Music to move you ????
Posted by: Musicman21 on 09 June 2009
Listening to Joni Mitchell on vinyl/LP12 over the last few weeks...she is one of my all time favorite singer songwriter(poets)of all time..lyrics and music to move you to tears or lift you up to heaven !
Who does this for you ?
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by schizo
Two pieces a can think of have literally reduced me to tears:
'Skeletons' off Rickie Lee Jones Pirates album
and
'Cannonball' off the Damien Rice album
Barber's adagio for strings always has a big impact on me as well
Regards,
Schizo
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by saxondale
for a quick fix of depression I find that The Eternal by Joy Division seems to hit the spot
for an uplift then You Make Me Feel by Sylvester is a jolly ol' number
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Naijeru
Summertime - Miles Davis
Simultaneously melancholic and optimistic.
Incredibly passionate and deep.
Synphony No 7 - Shostakovich
I love the way the crescendo resolves, really wonderful harmonies are at play here. I prefer Bernstein's interpretation to Gergiev's.
Kensal Rising - Swayzak
Lord knows I've tried not to, but every time I play this song I just gotta dance!
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by fatcat
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Jet Johnson
...Redemption Song - Bob Marley ...always raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Mat Cork
Anything by Celine Dion...that would move me faster than anything.
But actually...EbtGirl "The Night I heard Caruso Sing"
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Lontano
For me Springsteen always tells the best stories. Three of his tracks that I find can move me to tears are
1. Wreck on the Highway from The River - a sad tale
2. Gypsy Biker from Magic - story of Soldier coming home from war in coffin
3. Long Walk Home from Magic. The Magic album was well rather magic for my wife and I, the soundtrack to our last year living in Oz. The song brings back many memories of our emotional Long Walk Home.
Plenty of other music that moves in other ways but I like the emotion and simplicity of a Springsteen story.
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Ciaran
Call me a sentimental fool -
- Eric Bogle's Green Fields of France by The Fureys
- Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six - The Pogues
- Fields of Athenry - even when it's The Dropkick Murphys, but especially when I come across Munster men on the ferry
- Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
- Men Of the West - my grandfather supposedly 'inspired' William Rooney to write this
- The Dark End Of The Street - James Carr
- The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O'Connor amongst others
- and even Joseph Locke singing Danny Boy
- and (Lontano's reminds me) Human Touch
all do it for me
Ciarán
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by John M
Just about anything from Jackson Browne's first four albums are the first that come to mind....
Also there is something about the song Harbor Lights by Boz Scaggs that gets me every time.
And of course Who Knows Where the Time Goes by FC or Eva Cassidy never fails to reduce me to a quivering bowl of jello
Call me sentimental...
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Bruce Woodhouse
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan can transport me utterly at times-and I have no idea what he is singing about. That is quite an achievement!
Some of the sharp honesty of Billy Bragg as his most personal I find quite moving. Check out 'Tank Park Salute' from Don't Try This At Home.
Bruce
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Andy1912
These spring to mind: Sinead O'Connor singing Troy, and The The singing Kingdom of the Rain (and she's on that one too).
Posted on: 09 June 2009 by Andy1912
quote:
Originally posted by Musicman21:
Listening to Joni Mitchell on vinyl/LP12 over the last few weeks...she is one of my all time favorite singer songwriter(poets)of all time..lyrics and music to move you to tears or lift you up to heaven !
Who does this for you ?
I know everyone goes on about Blue, but for me Clouds has better songs and better stories on it - sadly doesn't seem to be available new on vinyl...
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by yeti42
a small selection in no particular order:
Du Pre playing Elgar's cello concerto
Peter Hammill - Autumn
Sibelius - 4th symphony
Ketil Bjornstad - Grace
Wagner - Siegfried's funeral march
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by mikeeschman
all things Beethoven :-)
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by Musicman21
Just been listening to:
Five for Fighting, The Riddle (You & I) Great words also the song 100 years...lump in the throat stuff for sure...if you don't know them search this band out PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blue Nile...anything by them shivers down the spine hairs on the neck etc,etc!!!
Nick Drake.....all
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by Voltaire
quote:
Originally posted by Lontano:
For me Springsteen always tells the best stories. Three of his tracks that I find can move me to tears are
1. Wreck on the Highway from The River - a sad tale
2. Gypsy Biker from Magic - story of Soldier coming home from war in coffin
3. Long Walk Home from Magic. The Magic album was well rather magic for my wife and I, the soundtrack to our last year living in Oz. The song brings back many memories of our emotional Long Walk Home.
Plenty of other music that moves in other ways but I like the emotion and simplicity of a Springsteen story.
May I add 'Black Cowboys' from 'Devils and Dust' to your list please?
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by Lontano
quote:
Originally posted by Voltaire:
May I add 'Black Cowboys' from 'Devils and Dust' to your list please?
Of course...
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by Guido Fawkes
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by Massimo Bertola
Bruckner's Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Symphonies.
Joni Mitchell singing >Both sides now<
Randy Newman's >Marie<
Mozart's >Ave verum corpus<
Posted on: 10 June 2009 by Voltaire
Classic Don McLean song given the George Micheal treatment
herePosted on: 11 June 2009 by Bob McC
Posted on: 11 June 2009 by Mat Cork
This
video of Steve Earle and Emmy Lou singing Goodbye, get's me every time. As Kinky said...'rock music makes your crotch wet, country makes your eyes wet'
Posted on: 11 June 2009 by schizo
I would like to second the votes for:
Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
and
The Blue Nile - Peace at last
Has anyone heard the Blue Nile 'High' album?
I have yet to find a copy in HMV.
regards,
Schizo.
Posted on: 11 June 2009 by Bruce Woodhouse
quote:
Originally posted by schizo:
....
Has anyone heard the Blue Nile 'High' album?
I have yet to find a copy in HMV.
regards,
Schizo.
For me sadly ordinary. His great voice is intact (and the production values) but the songs mostly felt like B sides. Nothing to engage me for long. Cannot recall when I last played it.
Bruce
Posted on: 11 June 2009 by gone
Camel - Ice
