FabSwingers.com forum: Music that stuns you to silence

By *illingToHelp OP Man
over a year ago

Oldham or South Shore

So, it’s the six-week holidays which means that my days will be filled with motorbike rides and record buying. Seeing as today is a raining mess, I’m revisiting some old favourites on the turntable.

My usual process is that I listen to music, on the go, through Deezer, and if I like something I’ll put it in my favourites, but if it’s mind-blowingly good I’ll buy it on vinyl. And I don’t mean just “Yeh, that’s really good”. I mean, stops-you-in-your-tracks, rendered speechless, unable to comprehend how something so sublime could have been made.

So, what music did that for you?

Here’s a couple of mine:

The Mars Volta’s album Deloused In The Comatorium.

Cory Henry’s keyboard solo in Lingus by Snarky Puppy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Last song to stop me in my tracks was When Is The Future by VNV Nation.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Gabriel's Oboe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lindsey Stirling - Love Goes On and On ft. Amy Lee of Evanescence

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDlGFbBipCo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kingfish's cover of Purple Rain.

Also Kent Nishimura, a guitarist on YouTube does numerous fingers fingerstyle covers of popular songs. His technique is unreal.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

Zadok the Priest aka Coronation Anthem by Handel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ladynsax-SKY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uotavqqk2VU

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Mike Dawes playing One by Metallica or Jump by Van Halen.

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By *eaSlutsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Maggot Brain (song, not the album) by Funkadelic is OUTSTANDING!

Definitely worth a listen.

C x

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

It's a bit clichéd but

Un bel di vedremo from Madame Butterfly

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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago

Not all that North of North London

It's old but Fat of the Land, literally no one was doing anything like that at the time it was and remains genuinely groundbreaking

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By *illingToHelp OP Man
over a year ago

Oldham or South Shore

I love it when there’s a list of things I haven’t heard!

Keep them coming!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never heard of any of these songs

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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago

Not all that North of North London

Public Service Broadcasting

The first track I heard of there's was Spitfire, Spotify randomly through it at me and it was inline anything I'd ever heard. Genius band

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

"It's old but Fat of the Land, literally no one was doing anything like that at the time it was and remains genuinely groundbreaking "

One of the best albums ever, never mind to 90’s- everything about it is exquisite

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By *illingToHelp OP Man
over a year ago

Oldham or South Shore

Lowkey’s Fire In The Booth, part 2. Have a search for it on YouTube.

I love it when lyrical mastery meets political intelligence.

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By *illingToHelp OP Man
over a year ago

Oldham or South Shore

"Never heard of any of these songs "

You have a busy day on YouTube ahead of you, then! Lol

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By *illingToHelp OP Man
over a year ago

Oldham or South Shore

"Public Service Broadcasting

The first track I heard of there's was Spitfire, Spotify randomly through it at me and it was inline anything I'd ever heard. Genius band"

Love this! And Go! by them, too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Never heard of any of these songs

You have a busy day on YouTube ahead of you, then! Lol"

Don’t think so tbh internet here is so slow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything later than the 80s not for me

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By *erkshire8299Man
over a year ago

slough

Any track from Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks album always does the trick.

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

I watched a covers band last weekend and they did Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. I'm not a PF fan but this band especially the lead guitarist did Pink Floyd songs better than Pink Floyd! Definitely an OMG moment for me !!

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Pretty much the entire Bat Out Of Hell Album - Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf forever in my heart.

Adrian Smiths guitar solo on Stranger in a Strange Land + Dave Murrays guitar solo in Hallowed Be Thy Name

Jupiter - Holst

Elder Scrolls Oblivion OST

Wish You Were + Dark Side of The Moon (the albums)

Eruption - Van Halen

The Last Waltz (always emotional)

Slipknots first album

I could go on and on...

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

"It's old but Fat of the Land, literally no one was doing anything like that at the time it was and remains genuinely groundbreaking

One of the best albums ever, never mind to 90’s- everything about it is exquisite "

And how about that video for Smack My Bitch Up....

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Nimrod, Elgar..

Benedictus, Karl Jenkins..

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By *illingToHelp OP Man
over a year ago

Oldham or South Shore

"Pretty much the entire Bat Out Of Hell Album - Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf forever in my heart.

Adrian Smiths guitar solo on Stranger in a Strange Land + Dave Murrays guitar solo in Hallowed Be Thy Name

Jupiter - Holst

Elder Scrolls Oblivion OST

Wish You Were + Dark Side of The Moon (the albums)

Eruption - Van Halen

The Last Waltz (always emotional)

Slipknots first album

I could go on and on..."

Bat Out Of Hell was stunning!

Slipknot’s first album was definitely one to stop you in your tracks. It was just brutal from beginning to end.

If you like heavier music, have you heard the album We Are The Romans by Botch? That was a game changing album, for me.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It live album.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet

Pearl Jam - Sirens (unplugged)

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By *lhr1061Man
over a year ago

Warwickshire

Spirit of man from Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Bach's, Toccata & Fugue in D minor

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