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.

Love Bastille, Good Grief had that effect on me. I find that certain albums or songs find me at a time in my life when I need them. (I don’t really go out of my way to listen to new music.

I’m Not OK/Tree Cheers for Sweet Revenge- MCR

Mountains/Only Revolutions- Biffy Clyro

Good Grief/Wild World- Bastille

Ive been listening to Lily Allen’s new album lots over the past two days so maybe that’s gonna be a thing.

Individual songs, I came across Cynthia Erivo’s cover of Every Time You Go Away the other day and had tears rolling down my face.

When I was a teen I had a thing about Flying Without Wings 😆

Can’t listen to Bridge Over Troubled Water was my mums favourite song and we had it at her funeral

Freddy and Montserrat Caballe was pure brilliance!

Bright Eyes- Simon and Garfunkel
Omg, how I cry! 😢

First song I remember ever really stopping to listen to was This Charming Man by The Smiths, and I was a toddler.

Birds Without Wings by David Gray. The last line catches in your throat after building up throughout the whole thing. Brilliant song, before he got famous.

Love this one too.

I’m going to use this thread as inspiration for a new Spotify playlist.

I vividly remember hearing this for the first at the Mercury Music Prize. It was one of the most captivating and beautifully haunting songs I’d ever heard. I’d never heard anything like it. I bought the album and listened to it over and over again for months and years afterwards. It’s still in my top five. A complete work of genius.

Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
Love and Affection - Joan Armitrading
X Factor - Lauryn Hill

All beautiful - and unusual for me as I usually listen to metal!

Sombr 12 til 12 is the latest one

Supermarket Flowers, Ed Sheeran
When we were young, Adele
This Masquerade, The Carpenters
Home Loving Man, Andy Williams
Trouble, Lindsey Buckingham
Life’s a ballgame, Womack and Womack

Hey brother by Aviccii.
Always makes me think of my grown up kids and gives me goosebumps.

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.

Ed to add: After Gerry Rafferty's death and reading about the struggles through which he went, it resonated with a whole new meaning. He sounded like a very sad, yet lovely man - or at least to me.

Your latest trick -Dire Straits
when Doves cry- Prince
Wouldn’t it be good - Nick Kershay
fool if you think it’s over - Chris Rea

i feel these give my age away!!!

I Do This All The Time by Self Esteem

One of my guilty pleasures is music reaction videos on YouTube 🙈 I’m sure most of them are fake, but the ones involving Queen, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac and Amy Winehouse are my favs!

Rae Morris - For You.

Heard it in a Caffe Nero in 2014 or 2015. I've heard it on TV since.

If youre a rock star, Porn star, superstar
Doesn't matter what you are
Get yourself a good car, get outta here

Boys in the better land by Fontaines DC

Gave me the drive to finally leave my hometown aged 33 ❤️

If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Yes - McAlmont & Butler
Ciao! - Lush and Jarvis Cocker
Please, please, please, let me get what I want - The Smiths

Wrong thread

The first time ever I saw your face (sorry if I’ve mangled that) - Roberta Flack. Never heard anything else like it.

Athlete - wires - didn’t really register with me at all in the noughties but DS was a NICU baby and it still stops me in my tracks nearly 6 years later (first night of your life, curled up on your own….)

Bruno Mars - count on me - again another song which didn’t register with me at all until we lost my BIL to suicide and now the lyrics just make me so very sad

Enjoy your life by Romy. It was released just after my DD was born and I used to listen to it on the radio, when we were in a parent and baby unit, as I fed my dd. A truly awful time and the song was like therapy, in its self.

I Feel Love by Donna Summer. I was 6 years old and it rooted me to the spot. That memory still makes me smile 47 years on.