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

[steelguitar]

Recently, this one stopped me. Amazingly beautyfull for me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSU4QDbdew

[Oldrottenhead]

i must admit i hated them becoming successful cos i wanted em all to myself.

in there day they could blow yer soxs off, i believe they still can.

but 1979/80 everything they did was fmgwabp.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MwzSaBBQY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHd4zvMjDgs

[dasilvasings]

Ah! I was also stunned with Eva Cassidy!
But with True Colours! There are so many dynamics on her version! It is amazing!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hhu1l36eTE

[ODH]

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

I couldn't think of one particular song, then it occurred to me that one of the first was the Saints I'm Stranded album. My mum was a bit of a punk in the 70s and came home with the album one day in 77 or 78. Changed my life. Just the energy of it.

There were many others subsequently.

[chapperz66]

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

I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't heard of this man before.  Brilliant.  Since you posted this I have spent hours watching through the Youtube clips.  Very talented.

Paul

[Vanncad]

Just a few of mine...

1. I heard a cover band do this song in the 80's. It made me want to start a band.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpSl1dm_fw


2. A totally different end of the spectrum, but this one still stops me in my tracks every time I hear it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFD-rqqQhI


3. Late 80's. A friend put this album on, and I stopped it halfway through this song, made him give me a blank cassette and record the whole album (geez - sorry about that Geffen). You just knew this band was gonna be huge.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHe1XPTioIk

[SharksDontSleep]

I remember sitting with my jaw opened in front of the television watching this on top of the pops.y
It was raw and Lydon spat the lyrics out and looked like he was going to jump through the tv and slap you.

Spot on. I remember it well ... And the Gilbert O' Sullivan v Pans People thing.

I couldn't think of one particular song, then it occurred to me that one of the first was the Saints I'm Stranded album.

Another good one. I remember hearing I'm Stranded (the single) and being blown away by that buzz saw guitar.
Probably my favourite song of theirs was This a Perfect Day.

For my part 2 TV appearances in particular have stopped me in my tracks.
These:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ_9-rbslo
On ITV's So It Goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVc29bYIvCM
on BBC2's Something Else

[Oldrottenhead]

i remember seeing joy division on something else too. doing transmission and she's lost control. ian curtis was riveting. i still have all the something else shows on vhs.

[alfstone]

Too many....

the first ones coming to my mind:

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

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

Alfredo

[alfstone]

Ah, always re: Miles...

the mix of these powerful drums, John McLaughlin's guitar and this incredible bass riff is, imho, just PERFECTION...and when the trumpet comes in...I could listen to this for days.  

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

Alfredo