# Songs that knocked your socks off **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486 "2007-12-01T21:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/21 "2007-12-02T16:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=Quixotic] I don’t want to sound like I’m proselytizing, but the album, [_Neptune City_,](http://www.amazon.com/Neptune-City-Nicole-Atkins/dp/B000RIWAXK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1196610613&sr=1-1) follows suit. “The Way It Is” is probably the most dramatic vocal, but there’s plenty more good stuff where that came from, including a couple of more upbeat, “pop”-like numbers. Glad to see a Jersey Shore girl make good. [/QUOTE] Yeah,I checked out some of her other stuff.I like the title track a bunch. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/22 "2007-12-02T16:15:19Z")
'[Nantes](http://flyingclubcup.com/spip.php?article2) ’ by Beirut The album version (recorded in a studio, not a stairwell) is even better. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/23 "2007-12-02T16:47:44Z")
I was recently blown away by the song “The Way It Is” by Nicole Atkins, which was recommended to me…uh…right here 🙂 Thanks for the link! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/24 "2007-12-02T16:57:10Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Joe Cocker slam-banging his way through “The Letter” and Patty Griffin’s heartfelt, ethereally beautiful “Heavenly Day” have both stopped me dead in my tracks in the past month. Both are wonderful songs, in very different ways. [/QUOTE] And here are some links: Joe Cocker: [http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPP5LNohI68](http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPP5LNohI68) Patty Griffin: [http://youtube.com/watch?v=kWzuLAHnGBQ&feature=related](http://youtube.com/watch?v=kWzuLAHnGBQ&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/25 "2007-12-03T00:59:48Z")
I know it’s at least several years old (I’m behind the times), but I listen to “Bittersweet Symphony” from _The Verve_ at least once a day. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/26 "2007-12-03T01:13:56Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Got some links? [/QUOTE] Oopsy. I found a different version of [Fratres](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuo/S2002-1.mp3). Higher fidelity than computer speakers is probably needed for this, as the beginning on the piece is so quiet. Long Winters’ [Cinnamon on Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/The+Long+Winters/_/Cinnamon) Amy LaVere on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYcgzNN9pg). Cute girls who play the bass fiddle is a fetish I didn’t know I had. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/27 "2007-12-03T02:11:34Z")
Me? I just got a copy of Green Day’s _American Idiot_. **Holiday** kicks seven different flavors of ass. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/28 "2007-12-03T02:18:23Z")
I’ve been kind of crazily impressed by Interpol’s ‘‘Evil’’ since I first heard the song a few days ago. The singer has such a unique voice and [the effect](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNtGYdm2rOY) of that combined with the freaky subject matter of the song is awesomely creepy. And I was watching TV over at my Mother-in-Law’s the other day, and LeAnn Rimes’ ‘‘Nothin’ Better To Do’’ music video came on. Now, I haven’t seen a photograph of that girl since she was 13 years old – I just about fell out of my chair. Herself and the choreography in that video is [smokin’ hot.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhQHkPSHZRw) . I’ve always thought she was a great singer, but she just radiates power and confidence in that song, it’s very sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/29 "2007-12-03T02:24:50Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive] I just got a copy of Green Day’s American Idiot. Holiday kicks seven different flavors of ass. [/QUOTE] Completely agreed. That whole album rocks my face off – when you listen to it from start to finish, it’s like some kind of crazy historical epic face-rocking experience. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/30 "2007-12-03T02:38:49Z")
**Olives** , good song. I also took a look at LeAnn Rimes’ “Amazing Grace” on that same page, and it was a very, very good performance. That girl can SING! ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/31 "2007-12-03T02:39:27Z")
“Dreams” by the Rippingtons ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/32 "2007-12-03T02:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Stone] I remember when I was about 8, I was up in my room with a transistor radio with the lights off. I was supposed to be asleep, but I used to sneak a radio into bed and listen to the music for hours. Anyway, lying there in the dark I turned the radio on, and for the first time heard ‘Let it Be’ by the Beatles. They instantly became my favorite band, and still are today. And it’s possibly the most vivid memory of my entire childhood. [/QUOTE] At about the same age I found a tape of the Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane single. I played it incessantly for days and days. I still absolutely love both songs. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/33 "2007-12-03T17:19:57Z")
Just today, [Eva Cassidy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW97ydJo1zo&feature=related) doing Cyndi Lauper’s _Time After Time_ ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/34 "2007-12-03T17:50:20Z")
[Sylvie Lewis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFVs7P_mEa0) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/35 "2007-12-03T18:20:39Z")
I remember when I first hear “You Oughtta Know” by Alanis Morisette and thought, “Wow, that is one angry chick.” I was blown away by the energy and what seemed like honest, raw emotion. ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/36 "2007-12-03T18:22:04Z")
For some unknown reason, we only recently discovered Eagles of Death Metal, but I am absolutely and in all other ways loving everything by them at the moment. The drummer is Josh Homme from Queens of the Stoneage. [I Only Want You on YouTube](http://youtube.com/watch?v=MyslDEFl0Rc). You cannot listen without wiggling in your seat and tapping your feet. Or at least, I can’t. http: [//youtube.com/watch?v=Gz\_BVyYgEZo](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_BVyYgEZo) = Speaking in Tongues on YouTube. Note - I broke the link as I don’t think it’s NSFW, exactly, but it does have very scantily clad women gyrating around, so be warned. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/37 "2007-12-03T18:22:55Z")
[Teruu no Uta](http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMswzfuEp6o), the theme song from Goro Miyazaki’s movie _Gedo Senki (Tales of Earthsea)_ . :eek: I saw the movie in Japan (my Japanese is basic at best), and it floored me. Only later did I actually see a translation. (The music video version, with orchestral backing, is [here](http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8tr5omoBWY).) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/38 "2007-12-03T18:26:53Z")
Thanks for all the responses so far,I am really enjoying this thread. 🙂 Eva Cassidy,Sylvie Lewis, Dragonforce,Mary Black and especially Nicole Atkins are all wonderful and names I never heard before. Even the names I have heard like 10,000 Maniacs, Green Day and Johnny Cash gave me new appreciation for them(though I already had it for Cash). Keep ‘em comin’! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/39 "2007-12-03T18:50:12Z")
All Summer Long and Amen (both are Kid Rock) kind of blew me away - in fact I’m listening to All Summer Long right now. The only other band that’s blown me away really lately is Velvet Revolver - but I’m a real metal head… ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486/40 "2007-12-03T19:23:52Z")
Igor Stravinsky’s _Le Sacre du Printemps_ was the last musical piece to make me literally drop my jaw in awe. Of current music, the latest for me to stand out has been Agua de Annique’s [Trail of Grief](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAZ3-SU2bi8&feature=related). Sound quality on the video isn’t ideal, the song can also be heard on ADA’s [MySpace page.](http://www.myspace.com/aguadeannique) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-knocked-your-socks-off/428486.md?page=3)