Song that blew you away on first hearing it

r3nu4l

Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock
This song and the video that accompanied it really blew my mind. It perfectly captured the hippie ethos and era.


Luke Kelly - Scorn not his Simplicity
This version of Phil Coulters song is incredible. A very personal song whose meaning is really brought to the fore by Luke. Very deep and resonating.

Captain Darling

Race for the Prize-Flaming lips: blew the socks off me so it did.

gustavo

Nirvanas version of Where did you sleep last night

Declan A Walsh

More songs that blew ME away on first hearing: (as I have said before, that does not always mean they would still blow me away!)

My Sharona - The Knack

Wondrous Stories - Yes

Owner of A Lonely Heart - Yes

Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner

Urgent - Foreigner

Heartbeat City - The Cars

Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth - The Dandy Warhols

Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warols

The Promise You Made - Cock Robin

Someone, Somewhere in Summertime - Simple Minds

Rusted Pipe - Suzanne Vega

Is Vic There - Department S

Let's Go Crazy - Prince

Who are You? - The Who

Oxygene (part 6 I think ... the single) - Jean Michel Jarre

La Femme D'Argent - Air

Beatbox - The Art of Noise

Jerichoholic

Nothing really did it anymore for me, until I heard Electric Feel, live!

toomevara

Slightly OT, but the album which grabbed me by the Knackers and refused to let go until I screamed for mercy was Pixies "Come on Pilgrim". Completely changed my perspective on music in about 40 minutes...

Dudess

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Heartbeat City - The Cars

Ooh yeah, me too. Fabulous song.

Someone, Somewhere in Summertime - Simple Minds

Heh, great minds etc. That's included in my list here somewhere too!

Beatbox - The Art of Noise

Moments In Love and Closer To The Edge blew me away, not Beatbox though.

alie

November rain - guns n roses

jefreywithonef

Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
Sugar - JC Auto and Come Around (both off the brilliant Beaster EP)
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Frank Black - Sing For Joy (amazing song)
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Song
Bob Dylan - Joey
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon

captainautumn

Michael Franks - Sunday Morning (here with you)

pseudonym1

Johnny Cash - a boy named Sue heard it when I was a tot on d radio couldnt make sense of it and though it was so strange!

humberklog

Original Pirate Material - The Streets.

JerryHandbag

Biffy Clyro - Folding Stars.....or "Eleanor" as I call it

anti-venom

Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia.

Insect Overlord

[QUOTE=r3nu4l;57039317Luke Kelly - Scorn not his Simplicity
This version of Phil Coulters song is incredible. A very personal song whose meaning is really brought to the fore by Luke. Very deep and resonating.[/QUOTE]


+1

It's an amazing song. I remember seeing it on TV when I was very young, with my mother explaining the story behind it. I was hit by it even though I was too young to fully understand it.

stressed out

The Cure - In Between days - blew me away when I first heard it at a "Beat on the Street" (remember those!)
Stone Roses - I'm standing here - I think it's the transition from cool to sublime that does it
Sara McLachlan - In the Arms of the Angels - I find this song so hard to listen to as IMO it's about suicide but it was amazing the first time I heard it
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never knows - needs no explanation really
The Pixies - I bleed - most of that album is class, but I couldnt get enough of this
Crowded House - Dont Dream It's Over - still gives me goosebumps


and recently The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama for its epicness

Rockshamrover

Bruce Springsteen The River
U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2 Pride
Pogues Fairy tale of New York
Sex Pistols God save the queen.

Lots more I cant think of right now.

Shryke

Karma Police by Radiohead.
Highway to Hell by AC/DC.
Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC.
Debaser by The Pixies.
Needle in the Hay by Elliott Smith.
Life During Wartime by Talking Heads.
Auto Rock by Mogwai.
Battery by Metallica.
Hurt by Johnny Cash.
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? by CCR.
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Living is a Problem... by Biffy Clyro.
Have You Ever by The Offspring.
Just by Radiohead.
Paranoid Android by Radiohead.
I Hung My Head by Johnny Cash.
The Curse of Millhaven by Nick Cave.
The Day the World Went Away by Nine Inch Nails.
To Be Young by Ryan Adams.
Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones.
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones.
Transmission by Joy Division.
Even Flow by Pearl Jam.

That'll do I suppose.

Acacia

Slipknot- ''The Heretic Anthem"
Nirvana- ''Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Feeder- ''Buck Rogers.''
The Beatles- "Eleanor Rigby''
The Verve- ''Bittersweet Symphony''
Joy Division- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
The Smiths- "How Soon Is Now"
Korn- "Freak On A Leash"

There's more but that's all I can think of now.

onion1

Ziggy_1972 wrote: »

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.

agreed.

Gmol

Honesty is no excuse Thin Lizzy, a beautiful song and an unknown gem.

rawn

Elbow - Starlings

Angus & Julia Stone - Yellow Brick Road

Listen to them and thank me later.

onion1

r3nu4l wrote: »

Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock
This song and the video that accompanied it really blew my mind. It perfectly captured the hippie ethos and era.


Luke Kelly - Scorn not his Simplicity
This version of Phil Coulters song is incredible. A very personal song whose meaning is really brought to the fore by Luke. Very deep and resonating.

Scorn not his simplicity, some song. Powerful.

Dtp1979

In the end - linkin park

onion1

Night Visiting Song, Luke Kelly
In fact, Damien Dempsey does a nice version of this too.

Tilikum

"I Built a home for you"

Cinematic orchestra.

"Careful what you wish for"

Bell x1.

"Strong"

London's grammar.

Nailz

Aphex Twin "Xtal"
Faith No More "Everything's Ruined"
Philip Glass "Pruit Igoe"
Slayer "Seasons In The Abyss"
Fantômas "Book 1: Page 14"
David Bowie "Suffragette City"
Devin Townsend "Funeral"
Led Zeppelin "No Quarter"
Kyuss "Gardenia"
Devin Townsend Project "Hyperdrive!"
Portishead "Sour Times"

Kettleson

Leave Home: The Ramones the month it was released.

That whole second album was like WTF!

I then got the first album. Unbelievable production, bass and guitars panned full left and right. Nothing has ever come close since.

splashthecash

Heroes and Villians by Brian Wilson

Amazing tune with so much going on in the background. More harmonies than you can throw a stick at and beautiful arrangement

Wake Up by Arcade Fire

Powerful song with a driving beat. Explodes during the chorus. One of their best imo

Grayditch

Paranoid Android.

Had to check the date. Music had advanced considerably overnight.