Songs that MOVE you.

raindog1970 · Post by **raindog1970** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:15 pm

Glenn Schultz's last recording, <A HREF="http://www.thinweasel.com/media/home_be ... .mp3">Home Before Dark</A>, always brings a tear to my eye.
And Warren Zevon's rendition of Knockin' On Heaven's Door from his last album gives me chills every time I hear it.
There are several other songs that produce strong emotional responses in me, but those two are probably the most worthy of mentioning.

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:45 am

the troggs "wild thing" but i wanna know for sure.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:22 am

More Tom Waits songs than I could list. Why did I not think of him straight away?

Joey Ramone's version of 'What a Wonderful World'.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:24 am

I’m also (perhaps too) easily brought to tears of sorrow, or joy -- or a strange mingling of the two --by many, many songs. A few that come to mind:

Nina Simone – “I Don’t Want Him,” "Don't Smoke in Bed," "Plain Gold Ring."

Emmylou Harris doing Lucinda Williams’ “Sweet Old World.”

Tears and joy, both: Liam Weldon’s "Via Exstasia." (One of the best love songs ever written).

Andy Stewart, "The Fisherman’s Song."

Many Joni Mitchell songs move me to tears; a couple have already been mentioned; also, “Song For Sharon” and “Hejira.”

I’ve always loved “Someday Soon,” too. And there’s just something about Don Fogelberg’s “Go Down Easy.”

Oh--and k.d. lang's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

suejnnhe · Post by **suejnnhe** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:10 am

Didn't read the whole thread, so maybe this has been posted already but....Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:17 am

Graham Parsons.... She.
1,000 wedding.

Emylou Harris.........Wayfaring Stranger.
Pancho and Lefty.

Jason Paul · Post by **Jason Paul** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:52 am

Buddhu,

For that song by Small Potatoes, you can also hear it at CDBaby here:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/smallpotatoes00

That's not in Real Player.

BTW, I don't know anything about the band. I just noticed this when I checked their site yesterday. I saw that you didn't have access to Real Player and remembered they were at CDBaby as well.

Jason

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:20 am

Nanohedron wrote:Okay, I'm gonna regret admitting this in public, but "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran ...

I agree, the background music, especially at the beginning has an
odd effect on me. It makes me close my eyes and revel in the
lushness of the sound. Then he starts singing, and the feeling
diminishes somewhat.

When I was about 12, my dad had a tape of his guitar teacher covering
some songs, including Don McClean's Vincent (Starry, Starry Night).
I had heard it many, many times, and not really been effected, but
one day the sadness of the song just hit me, and I couldn't stop
crying. Sometimes, you're just in the mood to cry, I guess.

Later, I was in college, and I was driving alone down a mountain
road and a country song came on that made me misty-eyed. Now,
I'm not a big fan of sappy country, but this was a song called "Don't
Take the Girl", and in the last verse, a man's wife is in danger of
dying due to complications in childbirth, and the man prays for God
to take him instead, ending with "Take me out of this world, but
please don't take my girls". I thought to myself, "I bet there are
huge, redneck biker construction workers who are not afraid to
admit to their budies that this song makes them cry."

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:48 am

fearfaoin wrote:
When I was about 12, my dad had a tape of his guitar teacher covering
some songs, including Don McClean's Vincent (Starry, Starry Night).
I had heard it many, many times, and not really been effected, but
one day the sadness of the song just hit me, and I couldn't stop
crying. Sometimes, you're just in the mood to cry, I guess.

Yes. And when you do a little reading about the life and times of Vincent, the song becomes ever so more poignant. Brilliant song!

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:55 am

Vincent is a very sad song.

Sean Tyrell's The Orchard, which I have probably listened to 100 times, brings me to tears each time. Few songs mean as much to me as this one.

Andy Stewart's singing of Bogey's Bonnie Belle is another one that always moves me; I Courted a Wee Maid and Willie O'Winsbury deliver the goods each time too. I've listened to all of these at least 100 times.

Carol

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:02 pm

Music has always moved me. To open the heart and let the tune or song bring to fore the deep things is much of the magic for me.

A number of the songs and tunes mentioned above have touched me. Although I was less moved by the Brave Heart's major theme as I was imprinted by the love theme "Gift of a Thistle". I grew up on Leonard Cohen albums and the 60's folk era, with Cohens Travelin' Lady, Suzanne, The Priest, Thats No Way to Say Goodbye. The first time I heard There Were Roses, or Cullodens Harvest, or The Month of January were moments where the cacaphony of the day subsided and long regrets over the foolishness of humanity rose.

Perhaps this is the musicians gift to lay bare the things we guard closely in day to day life. It is not that we have a better ear, it is that we hear with our hearts. Thanks be that not all is darkness and gloom, but there a places for "The Marvelous Toy", "Daddy's taken us to the zoo", and "All Through the Night", for our childen. Minstrel Boy's for our departing friends in the military and even "The brick layer's Lament or why Paddy can't come to work today" for our co-workers.

That so many songs and tunes are mentioned in this thread is perhap a reflection of our musicians heart, more open than most and touched by music of many genres. From the power of Beethoven's 5th to the regret of Robert Johnson, we feel the connections to music. It feeds our compulsion to share, to play with and for others, this music that stirs the embers. Apostles not of a religion, but of the heart and its need to be heard, its need to speak, its need to connect to others. A passion for raising passions has claimed us.

This is our life, and though you really need no reminders, still am I compelled by that same musicians heart to encourage each of you to ...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:09 am

Andy Stewart's rendering of the Loch Tay Boat Song, and The Broom of the Cowdenowes (sp?).

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:57 am

Ivor Biggun always moves me on several levels.

http://www.stiffweapon.com/mp3/allthesethingsedit.mp3

Mukade

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:30 am

Tori Amos, Me and a Gun (about rape and attempted murder, a capella)

Once you hear it, it never leaves your head. It's really powerful.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:25 pm

Jason Paul wrote:Buddhu,

For that song by Small Potatoes, you can also hear it at CDBaby here:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/smallpotatoes00

That's not in Real Player.

BTW, I don't know anything about the band. I just noticed this when I checked their site yesterday. I saw that you didn't have access to Real Player and remembered they were at CDBaby as well.

Jason

Thanks, Jason. I'll try that...

For some reason the other one didn't work even on my machine that has RealPlayer