That Song

[DeeZire]

We all have That Song, or maybe a few of them. I just heard How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees, and the next thing I knew, the lump in my throat was so big, I had to not talk for a few minutes, which is hard to do when you're dealing with a client at work.

After the client left, I looked it up - How Deep Is Your Love came out in 1977, the year my first marriage fell apart due to my conviction that "the other woman" was my intended soulmate. She wasn't. I never even got to first base with her. But I digress.

What's That Song for you?

 

[TE999]

'I Only Have Eyes For You' by the Flamingos (1959)

My friends sister and I were in love when this was popular. When I enlisted, we exchanged letters and dated when I was home on leave...but we drifted apart. This song still makes me feel both happy and sad.

 

[DG Hear]

We all have That Song, or maybe a few of them. I just heard How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees, and the next thing I knew, the lump in my throat was so big, I had to not talk for a few minutes, which is hard to do when you're dealing with a client at work.

After the client left, I looked it up - How Deep Is Your Love came out in 1977, the year my first marriage fell apart due to my conviction that "the other woman" was my intended soulmate. She wasn't. I never even got to first base with her. But I digress.

What's That Song for you?

When you're old like me, you have a lot of oldies but goodies that bring tears to the eyes.

You gave me a mountain.
You belong to me.
I can't stop loving you.

to name a few.

I have collections of 50's and 60's love songs that I could listen to forever.

 

[sadangel]

I can't help it.

You are so beautiful by Joe Crocker. I tear up every time I hear it...especially lately.
She don't know she's beautiful by Sammy Kershaw. This one makes me smile lately

Forever and For Always by Shania Twain. Just because. *soft smile*
The Woman In Me by Shania Twain. Because I do. *soft smile*

I think that "The Woman in Me" is really the one. It says what I feel.

 

[starscape]

"Under Pressure" by Queen/David Bowie. I the song but it makes me cry half the time. When I need a good cry it's great to listen to.

 

[_Lynn_]

My mood determines what songs I like, but here are a few that have special meaning to me.

You're the Inspiration ~~ Peter Cetera
Hero ~~ Mariah Carey (though I don't care for her, as a rule)
Hungry Eyes ~~ Eric Carmen
Total Eclipse of the Heart ~~ Bonnie Tyler
Amazed ~~ Lonestar
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body ~~ Bellamy Brothers
When You Say Nothin' at All ~~ Keith Whitley


"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan ~~ according to a good friend, this song fits me.

 

[slyc_willie]

There are numerous songs which can strike a chord within me at any given moment, but few do it regardless of circumstance.

Bette Midler's rendition of The Rose. It gets me every time. I don't have any particular connection to the song, it's just a powerful and emotional piece.

The same holds true for the love theme from Cousins, scored by Angelo Baddalamenti himself. It's the sweeping strings and the buildup that does it.

Most of the songs from Simple Minds' most-known album, Once Upon A Time, take me back to a time in which friends were always there and no day mattered more than the present. Just hearing the opening to Alive and Kicking makes me stop, smile, and remember.

Most of Bon Jovi's tracks strike a special harmony between the SO and I. Although we remained separate until the last year and a half or so, we have both been lifelong Bon Jovi fans and find a particular sense of connection with the band's music. When thinking of her, I especially find "Born To Be My Baby" poignant.

And then there's my love of Trans-Siberian Orchestra . . . .

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU, Flamingos. 1959
YOUVE LOST THAT LOVIN FEELIN, Righteous Brothers, 1965
SUO GAN from EMPIRE OF THE SUN 1987

 

[vrosej10]

I couldn't listen to Eternal Flame by the Bangles for nearly a decade and a half because it was my ex and I's "song" and we had a horrible break up.

I can't listen to "Amazing Grace" without tearing up because it was played at my grandmother's funeral.

