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Songs that *inexplicably* moove you...
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:38 am 0
by moobaa
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?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:06 am 0
by Sickboy
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?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:21 am 0
by Ely
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
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:25 am 0
by koworld
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:26 am 0
by Sickboy
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...
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:31 am 0
by Zzap64!
Songs that move me:-
Simon + Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled Waters
Muse - Unintended
Radiohead - Street Spirit and Bullet Proof
Coldplay - Politik
U2 - Love is Blindness
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:32 am 0
by koworld
Oh in which case:
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Cried buckets to that one.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:35 am 0
by venusian
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:39 am 0
by Yak
Girl!
Girl!
Girl!
Girl!
Girl!
Girl!
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(:-) - Yak
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:40 am 0
by Sickboy
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:47 am 0
by Ely
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)
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:53 am 0
by koworld
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
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:54 am 0
by Saint Sandy
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
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:31 am 0
by Tuur
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:41 am 0
by moobaa
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".