Songs that blew you away when you first heard them Part 2

It's SO long since I've been blown away by a song I can't even remember.

I hears an old Jimi Hendrix song called How Would You Feel and I guess I was blown away, but didn't realise what it was about (racism). Now I do know I feel less blown away.

I can see for miles by the who

Coldplay: Via La Vida

Master of Puppets by Metallica (this was back in the eighties, not because I heard it on Stranger Things)

“Royals” by Lourde.

“When Doves Cry” by Prince

“Don’t Go” by Yaz

“Just like Heaven” the Cure

“But Not Tonight” Depeche Mode

1980s👍

R6, yes!

Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love

Since this is thread#2 on the subject how about we go into deep dives of an artist or album?

I just recently discovered the Maria Vidal (back up singer to Belinda Carlisle among others) 1987 debut album =

The Real Feel =

Do Me Right =

Sleep Won't Come =

Life On The Train =

These are the best 5 cuts out of the 10 in my opinion.

“Rolling 7s,” Dirty Honey.

“Lead Me On,” Kelly Joe Phelps.

“The Joke,” Brandi Carlile.

In college, everyone was obsessed with Elliott Smith. I liked him. But didn't really "get it" until I heard his song The Biggest Lie. I thought it was a near perfect song - the lyrics, the melody. the gentle/haunting voice, the guitar work - and then became an Elliott acolyte.

Oh god, where to start..

I was about 5 or 6 years old when my brother was gifted a VHS collection of Queen's greatest hits. This was in 1992, I think. Freddie passed away a year before that.

My brother immediately wanted to watch the video clips, all the other gifts (it was Saint Nicolas' Eve) be damned.

The tune, the blasting drums and guitars, the melodic climax, the voice, the hair, the leotard..!! MARY!

I was instantly hooked. It just blew my gayling brain.

My 2nd entry: Many years later, somewhere in my early twenties, I was last to stay in a gay bar, having developed a bit of a fling with the barkeeper. It was an autumn night, raining in Amsterdam.

Played on the bar's fantastic sound installation came Ella Fitzgerald, singing Angel Eyes. We smoked a cigarette, just listening to that godly voice of hers...

Piano In The Dark - Brenda Russell

"Walk Away, Renee" - the Left Banke

Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run", smack dab in my college years. I saw him perform it in two of his concerts I attended.

The Kinks - Strangers - beautifully written

It looks like Maria Vidal did 2 Spanish language albums after her '87 debut posted above.

Her next English album to date is a 2009 release =

You Move Me =

The title song =

What's The Matter =

And this one rounds out the top 5 cuts off of her '09 album =

She just might be the Queen Of Remakes...

A London freight train =

The Cure A Forest

Perfect Day - T. Twins

Rock This Boat - T. Twins

This thread needs a lesbo

I'm digging this -- first heard it a few weeks ago and was arrested:

When I first heard this, in 1984, I was absolutely smitten!

I love the way she sings it and I love the background music.

No disrespect to Al Green, of course.

Me too, r37 -- although I was 13 and it was 1997

A deep dive into mid 80s Berlin.

This tune would've been "Sex Me, Text Me" in today's world =

When Love Goes To War - Berlin

My favorite off of the entire album =

Pink & Velvet - Berlin

"Hideaway" makes my top 5 songs off of their album "Count 3 & Pray"

that the average person has never heard =

I guess this is the best place to admit this.

When I was 10, a song came on the radio that very quickly became my absolute favorite song for years.

In my best Casey Kasem:

"And now, the number one song of 1975. Here's the husband and wife duo the Captain & Tennille with their Top 40 smash...

"Love Will Keep Us Together"!!

Uninvited. I'm not even an Alanis fan. But the Led Zeppelin sound gives me goosebumps.

I always wanted to listen to his biggest album after he hit it big in '80 with his 2 biggest hits = "I Love A Rainy Night" & "Driving My Life Away" so here is his deep dive =

What Will I Write = Eddie Rabbitt

Rockin' With My Baby = Eddie Rabbitt

I Need To Fall In Love = Eddie Rabbitt

Short Road To Love = Eddie Rabbitt

& the final of my top 5 from this album =

My One and Only Love - Paula Cole and Chris Botti

In The Still Of The Night - Jane Monheit

Hey Jupiter and Me and a Gun by Tori Amos.

You Oughta Know by Alanis.

My Heart Will Go On.

Hello by Adele, sort of.

Just Dance by Gaga.

A Case of You (Joni Mitchell) and Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen), but I heard both first as covers by Tori. I love Joni's version of her song and I don't love Leonard's version of his.

