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.

Pink - Dear Mr President

Does it have to be popular music? I have far too many but I love "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables, and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Eva Cassidy.

Both always stir up things in me. 😢

In Search of Peter Pan - Kate Bush
Sweet Sixteen - The Fureys
Hope There’s Someone - Anthony and the Johnsons
King of Pain - The Police
A Thousand Years - Sting
Certainty of Chance - The Divine Comedy
Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet
Blue Angel - I’m Gonna be Strong
The Smiths - A Rush and a Push an the Land is Ours
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
My Death - Scott Walker
Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode
Gone - Kanye West
Lovers - Kathleen Battle
Old Whores Diet - Rufus Wainwright
Shadow Play - Joy Division
Tourniquet - Marilyn Manson
Another Devil Dies - Badly Drawn Boy

Two Tribes by FGTH.

I can vividly remember where I was and what I was doing.
The extended (EP) version is my favourite track of all time.

Ooh and "To See A Friend In Tears" by James Dean Bradfield 💖

To Zion by Lauren Hill. The whole Miseducation album is genius and means a lot to me but the emotion of this song blows me away. It really sums up for me the overwhelming love and joy you feel for your child.

he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

then, strangely(!)- heavy by delta Goodrem, I identified with it so much it literally stopped my breath. Afterwards I found out it was about her health and I felt so self absorbed

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden

Different corner - George Michael. Stunning.

Brilliant thread. I have so many songs that stop me in my tracks in a positive way however James blunts your beautiful makes me squirm every time I hear it. I have no idea what it is about that song but it’s just awful and I cannot for the life of me understand why it was so popular (
used at many a wedding).First time I heard it it stopped me in my tracks and I was like YUK!

The First Time (ever I saw your face) George Michael … I absolutely love it.

Luckiest guy on the lower east side by the magnetic fields
rehab by Amy RIP
sabotage by the beastie boys and also whatcha want, on account of the massive thudding noise
ship song by Nick cave and the bad seeds
So we won’t forget by Kruangbin
Blue for you by Ike and Tina Turner
Lover you should have come over
sock it to me by missy Elliott. as well as a storming hook (for the same reason Trouble by Chronixx) the video which was brilliant with Missy and da Brat in blow up transformer sort of costumes and therefore unlike lots of others at the time. I was working in a bar (schnapps bar in Hull
anyone?)and used to get stuff wrong when it came on
jah cure cover of All of Me
More than a woman by Aaliyah
Interpol next exit
the version of Sign your Name Christine and the Queens did on jools holland
fry plantain Lila Ike

also another vote for River by Leon bridges
and for This Woman’s work
and for Stay by Shakespeare’s sister: what a blinder still!

Reverend Lee by Roberta Flack

arrgg!! More!!

Which one of us has enough time to make a public spotify playlist of these...?

Oh another: "Eleanor Rigby" - the classic line "... wearing the face that she keeps in the jar by the door..."

Love it.

Oh how could I forget, Songbird by Fleetwood Mac

Never knew about the Coldplay cover, had to google it immediately! Beautiful… thank you so much for that x

Don't know why, by Norah Jones.
I wasn't going to fall in love, by Carol King.
Too cool to fall in love, by Jill Sobule.
The man with the child in his eyes, by Kate Bush.
Everybody hurts, by R.E.M.
Deacon Blue by Steely Dan.

Building a bridge to your heart - Wax when I was a kid, just got me so into 80s music.

I read a story once about HMV or somewhere like that playing Orinoco Flow by Enya back when it was just released and all the customers went mad for it, buying copies straight away. I like that story.

Sweet Love by Augustine.
I've now been to see him twice, and think I am single handedly responsible for half of his Spotify listens.
Both of his albums are just pure musical perfection.
Similarly, Scorpio by Sarah Klang.

Both songs seem narrate a specific point in my life when I was in love with the most beautiful man with a beautiful soul but it wasn't to be.

And Demi lovato - anyone
switched over to the Grammys to her singing it live and it was so powerful. I’d just watched my sister battle the same battles she had, was so moving

Re Get out of my house, I think the whole Dreaming album stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t like it at first and then I became obsessed with it.

Ahh I love this thread.
One Fine Day - Elbow
To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra (This is Us fans might get this one)

The mercy seat by Johnny Cash, about a man on death row. It’s a Nick Cave song apparently but I’ve never heard the original and I don’t want to because this version is perfection and I can’t imagine anyone doing it better.

Me and a mate ruined this by renaming it "Underpants"

Too many to list here. The most recent song to do this to me was Good Girls by Josie Edwards