Songs that never cease to absolutely amaze you

[Brooks]

What are the songs that no matter how many times you listen to them, will consistantly kick your ass and make you say Wow? The ones that after listening, you need a breather.

Some of mine are:

King Crimson - Starless
Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul
Nevermore - The Learning
Opeth - Black Rose Immortal
Dream Theater - Learning to Live, Hells Kitchen
Genesis - Firth of Fifth

 

[IcemanJ256]

maybe i'll think of some later but we should put how long the songs have been kicking our ass and see who wins.

 

[demon talented]

I could list a ton, but I'll just do a few (one per band).

Opeth - April Ethereal
Amorphis - Elegy
Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
Tool - Prison Sex
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Alice In Chains - Would?
Mad Season - Wake Up
Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore
Pink Floyd - Time
Soundgarden - Tighter & Tighter
Borknagar - Grimskalle Trell
Anekdoten - Longing
Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

Okay, okay, enough already.

 

[Eirik]

Learning to Live.. yes... the ending is awesome

let's see... Demon of the Fall..

mostly songs that have a revelation like ending... a beautiful and dynamic ending...

 

[yourdeadgroom]

My Dying Bride- The Cry Of Mankind (best.song.ever.)
MDB- Turn Loose the Swans
MDB- Erotic Literature
Anathema- Kingdom
Anathema- A Dying Wish
Opeth- Demon of the fall
In The Woods...- I am your flesh
The Gathering- Travel
Candlemass- Samarithan
Candlemass- Under the oak
Death- Suicide Machine
Dolorian- With Scorn
Iron Maiden- Infinite Dreams
Pan~Thy~Monium- Ragoonisha (I probably spelt that wrong )

and a whole bunch more, but I will stop there

 

[OneFootBlaster]

Opeth- Bleak, April Ethereal, TBYF, Deliverance etc... too many to list.
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody, most of the Queen II album.
Led Zeppelin- Kashmir, Ten Years Gone, Achilles Last Stand etc.. again- too many to list.
Katatonia- most of Last Fair Deal Gone Down.
Mr Bungle- most of Disco Volante and California.
Radiohead- all of OK Computer.
At The Drive In- Relationship of Command.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Opening and Closings
Dissection- The Somberlaine
Rainbow- Stargazer
damn this is ridiculous!
ok... enough... for now.

 

[mulletguy16]

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons; Metropolis Part 1; all of "Metropolis Pt 2"; Blind Faith

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (especially from "Rock In Rio"); Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

Opeth - The Twilight Is My Robe; all of "Morningrise"

Sigur Rós - every one of their songs

Tool - Pushit; all of "Lateralus"


That's all just off the top of my head....one day I'm going to sit down and make my personal best/favorite 250 song list.

 

[Useful Idiot]

Atheist - Elements
Death - Spiritual Healing, Philosopher
Spastic Ink - To Counter & Groove in E Minor
Jason Becker - End of the Beginning
Gorguts - The Quest for Equilibrium

 

[Brooks]

Oh one I just remembered and had to include.

Queen - The Prophet Song


The first time I heard this song on headphones, I absolutely SHAT myself. The Freddie middle section where its just him and a delay is probably one of the most stunning things ever recorded on audio tape.

 

[Greenwater_Pond]

In Flames - Zombie Inc, Moonshield, Dialogue with the stars, Jester Script Transfigured
Fear Factory - The entire Demanufacture album
Opeth - Still Life album, Harvest, Demon of the Fall
Arch Enemy - Seed of hate
Children of Bodom - Lake Bodom, Silent night bodom night, Everytime I die
Soilwork - Natural born chaos entire album
Tristania - Sequel of Decay, Heretique, Angina
Nightwish - Oceanborn album, Wishmaster Album

this list could go on forever, I get chills listening to most of these every single time, and some such as seed of hate and demanufacture are just classic and never get old

 

[bleed for me]

i love learning to live? i downloaded the live video of it...probably the best live performance i've seen...amazing stuff

 

[Heliologue]

anekdoten - karelia
evereve - spleen
craig armstrong - waltz
pain of salvation - this heart of mine (i pledge)

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Opeth-Black Rose Immortal, Moor
King Crimson- PRovidence, Epitaph, Starless
Pink Floyd-Shine on You Carzy Diamond
tons of others...

 

[Smitty]

I Cum Blood - Cannibal Corpse

 

[Protected Witness]

The Drapery Falls.


Nuff Said.

 

[Ecto]

dark funeral - the arrival of satan's empire
heróis da resistência - dublê de corpo
maudlin of the well - blight of river systems
dark tranquillity - freecard
madder mortem - these mortal sins
warhorse - black acid prophecy
charlie brown jr - zóio d'lula
korn - somebody someone
amorphis - the way
alien sex fiend - i walk the line
novembers doom - for every leaf that falls
gloomy grim - war
metallica - the outlaw torn
opeth - patterns in the ivy 2
dido - my lover's gone
bach - passacaglia (organ piece)
bonde do vinho - bonde do vinho
duran duran - out of my mind
ulver - lost in moments
the smiths - well i wonder
fernanda abreu - kátia flávia
the mission - severina
nirvana - serve the servants
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[seventi]

Dark Tranquillity - Hours passed in exile
Opeth - Harvest, Deliverance
CoB - Northern Comfort
Avantasia - Reach out for the light

 

[Dvoters]

Opeth - Deliverance, A Fair Judgment, Under The Weeping Moon, To Bid You Farewell, April Ethereal, The Moor, Moonlapse Vertigo, Bleak, Harvest, The Drapery Falls, Demon Of The Fall
Pain Of Salvation - Pilgrim, Dryad Of The Woods
In Flames - Dialouge With The Stars, Jester Script Transfigured, Moonshield, Zombie Inc

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[poldarn]

Smashing Pumpkins - Today, Mayonaise.
Pixies - Where Is My Mind?, Motorway To Roswell, Hey.
Opeth - Face of Melinda; pretty much all of Still Life.
Nirvana - Drain You.
Fireside - Interlace, Smokerboy, Kilotin.
Foo Fighters - Everlong, My Hero, New Way Home.
Sigur Ròs - Pretty much all of Ágætis Byrjun.
In Flames - Zombie Inc., Embody The Invisible.
Kent - Kräm, Halka.
Soilwork - As We Speak.
Dark Tranquillity - Format C: for Cortex, Zodijackyl Light.
Faith No More - Stripsearch, Ashes To Ashes, Midlifecrisis, Epic.
At The Drive-In - Lopsided, Hulahoop Wounds, For Now We Toast.
Type O Negative - Christian Woman.
Further Seems Forever - Pictures of Shorelines; pretty much all of The Moon Is Down.
Grade - Pretty much all of Under The Radar.
Borknagar - Soul Sphere (due to Vintersorgs amazing vocals).
Glassjaw - Pretty much all of EYWTKAS.
Mineral - If I Could, Gloria.
Tool - Prison Sex, Eulogy.

 

[The Evil Toucan]

Opeth - Anything off MAYH or Still Life, Forest of October, The Twilight Is My Robe, TBYF, Bleak....too many.......
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song, Achilles Last Stand, Ten Years Gone, No Quarter
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb
Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest, all of SFAM, Glass Prison, Misunderstood, Under a Glass Moon, Metropolis Part 1
Symphony X - DWOT, Evolution, Communion and the Oracle, Lacrymosa
King Crimson - Exiles, Larks Tongue in Aspic Part 1
Katatonia - LFDGD
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane album
Porcupine Tree - anything and everything, good God they are great
Lacuna Coil - anything off of Comalies
Nightwish - Bless the Child
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine, Rational Gaze, Soul Burn
Steve Vai - Tender Surrender, FTLOG, Brandos Consumos
Eric Johnson - Song for Lynette, Song for Life, Dover, Manhattan
Iced Earth - Pure Evil, Melancholy, Watching Over Me, A Question of Heaven
Andy Timmons - Anything off of That was Then, This is Now