... and still do maybe.
The music forums is gone a bit meh lately, we need a new youtube thread! :D
So, post up some clips of songs that totally blew you away when you heard them first, opened your mind to new possibilities, showed you what music could be, summat like that. No sh!te please!
The Sugarcubes - Birthday
The song that really got me properly into music. Astonishing. Just love it.
Throwing Muses - Hate My Way
Powerful song from still the best band there's ever been.
(the video doesn't quite match the audio I'm afraid, but YT clips from their best days are rare)
Thin White Rope - It's OK
Raw, driving, primeval howl from the best band the world has never heard of. Another live clip here, Red Sun, again from the wonderful In The Spanish Cave LP.
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
This is probably the tune that got me into dance music.
Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
And definitely the tune that open my ears to hip hop as something a bit more than b-boy shape throwing, fine and all as that was!
Dont know how to put the youtube video on, like stann
01/09/2009, 7:38 AM
endabob1
Most recently it's been
Elbow - One day like this - live at the EP last year
anthemic pop at it's very best
01/09/2009, 8:09 AM
Lionel Ritchie
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Originally Posted by bellavistaman
keane somewhere only we know, what a song i love it,
DJ Shadow does an excellent remix of that tune too. One of the boys on OWC sent it on to me a while back.
For my own part - a tune that'd fulfill the criteria set down by Stann would be my first hearing 'One' by Metallica in April 1989. Completely knocked my musical world off it's axis.
01/09/2009, 8:41 AM
Wangball
I went to see the new Tarantino film and his use of the David Bowie tune (Cat People) in the film is pretty mind blowing, it was excellent.
Have been listening to it almost non stop since
01/09/2009, 8:53 AM
gustavo
01/09/2009, 12:10 PM
shakermaker1982
first time I heard smells like teen spirit........
Predicatable but true - "Fools Gold" and "I am the Resurrection" by the Stone Roses.
Life changing.
01/09/2009, 12:40 PM
endabob1
I think for songs that changed the way I listened to music or opened up new genre's etc..
The Smiths - Ask - the song that made me "get" Morrissey & the Smiths & Indie Music
Happy Mondays - Halleluliah - Dance music that I like knock on effect to the Rose, James and subsequently portishead, massive attack, morcheba, even hip hop, can all be traced to me hearing the Happy Mondays for the first time
Neil Young - Helpless - Difficult to pin down when because I grew up with older sibblings but one of earliest non TOTP music memories was this song & almost 30 years on I still love the man.
Northern Sky - Nick Drake - How is/was this guy not a billion selling musical icon, a bit like Neil Young I had a lot of late 60's early 70's Led Zep Rolling Stones etc but this was different, I heard him much later and it blew me away (to coin a phrase)
There are others
The Cranberries - Uncertain - what a voice, timid, fragile, angelic, where did it all go wrong??
David Gray - Shine - Up until and including the White Ladder album I thought he produced great records but has descended into to MOR, I guess it's true that a lot of art is driven by personal suffering. As soon as he got comfortable the edge went.
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears - I never really got Billy before this but it instilled a life long love affair with the Barking Bard.
02/09/2009, 2:45 PM
Stevo Da Gull
Interestingly, some of my favourite artists don't make the list, as I can't pinpoint one particular song of theirs that blew me away like the following did/do. I tried to pick 10 songs that blew me away the first time I heard them or that still do every time I hear them.. but I gave up after 7 :D
Elbow - every song.. Switching Off was the first I heard, it moved me big time.
Neil Finn/Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet
Evanescence - My Immortal
The Cars - Drive (though maybe this shouldn't be in here, because I remember when I first heard the song I also saw the video.. and the girl in the video was part of what got me, :o)
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
02/09/2009, 4:11 PM
tetsujin1979
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Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
first time I heard smells like teen spirit........
ditto, changed everything I thought I knew about music
02/09/2009, 7:34 PM
Pauro 76
Muse - Citizen Erased / Microcuts
Two tracks off Origin of Symmetry just stopped me in my tracks at the time. Citizen Erased was impressively proggy and epic, easily one of my favourite Muse tracks. It then segues into Microcuts and that astonishing falsetto that nobody knew existed.... Double whammy.
03/09/2009, 12:34 PM
superfrank
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
It just sounded so different from every song I'd ever heard, even other Funkadelic stuff. It's a great song.
03/09/2009, 3:31 PM
DeLorean
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Originally Posted by bellavistaman
Dont know how to put the youtube video on, like stann
That's the bit where ye offer some advice lads!!:D I don't know either, obviously.