I obviously have a bias toward female vocalists.

I enjoyed my first Eddie Rabbitt album so much the other day that I thought

I'd check out the last one he did before his death from lung cancer in1998 =

Suspicions = Eddie Rabbitt

Love May Never Pass This Way Again = Eddie Rabbitt

I'm There = Eddie Rabbitt

You've Come To The Right Heart = Eddie Rabbitt

& since the album had 12 songs, here's the last of my top 6 best tunes on it =

Dust in the Wind blew me away.

Candle in the Wind

Summer Breeze

Wind Beneath My Wings

This is embarrassing. This is also Datalounge so it’s ok.

When I was 10, I remember my parents having the radio on outside on the the patio. The windows were open and I was in our dining room looking at our angel fish aquarium. This song came on and I froze in place and almost cried…because I thought the song was so incredible. It is not incredible at all. It is terrible. Ah, youth.

Chris Cornell’s version of Ave Maria (off some 1990’s Christmas album) is incredible.

Since her recent passing, I thought I'd deep dive into ONJ's albums (I've only heard the Grease & her 1979 albums before this).

I always wanted to get around to her 1988 The Rumour" album since a friend had it back then so I made time this morning for it.

This should've been the opening song & single from it =

This song was supposed to be the original album title & it's about AIDS =

I've never hard this song but it was the only other single except for the album title track =

Her voice is in fine form on this track =

This tune is only on the Aussie CD but I would've made it the album title & first single =

Since the album had 12 songs this is in my top 6 tunes that blew me away...

Yves...

Devo's "Going Under' from the band's New Traditionalists album that was then used as the music for a night-driving scene in a Season 1 episode of Miami Vice. Perfect mood.

Glassjaw, ‘Two Tabs of Mes cal!ne’.

Completely rewired how I heard and thought about contemporary music. Chills Don’t think I was the same person after hearing it.

Legendary singer Lee Sun Hee, a middle aged woman singing a duet with a man young enough to be her son. Power and clarity. Don't need translation to appreciate the voices.

"Lonesome Town" blew me away when I first heard it back in the 1990s =

I like her personality & voice but this song was the

only one off of her US debut that blew me away =

I don't know why this wasn't released as a single in some places

as it's the only tune of theirs that really knocked my socks off..

Dream Academy's only big hit, "Life In A Northern Town" blew me away the first time I heard it -and it stays with me because it's got a great hook.

This the top song from the show that impressed me.

I heard the original back in the 70s but I prefer this one -

The Vistors by ABBA. It was so different from their other work and so powerful to me. It’s still one of my favorite songs.

My favorite take on it-

My next album search for Olivia was going to be her follow up to her "The Rumour" album

but after seeing that it was a children's album I went to her '85 release instead =

This great cut sounds like it could've been made here in '22 =

Her 1st single "Soul Kiss" was a top 20 hit here in the US so I chose to post the remix here =

This tune has over 600 YT likes & I can understand why =

Moth To A Flame = Olivia Newton-John

& since the album had more than 10 cuts this rounds out the Top 6 songs =

Oh FFS, just post the album.

^ Obviously I wasn't blown away with all of

the songs on the album like OP desired R95.

First heard this moving song listening to Moby's third album, "Everything is Wrong" (1995). It's been used several times in TV and films.

"When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" · Moby · Mimi Goese

All You Have To Do - Boy Krazy

They also had some great remixes of their stuff =

This, for one.

Tom Jones, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"

Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat - Natalie Cole

Starting Over Again - Natalie Cole

Gonna Make You Mine - Natalie Cole

Blue Oyster Cult - Then Came The Last Days of May. Astronomy is another one.

You Really Take My Breath Away - Kaja (googoo)

Fear Of Falling - Kaja

Jigsaw - Kaja

Afraid Of You - Kaja

Rivers - Kaja

Shouldn't Do That - Kaja

Before the movie parts, the red carpet appearances, and the high-profile relationship with Tessa Thompson, Janelle Monáe released this single. I heard it on the mega influential LA public radio station KCRW. It blew my mind. I love her voice, and the big, brassy orchestration. I couldn't find an official video, so this will have to do.

Enjoyed that R114. Thanks for posting her.

I loved this song so much in the mid 80s that I ran out & bought it (a rare act for me).

The fact that the band hated this successful album (for them anyway) as "corporate rock"

disappointed me a great deal as no other album of theirs sounded like this one.

