Emotional music

[oldagepensioner]

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]

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]

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]

Jim Reeves' 'Old Tige'

[sjc]

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]

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]

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]

[Lotobear]

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

[oddball1313]

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]

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

[zb]

[oldagepensioner]

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]

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.

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]

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

[Watermead]

I've listened to Dark Side of the Moon hundreds of times, but for some reason when I first saw this and with the line "But the sun is eclipsed by the Moon" timed to an actual eclipse choked me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUCRDy-N_54

There was a video of the actual album playback with the eclipse in progress separate to the documentary, but can't find it now.

[Edanrage]

Being an old git Glen Cambell .where's the playground Suzie.
Pleased i don't hear too often cos it gets me.
I'm in trouble if I go and play it .

[paulguitar]

This:

[skylarking808]

Metallica "Fade to black". Friend passed shortly after seeing them in 1986 and it always gets me.

Massive Attack "Better Things" A remembered romance that did not work out.

World Party " And I Fell Back Alone" ditto above

Brian Eno "Music For Airports track 3" When the world gets a bit much.

[Pitre]

Pavarotti - Nessum Dorma

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb.