Three Songs That Snuck Up and Blew Me Away | POP FIX
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Thinking back on my life, there were at least three times where songs completely knocked me off my feet and life was never the same. For those who have yet to experience such a life changing event, buckle up.
Today I'm sharing with you my three songs that snuck up and changed my life, in the hopes that you will share with the community your three songs that forever pushed your life in a new direction. In no particular order we will explore; Don't You Want Me by The Human League, Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen and Vision Of Love by Mariah Carey.
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3. The XX Crystalized
2. Pink FloydThe Great Gig in the Sky
1. Peter Gabriel In your eyes
Great choices! Thank you for joining us and sharing your favorites!
In Your Eyes is one of those songs I can't skip if I hear it somewhere, it's just so distinctive and just envelopes you with its intensity.
So... was a masterpiece. Mercy Street was my jam!
I remembered that there was a song called "In Your Eyes" in an old 80s movie with John Cusack in it, but it didn't stand out for me then. But five years later, the live version of that song from Peter Gabriel's live album "Secret World" blew me away. It also remains one of the few songs I've heard that is so good that I love even most covers of it. The cover of that song by Jeffrey Gaines is fantastic.
Vincent Hopwood Check out Heart's Nancy Wilson's live acoustic version
To this day I remember this so clear. I was sitting at the kitchen table when I was 13 years old in 1982. I was doing some homework while listening to the radio. As I was sitting there doing my studies when Huey Lewis and the News "Do you believe in Love" came through the speakers. The lyrics, the music, Huey's voice just struck something inside of me that to this date whenever I hear that song I can't help but smile and sing along. Thank you very much for this channel. I'm a fairly new viewer and I love how you take me down memory lane.
Jim Boulton I still love that song! Love the intro, love it all.
Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
A-Ha - Take On Me
Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away
Alive and Kicking! GREAT song. :D
@BadKitty I got unexpectedly totally into alive & kicking2. Its kickass & went to #2. I wish it made #1... I really do
Alive and Kicking!
"Bad Reputation" by Freedy Johnston
"Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms
"Same Auld Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg. This one in particular. It had come on the radio, and I was listening to the story and bought into it. When the snow turned into rain, I had to wipe a tear from my eye.
1. Welcome to the Jungle
2. Sweet Dreams are Made of This
3. Living in a Land Down Under
3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
2. Light My Fire - The Doors
1. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
In 1986 I was at a party at my uncles house and Van Halen 5150 was on the record player.
‘Why Can’t This Be Love’ began and I literally turned around and stared at the stereo. I felt it through the floor and was blown away. (5150 is also outstanding)
Watching MTV late one night a band called Def Leppard comes on with a song called ‘Hysteria’ and I’m mesmerised by it. It’s soulful, hypnotic and beautiful. Over 30 years later it’s still a favourite.
I’m a little girl and my dad plays in a band as well as his day job. Music is always playing at my house day and night and dad plays this cassette where the man sings with a deeper voice but sometimes someone else sings. They play weird funky music and I like the sound of it. The man with the deeper voice sings my favourite...’Just What I Needed’ and the band is The Cars. 😆
Of course there are a million other songs and a million other memories but these are what come to mind right now.
Thanks Adam, Professor of Rock, for these brilliant walks down memory lane.
I can’t wait to watch the Doobie Bros video. They were a huge favourite in our house. 🇦🇺👏🏼
My top three:
1) Ordinary World - Duran Duran
2) Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
3) Two Steps Behind - Def Leppard
Three GEMS!!! :)
Awesome choices my friend!
I already put my list together before I saw yours...but hell yes to Silent Lucidity!!!!
when I first heard Silent Lucidity, it was like I was in another dimension.
“Africa” - Toto
“Tiny Dancer” - Elton John
“In the Air Tonight” - Phil Collins
For me, there is really only one 80’s song, Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2.
I was probably 12 in the summer of 1983 and saw the live at Red Rocks video on MTV. Listening to The Edge crank out that piercing guitar, Larry Mullen playing the drums like it was a military parade, and Bono screaming No More! with a white flag against the fires and fog in the amphitheater of Ted Rocks. That blew my mind and nothing has ever come close. I still watch that video often and to this day almost 40 years later I get chills.
Mine too. A girl in my high school class put her Sony Walkman headphones on my ears and pressed play. I grabbed it from her and played it on repeat for hours that day.
Billy idol: eyes without a face
Don Henley: dirty Landry
Foreigner: urgent
love all of these!
When Doves Cry - Prince
Nothing Compares To You - Sinead O’Connor
Me, Myself and I - De La Soul
I may be wrong,but didn't Prince write Nothing Compares to you?
American Pie Don McLean Yes I was alive when the Album came out. 1972
Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 1978
The Logical Song Supertramp 1978
Hey there were songs before and after but these struck a chord in my younger days when they came out.
love all of these!
A bit late to comment, but I can't resist.
3. "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The earliest music memory of my life, sitting in the living room with headphones on, and hearing this song on the 8track player.
2. "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley. Before I really knew who he was, before I was even aware of Eagles, this song grabbed me by the throat and lovingly choke slammed me into music awareness like nothing before it.
