What songs get you right in the feelings?
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For me, it's songs I can relate to events.
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? got played a lot during a particularly awful breakup.
Phil Oakey - Electric Dreams was on the radio when I took my much-missed cat to the vets to be PTS.
Even now, many years later on both accounts, they still get me.
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? got played a lot during a particularly awful breakup.
Phil Oakey - Electric Dreams was on the radio when I took my much-missed cat to the vets to be PTS.
Even now, many years later on both accounts, they still get me.
sgtBerbatov said:
Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbYj3tJRSO8
Was bullied a lot as a kid and my mom would play me this. No idea why, but I've associated the song with that period so it always gets me.
It’s a good song. Did it inspire you to give them a righteous beating in the end?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbYj3tJRSO8
Was bullied a lot as a kid and my mom would play me this. No idea why, but I've associated the song with that period so it always gets me.
warch said:
I find Nimrod by Elgar very moving, it was used to superb effect on the soundtrack of Dunkirk recently.
Kate Rusby's My Young Man usually gets a tear rolling down my face. Utterly gorgeous cornet playing, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY
Edited by Pothole on Monday 22 April 01:50
Roofless Toothless said:
Loads of arias by Puccini make me cry like a baby.
In my case it's Senza Mamma from Suor Angelica. I could never figure out why it had such a powerful effect on me until I started to research my family history and discovered that my Catholic unmarried mother put me up for adoption at birth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ohzSvovTXY&fe...
thebraketester said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Loads of arias by Puccini make me cry like a baby.
Oh, and this.
https://youtu.be/3fhKaAX5dOc
Vladimir Horovitz playing a Schumann piece of sublime simplicity. People of all ages in the audience so clearly moved, especially the man at 1 minute 30 seconds. I wonder what was in his mind?
Stunning playing. He was a genius.Oh, and this.
https://youtu.be/3fhKaAX5dOc
Vladimir Horovitz playing a Schumann piece of sublime simplicity. People of all ages in the audience so clearly moved, especially the man at 1 minute 30 seconds. I wonder what was in his mind?
Edited by Roofless Toothless on Saturday 6th April 08:16
Horowitz was an uncommon talent, perhaps the modern day Lizst. Few have recently come close - Argerich / Barenboim / Zimmerman / Hough / Ashkenazy spring to mind.
Staying on topic of the quoted posts above, Robert Schumann (and, indeed, his wife Clara) are IMO very underrated as composers. Both had an uncanny ability to write the most beautiful music. Robert's "Four Last Songs" suite will always make a room a little dusty for me. I remember about 10 years ago, ClassicFM played a R. Schumann solo piano piece whilst I was driving to a site meeting. It was spellbinding, and I was like that man in the Horowitz clip posted above. Thing is, I can't even begin to remember the name of the piece in question.
Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
When I first explained what it sounded like to someone who hadn't heard it I tried to sum it up by saying that while we use the phrase "a waste of breath" it seemed to me that very few people had ever got better value from a lungful of air than the ten seconds from 3:55
When I first explained what it sounded like to someone who hadn't heard it I tried to sum it up by saying that while we use the phrase "a waste of breath" it seemed to me that very few people had ever got better value from a lungful of air than the ten seconds from 3:55
Here I Am by The Boxer Rebellion.
It was written shortly after the lead singer lost his father. Always loved the band and this stripped back album is full of emotion. Having lost my father recently, it gives me a good old jab to the feels.
https://youtu.be/XgkhpDBYDpo
It was written shortly after the lead singer lost his father. Always loved the band and this stripped back album is full of emotion. Having lost my father recently, it gives me a good old jab to the feels.
https://youtu.be/XgkhpDBYDpo
From a couple of different genres:
Visi d'arte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqa94oeGfw
Sand & Water, Beth Nielsen Chapman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_HYg2S870
Visi d'arte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqa94oeGfw
Sand & Water, Beth Nielsen Chapman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_HYg2S870
1963 by New Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SofZHE0jBRI
Resonated with me when I was going through a dark time, especially the chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SofZHE0jBRI
Resonated with me when I was going through a dark time, especially the chorus.
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