Post a song that has a huge emotional impact on you

[RetroLounge]

THis song by SRV always hits me hard. Pure emotion and amazing craft...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfWpeY4dxCM

RL

[taterguy]

1. I can't explain exactly what but this song does something to me

Let's Active's Waters Part

http://youtube.com/watch?v=K1nfxd_Rcek

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley

[mainegreen]

3. Here it is.

I have no idea why, but this song always does crazy things to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLUJ99LpoQQ


edited to add: WARNING the video can be graphic at times, so maybe just listen and not watch.

[Divameow77]

4. How Can I Help You Say Goodbye

by Patty Loveless

Through the back window of a '59 wagon
I watched my best friend Jamie slippin' further away
I kept on waving 'till I couldn't see her
And through my tears, I asked again why we couldn't stay
Mama whispered softly, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

I sat on our bed, he packed his suitcase
I held a picture of our wedding day
His hands were trembling, we both were crying
He kissed me gently and then he quickly walked away
I called up Mama, she said, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

Sitting with Mama alone in her bedroom
She opened her eyes, and then squeezed my hand
She said, I have to go now, my time here is over
And with her final word, she tried to help me understand
Mama whispered softly, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

How can I help you to say goodbye?

[RetroLounge]

22. Oh, Damn...

:cry:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

5. This one for a while hit me pretty hard

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6MGXNb27QeA
Peter Frampton "Lines On My Face" from "Live In Detroit"

Another one
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jL6B0mDbsCM
Cake - Guitar

[RedStateShame]

6. A look back at a band that meant a lot to me, and a lot of others.

To die alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqmcINr4JKA

[dolo amber]

7. As soon as I catch The Gay I'm TOTALLY marrying this chick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJZUXuD16s&mode=related&search=

[RetroLounge]

11. Wow. I've never listened to them...

Limewire here I come...

RL

[intheflow]

45. "Catch The Gay"

:rofl:

Hope you live in Massachusetts!

[Abies]

8. What Sarah Said by DCFC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apRD8zK4k9U

R_C

[datasuspect]

9. i touch myself

I love myself
I want you to love me
When I'm feelin' down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

Chorus:
I don't want anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

You're the one who makes me happy honey
You're the sun who makes me shine
When you're around I'm always laughing
I want to make you mine

I close my eyes
And see you before me
Think I would die
If you were to ignore me
A fool could see
Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees
I'd do anything for you

Chorus

I love myself
I want you to love me
When I'm feelin' down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

Chorus

I want you
I don't want anybody else
And when I think about you
I touch myself
Ooh, oooh, oooooh, aaaaaah

Chorus

[skygazer]

10. Comfortably Numb

Having found myself deep in the depths of depression more than once, it speaks to me and reminds me that I'm not alone.

[RetroLounge]

12. Have you heard Dar WIlliam's version

It's quite nice.

RL

[skygazer]

14. I haven't

I'll have to check it out. :hi:

[av8rdave]

40. That and Wish You Were Here...my two Pink Floyd favs

btw, somewhere out there is a great version of Wish You Were Here by the Dave Matthews Band.

[Burma Jones]

13. On The Nickel - Tom Waits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJW1ChjZNBk

[LostinVA]

15. "Chasing Cars" from Snow Patrol

[RetroLounge]

21. Oh, Damn, yes...

This song takes me to emotional places...

RL

[LostinVA]

26. Definitely

[Inchworm]

24. Thats my big one too

Here is video if you feel like rolling the dice on emotions :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajy0w1XPJk8

[LostinVA]

25. I already have that one -- thank!

Oh boy.

[kwassa]

16. seems to be one of Jimi Hendrix's most covered songs

the song is great, and I love me some SRV.

Doesn't Sting do a version, too?

[datasuspect]

18. waiting for the train

to take me from this lonesome place

this is an emotional song. very beautiful

"hear my train a coming"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je9O-VdrZ0E

[Felix Mala]

17. It's sorta lame: Me and Bobby McGee

"I'd trade all my tomorrows, for just one yesterday...
Feelin' Bobby's body next to mine..."


I cry like a little girl.

