List your WOW factor songs!
Jan 13, 2009 at 2:58 PM Post #16 of 29
Some of these have been awesome!

That Rise Against song was right up my ally
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Jan 13, 2009 at 3:50 PM Post #17 of 29
First one I remember:
Nils Lofgren - "Keith Don't Go"
 
Jan 13, 2009 at 8:46 PM Post #19 of 29
…so many more, but off the top of my head:

"Hey Ya!'" - OutKast

"Happy Valentine's Day" - OutKast

"Hey Joe" or "All Along The Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix

"I Want To Take You Higher" or "Stand!" - Sly and The Family Stone

"Gimme Shelter" or "When the Whip Comes Down" or "Sympathy for the Devil" - The Rolling Stones

"Roforofo Fight" - Fela Anikulapo Kuti

"Pump It Up" - Elvis Costello

"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses

"Brand New Cadillac" - The Clash
 
Jan 16, 2009 at 6:35 AM Post #21 of 29
Dan Deacon - Wham City
The Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig it?
 
Jan 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM Post #22 of 29
Old Favs
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
I Don't Wanna Close My Eyes - Aerosmith/David Cook
Greatest Fan of Your Life - Googoo Dolls
Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
Beat It - Michael Jackson/Fall Out Boy
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Move This - Technotronic
Allstar - Smashmouth
I Feel Good - James Brown

New Favs
Get Buck in Here - DJ Felli Fel ft Akon, Diddy, Ludacris & Lil' Jon
Love Lockdown - Kanye West
Shawty Get loose - Lil' Mama ft Chris Brown & T-Pain
This Love - Maroon 5
Drop it and Rock it - Mr. Criminal ft Fat Joe
Freeze - T-Pain ft Chris Brown

only some
 
Jan 16, 2009 at 8:45 PM Post #24 of 29
tears for fears - everybody wants to rule the world

guns and roses - dont you cry

king of wishful thinking - go west

dont you forget about me - simple minds

freur - doot doot

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Jan 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM Post #25 of 29
Infected Mushroom - Suliman
I've gotten high from listening to this song before, it's one of those songs that ran my life for many years

Warp Brothers - Distorted Frequency

One of those songs that are just immaculate in their conception. All 7 minutes of this song are pure enjoyment for me.

Evil Activities (feat. Neophyte) - Vengeance

I've never had a song bring out the purest of anger in me, an extraordinarily enjoyable song.

However, most electronica songs that I enjoy are usually ones that touch deep inner chords inside me. Kind of like hitting the right buttons you know?
 
Nov 3, 2023 at 8:38 AM Post #27 of 29
Lots of great songs here, but not too much wow factor.

There're a lot of them in every genre and many of them are well known, so I'll try to put some songs of several genres that I think that really have some 'wow factor', while trying to be original and very eclectic.

Pop/others:
Right on for the darkness - Vanessa Fernandez
Liberty - Anette Askvik
Sexual healing - Marvin Gaye
Les passants - Zaz
The Beatles - Yesterday (Dolby Atmos)
How to be me - Ren, CHINCHILLA
These bones - The Fairfield Four
Despójame - Orishas, Jacob Forever
I'm gonna love you just a little more baby - Barry White

Jazz and similar:
Monk's Dream (take 8) - Thelonious Monk
Keep on - Alpha Mist
Protest - GoGo Penguin (but you need to see the video)
Poincidiana - Ahmad Jamal
Keep on trippin' - Manu Katché
Flatlands - The Aristocrats
I love you - Barenaked Ladies (to put it somewhere)

Rock:
Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto
Dire Straits - a lot of them, but to be original is say 'In the gallery'
Wicked Game - Chris Isaac
Luminol - Steven Wilson
Lily was here - A. Stewart, Candy Dulfer
Lipstick Vogue - Elvis Costello
The doomed - A Perfect Circle
Angie - Free Rolling Stones (Dolby Atmos 2009 remastered)
Old fashioned - Port Noir
Caterpillar and the barbed wire - Riverside

Metal and derivate:
The widderness jig - Skyclad
The sound of silence - Disturbed (had to put it here)
L'enfant sauvage - Gojira
Pink noise waltz - Diablo Swing Orchestra
Thrown to the wolves - Death Angel
Deadly sinners - 3 inches of blood
My name is Mud - Primus
Imposible brutality - Kreator
Soen - Savia
The pot - Tool
Haunted sea - Seventh Storm
Lykantropi - Vittra
Gaddaar - Bloodywood
Crown of thorns - Ray Alder
Vermilion moons - Arch/Matheos
Downgrade desert - Igorrr
The shadow hunter - Angra
Bodies - Drowning Pool
Walk - Pantera

Please bear in mind that the nuances that make the wow factor possible are sometimes dependant on a good pair of cans and/or a proper equalisation.
 
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Jul 14, 2024 at 2:52 PM Post #28 of 29
Seal- Kiss from a rose
Aerosmith- I don't wanna miss a thing
Linkin Park- Numb
 

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