When I say changed my life, I may have been a little over dramatic. What I really meant was songs that changed the way I looked at the music I was listening to.

All of these songs opened me up to a genre that I previously wouldnt have listened to.

I love Little Wing, but I actually think that the Stevie Ray Vaughan instrumental surpasses the original in emotive playing. One of the very few remakes to accomplish this task.

However, as far as changed my life, that’s a difficult question. I would think the album that had the most profound effect on my future music listening and guitar playing was Slayer’s Reign in Blood.

As far as learning to appreciate more stylized stuff, I would probably say Dire Staights’ Sultans of Swing.

Matt over at Guitar Stuff did a great post recently listing the seven songs that changed his life, so for the fun of it I thought I’d take his lead and list my own seven life-changing tunes. Some of these are fairly obscure, but IMHO they are al…