The Call by Regina Spektor (ridiculously, just even thinking about the song while typing this got me all emotional, I’m so soft…)

And Edward is Deadward by Emmy the Great, it’s so convincing and heartfelt that it’s kind of hard to believe that Edward is actually alive 😆

Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward was played at my wifes funeral.
The lyrics are so spot-on.

Still cant listen to it 12 years on.

Any of the many, solo, acoustic, performances of ‘Thunder Road’ by Bruce Springsteeen.

richmars – Member

Any of the many, solo, acoustic, performances of ‘Thunder Road’ by Bruce Springsteeen.

Frank Turner does a really good, really miserable version of Thunder Road. I don’t think Bruce’s versions ever quite get pessimistic enough 😆 In Frank’s version, he and Mary know they’re doomed even before they listen to the Promise.

He’s no Springsteen obviously.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=805kmeqmH3I[/video]

Some more for Rorschasch

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVhrC9CjF5o[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdG35zsGwN0[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/a5K4KSVcmNE[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/i2W3VdK_X54[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/xZJJ09OsKY0[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htpnnxNc-Tg[/video]

Untitled piece of solo guitar which is the last 60 seconds of this. Every. Single. Time.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8WEPPB21c[/video]

Northwind – Member

The thing with a live Springsteen version is it often comes at the end, after 3-4 hours of full on, 100% rock with the whole band. Thunder Road is Bruce on his own, barely playing guitar, not much more than speaking the words, yet 40000 people will be silent and listening to every word.
Obviously I’m a fan so biased!

Lately by Mr Wonder

The theme from Dirty Dancing

Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Sandy Denny. The first time I heard it was when John Peel played it to open his show rather than his usual theme tune when she died. Have always associated it with death ever since.

Zombie by the cranberrys for lost love
Eva cassidy version of somewhere over the rainbow which my mom requested played at her funeral in December

Champagne Supernova- I don’t know why.
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau – particularly at live events.

The Rat by The Walkmen
The Source by Candi Statton
Waiting Room by Fugazi
Been Caught Stealing by Janes Addiction

All spring to mind. 🙂

Fast Car – Tracy Chapman

[video]https://youtu.be/uTIB10eQnA0[/video]

The Streets -Dry your eyes

[video]https://youtu.be/NHOf3s70w-c[/video]

Take me back to a time.

New World by Bjork. I saw ‘Dancer in the Dark’ and cried my eyes out. And not a quiet tear, there was real blubbing.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utEVKtK_YcQ[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtE4IwcSr88[/video]

or pretty much anything to do with parenthood…

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

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLAEQ_APsE0[/video]

etc etc

[video]https://youtu.be/Rwi9fBF4H_U[/video]

This for me. Unsure why, but I would hum the tune to the wee lad when getting him to sleep when he was younger.

Edward Elgar, Nimrod.
Tom Robinson, Still lovin’ you
Doves- There goes the fear.

was lucky enough to be at this concert it was a fantastic day

[video]https://youtu.be/pvfFuASYgfM[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/eaZRSQfFo8Y[/video]

Karen Carpenter – The Carpenters … the voice of an angel.

The best of the best.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPD4LtA1vo[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woKKnEn8h9w[/video]

Alice In Chains – Nutshell
Brad – Suffering
New Order – Leave Me Alone

My grandad Eddie was a massive Frank Sinatra fan, Eddie died the same weekend as Frank did so of course every radio station played My Way all the time and the association is permanent in my head now

Cyndi Lauper Time after time
Leeann Womack I hope you dance
Stereophonics Local boy in the photograph
Elgar Nimrod
Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel
There are many many more…

It’s the lyrics that get me

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1shY7IXpA[/video]

This song means an awful lot to me now that I’m a bit older!

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOqP3QeDMaQ[/video]

This song really resonates with me even though I don’t like pale ale

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2fEkHCZFxU[/video]

About today by the National. There’s a live version which I love.