1. "Pressure" by Billy Joel. Starts off with cool beat, then its melodies, urgency, and words bore into the soul is such dark ways, yet you just have to sing along.
1. Shout - Tears for fears
2. With or without you - U2
3. Hello - Lionel Richie
All three songs stayed with me for a long time after the first time I heard them and because I was a dreamer and a hopeless romantic were the sound track to my teenage years in the 80’s.
" You like what you like .. There are no guilty pleasures " .. I like that ..
1. The Police - Every Breath You Take
2. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
3. ELO - Living Thing
Great songs 😊
1. Tuesday Afternoon- The Moody Blues
2. Once Upon a Daydream- The Police
3. Another Park, Another Sunday - The Doobie Brothers.
And yes, there’s a story behind each of these...
My three songs would have to be:
1. I Go Crazy- Paul Davis.......... I was just 6 years old when this song was a hit. I was always mesmerized by its amazing production, along with his voice. It's the perfect sad love song. It's probably the main reason I love sad songs & I have written & recorded so many like it. You could say this song changed my life at the tender age of 6!!!
2. Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O'Connor.......... My alarm clock just woke me up one morning in 1990. It was a school day. Then this song started playing. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! I was just laying there in bed totally in awe. A kid in my senior class brought it up in school. He said it was playing & he was literally paralyzed & saying "YEAH! YEAH!" It was one of those songs that everyone with a musical ear KNEW would hit #1.
3. My Immortal- Evanescence............ I heard this song for the first time in my car. I just started the car & she was going into the second verse. "You used to captivate me by your resonating light." I remember thinking "What in the world is this? Is this new? It doesn't sound like a hit on today's charts." It became my all-time favorite song by 2006, and stayed there until recently, when the Paul Davis song returned to #1 on my list.
These three songs are my top 3 all-time right now. Yeah, I have my list. It goes year by year, starting with 1955. All songs are in order for each year, and my top 25 all-time are in bold red. My all-time top 10 are listed at the bottom. You could say I'm a bit musically obsessed. :D
I got three:
- Jeff Wayne's The Eve of the War
- George Michael's Careless Whisper
- Tame Impala - Let it Happen
Just from the top of my head
I always return to The War of The Worlds - it's a go to favorite!
Shadows of the Night - Pat Benatar
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
The Best - Tina Turner
I grew up in Minneapolis, a city that has 10 lakes (not glorified ponds, actual lakes) within the city limits. They close the city beaches after Labor Day Weekend. When I was growing up, this happened pretty much on the first day of the new school year. This song came out near the start of my junior year of high school. The opening verse of this song perfectly describes the weirdly desolate, sad, and poignant feeling I used to get seeing "nobody on the beach" as I drove by an "empty lake" along an "empty street" watching the sun go down alone.
I love what you are doing here. three knockout songs are: rapture by blondie, don't change by inxs, sunglasses at night cory hart
Rapture was a WHAT'S THAT! moment for a Blondie fan.
This is extreeeeeemly tough, Adam. At age 56, and having grown up with tons of LPs & 45s from the 60s & 70s that my older brothers & sisters were always playing, I was already deeply immersed (drenched!) in the rock & pop music culture of the times. My first concerts were the Doobie Brother, Kansas and James Taylor. Bands like Journey, Toto and Elton John (just to name a few) were second nature for me to gravitate towards. You name it, and I was listening to it or well aware of it. With such a high bar of quality musicianship and song craft, it's hard to be knocked off my feet.
If I were to (off the top of my head) name one or two from that era, one would be Paul Carrack's first band Ace and their 1975 hit "How Long". That intro bass line, then the reverb-ed snare, then the Rhodes chords, and finally that jangling guitar riff and Carrack's vocals with those backing harmonies. Paul Carrack's voice (along with Journey's Steve Perry) are my Top 2 all-time vocalists. In Carrack's, it's pure and soulful. That song grabbed me by the heart when I was barely 12 years old and hadn't a clue about love and heartbreak. Little did I know then that 42 years later my marriage would fall apart, and that song would come full circle for me... with much deeper and prescient meaning. That same year (1975) my oldest brother had an Al Stewart album called Modern Times. That entire album from beginning to end just grabbed me and wouldn't let go. It was there that I was drawn towards certain singer/songwriter types.
Then came the late 80s and early 90s. I was involved with the local music industry in Philly in the 80s with a couple bands, during and after college. Even worked at a Sam Goody store. But in a five year span I stumbled upon three unique singer-songwriter times... the troubadours (hence my YT name) & tunesmiths of that age:
#1 - 1987's "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House. Neil Finn and his trio of him, Hester and Seymour made me go "WHO THE HELL IS THAT!?!" when we cracked open a cassette at the Sam Goody store I was assistant managing to play over the PA system. To this day, Neil Finn continues to be a songwriting craftsman. I've seen them five or six times in concert. Amazing each time.
