Songs that *inexplicably* moove you...

[Snakey]

"...and Honey, I miss you,
And I'm being good."

You utter CUNT! Thought I'd managed to purge that from my head forever...

Anyone else remember Under My Thumb by Godley & Creme

/me raises hand - but wasn't it your thumb?

bit fucked at the mo, can't think of anything inexplicable or cheesy, but I have to say:

NiN - Hurt.

[CharlieF]

For Rosanna - Chris De Burgh
No, don't laugh. Anybody with young children can relate to this one.

And as you are growing from baby to child,
I share the wonders that are in your eyes,
And I am amazed at the way you change,
All according to the plan,
And the love that I have.

And when you are older you will go away,
You'll see injustice and you'll see pain,
But never forget that I'm always there,
Like a shadow by your side,

*sniff*

Imagine -The Beatles
Guess it's getting a bit old hat now but it still works.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Lyrics and guitar solos

Don't fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
This just has an atmosphere all of it's own.
Some girl band covered this not long ago and completely fucked it up.
Don't touch classics.

Seasons in the sun -Terry Jacks Not the crappy Westlife *spit* version.

Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Pretty girls are everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.

Music - John Miles

Kind of sums up my sentiments.

To live without my music
would be impossible to do.
In this world of troubles,
my music pulls me through.

Well that and a bit of retro gaming.

[gribbles]

wow.

Y'know this forum bloody does it every time doesn't it? Where the F*ck does a thread like this spring from?

You've all really got me thinking. And there's sooo much that I seem to connect with musically. ISTR saying something on IRC the other night about how can music grab you so hard by the soul (I think it was to Acronym, and those weren't my exact words, I was making a good dent in a bottle of tequila at the time;))

Anyways, the more I think, the more songs pop into my head. And even just thinking about them give me the odd shiver. So in order to not bore you all into bouts of self harm, here's a fairly random selection...

Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red or anything off Victorialand
Kate Bush - Breathing, This Woman's Work
Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
Roy Harper - Another Day (One of the most perfect songs ever IMNSHO)
Global Communications - 14:31
Ennio Morricone - Theme from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Reminds me of being little, and gets me every time)
The Cure - A Forest, Anythng off Disintegration
Japan - Ghosts, and
The Chameleons - Ghosts (completely different songs BTW, both bloody gut grabbers)
Orbital - Halcyon
Gary Numan - Complex, Anything off Dance

God, there's loads. I'm stopping before I get too maudlin.

[PVB]

"...and Honey, I miss you,
And I'm being good."

You utter CUNT! Thought I'd managed to purge that from my head forever...

Anyone else remember Under My Thumb by Godley & Creme

/me raises hand - but wasn't it your thumb?

Me agrees with Snakey on both counts.


And to CharlieF: You've got me blubbing again over Mr Jacks.

[Acronym]

gribs: yes, it was me!

Fuseball: good call on the Mogwai, and whoever mentioned the SFA - "Download" does it for me... Wire's "A Mutual Friend", Blur's "For Tomorrow", Pixies' "Monkey Gone to Heaven", Elvis Costello's "Alison" (and for that matter, "I Want You", though it's just terrifying...)

Some songs I find inexplicably energising: "Teen Age Riot" by Sonic Youth comes to mind, plus (and this usually does confuse people) Radiohead's song, "The Bends":

I want to live, breathe -
I want to be part of the human race!

Anyway.

Another song which moves me, but if you aren't moved by this I don't think you're alive: "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys.

To Sickboy:

about Dancing Queen, which is majestic - but one thing is really remarkable about it. It's a song about _dancing_, right? You'd expect it to be easy to dance to. It's not, it's taken at a *heroically* slow tempo. Next time you listen to it, pay attention to that - Abba had real guts to play the song as slowly as that, and if they'd played it even slightly faster I think it'd be a much, much less effective song. It's not, actually, particularly cheery - mentally, I feel it should be filed next to "I Will Survive"...

It's a masterful bit of technical pop composition, anyway.

- A

[MarkInc]

Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red or anything off Victorialand
Kate Bush - Breathing, This Woman's Work
Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
Roy Harper - Another Day (One of the most perfect songs ever IMNSHO)
Global Communications - 14:31
Ennio Morricone - Theme from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Reminds me of being little, and gets me every time)
The Cure - A Forest, Anythng off Disintegration
Japan - Ghosts, and
The Chameleons - Ghosts (completely different songs BTW, both bloody gut grabbers)
Orbital - Halcyon
Gary Numan - Complex, Anything off Dance

God, there's loads. I'm stopping before I get too maudlin.

Scary...
We have very similar tastes.
Seperated at birth or something.

[MarkInc]

Just remembered a couple more good ones.

