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.

Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley
All I need - Radiohead (well, pretty much the whole of In Rainbows)
R.E.M - E-Bow the letter

La Mer sung by Charles Trenet
I Won't Let the Show Go On by Leo Sayer
Amoureuse by Kiki Dee
Anchorage by Michelle Shocked

A few opera arias but I don't know their titles

Bang and Blame, REM
The Shadowlands and La Cienega Just Smiled, Ryan Adams
What's Up, 4 Non Blondes

Halo. It's performed by Beyonce but I've heard the writer, Ryan Tedder, sing it and it blew me away.

My Beautiful Friend as well

Afghan Whigs 'Turn On The Water'. I was watching music videos on Super Channel and this came on. I HAD to know who they were and what else they'd done. Something about the way Greg Dulli sings just blew me away.

Played this to the teenagers last week and nearly crashed the car!

Thriller. Flamingos night club, Woolwich. Big screen with the video. Everyone was spellbound.

This, watching Mamma Mia for the first time, just after my DC started at boarding school- it totally floored me and still does nine years later.

This woman's work by Kate Bush, after I lost my Sister I couldn't listen to it without crying.
Edge of seventeen by Stevie Nicks
Waterfront by Simple Minds
New Year's Day by U2
When doves cry by Prince
Ah so many that link to some lovely memories and stages in my life.

Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind

I remember being sat parked in the car in Belfast when the song “The Town I loved so well” came on the radio. Just perfection

Probably like many people, it was Smells Like Teen Spirit. I was 16 listening in my bedroom in 1991 whilst painting my room and it completely floored me. Never heard anything like it before.

Strange days by The Struts.
It was the song of the pandemic, for me.

Stars of Track and Field by Belle & Sebastian
Little Baby Nothing by Manic Street Preachers

(Showing my age as a 90s indie kid right there... !)

The first time I ever saw your face.
George Micheal. Although Roberta Flacks version is also great.

Born to Run, it was like waking up to a different world

All Your'n - Tyler Childers
More of you - Chris Stapleton

And my most recent one was Pay no rent - Turnpike Troubadours.

I can't listen to any of those without crying 😅

I try - Macy Gray.

I was so pretentious - I thought this is good but the original is better! Shows what an instant classic it was.

Also, My Dead Friend by Austin Archer.

Lauren Daigle - Rescue. Just breathtaking. Also Beyoncé’s version of Ave Maria is beautiful too.

Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet then three albums later Brothers in Arms.

In Every Dream Home, a Heartache - Roxy Music
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
And yes, Hurt by Johnny Cash. I remember meeting several friends the following day and everyone who saw it was wowed by it

Portishead Glory Box

I was just about to post Roberta Flack - The first time ever I saw your face!