Songs that blew you away the first time you heard them

[HRoi]

Thriller by Michael Jackson

 

[Roy]

Hurt by Johnny Cash

 

[Oxnard]

Originally Posted by willpower

The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties

Between the beautifully delicate intro, the psychedelic twelve string guitar, and Nico's Marlene Dietrich vocal delivery I'm still blown away.

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haha awesome somebody listed this, easily my favorite Velvet Underground song ever. Anyways Neil Young's Old Man from any of the old live sets blew me away first time I heard it...

Neil Young live at BBC-1971

 

[Augusto86]

Alive - Pearl Jam
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cacador de Mim & Cancao de America - Milton Nascimento
Hip-Hop Saved My Life - Lupe Fiasco
Guess Who's Back - Rakim
Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major - Mozart
Cello Suites, Suite 1, Mov. 1 - Bach

 

[billsayers]

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
The Stooges - Search and Destroy
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Drop

 

[spudnik99]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

 

[sjg22]

In no particular order:

- Pretty much every song on "To Record Only Water for 10 Days" by John Frusciante (the lead guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Very cool album, a bit hard to find, and not exactly what you'd expect;
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 (heard the live version first, which is way better: "I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home...");
- The "Dookie" album by Green Day, particulary the first three songs and "When I Come Around", as it was released during my formative years;
- "Castles Made of Sand" by Jimi Hendrix (my first exposure to Hendrix);
- The "Nevermind" album by Nirvana;
- "Say It Ain't So" by Weezer;
- "Highway to the Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggans, because Top Gun was badass when I was growing up;
- The "Stadium Arcadium" and "Californication" albums by the Chili Peppers; and
- The "808s & Heartbreak" album by Kanye West - a bit out of sync with the other choices and not overly loved by critics, but I found it really interesting and good, especially the first time I listend to it (mind you, I listened to it in the wake of a bad breakup, which is the them of the album, so maybe that has something to do with it).

 

[Tangfastic]

Belle & Sebastian - Stars of track and field

 

[Piobaire]

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Damn you Augusto for mentioning it already. I was a wee nipper, like 13ish, when this came out. The video, at that time, was killer. And the first time I heard the opening riff, I knew it was a classic headed to #1.

Man in the Box by AIC
Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Crazy Train by Ozzy/Randy
Lament for King George V I've mentioned this tune here before. Spend 99 cents on iTunes and down load it. You can find it on a CD from John Turner on his disc The Wanderer's Lament. Holy ****, this will rip your heart out.
Lament for the Children. Arguably the greatest lament ever written, arguably the greatest piobaireachd ever written, but unarguably one of the greatest pipers and composer of piobaireachd ever.

 

[Cleav]

Scott Matthews - Elusive.

Truly inspiring

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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Damn you Augusto for mentioning it already. I was a wee nipper, like 13ish, when this came out. The video, at that time, was killer. And the first time I heard the opening riff, I knew it was a classic headed to #1.

Man in the Box by AIC
Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Crazy Train by Ozzy/Randy
Lament for King George V I've mentioned this tune here before. Spend 99 cents on iTunes and down load it. You can find it on a CD from John Turner on his disc The Wanderer's Lament. Holy ****, this will rip your heart out.
Lament for the Children. Arguably the greatest lament ever written, arguably the greatest piobaireachd ever written, but unarguably one of the greatest pipers and composer of piobaireachd ever.

Money for Nothing was awesome. Even though I'm a lot younger than you, when I first heard it as a little kid on my parents' record player Dire Straits instantly became my favorite band,

Actually the greatest lament of all time is Conne's existance.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Actually the greatest lament of all time is Conne's existance.

Well done.

Srsly though, anyone reading this, pop the 99 cents and d/l that tune of iTunes. Also, listen to all of it. Just when you think it can't get more heart rending? It does.

 

[boogaboogabooga]

"My Man's Gone Now" "Sinner Man" and "Funkier Than a Mosquitoes Tweeter" by Nina Simone "If There's Hell Below" by Curtis Mayfield and about a gillion others. I'm just posting this to make a quota.

 

[wmmk]

Kol Nidrei--Max Bruch (Jacqueline DuPrÃ

recording)
The Dead Flag Blues--Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13 Angles Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed--A Silver Mount Zion
The Men are called Horsemen There--Sunset Rubdown
Sin Nanna--Sunn O)))

 

[Cleav]

Babyshambles- Albion