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I was wondering what your most moving experience while listening to a song was. I posted a thread in TLF about epiphanies because I had one today while listening to a certain song (too drunk to go into detail now) and was wondering if anyone else had such an experience.
Lyrics or reasoning would be cool.

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Three Lions - Lightening Seeds
Altogether Now - The Farm

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There have been a few songs that moved me to tears. Can't remember which ones at the moment. I don't think they have much, if any, effect on me anymore, though.

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Lot of Smashing Pumpkins have brought me to tears.
The song "Soothe" is just soft, and the way Corgan sings just touches my soul somewhere deep. "Stand inside your love" and "Try Try Try" are very sad songs, but they move you to know that LOVE is a real thing. If you ever see the video's for these, they're also amazing. Last but not least is "Tear". Which is about the lost of a love. Quick lyrics from the song:
"the lights came on fast
lost in motorcrash
gone in a flash unreal
but you knew all along"

"and for the first time heaven seemed insane
cause heaven is to blame
for taking you away"

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New South Africa from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Live Art album always inspires goosebumps.

A number of Pink Floyd songs speak to me deeply. One good example:

Vera! Vera! What has become of you? Does anybody else in here, feel the way I do?

There are also a number of songs from teh 80s that affect me. One is Martika's Toy Soldiers, as it was my brother's favorite song for abtuo 4 months and he listened to it incessantly. Hearing it now brings me back to the innocence of that age.

18 and Life by Skid Row was a song that I shared with one of my first post-pubescent loves.

Sixteen Stone by Bush was the album of my personal "Summer of '69" (it was actually '95). Listening to that takes me back to the most fun I've had in a summer, ever.

Led Zeppelin has some good fucking songs, including D'yer Maker and Babe, I'm gonna leave you.

THere are so, so, so many more, I'm sure. Music is an integral part of my live and as such I associate many positve memories with many songs.

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Nute, you rock.

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Im *so* easy, as far as moving me with music goes.

TOOL's 4 degrees can make me cry. As can "H."

A Perfect Circle's "3 libras" can do it.

Tori Amos Dakota version of "Hey jupiter", "playboy mommy", "northern lad"(my god. this song will absolutely reduce me to fits), tear in your hand, Cooling, her version of "thank you",and her version of "famous blue raincoat" can all make me cry

fiona apple's "i know"

jeff buckley's live version of "grace", "lover, you shouldve come over", and "lilac wine" can all do it as well.

i could go on forever here. almost all music moves me in some way.

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Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails

i identified with it at the time.

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Pink Floyd - wish you where here is one of the many songs that moved me.

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Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green. I still get goosebumps when hearing that song, even though Ive heard it about 200 times.

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I've seen Comfortably Numb bring an old man to tears. I was apprenticed to him at the time and he had to pull the car over to the side of the road and chill for the duration when it came on the radio. 15 years down the track, I'm starting to understand why.

I dont like Mondays from the boomtown rats *always* gets me.

At the risk of dating myself even further, I'll add the godawful rock ballad that is The Price by Twisted Sister, there must have been some teenage moment where it hit a nerve, but I dont remember.

About half the songs by Neutral Milk Hotel, most notably: Oh Comely, Ghost and Song Against Sex just pick you up from wherever you are and dump you in big pile of melancholy.


Also, Saturday Night and Flame Trees, both by Cold Chisel mean something very special to me and will always bring to mind a certain departed friend, they arent intended as songs about losing a loved one, but taken in that context, it is extremely moving.

With all those tracks, it's mainly about the lyrics, i guess.

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'this love' and 'weather storm'

craig armstrongs music always gets to me.

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lots of songs.

off the top of my head, im thinking of patti smiths 'pissing in the river'
the first time i heard it i think i held my breath until it was over. you rarely hear that kind of raw passion.
also,
'sara' and 'if you see her, say hello' by bob dylan. theyre just beautiful.

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Creeds With arms wide open got me.. It came on just after my Ex-girlfriend told me she was pregnant.. It shouldent bother me, But it does.

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jets to brazil - sea anomone
5-0 - co-op ..i still feel the intensity of the story everytime i hear it
jawbreaker - in sadding around
cracker - another song about the rain
texas is the reason - antique
edsel - measured steps
the promise ring - b is for bethelhem, forget me (but only in the a combination)
fugazi - sweet and low ..no lyrics but still i can't help but warm up around that song..
cap n' jazz - flashpointcatheriter
engine down - intent to pacify, depth perception
the verlianes - heavy 33

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'Jimmy' and 'lateralus' by TOOL are songs about motion - motion of an individual - moving from one episode of ourselves on to another - all on a plane... I've cried/had to sit down a number of times while listening to either.

Written some interesting poetry/prose while caught inside the motion of those two tracks. Had some of my favorite ideas, too.

Too many others to list.

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pretty much everything i listen to. i always have headphones on as i walk, and i've been noticing as spring is doing so that the route from work and the mountains i am enclosed in are really very nice. anything beautiful. most of what i am listening to lately:
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea (thanks again, slight. amazing stuff)
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die
albums, not songs. sorry.

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as for lyrics as reasoning, explosions in the sky have none. except for one song, which is good (taken from "the thin red line") and spoken over strings. neutral milk hotel is full of great lyrics, though it's the delivery that makes them more:
(from two headed boy part 2)
Brother see we are one in the same
And you left with your head filled with flames
And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth
Push the pieces in place
Make your smile sweet to see
Don't you take this away
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek

And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place where some holy spectacle lies
And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

(from holland, 1945)
The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

or, from wilco's album, the song "war on war"
you have to lose
you have to lose
you have to learn how to die
if you wanna be alive

yeah. stuff.

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Many things by Our Lady Peace. Particularly Theif and 4am.

Better Than Ezra - Under You

Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (of course)

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Originally posted by Phil
Three Lions - Lightening Seeds
Altogether Now - The Farm

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Originally posted by karen
Tori Amos Dakota version of "Hey jupiter", "playboy mommy", "northern lad"(my god. this song will absolutely reduce me to fits), tear in your hand, Cooling, her version of "thank you",and her version of "famous blue raincoat" can all make me cry

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I don't know, no song ever puts me to tears or anything.... But any version of Heroin by the Velvet Underground always gives me a bit of adrenaline rush....

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God Bless America.

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Ok, this may sound corny, but I cannot listen to Amazing Grace without crying. I don't know why it's that way, I'm not the least bit religious. And our national anthem makes me get all choked up too. Again, not sure why.

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