songs that stopped you in your tracks the first time you heard them

[IanR]

The rest of you have gotten it all wrong.

This was the song that changed the world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA

I have never been the same since I heard this in a Melbourne record shop called "Missing Link" in the late 1970s.  I'm forever grateful to Ms Polly Styrene.

[chapperz66]

Pretty much still my favourite song of all time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ekpOZzD5RA

[Geir]

Ahhhh ... yes ! Love that song too Paul. Maybe my favourite Kansas album too.

[chapperz66]

Yep - its pretty much my favourite album of all time too.  I wore the first vinyl copy out and had to buy a second.

[Geir]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMznNlfLXP4

[fenderbender]

Ithink this is the one that did it for me
Iwas going to tech at the time
my first 78 record that I bought 
(gawwwwwwddd I must be old )
That was it -I wanted to be a guitar player -
( I still would love to be )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH7Qq4OG_nA
Then this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgbcyfJgfQ
then my whole life was KFCd by this one
I could have been a scientist- a part time brain surgeon- a  plumber/carpenter anything
I could have followed my father and uncle and been a lighthouse keeper
but no -I wanted to be a guitar player
I still do -ahhh maybe someday --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a99LGMHyGjs






 

[cuthbert]

Another one that really struck me on first listen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNkSAeA3R_s

[kenny mac]

I remember sitting with my jaw opened in front of the television watching this on top of the pops.
It was like nothing I had ever heard and I just wanted a les paul after that.
I've never been able to stray far away from that les paul shape and this song was probably the most powerful song I had heard.
It was raw and Lydon spat the lyrics out and looked like he was going to jump through the tv and slap you.
It was the beginning of exciting times in the uk and the bbc etc just didn't know how to handle it and tried their best to stop it by every bad press available.
People where more used to seeing dance routines by the likes of pans people on top of the pops miming to get down,,,,,bad dog baby by Gilbert osullivan while shaking their fingers at a stool full of dogs(I kid you not)
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the blueprint to my music career  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6GDdKrQ8EI

[kenny mac]

Told you.   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQXo1LHxAE

[Oldrottenhead]

kenny i first heard the sex pistols pretty vacant on radio clyde, ran to the record shop and bought it that day. but in the record store i caused a hoot of laughter when i asked for "pretty bacon" by the sex pistols.