Song my Taid (Welsh grandad) used to sing while doing the dishes:

[video]https://youtu.be/JD5rpyYwpss[/video]

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jINFNxSxzhA[/video]

Bit obvious – Song to the Siren
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ[/video]

less obvious – Evening Hymn (though better with a counter tenor)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc0qug-1NQ[/video]

Tinker Tailor credits —
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13wwGXXHxc[/video]

lastly – Bonnie Jean with Karen Matheson & James Grant (and a host of others)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIRdebxx46I[/video]

There are a bunch of songs that have a real emotional effect on me, but some go deeper than others, partly because of the artist’s own story, and one of those is Sandy Denny, one of our finest singer/songwriters who died far too young. Her song, ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes’, written when she was only fourteen, shows a remarkable talent, but she was plagued with issues of insecurity and had problems with drink, and she sadly died from a brain haemorrhage after falling down stairs a couple of days previously.
She left around twenty unfinished songs, which were given to Thea Gilmore and her husband to complete, and the project produced an album of ten complete songs, one of which, ‘Frozen Time’, can and does, reduce me to an emotional wreck if I hear it at the wrong moment.
Sadly no video or lyrics are available online, but this is a bit of a review from the Beeb:

But what comes across from the words is a deep sense of melancholy: Sandy was battling a career meltdown, a drink problem and her only daughter had been taken from her. From the lyrics alone, you sense isolation, pain, distress; but also apparent is vulnerability, and that of course, was one of the reasons Sandy was such a great songwriter. Sandy’s love of the sea ran through her music, and Sailor is one of the outstanding tracks here. London rocks along, while Glistening Bay is effortlessly a great song by a great singer. But it is the immeasurably poignant Georgia which brings the album to a close, a lullaby to a daughter from a mother she would never know.

Spotify may be your friend, here.
Another is by Emmylou Harris, ‘Prayer In Open ‘D’, another song about loss, and the hope of redemption, I want this played at my funeral.
[video]https://youtu.be/p_I-L7jPL18[/video]

There’s a valley of sorrow in my soul
Where every night I hear the thunder roll
Like the sound of a distant gun
Over all the damage I have done
And the shadows filling up this land
Are the ones I built with my own hand
There is no comfort from the cold
Of this valley of sorrow in my soul
There’s a river of darkness in my blood
And through every vein I feel the flood
I can find no bridge for me to cross
No way to bring back what is lost
Into the night it soon will sweep
Down where all my grievances I keep
But it won’t wash away the years
Or one single hard and bitter tear
And the rock of ages I have known
Is a weariness down in the bone
I use to ride it like a rolling stone
Now just carry it alone
There’s a highway risin’ from my dreams
Deep in the heart I know it gleams
For I have seen it stretching wide
Clear across to the other side
Beyond the river and the flood
And the valley where for so long I’ve stood
With the rock of ages in my bones
Someday I know it will lead me home

Read more: Emmylou Harris – Prayer In Open D Lyrics | MetroLyrics

For the good times – Johnny Cash version
Something Changed – Pulp.

It gets awfully dusty with either of these for me….

sufjan steven: casimir pulaski day
talk talk: it’s getting late in the evening
kate bush: this womens work

Was sat in a crowded transfer bus going to the airport on business having had my dog put down 3 days before. Radio 2 on the bus starts playing ‘this women’s work’…………major choking moment.

This works
[video]https://youtu.be/STuw08Ct-vA[/video]

(incredible acoustic gig. Union Chapel lit by candles. Magical. Probably had to be there for full effect (I was). If your hairs don’t stand up each time she sings the word “anchor”, you’re using different stuff to me for a nervous system. Which is probably a good idea.)

This one’s much more personal, as Nanci explains in the video, she wrote it after watching the Wim Wenders film ‘Wings Of Desire’, and when I first heard the song it immediately struck home because if the genders are reversed it applied to me after I stupidly broke up with someone I loved and cared for deeply, over what turned out to be nothing very important, and when I saw Nanci perform it live it took on greater significance because she wrote it at almost exactly the same time I was breaking up with Michelle. 🙁
[video]https://youtu.be/fp0DtAGP4rU[/video]

And this. Obviously.

[video]https://youtu.be/KtBbyglq37E[/video]

Too much for a Sunday night. I’m out…

(Damn it. where’s a ‘tears’ smiley when you need one? 😳 )

I think Burgon’s is the best setting of the Nunc Dimittis I know.

Looks a fan has gone to the effor of making a four minute animation to go with ‘Nine Cats’ by Porcupine Tree. I actually think it’s rather good!

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdimcciEJh8[/video]