Preserved Topic: *those* songs

Well.... this topic and tone stray far from most that you will ever see me around.
But I'm asking a bit of a favor... and IF possible... could people try to take it seriously...

I'm looking to compile a list of songs.
The songs I'm looking for are the type that kinda hit you deep down.
Something emotionally moving.
For instance, "I'm Proud to be an American" ... that song is one that really chokes me up when I hear it.

Songs like, "Amazing Grace" or "Hero"....
It doesn't nessecarily have to be patriotic... as a matter of fact... I'd prefer it if they weren't.

But can any of you throw a few ideas out here?

Well Taxon, here are a few...I'll keep adding to this post as i think of them.
seeing as im an online dj I should be able to come up with lots of tunes for you

Dan Fogelburg - Leader of the Band
- another Ole Lang Syne

Bette Midler - From a distance

Sarah McLaughlin - I will remember you

theres just a few..I"ll keep adding!!

Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle

OK here are a few from a friend of mine
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis
Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
Lou Reed- Walk On The Wild Side
Four Non-Blondes - What's Up?
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Janis Joplin - Summertime
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
just to name a few he sent me




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Pearl Jam - Black
Nirvana - Polly
TOOL - Eulogy
Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon
Concrete Blonde - Jenny I Read
Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel Part 2
Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minnesota
Tori Amos - Me and a Gun
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
Acid Bath - Dead Girl
Sarah Mclachlan - Adia
Sarah Mclachlan - Posession
The Cure - Burn
Marc Cohn - Saving The Best For Last
Tom Cochrane - The Secret Is To Know When To Stop
The Tragically Hip - Fiddler's Green
Counting Crows - Anna Begins
Cowboy Junkies (covering the Velvet Underground) - Sweet Jane
The Verlaines - Heavy 33
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Joy Division (New Order) - In A Lonely Place
Joy Division - Dead Souls
Joy Division - Komakino

Actually everything on Joy Division's Closer album....and most everything on the Deftones White Pony album, and half of Around the Fur


Harry Chapin - Taxi
Billy Vera - If I Could Just Hold You Again
Annie Lennox - Love Song For a Vampire (possibly the most wrenching song of all time...)
Hans Zimmer - Vide Cor Meum
Handel's Messiah


and this list is becoming insane.....suffice it to say that music affects me when it affects the people creating it...






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Hmm.. who doesn't love music. Here's my list.. some songs have been listed above, so I don't have to repeat it on my list.. here goes..

We are the world - Micheal Jackson
I turn to you - Christina Aguilera
Low man lyrics - metallica
The unforgiven - metallica

.. that's all that I could think of right now.. others wil add it I guess..

hmm lets see..

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
NIN - Something I can never have
Drugstore - Superglider
Type O Negative - Christmas Mourn
Type O Negative - Black no1
Type O Negative - Christian Woman
Annie Lennox - Love Song for a Vampire
Tricky - Blacksteel
Sheryl Crow - On the outside
Leonard Cohen - I'm your man
Most of the Phantom Of the Opera-musical
Portishead - Dummy

that's it for now....

Damn you Peter, I was going to suggest Vide cor Meum. What a great aria. And you're welcome.

Also I like the end theme from Gladiator. Its actually two songs but I found a version that someone had spliced together. I'll send it to you later when I am home if you want Mike.

Jane Sieberry - It Can't Rain All the Time (from The Crow)
Staind - Been Awhile
Five for Fighting - Superman

Gotta get to work, I'll think and post more later...

here's just a taste.......

Bob Dylan...Desolation Row... Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowland

Tom Waits...Closing Time

The Doors... The End

Counting Crows...Raining in Baltimore

Leonard Cohen... Bird on a Wire...

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can't forget Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman ...Time to Say Goodbye......

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Here's mine:

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (from String Quartet, not the
orchetral version)
Takemitsu: A Way Alone for String quartet
Rodrigo: 2nd movement of Guitar Concerto
Louis Armstrong: What a wonderful world

I'm sure that there is more but off the top of my head that's all this tired man can think of.