"A Bridge over Troubled Water" and " I'll Stand By You" by The Divinyls because they remind me of my two nervous breakdowns.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" gets me down and it always surprises me that it doesn't bum out more people. Have you actually LISTENED to the words. If that's not someone who wants to opt out of life, I don't know what it is.

 

[vrosej10]

There are numerous songs which can strike a chord within me at any given moment, but few do it regardless of circumstance.

Bette Midler's rendition of The Rose. It gets me every time. I don't have any particular connection to the song, it's just a powerful and emotional piece.

The same holds true for the love theme from Cousins, scored by Angelo Baddalamenti himself. It's the sweeping strings and the buildup that does it.

Most of the songs from Simple Minds' most-known album, Once Upon A Time, take me back to a time in which friends were always there and no day mattered more than the present. Just hearing the opening to Alive and Kicking makes me stop, smile, and remember.

Most of Bon Jovi's tracks strike a special harmony between the SO and I. Although we remained separate until the last year and a half or so, we have both been lifelong Bon Jovi fans and find a particular sense of connection with the band's music. When thinking of her, I especially find "Born To Be My Baby" poignant.

And then there's my love of Trans-Siberian Orchestra . . . .

The Rose has the same effect on me and I don't know why either.

 

[Sparrow2z]

Drugs or Me, by Jimmy Eat World, reminds me of a girl i looked after during a year in australia.

 

[DeeZire]

The part of "How Deep Is Your Love" that blew my mind was the sexual connotation. I'd never really thought of the song that way, but when I heard it today, my face was right between a certain woman's legs. It was so vivid, so sensual, it was like I could smell her, taste her, hear her desperate moans. The finality of knowing that I would never get to visit that place again was startling. It was like realizing what you live for is gone.

Then we move on, where new songs await. Or so they say.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Live - Lightning Crashes used to get to me. I haven't heard it in years though so I don't know anymore.

When I sing along the Nothingface - Dead Like me, the ending gets to me from time to time. Only when I really get into singing along with it though. It's not even a sad song, or really emotional, but when I sing the last chorus, there I go crying my eyes out.

 

[oggbashan]

There are so many:

Venus in Blue Jeans by Mark Wynter reminds me of one woman;

Turn, Turn, Turn by Mary Hopkin and I am the Walrus by The Beatles remind me of another and the summer of 1968;

Ramona, Trees, The Three Gendarmes , The Lost Chord and The Larboard Watch remind me of family Christmases with relations who are no more.

Two hymn tunes: Cwm Rhondda and Aberystwyth remind me of singing in a Cathedral choir. Those tunes were usually sung when we had a full cathedral with a military (probably Royal Marine) band and hundreds of soldiers, sailors and airmen.

The German Folk song Muss I Denn (not Elvis' version as Wooden Heart) reminds me of a favourite uncle.

Og

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Name, by Goo Goo Dolls. It reminds me of my ex boyfriend who died in '99. We went to their concert right about the time this song got insanely big. Everything was changing for the band and everything was changing in our lives. I just associate this song with everything slipping away from me.

Hold Me Now, by The Thompson Twins, This isn't even a sad song, but when my aunt was in a coma and we were waiting for the neurologist to come out and talk to us, this song was blaring over the waiting room speakers. It was way too loud. The combination of the annoying volume and those seemingly endless moments, waiting to find out if we were going to have to take my aunt off life support, were excruciating. She died about thirty minutes later. When I hear this song now, which is rare, thankfully, I get a lump in my throat and feel like I'm going to throw up.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The finality of knowing that I would never get to visit that place again was startling.

DONT NOBODY TELL DEE ZIRE BOUT MACARTHUR PARK.

 

[redpaint]

The only one I can think of at the moment is,

"In This Life" - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

I know there are others but my poor brain just not hitting on all cylinders this morning.

 

[penandpaper]

Paul Simon - She Moves On off Rhythm of the Saints
&
Simpson's Spider Pig when I want to smile.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Just cos it said everything we wanted to say when we got together after ending difficult relationships,

"Hold on my heart" - nominally Genesis but really Phil Collins - hear it and moisten up.

