Music with real emotional impact

this probably falls more into the “witten to provoke an emotion” category, beautiful nonetheless.

Mike Scott is the closest Scotland has come to a Bob Dylan

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

++++1 without hesitation everyone needs to own the album – Edc.

also love:
Protection

and:
Tolerate

Thanks to this thread, I am now feeling rather sad and have just spent a fortune at itunes although not on anything I’ve listened to here oddly enough (Leonard Cohen anyone?)

Ever had a friend go off the rails? This is beautiful….

A song from the album that changed my life and made me learn how to play music

Winter by Tori Amos

The one song that resonates with me is Wires by Athlete. I never really liked it that much then found out it was written by their lead singer, about his daughter who was born prematurely.

I think it would be hard to find something more loaded with emotion and experience than this one…

Elliott Smith – I Better Be Quiet Now

I often skip it as it’s not exactly a cheery song to be listening to in the car but it definitely fits the thread.

skip to 40seconds in

an amazingly pretty lady too!!

This may have been youtube’d already (can’t get it at work) but I’ve never heard better lyrics in a love song than Nick Cave’s ‘Into My Arms’

wont post if because come January we will all be sick of hearing it but The fairytale of New York by the Pogues is an absolute cracker of a song a very dark Christmas song with a an amazing vocal.

Not sure why , I hated my Dad and everything about him, but this breaks me down everytime.

Have we had this yet?:

Great thread!

I can’t actually listen to this all the way through. For anyone who has kids…
TM

Seen them playing in a pub with 30 other people in Glasgow before they were signed and he sung this with tears in his eyes. Rain Town

Britanny like you have never heard her before. Stevie Anne’s cover of Toxic

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Living up to your avatar 😀

EDIT. OK perhaps not.

I don’t know how I didn’t think of these earlier.
Similar themed songs from two different female singer guitarist.

Joan Armatrading. The Weakness In Me.

Dido. Mary’s In India.

I’ve got the forum pretty much to myself at this time of night, so I’ll have another go.

Suprised no mention of Richard Thompson – Beeswing, Woods of Darney, How will I ever be simple Again,etc etc. Or Leonard Cohen – If it be your will, hallelujah, Avalanche, Story of Isaac, The Partisan etc etc

Hurt by Johhny Cash is hard to listen to, IMHO.

This track has huge emotional ties for me; not only because of the lyrics but because of the association with this forum.

Some years ago now a thread was started on here by a father who’s son had died and he was asking for advice about how to plan his funeral.

As you can imagine it ended up being quite an emotional collection of posts. One of the things he wanted advice about was what music should be played. His son was a big Green Day fan so I suggested the above track – there could be no other.

He was also an avid skateborder so Heaven is a Half Pipe also made the playlist.

Whenever I hear Good Riddance(Time of Your Life) I always think of the STWer who lost his son. No idea who he is though.

Can’t find a YouTube vid, but last night’s Late Junction featured Belshazzar’s Feast’s epic arrangement of Home, Lads, Home by Cicely Fox Smith. It’s been a while since the radio actually made me cry.

It was written about World War One, but it also made me think of the 43rd Wessex Division at Normandy – west country farm lads going in against the Panzers and Waffen-SS. My great-uncle (a Captain in the Somerset Light Infantry) was killed in the bitter fighting near Caen. He would never return to his beloved Quantock Hills.

Dead lads and shadowy horses, I see them all the same,
I see them and I know them and I call them each by name,
Riding down from harvest, when all the west’s aglow
And the lads all sitting sideways and singing as they go

Home lads, home, with the sunset on their faces
Home, lads home, to those quiet, happy places,
For there’s rest for horse and man when the longest day is done
And they’ll all go home together at the setting of the sun.

+1 for Shipbuilding for the lyrics/feel and vocals

+1 for Wires. Had read about it’s meaning and then 4yrs ago it became all too personal. Have had to delete it from itunes and turn the radio over whenever it’s on.