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What song(s) tug(s) at your emotions the most?

Dec 12, 2004 at 2:18 PM Post #31 of 96
The Killing of Georgie - Rod Stewart (very sad)

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Dec 12, 2004 at 4:23 PM Post #32 of 96
It's usually not the "sad" songs that get to me... its usually happier (almost euphoric) ones that get to me if I'm in the right mood...

Dave Matthews Band - Live in Chicago (Disc One) - 06 - Lie in Our Graves : The instrumental portion of the this song is so incredibly euphoric and beautiful it can bring me to tears. This version does it for me most.

Dave Matthews Band - Two Step (most live versions of it) This one is pretty euphoric too. Reminds me alot of my last relationship - we were both crazy DMB fans and both really loved this song.

Ben Folds - Rocking the Suburbs - 12 - The Luckiest: He talks about how he feels he's the luckiest because of his other.

Ben Folds - Rocking the Suburbs - 05 - Fred Jones, Pt. 2: This one is sad... It's about a man who's been at his job for 25 years and is forced into retirement and how he feels totally lost afterwards.
 
Dec 12, 2004 at 4:28 PM Post #33 of 96
"Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve
"Slave To Love" - Bryan Ferry
"Sailing" - Christopher Cross
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Dec 12, 2004 at 5:03 PM Post #34 of 96
JMT - I, too, would have to put most of the soundtrack from the Sound of Music on my list. It was mom's favorite, whom I lost three years ago. I just watched the film last night, and found myself crying most of the evening.

Other choices:

1. Good Night - by the Beatles (it was/is the lullaby I sing my young boy to sleep).

2. About the Ocean - from the very great (but overlooked) album "Reunion" featuring Glen Campbell singing Jimmy Webb compositions.

3. And So It Goes - a crushingly sad song by Billy Joel about loving, losing and loneliness.

4. I Can Let Go Now - by Michael McDonald (perhaps one of the saddest songs I've ever heard).

and, finally,

5. American Tune - Simon and Garfunkel. The prescient musings of two gifted writers, who fear the loss of their beloved country.
 
Dec 12, 2004 at 7:47 PM Post #36 of 96
Neil Young - After the Goldrush

Pink Floyd - Mother Was a few years after my mom died before i could really listen to this one.
 
Dec 12, 2004 at 9:17 PM Post #38 of 96
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Originally Posted by pne
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet, The great story of love, modernized.
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Oh yeah, Romeo & Juliet does it for me too.

Simon & Garfunkel's Bleecker Street also gets me.
 
Dec 13, 2004 at 2:21 PM Post #40 of 96
The song that gets me the most is without a doubt "Let Down" off of OK Computer. The falsetto part at the end is quite beautiful, and although the song has an air of desperation, the end of the song sounds quite beautiful and redemptive to me.
 
Dec 13, 2004 at 3:16 PM Post #41 of 96
Quote:

Originally Posted by GuineaMcPig
The song that gets me the most is without a doubt "Let Down" off of OK Computer. The falsetto part at the end is quite beautiful, and although the song has an air of desperation, the end of the song sounds quite beautiful and redemptive to me.


I love that song too. The vocal line is very good, especially when it breaks into the chorus. Airbag, too has a brilliant vocal line, and there there off hail to the thief when he says "just cos you feel it, doesn't mean its there".
Wee, I'm going to dig some Radiohead CD's out again, hugely great band.
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Dec 13, 2004 at 3:16 PM Post #42 of 96
California Dreamin' by The Mommas and the Poppas
Sunset Strip by Courtney Love
Seminole Wind by John Anderson
Barstool Mountain by Johnny Paycheck
Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver
There are a few others, but I can't think of them right now.

Lately just about everything I hear from the 60's and 70's has made me cry, but I think that is for other reasons and not the songs themselves.
 
Dec 14, 2004 at 5:18 AM Post #43 of 96
100 years by Five for Fighting , because my son is 15 and I'm just about 40 and I can relate that song with my life so far and things he has to look foward to up to my where I'm at.

There's a couple more but that song just happened to be playing when I was reading this thread
 
Dec 14, 2004 at 8:43 AM Post #44 of 96
Tim McGraw - Don't Take the Girl
Martina McBride - Concrete Angel
Garth Brooks - The Change
Garth Brooks - Unanswered Prayers
Garth Brooks - The Dance
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me Now
Jewel - Pieces of You
Kenny G - Sentimental
Matchbox Twenty - If You're Gone
Norah Jones - The Nearness of You
Peter Cetera - Have You Ever Been In Love
Peter Cetera - The Last Place God Made
Jodeci - Lately
Dixie Chicks - Let Him Fly
Charlotte Church - Imagine
Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry
 
Dec 14, 2004 at 9:08 AM Post #45 of 96
Pearl Jam - Black
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

Those two ALWAYS get the water works on standby. Such emotion, not to mention that I think of my better half on both songs. Makes me love her all the more and appreciate how lucky I am.
 
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