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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: Marz on June 12, 2008, 11:41:52 AM
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Ok, everyone seems to have one (at least), the song that just makes your heart ache and can nearly drive you to tears...
I was sitting here listening to The Band and its all good but "The Night The Drove Ol Dixie Down" just does it every time... I get all emotional and my eyes get kinda misty (I mean someone must be choppin' onions somewhere around here, cuz I am tough as a coffin nail).
So whats the song (or songs) that just overwhelm you with emotion when you hear them?
Mine-
The Band - The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down
CSN - Teach Your Children
John Lennon - Imagine
Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All, Dont Ride that Horse
I am sure there are more but thats all I can think of at the moment.
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Vince Gill - Almost Home (These Days CD). It reminds me of my father.
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Where Do You Start - Shirley Horn
The Valley - k.d. lang
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
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Didn't even have to think about it...
#1 of all time = "Without You" by Harry Nilsson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbaquq3txs
Here's a great rendition by Mariah Carey!!!!! :@` :@`
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOR_jq9M53c&feature=related
#2, without much thought, is "The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqQM-HoFeEk
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"Front Porch Lookin' In" - Lonestar
"Have I Told You Lately" - Van Morrison
"If I Had a Daughter" - Terri Hendrix
I'm sure there are others, but those three quickly come to mind.
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#1- Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
#2- With Or Without You - U2
#3- Babe - Styx
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Butterfly Kisses
Christmas Shoes
Go Rest High on that Mountain
Those great old Hymns from church get me too:
A Mighty Fortress is my God
Because He Lives
The ultimate: Every year on Christmas we have a candlelight service and the closing hymn is Silent Night. There is nothing more beuatiful than Silent Night sung acapella in a sanctuary lit only by candles
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Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley
In Your Wake-Matt Skiba
Dont Stop Believin'-Journey
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Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley
JDog, k.d. lang does an excellent cover of Hallelujah also (Hymns of the 49th Parallel)
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I dunno guys, Hallelujah in my world goes to the great Leonard Cohen... but a great song regardless.
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I have never heard K.D's version of Hallelujah although I'm sure she sang it as a tribute to her fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen.
I've heard the Cohen version many times, and even though he wrote the song I still like Jeff Buckleys version a lot better.
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for me it's "you raise me up" by Josh Grobin My mom and I danced to it at my wedding. It will always remind me of my mom
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I still like Jeff Buckleys version a lot better.
That entire Jeff Buckley CD (Grace) is a masterpiece.
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Oh, boy -- where do I begin? How about:
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones
"If You're Reading This" by Tim McGraw
"That's My Job" by Conway Twitty
and this one:
"If Heaven" by Andy Grigg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMTAHKor7I
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he walked on water---randy travis
till i was a daddy too---tracy lawrence
and several more. but those two come to mind first.
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mad world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
also lemons imagin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0
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This one will choke you up... :'(
Colin Raye - Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_Lm9DY6N4
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You Fill up my senses (like a night in a forest)
And I Love You So
I'll Carry You home
Loads more. :'( :'( :)
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mad world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
also lemons imagin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0
Oh no you di-int just call John Lennon, Lemon!?!?!
:*)) :*))
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For me it's Imagine by John Lennon...... and a rather odd choice...... Mr. Bojangles (I think the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
Both songs were the favorites of my best friend in college, Frank. Frank was murdered at the age of 19 on a hot Summer night in Baltimore, Maryland in a road rage incident.
I knew Frank in high school and never liked him. But lo and behold, when I went to college after my Senior year in high school, who was the only person i knew... Frank. We became best friends. It turns out I had judged him harshly in high school. He pretty much had his ducks in a row even at the age of 18. Did a lot of work with under privileged kids. He was from a great family. He was taken from us much too early.
The memory of me holding his mother and hugging her the day of his funeral stays fresh in my mind. I have a little guilt because i have never been able to bring myself to visit his grave site since the day of his funeral.
Not a week goes by that I don't think of Frank. I loved him like a brother and even 29 years later I miss him. When I hear either of those two songs I smile and think of Frank......
Sorry for the thread hijacking..........
