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You ever listen to a song and feel like it's the first time you've ever heard music?

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Devil Theory

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A song that strikes a chord deep within you, that makes it like you've never heard music before. This happened to me with Pink Floyd years ago, and even though some of you may be surprised (the fact that I've never heard this before), happened just now by hearing this for the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBKcAc8VpIw

short, but a masterpiece.
 
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Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
first time I felt like that was when I bought the Queen's Greatest Hits album more than twenty years ago. I already superficially knew the band but never listened to more than one or two songs, that album was like being struck by a lightning, BOOM found best band ever and still is today

as of most recent, it's probably La Roux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyDYI_ddZY
 
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Soriku

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Not quite, but there are some songs I've listened to that it feels like I've hear the melody somewhere before, but in reality it's the first time I've listened to it.
 
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Skux

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Maybe not for the first time.

But I love the feeling when you're listening to a song and you know right there that it's your new favourite song.
 
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PillarEN

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Close but not completely. I do remember listening to Gavin Harrison play drums and thought to myself "I can't believe the instrument has the ability to allow such versatility."
 
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K.Jack

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First time I listened to GZA's Liquid Swords album, I felt my mind rapidly expanding, like I'd discovered some secret. Especially so when Living In The World Today started. I'd never heard a song that good.

Was like 12 years old at the time

Had a similar experience the first time I heard Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, specifically Breathe.
 
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inked_illusion

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First time listening to Gish and Bury Me starts playing, so good.

Listening to the Shard from the Mirror's Edge soundtrack for the first I felt so special.

Also, FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER.
 
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ATF487

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Getting into Swans a couple of years ago made me realize how much I like groovy, noisy repetition. Still haven't found out too many bands that can tap into the same vibe, everyone takes a little bit of their sound and does something else with it (Godspeed You! Black Emperor came from the Soundtracks for the Blind era long tracks with field recordings, Neurosis meshed their 90s melodic noise jams with the earlier sludgy stuff, etc)

Like in this track they just hammer on this one chord for a couple minutes, and it rules, then turns into this slow building, almost religious sounding catharsis

Swans - Bring the Sun

Extremely versatile band too, they can do the above and also wrote this song which basically predicted the National 10 years earlier:

Swans - Blind
 
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PillarEN

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ATF487 said:
Getting into Swans a couple of years ago made me realize how much I like groovy, noisy repetition. Still haven't found out too many bands that can tap into the same vibe, everyone takes a little bit of their sound and does something else with it (Godspeed You! Black Emperor came from the Soundtracks for the Blind era long tracks with field recordings, Neurosis meshed their 90s melodic noise jams with the earlier sludgy stuff, etc)

Like in this track they just hammer on this one chord for a couple minutes, and it rules, then turns into this slow building, almost religious sounding catharsis

Swans - Bring the Sun

Extremely versatile band too, they can do the above and also wrote this song which basically predicted the National 10 years earlier:

Swans - Blind
Click to expand...

Try Godflesh. Yes it is aggressive, twisted, metal but I promise the groovy repetition is pretty much the name of the game with this band. Some of the later albums even have hip hop influence. Godflesh are awesome.
For a more laid back kind of vibe (a little shoegazy) you can check Broderick's side band Jesu.
 
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WordAssassin

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I had never listened to music high before (don't get high very frequently) but about a month ago I got stoned and listened to Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion with my headphones and it was like the most incredible experience ever, like I was discovering everything about the song and music in general for the first time. The way it all hooks up and it has such a steady rhythm with nice lulls but also rocking guitar parts, it was truly amazing.

I think I listened to it on repeat for three hours straight.

Thank you for making this thread and reminding me of that wonderful night.
 
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PassiveObserver

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Unwound - Below the Salt is such a beautiful song, with its gradual vamping up until the tension finally gives way to a crashing wave of guitars and angst (and then it repeats the build up until it hits a new level of intensity), that it makes me question the worth of all the music I've heard up to that point.
 
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