Songs that touch us....

[Fly_On_Wall]

For a few years now i've been looking for a song that just gets me going and i've finnaly found it. Blessid Union of Souls - Brother my Brother.

It's from the 1st Pokemon movie and everytime i hear the song my whole body tightens and goes cold my face, arms and chest all go goose pipely
This soung gets me going for so many reasons, the music, just listning to the lyrics "Brother my brother what are we fighting for? We've got to end this war. We should love one another."
and each time I hear it i see the pictures of the movie. I know it sounds lame but I get too envolved in my cartoons, and I hear Brock and Misty say it each time though it's not in the song.
Brock: Their fighting to the Death
Misty: and that a fight... No one wins.

This got me thinking about the songs I listen to. and everysong envokes a different emotion for many different reasongs.

Incubus - Stellar I totaly ignore the music and it's the words that hit me
Meet me in outerspace I will hold you close if your afraid to fight.
I need you to see this palce it may be the only way I can show you what it's like to be inside you.
How do do it make me feel like I do.
Or Lifehouse - Hangeing by a moment.

Then there are songs that is all about the music. that can calm or enrage me. such as the theam song to Angel, i have the full version it has no words but gets me worked up.
Some get me so riled up I need to hit someone cause It's pisseing me off.

Then again there are some songs that will just remind me of something else. and it's that image that gets my emotions.


So my point in all this if you've made it this far is..... Are there any songs that touch you in a good or bad way? If so what are those songs, and what is it about them that gets you going? What emotions do they bring out? Do you like when this happens? Is it something you'd share with the people around you, or someting you keep to yourself.

Me I'd rather keep most of it to myself, but wouldn't mind if someone seen me gettin that way, so long as they can say they understand and don't pick fun.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

the song that gets to me most is Peace and Love. Blessid Union of Souls. my now ex-best friend sent it to me a long time ago, and for awhile it could make me cry just from listening to it (i couldnt be near him for a very long time.. and i really missed him). and now, i dont know if it makes me miss him, or hate him more every time i hear it.

 

[celiaKitten]

Heh - I'm that way too Fly. But I'm such an 'arts' girl it's not funny!!

If I need to calm down - I listen to Beethoven's 'Pastoral' I played it once, and the bassoon part is absolutely beautiful

If I'm feeling completely down - I listen to any version of the Jazz tenor sax solo 'Samantha' It's so sad, but I have to hear it.

When I'm bouncing around the house alone, singing my head off - I love to listen to BNL - or some good old classic Johnny Cash.

Lately - the song that has profoundly touched my heart is 'Born to Fly'. It became popular around the time a good friend of mine was killed in a car accident. She was very talented in theatre and music - the voice of an angel and only 18. The song's chorus was perfect and the music wasn't sad - it was bright, and hopeful. It helped me through so much confusing grief.

'So how do you wait for Heaven?
And who has that much time?
And how do you keep your feet on the ground when you know
That you were born to fly?'

If there was ever anyone who was born to fly and sing with angels - it was her.

 

[Valdimer]

Well, I'll tell ya Fly, I enjoy a wide variety of music, and for my moods? Well, I've got specific tapes that I listen to, or cd's for that matter, when I'm in specific moods.

For example....When I'm in my shitty, depressed, down in the dumps, no one likes me moods, I have a tape I made, titled "Music that makes you think." It has everything, mainly slower and more emotionally focused music, ranging from AC/DC, Collective Soul, Sheryl Crow, CCR, AeroSmith, Black Sabbath, and Pink Floyd.

When I'm in my more heavier moods, like I just wanna bash my head agianst a brick wall, and run back for more, or am full of energy, I'll pop in another of my tapes. It has music rangeing from AC/DC agian, Metallica, Megadeth, Fear Factory, Disturbed, Static-X, System of a down, Van Halen, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Stained, Pantera, and a long list of others.

I think that about sums it up for now......

 

[Demian]

As I've said Before

The only song that really ever gave me the heebeejeebeez wuz when I wuz all fucked up and watching a video show on TV in the mid-80's...Kiss had just done some video about Raising Hell when a video by Manfred Mann came on, something about a Runner in the Night...I got the willies in a good way...I realized that I should always strive to be a better person...It doesn't always stick, but I try...I also wish more people knew the song by Kansas called Cheyene Anthem on the Leftoverture album

 

[macuk]

the song that brings tears to my eyes is the show must go on by queen it just reminds me of that tragic day 10yrs ago.

