Change your life with a song

As psychologists we’re all about changing lives… It’s Sunday, its raining here in Vancouver and I’ve got a question…. is there a particular song that was a turning point in your life?

In a new collection of essays writer Nick Hornby reveals the 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to his life:Nick Hornby

 Here are Nick Hornby’s 31 songs:

1. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
2. Teenage Fanclub – Your Love is the Place That I Come From
3. Nelly Furtado – I’m Like a Bird
4. Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker
5. Rufus Wainwright – One Man Guy
6. Santana – Samba Pa Ti
7. Rod Stewart – Mama Been on My Mind 8. Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window?
9. The Beatles – Rain
10. Ani DiFranco – You Had Time
11. Aimee Mann – I’ve Had It
12. Paul Westerberg – Born For Me
13. Suicide – Frankie Teardrop
14. Teenage Fanclub – Ain’t That Enough
15. J. Geils Band – First I Look at the Purse 16. Ben Folds Five – Smoke
17. Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident 18. The Bible – Glorybound
19. Van Morrison –Caravan
20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture – So I’ll Run
21. Gregory Isaacs – Puff the Magic Dragon
22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3
23. Richard and Linda Thompson – The Calvary Cross
24. Jackson Brownee – Late For the Sky
25. Mark Mulcahy – Hey Self-Defeater
26. The Velvelettes – Needle in a Haystack
27. O.V. Wright – Let’s Straighten it Out
28. Royksopp – Royksopp’s Night Out
29. The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
30. Soulwax – No Fun/Push It
31. Patti Smith Group – Pissing in a River