#2 - 1990's "Baby, It's Tonight" by Jude Cole. This guy just hooked me when I wasn't even paying attention. That song made me want to hear more. And the entire "A View From Third Street" album is just beyond phenomenal. I literally wore out the cassette, and also had it on vinyl. Several tracks from that album also turned out to be prescient in 2017 & 2018 for me (just as Ace's hit did). Yet another troubadour & tunesmith who recorded three more incredible CDs and an EP since then. All the while producing, engineering, managing, and even co-writing for the likes of Lifehouse and Rocco DeLucca. He hasn't performed live in ages. He is tops on my Bucket List. If he EVER performs live again, I'm there! From a song on his following album: "Like ghosts on open windows, the curtains rise and fall, the past is a foreign country at the dark end of the hall, and the morning is an offering, to the shelter of the day, but the violent come and bury it away..." NO ONE writes like that these last two decades.
#3 - 1992’s “Make You A Believer" by Sass Jordan. Everyone at that time was jabbering about Melissa Etheridge as the second coming of Janis Joplin. I call B.S. on that. SASS JORDAN - this tall, blonde, lanky Canadian with Stevie Salas on guitars, deserves that mantle (if anybody does). That song from her Racine album rocked, and rocked hard. Then, two years later (1994), her Rats CD came out. Hoooooooooolllllly S#!7. I dare you... I double dare you... I triple dog dare you to play that Rats CD (cranked) and not be shaken to the core by it's raw, rocking' awesomeness.
And that, my friend, is my list... for now... at this point in time.
~Mike (aka, TrubadorPhotography)
Thanks for sharing. We have similar tastes. And Steve Perry is my favorite.
I can remember three moments when I heard a song for the first time and it totally blew me away. The first one was when I was a young kid and Frankenstein by Edgar Winter came on the AM radio in our car. I begged my mother to let me turn it up and she indulged me. That was awesome! The second time, I herd Hold the Line by Toto on the radio. I immediately went to the record store and bought the 45. Took it home and listen to it about a hundred times in a row. Something about the harmonies, the structure of the song, and that hard edge to the guitar riff still gets me to this day. And the 3rd and most recent time that happened to me. I saw Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson and the band perform Uptown funk on one of the late night talk shows. Can't remember the show but I know that they debuted the song on it. My mouth hung open almost the entire performance. I was so happy to see funk back and performed so well. Went out and bought the album the next day on pre-sale and picked it up the day it arrived at my local record store. My wife and I rode around in our truck with that CD cranked everywhere we went for about a month! Good Times
I could have chosen Bruno Mars "Treasure" for one of mine, if I'd thought of it! I enjoyed your stories.
I agree with the Mariah Carey pick 100%. My second pick would be Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. As a saxophone player that soaring solo by Rafael Ravenscoft showed me how a sax can define a song. Everyone can knows that song because of it. I believe it was one the reasons why in the 80's in particular, the saxophone was everywhere. Another was Smooth Operator by Sade. My third would be Orinoco Flow by Enya. I hadn't heard of her before. I just saw the cool cover of the CD and followed my gut. No one had heard of her and no video or anything was played at the time.I was like angels singing.
Honorable mention:
Dire Straits: Your Latest Trick
Anggun: Her cover of David Bowie's Life On Mars
Seal: Kiss From a Rose
My top three songs are:
1. Prince - When Doves Cry
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller
3. Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer
1. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
2. Right Down the Line - Gerry Rafferty
3. I just wanna stop - Gino Vanelli
Great songs listed here! Three songs I heard that just hit me:
- Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
- Behind The Wheel - Depeche Mode
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Behind The Wheel +
The One Thing- INXS
Someone Saved My Life Tonight- Elton John
Panama- Van Halen
1. Get back - The Beatles - I was around 8, and one of my uncles started singing the song from a songbook, and i instantly fell in love with the tune. I dont know if it counts but still i wanted to mention that.
2. Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
3. Wind of Change - Scorpions
"I Wan't You Back" Jackson Five.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen
"Don't Dream It's Over" Crowded House
Hey now, hey now
Love that you included Don’t Dream it’s Over. One of my top 3 favorite songs of all time!
@@spindillio YES! This is the one that absolutely grabbed me. There was nothing else like it out there in the pop world. Plus, Neil Finn is one of the finest songwriters working today.
Absolutely superb this tracks 🙏
1. With or without you...U2
2. These dreams....Heart
3. Here I go again....Whitesnake
I love your channel professor. Keep it up!
I Love all music but three times in my life I was blown away by a song. The first was in the 70's. The radio DJ was playing a song and I called the radio station and asked who was singing. It was John Lennon #9 dream. I was not even a teenager yet. 2nd song was Dancing Queen by Abba. Never heard anything like it before. 3rd I heard a song at a club and I walked to the DJ booth and asked who it was. The next day I went to the record store and asked if they had this record. The workers said they never heard of this band before. It was West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys. Blew my freaking mind when I bought it!
love all of these!
West End Girls!
Dancing Queen immediately lifts your spirits and fills your heart with joy. I remember West End Girls the same way. Heard it a club ... and was like wow ... so cool gotta get that one.
