I know music is subjective and personal. What one person may think is an awesome song or band another person might think, "How can you listen to that crap?".
In my life there have been a few songs that upon hearing them for the first time, I loved them immediately and knew they would be hits. But even if they werent, I still felt they were just great songs either because of melody, musicianship, lyrics or just some intangible.
Well I heard a song on the radio the other day that made an immediate connection with me. It is a song by the Zak Brown Band with alan Jackson. Its called "As She's Walking Away". The message of the lyrics and the harmonies really hit a nerve.
I am curious what you guys may think of this song and if you have any similar stories.
I haven't heard that song yet, but obviously I have had many many experiences like this! Will keep an ear out for the song. I don't know a lot of Zac Brown Band's material, but Alan Jackson is a fine songwriter and musician.
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"Tell me, does it move you, Does it soothe you, Does it fill your heart and soul with the roots of rock & roll? When you can't get through it you can listen to it with a 'na na na na', Well I've been there before" -"Been There Before" by Hanson
I haven't heard that song either, but generally I like Alan Jackson's music.
There are so many songs that touched something in me that I wouldn't even know where to start. Some are just appropriate to certain events in my life, some pertain to certain people, some just seem to have been written about me.
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I guess to me those things are very similar experiences. But I suppose I would have to say that as far as songs that I just flat out loved on the first listen for no other reason than I thought it was an awesome song, I would have to go with Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Deja Voodoo and Drowning Pool's Bodies (Let The Bodies Hit The Floor). I'm sure there are others, but I'm going to have to filter out those that have a known reason for moving me.
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Dylan wrote:There are songs that I think speak to us...but more specifically...songs that wow you with the first listen.
Oh OK, now I get what you're looking for. Off the top of my head:
Nelson - (I Can't Live Without Your) Love & Affection. Watching MTV iwth a friend, and this video came on. My mouth dropped to the floor, and I regained conciousness only when I saw Bobby Rock on drums and said "Holy crap! Is that Bobby Rock?!!!!!!" To this day, every time I hear the song, I am stunned by how incredible it is.
Marvelous 3 - Freak of the Week. Driving home, flipping through the stations, I heard this song, and literally almost crashed my car. I was so stunned, and it had been such a long time since a song had hit me this way. I kept repeating the chorus over and over in my head, and literally ran into the house and straight to the phone. My husband was like, "What are you doing?" "I have to call the radio station!" "Isn't that long distance?" "It doesn't matter! This is really important!" And I sang the chorus to the DJ, and he told me, and I said we HAVE to get this album! And when we did, we found that all of the songs were amazing, and yet it took the world a few more years to catch on to the brilliance that is Butch Walker. But he's a well-deserved millionare now.
Williams Brothers - Can't Cry Hard Enough: My friend had slept over, and we stayed in the living room, with the couch pulled out into a bed. Still early and still in bed, we turned on VH1, and this video came on. We were blown away. We had no idea that these were the nephews of Andy Williams, and they'd been in the business for years. We just knew this song really spoke to us. Later we got the sheet music, and performed it as a duet. Gorgeous song.
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"Tell me, does it move you, Does it soothe you, Does it fill your heart and soul with the roots of rock & roll? When you can't get through it you can listen to it with a 'na na na na', Well I've been there before" -"Been There Before" by Hanson
