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I did a search and didn't find a topic like this, but I'm kind of surprised nobody started this kind of thread.

 

Anyway, I'm curious to know what songs really get to y'all emotionally? For instance, I was listening to "She's Everything" by Brad Paisley earlier today and I tell ya, it put a lump in my throat. So I figured I'd see what songs really get to y'all.

 

For me, it's:

 

She's Everything by Brad Paisley

Oklahoma Breakdown by Stoney LaRue

Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show

Follow You Follow Me by Genesis

Hearts Are Breaking Across Texas by Aaron Watson

 

 

So what gets you?

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Are you asking what songs "get" to you because of personal connotations or memories that you associate when you hear the song, or what songs have such powerful emotion/meaning that they get you choked up when you hear them because they really speak to you?
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QUOTE (Territorial_Game @ Oct 8 2008, 12:23 AM)
Follow You Follow Me by Genesis

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Gonna have to think about this for any more though...

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QUOTE (fledgehog @ Oct 7 2008, 05:39 PM)
Are you asking what songs "get" to you because of personal connotations or memories that you associate when you hear the song, or what songs have such powerful emotion/meaning that they get you choked up when you hear them because they really speak to you?

I was thinking more along the lines of personal connotations and memories when I made the post, but either really

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QUOTE (Territorial_Game @ Oct 8 2008, 11:23 AM)
I did a search and didn't find a topic like this, but I'm kind of surprised nobody started this kind of thread.

Anyway, I'm curious to know what songs really get to y'all emotionally? For instance, I was listening to "She's Everything" by Brad Paisley earlier today and I tell ya, it put a lump in my throat. So I figured I'd see what songs really get to y'all.

For me, it's:

She's Everything by Brad Paisley
Oklahoma Breakdown by Stoney LaRue
Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
Follow You Follow Me by Genesis
Hearts Are Breaking Across Texas by Aaron Watson


So what gets you?

Excellent thread idea TG cool.gif

 

As much as I hate Genesis (at least post-PG), Follow You Follow Me is undoubtedly a GEM of a track trink39.gif

 

For warm fuzzies guaranteed to melt me every time, I'll shoot for this quartet for starters inpo:

 

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

Mahogany - Diana Ross

If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

 

Dont ask me why, they just do, Ive stopped asking myself this perplexing question long ago. All I can put it down to is a nostalgic thing, hearing them so much as a kid during a certain time period when everything was superfine confused13.gif

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Of all the recorded songs in the history of music that has hit me the most emotionally, oddly enough it's Away From the Sun by 3 Doors Down. The first 15 or so times I heard that song, I couldn't listen to it without getting a lump in my throat and tearing up. cat.gif
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If The Day Was Any Longer - Taste

Find The River - REM

Sadly Beautiful - The Replacements

Born For Me - Paul Westerberg

Deathly - Aimee Mann

Oh! Sweet Nuthin - The Velvet Underground

Lou Reed - Berlin, all of it

Julie Ocean - The Undertones

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These are some songs that either give me a lump in my throat or get me teary-eyed - from country to prog.

 

Alabama - Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)

Big & Rich - 8th Of November

Lynyrd Skynyrd - All I Can Do Is Write About It

Rascal Flatts - Skin (Sarabeth)

Rush - The Pass

Rush - Afterimage

Toby Keith - American Soldier

Tracy Lawrence - Paint Me A Birmingham

Yes - Final Eyes wub.gif

Yes - The Gates of Delirium (especially the part "Soon")

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Oct 8 2008, 01:57 AM)

Find The River - REM

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Others:

 

 

Everytime - The Samples

A Map of the World - Pat Metheny

Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Sandy Denny

**this is a particular version...her last concert before she passed away--it can be found on "Gold Dust - Live at the Royalty"**

 

 

 

There are others, but these are the first I thought of.

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I picked some songs that moved me emotionally in all sorts of ways.

 

"Nocturn" - Kate Bush

"The Musical Box" - Genesis

"Marathon" - Rush

"Slave to Love" - Bryan Ferry

the opening of "Tubular Bells Pt. II" by Mike Oldfield

"Onward" - Yes

"Home At Last" - Steely Dan

"The Buffalo Skinners [live]" - Big Country (it ALWAYS makes me cry, and I never cry!)

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Oct 8 2008, 08:57 AM)
If The Day Was Any Longer - Taste
Find The River - REM
Sadly Beautiful - The Replacements
Born For Me - Paul Westerberg
Deathly - Aimee Mann
Oh! Sweet Nuthin - The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed - Berlin, all of it
Julie Ocean - The Undertones

Forgot to add earlier:

 

Disney Girls - The Beach Boys

Is It Love - from the ABWH2 sessions - beautiful song, massacred by Jon & Vangelis on 1991's Page Of Life

 

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Other than Rush songs:

 

Yes - To be Over, It Can Happen

 

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Last Beat of my Heart; Softly

 

Paul McCartney - Tug of War

 

Stevie Nicks - Beauty and the Beast; Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?

 

Dream Academy - Girl in a Million (for Edie Sedgwick); Waterloo

 

the Who - The Song is Over

 

Suzanne Vega - Pilgrimage; Ironbound (Fancy Poultry)

 

Toni Childs - Dreamer; Where's the Ocean?; Three Days; Daddy's Song

 

Air Supply - Lost in Love

 

Slowdive - Erik's Song

 

Kitchens of Distinction - Under the Sky, Inside the Sea

 

U2 - Scarlet; Promenade; the Unforgettable Fire; Ultraviolet (Light my way)

 

Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young - Expecting to Fly

 

Led Zeppelin - That's The Way

 

I'm sure there's more but I can't think of them right now.

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More Than This - Roxy Music

Hymn - Ultravox

Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers

Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac

 

 

there's more, but these 4, right off the top

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QUOTE (fledgehog @ Oct 7 2008, 04:39 PM)
Are you asking what songs "get" to you because of personal connotations or memories that you associate when you hear the song, or what songs have such powerful emotion/meaning that they get you choked up when you hear them because they really speak to you?

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gets to me ............ beach boys " california girls " would be up there ...

 

 

 

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I picked some songs that moved me emotionally in all sorts of ways.

 

"Nocturn" - Kate Bush

"The Musical Box" - Genesis

"Marathon" - Rush

"Slave to Love" - Bryan Ferry

the opening of "Tubular Bells Pt. II" by Mike Oldfield

"Onward" - Yes

"Home At Last" - Steely Dan

"The Buffalo Skinners [live]" - Big Country (it ALWAYS makes me cry, and I never cry!)

 

you like kate bush too? omg

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