Wow!!! How unfair to narrow it down to just 3!! Leaving aside the fact that being a proud Chilean at 54 yrs of age, and that there's plenty of songs in spanish that blew me away at a first listen, I'll consider the songs that I have listened since the end of summer, 1980, the moment I arrived to Lubbock Texas US as a 15 yrs. old foreign exchange student :
1.- Bette Davis Eyes, by Kim Carnes, The synth driven melody, her haunting raspy voice and the mysterious aura of it all was everything to me
2.- Maneater, by Hall & Oates; Daryl vocals, the enigmatic ambience of the song and the sax solo was too much to handle the first time, what a sexy song!!
3.- Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper. I didn't know it was her at a first listen, I knew about her by the Girls just wanna have fun anthem, but her deeper voice, the emotion and the broken hearted state I was in by that time, made it an intense first listen for me.
1. The Reflex - Duran Duran
To this day, I still don't know this group crafted such a gutsy, balls-out melody as the hook in the chorus of this song. I came of age in the '80s, and The Reflex was unlike anything I'd ever heard. Complex and catchy, anthemic and aggressive, with a swagger I knew I'd want to emulate someday as a musician.
2. Only The Young - Journey
Journey's Greatest Hits album knocked me out. When I first heard the layered textures of Only The Young at the age of 12, Journey immediately became one of my favorite rock bands of the '80s (though they had already disbanded by that point).
3. Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick
Admittedly not their most well-known song, this inclusion from the Top Gun soundtrack freaking blew my mind. Robin Zander's vocals are solid and powerful, and the feel of the song matches the adrenaline-fueled feel of the movie. To this day, if this song pops up in my playlist, I crank it up (and if I'm driving, I hit the accelerator).
Special Mention:
Save Me - Remy Zero
You couldn't get away from this song if you ever watched The WB, but hearing the full song opened up this heart-breaking anthem in a way a mere inclusion in a TV show just couldn't. A love song along the lines of "Holding Out for a Hero", this song just freaking SOARS.
The Reflex was excellent
Dan Fogelberg: Same Old Lang Syne
Billy Joel: Allentown
Hall and Oates: She's Gone
love all of these!
Love Dan Fogelberg and Daryl Hall and John Oates...
Oh Allentown. Don’t even get me started man lol
That could be one of Billy’s best
Very nice list. "Same Old Lang Syne" taught little kid me a lot about past loves before I was old enough to understand the sweetness and the heartache of them. "Allentown" for me beats out Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." in terms of relating the quiet desperation of factory workers watching their jobs and way of life disintegrate during the 1980s. "She's Gone" was a favorite song of my mom's. It became my theme song for her when she died suddenly almost a decade ago.
So yeah; your list hit me in the feels. :/
Allentown.....YES!
"Someone that I used to know"
"The Scientist" Coldplay
"Thunder Road" Springsteen
Love you
same with springsteen
My three songs that blew me away when I first heard them and always bring on a range of emotions.
1. Dave Stewart and Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here. Sounds like two instruments making love to each other.
2. Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues. Gary playing the guitar always gets me. The start always gets me.
3. Sam Brown - Stop. It creeped up on me when I first heard but to me defines a perfect song of heartbreak
Darren Garrett I always crank up the volume when stop and still got the blues show up on my play list when I’m down at the gym.
Darren Garrett Damn good call! I was floored when I heard that song. I had just started working at CD Warehouse, my first music store job. I was driving home from work at that song just popped on the radio. No artist or title was given. I hated stations for that reason. I learned how radio was programmed as I was learning the music business. I remember the time it was played and the song afterwards. That's how I tracked it down. We had the CD in the store soI opened it, played it, and bought it. It was the first CD I ripped on to my new computer because it has long been out of print which sucks. Awesome voice that didn't get enough exposure.
Still Got The Blues, Great Song by Gary Moore.
3 Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule The World"
2 Depeche Mode "Enjoy the Silence"
1 Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"
West End Girls, is also in my top three. Plus, I love the other 2 you selected.😀💜👌
@@timelessmusicfamilymusic9175 Thank you!
Angus Young's opening guitar riff on "for those about to rock". Then Malcom comes in with the chords.... And it gives me chills everytime.
1. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
2. Sexy Dancer - Prince
3. Eurythmics - Julia
In no particular order.
#1 My Life- Billy Joel
#2 Faithfully- Journey
#3 I Want it All- Queen.
The first time I heard My Life by Billy Joel, I was sitting at a high school football game about two years ago when they played it during halftime. I already knew the man Billy Joel, but I only knew the song “We didn’t start the fire”, that was all I knew about him. I hadn’t yet dived into his music yet. And I didn’t know who or what song it was at the time, and so I asked and immediately added it to my playlist.
For Journey’s Faithfully, I hadn’t heard it until I saw them live and in concert. I knew songs like Don’t Stop Believin’, are Separate Ways, and so I was blown away by it. The first song I ever heard where I felt a lighter was needed, that and the song Lights.
And for Queen’s song. I had the radio on 98.3 which is the classic rock station where I’m from, and it came on when I was still in high school. It did not occur to me at the time that Queen had written anything else past the 80’s cause all I knew was that the singer was dead. And when I first heard it, I thought it was from an unreleased album that they sometimes do for bands, you know. Record companies will sometimes put out deluxe editions of an album and have hidden tracks that didn’t make the cut, or a long lost song. So the song “I Want it All” came out of nowhere for me. For about two weeks straight, it was all I listened to because I couldn’t get enough of it!
