Gandalf wrote:Harry Chapin - Cats in The Cradle. Depressing bloody song...
Yup. There is a song that was about the opposite actually, some guy on the phone to his family and kids telling them he's trying to come home now and that moved me too.
Its probably a result of the fact my dad works overseas and over the years, my contact with my family has been shrinking to non-existent. Living under the same roof but yet? Sigh.
It probably shouldn't come as a surprise that these songs are also emotive for me.
Kurmit the Frog- Rainbow connection
Ernie- I don't want to live on the moon.
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The Verve Pipe - Freshmen is hugely powerful for me because it always brings back memories of one of my first girlfriends. (That shit didn't end well ) Usually I have to turn it off before the song ends.
Other than that, the first five songs on Live's Throwing Copper album, all the way from The Damn at Otter Creek through to Lightning Crashes. Powerful stuff.
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Cursive - The Night I Lost the Will to Fight
Evanesence - Whisper
Anything by From Autumn to Ashes is probably a safe bet
Ministry - Animosity
Nightwish - End of All Hope
Slayer - Disciple
Most of the stuff either makes me sad or very worked up.
WE, however, do meddle in the affairs of others.
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Exonerate wrote:Anything by From Autumn to Ashes is probably a safe bet
My vote happens to be for From Autumn to Ashes - Autumn's Monologue. The anguish in the singer's voice gets to me sometimes.
Oh, why cant I be what you need;
a new improved version of me?
But i'm nothing so good
no, i'm nothing
Just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs
of violence of love and of sorrow
i beg for just one more tomorrow
where you hold me down fold me in
deep, deep, deep in the heart of your sins
[chorus]
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me, you don't...
Here I'm pinned between darkness and light
Bleached and blinded by these nights
where i'm tossing and tortured 'til dawn
by you, visions of you; then you're gone
The shock lifts the red from my face
when I hear someone's taking my place
How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel
when all, all that i did was for you?
[chorus x2]
I break in two over you
I break in two over you, over you
I break in two
I would break in two for you
now you see me
now you don't
now you need me
now you don't
I have a whole list of especially emotional songs (both positive and negative), but that's the most recent one I've listened to.
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Evanescence - "My Immortal"
It has very vivid and depressing imagery to me.
Bella Morte - "Remorse"
While not applying directly to me, in many ways it applies to me and some internal events of a couple years ago. Also brings up very strong emotions and imagery to me.
Black Hawk Down Soundtrack - "Leave No Man Behind"
A really remorseful and sad song. This song was playing on the computer during one of my worst mental breakdowns, so it invokes very powerful memories for me.
The Cruxshadows - "Winterborn"
A truely beautiful song which invokes many images for me. In many ways I relate to the song. I also saw the band perform "Winterborn" live in Albuquerque with Verilon in 2002, so that brings back many fond memories for me as well.
Murder balads
Midnight Rambler (song glorifying serial killers)-Stones
Gimmie Shelter (rape, murder, incest)-Stones
Where the wild roses Grow (murder from both POVs)-Bad seeds
Mercy Seat (death row)-bad seeds
Johnny Hit and Run Pauline (rape, attempted murder)-X
Maddy Groves (adultry, statutory rape, murder)- Traditional
Down by the banks of the Ohio (murder)- Traditional
The End (incest, murder, patricide)- The D00rs
Last Kiss (rape, infanticide, murder)- The Misfits.
most emotional religious
Amazing Grace (and my continuing challage to christian contemporary if they can create someting half as good as AG, I'll listen to it, until then, quit forcing your religion onto me via the airwaves.)
scuicide
Saint James Infermary Blues-Traditional
Paint it Black-Stones
Otherside-Chili peppers
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
The story behind the song is what really does it for me, aside from the song itself which would be enough.
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