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.

Fields of gold, sung by Eva Cassidy. Goose bumps, every time.
The first time I heard The Smiths was a life defining moment (and I still love them).

Help me - Joni Mitchell
You - Bonnie Raitt
I keep coming back to you - Beth Neilson Chapman
Common People - Pulp

Full of Life Christine and the Queens (or whatever they are calling themselves at the moment).

Feist 1234 - thought it was catchy and happy when I first heard it (early 20s at the time). Then learned it was about divorce and it's actually pretty dark.

I was so intrigued by the lyrics and kinda knew as an 'proper' adult I'd 'get it' and it worried me 'old teenage hopes are alive at your door' - like I say I was barely out of my teenage years.

'Money can't buy you back the love that you had then' - as an adult that really stings.

It kind of had a profound impact on me - knowing I did actually have a lot to learn and how depressing it all seemed. Sort of an awakening that falling in love probably wasn't going to be a fairytale and you may wind up as someone in her 40s dancing to a band because you left your husband to go back to the teenager you once were - seemed unfathomable at the time.

It's just a song that keeps hitting harder every decade that passes.

First time I heard La Macarena - I just knew I was going to be destined to request and dance to it at every wedding, office party and festive occasion after ten glasses of Prosecco, for the rest of my life.

I'm not sure I'll ever get over it 😭😭😭

Yes indeed yes McAlmont and Butler!

The one about losing a dog that I really can't listen to is Old Shep by Elvis Presley - it makes me cry!

Subfocus -Vibration
U2 - One tree Hill
Agnes Obel - Riverside
Killers - Heart of a girl
Florence - Everybody Scream
Sinead O'Connor - Three babies.

Karl Jenkins - Benedictus (First heard this driving through Eryri in the moody rain and had to stop the car) Just stunning.

Oh my goodness this. I remember that summer so well.

I’m so sorry for what you’ve gone through.

Athlete’s Wires also really got to me after a wobble with our second. Stunning song.

Whipping Boy - She's the only one for me. I was a huge Whipping Boy fan in the 90s.

I had this with bird by Kelly Lee Owen’s at the weekend. It just caught the mood I was in.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Rain Beautiful Rain,

Letter to myself by The Lottery Winners, lyrics are incredible, makes me tear up every time

Hurt - Christina Aguilera

Nothing Ever Happens by Del Amitri and Pure by the Lightning Seeds. First heard over 30 years ago but still love both of them now and seen both performed live then and recently.

Ptolemaea - Ethel cain

Sunshine on Leith

Mine was 15 Steps!

Have you heard his latest stuff? Lovin' you is completely amazing.

Lost on you by LP

I’m OK from Christina Aguilera

when the chorus hit with “bruises fade father” I couldn’t hold back.

that song is like therapy.

Virginia Plain , Roxy Music .

It was on top of the pops 1972. I was 14 and totally gobsmacked, the sound was amazing, they looked amazing.!!!

I still play the video on YouTube.

Few french stuff that I have been obsessed with and that always make me feel a bit homesick:

Michel Berger - Seras-tu là
Pépite - Flèches
Odezenne - Dieu était grand
Juliette Armanet - Les derniers jours du disco
Vitalic - Trahison
Daft Punk - Rollin' & Scratchin'
Polo & Pan - Pays imaginaire
Nino Ferrer - Le Sud (seriously the most beautiful french tune ever)

Nothing but love - James
Such great heights - The Postal Service
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
The gunners dream - Pink Floyd
Seize the day - Avenged Sevenfold
The Chauffeur - Duran Duran
Head over heels - Tears for fears
You - Ten Sharp
Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode