What songs have emotional meaning to you?

There are loads of songs that have all different emotional meanings for me. But there is one that I think embodies true emotiuon in the lyrics and the singing of, and I have to stop and listen and think every time. That is the Pogues singing “The Band Played Walzing Matilda”. It’s a stunning recording.

If you’ve never heard it, have a look here about the guy who wrote it, and see the lyrics
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/matilda.html

And sometimes, I want no emotional response at all…i just wanna crank it up LOUD and put on some Hard rock/heavy metal like G n R or more Van Halen or Deep Purple or something in those veins…is that wrong for a 41 year old? I don’t care if it is…LOL…

M

A good point there, lot’s of the replies so far have been about songs/tunes that we associate with sadness and loss. Happyness (if I’m not mistaken) is an emotion too. 😀

Here’s a few tunes that never fail to put a smile on my face and so toften inspire me to jump and down like a big looney !!!! :diablo:

Pixies-Debaser
The Ramones- Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
The Clash- Should I Stay or Should I Go
Blondie- Hangin on the Telephone
Jimi Hendrix- Purple Haze
Rush- The Spirit of Radio
The Cult- She Sells Sanctuary
AC/DC- Back In Black
Bad Company- Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love
Thin Lizzy- The Rocker

To name but a very few…… :diablo: :dev2: 😀

Not personal in the true sense of the word, but “Proud” by Heather Small always reminds me of the late Steve Young, a song he had discovered not long before his untimely death last year.

So many songs inspire emotional reactions in me at any one time…I could name a whole LIST that make me sad, happy, reflective, melancholy, on and on….three NAUTICAL songs bring about good memories of working on the sea in the Coast Guard and on a fishing boat in CA…Billy Joel’s ‘Downeaster Alexa’, John Denver’s ‘Calypso’, and Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’….Van Halen’s JUMP never fails to put me in a good mood no matter what, a good high energy song….my main man Bob Seger has penned a NUMBER of great songs that inspire emotional response, one called ‘Brave Strangers’ about losing one’s virginity….another called ‘The Famous Final Scene’ about a relationship ending…many many others by Seger and others…..far too many to list…

And sometimes, I want no emotional response at all…i just wanna crank it up LOUD and put on some Hard rock/heavy metal like G n R or more Van Halen or Deep Purple or something in those veins…is that wrong for a 41 year old? I don’t care if it is…LOL…

M

I think Roger Water’s ‘Amused to Death’ is fantastic and goes someways to equalling Pink Floyd stuff with Waters/Gilmour et al in the band. I particularly like the track where he says ‘Lloyd-Webbers awful stuff goes on for years and years and years’!! And the biut about the piano lid coming down and braking his f?@!”” fingers!!! Tee hee!!

yeah hes lyrical skills havent changes, perhaps Hes got even better….But I like mostly of Rock N’ roll and It isent the first word that comes to you mind after listening Amused to Death…thats the proplem…there are good musical moments in post water Pink Floyd and good lyrical/conceptual hihgligths in Waters solo-work…but they just dont cross thats all

Well i havent linked any songs to very emotional events in my life, but I do feel lot of ‘movment’ when listening these two Pink Floyd songs, Hey You and Dogs…They are just very near in atmosphere into whats going on my mind…too bad that Roger Waters havent been able to produce anything like since them and…well sorry for Daves fans…I think Pink Floyds music lost all of its potential soul whit Rogers cynicism and negative way of seeing the life…

But only song that actually have made me wheep is offcourse the Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull…cos its simply so good..expecially in the part when they go Suffle in the court room, with rings upon their fingers….its just the best moment in any song that i can imagine…

…but while writing this, something comes suddenly to my mind. Not anything big but everytime when i hear Europa’s Final Countdown it just reminds me of the last day in the Army…It was played over and over again in every possiple place in the garrison. It’s silly and lame song but it manages to bring the overhelming joy and relief from that very magical day back in few summers ago…

I think Roger Water’s ‘Amused to Death’ is fantastic and goes someways to equalling Pink Floyd stuff with Waters/Gilmour et al in the band. I particularly like the track where he says ‘Lloyd-Webbers awful stuff goes on for years and years and years’!! And the biut about the piano lid coming down and braking his f?@!”” fingers!!! Tee hee!!

‘Mandy’ by Barry Manilow was one of my mother’s favourites. On the day she died my father put it on in the house and reduced us both to blubbering wrecks within seconds.

In a similar vein but with no actual personal references, ‘If You Go’ by Liam O’ Maonlai of Irish band The Hothouse Flowers always gets me welling up. It’s a tender lyric he wrote after visiting a friend in hospital on his death bed…

If You Go::
If you go I hope you get there
If you get there I hope you like it

Cos the night might seem like maidens
Sweet maidens sent to tempt you

And the dark might seem like lovers
Sweet lovers sent to kiss you

Oh if you go I hope you get there
If you get there I hope you like it

Yea yea and I
I can see your eyes shining but your head won’t move
Oh yeah I
I can see your eyes shining but your head, your head won’t move

You can’t leave now brother
Don’t leave now brother
Cos we love you

You can’t go no
You can’t leave now brother
Don’t leave now brother
Cos we love you

Oh you can’t go

You can’t leave now brother
Don’t leave now brother
Cos we love you
Yes you
If you go
Can’t leave now
Don’t leave now brother
Cos we love you

But if you go I hope you get there
If you get there I know you’ll like it

David Grey ‘This years loving’
Played at the funeral of one of my best friends of 13 years. she died in a car crash two years ago at the age of 18. I found out as I was heading into an end of year exam at college. Needless to say I failed. But this song brought everyone at the funeral to tears (over 1500 people). Very powerful song and memories.
Here’s a short clip for anyone who doesn’t know it.

http://www.davidgray.com/mp3/whiteladder07.mp3

I’m not sure of a specific one from me. Like others – different tunes have different memories.
One I do remember quite vividly was Radio 1’s news beat at the end of the Gulf War in 1990 (or was it ’91 – whatever) they did a bit with sound bites in from the whole conflict and the tune that was interspersed was Oleta Adams “Get Here” – It was well done and quite moving.