This song is the most popular non single (based on likes) from the album

on YT & seems like it was grunge rock before the genre was named =

Shadow In My Heart =

No Release =

The album title song "Midnight To Midnight"

The Dream Weaver disco mix -

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

Some Flatt & Scruggs...

Some Porter Wagoner...

Albatross - Judy Collins

I love the potential of these threads, but they're always ruined by one or two assholes who post endless bullshit. But I'll contribute.

I was four years old when this song was released, and it blew me away. I was obsessed. My mother was on an afternoon duckpin bowling league for a bit, and would give me and my (older) sister money to spend in the arcade. I didn't play the video games. I spent it on the jukebox. "Material Girl" was always on my list, as well as Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It", of all things.

I was never going to be anything but gay, gay, gay. And knowing how things turned out, this memory always makes me smile.

Karen Souza has a nice voice...

Are yo lonesome tonight?

Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot

My deep dive into The Psychedelic Furs catalog reveals

that their "Book Of Days" album should've sold more copies.

Entertain Me = The P. Furs

Torch = The P. Furs

Who on the DL doesn't love a parade?

Absolutely Barking Stars by Maria McKee

"Wedding" rounds out my Top 5 off of this album =

How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye? by Laura Brannigan

I listened to it once, broke into deep sobs and haven’t been able to listen to it again.

MARY!

R133 The U2 cover of that song is pretty good too.

Post punk, dark wave band, Molchat Doma, from Belarus - Sudno

"Express Yourself," Madonna.

Shake it up, shake it down /

Move it in, move it round, disco lady /

Move it in, move it out /

Move it in and about, disco lady

Okay, r9!

Ricky Martin. "Casi Un Bolero." Grammy-winning album "Vuelve."

He's lipsynching, but he should be seen.

This one from the great Chad Mitchell Trio, solo Chad.

"Mandy Lane," album "The Slightly Irreverent ..."

This song knocked me out because of Chad's inimitable voice.

I've been crazy about many songs, but only a handful of singers in my years. Two are still Ricky and Chad.

THIS is one of the most influential songs in my life. After I discovered it among my parents' records, I could not stop playing it; I was aurally mesmerized.

Alas, though I wanted and expected to learn the trumpet, my father, who had played the trombone, checked that instrument on my school form and that was that.

Perez Prado, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White." Billboard #1 for 10 weeks in 1955.

Give a listen for the last note. Trust.

Link for r146, "Mandy Lane":

"Heroes and Villains" - the Beach Boys. It's been a favorite since I first heard it in the summer of 1967. I had no idea about the SMiLe album until the Good Vibrations box set was released in 1993.

I came across this group (& their biggest hit featured below) on the net recently but had never even heard of them.

My deep dive into their only known album reveals a duo/group that reminds me of Spandau Ballet =

Crunchy Love Affaire = Biue M.

Heaven On Earth = Blue M.

Your Secret Is Safe With Me = Blue M.

I chose this one to round out the Top 5 over "I Hate New York"

which after 9/11 seems a tad insensitive =

Aretha's take on this great classic...

Goddammit, can we put a limit on the number of songs from the same album. That shit's annoying me and normally don't care. I mean....being blown away by 4 fucking Olivia NJ songs from the same record? GTFOH

hasta la raíz- Natalia Lafourcade

1,000,000 WWs for r156, were they mine to click.

That six-songs-from-the-same-album cunt is the most annoying queen in all of DL who is not Defuckto.

R156 R158 Sounds like you want quotas on this thread that is already on life support.

If song's are on the same album, just post the album. Or post the song on the album that is your favorite with an honorable mention to the entire album.

It's that simple.

No it's not as simple as you described R160. Not all albums are able to posted in their entirety.

The album at R154 for example might not have been popular enough for someone to upload as an entire album or the label/artist might've had it taken down (MCA, Prince, etc.) & what if someone wasn't a fan of all of the songs anyway?

The OP asked for "blew you away" songs - not entire "blew you away" albums to search through (this thread isn't about giving out a pretend Grammy for best album).

Honorable mention? Are you stuck in school somewhere?

If you don't like a certain genre on a music thread just ignore them all (R123 R124) like a mature adult would.

It's that simple.

For me, vocals are really what sets off the "mind-blowing" experience. No doubt that there are some rather beautifully composed and/or written songs but my choices would be Mariah Carey's records mainly for the vocal showdown.

Vision of Love

Emotions (the whistles; first time I heard it, I couldn't believe human voice could go that high like a freakin bird)

We Belong Together (the final chorus in an octave higher scale is pure Mariah goodness)

Stay the Night (the final "and you keep on sayin" part)

Anytime You Need a Friend (the final chorus is so soulful and ends the song beautifully)

R161 Dude, is that what you got from our posts? It has NOTHING to do with the genres of music.

