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I love music...always have, always will. I love different songs for different reasons, but some songs, regardless of genre, have a way of evoking an emotional response from me every time I hear them. The following is a list of songs that I cannot listen to without having some very strong feelings. Some happy, some sad, some other...  I'm sure many of you have similar responses to certain songs, and I invite you to share...

1)  The Fray - How to Save a Life
2)  David Lanz - Leaves on the Seine
3)  Civil Twilight - Letters From the Sky
4)  Queen - Bijou
5)  Kenny Chesney - There Goes My Life
6)  Five For Fighting - 100 Years
7)  Nina Simone - Feeling Good
8 ) David Baerwald - Stranger
9)  Phil Collins - Long, Long Way to Go
10) Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

Some that I can think of

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Mark Wills - 19 Somethin
Moe - Okay Alright
Allman Brothers Band - No One to Run With
Eagles - The Last Resort
Johnny Cash - Sunday Mornin Comin Down (thanks for the reminder to Cash Tenshot)

Cash's rendition of Hurt
Bon jovi Dead or Alive
Sublime's rendition of Rivers of Babylon
Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World
Sinatra My Way

If I extended my own list, both of these would make it. The Last Resort was actually my favorite song for several years. Another song in the same vein as The Last Resort that I really like is Dire Strait's "Telegraph Road."

"Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road..."

By the way...one of the underlying purposes for this thread is to get a list of new potential "songs that make me feel" that I may not have heard of to this point. ;)

Some of these songs make me happy,some make me sad,make me think,or take me to a very specific place and time.They all move me in some way...

Patty Loveless - How can I help you say goodbye
Bon Jovi - 99 in the shade
David Lee Roth - Just like paradise
Autograph - turn up the radio
Billy Joel -it's still rock n roll to me
Iron Maiden - Can I play with madness
John Parr -Naughty,naughty
Gorky park- Bang
Ozzy- Time after time
the Outfield -your love
Rhett Akins- Old dirt road

(I tried to keep them happy for the most part...I'm in a good mood...In an hour they could all be country songs.... :D )

Hmmm...Let's see:

Pearl Jam - Black
R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)
Cranberries - Linger
Wutang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Nas - If I Ruled the World
The Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It
Animal Collective - Fireworks
DJ Dan - EVERYTHING basically the soundtrack to my early 20's

When I was in college this was a song that stopped everthing my roomates were doing and we would sing along. We drank at a bar called The Last Resort every Wednesday and we would play this song at some point before leaving.

I knew I loved you

Faith Hill- There You'll Be

Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone

Tears For Fears- Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Pat Benetar- Invincible

Stevie Nicks- Stand Back and White Winged Dove

Luther Vandross- Here And Now

Bon Jovi- Wanted Dead Or Alive

Is that a personal message or a song title. If the former, then...um, thanks, I guess.  If the latter, who is the artist?


Hell yes, and Hell yes...both are on my iPhone playlists. Another Cranberries tune I like...and that really fires me up is "Zombie."


I'm pretty much good with anything ever done by Tears for Fears, but the song from their collection that really grabs me and makes me feel it is "Mad World."

"And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had..."

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No actually, it's song title.  By Savage Garden, in case you really didn't know (I'm assuming you did)

I honestly did not... Taking it a step further, I have no idea what Savage Garden even sounds like.

I will check them out though...

Mad World- Gary Jules version
Everyone Hurts- R.E.M...This was the most requested song in Oklahoma after the bombing, always reminds me of that day.
Still They Ride- Journey
Wishing (I had a photograph of you)- Flock of Seagulls
Hysteria- Def Leppard
Purple Rain- Prince
Night Train- Guns N Roses
Changes- Ozzy
Sun in the Stream- Enya
Lament for the Children- bagpipes
Taps

REM - Everybody Hurts.  Reminds me of an old friend.

I have everything by the Cranberries. I even cut my hair like Dolores O'riordan in college.

Somebody that I used to know by Goyte reminds me of my ex

Jolly Holiday is my friend and I's song

"You're the inspiration" by Chicago, is the song that describes another friend and me

I really liked that Gotye tune for the first 2-3 million times I heard it. The last 70 million times though, it's started to get a little old.

I dig Chicago, and used to take a ration of shit about it from my hard rock friends when I was a kid. My favorite song by Chicago is still "Hard to Say I'm Sorry."

Music is my life, so it was hard to narrow it down to these:

"I Go To Work" Kool Moe Dee
"It Gets No Rougher" LL Cool J
"Welcome To The Terrordome" Public Enemy
"Summertime" DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
"Release Me" Pearl Jam
"River of Deceit" Mad Season
"Temptation's Wings", "Stone the Crow" Down
"Cowboys From Hell", "I'm Broken" Pantera
"Imperium" (my personal anthem) Machine Head
"Wait & Bleed" Slipknot
"You Lie" Reba
& "That Summer" Garth

This song (with no lyrics) always gives me the chills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbmdwZ8nGlM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbmdwZ8nGlM)

There were two REM songs that could have made an expanded version of my list, "Nightswimming" and "Belong."

Home by the Sea and Mama, both by Genesis would make an extended list.

