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.

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First time I heard the opening riff of SLTS I was stopped in my tracks. It was like 'what is this?' Just loved it immediately. Gave me goosebumps. Still love it now.

Tout universe by Gjons tears-eurovision staging blew my mind
Madness-Muse. It was in one of the Criminal minds episode where a closeted gay killer goes on a rampage and this song fades in.
Heroes - David Bowie
Hold back the river- James Bay
,my first experience of a parent's assembly where kids sing,and listening to kids singing this brought tears to my eyes.

Passenger | Song For The Countryside (Featuring Jack Wolfe)

Shane MacGowan’s song “ you’re the one”
( the version sung at his funeral is extremely moving)

Together in Electric Dreams and Norman and Norma are great choices. Saw the Divine Comedy play N&N live last Monday. They were beyond phenomenal.

So many songs I adore have already been mentioned but I will add this one, which I don't think has. It made me smile the first time I got to the line

"Unfortunately, I turned seven" ... but then you listen to the rest and it's unexpectedly sad and then uplifting all at the same time.

Also adore her song about her sister (which is also on her channel).

Perfume Genius - Valley, Just Like Love
Kate Bush - Never Be Mine, Get Out of My House
Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - In A Black Out

Queen - Bohemium Rhamsody

girls just wanna have fun - it was the line 🎵some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world. 🎵 I never wanted to be that girl.
Dilemma Kelly Rowland - because she has such an amazing voice

A few years ago, there was an exhibition at the Tate Modern, 40 (I think) speakers in a circle, each of them playing a different voice track of a recording of Spem in Alium. I was working round the corner at the time so I went to listen to it everyday.

Venus in Furs- Velvet Underground
Not that I love it but it did stop me in my tracks when I first heard it- it's like nothing else I've ever heard

Same Old Scene
by Roxy Music

It was in a film (Times Square? I forget now) and my mate and i immediately went to a second hand vinyl shop and found a battered copy.

Wannabe by the Spice Girls.

Everyone went mad for this song, and the band became ubiquitous overnight. I absolutely hated it, and them. It stopped me in my tracks because I had to turn the radio off whenever it came on, which was all the bloody time.

Wannabe was the point of transition at which I realised I was getting too old for chart pop, and for Radio 1. This was the era when Radio 2 was still very much aimed at OAPs, playing Bing Cosby, Vera Lynn etc, which was far too old for me. So I tried Radio 4, and I still listen every day, 30 years later. So thanks to the Spice Girls for making me a R4 addict.

Love seeing some Hamilton Leithauser appreciation here.
Which makes me think that I don't think I took a breath the first time I heard The Rat by the Walkmen.

Love of my life Queen
Different Corner George Michael
Yes McAlmont and Butler
Three little Birds Kacey Musgraves stopped me in my tracks last week
Belfast child Simple Minds
i still haven’t found what I’m looking for U2

Theres a lot on here I don’t know so will listen to over the next few days, great thread

Me and Bobby McGee is my 4 year old DD's favourite bed time song 😂
What a voice Janice had.

Sister Morphine is magnificent, I love Marianne Faithfull, was sad when she died, a fascinating woman who lived by her own rules.

Oh and
Marianne
by Sisters of Mercy.

Heard at about 1000 decibels in an underground market in Chelsea. I asked a stall holder what/who it was and went and bought the album.

If AI was smart enough we could get it to turn this thread into a Spotify playlist!

Ooh, and Labelled with Love - Squeeze
Nothing Compares 2 u - Sinead O'Connor version. Both can bring me to tears.

So many fabulous songs on this thread - someone needs to make a playlist.

Excellent thread topic OP!!

I have too many to name and am distracted by earlier posts but:
1- a day in the water by Christine and the queens
2- monsters heroes and men by james
3- palisades park by counting crows
4- 17 by Sharon von etten
5-revenge by sparklehorse

so many many more ,,,

Sleep don’t weep Damian Rice. I heard it the day after my lovely dad died. I had just been through the most awful week and I just wanted to close my mind off and sleep but I couldn’t stop crying so yeah it was relevant to the exact moment in my life. Still gets me now and takes me straight back there

Bloom baby bloom
wolf Alice

Oh another one was Hyperballad by Bjork, I was reasonably high on weed when I saw the music video in 1995-96, and I thought it was the most fantastic thing ever, I walked 2h to buy the record the next day and it just confirmed that it was the most fantastic thing ever, even sober.

Streets of London by Ralph McTell. Only heard it for the first time about five years ago. Can still bring me to tears. The version with Annie Lennox and the Crisis Choir is also incredibly moving.

Theres been loads over tbe years that Ive either heard and had to track down or had them on replay

Here's some of them;
Common senseby Viagra Boys
Room to breath by You and me at 6
Lazarus by B Dolan
Golden by Szymon
Sinnerman by Nina Simmone
If you have ghosts by Ghost.
Wicked Game, I preferred the cover by HIM initially but
Spirit by Sometime the Wolf.
As a teenager Freebird by Lynard Skynard Am I going insane by Black Sabbath and Stargazer by Rainbow were on constant play on my record player