This Song Changed My Life

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Coming of Age

No. 098 - Pixies’s “Debaser” changed my life
In 1991, a teen lifeguard made a cassette tape that nudged Millie De Chirico toward a career in foreign and underground film
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No. 096 - Garbage’s “Queer” changed my life
A gift, a transition, and Layne Crawford’s full circle moment
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No. 094 - LCD Soundsystem’s “Freak Out/Starry Eyes” changed my life
A song in a fish shack and a movie star in a Whole Foods — P. Henry’s unforgettable family trip to Vancouver
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No. 090 - Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” changed my life
Music didn't mean much to middle-school Gaby Muiño — until the 2009 VMAs
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No. 089 - MF DOOM’s “Rhymes Like Dimes” changed my life
From Yorkshire to London and back again, Kambi Thandi reinvents himself and finds his people
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No. 088 - Kevin Abstract’s “Yellow” changed my life
Overwhelmed by loneliness in small-town Texas, Claire Robinson finally submits to her whimsy
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No. 087 - King Sunny Adé’s “Kiti Kiti” changed my life
Friends become family, cultures collide, and one song breeds confidence for Eric Drobny
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No. 086 - India.Arie’s “Video” changed my life
Mocked for her differences as a child in 90s Germany, Jasmin Annmary happened upon a music video that helped her embrace her authentic self
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No. 083 - Scott Joplin’s “Solace” changed my life
Lost to memory for over three years, the composition that Adam D’Agostino needed to discover and re-discover
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No. 082 - Enya’s “Only Time” changed my life
A tonic for Samantha Vell's sleepover anxiety
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No. 081 - The Beatles’ “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” changed my life
An old circus poster, 2000s teen memories, and the song that transported Seth Vertelney to another dimension
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No. 080 - David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” changed my life
In a ’72 Chevy Nova, in front of a pizza parlor, Tracy McKenna saw, really saw, her mother for the first time
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