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

edit: forgot some..

RMB - Eternal Faith
Roger Sanchez - Try



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A lot of good ones listed by people so far, I'll add
Don't Follow-Alice in Chains
Wish you were here-Pink Floyd
Mother-Pink Floyd
Its so hard to say goodbye-Boyz 2 Men (hehehe)
For What its worth-Buffalo Springfield
Everybody Knows-Concrete Blonde
Here comes the Sun-Beatles
Imagine-Beatles



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cibo matto - king of silence
lennon - instant karma
coldplay - yellow
U2 - one, one tree hill
bob marley - redemption song, war
sublime - badfish
lucinda williams - jackson

Hakuna Matata ... need i say more?

::::izzay

Burn by the Cure
Creep by RadioHead
Perfect Strangers by Deep Purple
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Perfect Drug by NIN
Freak on a Leash (Freakin' Bitch Mix) by Korn

Hand full of other that escape me right now.

i agree to warournal:
perfect drug by NIN and
we're in this togehter now by NIN

Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
U2 - With or Without You
Chronos Quartet - Lux Aeterna (off the Requiem For a Dream sdk)
Runrig - Protect and Survive
Runrig - News From Heaven
Runrig - Dance Called America
Runrig - Loch Lommond
David Hasselhoff - Current of Love
Quiet Riot - We're Not Gonna Take It
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
John Denver - Country Roads
The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You
John Lennon - Imagine
The Drifters - Stand By Me

... there are more, just can't think right now.

hmm.

I have to second "Wendy" by concrete blonde (actually a cover it's by Andy Prieboy of Wall of Voodoo) one of my favorite tunes of all time.

Father of Mine - everclear
Forever Young - Alphaville
Ain't no sunshine - Bill Whithers/Al Green
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Taste - Lorna Vallings
Daniel - Elton John
One - Metallica


I'll post more when I think of em



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hmmm...

not the *best* songs, but ones that HIT me?

(In no order)

Like the Way I do---Melissa Etheridge
Fuck the Police---NWA
The Great Curve--Talking Heads (Name of This Band is Talking Heads Live version)
No Sleep Till------Beastie Boys
Sexual Healing---Marvin Gaye (Actually I like the Soul Asylum Version)
Let's Get it On--- ????
Santa Claus is Comin to Town --Springsteen ( Live )
Love Song ----Tesla (5 man acoustical jam)

not the best I'll admit, but no David Hasselhof!! LOL

oops--let's not forget Johnny b goode !!!

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Drugs---Talking heads (Name of this band is Talking Heads)

How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today?----Suicidal Tendencies



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bit: There's a great live version of Wendy on Still In Hollywood (I think) Where Andy actually plays with Johnette on it.

Such an amazing acoustic version. It breaks my heart everytime I hear it.

Vitamin C - Graduation Song (Friends Forever)
DMB - Space Between

A lot of mine were mentioned already

but I do want to add:

Marc Cohn - Healing Hands

and a MP3 Weadah made me of him playing and talking to me


~To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other. ~

touched - by V.A.S.T.


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some of mine were already said but here's some others

coldplay-"trouble"
Nirvana cover of "where did you sleep last night"
Our lady peace-"Life"
Tom Petty-"room at the top of the world"
Bruce Springstein-"my city of ruins"
Staind-"fade"

errr that's it for now.

did i see a david hasselhoff song in there somewhere??

something - beatles
day in the life - beatles
soma - smashing pumkins
mayonaisse - smashing pumpkins

The Band - Long Black Veil
.
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
.
Alice in Chains - Dirt
.
Clay Crosse - I Surrender All
.
Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression, Castles Made of Sand
.
Matt Redman/Charlie Hall - Better is One Day
.
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Oxford Town, Masters of War, Bob Dylan's Dream
.
Nicolo Paganini - Cantabile in D major
.
Pink Floyd - Breathe, Wish You Were Here
.
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing, Lenny, Life by the Drop
.
Pearl Jam - Why Go Home
.
Mercy Me - I can only Imagine
.
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I could Cry
.
Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man, Stones In My Passway
.
Five Iron Frenzy - Suckerpunch

