I know I'm off because of the title, but for some reason I always get this image in my mind that the song is being played by a guy after his wife dies. He writes the song, and it goes through their lives together - meeting, falling in love, then sickness, suffering, death, sadness, despair, rage, healing.
Sounds stupid, I know... I have an active imagination. But when I close my eyes and listen to this entire song it send shivers down my spine. I am NOT the kind of guy that is moved to tears easily at all, but this song always makes my throat swell a little.
<strong>E lucevan le estelle from Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, and I am almost blubbing as I write this . . . with the hairs standing up on the back of my neck.</strong><hr></blockquote>Ooh, yeah. We should have another thread for music that gives you the chills.
I was differentiating between the one for Marilyn Monroe and the one for Di.</strong><hr></blockquote>The one for MM was solid, the one for Diana was cringe making <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
I made a tape of tearjerkers...mostly from eighties bands. After a hard break-up. I called it "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" a Love and Rockets' song...here's the track list:
Cocteau Twins: Aikea
Teardrop Explodes: ...and the Fighting Takes Over
Altered Images: Faithless
New Order: Every Little Counts
Love and Rockets: Haunted When the Minutes Drag
Gary Numan: Jo the Waiter
Ultravox: My Sex
Shreikback: Sexthinkone
Siouxsie anf the Banshees: Cocoon
Lene Lovich: The Night
Pylon: K
Minutemen: Stories
New Order: Everything's Gone Green
Altered Images: Midnight
Bauhaus: All We Ever Wanted
Teardrop Explodes: Tiny Children
Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe
John Cale: The Sleeper
Romeo Void: I Mean It
Ultravox: I Want to be a Machine
...and to top it off...
Circle Jerks: Love Kills
Suicidal Tendencies: Won't Fall in Love Today
Kinda fills the gamut eh?
Still, the one that chokes me everytime is "Ave Maria"...
<strong>The one for MM was solid, the one for Diana was cringe making <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
IMHumbleO, but it needed to be said.
- T.I.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's more about the sentimental meaning.
Isn't that what this thread is about? It seems a lot of people have mentioned music just because the actual notes and rhythm are emotional. The actual lyrics and meaning behind the music is what I see as important.
Isn't that what this thread is about?</strong><hr></blockquote>It doesn't matter either way, I guess, but I thought it was about the power of the music, not the association.
Someone might be moved to tears by "The Chipmonk Song" because it was playing on the car radio when his friend had a fatal accident. That wouldn't say much about the "quality" of the song though. Anyway, as I said, it done matter.
The best sad piece I can think of is Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
I could not agree more. However whenever I hear it now (thanks to home world) I picture trying to protect the last 500,000 of my species from alien attacks as my planet burns in the background...
What an amazing game.
Space Lion doesnt so muc hget me teary but it relaxes me into a state of almost utter bliss
I think Ill go listen to that now...
As for stuff no ones mentioned:
Leonard Cohen - Joan of arc
"and saying this
she climbed inside
to be his one
to be his only bride"
(talking about the burning of Joan of Arc of course)
Leonard Cohen - Famous blue raincoat
"So you let some woman have a place in your life
and when she got home.... she was nobodies wife"
Aphex Twin - On (I dont know why, but this song puts me in a kind of sad happiness and awe which I can not describe)
Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream Overtures (especially winter, reminds me of that scene as the old lady walks along the snowy street in the red dress amongst the shadow like blurs of other people)
and while it doesnt really give me tears, it chills the hell out of me:
Tool - H (this is easily the most depressing songs Ive ever heard. GREAT song about addiction)
"and as I look into your eyes I see all the times that I have died, and I will die
<strong>and while it doesnt really give me tears, it chills the hell out of me:
Tool - H (this is easily the most depressing songs Ive ever heard. GREAT song about addiction)
"and as I look into your eyes I see all the times that I have died, and I will die
but its all right, I dont mind"</strong><hr></blockquote>
"And as the walls come down and as I look in your eyes my fear begins to fade recalling all of the times I have died and will die. It's all right. I don't mind." Maybe my favorite line from the whole album, and I agree, quite a downer of a song.
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Instrumental, amazing guitar work.
I know I'm off because of the title, but for some reason I always get this image in my mind that the song is being played by a guy after his wife dies. He writes the song, and it goes through their lives together - meeting, falling in love, then sickness, suffering, death, sadness, despair, rage, healing.
Sounds stupid, I know... I have an active imagination. But when I close my eyes and listen to this entire song it send shivers down my spine. I am NOT the kind of guy that is moved to tears easily at all, but this song always makes my throat swell a little.
Also there's Rain Tree Crow, and A Walk Across the Rooftops by The Blue Nile.
<strong>Earle does it with a couple of acoustic guitars, mandolin, stand-up bass and harmonica.
