Emotionally Charged Music

[Radyr]

Taken from another forum where someone was asking for songs that you feel are particularly emotionally charged, that tug at your strings, make you blub like a little girl perhaps or just that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Or perhaps they just set off a memory of times (good or bad).

Some good songs came up so maybe you lot can do the same.

Here's a few of mine:

Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI)

The Shins - A CometAppears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVutw8DLuD4)

Band of Horses - General Specific (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRpADKxesQ)

[SIMON ADEBISI]

Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains
In The Rare Auld Times - The Dubliners

[Woz]

Wichita Lineman sung by Glenn Cambell does it for me - the line "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time" gets me every time.

[plasterman]

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[The-tonemeister]

Too many to list, but the ones that sprang to mind first are:

Metallica - Fade to Black
Pink Floyd - Wish you were Here
Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn

TM

[LouBarlow]

The Replacements - ************ of Young

The lyrics about laying to rest those that love us best and visit their graves at holidays at best, the ones that love us least are the ones we'd die to please etc etc. So, so true and the way the line is delivered is brilliant.

Also any songs by bands, I'm a fan of, with vocalists who are dead, pretty much. Joy Divisions 'New Dawn Fades' etc etc.

[Johnny Vodka]

Various things by Radiohead and Sigur Ros, although tend to use music these days to make me happier rather than sadder.

[stewboss]

Skin - Vigilantes of Love

[megatron]

Nickleback - How You Remind Me

[JonL]

Three of the angriest songs I've ever heard (punk rock aside, special mentions to McKaye and Rollins on that score)are:

The Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Heartland - The The
Jeremy - Pearl Jam (watch the video, Vedder is bleeding the words out)

[JonL]

Three of the angriest songs I've ever heard (punk rock aside, special mentions to McKaye and Rollins on that score)are:

The Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Heartland - The The
Jeremy - Pearl Jam (watch the video, Vedder is bleeding the words out)

[SIMON ADEBISI]

McKaye

:notworthy

I heart Minor Threat

Guilty Of Being White/Small Man Big Mouth = Punk perfection

[driver8]

REM - Oddfellows Local 151, You Are The Everything, Country Feedback, You're In The Air, Leave (alt version).

Smiths/Morrissey - How Soon Is Now, That Joke Isn't Funny Any More, There Is A Light, Sweet & Tender Hooligan, Asleep, Speedway, Jack The Ripper, Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself.

Depeche Mode - Agent Orange, Enjoy The Silence (Piano version), In Your Room, Rush, Home.

Sinead O'Connor - Troy, Fire On Babylon (live on Jules Holland)

[AKPiggott]

Pretty much all of NIN's The Downward Spiral. It doesn't take a sixth sense to see that Trent was going through a real [****] off stage in his life, to the extent that it was seriously [fudging] with his head.

A lot of "angry" music tends to sound nonsensical and overly agressive to my ears, I guess that's the difference between angry music and angsty music.

Jeremy - Pearl Jam (watch the video, Vedder is bleeding the words out)

I've always considered Jeremy to be more about unnecessary tragedy and regret, but I agree that it's an emotionally charged tune (especially when listened to with the video).

[JonL]

I've always considered Jeremy to be more about unnecessary tragedy and regret, but I agree that it's an emotionally charged tune (especially when listened to with the video).

You're right, and to me, this manifests as anger on the recording, but I'm not arguing with you.

[Dazzle]

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[JohnMid1098]

A few Pulp tracks; but specifically Babies, and Do You Remember the First Time. Jarvis always seemed to get that frustration and angst out clear.

The Dresden Dolls; Me and the Minibar. Amanda's voice cracks, and I always feel the anguish she's projecting.

[Woz]

Sinead O'Connor - Troy

Good call!