Two little boys by Rolf Harris, controversial perhaps, before the poo hit the fan about his kiddy fiddling past he did that who do you think you are, turns out his dad and uncle were in WW1 together and his uncle didn’t make it back and their story echoed the song. Very poignant and the bloody nonce goes and ruins it all!!
Fairytale of New York
Can't Stand Me Now (don't ask..)
Joe Cocker singing A Little Help From My Friends, specifically his performance at Woodstock and more specifically the bit where more emotion is poured into one wailroarscream than any human should be capable of holding at one moment - it's literally overwhelming (for me anyway).
Joe Cocker singing A Little Help From My Friends
You should enjoy it while you still can. He won't be with us forever.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd.
Because my dad - the old sod - asked for it to be played at his funeral. We never had the chance to see Floyd with him but we went (dad, my two brothers and me) several times to see Aussie Pink Floyd. We were/are all big Floyd fans so I still listen to them loads now. Every time it comes on I stop and think about him.
Suzanne Vega's 'World Before Columbus' and Natalie Merchant's 'My Skin'. Linked with an old relationship, the beginning and the end of it respectively, both still affect me a little these days.
Urban Species' 'Blanket' is the one song that can get me back to level no matter how stressed I am. Imogen Heap's vocal is superb.
All of them hedley? Are you a girl?
An interesting tidbit. I lost my virginity to a girl called Kayleigh, named after the Marilion song.
For me,
All My Best Friends Are Metalheads - Less Than Jake. I can't help but jump around when I hear it.
Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain, Carolina in My Mind, Bar Tender's Blues - James Taylor. All make me open a bottle of red, drink it and get all sombre and awake late at night [s]and feel like taking up smoking again[/s].
Jolene - Dolly Parton. Probably the greatest song ever written. I've never been cheated on or jealous in a relationship but the lyrics get to me.
You Don't Know What Love Is - White Stripes. I don't know exactly what's good about this, I just listen in silence. There's something magical.
White Moon - White Stripes. I've never seen emotion from a singer in the same way. I don't know what emotion it raises but it gets me. I don't have a better word than 'shocked' every time I listen to it.
Green Spandex by Xavier Rudd.
Ohh and Happy by Pharell Williams – I was at Glastonbury in 2015 and my then 6 year old girls loved the song so told me I had to go and watch him (so they could see me in the crowd) even though he really wasn't my thing. By then I had been away from them for 4 days so I was missing them terribly. When he started singing that song I almost cried with the wish to be hugging my girls and dancing along to it with them.
And I have to say I was very impressed by him – possibly the highlight of the weekend for me, along with Sleaford Mods and Florence + The Machine.
The Blue Nile-Lets go out tonight,for every relationship that went tits up.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in Space.
Otis Reading - (Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay.
Longpigs - Lost Myself
All carry a huge wave of emotion, for very different reasons.
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Reminds me of my brother and can't listen to it, but it's a phenomenal song. Love comes and goes by him is a truly sad song too.
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White Moon – White Stripes. I’ve never seen emotion from a singer in the same way. I don’t know what emotion it raises but it gets me. I don’t have a better word than ‘shocked’ every time I listen to it.
It is such a beautiful ending to that film. Wonderful stuff.
Mine would be:
Sirens - Pearl Jam
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
About Today - The National
Edit: @funkmasterp we must have a similar taste with Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog. Don’t think I have ever heard anyone else mention them!
Cheesy I know but this in a teenage misery remembered way:
And pretty much anything by Air off Moon Safari, but in a happy/sad way
and this in an I don’t understand the world way:
Martha - tom waits
To love is to bury - Natalie merchant
It's all over - dan skinner
Changes - Charles Bradley ( black sabbath cover)
Wrecked - turnpike troubadours
Pretenders "Hymn to Her". I remember listening to it just after my Mum had died, it still makes me emotional.
Joan Armatrading "The weakness in me" has a very personal meaning for my wife and me.
Cat Stevens "Father and Son" reminds me of my Dad.
Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now". One of those songs that you appreciate more the more life you've lived. amazing that she was in her early 20's when she wrote it.
Fade to Black by Metallica
Hollow by Pantera
Mad World by Tears For Fears
Barbers Adagio for Strings, which always reminds me of that tragic final scene from Platoon.
Pretty much any track on Welcome to the cruel world by ben harper life was very different in 1993 or whenever it was!!
Tunnel of Love from the recent Grand Rapids live release had me blubbing hopelessly. The Springsteen fans above will understand.......
Wish you were hear
Do you realize
Russ Abbot- Atmosphere
Concierto d'Aranjuez (Brassed Off version)
Heather- wedding present
Well, most songs on George Best. Angry emotional break up songs.
