Nirvana – Smells like teen spirit

+1, genuinely thought Jarre was all anyone would ever need intil I heard that.

To be honest, I think it was ‘Down Under’ by Men at Work, or else ‘Six Months in a Leaky Boat’ by Split Enz.

But I can say more certainly that the one I really remember was ’11 O’clock Tick Tock’ by U2.

I think it would have been Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. That got me into Days of Future Passed and the whole concept of modern music that wasn’t just “pop”.

I think maybe some of you are missing the true ‘shiver up your spine’ moment from your song. Watch this, preferably with head phones or at least semi loud and when all the pipes come in at 58 seconds that’s a shiver up your spine.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8AeV8Jbx6M[/video]

There were probably others but the one I can remember was ‘the road to hell’ by Chris Rea. I can still remember all the lyrics.

Joy Division – Atmosphere on the John Peel show – still gets me today – as does David Bowie – Heroes.

Many since but I think it was probably fake plastic trees by radiohead

Great question, and I can’t be 100% sure but probably this when I was a nipper…
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEhDrJzM8E[/video]

And definitely this as a teenager…
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2U5ziV_Z8[/video]

I’d like to say it was one of my T Rex records, but I think it was Sing a Rainbow by Cilla Black. Or maybe Zanadu by Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Titch. Could’ve been Ghost Riders in the Sky when my Dad sang it wearing a cowboy hat at the holiday camp. Bloody hard to remember that far back. It certainly wasn’t Heart! 😆

This thread is excellent.

My brother is ten years older than me and had his own turntable and stereo in a spare room, so I grew up listening to all sorts of things from Punk to New Wave, via disco. There’s a great many tracks that stand out from the likes of D-Train, Blondie, Divine, Bowie, Michael Jackson, Visage, Soft Cell etc.

However, nothing comes close to the time I was working at a well known opera venue in London (no, not that. The other one) and I was stood right outside a window of a rehearsal room while a trained soprano was practising. Utterly mesmerising.

OOOoooooooo.

In no particular order

Fade to Grey – Visage

Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan

Bluebeard – Cocteau Twins

[video]https://youtu.be/kr8-E8may2Y[/video]

14 years of age and that opening guitar part…

Followed a few years later by:

[video]https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ[/video]

Nessun dorma when it was used for Italia ’90, if it can be classed as ‘a tune’.

Joy Division – Atmosphere on the John Peel show – still gets me today – as does David Bowie – Heroes.

Agreed on Atmosphere but Heroes has suffered by being put on every montage going – though that’s not the songs fault of course.