Songs that *inexplicably* moove you...

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:41 pm 0

There are loads but some that spring to mind

original Dr Who theme [from as young as I can remember this captivated me and created my desire to own a synthesizer, which I realised about 15 years later.]

pink panther - I don't mean the actual theme [which I love..] but the kind of piccolo variations played during the cartoon. Psychadelic Pink [the bizarre bookshop episode] has good examples.

Doors - Orange County Suite
the the - Soul Mining
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown
The Fall - Get a Hotel [more a personal memory than a really moving song I guess.]
Loads of traditional blues tracks [sort of speaks for itself]

Now I don't typically listen to classical music for pleasure and so I can't really name things but there is a huge amount there that can move me to tears in the grace and sadness of the playing. I've caught odd pieces on radio3 and things, maybe some Tchaikovsky or something, he wrote plenty of sad things, it was partly a reflection of his life.

Once my mother was in some town in Germany and there was this Moroccon ensemble playing traditional Moroccon music. It moved her to tears and she bought a tape that they had for sale. A few years ago she asked me to transfer it to CD for her and in the course of hearing parts of it I was totally mesmerised by the intensity of the vocal harmonies and sad, sad melodies. /me decides to get CD back to encode..

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:09 pm 0

Great post, rowan. Good choice of Fall song, too.

spinlizard · Post by **spinlizard** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:54 pm 0

A strange one for me is Thoughts of Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade.

I think they were 1 hit wonders and the song itself is fairly naff to be critically honest, but everytime I hear it I just feel utterly melancholic and yet love it at the same time.

Others that I am moved by are (no order)

Let Down by Radiohead
Requiem (can't recall which one) - Mozart
Adagio - Abinoni
Blinded by the Sun - The Seahorses
This is the One - Stone Roses
Chichitia - Abba

Goat there's too many to list.

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:55 pm 0

Naaaahh....the only decent Fall songs were Mr. Pharmacist (even though I disagree with its meanings) & Lucifer Over Lancashire.

I've seen Mark E Smith live a few times and he does get the audience going, but I can think of several "other" Mancs who can stir up an audience's emotions even more....MUCH, MUCH MORE!

George

I don't need more ammunition, I have more than I can spend.

http://www.workingclassproduction.co.uk

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:57 pm 0

spinlizard wrote:Adagio - Abinoni

I know people will tell me to piss off (

), but have you ever heard Yngwie Malmsteen's instrumental, "Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4"? Part of the track contains a variation on Adagio, and the track itself was nominated for a Grammy way back in 1985. It's my favourite rock instrumental of all time.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:02 am 0

George_Bray wrote:I can think of several "other" Mancs who can stir up an audience's emotions even more....MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Yeah. Gary cunting Neville, for one.

I know (very well

) who you're referring to. Just taking the chance for a cheap football shot.

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:06 am 0

ROTFLMAO

Indeed Gary Neville is a c**t as is anyone else who plays for the SCUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STAND UP IF YOU HATE MAN U

/me stands up...not for too long as I have a bad ankle, just enough to prove the point...

/me sings CITY ARE BACK!

George

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:08 am 0

George_Bray wrote:/me sings CITY ARE BACK!

As a Liverpool fan, I can only echo your 'Man Utd = Cunts' sentiments, but...

Didn't Sit-Eh go out of the UEFA Cup, earlier today?

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:16 am 0

Didn't Sit-Eh go out of the UEFA Cup, earlier today?

Is that wockney for CITY - ROTFLMAO

- I thought you'd support Man U being a southerner n all LOL

...& Aye we did go out.....Though tbh we are just happy to be (& stay) in the premiership!

- As Millwall sang in the 80's - "Nobody loves us & we don't care"

George

goldfish · Post by **goldfish** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:56 am 0

Elizian wrote:Anyone else remember Under My Thumb by Godley & Creme (half of 10CC, which is 5CC, I suppose )?

Fucking LOVE that song. I'd add their later one, 'Cry' into the bargain...

Simon

goldfish · Post by **goldfish** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:05 am 0

Ahchay wrote: "Have you heard the Low Christmas album?"

Had it since Mark and Lard were flogging the crap out of it a couple of years ago. Brilliant stuff (the rest of Low's output is a bit depressing for me though).

I think my numero uno spine tingler has to be 'Roads' by Portishead. The Rhodes at the beginning, and the way the drums come in, on a good hi-fi in a darkened room, with a SO is just mind-bending.

Simon

cronosoft.co.uk · Post by **cronosoft.co.uk** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 3:38 am 0

CYGNUS X-1 Book II from Rush's Hemisphere album.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 8:38 am 0

George_Bray wrote:I thought you'd support Man U being a southerner n all LOL

/me spits out coffee

(Quietly and calmly...)

I am not a Southerner. I just live there.

While I'm here - I nominate 'Sailing By', the pre/post Shipping Forecast Radio 4 thing. I used to suffer from nasty insomnia, and it (and the forecast itself) was the only thing that could gently tilt me over the edge towards sleep...

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:11 pm 0

/me spits out coffee

(Quietly and calmly...)

I am not a Southerner. I just live there.

LOL - Sorry & Excellent

I never knew!!!!

"I left the north, I travelled south..."

All the best

George

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:14 pm 0

George_Bray wrote:"I left the north, I travelled south..." ;

Heh. Fascinatingly, I once did - genuinely - lose my bag in Newport Pagnell.

YakYak

Songs that inexplicably moove you...