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What song really MOVES you?

131east23 said:
For most of us there are literally thousands. I'm certainly not a casual listener of any type of music. I can't work while wearing headphones/earbuds because work would distract me from listening to music. Anyway, as I get older it even seems to be more important than it used to be.
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The Young Bloods' 'Get together', studio version of Lulu's 'To Sir With Love', Kieth Richards' 'The Worst'- 'Thru And Thru', The Eagles' 'Pretty Maids All In A Row' to name a few.

Like with you, it seems to be getting more important with time here also. Hopefully for the better.
 
Mark Knopfler from his latest album Tracker. "Wherever I go" duet with Ruth Moody. Very Beautiful song that brought me to tears the first time I heard it. Driving down the highway at about 85 mph (hard to drive that fast when you have tears in your eyes.)

After my stroke a couple of years back it brought on a case of PBA (Psuedo Bulbar Affect) that causes uncontrolled laughter or tears. I never got the laughter part but certain songs can sure bring on the tears. Sometimes even talking about music can bring it on. Oh well, things could be a lot worse.
 
Until your love comes back around by RTZ. There is another version on an Ernie and the Automatics disc, but the RTZ version gets me every time.

I know there's lots of lonely people
Cryin all around the world
And this is just another story
About a boy who lost his girl

Well I'm not expecting changes
To happen overnight
But baby if you're listening
Wont you come home and make it right
 
I'll have to whittle this down to just a few.

Alison Krauss and Union Station - Walk Over God's Heaven. The music is pinpoint, well mixed, and moving, tho I am no longer a theist.

Glen Campbell "By the Time I Get To Phoenix" - I have a coked out 70's live version of this that brings me to tears, nearly every time.

Pink Floyd "Sheep" - When David Gilmour does those descending chords at the very end, well, that's about the baddest ass thing I've ever heard.

Countless Brian Wilson/Beach Boys moment, but for me, it's "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"

When in a metal mood, nothing gets me going quite like the first two Metalocalypse cds. Dethklok may be a fictional band, but Brendan Smalls and Gene Hogland RIP and snort on these two.
 
dragondad said:
There are many
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to say the least

a few that just jump to mind, Love by Traffic, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands by Dylan and Tonight's the Night by Neil Young.

Then of course we have Up to me by Dylan, Child's Song by Murray McLauchlan

Lost My Drivin' Wheel by David Wiffen

The Loner by Neil Young, Wasn't that a Mighty Storm by traditional....
 
55Redneck said:
After my stroke a couple of years back it brought on a case of PBA (Psuedo Bulbar Affect) that causes uncontrolled laughter or tears.
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I have had a similar experience when I contracted Pseudo Bieber Affect, which causes little girls to burst into uncontrolled tears when they see me, and uncontrolled laughter in everyone else.
 
Yup, just far too many... but Someone mentioned Pink Floyd's "Meddle" and I agree with that one.

I'll also add "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship.

A couple of Neil Young's tunes... Obvious ones are Harvest, A Man needs a Maid...

The Eagles "Wasted Time" - I can't bear to listen to that sometimes.

Good thread.
 
Neil Young's "My My, Hey Hey" (live one) is really moving.

Amy Winehouse "Tears Dry" (the demo one, slower) is very hard to listen to.

Oh, and Lady Day, Billie Holiday "You've Changed" has to be the most painful song to listen to, ever. Her voice is shot, her words are so sad, and the whole thing is amazing.
 
eljr said:
to say the least

a few that just jump to mind, Love by Traffic, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands by Dylan and Tonight's the Night by Neil Young.

Then of course we have Up to me by Dylan, Child's Song by Murray McLauchlan

Lost My Drivin' Wheel by David Wiffen

The Loner by Neil Young, Wasn't that a Mighty Storm by traditional....
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Chock full of Can Con eljr. Murray McLaughlan could write those direct songs like John Prine, the ones where you have to tell the person next to you that you have something in your eye.
 
Lots of songs but right now I've been listening to Bowie doing Alive from the Heathen CD.
 
There are so many, but I'll do some whittlin':
-"Long Long Time" by Linda Ronstadt
-"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Charlie Rich
-"Yesterday When I was Young" by Roy Clark
-"Once Upon a Time" by Al Martino
-"For The Good Times" by Ray Price
 
I don't master enough the English language to put words on this one, to explain the reason why it moves me so ... Something sharp and sweet, as nostalgia can be ...


 
The songs that move me are the ones that put me back to a special time and place. They may not mean anything to others, and the lyrics may lack meaning and inspiration, these take me back ............
"I Feel the Earth Move", Carol King - 1971 Kings Club - corner of Chung-shan N. Rd. and Min-chuan West Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
"Oye Como Va", Santana - 1971 UAC (Ugly American Club) San Miguel, (The Cross Roads) Zambales Province, Republic of the Philippines.
"American Pie" Don McLean - 1972 Shu Linkou Air Station, Taiwan - playing on Armed Forces Network Taiwan (AFNT FM100)
"Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died"

"Your Wildest Dreams", Moody Blues
"And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time"
 
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