Skinny Puppy - Love
Talk Talk - Time is Time (when that melotron/organ thingy kicks in)

[Jon]

'You Got The Love' by The Source featuring Candi Staton

Get's me right there.

[Yak]

Oh, don't get me started... just in Floyd alone there are many songs that can move me to tears...

Pigs on the Wing parts 1 and 2

If you didn't care what happened to me,
And I didn't care for you
We would zig zag our way
through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing.

You know that I care what happens to you
And I know that you care for me too
So I don't feel alone
Of the weight of the stone
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone
And any fool knows a dog needs a home
A shelter from pigs on the wing

On The Turning Away

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away

It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud

On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night

No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?

Wearing The Inside Out

From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognise I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word . . . overrun

Won't hear a sound (He's curled into the corner)
From my mouth (But still the screen is flickering)
I've spent too long (With an endless stream of garbage to)
On the inside out ( ... curse the place)
My skin is cold (In a sea of random images)
To the human touch (The self-destructing animal)
This bleeding heart's (Waiting for the waves to break)
Not beating much

I murmured a vow of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile

I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out

Look at him now
He's paler somehow
But he's coming round
He's starting to choke
It's been so long since he spoke
Well he can have the words right from my mouth

And with these words I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again

I'm holding out (He's standing on the threshold)
For the day (Caught in fiery anger)
When all the clouds (And hurled into the furnace he'll)
Have blown away ( . . . curse the place
I'm with you now (He's torn in all directions)
Can speak your name (And still the screen is flickering
Now we can hear (Waiting for the flames to break)
Ourselves again

Wish You Were Here

so, so you think you can tell
heaven from hell
blue skies from pain
can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail
a smile from a veil
do you think you can tell?
and did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
hot ashes for trees?
hot air for a cool breeze?
cold comfort for change?
and did you exchange a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?
how i wish
how i wish you were here
we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
running over the same old ground
what have we found?
the same old fears
wish you were here

Hey You

Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smile
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with your ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.

But it was only a fantasy
The wall was too high, as you can see
No matter how he tried, he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you, standing in the road
Always doing what you're told
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall
Breaking bottles in the hall
Can you help me?
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.

Comfortably Numb

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?


There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.


Ok.
Just a little pinprick. <ping>
There'll be no more --Aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working. Good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on it's time to go.


There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

"The child is grown, the dream is gone".... *snif*...

And I haven't even started on the Roger Waters yet...

\
(:-) - Yak
/

[Tmuk]

On The Turning Away...what a song
In fact, the whole of 'A Momentary Lapse...', bar perhaps The Dogs of War could bring me t tears under the right circumstances.

[Nintendodragon]

hummmm,

We must all have antidotes to these,

If ive been listening to some of the tracks on Ok computer (radio head) i can instantly cheer up by listerning to Finley Quay (er, spelling?)

sunday shining
"as the morning gathers a rainbow, i want you to know now i'm a rainbox too.."

[gilesgoat]

I think I never heard a song more moving (to me) than a song called
"Shii's song" that actually is part of a flash animation of an unknown author that can be found on the internet by a bit of search ...

The original theme comes from a Japanese game called "Lunar" .. well
if you ever heard about it this song is absolutely moving

*snif* .. another song I find quite "touching" is the famous "Video Killed the radio stars" by Buggles other songs that I found someway moving for different reasons are:

- "Reach Out" Cheap Trick
- "We Can Work it out" Beatles
- "Take a chanche on me" Abba
- the part in Metropolis part 2 (Dream Theater) that starts with
"I used to be scared of dying ... I used to think death was the end .. "

well .. there are many songs that can be very moving ...

*one hug to all people that are moved by some songs*

Baa ..

[jawafour]

<deep breath>...

"Clouds across the moon" by Rah Band.

Can't out-schmaltz that one!

[Nintendodragon]

Actually music in anime chokes me quite a bit, it wouldnt have the same affect unless it was with the anime. Things like Gundam wing, Neon G, Ghost in the shell.

[DutchLlama]

Just about any song of the '70s/'80s that I used to like back then. Brings back the memories of those simpler and more fun days.

Mostly Top 40 songs because back then I didn't have much albums.

Only one thing, don't listen to classic radio stations. They really tend to sour the songs you liked by playing them 8 times per day. That will take the charm out of anything.

Best thing to happen is to walk in a store or restaurant and hearing one of those songs you nearly forgot and then getting those memories back of when you heard it before.

BTW: it should be easier to get hold of the videos of classic songs. I was a TV junkie back then (most of the time behind the puter but also for watching the telly) and some songs I remember more for the great videos than for their sounds. So please bring out more DVD's with classic videos, record companies.