Music with real emotional impact

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

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.

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

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…

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

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.

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.

Peter Green +1 the only Fleetwood Mac!

As for the Eels:

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

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

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.

no one emotes quite like Lucinda Williams

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….

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:

Dolphins

or Gram and Emmylou

Sad – Pogues Waltzing Matilda

Happy – Proclaimers Jean