Cool, I think I missed this thread when it first came out....(though I have to look back, maybe I didn't, but just don't remember posting
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My input:
- Beth Nielsen Chapman - the whole Sand and Water CD. Written after her husband died from cancer. Amazing catharctic capabilities; having a cancer survivor in my family makes this even more poignant.
- Joy Division - Decades, from Closer. You can feel the anguish in Ian Curtis' voice: seemingly calm and mellow, but it harbors a torrent of pain underneath (to my ears). Even some of the keyboard notes have a "personality" that tugs at the emotions.
- Mary Black - Song For Ireland. I never fail to get the chills when she sings the last verse. "Dreaming in the night, I saw a land where no man had to fight; waking in your dawn, I saw you crying in the morning light..."
EDIT: just thought of two others that always got to me:
- Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning from The Caution Horses.
- Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out - this always brings me back to High School, and a romantic interest of mine. We were friends in H.S., and I ended up dating her AFTER H.S. ended. But during that H.S. time, I got this bizarre sense that we were too old in maturity to do a High School romance, and we were doomed to failure. The line "We...are young but getting old before our time...." always hit me hard, for her.