I read DL on my mobile most of the time and the scrolling process is already a pain in the ass. It doesn't help that you have to scroll by 8 songs from the same record. Why not just post the best one and give the album a little review? Why post downloads of ALL of the songs?

Either you're being argumentative or you're the one doing it. BTW, the poster's ONLY doing it to get this reaction--and OF COURSE, I'm giving it to him. Yay me. I don't think that's too much ask

Where I End & You Begin - Night Drive

Someone here on the DL introduced me to this group a couple of years ago -

Cosmic Dancer - Night Drive

Young Rivals - Night Drive

Someone posted this cover on another thread & it blew me away...

I don't care much for her or the voice

but this one impressed me plenty =

[quote] Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run",

Melissa Etheridge's version was better She blew the roof off Madison Square Garden

Roxy Music's " Same Old Scene" used as the intro for the movie "Times Square"

X - Los Angeles

London Calling

I got to go backstage at the London Calling show in Santa Monica - the Clash were really cool guys. Had a great time.

R150, The singer looks like Timothee! Squirrely, too!

I just discovered this song in the past week =

Severance - Nina Belief

I don't speak the language but it's still a beautiful tune....

Mansfield TYA's slower side =

& finally this tune made my Top 6 out of the 12 songs =

R177-182, what about each of these songs uniquely blew you away? I can think of maybe ten songs in my entire 60+ years that were so striking they blew my mind.

R183. I enjoyed...

1 = the atmosphere of all 6 (I think this is lacking in most post 1990 songs except for a few artists like Adele)

2 = the voices/vocal arrangements (reminded me some of Annie Lennox's solo work)

3= how they brought all of the different instruments together. Not all artists in the new century can do that last part.

I usually avoid non-English albums but I enjoyed that one so I might try to listen to more in the future when I come across them. Not all of the songs above "blew my mind" but the OP on the 1st thread also said "hit you like a freight train" which most of these did. Most tunes that I've heard in the past decade don't move me in any way.

Maybe a bit cliche, but it did affect me and both music and video were (and are) haunting-what a voice.

I just gave this old late 70s album a spin =

I Believe You - Barbara Mandrell

& finally this song rounds out my top 3 =

75% of the posts on this thread are by the same person. Who also happens to have ZERO taste in music.

^ Everyone is loving all the stuff that you post with your keen music sense. Keep up the good work!

Sea Of Light - Night Drive

After Dark - Night Drive

No Plans - Night Drive

Drones - Night Drive

Nocturnal - Night Drive

Hey R185 have you heard this? Music played over the final scene and credits of the movie Orlando (which is amazing). (Jimmy Somerville)

Baba O'Riley - The Who

My Embarrassing Childhood Entry. The summer of my 7th year, this was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard. I was obsessed.

The official DL song =

Old Friend...

My Father's Blue Eyes...

In This World...

Can I Walk Away Tonight?

The Owl...

OK I'm just gonna agree with other posters upthread that the person posting song after song after song from the same artist/album is FUCKING TEDIOUS. Please stop.

Saturn- Sleeping at Last

I don't know why but Staley's vocals always got me here.

The best acid songs around =

Tittle cut for a young gayling...

R209 YESSSSSSSS

Sia Breathe me

Long World -

This isn't exactly a country tune but I enjoyed it....

Bounce Your Boobies!

Her smoldering facial expressions match up to her smoldering vocals...

[quote]OK I'm just gonna agree with other posters upthread that the person posting song after song after song from the same artist/album is FUCKING TEDIOUS. Please stop.

He does it on purpose, even after it has been explained to him how sociopathic it is. He wants people to be pissed off at him. He is the Defacto of the music threads.

I forgot about Gilligan's Island. How did they make it off?

R216 Sociopathic? LOL. I have a short term memory now so my posting several songs off of an album in a row helps me cross the album off in my mind (& move on to another) but if you want me to hopscotch & post a song again in a day or two over & over until the thread runs out that can be a possibility too.

Also grow up & quit complaining how it's so hard to scroll thru songs on your phone. Get something else that will make it easier instead of whining about it on thread after thread. I doubt anyone on the DL helped you pick out your dumb choice of a phone.

Temptation...

Your One And Only...

R218 Dude? Please. You tried it.

I don't use my phone to access you tube, r218. I hate the tinny, screechy sound quality.

