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.

I thought this was absolutely amazing on Graham Norton with the live band. But it doesn’t translate so well on Spotify.

I love this song too, gets me every time

I was driving and listening to BBC 1 when Leona Lewis did her cover of Run live on air. It was so beautiful and unexpected that I had to pull over until it was over. I quickly got tired of hearing it over and over though. It was a very long time ago. Now I feel old.

@Duechristmas

Me too.

Videotape by Radiohead.

It makes me want to burst into tears every time I hear it. When I die, whether I'm cremated or buried, I want this song to be played.

Sometimes I listen to it when I'm really struggling. It helps me to remember the good things in life.

"No matter what happens now
You shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been
The most perfect day I've ever seen"

Lover, you should’ve come over.

How could I forget Joy Division, Transmission? Stunning. I think it was only a few weeks after I first heard it that Ian Curtis died, terribly sad.
Oh, and Alanis Morissette, You Oughta Know. Furious and fabulous.

So many fantastic songs on this thread.

Music by John Miles (around) 1976. Blew me away.

Tori Amos - China

This is precisely what happened to me the first time I heard Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair. I can remember exactly where I was standing, and I think it was 1966!

What a song! It's not a song I think about often, but when I do think of it, it gives me goosebumps

One day like this - elbow ended up using at as one of our wedding songs.
From this moment on- Shania Twain- the lyrics are so meaningful to me especially since becoming a parent.

You Do Something To Me by Paul Weller. Couldn't believe it was Weller at first

My Skin by Natalie Merchant, heard it on hollyoaks during a heartbreaking anorexia storyline and it is the first song I think of when I feel sad.

Bryan Ferry and Todd Terje version of 'Johnny and Mary'. I'd never heard it before it was played af my uncle's funeral. It was so absolutely atmospheric, an incredible song.

A Very Cellular Song by the Incredible String Band. Also Our House by Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Actually pretty much anything by either group still has the power to make me stop and listen.

The Drugs Don’t Work by The Verve-chord change gets me every time and RA’s voice has never sounded better.

@ZeusandClio Are you me?!

Tori Amos' cover of I don't like Mondays. I don't dislike the original by The Boomtown Rats, but her cover is heartbreaking.

I will always love and adore the way he says "we are strangers meeting for the first time ok?" That song, like so many is time travel when I hear it, it transports me back to the flat I lived in at the time, singing along to it in the kitchen and it just got me in the heart!

Lover, Please Stay by Nothing But Thieves.

Ooh! Also, Skin and Bones, and By Now by Marianas Trench

I keep thinking of more! He's So Good by Trash Boat

Not Scarborough Fair, but April Come She Will.

Sunshine on Leith - either the Proclaimers or Coldplay version. Just pure emotion every time I hear it.

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
George Michael & Paul McCartney - Heal The Pain