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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...
And definitely this as a teenager...
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
14 years of age and that opening guitar part...
Followed a few years later by:
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.