Breaking More Waves: That Was The Music That Made Me

For 42 weeks in 2011 on a Monday morning Breaking More Waves has carried a feature called Music That Made Me. The concept for these posts was a reaction against an arguably unhealthy throwaway culture, something which music blogs help perpetuate with their constant strive to find the new, often preferring to move towards the next buzz artist rather than relishing any quality time with music they already know. Songs these days seem to be all too quickly forgotten. The posts were autobiographical, showing influences and describing experiences.

The songs described weren’t necessarily the best or greatest, in fact some of them were pretty awful. It certainly wasn't a 'favourite songs of all time' list. Nor were the songs chosen to demonstrate some sort of all-rounded musical eclecticism in taste; they were just a list of tracks that at some point in life created an emotion or a memory. They also opened the curtains a little on some of the more personal aspects of this music blogger’s life.

Ironically having spent 42 weeks wallowing in nostalgia the conclusion that arose from the posts was that irrespective of the rights or wrongs of constantly striving to find the new, it’s what we feel most passionate and motivated about.

So this final post draws a line under the past. We’re raising our glass to the future.

Here’s a full list of the 42 songs we featured in Music That Made Me, some classic ones, some terrible ones, some you may have never heard of. Click on the relevant link if you want to hear or read more about any of the tracks and the memories behind them.

Sundays – Monochrome

James – She’s A Star

Broadcast – The Book Lovers

Howard Jones – What Is Love

Portishead – Roads

OMD – Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)

Herve Vilard – Reviens

David Gray – Please Forgive Me

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

Tindersticks – Travelling Light

Goodbye Mr Mackenzie – The Rattler

The Cure – Lullaby