Songs that *inexplicably* moove you...

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:38 am 0

I'm talking about songs that, for no apparent reason, emotionally affect you.

Example: I'm just listening to Neneh Cherry's album "Man" (making sure the MP3 rip-and-cut process hasn't adversely effected it). The song "Hornbeam" comes on... now, I like this song a fair bit, but I'll be the first to admit it's not a classic. But every time the first bridge cuts in with the vox...

In 'Hornbeam', Neneh Cherry wrote:Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up

...I get all teary eyed. I'm thoroughly fucked if I know why, since those lyrics mean next to nothing to me... but I'll be buggered if I'm not dabbing the tears whenever I hear that bridge.

Anyone else want to open themselves up for ridicule? What songs really get to you, even if you don't know why?

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:06 am 0

Heh. Sorry to twist the thread so quickly, moobaa, but there are plenty of songs that move me, despite the fact that they're a bit schmaltzy and corny and over-familiar and every molecule of my musical taste is screaming: "NOOOOOOOO!".

Like:
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
Supertramp - The Logical Song
Minnie Ripperton - Loving You
Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
Earth Wind And Fire - After The Love Has Gone
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
The Korgis - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
The Alessi Brothers - Oh Lori
Moody Blues - Knights In White Satin
Jim White - Still Waters
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Imagination - Body Talk (ooh, that pentatonic chord change)

Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (the song playing on the TV Travis pushes over in Taxi Driver)
A Whiter Shade Of Pale (both the Procol Harum and, ideally, the astonishing King Curtis version)

This is a taste amnesty thread, right?

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:21 am 0

Sickboy wrote: Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy

I have to admit that I have this on my PC as an MP3. It is a song with an emotional vibe to it.

I'll throw in few in for starters ;

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood & Don't Give Up
Deacon Blue - Dignity
Luther Vandross - A house is not a home
George Michael - Cowboys and Angels
The Smiths (or Dream Academy) - Please Please Please let me get what I want
Bonnie Rait - I can't make you love me
2Pac - Changes

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:25 am 0

Mock Turtles - Lay Me Down
All of 'Closer to the Edit' by Richie Hawtin
Marco Bailey vs. Redhead - Watch Out

All move me very, very deeply.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:26 am 0

This is ace. I wanna do a Llamasoftie Cheesy-Song Compilation mix... Everyone contributes their favourite faintly embarrassing song that they love despite themselves. Little comment on each...

Zzap64! · Post by **Zzap64!** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:31 am 0

Songs that move me:-

Simon + Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled Waters
Muse - Unintended
Radiohead - Street Spirit and Bullet Proof
Coldplay - Politik
U2 - Love is Blindness

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:32 am 0

Oh in which case:

Queen - The Show Must Go On

Cried buckets to that one.

venusian · Post by **venusian** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:35 am 0

Crikey. Very bad taste songs only...

Tiffany - All this time.
and oddly,
Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth. Oo, I'm getting all lumpy throated just thinking about that one.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:39 am 0

Girl!

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Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:40 am 0

Zzap64! wrote:Simon + Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled Water

Fucking nora - that is just the lord and master of 'em all, isn't it? It's like some kind of monster spiritual. I bet The Beatles would have killed to have written a song like that.

Bridge Over Troubled Water wrote:Sail on, Silver Girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine

Paul Simon wrote:"My girlfriend at the time was particularly saddened upon finding a few grey hairs in her brush, lamenting that she was getting older. I wrote that lyric as a tribute and inside joke to her. The song is basically about friendship.

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:47 am 0

Zzap64! wrote:Simon + Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled Waters

Nearly put that down myself, jeez that song is very powerful.

Here's Another from me just before I go to work;

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (especially if you watch the Video of it)

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:53 am 0

Ely wrote:
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (especially if you watch the Video of it)

Yeahhh!!

And in exactly the same vein:

The Farm - All Together Now

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:54 am 0

Something in the air - Thunderclap Numan
Tea for One and All of My Love - both sad Zep songs
Five Years by Dayyyvid bowie
that song that goes " All I need is the air that I breathe, and to love you " , with a wicked guitar solo
Oh Crazy You by Gun
Mind Games by John Lennon

.. and a few others

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:31 am 0

Ely wrote:
Sickboy wrote: Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
I have to admit that I have this on my PC as an MP3. It is a song with an emotional vibe to it.

Seconded. I've always liked this song...

And I'll submit Gabriel's Red Rain.

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:41 am 0

Sickboy wrote:Heh. Sorry to twist the thread so quickly, moobaa

Ewe baastard!

See, a lot of the latter songs that people have suggested I can understand - like the Radiohead songs that Zzap!64 suggested, you could hear them for the first time and think "someone, somewhere, is going to have a deep connection with that song." I want to hear about the people who choke up over "The Chicken Song" or something

But if it's Cheesy Songs U Love you're after... TFF's "Head Over Heels".

YakYak

Songs that inexplicably moove you...

Songs that inexplicably moove you...