[datasuspect]

20. not lame at all

sends shivers down my spine.

takes me to a warmer, more humid place in my consciousness.

it's like a mixture of loss, resignation, and hope all in in the same song, often in the same phrases.

[stuntcat]

19. Orphan Girl by Gillian Welch

It's the song that pulls my heart right out.

[unsavedtrash]

23. the weakness in me

It is originally done by Joan Armatrading but I love the Melissa Etheridge cover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIm9oACOcaA

[Joe Fields]

27. This one always brings a tear to my eye...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRuyNv6HKg

[geardaddy]

28. Mr. Tamourine Man

I don't know why, but the last time I heard it, I cried.

[wildhorses]

29. you think you know somebody~todd snider

travelling soldier~dixie chicks

[Brigid]

30. My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen.

Still chokes me up.

MY HOMETOWN

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown

[Javaman]

31. Old McDonald...

I sang that dang song when I was a little kid...

you know the one...

Old mcdonald had a farm

e-i-e-i-o

and on his farm he had a duck

e-i-e-i-o

with a quack quack here

and a quack quack there

here a quack

there a quack

everywhere a quack quack

Old McDonald had a farm

e-i-e-i-o


Is it stuck in your head yet? LOL :evilgrin:

[no name no slogan]

32. lately, it's "Everything Reminds Me of Her" by Elliott Smith

i never really had a problem
because of leaving
but everything reminds me of her
this evening
so if i seem a little out of it, sorry
but why should i lie?
everything reminds me of her

the spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple
and i gotta hear the same sermon all the time now from you people
why are you staring into outer space crying
just because you came across it and lost it?
everything reminds me of her
everything reminds me of her
everything reminds me of her

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

43. A lot of Elliott's songs get me. I really like this one a lot:

"Coming Up Roses"

It's a melancholy song, but the video ends on a sort of cheerful note. However, knowing what happened to Elliott makes it so sad:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c4UL7fXSzk8

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[ForrestGump]

34. I don't know that one

Could you hum a few bars?

[ForrestGump]

35. Too many

And too many that hit me in different ways, sometimes because iof the music itself and sometimes because of where I am. Different songs speak very strongly to me at different times, depending on what's going on in my life.

Music's very important to me and has helped me through some of the hardest times, and helped make the good times even better. I couldn't pick one special song that covers it all, or even a dozen.

[idgiehkt]

36. Rhonda Vincent and the Rage - If you don't love your neighbor

directed at religious hypocrites (and others, lol) ,pretty brave for a bluegrass band with their following
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTd59aRGmkQ&mode=related&search=

[LibDemAlways]

37. The way Eva Cassidy sang "Fields of Gold".....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSUGe-tVaJ4

[hellbound-liberal]

39. That is a very poignant song. Eva left us much, much too soon.

We are lucky that she left us so many gems to remember her by.

[LibDemAlways]

49. I had never even heard of her until recently. I happened on

her rendition of "Fields of Gold" on YouTube, and it blew me away. It's hard to believe that such a huge talent went largely unrecognized in her lifetime. I did a little more digging and came across her singing "Wonderful World" at the benefit friends put together for her when she was dying. I can't imagine anyone not misting up over that one. What a loss.

[kwassa]

64. amazing singer and a good visual artist as well.

Too much talent unrealized.

[sakabatou]

38. "Farewell" by Yoko Kanno

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=480180

[ceile]

41. "Blac k Metallic" Catherine Wheel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0O9uNvoMec

[hellbound-liberal]

42. You Were Always On My Mind-Willie Nelson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3DXyfL3HX0

[intheflow]

44. The most recent song to affect me is the Dixie Chicks'

Not Ready to Make Nice: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fwc5YSAc-7g

I think we're all feeling that way with the Democratic leadership this week. :grr:

[ghostsofgiants]

46. There are a lot, but most recently, "Alone In Kyoto" by Air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZktIfqA8gs (Clip is from lost In Translation.)

[SKKY]

47. Here's 2 that are almost guaranteed to get the tear ducts flowing...

Reminds me of my Grandmother...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-55uf18jQ

Reminds me of the struggles between my parents...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mcvXvMRtU

[TOhioLiberal]

48. Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

I actually loathe that song. Now I really hate it. It's emotional impact? Every weekend, without fail, my husband will get sloshed on beer and Jim Beam and play this song.