Jason

the first two lovely coppers i have to give

without you-harry nilsson

unchained melody-righteous brothers

Apart; The Cure
Amor Volat Undique; Carl Orff
I would be good; Alanis
I talk to the wind; Kim Kringson (sp?)
Antología; Shakira
Duel Of The Fates; John Williams

And there are a lot more that i don't remember right now......

Edit> Cat Stevens: Father and son....



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There are lots but here's a few:

Did I Ever Tell You? - Bette Midler
Jzero, Banapple Gas - Cat Stevens
Can't Live - Harry Nillson
Abbey Road Album - Beatles

~~?Evil knocked on the door. When Faith opened it, no one was there.?~~

Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere
Sinead O'Conner: Just like you said it would be
Sinead O'Conner: Troy
Sinead O'Conner: Drink before the war
Pixies: Down to the well
Pixies: Wave of mutilation (BBC version)
Pixies: All over the world
David Bowie: Quicksand (acoustic version)
David Bowie: Lady Stardust
David Bowie: Life on Mars
David Bowie: God knows I'm good
Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence

and.....a bunch that Peter said already

Corrections from other people's lists:
- Imagine is a John Lennon (solo) song, not the Beatles
- We're not gonna Take it is a Twisted Sister song, not Quiet Riot

Ahhh, Pixies, I thought I was the only one who know them.....


I love Where's my mind....

Germans love David Hasselhoff.

Thanks, DL, I meant Twisted Sister, but wrote Quiet Riot because my brain was stuck on Cum on Feel the Noize. Also,

Cheap Trick - The Flame
Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
B52s - Channel Z
Scorpions - Still Loving You
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy

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I don't know, but you should look for these songs and listen it:
Madrigal - Danny Rivera
Piensa en mi - Danny Rivera

(Not sure if it is Danny, or Dany or Dani

I stand corrected on the Lennon front and I apologize...However, as far as the Pixies go, I'd have to say I bleed would be the one with the most umpf for me.

~fist eater of the stars~

I don't get weepy that often anymore...but this song does it each time... Chanson D'enfance from Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Weber - as sung by Sarah Brightman... It's absolutely the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard, though it's nearly heresy to consider Weber to be music. Just trust me. From the album "Eden." It's phenomenal - even more so if you understand what she is saying, but it's moving regardless.

fuck i had a long list and then the server went kablooey when i submitted them...i'm not gonna retype them all, but here are some of the best

System of a Down - Chop Suey
System of a Down - Forest
Metallica - Fade to Black
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls

well.... I have some songs that pump me up;

1. POD-Alive
2. POD-Southtown
3. Saliva-My Goodbye
4. Linkin Park - In the end


:: Max ::

Classical Gas (not the type of instrumental you'ld think from the title.)
Kyrie - Mr. Mister
Africa - Toto
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale

I have more but I'm sure that most will find my musical tastes revolting.

Kylie Minogue - Locamotion
Tweenies - My best friend
Humpty Dumpty - It aint what its cracked up to be
UNKNOWN - sing a song of sixpense
Rolf Harris - Jake the peg
Rolf Harris - Two little boys
UNKNOWN - I can sing a rainbow
UNKNOWN - 1, 2 buckle my shoe
AQUA - Barbie girl

more to follow.....

I must say I'm... surprised... at what some of you find "emotionally moving".

For myself:

Live - Lightning Crashes
Depeche Mode - Pimpf
Sarah McLaughlin - Possession
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
Enya - Exile
Loreena McKennitt - The Highwayman
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Garbage - Push It
Siouxie and the Banshees - Burn Up
Toad the Wet Sprocket - When Will We Fall Down?
Bach - Air (on the G String)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 (not to be confused with A Fifth of Beethoven )
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata




(Edit: There's -always- one more! )

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Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars

I was browsing Shi's site and i remembered somemore.

