we bought a semi acoustic Gretch in orange. Before I knew it he was on stage at school performing in the battle of the bands. Then started playing in school concerts. He left school at sixteen and went to college to study the bass, followed by university in a degree in music production. He now writes music for film scores as well as other animation projects. Music changed his life and has made me a very proud Dad.
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What a lovely story, all from your mams love of music
 
All my life too, love music, Spotify 👍

Growing up in our house the radio was constantly on music all the time, on Sundays while preparing dinner, my mum had the gramme phone on listening & singing along to Natt King Cole, Jim Reeves, Eddy Fischer, she would also play Glenn Miller, I still play all that music to this day
Younger days both musicals Grease & Sound of Music I still love to this day

Getting in to my early teens because of my two older sisters I got in to Glam Rock, loved Sweet & Slade, through the years I sort of listened to the sort of same theme which was sort of poppish music, whatever era I would enjoy, punk came I loved the Undertones & liked the Sex Pistols, but not in to punk really, my younger brother was, wore the gear too, he hitchhiked all over the country following punk bands, I was more diso, new romantics that sort
Some posters mock my taste, I don't mind it's all in good fun, one even said I have horrible taste, I put that comment down to jealousy & been rude too 😉but each to their own I suppose, but TBH, I don't have a certain taste, apart from heavy metal music, oh & the Smiths, I could listen to most music, even asredastheycome plays a couple of records I enjoy listening to

So from NKC, to the Sweet to ABBA to Sailor to the Undertones to OMD to Celine Dion, I enjoy all sorts
 
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