04/09/2009, 10:56 AM
stann
It's straightforward enough once you know, just put everything after the equals sign in the youtube address (all the letters and numbers gobbledigook) inside yt and /yt tags.
Click 'quote' on any of the posts here that have embedded the clips and have a look at how they've done it.
Nice thread. I'll contribute in the only way I know how.
First is a song that blew me up, up and away when I first heard it howevermany years ago, and it still works its magic today. A pure-cut opiate, it wraps you up in a comfy quilt, sends you up into the exosphere - and beyond, up around the moon, floating, floating, higher and higher, as you coo and gurgle at little Earth down below. Per Stann's criteria, "it showed me music could be" pretty much anything really, and moreover, (coming at the question from the other end) it showed me what music can do to you. I could talk in awe about it all day, but suffice to say that no Mind-Expansion Playlist would be complete without it -
It might be worth putting up another song, a similar one, more of a modern incarnation maybe. Also amazingly beautiful. If ever you need to be made feel the world is a warm, fuzzy, special place where rabbits bound freely alongside playful foxes and eloquent elephants, this is your song.
And last, a bit of light reprieve from the above, the song that most recently blew me away. I just absolutely love this -
11/09/2009, 5:09 PM
Stuttgart88
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Originally Posted by Wolfie
Predicatable but true - "Fools Gold" and "I am the Resurrection" by the Stone Roses.
Life changing.
Listened to the latter in the car today at full blast. First listen in about 5 years as I'd got a bit sick of the album.
Astounding.
11/09/2009, 5:51 PM
Réiteoir
11/09/2009, 11:54 PM
stann
A few more...
First tune I ever heard by the Pixies...
Bone Machine
Best hip hop song ever, bar none.
Ty - Ha Ha
Blew me away when I heard it first on a magazine coverdisk. Taken to a whole 'nother level inside a tent at Oxegen. Achingly beautiful video too.
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-Englar
A great example of just how good this stuff can get in the hands of people who know what they're at. Not a glass or a mug safe in the house when this comes on...
Freestylers - Boom Blast (Deekline & Wizard Remix)
Their first album blew me away, but this one from their second finished me off altogether.
Transglobal Underground - Chariots (with the divine Ms Natacha Atlas, of whom more of a similar nature here, and here)
12/09/2009, 1:06 AM
kingdom hoop
Mmm, me mucho likey the last one there Stann.
In-keeping with the Oriental ambient theme, here's Banco De Gaia's "Amber" off the album Last Train To Lhasa. The whole album blew me away. Real nice.
From Lhasa, you could really only go to Mali for a song that has emotional relevance for kickstarting a love-affair with the African sounds, the increasingly popular Amadou & Mariam's "La Realité".
And last, a man who loves his bit of African, legendary producer turned solo artist Adrian Sherwood (feat Lee Scratch Perry, and some little girl) with "Animal Magic" off delightful 2006 album Becoming A Cliche. Odd, yes, but there's something about it.
12/09/2009, 7:45 AM
Pauro 76
So beautiful it nearly makes me cry everytime I listen to it. Amazing song.
12/09/2009, 10:56 AM
gustavo
Speaking of tear jerking songs
12/09/2009, 1:51 PM
Magicme
My brother and his wife had that as their first song at their wedding. Beautiful.
12/09/2009, 6:26 PM
Réiteoir
One of the best, most uplifting Outros ever written - from 4 minutes 30 onwards.
Sorry it's not the video version, which adds to the atmosphere, but this is the best I can find on YT.
My mate rang me during their performance at Electric Picnic, just for this song. They're not a great band, but this song just towers above most things this century.
Nice clip Ken, got a wee groove going, that hasn't happened in a while, cheers! :D
Cocteau Twins ever and always have a place in a thread like this. Couple more to add to the pile, surprised the first hasn't been already mentioned.
Love's Easy Tears
Carolyn's Fingers
And it may be at the frothier end of their oeuvre, but how could I not take the opportunity to post a tune called... Bluebeard!
14/10/2009, 8:52 PM
Mad Moose
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Originally Posted by endabob1
David Gray - Shine - Up until and including the White Ladder album I thought he produced great records but has descended into to MOR, I guess it's true that a lot of art is driven by personal suffering. As soon as he got comfortable the edge went.
I have to agree and though I'm not critical of his later stuff post White Ladder stuff like Shine, Birds Without Wings, Late Night Radio etc etc still stirs me and its timeless stuff.
A personal favourite at the minute, though more so the voice of Bridget Kelly on this is 'Empire State of Mind'. I think its fantastic.