— r206

^ r216, not r206

DM's Never Let Me Down Again

From the early 80s -

R218 OR you could read the room and stop being such a cunt?

Boy this thread keeps dying when nothing is posted to it.

I had completely forgotten about it.

Hello, 1976.

A great version of the classic =

Long Misty Days - Robin Trower

Clout - Under Fire

I love Vera Lynn, R234. The maternal side of my family is British; they came to the USA after the war was over. I heard all the war stories growing up. I later learned it was too painful for my grandmother to listen to "the White Cliffs of Dover" for the rest of her life. My grandfather died in the conflict.

So, it resonates with me every time I hear it.

Another great song from the album above =

Lush Life should've been a single =

The Sea and Sand - Shirley Bassey

I didn't care for Donna's "All Systems Go' late 80s album but I was never a big fan of hers anyway.

This song was the big standout to me -

The Smiths, "This Charming Man"; The Stranglers, "Golden Brown"; Etta James, "At Last"

Didn't there use to be a website that made music recommendations based on the music you already liked?

It was the "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" sample that caught my ear but when she got to the first chorus I remember thinking "Bitch??!!!" in a completely awestruck way

Yeah R241 It's called The Data Lounge....

Before The Data Lounge.

Hee Haw?

Because of r199 through r203, I am never, ever going to listen to anything by the Burns Sisters, no matter how long I may live. You annoying fuck. STOP IT, ALREADY!

Olivia's "Grace and Gratitude" album blew me away the first time I heard it - I played it repeatedly the first night I bought it. It was originally an 'exclusive' at Walgreen's in October, 2007, where she teamed up with them to promote 'breast cancer awareness' . The CD was at the cash registers, selling for $5 (since her passing, I've seen this OOP CD listed for over $100 now on different sites). The next day, I went back and bought all they had - kept some extra copies for myself and gave the rest out to friends and family for Christmas gifts - everyone loved it, couldn't believe it was ONJ. I can not believe this album was not recognized by the Grammys. (It peaked at #2 on Billboard's New Age Album Charts).

In 2010, she re-released the album in Amazon under another record label as 'Grace and Gratitude - Renewed', with some extra songs and some 'tweaking' to the original recordings - it's OK, but this original is better.

Probably one of the best recordings by Streisand in her entire recording career. This should have been the lead track on the album "Back to Broadway" in 1993 (instead of the awful 'Some Enchanted Evening') and the single off the album in America (where no single was released at all). The rest of the album is a mixed bag, not nearly as strong as 1985's "The Broadway Album".

Oddly, this was the first one I thought of.

I've blocked the queen who is continually posting 6 songs from some shitty album, and the thread is much better for it imo.

I love the song below, but the way the video has been edited to match the emotional notes really hit me (Starring Lee Pace btw)

I remember seeing this video in a gay club around 1989. Something about the blasting sound, disco lights, sweaty half-naked men and smoke at midnight riveted me.

Grace deserved to be a bigger star here in the US based off this one song =

Roxy Music

"A Song for Europe"

"Hurt"

Johnny Cash

I mainly knew of her from the Conan film but she has a great voice with good musical instincts.

She reminds me of Annie Lennox in many ways =

This is probably the biggest tearjerker the group ever recorded...

This is her best song off of her biggest solo album -

ABBA's song Eagle =

I agree with Juda Tenuta that Cher has sounded rather horsey

since the 80s but I think she sounds pretty great on this cover =

Just divine...

Mahler 8. "This is a symphony?", I asked my music critic friend.

This 30 year plus dance song blew me away when I first heard it several years ago...

I'm probably gonna catch a lot of flack for sharing this, but YOU ASKED:

It's a rather simple song but it still blew me away over 20 years ago when I first heard it -

I still remember the exact moment I first heard this John Adams piece. I was completely mesmerized!

If we're including movie theme songs then...

This is one of those hard to define bands but this song of theirs knocked my socks off =

It's been covered so many times but only Lynn's version captures the tune's magic =

I still can't believe this song was done by the Barracuda band -

I still haven't gotten around to seeing the film

This thread needs more Mathis -

Some Catwoman anyone?

On a more recent note

Wet Leg

Firefly - Maria Vidal

How Does It Feel?

This mid tempo masterpiece ...

When Will You Be Home?

Bitter Pill

Spandau Ballet - True

Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

Tulane

Does Disco still exist, or is it just called something else now?

