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Song that blew you away on first hearing it

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    #182
    Scubadevils
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    A few more...

    Tindersticks
    - Tiny Tears
    - Dying Slowly
    - A Night In
    (this is the track that introduced me to Tindersticks, I heard it on a mix CD while driving and it completely blew me away, played it several times in a row)

    The Mamas & The Papas
    - California Dreamin'
    - Twelve Thirty
    - Straight Shooter
    & many more, these are a new/old obsession for me. Love them.

    Gas - Nah Und Fern (actually 4 full CD's of dub techno and ambient bliss.)
    http://www.discogs.com/release/1363736

    Harmonia Live 1974 - the full album, can't pick one track from it...
    http://www.discogs.com/release/1143628


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    #183
    Jeffreym
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    'City of Blinding Lights' by U2

    I remember that was the first song i heard from HTDAAB, and it blew me away. Probably one of the best songs Bono has ever written.

    I remember the lyrics 'Oh you look so beautiful...tonight...in the City of Blinding Lights' sticking in my head for weeks afterwards.

    Brilliant track.


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    #184
    irish_bob
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    Jeffreym wrote: »
    'City of Blinding Lights' by U2

    I remember that was the first song i heard from HTDAAB, and it blew me away. Probably one of the best songs Bono has ever written.

    I remember the lyrics 'Oh you look so beautiful...tonight...in the City of Blinding Lights' sticking in my head for weeks afterwards.

    Brilliant track.

    hate that song

    the last song i like by u2 was from the album zooropa

    love there early stuff and still love them as a live band


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    #185
    kwestfan08
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    Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
    Foo Fighters - The Pretender
    Jay-Z - Dirt off your Shoulder
    Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone
    Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm


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    #186
    JerryHandbag
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    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    The Cure - Disintegration
    Arcade Fire - Power Out/Nieghborhood No 4

    cant think of any more cos it usually takes a few listens before i declare a song legendary :)


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    #187
    Max_Damage
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    Best songs ever...

    Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
    Fear Factory - Zero Signal
    Metallica - For Whom The Bells Toll
    George Thorogood - I Drink Alone (:D)

    There is more, just can't think of them right now.


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    #188
    gustavo
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    Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
    Strokes - Hard To Explain
    Hives - Hate to Say I told you So
    White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
    Arcade Fire - Intervention


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    #189
    Ghost Girl
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    Believe it or not, Shayne Ward on X Factor the night he sang "some where over the rainbow" for the first time, absolutely blew me away, especially the ending, his take on it was brilliant, i then realised he had talent. What a vocal range....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRQwaBeA4E

    Also Rhydian on the X Factor singing "phantom of the opera" came a close second.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-krRuQD94


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    #190
    Latchy
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    This from Ultravox made my hair stand up on first hearing it and one reason i went along to see them when they played dublin back in 80s


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    #191
    fitz0
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    New Slang - The Shins
    Erie Cnal - Bruce Springsteen
    Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
    Hurt - Johnny Cash

    Theres probably more but cant think of them now


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    #192
    mollydolly271
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    JOHNNY CASH-HURT
    GARTH BROOKS-UNANSWERED PRAYERS
    TAKE THAT-NOBODY ELSE


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    #193
    Joe_Dull
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    basquille wrote: »
    Imogen Heap "Hide And Seek"

    +1

    Amazing haunting song - unlike anything I've heard before or since


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    #194
    Howard the Duck
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    The Cure "Catch"
    Tindersticks "Travel light"
    Jeffrey Lewis "The chelsea hotel and oral sex song"
    Pixies "Gigantic"


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    #195
    entropi
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    Can only add from my 3 favourite acts:

    Muse - Starlight, Bliss, Hysteria

    Daft Punk - One More Time, Digital Love, Harder Better Faster Stronger

    Eminem - Mockingbird, Marshall Mathers, Lose Yourself, The Way I Am


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    #196
    guitarsongs
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    Totally showin' me age here, and it's not even my typical musical style, but "If you want me to stay" by Sly and the Family Stone blew me away when I first heard it, the funkiest song ever.

    30 years on, it featured in an ad recently, can't remember for what?

    PJ


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    #197
    Ziggy_1972
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    But not for the reasons you might think.;)


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    #198
    Nolanger
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    Here's one from a few month's back - didn't get much radio play because it's depressing but I love it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9Vsobx8I


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    #199
    tman
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    "Laurie Anderson - O Superman"

    Absolutely amazing... My dad used to play this quite a bit when I was younger, but I rediscovered it a couple of years ago and was totally blown away


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    #200
    Green Hornet
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    Run - Snow Patrol
    Snow - JJ72


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    #201
    Nailz
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    Ceremony - Joy Division/New Order


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    #202
    GBX
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    Lynyrd Skynryd - Simple Man
    Luke Kelly/Dubliners - Night Visiting Song & The Unquiet Grave


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    #203
    barfuss
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    timid tiger - miss murray


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    #204
    Ziggy_1972
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    tman wrote: »
    "Laurie Anderson - O Superman"

    Absolutely amazing... My dad used to play this quite a bit when I was younger, but I rediscovered it a couple of years ago and was totally blown away

    I completely agree with this one. I saw Laurie Anderson about 10 years ago, she was amazing.
    There's a great version of this song on her live album recorded in New York in September '01, about 10 days after the attack. The line
    "Here come the planes.
    They're American planes,
    Made in America.
    Smoking, or non smoking?"
    it's an incredibally powerful performance.


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    #205
    Latchy
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    I like these from her latest album

    same ol fcuking story

    into the nightlife


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    #206
    Nailz
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    True Faith - New Order


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    #207
    PrivateEye
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    Christy Moore-They Never Came Home

    -the song about the stardust disaster.

    Have we forgotten the suffering and pain
    the survivors and victims of the fire in Artane,
    the mothers and fathers forever to mourn
    the 48 children who never came home.

    The Pixies- Where Is My Mind

    -got my hooked.

    Leonard Cohen- The Stranger Song

    Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
    we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
    I think it's time to board another


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    #208
    S.I.R
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    Hmmm


    false light by Marco V...

    a dance/trance song i know but jasus lads... some beat to it, just makes you relaxed... but then the base kicks in and your thinking " F*** me thats good "... the only dance i can listen to !

    Also lately i heard Heroes or Ghosst by the coronas...


    a college band i know but its a belter... straight away bought there album, mint

    Best irish album since thin lizzy's jailbreak, F*** U2, the money grabbing " northside " idiots ! :rolleyes:


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    #209
    Censorsh!t
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    the nicest thing - kate nash

    I listened to it there for the first time, and it's beautiful. I love it.:)

    Other songs...

    let's make out - does it offend you, yeah?
    Stupid MF - Mindless self indulgence
    You're gonna go far kid - The Offspring

    And more that I can't think of..


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    #210
    VascoJunior
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    First song to send shivers down my spine was

    Ocean colour scene-The Circle
    And also
    Jimi Hendrix playin johnny b good live
    Rollings stones sympathy for the devil
    blur there's no other way
    And recently
    Kings of leon's 1st album,quality


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    #211
    FearDark
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    Queen - Prophets Song
    Killers - All these things I have done
    Boston - Foreplay/Longtime
    Coldplay - Fix You


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