I agree with your 1st and 3rd choices.
Here are 3 random 80s songs that on first listen to the intro music got me hooked:
1. Obsession by Animotion
2. The Sun Always Shines on TV by a-ha
3. The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News
Aha! The second single was the best!!
@@richarddeleon8601 Obsession is amazing! The keyboards & guitar fills just electrify that song. :)
Power of Love was so perfect for Back to the Future, wasn't it?
Evenflow - Pearl Jam
Close to Me - The Cure
Little Guitars - Van Halen
It's so very subjective, isn't it?
1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
2. John Lennon - Imagine
3. Pink Floyd - Any Colors You Like
Tears for Fears: Everybody wants to rule the world
The Power Station: Some Like It Hot
The 1975: Robbers
Inxs listen like thieves, marrs pump up the volume, rem this one goes out to the one I love
love all of these!
I remember riding with my uncle in his car when I was about 6 or 7, and I heard for the first time, Foreigner- ‘Juke Box Hero’. He cranked it up loud,it was cool
I’ll never forget it. Then in 1985, hearing ‘The Power Of Love’ by Huey Lewis , blew me away. And also that year, hearing ‘Money For Nothing’ by Dire Straits for the first time was awesome. Hearing that big drum intro was just mind blowing.
1. "Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now" (Starship)
2. "Kiss On My List" (Hall & Oates)
3. "Mornin" (Al Jarreau)
One of the most recent(ish) songs that blew me away was Rolling in the Deep. By the time it was released I'd giving up on modern pop music. Maybe I was just getting old but none of the modern pop "stars" appealed to me or offered me anything as exciting as the pop stars I grew up with in the 80s. I did know that Rolling in the Deep had been at the top of Apple's iTunes store chart for weeks on end but had always resisted playing the free snippet. Well one day I gave in out of curiosity and omg I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Not only did Adele's voice blow me away but the song itself had a sound that was leagues above anything else that was being churned out. it was so refreshing hearing actual talent again. as far as I'm concerned Adele earned and deserved every penny she's made in her career. the same can't be said about many of her contemporaries.
Philadelphia Freedom
Power of Love
Kids Wanna Rock
I’m not sure I can limit this to three songs....1. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad (Meatloaf). That was my swimming pool song ;). 2. Life on Mars (David Bowie). 3. West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys). All three still give me goosebumps when they fire up. Bonus: 1. The Promise (When In Rome). 2. How Soon Is Now (The Smiths). 3. Shadows of the Night (Pat Benatar).
Kristina Frazier-Henry, great call on How Soon Is Now as an Honorable Mention!
great songs!
Omg, West End Girls, goosebumps indeed. I can clearly remember the first time I heard it, I was on my nana's living room floor watching a local MTV alternative called U68 (no cable, lol). Nothing else sounds like the beginning of that song and it still sounds just as perfect to me 40 years later.
There a lot of songs that took me by surprise, like "What's on your mind" by Information Society, but the three songs that generates a pivotal moment in my life are these ones, chronologically: "Speak to me / Breathe" by Pink Floyd, it was 1978, i was 5 years old and my uncle put me in front of a turntable and play this record, i was familiar to synthesizers used in Disco but, this was something different, it change my perception of music for ever. "Beat it" by Michael Jackson was the first time i feel the fever of fanatism with an artist and the point where i left child music to 100% Contrmporary. And the last one: "Pump up the volume" by MARRS, in Feb 1988 i was aware about House music and the new scene in London but nobody prepare me for this, all that incredible collage of samples in one simple song, so powerful that invites to move like a breaker and that awesome video!!!, what we did't know at the time was that the pop culture and music scene was changing radically into a House Music world. Love your videos, Professor!!!
3. Telephone Line ELO
2. If You Want My Love Cheap Trick
1. Baker St Gerry Rafferty
Telephone Line is totally an underrated song. Pretty much the only ELO song you hear, if you ever do, is Evil Woman. And yes, Baker St. The sax in that song just gives you chills.
@@lw3764 The dial tone at the beginning of Telephone Line - goosebumps and Hugh Burns plays one of the great guitar solos of all time in Baker St
@@regaltip8A That's true, can't forget that awesome guitar solo
I love Baker Street!
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle
Blackfoot - left turn on on a red light
AC/DC - Back in Black
The first time I heard each of these songs, I ran out and bought the album and played them over and over.
Thanks for this video, Adam. Man, I have to say I remember the exact moment when I first heard Vision of Love on the radio. It was like the heavens opened with the opening synths, and the voice of an angel came on. There was no mistaking that the song was going to be a hit, and the singer was going to be a megastar.
When Doves Cry
Sowing the Seeds of Love
Pride(In the Name of Love
Pat Benatar- Heartbreaker... an edgy, sassy, beautiful, powerful, operatic, punky, pop, hard rock voice and kick ass sound bomb all wrapped up into one = mindblown! I didn't know what hit me...