Can't believe I left this/these out, but I was indeed blown away by Amy Winehouse -- particularly "You Know I'm No Good" and "Back to Black." Particularly since I'd seen her at the time on newsstands on the cover of Rolling Stone and just rolled my eyes at yet another wannabe. Until I realize who she was and what she sang. A true and rare (and very much missed) talent.

And at the risk of oversharing. (I'll see myself out.)

"Ladies Who Lunch"

This Tush cover =

The best version of the song =

I Want You...

Some fantastic songs fellows ! I like this one a lot...

Now this one literally blew me away ! I LOVE this man ,and I do believe I found out about him on here, I'll be forever grateful !

I recently discovered this tune in a car commercial -

I'm not familiar with these 2 original songs but I like this mashup =

You have what it takes...

YouTuber jbarrios7 =

Another song by R296 two years later =

Still walking barefoot in Beverly Hills...

Wings/ Paul McCartney---- "Dear Friend". cried the first time and every other time I have listened to it.

Just a touch of love...

Such a sweet sad song -

A dramatic departure for their signature sound =

How Would You Feel is technically not a Jimi Hendrix song, it was by Curtis Knight & The Squires. Hendrix played lead guitar, he did not sing on that song.

George's forgotten masterpiece -

This version of her old tune blew me away...

One of VanWill's better ballads =

Driving Me Mad - Neil Finn

I couldn't believe I'd missed this 1983 Carly Simon album until a friend gave me the CD in 2008 or so. So many good songs. Up there with Anticipation, Coming Around Again, No Secrets, Boys in the Trees, etc.

'Calvary Cross' by Richard & Linda Thompson.

Not my usual style of music, but I haven't stopped playing it since I heard it.

[quote]One of VanWill's better ballads =

Lots of remakes in this thread.

Sister Moon was written by Sting. Has Vanessa done any other Sting songs? She should.

For the lesbians =

The best song on the album in my opinion =

I went to a Chris Isaak concert in Orlando circa 1991(?) and it was 85% women and 15 % gay men. I was with 2 girlfriends,and both of them said their panties were soaking wet after the concert. During the concert you could feel the sexual tension in the venue. He was at the peak of his beauty then.He also had a magnetism that you had to experience live. He had that entire audience eating out of his hands. It was a great evening. He could have gotten laid 500 times that night.from both men and women !

Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black"

My heart goes out to you...

Hard to believe that this soft sweet tune came from badass Grace Jones -

Taylor Dayne wouldn't make my top 50 female voices list

but this song was the best off of her debut album =

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

Cause I Love You - Lenny Williams

Soory (Degrassi) , song dump here...

What a Fool Believes

Come on, y'all. You gots to be dead inside not to feel this song.

Collective Soul- Run

Breakeven- The Script

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

The Saturdays - Higher (featuring Flo Rida)

Not even sure WHY I like this song...prop the chorus

His best song =

More haunting than the original...

I always thought this guy would've become a bigger star -

Bobby Sherman, I'm sure he made me gay. "Easy Come, Easy Go" I pretended he came all over my face and I had to go and clean it off.

Jesus Christ ! Started out great but its getting heavy on the coffee house crap .Theres 10 zillion whiney voiced singers picking out the same 8 notes on a cheap guitar . Do they all have to end up here ?

R333 wah wah wah.

Put up or shut up.

Mr. Wrong...

The only version of this song that I can tolerate -

Too bad R328 has no clue in life...

Here's Leo Sayer's best song...

R337 just brought me back to the 60s and 70s, when our swim club played the pop radio station through its speakers. I can see myself playing in the pool, listening to it. It's how I remember most of the songs of that era. To remember something so distinctly about 50 years ago amazes me.

Donny Hathaway's version of "For All We Know" and several other performances on "Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway".

Sleep Has no Property was the first Danielle Dax song I ever heard, and it grabbed me instantly with its weirdness, and dark middle eastern sounds.

I heard it playing at a record store, and instantly bought the album, Inky Bloaters.

One of Prince's more divine offerings =

Her latest -

Happy Nation - Ace Of Base

He Decides (The US version) - Ace Of Base

Too bad Ace of Base turned out to be Nazis.

^ I only heard that the blond skinny guy used to one but left the movement as he got older.

Have any of the other 3 had any links to them?

Nelly Furtado- I'm Like A Bird

Black Boys on Mopeds

While on the topic of Sinead …

Maybe this has already been posted but holy shit what a song

The group name is a reference to the nazi superbase (The Ace of Bases) created in WW2, so they aren't subtle.

Honestly....

XRaySpex- Identity. It set my punky little heart on fire, and still does.

