Can't be bothered with the rest of their stuff, though.
Congratulations listed "Bewlay Brothers" by David Bowie. Yeah. Can't say it moves me in the usual sense, but it puts me right in touch with my inner strange child.
Songs that MOVE you.
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Okay, I'm gonna regret admitting this in public, but "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran can choke me up for some reason. It's not just the lyrics, but the music really conveys for me the same sense of loss and aloneness, and of having to go on in a now-grayer world anyway. I once mentioned the force the song has for me to someone, and I got sneered at. Whatever. You can't be top shelf every moment of the day, I suppose.
Can't be bothered with the rest of their stuff, though.
Congratulations listed "Bewlay Brothers" by David Bowie. Yeah. Can't say it moves me in the usual sense, but it puts me right in touch with my inner strange child.
Can't be bothered with the rest of their stuff, though.
Congratulations listed "Bewlay Brothers" by David Bowie. Yeah. Can't say it moves me in the usual sense, but it puts me right in touch with my inner strange child.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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Nanohedron wrote:Congratulations listed "Bewlay Brothers" by David Bowie. Yeah. Can't say it moves me in the usual sense, but it puts me right in touch with my inner strange child.
Okay, yes, so "Bewlay Brothers" isn't exactly the textbook "moving song," but it's one of those songs that will really transport you if you listen to it in a car at night.
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I didn;t believe people could be induced to cry from music until it happened to me.
It was last summer at an ITM summer workshop. Margaret Bennett (Living legend of Scots Gaelic singing) performed at the faculty concert. Even though I couldn;t understand a single word, her voice and the music hit me *physically*, like a laser beem, in the heart. I started bawling. It was actually a very odd and bewildering experience.
It was last summer at an ITM summer workshop. Margaret Bennett (Living legend of Scots Gaelic singing) performed at the faculty concert. Even though I couldn;t understand a single word, her voice and the music hit me *physically*, like a laser beem, in the heart. I started bawling. It was actually a very odd and bewildering experience.
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Gee, I wouldn't know where to begin listing the songs that move me to tears, though I readily admit my threshold is a bit on the low side. (My kids take bets on how many times I will cry in a movie.) What I find is that often I just kinda let a song wash over me, enjoy it superficially, and then one day, for whatever reason, it finds its way in, and I am flooded. But one song moved me to sobs, like Wormdiet, so much that I had to actively stifle my response, because it was during a live performance: Martin Simpson singing Fair Annie.
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ok, those are good and all, but "johnny i hardley knew ya" by the clancey brothers with tom makem... it doesnt get better than that... i cried when i heard it first. fur real
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I have to join the people that mentioned "Kilkelly." I literally cannot listen to that song without bursting into tears. I guess I could try the "7 times" desensitization method, but I don't know if I could survive hearing it seven times!!!
The other song that makes me cry is Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car."
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The other song that makes me cry is Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car."
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"Diglake Fields," from De Dannan's "Anthem" is a moving one, and their version of "Let It Be" from the same album too.
"Mill O'Tifty" from the Old Blind Dogs' "The World's Room," has been making me happily miserable for the last few days. One of those ballads where things go from bad to worse to unbelievably worse.
Not sad, I guess, but poignant and lot more complex that it sounds at first acquaintance: "Someday Soon." The Judy Collins version is the one I know best. And while we're on the subject, what about "Trucker's Cafe" and "Crazy Arms" from Ian & Sylvia's "Great Speckled Bird."
OK, I'll stop now, but not before, for straight energy output, I nominate "Maggie's Farm," "Roadhouse Blues," "Chest Fever," and anybody's version of "Gloria."
"Mill O'Tifty" from the Old Blind Dogs' "The World's Room," has been making me happily miserable for the last few days. One of those ballads where things go from bad to worse to unbelievably worse.
Not sad, I guess, but poignant and lot more complex that it sounds at first acquaintance: "Someday Soon." The Judy Collins version is the one I know best. And while we're on the subject, what about "Trucker's Cafe" and "Crazy Arms" from Ian & Sylvia's "Great Speckled Bird."
OK, I'll stop now, but not before, for straight energy output, I nominate "Maggie's Farm," "Roadhouse Blues," "Chest Fever," and anybody's version of "Gloria."
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Someday Soon goes nicely on the flute.
My Funny Valentine...sob!
I find the song moving, along with the thought that what is probably
the most beautiful love song of the last century was
written to a plain woman ('Your face is laughable,
unphotographable, Yet you're my favorite work of art.')