The B 52s- Rock Lobster... beach party madness, new wave evolution, and seriousness/silliness all wrapped into one? Bam!
The Outfield- Your Love... It's like the 1964 Beatles came back with a new falsetto-voiced lead singer and a naughty song, with an unforgettable intro riff and a punchy vibe throughout- retro rewind and progressive all in one... you go, Josie!
Head over heels - Tears for fears
Rolling in the deep - Adele
Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode
1. You Can't Do That - The Beatles (song structure completely different from anything in the past)
2. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney (serene, and then a change up in the tempo)
3. Just What I Needed - The Cars (the first song to arrive that told me disco is about to die)
1. Marooned by Pink Floyd
2. Slave to Love - Bryan Ferry
3. Eye's without a face- Billy Idol
Thanks for the videos, I would help out but it will need to wait until times are a little more curtain, stay safe everyone!
1. State Trooper. Boss
2. Renegade . STYX
3. Lay Your Hands On Me. Poison
I remember watching the Sopranos and hearing State Trooper being played at the end of an episode in season one. I was blown away that song and the haunting voice of the Boss. On a wet night. My junior year of high school I was listening to 98.9 KKZX in Spokane WA and I heard Renegade come on the radio and I loved it. I went out and brought the cassette Pieces Of Eight, just to listen to that song. That was spring of 92. In 2016 I was about to retire from the Army. My girlfriend at the was always sharing music with me. She asked me if I liked Poison. I said yes,and she sent me this song. I hadn't heard anything from Poison that was out after the 90s. I love this song. It's my favorite song by them.
Human Nature - Michael Jackson
Whip It - Devo
Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
All are something that struck me as a rythm, a melody, an ear catching vibe that stops you in your tracks and turn the volume up
Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good"
Gary Newman's "Cars"
Prince's "When Doves Cry"
When Doves Cry. . YES!
Life’s been Good I agree!
Some many things about "Life's been Good" that just hook you on the first listen.
Out of the countless songs that have shaped my life, these are three that were unexpected. I won’t claim that these are my favorite songs of all time, but they seemed to come out of left field and cause me to rethink my musical expectations.
3: Prince- Purple Rain
2: Widespread Panic- Tortured Artist
1: U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday
Honorable mention:
George Michael- Father Figure
INXS- Never Tear Us Apart
Guns N’ Roses- Rocket Queen.
My parents always had radios going so it's hard for me to decide.
In order
1) The Stranger Billy Joel
2) Little Red Corvette Prince
3) Cult of Personality
4) Sweet Child of Mine G&R
5) Hurt Johny Cash
4 has a really special place in my heart. I had just become a teen mom and that song had all the confusion, fear, uncertainty that came with that. The line where do we go from here brings that all back.
I remember back in 1984 when NBC's Friday Night Videos had a shootout between Yes' "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" and Van Halen's "Jump!" and both songs just blew me away the first time (and still has that effect).
The third song on my list is Genesis' "Abacab". Still love that song.
love all of these!
Friday Night Videos!!! Before we got MTV where I lived, it was all about Friday Night Videos! :D
Absolutely Agree with 1 & 3! Amazing!
When i heard dont you want me baby it blew me away too. Bruce was so strong on stage.
3. Longview- Green Day
2. I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking For - U2
1. Somebody To Love - Queen
Honorable Mention: Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
I remember hearing Longview and wanting to go buy the record immediately the next day. Then I realized the song is about jerking it and thought it was genius.
Still Haven’t Found is just a beautiful song and I listened to it over and over for hours.
When I discovered Queen and found Somebody To Love, I had no idea that a rock song could be arranged and tell such a dramatic story that way. Thank you God for Freddie Mercury!
If you don’t like small bands that just play good and loud music, you don’t like rock n roll.
I can't believe this video has only 8k views. I discovered your channel a few months ago and i'm just blown away. Keep it up please !!!
Professor, your Channel is one of my new faves!! Seriously. Right up my alley
same here!
@@leannpass64 yeah
Dude, love how you mixed the genres. Well done again. For me, my first is a Spyro Gyra song - Catching the Sun. Not only did this blow me away, it introduced me to a whole new genre that to this day has kept me hooked. My second is like your second in a different way. I already loved Genesis. They were perhaps my second favorite band next to Toto. But when I heard In the Air Tonight from Phil, I couldn’t get enough of it and immediately ran to the record store to buy it. It’s still one of my top five favorite songs that means as much today as it did the day it dropped. It is really hard to pick only three because there were so many. But the third is the song that introduced me to Alt Rock from Howard Jones - What Is Love? I had never heard of him before and honestly the whole genre of Alt Rock opened up after that. Still love Howard and the whole genre.
I just adore your videos! I'm a sixty year old guy who has a very eclectic taste in music. My mother was a trained concert pianist and my father loved jazz, and of course I loved rock and pop music.
