The Irish Times

This Album Changed My Life: Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)

Paul Alwright, FKA Lethal Dialect, on the soul singer’s seminal recording

Sat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: Burial – Untrue (2007)

Daithí O’Connor of Come on Live Long discovered Burial’s second album during the downturn

Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: The Skatalites meet King Tubby – Heroes of Reggae in Dub (1999)

Mark Speer of Khruangbin says the album has been influential to the way he writes music

Sat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: The Chemical Brothers – Surrender (1999)

Ruairi Lynch of Bantum on an album that ‘sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before’

Sat Jan 20 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

Hvmmingbyrd’s Deborah Byrne on ‘a truly fearless female voice’

Sat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life (1976)

BARQ’s Jess Kav on music that a thousand weddings wouldn’t make her sick of

Sat Jan 06 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: Björk – Homogenic (1997)

Bad Bones, aka Sal Stapleton, on an album with ‘some of the best pieces of music ever created’

Sat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00

This album changed my life: Elliott Smith – XO (1998)

The album accompanied Homebeat’s Emmet Condon on many train journeys as a student

Sat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00

‘The Prodigy helped me put my family life back together’

This Album Changed My Life: Musician Brian Deady on The Prodigy’s Experience (1992)

Sat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00

'I thought The Redneck Manifesto was a huge cult band from the States, not down the road in Crumlin'

This album changed my life: Lar Kaye of All Tvvins on The Redneck Manifesto's 'Thirtysixstrings' (2001)

Sat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00

Maria Doyle Kennedy: Joni Mitchell taught me not to feel sorry for myself

This Album Changed My Life: Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark (1974)

Sat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00

This album changed my life: Can – Tago Mago (1971)

The Cyclist on the album that ‘takes him right back to a feeling of timeless creation’

Sat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00

The Incredible Stream Band ‘captured the enchantment of winter to a child’

Daragh Lynch of Lankum on the album that changed his life and songs you have to hear

Sat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00

David Bowie’s ‘Low’: ‘Like unearthing a strange desire’

This Album Changed My Life: Elephant’s Shane Clarke on Bowie’s 1977 album

Sat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00

‘Smashing Pumpkins crowned the end of my childhood’

This Album Changed My Life: James Heather on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Sat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00

This album changed my life: Johnny Cash – American Recordings (1994)

Musician Seamus Fogarty on the album he first ignored and later owed a debt to

Sat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00

This album changed my life: Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn...

Ailbhe Reddy: The 1999 release was groundbreaking to me – it’s so honest and self-aware

Sat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00