Song that blew you away on first hearing it

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Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode

How Soon Is Now - The Smiths

A few there that are the same for me but especially these two, they still blow me away when I hear them, How Soon is Now always gives me goose bumps and Enjoy The Silence is simply excellent, loved the video back then too.

Mr Alan

Ryan Adams-Dear John
Anthony and The Johnsons-Hope Theres Someone/Fist Of Love
Ryan Adams-Oh My Sweet Carolina
Counting Crows-Millers Angels
Joni Mitchell-River

Bubs101

Wilco; Radio Cure, Casino Queen, My Darling, California Stars, Kidsmoke, Theologians.
Ryan Adams; Firecracker, Strating To Hurt, Anybody Wanna Take me Home
Bright Eyes; First day of my Life, Hot knives
Daft Punk; Harder,Better, Faster Stronger
Lil Wayne; Georgia Bush
Spoon; There goes your Cherry Bomb

staker

dakota-stereophonics always stirs all emotions in me

Insect Overlord

Arcade Fire: (Neighbourhood 1) Tunnels; Keep the Car Running
Snow Patrol: Run
Rodrigo y Gabriella: Capitan Cassinova
Muse: New Born; Feelin' Good; Hysteria; Apocalyse Please; Time is Running Out
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart
New Order: Blue Monday
Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Smashing Pumpkins: Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Radiohead: No Surprises
Gary Jules: Mad World (as used in Donnie Darko, brilliant effect)
Dire Straits: Money For Nothing; Sultans of Swing
Simon & Garfunkle: Sound of Silence; Richard Cory
HIM: Solitary Man
The Rasmus: In The Shadows
AC/DC: Thunderstruck (sums up this thread really!)
BellX1: Flame (live performance in UCH Limerick, stunning stuff)
Pixies: Where Is My Mind?
The Who: Pinball Wizard
Kings of Leon: Fans
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird
Rory Gallagher: Bad Penny
Horslips: Dearg Doom
Johnny Cash, Kris Kristopherson and David Bowie in general

Most recently:
Liam Ó Maonlai: Sadhbh Ni Bhruinneallaigh
Johnny Cash: The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave's is great, but this version is best)

Standard Toaster

Maccattack wrote: »

U.S. Forces by Midnight Oil.

That song changed my life. released in 1982 it was the first song I heard played on a stereo system. It was all mono before then, not many people had stereos!

The song itself was and still is so different froma anything I'd ever heard before. The way the four on the floor kick drum comes in was so powerful to my ears as it kicked me in the chest while the guitars were panned left and right.

The openning lyrical assualt openned my ears eyes and mind to a whole new world of what music could and should be.

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Cheers for that. I've got my hands on 20,000 Watt R.S.L. and I'm liking what I'm hearing.

Declan A Walsh

I love the way that some people are just listing off tonnes of songs by the same artists, or, even funnier, just referring to certain artists without even mentioning any songs! Surely, they could not all have blown your mind the first time you heard each of their songs.

No offence, but I think some are using this as an opportunity to say who their favourite artists are, rather than saying which songs they were impressed by on first hearing.

There are many musical acts I am fond of who had few or no songs that blew me away on first hearings. Rather the songs grew on me. Alternatively, there were other songs that had an immediate effect on me first time round, but did not last. Of course, there are some that stood the test of time.

Now - here's some more songs that had an immediate affect on me on first hearing:

Brighton Rock - Queen

Island in The Sun - Weezer

In My Place - Coldplay

Mama - Genesis

Follow You Follow Me - Genesis

One More Night - Phil Collins

Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols

Becoming More Like Alfie - The Divine Comedy

Roam - The B52s

Give Me Back My Man - The B52s

Funplex - The B52s

Take Me To The River - Talking Heads

The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters

The Last Time - The Rolling Stones

Time Passages - Al Stewart

Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue (yes, really!)

Clank

Four Ton Mantis on Supermodified by Amon Tobin.
El Cargo on the Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack from Amon Tobin(Im constantly impressed by a lot of Tobin's stuff, I could go on!).
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Scubadevils

Clank wrote: »

Four Ton Mantis on Supermodified by Amon Tobin.
El Cargo on the Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack from Amon Tobin(Im constantly impressed by a lot of Tobin's stuff, I could go on!).
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Definitely, Four Ton Mantis is a spectacular track... Rhino Jockey also blew me away from that album. I haven't got the Splinter Cell soundtrack yet.

rowlandbrowner

i recall the first time i heard dream baby dream by suicide, i was enjoying a nice moment with somebody, lying in bed, doing nothing, but a very pleasant nothing, and that song came on, it really articulated the mood better then my own thoughts could have, so that song, i guess, "blew me away" for that reason.

Squirrel

For me the songs I Looked Away by Derek and the Dominos, and Hendrix's Little Wing actually caused me to stop what I was doing. I was driving when I first heard I Looked Away, had my iPod on random and it came on, I had the album on it but never listened to it properly, I pulled over to listen to it again and again.

PeadarofAodh

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Say It Ain't So - Weezer
High and Dry - Radiohead

The first time I heard one of my own songs recorded and played back to me I got goosebumps...very surreal!

Blue850

Johnny Cash Sunday morning coming down.
AC/DC Thunderstruck, and Gone Shootin
Dire Straits Money for nothing
Lloyd Cole Lost weekend
Lynyrd Skynyrd The Ballad of Kurtis Lowe, and They call me the Breeze

Insect Overlord

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I love the way that some people are just listing off tonnes of songs by the same artists, or, even funnier, just referring to certain artists without even mentioning any songs! Surely, they could not all have blown your mind the first time you heard each of their songs.

