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.

Usually bright by elbow.... it's a really really really really really really beautiful song. The lyrics are so heartbreaking

Full of life by christine and the Queens. Heard it on the Amazon advert and had to listen to the whole thing... repeatedly

Cannonball Damien Rice
One Day Like This Elbow
The Long & Winding Road Beatles
Tears in Heaven Eric Clapton

McAlmont and Butler - Yes
Tyler Childers - Feathered Indians

Sister by Tracey Thorn

This Side of the Blue by Joanna Newsom
On the Turning Away by Pink Floyd
Fast Car by Tracey Chapman
Olilili by Miriam Makeba

Mine was Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran. I first heard it not long after my mum died and I cried like a baby! I think especially the line 'when God took you back he said hallelujah you're home' did it for me! 😭
Also Lost Without You by Freya...can't remember her surname! No particular reason but just such an emotional song.

Mama Now - Secret Sisters
I Love You To The Bone - Sammy Copley
She Used To Be Mine - Sara Bareilles
Footsteps Fall - Eddi Reader
Hold You Dear - Secret Sisters
Love Abides - Tim Russell

I could go on for ages. I love a random Spotify suggestion!

If one of your dc have left for uni, this track will do exactly that. It’s so beautiful ❤️
https://spotify.link/krp8ffhPRXb

I said this one. She did a live concert in a church ruin if you search it on Google. Incredible

I'd agree with these as well as
Velouria by the Pixies
Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil
Plug in Baby by Muse
Weak by Skunk Anansi
Gentlemen by Afghan Whigs
I am the Wolf by Mark Lanegan
Aly walk with me by the Raveonettes
I put a Spell on you by Screamin Jay Hawkins

La Mer was our first dance at our wedding. We were living in France at the time and our neighbour would play it on his accordian. Happy memories!

I also love Sunshine on Leith by the Proclaimers
Monsters by James Blunt also hit me hard as I first heard it just after a dear family member had died

Fanfare For The Common Man by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Roam by The B-52s.

LOST ON YOU, by LP. Unbelievably beautiful song, That haunting voice gives me shivers.

This has already been mentioned- One day like this- Elbow. Goosebumps every time.

Escapism by Raye
How can you Mend a Broken Heart by Al Green
Good Luck by Basement Jaxx
Falling by Alicia Keys
Running Out of Fools by Aretha Franklin
Without You by Tobias Jesso Jr
Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix
More Than a Woman by The Bee Gees 🤣

Will there be enough water? The Dead Weather.

The Subway. Chappell Roan. So beautiful.

Mine's Don't Worry Baby by the Beach Boys.

I will fix you - Coldplay
Nothing compares to you - Sinead oconnor

Max McNown - Better Me for You (Brown Eyes)

and

Jean-Michel Blais - Amour (Piano)

both of these songs are works of art.

Thank you @AngeloMysterioso for the best thread. I'm losing myself in Spotify.
Some of mine (sure there are loads more)

I Know it's Over - The Smiths
Had No one Ever - The Smiths
Edge of Seventeen - Fleetwood Mac
Hope There's Someone - Anthony and the Johnson's
Lazarus - David Bowie
Wide Open Space - Mansun
Different Corner - George Michael
A Forest - The Cure
Fists of Fury - Kamasi Washington
Sunshine on Leith - Proclaimers
All I Need - Radiohead
If I can Dream - Elvis Presley
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Last Night I Dreamt - The Smiths

Fake Empire - The National

Relevate - The Frames

Eve,the apple of my eye - Bell X 1

To name a few...

Dance With My Father ~ Luther Vandross ~ can't listen to it without breaking down.

That Old Flame ~ Don Henley

And for a bit of fun (and where my username comes from)

This song is so lively!