there are certain pieces of music that always make me feel a certain way when i hear them.maybe wistful isn’t the right word to try and explain what i mean,but whenever i hear this [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jw8C1k_agY[/video] i always get this feeling of wistfulness/melancholy.maybe it’s because i go back to when i was a teenager back in the late 80’s.i remember listening to this a lot whilst going places in a car (with my mum) either on holiday or just going somewhere.i suppose what i’m getting at is that things felt a lot more optimistic when i was 14 than now 😆
what music does it for you? 🙂

Elgar. The Enigma Variations. Specifically Nimrod.

The memory of someone truly special to me lives on in that music.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FxQAudauHA[/video]

Rival schools, used for glue.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcRt7kkzcxM[/video]

Reminds me of being 19, New in Leeds, lost in a smokey nightclub, trying to find my friends, trying to find that girl, counting my money to see if I can get another drink. Its frightening, the taste comes back in my mouth and everything, its like a flashback!

Adagio for Strings by Thomas Barber

Quick — everyone think of obscure artists like the other music threads

The whole of Gin Blossoms’ New Miserable Experience

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39mUEE3_xS8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q[/video]
Family is all.

Familiar to all parents
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaNVuWes_U[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evce758BBY8[/video]

This one, makes me think of my dad.
A combination of that and Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls will normally leave me in tears

LOL @ International Richard.

Stevie Wonder’s “Lately” usually has me melancholic

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LeXdP9lcM&feature=related[/video]

Mother. Lost at 4 years old.

Oldfield – Hergest Ridge
Cooder – Southern Comfort

Adagio for Strings by Thomas Barber + 1

Quick — everyone think of obscure artists like the other music threads +1

Oh, and Steel Panther – Weenie Ride, beautiful haunting ballad

Stone The Crows, Sunset Cowboy.
Led Zep, Stairway to Heaven.
Floyd, Wish You Were Here.
Chris Rea, Loving You Again.

Wistful’s not the right word though.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wAF33TfH00[/video]

Not really ‘wistful’ as such, it always brings tears to my eyes but also happy memories thanks to it’s use in a funeral I was at nearly 10 years ago.

Oh jeez CL that one gets me too.

*sniffs*

adagio for strings, nimrod, bach air on g string…oh and radiohead creep.

Most Doves stuff. But the Cedar Room in particular. All of it is a weird mix of the positive, tinged with melancholy that infuses all their music

Beth Orton, Central Reservation. 😐

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5LG1ZMIu6M[/video]

lovely summery day dream of a song

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBMDcLf6WA&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]
This can reduce me to an emotional wreck, especially when I think about how Sandy died. Is this ‘obscure’ enough for some on here?

Oooh, Spooky.
Just about to post this: [video][video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-lAOdQrGo[/video]
Reminds me of bad times & places – still can’t bear to listen to it all the way through. Daft sod.

This is why BB’s a genius:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Pla-HfGAs[/video]

And this:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2E6Om_ll_s[/video]
reminds me of my dad, which just sets me off again.
Can’t bloody stand Oasis!

+1 on Oasis. Oh I’m a child of the nineties! Oasis, Mint Sauce, Rob Warner at the races, V-brakes on downhill bikes. **** yeah!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXW43y-RjQ[/video]

Red House Painters – Ruth Marie
Jackson C Frank – Dialogue
Pearl Jam – Nothingman
Alice In Chains – Brother
The Fire Theft – Uncle Mountain
Mother Love Bone – Chloe Dancer
Posies – Burn & Shine

Well it has to be The Cure

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggP5YDziMSY[/video]

How wistful is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D0h_jWVbw6M

International Richard – Member
Quick — everyone think of obscure artists like the other music threads

Well, to the people who put them up, they’re not so obscure, and the point of putting them up, if they’re not so well known, is to try to make them better known.
A difficult concept to grasp, I concede, but it does work… 😈

Ozzy Osbourne – dairy of a madman (teenager discovering music in my bedroom)
The Verve – urban hymns (falling deeply in love with my (now) wife)

Craven Leaves, by Zbigniew Preisner
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK8wUJtaSU[/video]

Just reminds me of my first Christmas as an adult, with my first love, and generally how Goddamn awesome it is to be a 17 year old with a car and a bird and great mates and money to spend and stuff to do.

Same goes for this (from 12:13)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6pouE8YmoQ&t=12m13s[/video]

and pretty much the entire CD2 of Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto Fluoro

Floyd, Wish You Were Here

+1. Sitting in a sea front bar in Geelong, Victoria having been out there for 4 months without the Mrs and the acoustic duo start playing this.
Not what you need!

Radiohead – Codex
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVw9gsNFZlA[/video]
The National – Exile Vilify
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlneqWfwOuQ[/video]
Clint Mansell – Welcome to lunar industries
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys[/video]
Joe Strummer – Minstrel Boy
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJi0H7D17IM[/video]

I could go on .

I’m of a similar age to the OP and can remember feeling ‘wistful’ to Kings Cross, also Working in a Goldmine by Aztec Camera.

No ordinary morning by Chicane.

Summertime Rolls by Jane’s Addiction

edlong, was just about to say exactly that

Thank you Flying Ox, I wasn’t aware Oakenfold had done a follow up in the style of the Goa Mix. Now ordered, can’t wait.

Windmills of your mind – Noel Harrison
Wreck of the Beautiful – Divine Comedy

Can’t do the linky thing sorry.

I’d also suggest Elbow; Guy Garvey has a marvellous voice that always has an air of melancholy about it. Newborn, Scattered Black and Whites, and in particular Fugitive Motel are favourites of mine. There are no videos on YouTube.

sparklehorse. Beta Band, Joy Division, Sigur Ros, loads, I think this is my genre

check out my mates band http://www.flotationtoywarning.co.uk/