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Song that blew you away on first hearing it

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    #62
    gustavo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Lots that have been mentioned before like Wake Up , Smells like Teen Spirit , Open Your Eyes , also

    Gary Jules - Mad World
    The Fray - How to Save a Life

    the last two probably stuck out due to the context i was viewing them in ie , television shows and films .
    also
    Eminem -Stan
    Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
    Beatles - Day in the Life
    Beatles - Tommorow Never Knows
    Blur - Beetlebum
    Nirvana - Sliver
    Arcade Fire - Intervention


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    #63
    Dregon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭Dregon


    Just some that i can remember:

    hoppipolla and glosoli - Sigur Ros.
    neighboourhood1(tunnels) - Arcade Fire
    debaser - Pixies
    road to freedom- tom waits
    dear sons and daughters of hungry ghosts - Wolf Parade
    Sultans of Swing - Dire straits
    Changling - The Doors
    Australia - Ths Shins
    gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
    EDIT: added some more


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    #64
    peveril13
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭peveril13


    recently got the new dixie chicks album,
    song 3, Not Ready To Make Nice about all the abuse that they got since they dissed ****, sorry Bush, a few years ago. so full of passion it sends chills thru me


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    #65
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Hurricane- really blew me away............


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    #66
    JBoyle4eva
    Registered Users Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭JBoyle4eva


    I know it's very recent but this song just made me stop everything to listen to it:

    The police vs. Snow patrol: Every car you chase


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    #67
    lordgoat
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    JBoyle4eva wrote:
    I know it's very recent but this song just made me stop everything to listen to it:

    The police vs. Snow patrol: Every car you chase

    I think the OP is looking for songs that made you go that's a great song rather than oh god they mashed two ****e songs together and i'm finding it offensive so i better turn the ****ing radio off and find some decent music before i throw something violently at it.


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    #68
    JBoyle4eva
    Registered Users Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭JBoyle4eva


    lordgoat wrote:
    I think the OP is looking for songs that made you go that's a great song rather than oh god they mashed two ****e songs together and i'm finding it offensive so i better turn the ****ing radio off and find some decent music before i throw something violently at it.
    Ok, firstly, calm yourself down.

    Secondly, i said it was recent and its not a life changing song, it's when I first heard it that it made me go "that was good". OP wasn't asking for songs that are life changing but where mind-blowing when you first heard it


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    #69
    Cardinal
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    Rydeen - YMO

    I hadn't heard them before a few weeks ago and I heard this. It was like being a kid in the 80's playing my megadrive again... except better!


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    #70
    Mr. Presentable
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    Born to Run
    All the Young Dudes - Mott
    Cherub Rock
    Debaser

    These stopped me in my tracks over a period of 40 years. Some posters get stunned my music a LOT :D


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    #71
    GhostInTheRuins
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    Plenty of them for me, just a few I can remember off the top of my head:

    Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye
    Savatage - Believe and When The Crowds Are Gone
    Eternity X - A Day In Verse
    Rainbow - Stargazer
    Queensrÿche - Suite Sister Mary


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    #72
    Stompbox
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    A Certain Romance - The Arctic Monkeys

    All These Things That I've Done - The Killers


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    #73
    Peter Collins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭Peter Collins


    JBoyle4eva wrote:
    I know it's very recent but this song just made me stop everything to listen to it:

    The police vs. Snow patrol: Every car you chase


    Right, close this thread straight away & delete if possible.

    That just makes a mockery of everything else just said.

    Pathetic.


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    #74
    frisbeeface
    Registered Users Posts: 704 ✭✭✭frisbeeface


    Help - The Beatles is the first song I can remember to really blow me away
    Listening to Lola - The Kinks properly to the first time.
    More recently Black Wave/Bad Vibrations - The Arcade Fire was a mindblower the first time. The whole of Neon Bible really, but this stood out so much the first time.


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    #75
    wet-paint
    Registered Users Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭wet-paint


    No, I had to stop everything too, pull over, turn off the engine, turn up the radio to make sure, I was actually hearing what I thought I was. I quickly wound down the window and vomited noisily and messily all over the side of the door. That fairly blew me away, I tell ya.


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    #76
    lilmissprincess
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    Nobodys Fool- Avril Lavigne....off her first album...this is still the song me and my friends share as being "our song", specifically for theyrics "If you wannna bring me down, go ahead and try....go ahead and try.."

    Welcome to My Life- Simple Plan
    Everytime- Simple Plan
    Simple Together- Alanis Morrisette (It made me cry)
    I'm Not Ok(I Promise)....I was angry and it blended well...


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    #77
    GeorgeBailey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    Eyes - Rogue Wave
    Goin Back - Dusty Springfield


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    #78
    Sherifu
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    Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla


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    #79
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Corporal Jigsore Quandary - Carcass
    Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits.
    Hurt - Johnny Cash
    The professor - Damien Rice


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    #80
    _blank_
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    Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel, quality song from a quality film. I have it on vinyl single and another song from the film - Keehar's Theme is brilliant aswell.

    Orinoco Flow - Enya

    Theme from Harry's Game - Clannad (I love Enya's voice you see)

    Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor


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    #81
    Adyx
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    Tool - Lateralus
    Stone Roses - Waterfall
    Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart


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    #82
    lubie76
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    Candi Station- You Got The Love
    The Cure- Disintegration
    Layo and Bushwhacka- Love Story (Tim de Luxe remix)
    New Order- Blue Monday
    Underworld- Two Months Off

    Yes i like my electronic music!


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    #83
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,269 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    kevthecelt wrote:
    Jeff Buckley- Last Goodbye FTW
    Adyx wrote:
    Stone Roses - Waterfall
    Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
    lubie76 wrote:
    New Order- Blue Monday
    Underworld- Two Months Off

    +2

    Pearl Jam - Jeremy
    Joy Division - Digital
    The Doors - L.A. Woman
    Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy


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    #84
    LovelyTom
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    Roots Radicals - Rancid. did that for me... wore off though :P


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    #85
    melekalikimaka
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    LovelyTom wrote:
    Roots Radicals - Rancid. did that for me... wore off though :P

    ummm great track.

    suburban legends - bright spring morning (the slow version)


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    #86
    Davei141
    Registered Users Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


    Matthew Good - While We Were Hunting Rabbits


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    #87
    guinnessdrinker
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    I remember hearing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as a young fella and thinking, "what the hell was that?", in a good way!


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    #88
    RadioActive
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    Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis; whole album is full of songs like that.


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    #89
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    RadioActive wrote:
    Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis; whole album is full of songs like that.

    **** ones?


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    #90
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
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    LED ZEPPELIN - HEARTBREAKER!!!!!
    others would be:
    iron maiden - the trooper
    metallica - one
    trivium - a gunshot to the gead of trepidation
    Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye


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    #91
    Ruu_Old
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    Def Leppard-Lets get rocked (video was cool at that time :))
    Big Audio Dynamite-The Bottom Line (great intro!)


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