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

[PSmith08]

Richard Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral Music
Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
Warren Zevon: The Indifference of Heaven
Art Garfunkel: All I Know (good one, elrod-tom)

 

[Cyclone]

Bob Dylan - It's alright ma' (im only bleedin')
Bob Dylan - Shelter from the storm
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Led Zeppelin - Babe im gona leave you
Led Zeppelin - Thats the way
Metallica - One
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Jonny Cash - Hurt (Nine inch nails cover)
John Lennon - Imagine
Most anything off of Nirvana's Unplugged album
Any Tool song where Maynard belts out one of his soul piercing screams (what i would pay to be able to sing like that...) ex: 7 minutes into Flood.

 

[Naga]

cyclone, have you heard Fiddle and the Drum?

 

[Cyclone]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Naga cyclone, have you heard Fiddle and the Drum?

No I dont think I have. Are they a band or is it a song?

 

[Naga]

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Originally Posted by Cyclone No I dont think I have. Are they a band or is it a song?

oops, its an A Perfect Circle song, about 3.5 minutes maynard sings a slow acapella song; the sound is deep and you wouldnt believe its the same guy who screamed for almost a complete minute in " The Grudge"

 

[Dorfmeister]

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Moya

Nick Cave- As I Sat Sadly by Her Side

Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies

Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice

Roy Orbison - In Dreams

Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country

Scott Walker - Farmer in the City

Palace Music - Gulf Coast

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

Mercury Rev - Holes

Richard Buckner - Ariel Ramirez

Nick Drake - Northern Sky

Nico - These Days

Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

Vincent Gallo - When

Big Star - Dream Lover

Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren

Scud Mountain Boys - Penthouse in the Woods

Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

Beck - Golden Age

Sufjan Stevens - Upper Peninsula

Minutemen - History Lesson (Part II)

Neil Young - Barstool Blues

The Replacements - Here Comes A Regular

Red House Painters - Song for a Blue Guitar

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Henryk Gorecki - Gorecki's 3rd Symphony - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

 

[LittleSwallow]

Lion King - This Land, Under the Stars, King of Pride Rock

Kenshin OVA1+2 - Kotowari, Labyrinth

Sarah Brightman - No One Like You

Vanessa Mae - Nessun Dorma

X-Files "The Truth and the Light" - Otium

Evanescence - "Anywhere" and "Before the Dawn"

Guantanamera (certain versions)

X Japan - "Tears" and "Forever Love"

I'm sure there's more but these are the ones I just thought of.

 

[Cyclone]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Naga oops, its an A Perfect Circle song, about 3.5 minutes maynard sings a slow acapella song; the sound is deep and you wouldnt believe its the same guy who screamed for almost a complete minute in " The Grudge"

Wow, thats a pretty cool "song". It feels like a very professionally done peotry jam. I have to say though, its begging for an acoustic guitar or citar.

 

[danlib1]

James Taylor: Caroline I See You

Paul Simon: Renee and Georgette Magriette (With their dog after the war)

Nat Cole: Pretend

Greg Allman: Melissa

Peter Gabriel: Mercy Street

Mark Knophler: A Place we used to live

Lowell George: Willin'

Joni Mitchell: Too many to list!

 

[elan]

"Dark Angel" - Blue Rodeo. I swear this song is about my wife.

"Visions of Johanna" - Bob Dylan. I dunno, for some reason for me this is the most beautifully poetic song.

"Sitting" - Cat Stevens. I seek solace in this song whenever I feel I've lost direction in my life.

 

[jumpy]

The Streets - It's too late : If you've ever been dumped hard, the term 'wounded soldier stance' is frightfully succint.

Ben Fold's Five - Eddie Walker : The song reminds me of my dad. I'm not sure why...perhaps it's has this feeling of goodbye.

 

[NacMacFeegle]

Some of mine...
The Blue Nile - God bless you, kid.
Breathless - Over and Over.
Black 47 - Livin' in America - 11 years on.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah and Corpus Christi Carol.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Wake up and make love with me.
Great Big Sea - Chemical workers song (Process Man).
Horseflies - I live where it's gray.
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Scarlet Ribbons and their version of The Green Fields of France.
Shakespear's Sister - Stay.
Rhoda Dakar - The Boiler.
XTC - Making Plan for Nigel.
The Wild Swans - Young Manhood.
The Durutti Column - Love is a Friend and Spanish Lament.
The Smiths - Reel around the Fountain.
The Waterboys - When will we be Married.
John Martyn - Couldn't love you more.

Boy, put all of these on a mix CD and I'd be a mess by the end of it...

-Nac...

 

[boodi]

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Originally Posted by roadtonowhere08 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.

since you mentioned , I'll add some PJ quite moving works

Binaural - Parting Ways minimal yet very moving song if you've been left by someone

No Code - Sometimes & Red Mosquito this last one of my favorite

Yeld - No way - rather dark song

Vitalogy - an album that moves me , fullfilled with emotions and stress re-composed in music .. one of their great works .

and others

 

[boodi]

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Originally Posted by Dorfmeister Vincent Gallo - When

got this album and surprised me

 

[Scrith]

This songwriter is due at least as much credit as the singer in most of these cases.

J.S. Bach - Matthau-Passion - Erbarme dich, mein Gott (Schwarzkopf from the 1961 Klemperer version). The closest I can get to feeling religious. I was introduced to it by the film Offret (The Sacrifice) by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Catalani - La Wally: Ebben? Ne andro lontana - sung by Maria Callas. Herein lies the answer to the question: who is the greatest singer of all time?

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Masters of War. Another kind of emotion...works as well for Iraq as it did for Viet Nam. On a related note, I also like Rage Against the Machine - Freedom (and others), and Bob Marley's Burning' & Lootin' (and others). And John Lennon's Imagine still works for a lot of people, it seems.

Joni Mitchell - Blue - A Case of You. I also enjoy the version by Diana Krall on the album Live in Paris. Also: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks - Simple Twist of Fate. I'm sure I'm forgetting 10 or 20 great that are similar.

And there's something special to me about many of the tracks on the two Ella and Louis albums.