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

[dasilvasings]

There were too many!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkIX--ijNQ

[Redler]

One of them...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQZoY9PQlY

[Gritter]

Some really cool ones here.

I was in a punk/goth clothing store called "The Underground" when I first heard Tom Waits.

It was this song...


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

[steelguitar]

There are many ones!

Just one of them :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk

[SteveB]

I attended a Youth Club in the sparse mid-1960s, before the advent of BBC Radio 1 and a local, regular supply of groovy pop toons. Someone brought this vinyl LP in one night and played it on the Dansette record player. The world has never been the same. 

[Hilary]

I stopped what I was doing and sat down and cried - Eva Cassidy's Somewhere Over the Rainbow . . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

[Blooby]

I tried some live versions, but they just weren't as perfect.

"Where Were You?" by Jeff Beck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Tu3IT3JZU

[cuthbert]

I know I've posted this clip before (and youtube keeps removing them), but it still hits me like a ton of bricks:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZjIdyWu-U

Catch it while you can...

[Blooby]

This has been the one from the last couple years that just turned by hear around.  What a great song with unbelievable vocals and guitar.  The guitar break in the middle leaves me breathless. Darrell Scott's "River Take Me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS1RJ-cF6VY

[BAG]

This just floored me when i first heard it as an 11 year old.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H9rMisFI0

Which led to this.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1sBwV1-tU

And then on to everything Floyd. Am still a big fan and went on to listen and obtain all their music.