re: Has there been an album that has literally changed your life?

Opeth's Blackwater Park really opened my mind and left me in awe. I didn't know their music, but I was in the mood for something new, so I got that album not too long after it came out after reading something about it. It was like nothing I had heard and I quickly got obsessed with the band. The atmosphere that album has when listened to in the right moment and setting is pretty incredible. Same goes for the albums they did prior to that one.

The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi are albums that came close to actually "changing my life." I was a freshman in college and was going through a rough time. I got those albums on a whim and the lyrics and overall message really spoke to me. Then I became obsessed with the Flaming Lips. It's too bad that I've despised most of their music from the last few years though.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the album most responsible for my music taste though. Got it in 5th grade. The album has it all - hard rock, metal, glam rock, symphonic rock, electronic, folk, pop, prog...