To ask which songs stopped you in your tracks the first time heard you them?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Was listening to some music today and after my playlist was finished Spotify went off on its own little algorithm-y journey, and I suddenly found myself listening to a song so beautiful I had it on repeat for about an hour. That sort of thing happens to me very rarely, so I thought I’d see if anyone else could recommend songs that have struck them in a similar way.

This Woman’s Work - Kate Bush

Kissing You - Des’ree

Shallow - Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

Cathedrals - I can’t remember who by!

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Paid in Full Coldcut Remix - Eric B & Rakim.
Shooby Doop and Cop Him - Betty Davis
Blue Holiday - Aretha Franklin
Too Hot to Handle - Otis Redding
Kiss - Prince

Barcelona - Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - every time I hear it I get goosebumps, it just does something to me

Feel My Love - Adele. I know it’s a cover but I love it

Out of Space - The Prodigy. I was about 11 when this came out. Blew. My. Mind!

And a random one, but it’s just always stuck with me as I love the lyrics so much:

Don’t Call Me Baby - Maddison Avenue

Not at all meaning to devalue your traumatic experience, but that song plays during a similar scenario in a Kevin Bacon movie. I happened upon it late one night and absolutely sobbed. Beautiful song.

The first time I heard Wuthering Heights I thought someone had put the record on at the wrong speed! I couldn't believe it was for real

Losing my Religion - REM
Broken - Jake Bugg
Everybody Hurts - REM
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

I asked DH the same question and he said he cried the first time he heard Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Hard to beat the emotional intensity of James Blunt's "Monsters" (about his father dying), especially the video with him and his dad where JB is trying to hold it together. Not my kind of music usually but this is extraordinary.

Plus, the happy ending was that his dad miraculously got a kidney transplant and is still alive!!!

Also Aurora's "It Happened Quiet" - such a strange a beautiful song, and her voice is ethereal

I love that song. It takes me back to a German disco in the early 70s, where some random man swept me on to the dance floor and proceeded to engage me in a sort of Ceroc.

My choice would be Marianne Faithfull's Sister Morphine, which blew my 18-year-old mind.

What's going on by Marvin Gaye. Always makes me teary.

Show must go on by Queen. Has had more of an impact on me after I found out Freddy Mercury wrote it when he knew he was dying.

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Stan - Eminem
Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keyes
Piece of My Heart - Janice Joplin
Love Will Tear Us Apart - New Order
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette
When Doves Cry - Prince

Biggest stop me in my tracks was a song I already knew - Somebody to Love - George Michael and Queen - the rehearsal- if you haven’t watched it do! The rehearsal was so much greater than the concert and still blows me away.

A Different Corner by George Michael, still gets me every time

Donovan Woods - Portland, Maine (not the Tim McGraw version)
Sara Bareilles - Gravity
Massive Attack - Live With Me

Same song but heard on Lucifer. Never had that before with a song in a tv programme.

Buried together - Pet Needs. Breathtaking

Both sides now - Joni mitchell

paris paloma “notre dame” incredible the more you listen. Well
worth looking up

A Different Corner by George Michael, still gets me every time

Sound of silence by Disturbed.
Portrait by Josephine.
Any cover of Hallelujah.

Family portrait - pink
chasing cars - snow patrol

And Starlings by Elbow one of the most heartfelt love songs I have ever heard

Angel of Death, Slayer in 1986. Before that no metal album was as sharp or as well produced.

Kissing you- Desree
Univited - Alanis Morrisette
Titanium-Sia
Sweet Love- Anita Baker
Labour- Paris Paloma

I saw Mamma Mia before I had DC and didn't react to that song at all. I listened to a podcast about musicals and in the mamma Mia guide the actress has to have a glass of water on stage for that song. I thought that was a bit pathetic until I went to a song along with PILs and ended up sobbing!

Great thread.
T Rex - Cosmic Dancer (love Marc Bolan)
KT Tunstall - suddenly I see
Take me to Church - Hozier
Annie Lennox - Cold
Dark and Velvet Nights - David Gilmour
It’s a sin - Pet Shop Boys

I have a few...
Some Fantastic Place by Squeeze (my funeral song)
You by Ten Sharp
Viva la Vida by Coldplay (reminds me of my late partner as it was played a lot whilst we were together)
Together in Electric Dreams by Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroda
Norma & Norman by the Divine Comedy
Feel the Benefit by 10CC
Why by Annie Lennox (from when I used to sob in my car at lunchtimes in a job I detested)
Please Forgive Me by David Gray (especially the radio 2 piano room version)

All guaranteed to stop me in my tracks & make shed a few tears.
Music is such a big part of our lives isn't it?