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

[sanity8me]

wow this is a great idea for a thread, but i guess that's old news by now.


*** = like someone grabs my heart and slowly squeezes it each listen
** = a quick stab to the heart each listen
* = just a great depressing song



A Silver Mt. Zion - Could've Moved Mountains***

Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone*

The Beatles - Yesterday*

Beck - Lost Cause*

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata***

Ben Folds Five - Brick*, Magic*

Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love* <-one song

Bush - Glycerine*

Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna*** (Requiem for a Dream theme)

The Cranberries - Zombie*

Collective Soul - The World I Know*

Counting Crows - A Long December**, Round Here*, Colorblind*

Elliott Smith - Miss Misery*, Needle In the Hay***, Angeles*, I Didn't Understand*, No Name #3*, The Biggest Lie*

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep*, The Dead Flag Blues*

Goo Goo Dolls - Name*

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart*, Insight*

Lou Reed - Perfect Day*

Modest Mouse - Dramamine*, Workin' On Leavin' The Livin'*

New Order - Elegia*

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt***, The Great Below**

Nirvana - Something In The Way*

Pearl Jam - Black*

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond*, Us And Them*

Portishead - Roads*

Pretenders - I'll Stand By You*

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (the first half)*

Radiohead - Exit Music***, Paranoid Android (the second half)*, No Surprises*, Like Spinning Plates (live)***, How To Disappear Completely*, Motion Picture Soundtrack**, Talk Show Host**, How I Made My Millions***, Creep*, Big Ideas**, Street Spirit (Fade Out)*, Bullet Proof*, Alligators In the Sewers/Fog (live)*, I Will**

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts*

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge*

Sigur Ros - Duet (live)*, Untitled (the entire album)*, Ny Batteri**

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U*

Tom Waits - Closing Time*

U2 - One*

VAST - Touched*

Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes**, Heroin*

Weezer - Say It Ain't So*, Only In Dreams*




...this would be a really painful playlist. can't wait to make it

 

[Girdag]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.

Best. Song. Ever.

 

[boodi]

bit weird to say , it's is a post rock band that lately tug at my emotions the most - & quite literally
GodSpeed You Black Emperor ( yet mentioned on thread )

 

[boodi]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sanity8me ...this would be a really painful playlist. can't wait to make it

masochist

 

[The Actual]

Quote:

Originally Posted by beeswing Bob Dylan, "Girl from the North Country," Freewheelin'

Me too. I think that is my favorite song by him.

 

[sanity8me]

Quote:

Originally Posted by boodi masochist

with a playlist like that... yeah i guess you're right

 

[dapperbandit]

almost the whole Damnation album from Opeth.

 

[stinn]

I strongly agree with Hurt mentioned above a couple times and I really prefer the Cash version, the NiN version doesn't even compare.
Anthony and the Johnsons - Fistful of Love (I have strong feelings when it comes to abuse)
Coldplay - most of A Rush of Blood to the Head(Beautiful World to mention one)
Counting Crows - Round Here (reminds me of my first love for some reason)

 

[soundboy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by soundboy 需要你 (Needing You) - 許冠傑 (Sam Hui): A very simple song with very simple lyrics, yet it took me years to understand the true meaning behind those words. The blistering 1 1/2 minute electric guitar solo as it fades out intensifies the effects of those lyrics further....basically a 5 1/2 minute emotional outburst.

I posted this last December, and since then, I have broken up with my girlfriend. The song takes on extra meaning now.

I recently purchased a pre-recorded MiniDisc of Mike & The Mechanics' "Hits" to listen to on my Sony portable MD player (my first). While I have heard "The Living Years" hundreds of times on the radio before, it's really an excellent song about treasuring those who are with you now. Highly recommended!

 

[grawk]

Spider Bite by the Flaming Lips

 

[Cordmore]

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat is perhaps the most touching song I've ever heard. It's the song that have brought me closest to tears.

 

[akwok]

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Fiona Apple - Across the Universe

 

[perplex]

Rod Stewart - I Don't Want to Talk about it
Wham!/George Michael - Careless Whisper

to name 2

 

[BDA_ABAT]

Bob Marley: Redemption Song.

Bruce

 

[Archangel]

Ben Harper - Another lonely day