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon

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Most of the Top Gun Soundtrack
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Classical Gas...awesome (John Williams if I remember correctly)....

There's some great stuff posted above. Anyways here's a few more....


Dire Straits - News
Dire Straits - On every Street
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Clifford T Ward - Sad Affair
Chris de Burg - A Spaceman Came Travelling
Chris de Burg - In a Country Churchyard
Chris de Burgh - Satin Green Shutters
Sheryl Crow - My favourite mistake
Talk Talk - Its my Life
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
Crowded House - Fall at your feet
Thin Lizzy - Parisienne Walkways
REM - Try not to Breathe
REM - Monty got a Raw Deal
REM - Drive
Streisand - Run Wild
Enya - Boadicea
Yanni - On Sacred Ground
Yanni - A walk in the Rain

gah.

this has turned into "my favorite songs" not "what emotionally moves me"


Let's leave classical out of it...it moves me and many of us in so many forms it is not "telling" in this sense.

For me it has to be "Like The Way I do" by Melissa Etheridge---so much heart and emotion involved...and

"How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I can't Even Smile Today?"--by Suicidal Tendencies. Same Reason.

Anyone else care to spill their guts via song?

Why leave classical out of it, if that's what moves me...?

If we start restricting what kind of music counts, what will we be left with? Besides, how many people have actually mentioned classical music?

Jingle Bells
DUH, i was just kidding.

if I may interject briefly...
seeing as I was the one who started this thread... I guess I get to play god and say what does and does not "count".



classical counts.

when i was a bit younger i was a big fan of Tchaikovsky.

all honesty thrown out on the table however...
Songs like.... Walkin in Memphis, For what it's worth, Streets of Philidelphia, and I Will Remember You are the types of songs I was especially searching for.
I enjoy so many other sorts of music...
but I was mostly looking for something with vocals.... something that is somewhat well known... and something that makes me want to cry.

Cheers to all of you.
You've been a great help.
I honestly didn't expect to see this many replies.

I appologize for the mostly "all classical" list. I don't listen to music with lyrics.
Sometimes I do but it is on a real sparse occassion. I thought that it was a list of music that touched you emotionaly in some way. Those pieces that I listed have always touched me and made me emotional. Classical music has a very definate way of bringing about emotions in someway without conveying the same emotion to another listener.

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Elliott - Lie Close
By a Thread - The world to me
In Flames - Palar Anders Visa
In Flames - Hargalaten
Dream Theater - Another Day
Symphony X - Candlelight Fantasia
Drain STH - I Wish
Empyrean - Stutter
Guster - Either Way
Guster ... Most Guster, actually. Songs on Lost & Gone Forever, mainly.
Les Miserables - Can you hear the people sing?
Oleander - Why I'm Here
Moxy Früvous - I Will Hold On, Gulf War Song, Nuits de Reve, Horseshoes, etc
Green Day - Good Riddance, No One Knows, Rest, Macy Day Parade, Dry Ice, etc
Boy Sets Fire - Rookie
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Eve 6 - Here's to the night
Rufio - Above Me
Nickleback - How you remind me

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

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...this has turned into "my favorite songs" not "what emotionally moves me"...

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I think you'll find that songs that move people are often their favorites... I didn't list my favorites, but those that I did list move me and are among my favorites.

I listed the moving songs I know...most of my favorites are on the heavier side.

Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard - Elysium
Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard - Honor Him
Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard - Now We Are Free

duh, i know this thread is already out of date, but i got a new song now, im listening to night&day:

Groove Armada - My Friend
from the new kickass album: Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)

you should really check this one out!

Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz
Lenard Cohen - Joan of Art

Gah, i love his music. Sometimes the imagry he suggests is just amazing.
Take this Waltz is the best translation of that poem that i've ever heard with Cohen's own twist on the words so it mades a better song.


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