Top 10 Songs that Left You in Awe When You First Heard Them

Songs that blew your mind because you heard something that impressed you.
These are mine, please add yours.
The Top Ten
1 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
2 Wheel of Time - Blind Guardian

The very first Blind Guardian song I heard. It was so amazing and epic that I started listening to more. The song And Then There Was Silence is one of my favorite songs EVER! My other favorites by Blind Guardian are The Bard’s Song: In the Forest, Sacred Worlds, and Age of False Innocence.

When I first heard this I was in shock... at how Amazing this was

@Say10 - not only the intro, everything. Composition, instrumental performance and the vocals, especially at 7:00-7:10 ("ah ah ah ah"), which sounds as if a female (soprano) sang it and not a baritone metal singer. Even though I knew Hansi can do everything with his voice and morph it like nobody else, this really surprised me.

My jaw dropped when I first heard this song...

3 And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope - Ne Obliviscaris

Just when I thought nothing in music could surprise me... I heard this! It was Oh My God. Still is.

4 Stargazer - Rainbow
5 Child in Time - Deep Purple

This song made Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden get interested in heavy/hard music and buy his first album.

6 One - Metallica

This impressed me every single time I have listened this song. I thought, this is a metal masterpiece.

7 Sacred Worlds - Blind Guardian

I will never be able to choose between this song and Wheel of Time (also by Blind Guardian). But I remember that this one impressed me more after the first listen. Currently both impress me equally.

8 Black Star - Yngwie Malmsteen

Outta this world.

9 Un Amore Grande - Peppino Gagliardi
10 Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest

Absolutely. And I was hooked.

The Contenders
11 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden

This song made Iron Maiden one of my favorite bands.

Incredible song from start to end.

Oh yes. No doubt about it.

12 Over the Wall - Testament
13 Doomsday for the Deceiver - Flotsam and Jetsam
14 Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth
15 Voice of the Soul - Death

I was in shock, It was so jaw-dropping...Legendary!

16 I Am - Theocracy
17 Bleed - Meshuggah

I didn't know the full extent of djent until I heard this. I was instantly hooked, and I haven't looked back.

The time signatures got me.

18 Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
19 Chopped in Half - Obituary
20 My Last Sunrise - Demons & Wizards

Yes, this song did leave me in awe - vocals are so emotional! And perfect.

I love this song!

21 Arc-Lite - Coroner
22 Square Hammer - Ghost
23 Idioteque - Radiohead
24 Painkiller - Judas Priest
25 Paradise - Coldplay

I think this song actually did leave me in awe the first time I heard it.

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