Now music has power to stir the emotions.
However few song s really contain real emotion from the singer – or do they?

Here is a couple of candidates

Sends shivers up my spine. So apt and he knew he was dying

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0[/video]

I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt

Would normally say “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” but X-Factor has kinda ruined it for me for the time being.

TJ’s mantra.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREjT7DlI7M&feature=related[/video]

This sends shivers down my spine, her voice is just angelic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kCyoKJWszk

And the accappella

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKJ0qJZ3rXo

Then this brings tears to my eyes for other reasons

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za_6A0XnMyw[/video]

Anything Neurosis have ever written.
Crippled Black Phoenix – “200 Tons of Bad Luck”; “Bastogne Blues” etc
I gotta agree with you on the Johnny Cash “Hurt” one.
System of a Down – “Soldier Side”
Neil Young – “Every Man Needs a Maid”, plus many others by him.
Pink Floyd – “On the Turning Away”; “Wish You Were Here”

Plus many others…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7iasdKi5-8&feature=related[/video]

Dammit TJ i have tears rolling down my cheeks now thanks to this thread

[video]http:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ//%5B/video%5D

Hurt has been played to death, but this one is from the same album,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anzcexEXtzg
or this one,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaGrcOEI-M

Basically anything from the American IV album.

Saw Tom Paxton on Saturday, played this:

Tom Paxton – The Bravest

Hadn’t heard it before, simple song (like most of Paxton’s) but instant lump in the throat when the chorus came in for the first time.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9T4MbKnEgc[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owV3M7udwvw[/video]

sorry Houns 😳

Could be joy as well as sadness.

any strong real emotion.

How about a bit of Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, before they went all middle of the road crap,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRwFRCFTgSA
Very moving when you realise the personal nature of the lyrics.

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

Peter Green +1 the only Fleetwood Mac!

As for the Eels:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Ew0XRoV6g[/video]

Cat Stevens… a couple of my favourites…

Sitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djpnsqdNabM

Can’t keep it in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W_SGoBFJxs&feature=related

Kev

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjPivYmV7Y[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjPivYmV7Y[/video]

Shivers down the spine and emotional impact are 2 different things to me…for the latter:

Days

(I have been slated for this previously)

Lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrYkqXi21o

This one tears me apart inside…

still love her 😥

Known for being open with her emotions on stage I would go for these two songs by Nina Simone

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCjk5CLs914&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGizErT3w0w[/video]

The point was a song where the singer is showing real emotion – Ton has it. 😯 🙄 A few more to listen to but some of these are songs about emotions not containing them

I’d have said Jacques Brel has it too TJ… 🙄

It’s ok TJ i don’t mind

Seattle’s Shawn Smith knows a thing or two about life.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_z8y5ypVAk[/video]

no one emotes quite like Lucinda Williams
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0_AVhvdpgw[/video]

iDave – Member

I’d have said Jacques Brel has it too TJ.

Oh agreed – there are a few good examples

Firstly, I would like to nominate someone I saw last night:

And secondly I’d like to forward:

seems to be a good thread for beardy men….

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

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7SCIsSF-8I&feature=related[/video]
Dido’s Lament worth checking out the remembered by as part of the Soul Music radio slot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSq4I61zUo

And one by his pops:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU-9EMSYu0[/video]
Dolphins

or Gram and Emmylou

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj8qnzwHUwo[/video]

Sad – Pogues Waltzing Matilda
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM[/video]

Happy – Proclaimers Jean
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srPkl2PzJ4[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw&feature=more_related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6T9qp9XbRY[/video]