1 = Lifted By Love = kd lang

2 = Wash Me Clean = kd lang

3 = In Perfect Dreams = kd lang

This is hardcore-Pulp

4 = Season Of Hollow Soul = kd lang

Only My Pillow Knows For Sure = Times Two

Painted Heart = Times Two

Feels so Good. Chuck Mangione.

Thanks for posting that R364. Loved it!

Beautiful Mess - Swing Out Sister

Too Much - Blondie

My Monster - Blondie

Play In The Sunshine - Prince

Should've been a top 10 hit everywhere when it came out =

I wish I was blown a quarter as much as one poster here is blown away by a song.

Blue Disco Inferno -

Unsound · Bettie Serveert

The Kills- Monkey 23

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

TLC - No Scrubs

The fact that this is sung by two guys just adds to it.

This one.

Don't dream it's over....

As If = a-ha

A companion piece for R380 -

Also from her latest album is a great song called "RUN"-

Concertina by Tori Amos

Photograph - Shiny Toy Guns

My favorite version of the song -

Paradise Lost's Mouth...

Lady Do Or Die - Billy Idol

This is stunning. As good as Ani DiFranco on Dilate.

This awesome duet =

The night before last I watched the documentary [italic]Royce and Marilyn,[/italic] and this piano piece was played over the opening titles. I had heard it before somewhere, but never realized it was Beethoven. (I had remembered it adapted form as "Midnight Blue" by Louise Tucker.) Anyway, it was perfect for this film.

^ *in* adapted form

I just came across this album & this is the best thing on it -

"Home" - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Duffy's Distant Dreamer

Fancy Footwork - Chromeo

Aaron Tveit's version of "We Are Never Getting Back Together."

Some RJ...

This is better than anything Clapton ever did :

Here's That Rainy Day = Bea Coster

I Surrender - AT Vance

This 1981 album by The Sound doesn't seem dated at all =

Still blows me away

This song sitll blows me away.

River of Deceit by Mad Season

On the Way Home by Buffalo Springfield

R410, I remember pitchfork saying that Mad Season album is the one that killed grunge. WTF? So many good/great songs on it. Everyone knows Collective Soul killed grunge.

Supersonic by Oasis

Pitchfork? Who gave use "Arcade Fire".

I was listening to R&B, hip hop and dance music almost exclusively in the late 80's, and had never gotten into this kind of stuff.

A friend of mine turned me on to this song, and I was totally mesmerized.

It eventually led me to The Cure, Depeche Mode, Siouxie and the Banshees, and a bunch of other great stuff I'd previously written off as "not my thing".

Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up"

The fact that tis tune was so unlike anything else that he had done

blew me away when I first heard it in the early 90s

This dance song blew me away when I first heard it & knew that the singers would be around for a while...

Played this on repeat today, volume all the way up

Probably my favorite Madonna performance.

Anyone who says she can't carry a tune should listen to this one...

I didn't care much for the original but this new version with new vocals is very catchy...

Wake The Town & Tell The People - Mindy Carson

My Foolish Heart - Mindy Carson

Memories Are Made Of This - Mindy Carson

Baby Baby Baby - Mindy Carson

Remember (Walking in the Sand) The Shangri-Las

I'll have to look up your version R425. Have you heard this one?

Here's the original, r426.

Got Candy - Cyndi Lauper

Nothing Compares to You

Can't Breathe - Cyndi Lauper

Rain On Me - Cyndi Lauper

A great voice from a great artist...

From 1986 =

My secret crush

Crrep - Karen Souza

The great Chantal...

Beautiful Morning - Queensha

I thought this song was the best on the album -

Cyndi did the best version of this tune =

I'll See You In Cuba...

sexy Pillow Talk

Lonely But Only For You...

Still On My Mind...

Hey! Love - The Delfonics

I didn't think she could pull this one off -

"The Year of the Cat", by Al Stewart.

Grace - Saving Jane

I first heard "You Can't Be Too Strong" by Graham Parker in the mid-80s. It was a very direct song about abortion. Chilling, no matter which side of the abortion question you are on.

The Pet Shop Boys haven't really impressed me with their songs but this one was really great =

When I saw Trainspotting and the end where Renton steals the drug money, hearing this song for the first time gave me major frisson and made me feel nostalgic for England somehow and put me into a dreamy trance until the grating rave beat kicked in.

Underworld — Born Slippy (Nuxx)

This tune blew me away ages ago -

I had to pull my car off the road the first time I heard "Kiss and Say Goodbye," so I could pay attention to the whole song. I've listened to it hundreds of times since 1976.

I love the vocals on this mix...