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I've always found RICKY VALANCE "Tell Laura I Love Her" really sad.. my Dad used to play it loads when Iwas a kid
RICKY VALANCE "Tell Laura I Love Her" (http://RICKY VALANCE "Tell Laura I Love Her") <-- click to listen
and "Wind Beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler
it reminds me of my sister who died of breast cancer :(
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"A Dream Goes On Forever" by Todd Rundgren
So sorry about your sister MB! I lost a brother 8 years ago who was my best friend and this song reminds me of him!
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Music is a huge part of my life - it truly is the universal language and so many songs stir emotion in me.
We Let The Stars Go Free - Prefab Sprout
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy (the original by Sting moves me as well)
Tank Park Salute - Billy Bragg
Unplayed Piano - Damien Rice
Regards,
Matthew
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mad world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
also lemons imagin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0
Oh no you di-int just call John Lennon, Lemon!?!?!
:*)) :*))
uuh sorry, :o :-[
I can type Lennon ;)
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Wind beneath my wings
My 16 year old niece sang this at her 22 year old brother's funeral - not a dry eye in the chapel. It gives me shivers thinking about it.
God only know - Beach Boys
I can't help thinking about my wife and smiling whenever I hear this.
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There are so many song that bring out my emotions, I find alot of meaning in music and there's always something that gets me in one way or another.
dam you fr8train....J/K that song is one of the many
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Music is a huge part of my life - it truly is the universal language and so many songs stir emotion in me.
We Let The Stars Go Free - Prefab Sprout
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy (the original by Sting moves me as well)
Tank Park Salute - Billy Bragg
Unplayed Piano - Damien Rice
Regards,
Matthew
My wife is a big Eva Cassidy fan, so sad that she is gone, she had such a beautiful voice.
Wade in the Water is a great song.
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The song I want played when I pass on...
What a Wonderful World - Louie or Eva Cassidy
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Another song that gets to me is "The dad he didnt have to be" by Brad Paisley, My biological father wasn't always in the picture and my (step) dad raised me and my older sister like we were his own, and if you haven't heard the song before there is a part in it about the kid having a child of his own and his "dad" was with him the whole way and it just gets to me now since I have a child of my own, and I cant imagine never being there for her.
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The song I want played when I pass on...
What a Wonderful World - Louie or Eva Cassidy
Louie really owns that song... Eva does it great but I would have to go with Louie on that one.
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True but Marz, I would've thought you would say the RAMONES!? ;D
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The song I want played when I pass on...
What a Wonderful World - Louie or Eva Cassidy
Louie really owns that song... Eva does it great but I would have to go with Louie on that one.
That Hawaiian dude did a nice version of it too...my brother played it at his mother inlaw's funeral, and I always remember her on our trip to Hawaii all together when I hear it...
they also played it when "Dr. Green" from ER died on his last vacation in Hawaii..
always gets me!
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True but Marz, I would've thought you would say the RAMONES!? ;D
:*)) :*)) True, true... and I might if we were talking songs you would like to listen to while riding a bike on a nice summer day.
-Gabba gabba hey!
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The song I want played when I pass on...
What a Wonderful World - Louie or Eva Cassidy
Louie really owns that song... Eva does it great but I would have to go with Louie on that one.
That Hawaiian dude did a nice version of it too...my brother played it at his mother inlaw's funeral, and I always remember her on our trip to Hawaii all together when I hear it...
they also played it when "Dr. Green" from ER died on his last vacation in Hawaii..
always gets me!
Is that the guys name "That Hawaiian Dude"?
I dont think I have ever heard it
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Don Ho?
Or to be politically correct....Don Ha?
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Don Ho?
Or to be politically correct....Don Ha?
Is that the "Tiny Bubbles" Dude? Tiny Bubble like in Champange right?
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That's the guy....That Hawaiian Dude, Don Ho (Ha)
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Israel Kamakawiwoʻole was his name - He was morbidly obese - and died of a heart attack way before his time. He was a gentle giant of a man - here is the video with his version - it is a combination of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World - it's really beautiful and sad at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM)
Regards,
Matthew
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Thanks Matthew...
clowns!!!! :Xo!
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That's the guy....That Hawaiian Dude, Don Ho (Ha)
Wasn't he in The Brady Bunch during one of their Hawaiian vacation episodes?
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That's the guy....That Hawaiian Dude, Don Ho (Ha)
Wasn't he in The Brady Bunch during one of their Hawaiian vacation episodes?
Yes, he taught Bobbie how to play the ukelele!
A true classic!