It seems to me very few songs are crafted so well
these days.
Some of Leonard Cohen's songs, especially
The Song of Issac
The door it opened slowly
And my father he came in.
I was nine years old.
And he stood so high above me
And his blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
He said: 'I've had a vision
And you know I'm strong and holy,
I must do as I've been told.'
So we started up the mountain,
I was running, he was walking,
And his axe was made of gold.
Not crafted in a sophisticated way;
sheer, raw power.
Some of the songs from WWII are
moving:
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through....
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is through,
I'll be looking at the moon,
But I'll be seeing you.
My Funny Valentine...sob!
I find the song moving, along with the thought that what is probably
the most beautiful love song of the last century was
written to a plain woman ('Your face is laughable,
unphotographable, Yet you're my favorite work of art.')
It seems to me very few songs are crafted so well
these days.
Some of Leonard Cohen's songs, especially
The Song of Issac
The door it opened slowly
And my father he came in.
I was nine years old.
And he stood so high above me
And his blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
He said: 'I've had a vision
And you know I'm strong and holy,
I must do as I've been told.'
So we started up the mountain,
I was running, he was walking,
And his axe was made of gold.
Not crafted in a sophisticated way;
sheer, raw power.
Some of the songs from WWII are
moving:
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through....
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is through,
I'll be looking at the moon,
But I'll be seeing you.
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Which reminds me a bit of Richard Thompson's
Al Bowlly's in Heaven
Well we were heroes then, and the girls were all pretty
And a uniform was a lucky charm, bought you the key to the city
We used to dance the whole night through
While Al Bowlly sang "The Very Thought Of You"
Now Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Well I gave my youth to king and country
But what's my country done for me but sentenced me to misery
I traded my helmet and my parachute
For a pair of crutches and a demob suit
Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Hard times, hard hard times
Hostels and missions and dosser's soup lines
Can't close me eyes on a bench or a bed
For the sound of some battle raging in my head
Old friends, you lose so many
You get run around, all over town
The wear and the tear, oh it just drives you down
St Mungo's with its dirty old sheets
Beats standing all day down on Scarborough Street
Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Can't stay here, you got to foot-slog
Once in a blue moon you might find a job
Sleep in the rain, you sleep in the snow
When the beds are all taken you've got nowhere to go
Well I can see me now, I'm back there on the dance floor
Oh with a blonde on me arm, red-head to spare
Spit on my shoes and shine in me hair
And there's Al Bowlly, he's up on a stand
Oh that was a voice and that was a band
Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now .
(lyrics from http://www.richardthompson-music.com/)
Of course, his "Vincent Black Lightning 1952" is a pretty fine piece of work as well.
These songs, fine as they are....are they a little too artful to be as moving, or moving in the same way, as songs that seem to come more directly out of experience? I'd say no, but thought the question worth asking.
Al Bowlly's in Heaven
Well we were heroes then, and the girls were all pretty
And a uniform was a lucky charm, bought you the key to the city
We used to dance the whole night through
While Al Bowlly sang "The Very Thought Of You"
Now Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Well I gave my youth to king and country
But what's my country done for me but sentenced me to misery
I traded my helmet and my parachute
For a pair of crutches and a demob suit
Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Hard times, hard hard times
Hostels and missions and dosser's soup lines
Can't close me eyes on a bench or a bed
For the sound of some battle raging in my head
Old friends, you lose so many
You get run around, all over town
The wear and the tear, oh it just drives you down
St Mungo's with its dirty old sheets
Beats standing all day down on Scarborough Street
Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Can't stay here, you got to foot-slog
Once in a blue moon you might find a job
Sleep in the rain, you sleep in the snow
When the beds are all taken you've got nowhere to go
Well I can see me now, I'm back there on the dance floor
Oh with a blonde on me arm, red-head to spare
Spit on my shoes and shine in me hair
And there's Al Bowlly, he's up on a stand
Oh that was a voice and that was a band
Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now .
(lyrics from http://www.richardthompson-music.com/)
Of course, his "Vincent Black Lightning 1952" is a pretty fine piece of work as well.
These songs, fine as they are....are they a little too artful to be as moving, or moving in the same way, as songs that seem to come more directly out of experience? I'd say no, but thought the question worth asking.
"Furthermore he gave up coffee, and naturally his brain stopped working." -- Orhan Pamuk