 

[Mellon Collie]

I would have to agree with you on Incubus, Stellar and Wish You Were Here are two songs that I Love. For some reason The Sweater Song by Weezer gets me too, strange I know. Wrong way by Sublime can always get me in a good mood as well as anything by the Smashing Pumpkins. But the only song that can make me cry is Forever Young by Rod Stewart but that's only because when I was little my grandmom used to sing that all the time before she died.

 

[celiaKitten]

You know Mellie - I have the same thing with The Sweater Song - always makes me feel happy and nostalgic

 

[Mellon Collie]

Thank god I'm not the only one!



We do seem to have so much in common though.

 

[celiaKitten]

lol - I know. I'll come pick you up, and we'll go visit Fly - he owes me TimBits!

 

[Mellon Collie]

Score!

Just call before you leave, I hate making people wait.

 

[celiaKitten]

Deal babe!

heh, southeast, north then east again!

ROAD TRIP!

 

[Mellon Collie]

Hmmm, I wonder what Fly thinks about all this.

If he complains we'll just flash him and he'll be too flustered and disoriented to do anything but sit there and look cute.



[Edited for a typo, I can't stand them.]

 

[modest mouse]

sullen...
mazzy star - fade into you
portishead - pnyc(whole damn album)
sonny sharrock - who does she hope to be
massive attack - teardrop
velvet underground - oh sweet nuthin' & pale blue eyes
tricky - she makes me wanna die
radiohead - fake plastic trees
yo la tengo - and then nothing....
miles davis - kind of blue(whole thing)
buffalo tom - i'm allowed
anything by sarah vaughn or etta james

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Mellon I woulnd't have had a reason to complain.... but if your gonna flash me I'll complain away hehe

So for most people it sounds like the song that get feelings going in them in most cases isn't the song it'self but a memory in which that song trigers.

Today i was watching Cartoons and i started to cry in anger when trunks died... I can't belive they killed him... (yes I know i'm corny) but the song that was playing made it feel more real.

I think i'm starteing to get more and more into music lately

 

[christo]

The song "It's Too Late" by Carole King is just about the saddest song I've ever heard. Every time I hear that song I get a lump in the throat and a tear in the eye. I hear the voice of every girl who ever dumped me in that song.

I always get choked up when I hear "American Pie" both because it's a great song, and because I was at a party near the end of my freshman year of college talking to this girl I met and instantly liked, and "AP" came on and she said that she liked it, and I agreed. I ended up walking her home, nothing happened, but I planned on asking her out at the start of the next school year (I had a girlfriend I hadn't yet disposed of). And, of course, the girl I walked home was killed in a car accident over the summer. They say that smells are the strongest triggers to memory, and I think that's true, but whenever I hear Don McLean I'm instantly 18 again, sitting on a balcony drinking warm beer with a pretty girl I never saw again.

 

[erosman]

Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'...this undoes me. I have to stop whatever I'm doing and just feel the passion of the music.
More contemporary: 'Time in a Bottle' by Jim Croce and Ray Charles rendition of 'Eleanor Rigby'

 

[NeoMeiouSetsuna]

Somewhere, Someday
Too Beautiful for Words
Daydream

these songs just warmed my heart. But it also got me thing about who writes these songs and music. That someone can make something so beautiful. And how it will touch people they that they will never know. I have mixed feeling about songs like. It's like i want to share it with the world, but i also want it to be my thing, that no one else knows about.

 

[babyboo]

For me it could be any number of songs depending on my mood and the wide varity of music I listen to but the one song that never fails to get to me is 'Nobody Knows' by the Toni Rich Project.

