Songs that just blew you away!
 

I'd love to hear some of the songs that simply knocked you off your feet. These can be songs that bristled in beauty, uniqueness, sheer workmanship or whatever.


There are so many songs that have done all of the above for me, but the one that most recently stopped me dead in my tracks is this absolutely beautiful love song by DeEtta Little and Nelson Pigford entitled You take my heart away, which also appeared as background music in a scene from Rocky.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tao_q53LWdc

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Just when I think hip-hop isn't my thing...

Man, I feel sorry for so many modern men caught in relationships like this.

"Every night in my dreams" This song always take me away.

Hevia - Busindre Reel
Mark Knopfler The Long Road
Parni Valjak - Ljubavna

Tim O'Brien with Darrell Scott - Brother Wind



Brother wind... Blew me away... Get it? :laughing: Oh come on... wasn't that bad. :rolleyes:

The one I remember most is this....and I have never ever play the game, just came across this song and its in my head forever.

I love when the residents use a more traditional arrangement cause they are so experimental it's a bit hard for me to get into alot of their songs but once in awhile they made a song like this with a more traditional melody that is easier to follow.

When i first heard this song i instantly loved the instrumentation but what really blew me away was the vocals. they go so well with the instrumentation and add an extra touch of innocence and sorrow.

Heard this one just this morning and was 'blown away':

Julien Baker - Rejoice


That voice. So raw, beautiful and powerful.

Thank you! I did it!

There are a few exceptional records which simply take the listener to church. One unparalleled example is Glenn Goins calling down the Mothership at Parliament Funkadelic's performance in Houston in 1976.



But my personal favorite out-of-body musical experience is Spiritualized's Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. The entire album is a neo-psychedelic gospel noisepop anthem and one of the finest and most cohesive works of the shoegaze genre.

J Spaceman and his band are accompanied by Dr John on the piano and the Hammond B3, as well as the voices of The London Community Gospel Choir. There are touches of hammer dulcimer, autoharp, accordion, string and horn sections, and pedal steel making for one brilliantly-refined heroin-inspired masterpiece.

The 17-minute closing epic, "Cop Shoot Cop" is a monumental performance. The track's foundation is a simple gospel blues oscillation between two fundamental chords. J's understated half-spoken vocals usher the listener through a series of verses varying on a primary lyrical theme, each punctuated by twelve bars of distortion pedal punching noise which culminates after the final verse with 6 minutes of an unrelenting eruption of cacophonous clamor. Impressively, the hyperactive electric bass which has been walking up and down scales for the duration of the piece slowly introduces and repeats the root note of the track and guides the performers through the fog machine and wall-of-sound pandemonium back to the familiar gospel structure for a few minutes of meditative peace while Spaceman repeats, "and I will love you...and I will love you..." for the album's finale.

This is a record best-experienced in your finest pair of circumaural headphones, and bested only by the 3-disc UK Limited Expanded Edition.

Ladies and gentlemen... we are floating in space.

I just fell in love with this track. It's so calming, and love the chord progression it has.



I also love the mood this song gives out.

Both of those are superb but attack on titan nearly brought me to tears. Excellent! Thank you all for sharing your listening material. Lots to ponder!

Nice to see you like them. Most people that I know don't like them, simply because they aren't "dance" music or Hip-Hop. lol

Anyway, That's the thing I love about music without lyrics! They could bring different emotions at different times, and they have a lot more room for self-expression. :)

Just how old is this girl? She's amazing thank you for showing me this. I need more music like this. It's so hard to find good raw vocals. For me at least.

I'd post something but, can't yet. Basically anything by Seung Son Yeon for sure. She's an amazing power house Korean vocalist. I really like the cover she did with her mom. Something Rainy Days.

This is the first song i ever heard from Bad religion and one of the first punk songs i trulty loved. When i first heard the part that goes:
"Go to Hell with Superman and Die like a champion, yeah hey!" I wanted to punch someone! it was the first time i heard such bravado in a punk song, that very day was also the day i first heard 'California Dreaming' which also blew me away but in a very different way.

Aw yeah just put a tap right into my 13 year old self with that song. huuuugh I listened to that song so much in my angst ridden early teens among many many other Cowboy Bebop songs. Like these which also did blow me away...and still do tbh,

Pretty sure I have not listened to this song in 10 years......I still know all the words aaaand....remember the pain as I listened to them.


I NEVER HEAR ANYTHING LIKE THIS! The whimsical sass to the singers voice.


And now we have some ULTRA SASS in the form of Cosmic Dare, this is also another song I do not hear similar of and still blows my mind is exists.

Not even kidding.. first time I heard this song, the speed was something I never heard before and I thought it was unreal. Looking back not so much, but I still like Dragonforce if I'm in the mood.



Song hit hard in my angsty teenage years.

The first time i heard through the fire and the flames i laughed my ass off and thought: "Are these guys serious?" :p:

Eventually the song grew on me but i still find it a bit funny.

I think the most recent songs that really blew me away have to be

Hozier - Take Me to Church and Sage Francis - Make Em Purr..

The first time I heard Dragonforce I had the same reaction and the same opinion years later lols.

Also....HOW COULD I FORGET!? One of the most mind blowing songs to me.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD! Granted I have developed a fetish for bass.

Another person who has watched CB, nice! Yea, I still really like some of the songs off that show, but I just can't seem to get tired of 'Goodnight Julia'! :)

Just about anything this Japanese goddess sings blows my mind.

The entire several CD soundtracks of Cowboy Bebop has just so much great music with things like Goodnight Julia being one of a kind as far as I know.

As-well as the film this tune was an amazing moment.

Can't wait for Jan 8th!

Neighbor was blasting his stereo one day back in the early 80s and the **** I was hearing stopped me in my tracks. The guitar work was unlike anything I'd heard. Turned out to be Yngwie's Rising Force. He eventually turned into a joke but back then he turned the rock guitar community upside down.

Didn't happen again until I first heard Shawn Lane playing Rice with the Angels. Had to pull my car over and remind myself to breathe.

Take me to church blew you away? It was good .Not fantastic Im kinda like dudes a 1 hit wonder.

Cherry wine? Angel of small death and the codeine scene?

Have you listened to his other tracks? I like him, and i like how receptive the mainstream was to a song that criticized religion.

Yeah I listened to it before you did bruh.... I can tell you that. Hozier has had a thread here for a while now. However take me to church is played out. I can think of 62 songs that blew me away when I first heard them that make Take me to church look like child's play.

This band was introduced to me by Frownland and right away they blew me away.



I can easily name you at least 4 songs by them that blew me away with their guitar arrangement but this one was the one that impressed me the most.

^Damn, the music is great, but vocals like that sadly ruin this for me.

That was my initial reaction too. I thought they sounded too emo but the more i listened to the band the more i realised they go perfectly with the guitars.

I'd really prefer the music to be instrumental, or some hyperactive weirdo like Pere Ubu's David Thomas as the vocalist.

Damn, I wish I still did acid. I'd watch that video non-stop the entire time I was peaking. Great music but also not a big fan of the vocals. Mainly because they are a bit monotone.