Song that blew you away on first hearing it

Mr Alan

The Rescue Blues - Ryan Adams
Call Me On Your Way Back Home - Ryan Adams
Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen
Empty - Ray LaMontagne
Intervention - Arcade Fire
Nessum Dorma - Luciano Pavorotti
Emily - Stephen Fretwell

Peter Collins

"Sick 2 def" - Plan B
"Welcome to the terrordome" - Public Enemy
"Everything in it's right place" - Radiohead
"Love will tear us apart" - Joy Division

and greatest shock of all...

"How Soon is Now?" - The Smiths

Sinfonia

Smiths - The Queen is Dead...

jacool

Take My Hand In Tua Nua
Firestarter Prodigy (because of 'stolen' riff from Art of Noise)

PCros

Green Day - Basket Case (first song that got me into music big time)
Korn - Got The Life
Silverchair - One Way Mule

hiscan

nothing else matters metallica

Kevster

PCros wrote:

Green Day - Basket Case

That song is yet to grow old for me. It's still as excellent as when I first heard it.

watsgone

Queen and the soldier- Suzanne Vega

When autumn leaves turn gold- Eva Cassidy

Patience- Damien Demspey

arbeitsscheuer

There's loads down the years, but most recently what jumps to mind is the first time I heard Bloc Party's "I Still Remember"... Fantastic. That sometimes happens, I'll just get hooked on one song, and then listen to nothing else for a few days.

purplegeko

Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Ray La Montagne - Trouble

Peyton Manning

Foo Fighters - Everlong (acoustic version)
I heard this at a music festival 2 years ago, and it blew me away. As soon as I got home, I went straight to my computer and downloaded it.

Keane - Bedshaped
Went through a period of about 2 weeks where I listened to nothing but this song.

Sigur Ros - Glosoli
This song will change your life.

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
As will this song.

antod

johnny cash hurt
rob d clubbed to death
layo bushwacka love story

purple'n'gold

Verdi - La Traviata - Parigi, o cara - Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa

brayblue24

The Killers "All These Things That You Do"
Johnny Cash (with The Everly Brothers) "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen"
Paul Oakenfold "Starry Eyed Surprise"
Paddy Casey "Saints And Sinners"

Hey Xavi6 Can I take it from your crest and username that I am not the only person in the universe to support Barcelona and Manchester City?

brayblue24

Sorry folks,

The above should read "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers....maybe it's time to ease up on the cheap Tesco Heino

csk

The obvious one, Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana. Just literally blew me away
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana. Always raised the hairs on the back of my neck, especially the end.
Undone the Sweater Song - Weezer, a fantasically quirky song. First time I heard it I sang it non stop all day, pissed off a hell of a lot of people too, which made it better!
Death on the Stairs - The Libertines, genius Song! Genius Band!

DarkJager

The Game Ft Nas "Why You Hate the Game". Absolutely ****in amazing, and never gets old even after 1000 listens

Lucky Star

damien rice: delicate, amie, 9 crimes
pink : dear mr president
roy orbison: crying

karenp

Creed: my own prison
Alterbridge: find the real
Snow patrol: run
Pink floyd: Wish you were here

ZorbaTehZ

WA Mozart - Overture to The Marriage Of Figaro
Daiki Kaisho - What To Believe
Slipknot - Wait And Bleed
Rammstein - Mein Hertz Brennt
JEW - Work
AFCC - Mojave

(In no particular order)

Dudess

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood.

From the age when goth was actually good, rather than that Evanescence shoite.

Mr Alan

Wake up-Arcade Fire
Original of the Species-U2
La Cienega Just Smiled-Ryan Adams
Round Here(Storytellers acoustic version)-Counting Crows
Ray LaMontagne-Empty
Muse-Starlight
and............

Africa-Toto

bringitdown

Spine tingling stuff:

Tool - Lateralus
Boris - Farewell
Mogwai - Travel is Dangerous,
Sigur Ros - most of their stuff
Johnny Cash - Hurt
NIN - Just like you imagined, La Mer, The Great Below, Hurt
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
Arcade Fire - Wake Up, Tunnels
Radiohead - Pyramid Song, Paranoid Android, How to disappear completely
Super Furry Animals - Hello Sunshine
Doves - Cedar Room
Nick Drake - many many songs, particularly River Man and Time has told me
Jeff Buckley - So Real
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Alice in Chains - Would
Bloc Party - I Still Remember
Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna
Editors - Munich
Feeder - Feeling a moment

thats a start

fire-point

Two songs-

1979 by Smashing Pumpkins
Diamonds Of Seria Leone by Kanye West

JackKelly

Don't think twice - Bob Dylan (plus many many more)
Stand inside my love - Smashing Pumpkins
Hammer to Fall - Queen (actually anything by Queen)
Heyday - Mic Christopher
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap (never heard it from the tele thank god)
Songbird - Fleetwood Mac
Tears in Heaven/Layla - Eric Clapton
Doolin Dalton - The Eagles
Everything by Nick Drake
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

lordgoat

Jesus Etc, Wilco
Lots of Elliott Smith songs
There is a light - The Smiths
The Good Old Day and Tell the King and The Likely Lads - The Libertines.

JC 2K3

brayblue24 wrote:

Sorry folks,

The above should read "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers....maybe it's time to ease up on the cheap Tesco Heino

Yes, it's clearly impairing your taste in music

As for me:

Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus - Mars Volta
Spirit of Radio - Rush
2112 - Rush
Mahadeva - Astral Projection
People Can Fly - Astral Projection
Befriend a Child Killer/Pressure Torture - Venetian Snares
Hurt - NIN
Idioteque - Radiohead

Many others, can't think of em now....

Skellington

I've loads that I can't think of at the moment but heres a few::

Tom Waits - Burma Shave
Smashing Pumpkins - 33
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Incubus - Drive
Cracker - Low
Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head
Neil Young - Needle And The Damage Done
Orbital - Halcyon On & On
Metallica - Hero Of The Day
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Bush - Glycerine (acoustic)
Prodigy - Breathe
Portishead - It's A Fire

Wisesmurf

Radiohead- high and dry
James Morrisson- you give me something
Colin Hay- Overkill
The Fray- How to save a life

Decka

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Plan B - Charmaine
Immortal Technique - Dance With The Devil
Wu Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
Raekwon - Criminology
Mobb Deep - Survival Of The Fittest