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.

Cold ... Annie Lennox

It became the anthem of my divorce.

My DH can’t listen to Kate Bush, This woman’s work, after having our youngest I haemorrhaged and was fighting for my life, while he was left to sit in the nursery with our newborn. He said he went through every emotion that day.

Your Silent Face by New Order - in the film The Goldfinch
Love You So Bad by Ezra Furman - in a BBC drama, thank goodness for Shazam!

Way down in the hole - Blind boys of Alabama

Final chorus of Bach's St Matthew Passion

Nothing ever happens - Del Amitri

Changes - Bowie

Raye, Escapism.

32 Flavors - Ani Di Franco - was obsessed when I was 18 😆 that and Untouchable Face

Grateful - St. Finnikin

Resilient - Rising Appalachia - absolute tuuuuuuune

Heartwood - Spell Songs

There are many more!

A lot of these I remember hearing, so clearly.

but one I hunted down after hearing on One Day tv series
the Book of Love, the Magnetic Fields.

it just surprised and haunted me. I love it.

Susan Boyle on whatever talent show she started on. When she first got started - wow.

We were in a caravan on the east coast and I got prickles all up my neck, I've only had that a handful of times in my life.

In January 1978 (yes, I’m old) I heard Rose Royce’s Wishing on a Star on Radio 1. It literally stopped me in my tracks, I couldn’t believe how beautiful it sounded. A week later I met a guy who was also obsessed with the same song and I suppose you could say we fell in love to it although the relationship didn’t last. I still think about that song at least every week and have it in several of my playlists.
more recently Jalen Ngonda All About Me and Raye Where is my Husband have both made me reach for Shazam to immediately find out what they are.
Wishing on a Star is still my favourite song ever

As others, Teen Spirit. I was a bit drunk, a bunch of us staying over at a mate’s house in France when I lived there and this came on the radio. We were all in one room and just shut up spontaneously to listen. Think we were absolutely gobsmacked.

Cotten eye Joe

Lucky, by Radiohead.
The first time I heard it, it just gave me goose bumps all over my body.

Same song. Her live version at the Brit Awards. Comes across like she doesn't know what an incredible voice she has and she looks vulnerable somehow on stage. Spellbinding

Three Babies - Sinead O’Connor
Sound of Silence - Disturbed

Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye. It made me cry. It’s just so raw.

Century of Fakers by Belle and Sebastian

Oooh I just thought of another one!

Full of Life by Christine and the Queens. Absolute bliss.

@Aaron95 You are my woman.
I would add Jolene - love Dolly but the Sisters of Mercy live gave me chills

The Black Parade -My Chemical Romance
Evanescence - Bring me to Life
JJ - Wasted Love
Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground

Agree Adele someone like you at the Brit awards. But I was here then and the abuse that song got now enters my head.

last week I was driving and heard a song, Ann Marie, depression.

it was powerful.

I suppose music is like that, it takes you to a place or reminds you of a moment.

Sanctus from Fauré's Requiem. I can't do anything else but listen to it. Utterly beautiful.

Amoureuse by Kiki Dee

Love to much by Keen

Hahaha I spent my childhood imagining knights and was confused when I learnt about the ku klux klan as that’s kind of what I was imagining. Wasn’t until I was a very grown grown up and searched for the sheet music that I realised it was nights 😆

I'll never forget the scene in Play Misty for Me starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter with the soundtrack of Roberta Flack. Iconic!

Heart of the Matter- Don Henley

Sweetest Girl by Scritti Politti