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

[alfstone]

Now, going to pop music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6wdxCIook

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

[stuart3645]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnVcItVybI0 big country......bammm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blooby]

Too many....

the first ones coming to my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMINC9EOZME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKkK5aL7UY

Alfredo

I was going to post In a Silent Way, but the uptempo middle is so dichotomous to the gorgeous beginning, I always am a little sad when it comes. Great choice on the Shakti. I believe their discs albums, cassettes, and MP3's have had the most consistent airplay in my house since '81 or "82.

You've inspired me. I'm off to listen to some John McLaughlin.

Blooby

[kenny mac]

Lol

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.

.     Love it  I remember my older brother playing bodies full pelt on his stereo ( from never mind the bollocks)and my dad nearly flung him out the house.

[ODH]

Lol

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.

.     Love it  I remember my older brother playing bodies full pelt on his stereo ( from never mind the bollocks)and my dad nearly flung him out the house.

Nice story.

Did you see that documentary over Xmas called Never Mind the Baubels, about when the Pistols did a free gig for the children of striking firefighters (?) in Huddersfield on Christmas day afternoon?  Quite touching.  They were a nice lot.  And they played Bodies full pelt to a room full of kids, with no words changed.

[Geir]

15 years old, first summer job at an  industrial laundry, at a lunchbreak out in the sun a car pulled up with this one blasting at full volume. Been a fan since ...

I think I know the moog solo in this one by heart.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXuQPx6tB0

[Geir]

Heard this on the radio .... blew me away !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPoYQHDi1HI

Even did an unplugged version of it a couple of years ago
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=5940.0

[ODH]

Heard this on the radio .... blew me away !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPoYQHDi1HI

Even did an unplugged version of it a couple of years ago
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=5940.0

Haven't heard that for years

New Rose for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G5bh-iBxVA

[ODH]

So by about 1980 I was already learning myself to play guitar and I thought I had it scoped out.  I was into Punk and didn't have a lot of time for rock.

Then my step brother turns up with the first Van Halen album and I had to do a re-think.  Tracks 2 and 3 - Eruption and Ain't Talking About Love - changed how I thought about guitar playing.  I spent the next five years trying to play guitar like Eddie Van Halen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEBSxP725w

[Hook]

Been a little scared of this thread. I thought once I opened the flood gates I wouldn't be able to stop. Foxtrot really changed a young Hook.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4

& Like Flash Harry but I have to go earlier with They Might Be Giants. A 14 year old Hook discovers Cartoon Rock.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ftRXG8T9k


around the same time this tune blew me away


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRhVVdZmF8A

& I might not even be a musician if it weren't for Elvis Costello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCaxjRAZ3GQ