 

[vrosej10]

Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale freaks me out. My ex was a psycho and he kept me up one long winter night in the middle of nowhere, playing that song over and over again and raving. Everytime I hear it, I am back there. Weird how music can do that.


Recovering from him I loved Sinead O Connor's Emporer's New Clothes and Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive. They helped me get in touch with my anger and helped me recover.

 

[vrosej10]

Live - Lightning Crashes used to get to me. I haven't heard it in years though so I don't know anymore.

When I sing along the Nothingface - Dead Like me, the ending gets to me from time to time. Only when I really get into singing along with it though. It's not even a sad song, or really emotional, but when I sing the last chorus, there I go crying my eyes out.

No wonder. That song was supposed to be about the mother of one of the band members dying. It always puts a lump in my throat.

 

[michchick98]

One of the songs that's only gotten me choked up over the last few years is Angels Among Us by Alabama.

My grandma died (at age 92) in 2006. My parents called me the night she died and left a message on my answering machine....I worked at 4 a.m. back then so I was half asleep when I heard the call come through, that's why the machine got it.

When I woke in the morning, I listened to the message and completely fell apart. My grandmother and I were really close. Since not much could be done until her funeral and burial, I managed to drag myself into work that day.

Angels Among Us was the first song I heard on the way to work. Still gets me 3 1/2 years later because I'll always consider my grandma my angel.

One song that gets me smiling and feeling happy is Night Shift by the Commodores. When I was 16 and working at McDonald's, the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, it was the best time of my life. I know the song has nothing to do with a bunch of teenagers working the afternoon (night) shift at Mickey D's, but we considered it our song...we WERE the night shift!

Of course, there are lots more that get me, but for the life of me I can't think of any more right now.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

No wonder. That song was supposed to be about the mother of one of the band members dying. It always puts a lump in my throat.

I figured it was something as such. But it is strange that it chokes me up when I really can't stand to be around children, and don't want any of my own ever.

 

[john-the-author]

"We'll Meet Again" by Vera Miles (best known to this generation as the song that plays at the very end of "Dr. Strangelove," but it was a huge song in England during WW II and it's sung at the end of Congressional sessions). We sang this as things were breaking up at my wedding and there were still maybe 100, 150 people there. (I wanted a biiiiig wedding: we invited 650 and had about 250 show up.)

"A Gift of Song" by Mason Williams (who lives a few miles away from me, as luck would have it)

"We All Come from the Sun God" -- popularized by Starhawk

"Spring Strathspey" -- Gwydion

"Colors for Susan" -- Country Joe McDonald. It's purely instrumental and actually very slow, but I couldn't listen to it all the way through for a long time without almost bursting into tears. I don't know what it was about it, but it was incredibly powerful. It's still very evocative.

I know there are others, but I can't make my brain work right now.

 

[Liar]

It was the summer of 1990. I was 13, and I had managed to not take much notice to music. Yet. Not a big surprise, since all that was played on mainsream radio (only radio I knew of), and on my friends' Walkmans, pretty much sucked balls.

Anyway, being a young hormone volcano in the grandaddy of all eruptions, and being slammed against the walls by life in general, and literally by bullies in school, I was in knucke gnawing land, when I accidentally shoved a mix tape that belonged to my older cousin into my little boom box stereo and hit Play.

I kept the tape and had it on repeat from September until the next summer. I can replay the whole tape in my head and not miss a beat. It was the sountrack to my stubborn resilience against, well, everything, pretty much. It's the reason I write music today, I realised that songs could mean shit. Whenver I hear one of those, I'm back at my room, yanking up the headphones to 11, to drown out the world for a few blissful minutes.

The Waterboys - Be My Enemy
The Cure - Fascination Street
Sinead O Connor - Troy
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
An Emotional Fish - Celebrate
Hothouse Flowers - Hardstone City