No offence, but I think some are using this as an opportunity to say who their favourite artists are, rather than saying which songs they were impressed by on first hearing.

I don't know if you're referring to me here( I know I was one of the many who posted a pretty long list of songs) but every single one of them made massive impressions on me the first time I heard them.

Malari

Recent ones off the top of my head:

American Boy - Estelle (actually now I'm nearly sick of it. Thanks Ray D'Arcy...)
Overpowered - Roisin Murphy
Dig, Lazarus, Dig - Nick Cave
Weather to Fly - Elbow

KnifeWRENCH

Malari wrote: »

Recent ones off the top of my head:

Dig, Lazarus, Dig - Nick Cave

Brilliant song!!!
Before I heard it, I didn't know anything by Nick Cave (apart from "Where The Wild Roses Grow") As soon as I heard "Dig Lazarus Dig!" I got the album of the same name.
Brilliant album, I'll have to investigate his back catalogue when I get round to it.

jaykay74 wrote:

I'd have to agree, really great tune. Its a shame they went downhill so rapidly.

Ah that's a bit harsh! "Adore" is my absolute favourite album EVER. And while Machina and Zeitgeist aren't fantastic there's still some brilliant stuff there.

Nailz

Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck (Original)
Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
Faith No More - Epic
Dropkick Murphy's - Shipping Up to Boston

... to name a few, I'm sure I'll think of more.

bobtjustice

Rock and Roll- Led Zeppelin
Shoot to Thrill-AC/DC
Open up-Leftfield
Sabotage- Beastie Boys
Bang on- Propellorheads

Miguel_Sanchez

Smog - River Guard.

Saw Bill Callahan play this live in Galway about six years ago and I was completely blown away by it. Coincidentally I met an amazing girl that night who sat in front of me for the gig so I think it will always remind me of her and that night.

kerash

Zaph wrote: »

Whipping Picadilly - Gomez

+1

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Everybody here wants you - Jeff Buckley

Stand by me - Ben E King

Kings of Leon - Trani

Counting Crows - Colourblind

Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends

Flaming Lips - She don't use jelly

The Roots - The Seed

The Lemonheads - Into your arms

Ziggy_1972

The Gift - The Velvet Underground
I first heard this in a friend's house when I was about 17. The music was turned down so we could hear the vocals.
A few years later I was living in London, and I had a cassette walkman (remember those?). I bought a VU tape, and played it while walking down Oxford Street. I almost lost my balance as the music blasted in one ear, and John Cale's voice crooned in my other ear.
I would highly recommend listening to this song with headphones.

RichTea

staker wrote: »

dakota-stereophonics always stirs all emotions in me

+1


Epic, epic song

guinnessdrinker

Probably loads of songs but the one that comes to mind is Smells Like Teen Spirit, I heard it as a on a lunch break from school one day still at an impressionable age. I thought what the hell was that?

KTRIC

Good Riddance by Green Day, I actually cried when I heard it first. :rolleyes:

Still moves me years later.

Clare Bear

RichTea wrote: »

+1


Epic, epic song

Yep, same here, great song. Trouble by Coldplay was another one when I first heard it I loved it straight away.

Creature

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Reptile
Pearl Jam - Black
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
Soundgarden - Outshined
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Tool - The Grudge
Radiohead - Airbag
Alice In Chains - No Excuses

holton

Joy Division - Tranmission
New Order - Blue Monday
The Cure - A Forest
Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night
- The man who sold the world
Doves - M62 song
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet...
The Communards - Disenchanted
Pearl Jam - Alive
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Radiohead - Creep
Kings of Leon - Knocked Up
The White Stripes - Black Math
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
Yes - Owner of a lonely heart
Keane - Bedshaped
Snow Patrol - Run
Donna Summer - I feel love
Air - La Femme D'Argent
808 State - Pacific (plus many other dance tunes)

Tar.Aldarion

Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher

Fall_Guy

needle in the hay-elliot smith: first heard it during a really well done scene in wes anderson's "the royal tenembaums and it knocked me for six.

strangers-the kinks: another i heard in a wes anderson movie (the darjeeling limited) for the first time, again in a beautifully shot scene, listened to the song non-stop for days after.

the promise-bruce springsteen: only ever heard a live version from the madison square garden dvd from a few years back, and it still really gets to me when i listen to it. great song.

ghost of tom joad (live)-bruce springsteen and tom morello: OK, this one, while a great song, is mainly included for morello's mind-blowing solo when he joined bruce on stage a month or two ago in anaheim. it really did blow me away, never thought it would suit bruces version of the song. i was wrong. youtube it!

calvary cross (live)-richard thompson: another in for the quality of the guitar work in the live version, really top stuff.

on almost any sunday morning-counting crows: only heard this few days ago and thought it was a really poignant, touching song. gave it a few repeated listens and my opinion hasn't changed.

famous blue raincoat-leonard cohen: one of the best songs i've ever heard.

the ghosts of saturday night-tom waits: i loved the poetic description of mundane things in this song the first time i heard it years ago, and i still give it a regular listen to. brilliant stuff.

life on mars-david bowie: heard this one as a kid and it was my first real introduction to bowie. thought the melody was just about the greatest thing i had ever heard. doesn't appeal to me quite as much these days, but it really did blow me away the first time i heard it, no doubt.

stinkfist-tool: not my favourite tool song, but the first i ever heard, and it was a whole new sound that i was totally unfamiliar with at the time. opened up a whole new type of music for me to appreciate.

norwegianwood

OK,a little selection:
Jeff Buckley:Hallelujah
The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever/Because
The Rolling Stones: Paint It Black
Sting and The Police: Don't Stand So Close To Me
John Lennon: Working Class Hero