Emotional music
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oldagepensioner

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552 posts

55 months

Yesterday (13:55)
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Has anyone ever found a piece of music that has brought them to tears for no apparent reason.I think we can probably all think of a tune or song that was around during a significant moment in our lives.In my case it was in the living years by Mike and the mechanics when my dad died in 1988 and one more light by Linkin Park when my mum lost her fight with Alzheimer's in 2020.I am thinking more of a random tune or song with no significance to any event or moment in your life.
I have just found such a tune and it comes from of all places Doctor who and is called Song of Freedom.Just wondered if anybody else has had this or am i finally becoming the old git my wife sometimes calls me as i am only a couple of weeks away from 71.

Discendo Discimus

966 posts

59 months

Yesterday (15:03)
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Hans Zimmer - Planet Earth II Suite.

The way it builds up is like nothing I've heard before or since. Easily my favourite song for when I'm in need of a pick me up.
There are plenty of sad songs that remind me of my Dad but I prefer happy emotional over sad.

cherryowen

12,486 posts

231 months

Yesterday (22:22)
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One of my favourite Floyd tunes is Shine On You Crazy Diamond (the part on side 1 of Wish You Were Here). When playing along on guitar with a backing track, the opening is really tricky because it's in free time driven by guitar changes. With a backing track it's driven by chord changes from the keyboard so you have to second-guess which notes to play and when.

Anyway.

About a month ago, I loaded up the backing track on YT and concentrated. Nailed the timings on the free-timed intro, and from then it just flowed. I'll admit that when I got to the G minor chord breakdown, the room was somewhat dusty......

Super Sonic

13,633 posts

81 months

Yesterday (22:37)
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Jim Reeves' 'Old Tige'

sjc

16,132 posts

297 months

Yesterday (22:40)
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There’s plenty but the one without fail is “Dance with my Father” by Luther Vandross. In fact I struggled with that even when my old man was alive .

redrabbit29

2,451 posts

160 months

Andrea Bocelli - Time to say goodbye

Also Amazing Grace too


This was amazing - he sang this outside the Milan cathedral/Duomo during COVID. What is usually congested and packed as empty and it shows all the big cities also empty

https://youtu.be/bpXwOSHTwsY?is=aB4Gk-MwyquNykS4

I remember watching this during lockdown and thought we'd never return to normal as it was all so bleak

rugbyleague

451 posts

103 months

Never have I got so emotional about a ball of string!

Moving on by James, video is wonderful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWPgJkOdUZU&li...


suthol

3,881 posts

261 months

Lotobear

8,904 posts

155 months

Jimmy Nail 'Big River' - never fails to cause a misty eye

oddball1313

1,492 posts

150 months

I can t say i ve ever been brought to tears but Public Service Broadcasting made an album based on the life of Amelia Earhart and the final track (Howland) is extremely moving with the original recordings of the pilot to ground control conversations woven into the music.

https://youtu.be/XMWFUGI2Gd4?is=wretnlWSj5kmA06J

bigpriest

2,444 posts

157 months

Detectorists, that folky theme tune - nostalgia, remembering a past that can never be reached again, something lying unknown for thousands of years and yet so close etc. Need a psychologist smile


zb

3,997 posts

191 months

oldagepensioner

Original Poster:

552 posts

55 months

zb said:
Thanks for this absolutely beautiful.I have heard it before used during the telling of the story of the unknown warrior but didn't know what it was called.

zb

3,997 posts

191 months

oldagepensioner said:
Thanks for this absolutely beautiful.I have heard it before used during the telling of the story of the unknown warrior but didn't know what it was called.
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All that's missing is a voiceover at the end by Morgan Freeman saying that hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.

hurstg01

3,164 posts

270 months

A bit cheesy, and yes, its Coldplay, get over it…..



Fix you.

My sisters favourite song and she passed away (cancer) and it broke my heart as I couldn’t fix her. Blubbed like a baby at the Wembley concert last year when this came on