Something you said in this video really struck me, and I have to share. When I was about 8 or so, my sister who is 2 years older than me, and my brother who is 5 years older, had a little battery powered am radio that we were listening to. My brother explained to me that we could actually call the radio station and request a song and they would play it! I was so excited. So we got on the rotary phone and got through. The song we decided to request? ( you're gonna love this...) " popcorn " by hot butter. After my brother had hung up, we all sat on the front porch and waited, and waited, song after song. Probably for an hour. No popcorn! Like you said, " what do I have to do to hear this song again!?? I can remember too, taking that same radio and listening to it while I went to bed and realizing in the morning that the batteries were dead. Some years later, one of my fondest memories was lying on the couch after school and listening to my favorite fm pop station on my father's stero with headphones. It seems silly now, but at the time one of my favorite songs was " undercover angel" . I can also remember " lonely boy" from that time too. Thank you for your craft and art, so worth my time to listen to your content!
When I first heard " You give love a bad name" on the radio in 1986 it definitely blew me away I was hooked. That's when they became my favorite band and to this day they still are. To me that's what Rock n Roll is all about.
"Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House. I was 15 when I first heard this song. Neil Finn is still my favorite songwriter.
"A Million Miles Away" (from Irish Tour) by Rory Gallagher
"Blue Monday" New Order. Still one of my favorite bands. I eventually worked at Tower Records and listened to anything I could find from Manchester, England.
1. Papa don’t preach - Madonna
2. Dancing in the dark- Bruce Springsteen
3. When doves cry - Prince
Billy Joel- For The Longest Time,Van Halen -Jump, Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer
"Overkill" by Men at Work. I love that song. It never gets old to me. Haunting. Ethereal background vocals. Amazing guitar solo, (which I've finally learned how to play at 50 years old). To me, though, the lyrics are what make it special. "I can't get to sleep...I think about the implications...of diving in too deep....and possibly the
complications..." He means it. If anyone hasn't heard it, there is an amazing version that Colin Hay does with a choir. Chills.
Bravo!! Perfect song.
"we like what we like" ...well said dude!
Snuck up on me and blew me away - 1. John Farnahm - "You're The Voice" 2. Jackson Brown - "For America" 3. Abba - "The Winner Takes It All" Thanks for a great video that made me think back !
There are so many songs but these three haunt me till this day: Bruce Hornsby‘s The way it is, Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn and Vertical Horizon’s You’re a god..!!
Thanks for this video! I've never thought of this before. The first one that came to mind is Life Is A Highway by Tom Cochrane. Next, INXS with Need You Tonight. And Walks Like a Lady by Journey. And then about a million more....
Since you went all the way back to when you were really young, in my experience when I was about five years old, the song that grabbed me was “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” by The Temptations. The song not only grabbed my attention, but it scared me, the music was so ominous, like something was about to happen…
The next song that grabbed me when I was in my ‘Tween years. It was “Fantasy” by Earth, Wind & Fire. I was sneaking listening to the radio (my aunt wouldn’t allow us to listen to “worldly music”), so I turned the dial on the radio and I heard this ethereal music that seeped into my spirit, it was so beautiful and cool all at the same time! I got a beating for that, but it was worth it.
The next song that knocked me out was when I was in my twenties, I worked for the NYCTA and I was on the bus listening to the radio about to go to the next station (because the subway tracks were worked on so we had to take a bus) the song was “Cherub Rock” by The Smashing Pumpkins. I was like WHAT IS THIS?!? OMIGOD!!! It grabbed my soul! I knew immediately I had to go to the record store and buy the CD! I did as soon as I woke up that afternoon (I worked nights), I went right straight downtown to The Wiz to get it!
1. Don't You Want Me, Human League
2. Tainted Love, Soft Cell
3. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Eurythmics
Thanks for connecting with us like this. Need more stuff that brings people together in healthy conversation.
I agree! A fellow Music Junkie...
I have an all 80’s pop/ dance band. We play it all, Duran, Depeche, HoJo, Thompson Twins, Pet Shop Boy’s, Genesis, you name it. Called Retrobution.
I am an unashamedly a huge Pop music fan. Always have been... always will be. My three songs that "blew me away" are:
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham
We Belong by Pat Benetar
Chain Gang by Sam Cooke
3. Ace "How Long"
2. The Police "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"
1. Boston "Don't Look Back"
1. Soundgarden - Outshined
2. The Cars - Moving in Stereo
2. Talking Heads - Take Me to the River
I saw the video for "Outshined" late at night on MTV way back in 1991. It briefly caught my attention, but I thought it was just the unique sound of one band. Fast-forward a year, and Grunge became my life. This particular song wasn't the catalyst for that, but I remember it well as the first actual Grunge song I ever heard.
The 1st song I remember knockin' me out, was "One" performed by Three Dog Night in the very late 80's, in a mall clothing store. I was around 5 yrs old, and it started a lifelong love and pursuit of wonderful pop/rock music! Now I have the Vinyl hangin in my music studio 2 remind me always!
Yes, Vision of Love! Me too!
1. Jukebox hero. Foreigner
I grew up in Australia as a gen X, and in 1984 being fourteen, whilst staying over at my parents' friends place, she said I could listen to her vinyl collection. When I put on Foreigner's "4" album I was totally blown away! Not only by the whole album but when I first heard the drum beat, beating like my own heart had been since starting on this spontaneous adventure of discovery, and then hearing the haunting way Lou Gramm comes in at the beginning of jukebox hero I knew my life would never be the same again.