Sheryl blew me away with this live performance =

My favorite version -

I just heard this song for the first time today =

"Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

""Islands" King Crimson

"Batuka", Santana

Was late to the party, but this song, this performance//// spellbinding to this guy.

Was late to the party, but this song, this performance//// spellbinding to this guy.

Was late to the party, but this song, this performance//// spellbinding to this guy.

I'd like to hear Karen Souza do the song Creep originally by Stone Temple Pilots and throw in Creep by TLC.

Sleater Kinney - One More Hour

Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Amazing song. A true classic. ❤️

This should've been a top 10 hit here in the US =

I like this song with male vocals -

Never Recover...

Seems Hard...

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze

This was her best shot at a top 10 hit in the mid 90s =

I wish Deb had resisted her teenybopper phase & pursued an image similar to Mariah (they're both the same age).

Silence Speaks (A Thousand Words) - Debbie Gibson

The Mindy Carson troll needs to be continuously bitch slapped!

Skating -

Amy's version came before Cher's & I like it better =

What a voice!

Wires by Athlete

This is one of the better tunes on a hook challenged album -

A song that didn't seem like the typical Eddie tune...

I would've went crazy if this song was being played on my radio as a 1970s kid =

Time to Say Goodbye.

Andre Bocelli and Sara Brightman

NKOTB's slower songs were better than their faster paced ones

Case #2

She released this at around age 12 -

This one at around age 14 in 1990 -

I wish this 1 was a radio hit for them minus the "George talk" at the start =

Belinda Carlisle's recent release "Sanity" was the best of

the bunch & has a retro sound missing from radio...

The first time I heard this, I had it on repeat for days.

R497 That was so beautiful & as a fan of Nana

I don't know how I missed that one.

I've listened to plenty of new albums since the latest round of Prime Time.

This is my favorite version of this tune on YT =

Where Or When - Carly Simon

People Say A Lot -Carly Simon

I've been enjoying EEC's latest release =

All Your Sisters = Mazzy Star

Ride It On = Mazzy Star

Mary Of Silence = Mazzy Star

[quote] Songs that blew you away when you first heard them

Try to understand, try to understand, try try try to understand. The answer is Magic Man

This is R494 all grown up in 1999...

Carly's Xmas album was hit or miss for me:

I had never even heard of this one:

Here's another one from that 1999 album...

Suspicious Minds by Elvis

Carly singing with her kids -

"Afterglow (Of Your Love)" by the Small Faces.

Mazy Star is basically a 1 hit wonder here in the states but they have a greater range than they're given credit for =

I've Been Let Down - Mazzy Star

My fave of theirs =

The Summoning by Sleep Token. Such a great band with a diverse catalog. Blue-eyed soul meets metal.

Lorde’s “Royals”.

I had to know who sang it and hear it again.

"Summer Music" - Samuel Barber

These gals sure did their share of sad dreary tunes but this was a breath of fresh air for them:

"The Gulf of Araby", by Katell Keineg (Sung here by Natalie Merchant)

Wild Horses by Rolling Stones Shine a Light- Rolling Stones North Country - Bob Dylan Lying Eyes- The Eagles Take it Easy- The eagles Wonderwall-Oasis

Pastel = Two Lovers

Barbra Streisand - Somewhere.

It was the song that made me a fan.

Whipping Post - the Allman Brothers, that intro in 11/8 hooks me every time and the chord progression near the end still gets me.

I like that, r375. When I heard "the Future Starts Slow" by the Kills on a TV show, I had to find out who that was.

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" - the Beatles.

Adele-Someone Like You

My most recent example

By Two Steps from Hell

Some OMD

Keeping My Baby - Duffy

Talk - Coldplay

This rare Queen song =

Mazzy Star's Fade into You

Blue Tip

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman.

It was a steamy night memorial Day weekend in Orlando Florida in 1980. I went to the Parliament House with some friends to go dancing. I was a Twinkie back then 20 years old close to my physical peak . This song came on and as soon as the introductory base beats hit people crowded the dance floor, I was a naive child not familiar with the artist at that time. Laugh if you must but those lyrics and that melody gave all of us a sense of pride and empowerment at that time. I never felt such a sense of belonging and camaraderie before or since as I did being on that dance floor surrounded by hot sweaty men. Thank You Ms Ross!!!!

Sweeter Than Honey...

Tumblin'...

This group sure could make a song sound

like nothing else that they ever had done before -

Boys of Summer by Don Henley

Anything by Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

Caroline

Love Lovely Love

BEST SONG EVAH!!!