^^^ I have the "Home by the Sea" and "Second Home by the Sea" as a combo on my iPhone...out-fucking-standing song.

"As we relive our lives in what we tell you..."

I had never heard it until a guy in my platoon turned me onto it at Ft Sill. It is how I discovered Mama as well.

I think you'll be disappointed!

Some from me...

The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright
Brand New - The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
Finch - Three Small Words
Iron Maiden - Can I play with Madness (Thanks for reminding me B, it dropped off my iPod for some reason!)
My Chemical Romance - Summertime (If you're familiar with their music, give this song a listen, it's very different)
Madina Lake - One Last Kiss

There's probably lots of others but these are the songs I try and get in my head when I want a buzz.

A few from my playlist today that fit...

Counting Crows - Anna Begins

Radiohead - Creep (unedited original)

The Toadies - Possum Kingdom  (strangely enough given the time of year, Dave Gray gave me a ride home from our local fantasy football draft last year, and this song came on the radio. We both said we really liked it, though I liked it because the song lyrics and general theme, while dark and a little twisted was very real and a little spooky. Dave noted something about the composition, regarding how each verse added something to the rhythm or chord progression or something.)

The Refreshments - Pretty much anything off of the Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy album, with a nod to "Nada" and "Blue Collar Suicide."

You are correct, sir!!  I tried listening to 3 different Savage Garden songs, and found nothing worth listening to.

A few more good ones:

Muse - Uprising
Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis
My Chemical Romance - Mama
Jen Titus - O Death

Redemption - Frank Turner
Why Go - Pearl Jam
you ought to know- Alanis Morrisette
Get it together - Beastie Boys
Crush - Dave Matthews Band
Epic - Faith No More
The Likes of You Again- Flogging Molly
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Reasons not to be an idiot - Frank Turner
Missed the Boat - Modest Mouse

There's a lot I'm missing here.....but this is a start.

'stroke...off topic, but one of the best concerts I went to in recent years was Muse and My Chemical Romance. (I threw on an emo outfit and black eyeliner to fit in.) I had never really listened to Muse and fell in love with them there. They are awesome live!

I will admit I have a Muse channel on my Pandora.

Me too...and a My Chemical Romance channel. The MCR channel is usually my default starting point when I fire Pandora up lately.

I run to MCR and people think that is so weird. I LOVE Gerard Way. So shoot me.

I love MCR, pretty much every song I've ever heard. So distinctively different than any other band out there. I think of them as a modern version of Pink Floyd (my all-time favorite band). I really-really-really wish I'd been able to see them in concert, because from the few live videos of MCR that I've seen, they look like they put on one hell of a show.

I'm going to give 2 examples, with completely opposite reactions attached to them, but these are the only ones I can think of now:

Muse - Supremacy

3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone

I am sure there are more, but I'll keep it in mind as I go about my days.

That's not weird, I do to! Famous Last Words down the final stretch always generates a sprint finish.

On Muse, I find them quite hit and miss, I think they have a few excellent songs and the rest is a bit 'meh', but when they hit it it's awesome and right up my street and I've heard they're amazing live.

^^ I feel the same about Muse.  Some of it is awesome, and so different than others.  If its not awesome, its crap.  But, somehow they are quite popular.

To my knowledge I had my first experience listening to anything by Muse last night. It was OK. I feel it could grow on me.

All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
Styx - Castle Walls
Counting Crows - Anna Begins
The Call - The Walls Came Down

you raise me up by josh groban reminds me of my friends

Church/religious-themed songs that make me feel...

The Church - Under the Milky Way
The Men - Church of Logic, Sin and Love
XTC - Dear God

No Personal Jesus?

"Falling Slowly" The Frames
"A Thousand Years" Christina Perri
"Take Hold Of The Flame" Queensryche
"Cinderella Man" Eminem
"Hysteria" Def Leppard
"Something to Remind You" Staind

Good song, but not one that really makes me "feel." If I was going to include a Depeche Mode song that is (loosely) religious-themed and makes me feel, it would definitely be my favorite DM tune... "Blasphemous Rumours."

Bumpty-bumpty-bump
(Cibola, my life for you!)

Added to the list...pretty much any song on Concrete Blonde's album "Bloodletting." Johnette Napolitano's voice is about as sexy as it gets!

I have the greatest wife in the world and wouldn't want to be married to anyone else but her.  But having said that, the old Dan Fogelberg song, "Auld Lang Syne" about bumping into his old girlfriend always makes me melancholy about several old "lost loves" from my life. 

^^^ Fogelberg specialized in songs that made you "feel"

A few other songs, since I am 3/4 through a bottle of Eagle Rare bourbon and about to crash hard into a pillow embankment...

Anything off of Concrete Blonde's "Bloodletting" album. (Are ya feelin' me, T-God?)

Michael Buble's "Home" and the remake of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good"

Joe Diffie's "Almost Home"  (makes me remember my grandpa)

Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash...wherever you are.

That must be some good bourbon since you felt so much you mentioned it twice now.  ;D

^^^ Eagle Rare is some excellent bourbon indeed... ;D