2. When the war is over.
Cold Chisel.
On that same fateful day I played Cold Chisel's ( a 70's to early 80's Australian rock band) "Last stand" album. When I
heard Ian moss's soulful voice and then Jimmy Barnes's power coming in later on, I knew that this band was mine. Sadly, Cold Chisel had broken up 2 years before. Even though using all my pocket money from doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood and delivering junk mail I vowed to mysel I would buy every album they had produced prior.
3. Driving wheels. Jimmy Barnes
After Cold Chisels split up, Jimmy Barnes produced a few great solo albums like "Working class man" and Bodyswerve, but in 1987 he came out with the hit "Driving wheels" on the freight train heart album. As soon ass I heard Mark Lizotte AkA (Johnny Diesel) hit those chords at the start the song, it sent shivers down my spine, and the pure power of Jimmy Barnes voice I was gone. Going to see the concert for this album sitting in my seat as the crowd's noise became a hush, through the ddarkness came the piercing chords of Driving wheels and I will never forget that feeling.
Listen to what the man said, McCartney.
5 year old me heard this song on the radio, was so blown away I wouldn’t let my mom turn the radio off until I heard it again. She told me that she was sure if I listen to the radio Sunday morning, I’d get to hear it then, my introduction to the Top-40 countdown. That song changed my life forever.
1. I Don't Like Mondays - I was 13. My dad just died. I lived in Canada and was sent to stay with relatives in Dublin in the summer. When I got to my uncle's house, I heard the song on the radio and the story of this band going to number 1 in the UK - it was a helpful distraction over the summer from grief. Still love it today, I had the pleasure of meeting Bob Geldof years later at a cafe in London - the day of Michael Hutchence's funeral. He was completely broken but kind, intelligent and generous with his time. 2. A Town Called Malice - walked into a record store in Hamilton Ontario and this song was on. Absolutely blown away.It helped to shape my musical taste in the 80's. 3. Folsom Prison Blues - the only non-Irish music we had at home growing up where two Johnny Cash albums - li e from Folsom Prison and Live from San Quentin. Sitting with my dad listening to to this is my favorite memory and have loved the man in black my entire life.
Thanks for the great content- just discovered your channel...love it. That being expressed, here is my list:
From the 80's
1. Into the Night- Benny Mardones
2. Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime- The Korgi's
3. Invisible- Allison Moyet
Of all time:
1. Never Gonna Fall in Love again- Eric Carmen
Oh, No - Lionel Richie
3. Never Wanna lose ya- New England.
Your first reminds me of mine. I Love Rock n Roll by Joan Jett. I had to be about 4-5 years old around 82-83. Playing in the sprinkler and it came on the radio.
For me it was KT Tunstall’s 2006 Black Horse & the Cherry Tree. While waiting for my daughter to try on clothes in a store this video came on the store’s big screen tv and blew me away. I quickly
Shazam-ed & downloaded it. I still frequently listen and sing along.
Ozzy Osborne “Crazy Train”
Yes ”Roundabout”
Cream “Sunshine of your love”
I know these are classic rock staples, but I can still remember the first time heard each song. It was having a musical
door kicked open in my brain.
The three that come to mind for me right now are "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello, "When Doves Cry" by Prince, "Lay Your Hands on Me" by Peter Gabriel. Also honorable mention to "If She Knew What She Wants" as performed by The Bangles (written by Jules Shear).
First I love your Channel and your spotify playlists
1. Green Day - Basketcase
(Green Day with this song began my love for Punk Rock in its various forms. Not only was this song THE gateway to discovering who I was and a music genre that defined me as a teenager. Not only did it lead me to some of my favorite bands like No Use For A Name, Bad Religion, NoFX. But most importantly it lead me immediately to my first electric guitar. It was the first song I ever learned all the way through. It was the song that sparked my immediate song writing, churning out my own juvenile Pop-punk clones such as Sweet Vanilla and My so-called Angela. This song made me much of who I am today.)
2. Indigo Girls - Mystery
(discovered them 25 years ago when an ex introduced me to them with a live album they made. To me its THE perfect song that truly encapsulates relationships both fresh and long lasting. I am eternally in love with it and constantly chasing the ability to write a song as good as it 25 years later.)
3. Des'ree - Kissing You
(In late 1996, I was cheating on my girlfriend, with her sister no less, no really . her sister, whom I was roommates with. My girlfriend and I went to see Baz Lermans Romeo + Juliet. When the song was performed in the movie, it hit me like a ton of brinks. I immediately felt like the largest piece of shit on the planet. At the end of the movie I was in tears, during the credits as this song plays again, I was in tears, as the theater went dark and we were the last souls still sitting. I was in tears, wallowing in my own guilt and shame. I eventually told her everything. She hated me. I joined the army. I never cheated again. This song for me represents an alternate reality where I made the right choices where I didn't break her heart and forever damage her relationship with her sister.)
Thank you sir