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.

A million reasons by Lady Gaga

Hate to break it to you , I also thought it was Knights for years, but it’s Nights .

No tears left to cry Ariana Grande
Lucky - Radiohead
Trouble - Ray Lamontagne

Soft Cell, Say Hello and Wave Goodbye.
The passion in the lyrics sang by Marc Almond still get me today, and the words can apply to any relationship. I used to live in Blackpool and couldn't walk past the Pink Flamingo without singing the first line as it rained quite a lot, never cried there though.

For me it's Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares to You- because my dad loved it and would listen to it after separating from my mum - he'd say it reminded him of her (we were kids at the time). He passed away a few years ago and it makes me incredibly sad.

Also I went to see the Rock Orchestra recently (they do covers) and their version of Metallica Nothing Else Matters was amazing! Although I didn't actually know the original 🙈

Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights back in 1978, I still remember the moment. Mitch Grassi’s singing in Pentatonix’s video of Hallelujah. I literally stopped what I was doing to watch the video.

Taylor Swift ‘tolerate it’ and Johnny Cash’s cover of ‘If you could read my mind’

Brave by Sara Bareilles

Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart

The first time I heard it in a club (42s in Manchester to be precise)

Look to Winward by Sleep Token

In Paradisum by Eimear Quinn. We had it at a relative's funeral and when I played it to the celebrant it left them speechless too.

Once - after my husband died, I heard "Lady, did you think I'd left you?" coming through the car sound system. (John Denver.)

Oooh yes that one for me too! Had the pleasure of watching her set at Glastonbury, and the almost entirely female crowd was on their feet singing this one with her, it was an incredible moment

funny you should mention it because I was reading a review of the Ampersand album and the reviewer said the feminist theme of Eve & Paradise Lost made them wonder what PP and Dan Smith could product in a collab… that I would love to see!

Disturbed- Sound of Silence
The Last Dinner Party, I first heard them last year and ordered their album that day. When the CD arrived, I ceremonially played it like in ye olden days

I remember the time when Baker Street suddenly slapped me in the face. I was driving to work during a rough phase and the line "one more year and then you'll be happy... but you're crying, you're crying now" dissolved me into tears. I'd always loved it, but the meaning of the song really resonated at that moment.

Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
Move On - Abba
Mad World - Tears for Fears

Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain (live at V2000)
Chemical Brothers - It Began in Africa

John Martyn - may you never

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Baptised by Dub - Criminal Minds

Glycerine - Bush

macy gray, I try
Slow moving Millie, please please please
coldplay, the scientist

The last song that did that to me was Child of Mine by Laura Marling. I burst into tears on the bus, which is very unlike me! But it is a beautiful song and perfectly captures (for me) that feeling of overwhelming love towards your child as a mother.

ETA - it’s not even the sort of music I often listen to. And I am a generally unsentimental person. I really recommend the song and indeed the whole album.

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want, The Smiths.

As I recall, I heard it for the first time on the Extras Christmas special and I just thought it was incredible.

Some great songs on this thread, mine is 1973 - James Blunt, reminds me of carefree clubbing days with my now DH.

I remember hearing a snippet of the This Mortal Coil version of Song to the Siren during a scene in Lost Highway and I became obsessed with it, but I didn’t know what the film or the song were and googling the lyric “here I am” doesn’t really get you very far… it wasn’t til it was used again in The Lovely Bones that I finally found out what it was!

Too many😁

Raglan Road - Luke Kelly. Gets me every time.
They That Go Down to The Sea In Ships - Sumsion
San Luis - Gregory Alan Isakov
Make a Smile For Me - Bill Withers