And mourn his dead wife.





And ignore the pain coming from his live wife. :grr:

[Justpat]

55. Your post makes me really sad.

I'm sorry you are experiencing this.
That would make me do something really stupid to the live hubby.


:(

[SarahB]

50. For anyone who's ever been a single mom,

(I thought I could listen to this again recently without crying again. I was wrong.)



Dig little digger, don't be shy
You saw your mother with another guy
You think you'll tell her that she's one of a kind, you say
My Mother is mine

You put your trucks up on the bed next to him
So he can get a better look at them, you say
This ones my favorite one, this one you can't have
I got it from my Dad, you say
I got it from my Dad

Now you're thinking little thoughts about it
Taking every inch of him in
What does it mean when something changes how its always been
And in your head you keep repeating the line
My Mother is mine

I've done the damage, the damage is done
I pray to God that I'm the damaged one
In all these grown-up complications that you don't understand
I hope you can, someday
I hope you can

And now you're thinking little thoughts about it
Taking every inch of him in
What does it mean when something changes how its always been
And in your head you keep repeating the line
My Mother is mine

And now you're thinking little thoughts about it
Taking every inch of him in
What does it mean when something changes how its always been
And in your head you keep repeating the line
My Mother is mine

[My Good Babushka]

51. Dancing Queen ABBA

[RebelOne]

52. Lobo -- Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxn2XOUsUrg

Brings back memories of my now-deceased ex-husband.

[Corgigal]

53. Elvis Presley - Don't Cry Daddy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrAycQ7moy4

another one

Tom Jones-Green Green Grass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsGm-DqbmSA


Not that any of you youngsters know these tunes.

[Radio_Lady]

54. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady - a long time ago, someone I loved whistled

the tune and I could hear it through the Ladies' Dressing Room door -- circa 1957-58.

Long story, but vivid memories.

Hi Retrolounge... love from London and Radio Lady

[AngryAmish]

56. They Saved Hitler's Cock

[Forkboy]

57. God Damn The Sun by The Swans

Not a vid,but highly worth listening to;

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=69317278

[Zywiec]

58. Hurt - the Johnny Cash version

The video is a tear-jerker

:cry:

[ScreamingWhisper]

59. Gary Jules: "The Barstool Song"

but closely followed by his: "Mad World". So haunting and the visual imagery he creates still send
goosebumps down my arms

[MissHoneychurch]

60. "The Rose" by Bette Midler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWAYLZWZBg

I see myself in that song and it gives me hope when I am down.

[Bjornsdotter]

61. Our Town by Iris Dement

Every time I go back to Sweden, it strikes me hard how much is changing. People from my childhood who just aren't with us anymore.

Cheers

[RetroLounge]

63. Oooh, good choice.

I really like this song.

The neighborhood that I grew up in has changed so much, I stopped going back to see it. Got too depressing...

RL

[Beausoleil]

62. "Long Ride Home" - Patty Griffin

Long black limousine
Shiniest car I've ever seen
The back seat is nice and clean
She rides as quiet as a dream
Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
With me riding in this car, and you flying through the clouds

I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun sink like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home

One day I took your tiny hand
Put your finger in the wedding band
Your daddy gave a piece of land
We laid ourselves the best of plans
Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said
How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red

I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun sink like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home

Headlights staring at the driveway
The house is dark as it can be
I go inside and all is silent
It seems as empty as the inside of me

I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun sink like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long, on the long
Oh the long, on the long
On the long ride home


This song particularly gets to me because I listened to it several times on the way to my grandmother's funeral a couple years ago, but a lot of Patty's music gets to me.

[deepthought42]

65. Can't pick just one... "Dante's Prayer" by Loreena McKennitt

"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol

"Lost Realist" by Trapt

"My Immortal" and "Missing" by Evanescence

"Dear Mr. President" by Pink

"Deify" and "Sacred Lie" by Disturbed

"Over and Over" by 3 Days Grace

"Mosh" by Eminem

and...I don't give a flying fuck if I get flack for this one, but...

"Higher" by Creed

[MissMillie]

66. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Something's Always Wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1ZGW9MdbI