Music with real emotional impact

I think you underestimate the emotion music can give.

2 songs that made me cry buckets recently

Oh Shipbuilding – good call!

I think there is a difference between songs designed to produce an emotional response and songs containing real emotion.

The lines are blurred for sure though. Sure there is mainstream tat like Celine Dion that is designed to make your Granny cry, but some of the stuff here you could argue that the writer wanted to provoke a response and it contained emotion

Lou Reed, Perfect Day

This is subjective, what does it for one clearly won’t do it for all. Tears in Heaven does nothing for me. The thread title is a bit broad and sweeping.

True steve – the point is tears in heaven ( which I don’t like) is about his son that died – Hence it has a real emotional power

Still – some thought provoking stuff has been posted

There’s gotta be some Van the Man somewhere!

Nilson – Without you
New Order – Atmosphere
Barber – Adagio for Strings
Pink Flloyd – Us and Them onwards from DSOTM

There’s gotta be some Van the Man somewhere!

Yeah, in the wedding songs thread 🙂

The needle and the damage done by Neil Young is another good one.
I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

Music is so emotive. There is music for you wherever you are in your life. I think it depends where you are at and who you are what does it for you. It progresses and changes with you. I could do without a lot, but not music. It’s quite a personal thing I think.

We need so damn many things
To keep our dazed lives going
Many things
To keep our lives
Lives going
So many things

We can be bound, run around
Fooled animal bite its tail
Animal,
He has been bound
Run around
Around and Round

On a happier note,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZ0UKVhRAY

It always puts a smile on my chops.

Yeah, in the wedding songs thread

Why? Nobody does emotion like Van.

Rachmanimov – piano concerto no.2

Mozart

Clarinet concerto

Gregorian chanting.

Oh and this:

This one gets me, mainly due to it making me think of my dad, the one that normally finishes me for a little while is ‘Last this Day’ by Faithless.

The combination of the 2 will have me in bits pretty quickly

I’ve always seen this as an emotional metaphor for STW! 🙂

one song that allways makes me stop and take some time to reflect is “Constance Eternal” by folk rock band skyclad. It’s about the death of the lead singers grandmother. Can’t find a youtube of it so here’s the lyrics and these still make very somber.

On wednesday the seventh your flight departed,
you waved us goodbye – we stood on the ground
as one journey ended another one started –
you passed overhead (your wings made no sound)

This world’s just a rock – now a little bit lighter,
for me there’s a void where your smile once shone.
A new star is born far bigger and brighter
than all of the others – that’s where you have gone.

Over the stormclouds you float high above me,
knelt in the dojo we offered a prayer.
Yassi was smiling – you saw how she loves me,
I’m sure you look forward to meeting her there….

One with the light that was sent here to guide you,
forgotten the cripple asleep in her chair.
You dance hand in hand – Bernard standing beside you,
you’re Ginger Rogers and he’s Fred Astaire.

Constance in eternity,
Constance in eternity,
Constance eternal.

Gets me every time…

One voice that stands out for me as having real emotional power is that of Luke Kelly, the original singer from the Dubliners.

His version of The Shoals of Herring passes the shivers-down-the-spine test every single time. Particularly the intro and outro, with just his voice and the strummed banjo accompaniment:

Speaking of Van the Man, always loved his version of Carrickfergus. His voice really nails the sentiment and atmosphere of the song:

Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ is one of the most melancholy things I’ve ever heard. A great man, who passed away only a few days ago.

Popular music? Johnny Cash’s The Man Comes Around is the sound of a man who knows he’s not got long left and is contemplating the afterlife. Hugely moving, though whether it cheers or saddens me depends on my mood at the time.

truly awful bizarre video, ignore the visual, focus on the song – unique and haunting Christy Moore take on a very well known lament…. gives me goosebumps for so many reasons…

No idea what it’s about, but it’s the most beautiful piece of music ever created IMO.

All my favourites got covered on the first page.
And The Band Played Waltzin’ Matilda reminded me of Bomber’s Moon by Mike Harding.
Inspired by his own fathers death as a second world war bomber crew member.

I think this contains one of the most emotionally charged guitar solos ever recorded

Its a shame she’s such an arse, but what an expressive voice

nuff said

For some reason the chorus of this song (“too late.. etc”) firmly embedded itself into my head the day we lost our 37 week old baby boy. I can’t listen to it now – I literally have to run out of a room if I hear it:

Anything by Joy division.
Everything Curtis wrote was a part of him.

the mid eight in this song buts the hairs up on the back of my neck, you should hear it live what a vocalist.

i struggle to identify with other artists tracks… but there’s a couple that stand out and i feel myself go a bit emotional… only if i sing along, listening isn’t the same as singing the lyrics outloud i find

newton faulkner – unconfortably slow
james blunt – goodbye my lover

and this one that i wrote after the death of a friend:

The fallen comrades show you how
Because the time is now
Regrets mean nothing
All the decisions you’ve made make you who you are

As time moves on
Live life while you can
Tomorrow holds no promise
Its in your hands

The playgrounds empty
Dew turns to frost
Just remember the sun is waiting

Weighed down by others expectations
Cloud the shining light, run from the darkness
Tear the wool from your eyes

You’ll never know when its gone
When everything is lost
Time takes the unexpecting as the clocks stop

As the light shines down on clear waters
Glowing down on you
As the clouds give way, the sky begins to lighten
The world was dead and empty
And all was lost
But know the mask has fallen

Live life while you can

As time moves on
Live life while you can
Tomorrow holds no promise
Its in your hands