What does it for you? Throw us some tracks that embody all this and more… not necessarily for the lyrics (though could be part of it), more for sheer power and composition of the tune. Here are a few that do it for me…

Band of Horses – Funeral (Danny Macaskill 🙂 )
Delirium – Silence (Tiesto remix)
Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla

65daysofstatic

Jimmy Eat World – Disintegration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWM73kU59gM

To be enjoyed in a dark room, very loudly.

Master of Puppets – Metalica
Keeper of the Seven Keys – Helloween
Man Next Door – Massive Attack
lads of classical music too

Oh, that Jimmy Eat World track is pretty epic… love it 🙂

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_47_CHdzHI[/video]

I cried when I saw her play this live.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=50452187

the cocteau twin’s version of siren song is possibly the best, but there are many.

And I have a collection of versions of down to the river, but this is my favourite

And this is what heaven sounds like

can someone who knows how make this a Spotify list?

Hugh Masakela – coal train

And this is what heaven sounds like

Lovely… see that’s the thing with properly powerful music; regardless of genre, language, style or anything else, it just is powerful and moving regardless… keep ’em coming folks 🙂

This is the kind of song which just makes you scream at the sky and then weep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVT_xbO-eHw

hmmmm… not so sure about that one Roper… Pavarotti, yes, Spice Girls?? um, no… though I think I’m getting your point, sublime and banal in one piece?

Neurosis – everything
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Ressurectionists

There are lots of others, but these probably come closest to how I interpret what the OP is referring to.

These are a few that do it for me; emotion, powerful, moving, haunting:

God Is An Astronaut – Fragile

Oceansize – Dead Dogs An All Sorts

sleepmakeswaves – One Day You Will Teach Me to Let Go of My Fears

Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas

Rodriguez – Concerto D’Aranjuez

I could post a lot more but Ill leave it at that…don’t want to be too somber on a wet sunday morning 🙁

Absolutely powerful

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1iclqbNyM[/video]

why aren’t videos working today eh?

Grinderman – No Pussy Blues
Nick Cave – Into My Arms

Both still give me goosebumps but each in a completely different way.

Oh yeah! I should have added:

Cult of Luna – The Beyond

I got another:

28 days later soundtrack. So very spooky.

great track Fueled 🙂

I love this song it was released around the time that my Grandfather was dying.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuEt7EvPMVU[/video]

you really need to listen to the whole album for full on maximum hanuted epicness but here’s a taste

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m9aZwQOFwM[/video]

Good thread

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA[/video]

Elfin put this on the disco thread a couple of days ago…perfect

is it just me, or are videos not working?

working for me

ah… isn’t working in IE8 for some reason, works fine in Chrome though.

Ah, just thought of another one that rocks me… great lyrics 8)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSiTbkpbnUs&ob=av2e[/video]

And The Tea Party as well…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0C3e0He2k&feature=related[/video]

rock epicness
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wm0TA5FJ3k[/video]

goose bump inducing drums and bass
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxcMPPoZI7s[/video]

Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKjOOR9sPU&ob=av2n

Marshal Tucker Band – Can’t you see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-a8zh0m9c

The Cinematic Orchestra – All Things to All Men http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueKO3A6qpLE

Hans Zimmer – Injection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3iAzdbg3mo

The Time Frequency – New Emotion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_66dho7tkU

Think I’ll have a bit of Muse…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPWHazb4hDM[/video]

This honestly made me cry at Reading, and I couldn’t even tell you why. The power of the first bit topped off with the breakdown to piano just knocks me out.

The instumental version of the western is tons better Conrad adds nothing to that track.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYHE4HtWgTM[/video]

yep, prefer your version joolsburger… nice tune 🙂

Brian Eno – An ending

Velvet revolver – fall to pieces

Paul Mounsey – North

Elbow – Mirrorball and One Day Like This

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfVqOZQVcJQ[/video]

Beautiful music, Ruska means the colours of autumn and you can hear the sadness. One of the most moving songs I know even without words.

word to your mothers, long time lurker – a music thread’s too much fun to miss though.
i give you:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58kCYsiwt0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1yShjOst8[/video]

and
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt1qaCOkU8E[/video]

oh, a big thanks to creg – i saw God Is An Astronaut a few months back, but had completely forgotten the name of them! very good live – wasn’t sure it’d work. they were touring with a band called something along the lines of Butterfly.. (Explosion?) who i only caught the end of, but by all accounts were better than the godly folk..

roll on someone making a spotify playlist of all this, good idea that man.

I like this something nice and sinister about it

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_nAS4atCs[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHaBc0sLwE0 “Scars are souvenirs you never loose” from Name by the Goo Goo Dolls,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98blZEG-0o Hear You Me By Jimmy Eat World as we all have someone in life that we never get chance to say goodbye to.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI&ob=av3e[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTBFeHdPO1k[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTw26B8U2g[/video]