I remember a similar situation many years ago, It was 11th November and the Radio Stations were just observing the Two minutes silence, At the end of the Silence they Played “Brothers in Arms” by Dire Straits and at the point a Spitfire flew other my house that had been part of the Tribute at Biggin Hill, Amazingly moving and spine tingling moment.

I’m not sure of a specific one from me. Like others – different tunes have different memories.
One I do remember quite vividly was Radio 1’s news beat at the end of the Gulf War in 1990 (or was it ’91 – whatever) they did a bit with sound bites in from the whole conflict and the tune that was interspersed was Oleta Adams “Get Here” – It was well done and quite moving.

I attended the funeral several years back of a young lad who’d commited suicide at the tender age of twenty two. During the service they played Sarah McGloughlin’s In The Arms of The Angels, and that haunting tune has stuck with me ever since

peter gabriels, in your eyes, it was on the radio when i went down on one knee in a wet tesco car park to propose,it was played at our wedding for the bride and grooms dance..
simply red,holding back the years one of those songs where when played my mind just fills with memories..

Well i havent linked any songs to very emotional events in my life, but I do feel lot of ‘movment’ when listening these two Pink Floyd songs, Hey You and Dogs…They are just very near in atmosphere into whats going on my mind…too bad that Roger Waters havent been able to produce anything like since them and…well sorry for Daves fans…I think Pink Floyds music lost all of its potential soul whit Rogers cynicism and negative way of seeing the life…

But only song that actually have made me wheep is offcourse the Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull…cos its simply so good..expecially in the part when they go Suffle in the court room, with rings upon their fingers….its just the best moment in any song that i can imagine…

…but while writing this, something comes suddenly to my mind. Not anything big but everytime when i hear Europa’s Final Countdown it just reminds me of the last day in the Army…It was played over and over again in every possiple place in the garrison. It’s silly and lame song but it manages to bring the overhelming joy and relief from that very magical day back in few summers ago…

sunshine and don’t need the sun to shine…..gabriel, obviously reminds me of my last girlfriend, wonderful woman who deserves more than i could give her!!

I was doing some research into a wartime crash in the Birmingham. Some of the crew died while others survived. I found out that Sgt. Crabtree, a Londoner, had no family and was therefore buried in Birmingham. I decided to go and find him, and on a Remembrance Day as well. I obtained a plot map from the office at Witton Cemetery and went looking for Sgt. Crabtree. He was surprisingly easy to find. I paid my respects, told him he hadn’t been forgotten and walked back to the car. I got in and started the car so the radio came on instantly, there was a moments silence and then the beautiful strains of “Hymn to the Fallen” filled the car. You may remember it as the closing music to Saving Private Ryan.

Just how appropriate was that? I can’t listen to that piece now without thinking of those I have come across in my research who paid the ultimate price, or without a tear. I told this story to another researcher who is a good friend of mine and he said that as there was no family, I could well have been the first person to visit his grave (who knew anything about him) for 60 years.

Sobering isn’t it?

Regards,

kev35

Music can stir the emotions more that anything.
Last year I met a new lady and the song that has
emotional meaning now is James Blunts “Youre Beautiful”
cant stand the bloody song but it has an emotional meaning
to us both….!!

Music is my first love, is, I think, the line of a song and its
certainly one of my loves,
CLICK HERE

Not exactly a song, but… Centuries ago, when I was in my early teens, I had the most enormous crush on a girl at work. For weeks on end I could hardly sleep, hardly eat, hardly even speak sometimes. Nothing came of it, but for years I still carried a torch. Then one day, quite by chance, I heard she was shortly getting married. A few days later I heard “Meditation” from Thais by Jules Massenet on telly (The movie version of The Cricket in Times Square) and I went to my bedroom, sat down on the floor, and just cried my bloody eyes out (heck, I’m not far away now, just thinking about it) Shed a lot of tears since then, and a couple of years ago found the real love of my life, but never in my life, before or since, have I ever cried like that.

Pink Floyd “High Hopes”
The most emotional guitar solo I have ever heard in the middle of a song.. the words have a significance to me personally,both happy times and sad, Im gonna have to go and put it on again…Dave and co, amazing composers/songwriters…

The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel (no one else). I have used this on every Belgium video I have ever made as a backing song first for Sabena footage and latterly for SNBA. I now just think of it as “The Sabena Song”.

Also anything by Coldplay is, for me, extremely depressing that I just hate to hear anything they do. I always remember the local radio playing bloody “Speed of Sound” every day last July and I now forever associate that with the London terrorist attacks. I am probably the world’s biggest anti-Coldplay 😡

My one without a doubt has to be Because of You by Kelly Clarkson. At one time my life was so mucked up and I didn’t know where to go and my friend was very supportive and understanding so every time I hear this song I think of her.

AJ