Chills.</strong><hr></blockquote>Saw him do the song live some years ago in a small (good ambiance!) venue.
Unfortunately, he is very underrated. Very much his own man too. Got all his albums.
E lucevan le estelle from Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, and I am almost blubbing as I write this . . . with the hairs standing up on the back of my neck.
-T.I.
<strong>Candle in the Wind - Princess Diana
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Wasn't that Elton John?
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Wasn't that Elton John?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Of course - I assumed people would know that.
I was differentiating between the one for Marilyn Monroe and the one for Di.
<strong>E lucevan le estelle from Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, and I am almost blubbing as I write this . . . with the hairs standing up on the back of my neck.</strong><hr></blockquote>Ooh, yeah. We should have another thread for music that gives you the chills.
What the hell is that feeling anyway?
That always makes me teary.
J :cool:
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Of course - I assumed people would know that.
I was differentiating between the one for Marilyn Monroe and the one for Di.</strong><hr></blockquote>The one for MM was solid, the one for Diana was cringe making <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
IMHumbleO, but it needed to be said.
- T.I.
Cocteau Twins: Aikea
Teardrop Explodes: ...and the Fighting Takes Over
Altered Images: Faithless
New Order: Every Little Counts
Love and Rockets: Haunted When the Minutes Drag
Gary Numan: Jo the Waiter
Ultravox: My Sex
Shreikback: Sexthinkone
Siouxsie anf the Banshees: Cocoon
Lene Lovich: The Night
Pylon: K
Minutemen: Stories
New Order: Everything's Gone Green
Altered Images: Midnight
Bauhaus: All We Ever Wanted
Teardrop Explodes: Tiny Children
Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe
John Cale: The Sleeper
Romeo Void: I Mean It
Ultravox: I Want to be a Machine
...and to top it off...
Circle Jerks: Love Kills
Suicidal Tendencies: Won't Fall in Love Today
Kinda fills the gamut eh?
Still, the one that chokes me everytime is "Ave Maria"...
<strong>The one for MM was solid, the one for Diana was cringe making <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
IMHumbleO, but it needed to be said.
- T.I.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's more about the sentimental meaning.
Isn't that what this thread is about? It seems a lot of people have mentioned music just because the actual notes and rhythm are emotional. The actual lyrics and meaning behind the music is what I see as important.
satisfied mind, on his last album, is almost as good has hallelujah. everything jeff sang was done with amazing emotion.
a friend summed it up well, saying that buckley's music is so personal, sometimes it seems like you shouldn't be listening.
Massive Attack - Tear Drop
J :cool:
and
Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead
"immerse your soul in love"
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It's more about the sentimental meaning.
Isn't that what this thread is about?</strong><hr></blockquote>It doesn't matter either way, I guess, but I thought it was about the power of the music, not the association.
Someone might be moved to tears by "The Chipmonk Song" because it was playing on the car radio when his friend had a fatal accident. That wouldn't say much about the "quality" of the song though. Anyway, as I said, it done matter.
- T.I.
I have you beat on the registration by 8 places.
I could not agree more. However whenever I hear it now (thanks to home world) I picture trying to protect the last 500,000 of my species from alien attacks as my planet burns in the background...
What an amazing game.
Space Lion doesnt so muc hget me teary but it relaxes me into a state of almost utter bliss
I think Ill go listen to that now...
As for stuff no ones mentioned:
Leonard Cohen - Joan of arc
"and saying this
she climbed inside
to be his one
to be his only bride"
(talking about the burning of Joan of Arc of course)
Leonard Cohen - Famous blue raincoat
"So you let some woman have a place in your life
and when she got home.... she was nobodies wife"
Aphex Twin - On (I dont know why, but this song puts me in a kind of sad happiness and awe which I can not describe)
Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream Overtures (especially winter, reminds me of that scene as the old lady walks along the snowy street in the red dress amongst the shadow like blurs of other people)
and while it doesnt really give me tears, it chills the hell out of me:
Tool - H (this is easily the most depressing songs Ive ever heard. GREAT song about addiction)
"and as I look into your eyes I see all the times that I have died, and I will die
but its all right, I dont mind"
<strong>and while it doesnt really give me tears, it chills the hell out of me:
Tool - H (this is easily the most depressing songs Ive ever heard. GREAT song about addiction)
"and as I look into your eyes I see all the times that I have died, and I will die
but its all right, I dont mind"</strong><hr></blockquote>
"And as the walls come down and as I look in your eyes my fear begins to fade recalling all of the times I have died and will die. It's all right. I don't mind." Maybe my favorite line from the whole album, and I agree, quite a downer of a song.
<strong>Hey btober...
I have you beat on the registration by 8 places.
It's a joke from the old AI...