Hmm…
Only thing that comes to mind right off is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner but I doubt that is it.
Do you remember what war it was?
When I first heard The Shins’ Caring Is Creepy on the radio, I pulled onto the shoulder as soon as the song was over, and called the radio station to find out just who and what that was.
Somehow I missed TMBG’s Birdhouse in Your Soul when it first came out, and first heard it only last year. First time, it registered in the back of my mind as a pleasant, quirky song. Second time, worth checking out on YouTube. Once I heard the song and watched the video together, I was freakin’ hooked.
To Susan on the West Coast Waiting
Galveston
No Man’s Land (Green Fields of France)
Sky Pilot
I’ve Got to Get a Message to You
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Oh! Another Muse fan? Or just this one song? I agree that “Knights of Cydonia” is fantastic. I also love “Citizens Erased” from their first album. Have you seen their Glastonbury concert on YouTube?
Thanks to everyone that offered suggestions on my song. None of those are it though 
It was a slow, depressing song. But it certainly wasn’t country. Think “bob dylan”, but not quite I don’t think.
I keep listening to Australia by The Shins. It speaks to me (and the video clip is fairly amusing).
The last song that really got to me was probably Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.
“Lucky Man” by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?
It’s been awhile since a song stopped me in my tracks. The last time was probably one of the songs off Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.
But the songs I most remember clearly bowling me over in the last 10 years (although the songs are older than that) would have to be
Only Shallow by My Bloody Valentine
and
Teardrop by Massive Attack.
The crappy youtube quality sound doesn’t do either of the songs justice, but they both just send chills up my spine. I just want to turn the lights out, the sound up, and lose myself in the music.
I love the following songs because they’re hauntingly beautiful, lovely with a melancholy backdrop:
“Scratch” by Kendall Payne
“It Doesn’t Matter” by Allison Krauss
“Uninvited” by Alanis Morisette
“Fields of Gold” by Eva Cassidy
“Take my Breath Away” by Berlin
I loved the following songs the first time I heard them, and still love them today, because they make me want to get off my ass and dance like no one’s watching:
“Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees
“What Goes Around” by Justin Timberlake
“Nothin’ at All” by Nellie Furtado
Ballad of the Green Berets?
Ballad of the Unknown Soldier?
One Tin Soldier?
Small correction… One Tin Soldier isn’t about a soldier who goes away to war and dies.
I love that song!
I heard “Phantom Limb” on the radio about 2 months before the album came out and I thought, “What a great song…wait, is that The Shins?” I then got a copy of the album earlier than the release date and played it so much, I was almost sick of it by the time it was actually released.
Oh yes. One of those covers that just blows the original away.
“True North” by Meg Hutchinson. Unfortunately, the video is fairly static, but the sound is good. The song is on her “Any Given Day” live album, available by download from her website.
“Your Heart is for Breaking” by Anne Heaton. The live version can be heard in its entirety on the player here; an excerpt from the studio version (which I prefer) and download is available below the player, or can be found on her “Black Notebook” CD.
Anything and everything by Regina Spektor.
She’s absolutely brilliant and has a voice and mind far beyond her years.
I’m a fan of Muse and think it’s easily their worst song between the four albums (which is not saying that it’s bad :p). My current favorite is City of Delusion, but it shifts around. Apocalypse Please has to be heard live for the full effect - it justifies the price of the ticket by itself.
There is such a thing as really nice tequila? Is it still really nice when you are throwing it up?
Glosoli by Sigur Rós is awesome, especially with that video to go with it.
Some of their songs are even better.
Love that band.
Already knew the song, and the same thing happened the first time I heard it.
I was blown away by Thunder Road the first time I heard it, too.
Tom Jobim’s The Waters of March. Beautiful song.