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It's the sound of Young America. I'm Jordan Morris in for Jesse Thornton.

Once in a while on the sound of Young America,

he has creative people to tell us about a song that changed their life.

Damian Koolash is the lead singer of the Chicago-based rock group Okay Go.

They broke out somewhat unintentionally in 2006.

They filmed an unofficial but highly choreographed video to their song A Million Ways

in Koolash's backyard. It wound up being an internet hit.

Koolash says that one of the most important songs he ever heard was Rocket.

By Jazz Legend, Herbie Hancock.

I first heard Rocket by Herbie Hancock coming off of a school bus

mid-summer on the way to summer camp.

So I was probably five years old, six maybe, and I remember stepping down off of the yellow

school bus step, which is a pretty large step for a kid of that size.

And looking up in one of the, I think it's probably a camp counselor that must have been a kid

in his teens, but to me it was like, you know, this infinitely wise older person.

With really like a big shaggy head of hair and kind of like the sort of nonchalant,

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