Songs that left you speechless

[mytmous]

"The Star Spangled Banner" tops my list, always.

"Gravity" - Sara Bareilles
"I'm so sick" - Flyleaf
"Shotgun down the avalanche" - Shawn Colvin
"Panacea" - Rush
"Stir it up" - Bob Marley

There are lots....

 

[bassplayer42]

"John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens

"And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards
For the secrets I have hid"

/Had to pull over the car first time I listened to it. Still gives me chills.

 

[Kujallaa]

Ooh, sum1 mentioned squeeze me macaroni - great choice.

Mine would be Child in time by Deep Purple, I live version from the early 70's.

Then piece of Beethoven's music: Piano sonata No.8 in C minor Op.13 "pathetique": first part. Blows my mind.

Then I think Frank Zappa's Peaches en regalia.

 

[jnuts1]

The Root, from John Patitucci's Line by Line

dear Lord is that a good tune

 

[mwalle1]

The Band-I shall be released. During the Festival Express Canadian tour in 1970 has given me chills for a week. Rick Danko's Ampeg AMB-1 bass is just wicked cool.

 

[geeza]

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

 

[scowboy]

La Villa Strangiato, the version on Rush Exit...Stage Left. The guitar solo always blows me away even almost 30 years later.

Almost any song on the Who Live at Leeds. Never heard them play like that before or since.

 

[scowboy]

I worked at a Bread and Roses Festival at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in the very early 90's when this record was released and she was pretty much a nobody. Before she played I saw this semi-cute little woman sitting at a dinning table backstage tuning her guitar and then she went out and slayed in her own way. She played this song and many others from Steady On and you could have heard a pin drop in the audience. She was memorizing. Shotgun is probably my favorite Shawn Colvin song. Nice choice.

"Shotgun down the avalanche" - Shawn Colvin

 

[The Owl]

Yes - Gates of Delerium

King Crimson - Starless

Return to Forever - Theme to the Mothership

 

[CrispyDelicious]

The first time I heard this in the early 90's I almost crapped myself. It still blows my mind:

 

[hbarcat]

Tool has quite a few songs that are like that for me. But this one in particular:

Right in Two - TOOL

 

[PortugalWillie]

One that instantly came to my mind after seeing this thread's title is "Minuano (Six-eight)" by Pat Metheny. Especially because before hearing it, Mr. Metheny was a mode-wanker to me. "Minuano" (co-written with Lyle Mays) was the one that showed me what a great composer he is. A true work of art.

He grew up in the same town as me!

Lee's Summit, MO

 

[canadian_man_44]

"Oh Canada." I can't help it, it's the one song that makes me stop everything whenever I hear it. My wife laughed at me the other night because it came on before a hockey game and my first reaction was to stand at attention.

 

[Elrend]

Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil.

This track is probably the single most lyrically amazing hip hop track in history, it tells a truly heartbreaking tale of a young man from the ghettos vicious downward spiral. I honestly get tears to my eyes when he realizes he has just raped and murdered his own mother...

 

[Elrend]

The Root, from John Patitucci's Line by Line

dear Lord is that a good tune

Also seconding this.

 

[Goteky45]

1 anathema- one last goodbye
2 arch enemy - behind the smile
3 stratovarius- black diamond
4 Metallica - orion
5 dream theater - space dye-vest
6 Nekrophagist - only ash remains

1,2,3,5 have a great meaning to me for several reasons that i wont describe

4,5 are two of the songs that should be a reference to every metal bass player (and to every other bass player in the world IMO)

 

[XtheDeadPawn]

Stone Sour - Zyxxx Rd.

 

[DudeistMonk]

Soulive - Right On (soo much groove)

Dave Matthews Band - Long Black Veil Live from NJ (makes me wanna cry)

Paul Simon - Late in the Evening (I dunno why I just love it)

Tool - Lateralus (the dynamics...nuff said)

Frank Zappa - Peaches in Regalia (Fusion masterpiece)

 

[cdef]

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

Good call. That was an unearthly pop tune when it first came out, and still sounds amazing.

 

[SBassman]

Don't have time to read the whole thread before posting, but ...

- More Than A Feeling - Tom Scholz
- The Long And Winding Road - Beatles
- Cantchya Say You Believe In Me - Tom Scholz
- Trademark - Eric Johnson