Songs that blew you away...

**stann** · 31/08/2009, 11:32 PM

... and still do maybe.
The music forums is gone a bit meh lately, we need a new youtube thread!

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!

**bellavistaman** · 01/09/2009, 1:11 AM

keane somewhere only we know, what a song i love it, seen them live, this blew me away at the concert!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOa4-JwdV8

Natasha bedingfield has a version too its very good aswell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07yiwTwgLRM

Dont know how to put the youtube video on, like stann

**endabob1** · 01/09/2009, 7:38 AM

Most recently it's been
Elbow - One day like this - live at the EP last year
anthemic pop at it's very best

**Lionel Ritchie** · 01/09/2009, 8:09 AM

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.

**Wangball** · 01/09/2009, 8:41 AM

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

**gustavo** · 01/09/2009, 8:53 AM

**shakermaker1982** · 01/09/2009, 12:10 PM

first time I heard smells like teen spirit........

**Lev Yashin** · 01/09/2009, 12:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7hw5NkSPvs

Kevin Carter-Manic Street Preachers....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMeAOTPJzM

Sea of Love-Cat power

**Wolfie** · 01/09/2009, 12:15 PM

Predicatable but true - "Fools Gold" and "I am the Resurrection" by the Stone Roses.

Life changing.

**endabob1** · 01/09/2009, 12:40 PM

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.

**Stevo Da Gull** · 02/09/2009, 2:45 PM

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

Our Lady Peace - Not Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ojv5oV9Yrc

Trial Kennedy - My Idol Who. Here is the version that I witnessed live, and it was awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpXQtMtF-Rg. But this video is much better quality, although missing the intro that I love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Bqn...eature=related
They were unbelievable that night I saw them, musical machines. Nice guys into the bargain

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,

)

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

**tetsujin1979** · 02/09/2009, 4:11 PM

Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

first time I heard smells like teen spirit........

ditto, changed everything I thought I knew about music

**Pauro 76** · 02/09/2009, 7:34 PM

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.

**superfrank** · 03/09/2009, 12:34 PM

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.

**DeLorean** · 03/09/2009, 3:31 PM

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!!

I don't know either, obviously.

**stann** · 04/09/2009, 10:56 AM

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.

**thischarmingman** · 04/09/2009, 11:08 AM

Here ya go: http://foot.ie/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode#yt

**kingdom hoop** · 06/09/2009, 8:13 PM

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 -