It always brings tears to my eyes because it instantly brings back the pain of being in love with my bestfriend, not being able to tell her, losing her and not being able to talk to anyone about it because I hadn't come out to anybody yet. I had to deal with it all by myself, trying to hide what I was really feeling from the world while I lost someone I really loved

All music has a major impact on my emotions though. Another song that always envokes similar emotions for me is Cher - 'If I Could Turn Back Time'

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Nobody Knows

I wish I told her how I feel
Maybe she'd be here right now
But instead

I pretend that I'm glad that you went away
these 4 walls close in more everyday
and I'm dieing inside
and nobody knows it but me

Like a clown I put on a show
the pain is real even if nobody knows
I cryin inside
and nobody knows it but me

Why didn't I say the things I needed to say
how could I let my angel get away
now my world is just a tumblin down
I can say it so clearly but your nowhere around

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad
and I just keep thinkin about the love that we had
and I'm missin you
and nobody knows it but me

I carry a smile when I'm brokin in two
and I'm nobody without someone like you
I'm tremblin inside
and nobody knows it but me

I lay awake, it's a quarter past three
I'd scream it at night if I thought you'd hear me
Yeah my heart is callin you
and nobody knows it but me

How blue can I get, you can ask my heart
when like a jigsaw puzzle it's been torn all apart
a million words couldn't say just how I feel
a million years from now you know I'll be lovin you still

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad
and I just keep thinkin about the love that we had
and I'm missin you
and nobody knows it but me

Nobody, nobody...

Tomorrow morning I'm hittin the dusty road
I'm gonna find you wherever, wherever you might go
I'm gonna unload my heart
and hope you come back to me

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad
and I just keep thinkin about the love that we had
and I'm missin you
and nobody knows it but me

 

[Ladyhawke]

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton has alot of meaning for me. It came out at the same time I had a miscarriage and later it was used at a friends funeral who died one day after having her first child. It still makes me cry sometimes when I hear it.

 

[LRC]

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Simon and Garfunkel
I will always remember Art Garfunkel's voice rising acapella over Central Park.

When you´re weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all...all...
I´m on your side, oh, when times get rough
And friends just can´t be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you´re down and out
When you´re on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you (ooh)
I´ll take your part, oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

(brief instrumental interlude)

Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
Oh, if you need a friend
I´m sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

 

[lobito]

I've felt pretty dumpy the last few nights, and especially tonight. So I talked a bit with my wife before she fell asleep, then came back in my office, and listened to "our song" - When I think of you, by Journey

Lo

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Magic... moments
There're the things I will remember
Where's the time we spent together... laughing
Then you walk into my dream... dear

And I see your face
Young and so free, smiling at me
So long since I've... had you near

Now you've come back again
Where the love never ends
And you're right here
When I think of you

When I... need you, I just close my eyes
And you're... here
Right beside me when I'm lost in... shadows
Of the memories of you... oh my dear

And I see your face
Young and so free, smiling at me
In your eyes I walk without fear
We're together again
Where the love never ends
Cause you're right here
When I think of you

Hold on... just for a while
Hold on... hold on

I try to forget the night that you left
It's all so unreal, with you gone
I can dream once again...
Where the love never ends
Cause you're right here
When I think of you
When I think of you
When I think of you

 

[Calamity Jane]

sullen...
mazzy star - fade into you

Love that song.

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
I think it's strange you never knew

A friend sent me 'Return to Me' by October Project, it gave me goosebumps when I listened, and I had to go find the CD. The song haunts me.

Return to Me
by Julie Flanders and Emil Adler
Performed by October Project, CD: October Project

You rise like a wave in the ocean
And you fall gently back to the sea
Now I want to know how to hold you
Return to me

You shine like the moon over water
And you darken the sky when you leave
Now I want to know how to keep you
Return to me
Turn to me

Everything I tell you has been spoken
And everything I say was said before
But everything I feel is for the first time
And everything I feel I feel for you

I am here calling the wind
I am here calling your name
I am here calling you back
Return to me

I know what it means to be lonely
And I know what it means to be free
Now I want to know how to love you
Return to me

I am here calling the wind
I am here calling your name
I am here calling you back
Return to me

I am here
Return to me

 

[Guest]

Lonely in your nightmare

 

[LRC]

I've felt pretty dumpy the last few nights, and especially tonight. So I talked a bit with my wife before she fell asleep, then came back in my office, and listened to "our song" - When I think of you, by Journey

Lo

****

Magic... moments
There're the things I will remember
Where's the time we spent together... laughing
Then you walk into my dream... dear

And I see your face
Young and so free, smiling at me
So long since I've... had you near

Journey freak here. I love Steve Perry's voice. I saw them this past summer with replacement Steve ... not bad but he couldn't hold the high notes like Perry could.