Some drum, and three bass notes - What song stops you in your tracks?

Nice girls, not one with a defect…

Watching the Detectives, by Elvis Costello.

After over thirty years, this song still makes me listen to it.

At the moment, it’s “All Nightmare Long” from Metallica.

From your thread title, I though you would be talking about “Also Sprach Zaruthstra”.

Just about any song I recognize, ever. But particularly The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel.

Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman always hooks me like that.

Buena by Morphine hooks me in the first bar.