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.

‘You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are’ by Keaton Henson.

Ohhh, just remembered this one. Brings me to tears every time:

Wild Mountain Thyme by Jacob Collier

Ah a glorious song

Ooo... loads... so many songs I've 'collected' from hearing in random shops / hotels / tv ads / church services that I loved from first hearing. Off the top of my head:

A prayer - Ken Burton
Monochrome - The Sundays
Little Jazz Mass - Bob Chilcott
Robot Street Musicians - Stavroz
London Symphony - Vaughan Williams
Pass them by - Agnes Obell

Gloria by Vivaldi
bohemian rhapsody
Eleanor Rigby
Run snow patrol have jyst done this with my choir

I hadn't but I've just listened to it - absolutely beautiful - thank you

Late to this party, have not RTFT

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

going back to check the thread out

sunchyme by dario g - 1997 dancing on speakers with whole life in front of me and felt on top of the world.

woman’s work kate bush. always makes me feel quiet somehow but entranced.

and respect by erasure. heard it in the car as a kid when the top 40 was on and we all bopped in our seats and forgot the family row that was happening

Sullivan's Long Day Closes sung by The Sixteen.

The final chorale from J.S. Bach's Wachet auf cantata, Gloria sei dir gesungen, sung by John Eliot Gardiner's band.

May You Never by John Martyn.

Purcell's When I am laid in Earth (Dido's Lament) sung by Andras Scholl.

Faure’s requiem

Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum.

Both now still make me stop and I get goosebumps when I hear the opening chords

There’s an aaaaamazing live version of this on YouTube

Ooh yes to Dido and Andrea's Scholl- chills.

And I remember first hearing Allegri's Miserere performed live in a dark church, with the treble in the gallery overhead. Absolutely heart-stopping and still when I listen to Miserere I'm on tenterhooks to hear them make the top C.

Only just caught up with this thread. Hard agree with the PP who said The Downtown Lights by The Blue Nile. That whole album is sublime, breathtakingly beautiful.

No surface all feeling by Manic Street Preachers.
No surprises by Radiohead.
I know we could be so happy baby by Jeff Buckley.

I should be working, but now all I want to do is sit on YouTube and listen to all these amazing songs. Fab idea for a thread, OP.

Ah I saw him too last month - honestly one of the most amazing gigs I’ve ever been to!

The Weary Kind, sung by Ryan Bingham, from the movie Crazy Heart
Like an Angel Passing Through My Room - ABBA
...and pretty much all ABBA songs
The Mother - Brandi Carlile
Cent Mille Chansons - Frida Boccara
Verdi Prati, from Alcina by Handel, sung by Fritz Wunderlich

That’s lovely. my beautiful mum has dementia and is no longer the same person she was .I just watched/ listened to this and it’s brought tears to my eyes. She is still here in my head and heart.

Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby by Cigarettes After Sex when it featured on The Handmaid's Tale.

Oh yes 💯. I first heard it live , so moving .

Good night my angel , Billy Joel , by the Kings Singers. Heart melting.

There Is by Boxcar Racer

Marjorie (Taylor’s grandmother) was an opera singer, and there’s a clip of her singing at the end of this song. I always think how emotional it must make Taylor’s mum hearing her daughter and her dead mother sampled together so it’s like they’re duetting.

Mine are:

Radiohead - Street Spirit
REM - Nightswimming
Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun

I want to add every song on this thread to a Spotify playlist. Would take me hours, wondering if I could persuade my teen DD to do it for me!

That's beautiful. Thanks you.

Strange Fruit - by Billie Holiday.

Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole

it was played on a tv programme i was watching,
love it

This song is so powerful and about a horrifying subject. It makes me cry.