Or, if I need lifting, Sounds of Blackness: Everything' Gonna Be Alright (Foundation Mix)
just listened to that again. Got meConcierto d’Aranjuez (Brassed Off version)
And as a counterpoint to my 1993 self this is pretty much me now
"A lover of women he can't hardly stand
He trembles he's bent and he's broken
I've fallen it's true but I say unto you
Hold your tongues until after I've spoken"
The Smiths - Back to the Old House
This was on my playlist as I left University after the best 3 years of my life
I have been back, many times but i still miss those days so achingly badly, and I'd do almost anything to have one or two of them again.
Same with several Wedding Present songs, but in the same vein......
"If I could live one day again, that day would be the one"
Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash. Reminds me of my grandparents.
Amazing Grace - Glen Campbell. Bagpipes, just move me. Strange, I know.
Trains, Boats and Planes - Billy J. Kramer & The Dakota’s. When I was younger my dad would go abroad to see his family for 6 weeks or so and this was one of his favourites that seemed so apt whilst he was away.
Sound of Silence. Dads favourite, played as we went into his funeral service. Enough said really.
Ginny Come Lately. Brian Hyland. Another track played a lot during my childhood. Cheesy as hell but...
Forever Young - Bob Dylan. Just feels like it is about our children.
Audioslave - like a stone.
That Genesis track gets me as well.
Always coming back to you - Scott Walker. Sums up a period in my life perfectly, my first hearing it was contemporaneous to it and listening to it transports me every damn time.
death to everyone - Bonnie Prince Billy. The day my mum died, I’d ferried my dad to and from the hospital, the morgue and generally had a shit day (unsurprisingly). I got in the car to go home and switched back on the CD player. This is what come on minutes later. I had to stop at the side of the road....
Epitaph...King Crimson
The Great Gates of Kiev, Pictures At An Exhibition, Emerson , Lake & Palmer.
I always loved Greg Lakes vocal ..and these two tracks were sang with passion ..
I wasn't there that night at Newcastle City Hall when ' Pictures ' was recorded ( probably the first ELP fan ever to admit that ! ) ..wished I had been ..but saw them on the Tarkus tour soon after ..
The fact that Carl Palmer is the only surviving member is truly sad ..these were my heroes as a schoolboy ..
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There’s a few that can give me hot eyes and that hard to swallow sensation without actually bursting into tears, and one’s been mentioned, Kate Rusby ‘My Young Man’: it’s the colliery brass band and knowing it’s about Kate’s gran.
Nancy Griffith ‘If Wishes Were Changes’: influenced by Wim Wenders ‘Wings Of Desire’, it was written at the same time that I made a stupid mistake and broke up with someone I cared deeply about, the lyrics have an uncanny resonance about them.
The Unthanks ‘The King Of Rome’: again, colliery brass band, and a very emotional story.
Emmylou Harris ‘Prayer In Open ‘D’: this I’d like played at my funeral.
I might think of more later, but these three are songs that have a real emotional impact for me.
Johnny Cash – Hurt. Such a powerful song"
NIN - Hurt (far better)
Most of the NIN stuff reminds me of my youth
I forgot about this. Rips me to shreds every time.
Do we not have a "video" button anymore?
^^ Excellent version of a moving song.
Kate Nash - nicest thing
something about that song reminds me of one of the sweetest girls I’ve ever known and was dating but I was young and stupid and didn’t know what I had till it was gone. Still gives me shivers.
also
wires - Athelete
after a complicated and premature birth of my daughter leading to a 6 week stay in hospital for both mum and her this song was the straw that broke me when it came on in my car thanks to random iPod. I had to pull over for a bit. Still a very difficult song to hear.
Extreme ire that Mrs S had me sit through Armageddon, 151 minutes of my life wasted. The song is not too bad.
Do we not have a “video” button anymore?
Dunno, but there's no reason to not just type out the name of the tune. I can never be arsed to click on links to see what people are referring to.
"7 Seconds" always has me welling up because it was my daughter's favourite song when she was little and still thought that making it play was one of her dad's magic powers. (Now dad's only magic power is is paying for her new iPhone.)
Al Green - How can you mend a broken heart, gets me every time I listen to it
I know many who've taken one of these grey ships. Listening always brings their faces to the inner eye.
Idlewild - You and I are Both Away
"what hurts me most, is all the time that we've wasted"
Radio has to go off if Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton comes on. Also, Tonights the kind of night by Noah and the Whale makes me v.sad - it was out the same time my boy went off to Uni.