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Songs that "Pluck" your heart-strings?

Posted: 2007-11-29 12:09am
by The Grim Squeaker
What are the songs that for some reason or other, affect you emotionally strongly?


For me it's: "What a Wonderful world" (Both due to the intrinsic nature of the song itself, and it being used at the end of my Service year).
"Across the Universe" - For some reason the lines "Nothing's gonna change my world" really get me me.
"Hope/Hatikva" (Israeli anthem) - normally doesn't do anything for me, but there were 4 occasions in my life, all in the same week when it was very meaningful (All during the same week, in Poland).
"Can you feel the love tonight" (Elton John, or the LK version) - yeah, it's a lovey dovey song, but it's cute :P.
"Yellow Submarine" - Brings to mind England for some reason (Associative).
"Imagine" - The message affects me, although there isn't much of an emotional impact.

Posted: 2007-11-29 12:43am
by Phantasee
Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi affects me, especially when I'm singing it with a bunch of my friends when we're out. It's My Life by Bon Jovi is also one of those songs.

Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell featuring Michael Jackson affects me, not so much my heart strings though. Just makes me really paranoid.

Posted: 2007-11-29 01:35am
by Kanastrous
"Hold On" by Yes

"Waltzing Matilda" by Slim Dusty

"Benson Arizona" by Bill Taylor

"Clandestino" by Manu Chao

Posted: 2007-11-29 01:54am
by Alex Moon
House at Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins
You by VAST
Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

Posted: 2007-11-29 02:15am
by JME2
"Dreaming of You" by Selena.

Posted: 2007-11-29 02:20am
by Kanastrous
"Breathe" by Anna Nalick.

Posted: 2007-11-29 06:52am
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
"Scarborough Fair"
America - "Horse With No Name"
Hans Zimmer - "Leave No Man Behind"

I know there's a few others that really get me sometimes which I can't recall at the moment. Damn my memory.

Posted: 2007-11-30 12:45am
by NomAnor15
"Hatikva" again, and "Kilkelly" by The Green Fields of America spring to mind. There are probably more, but I can't think of them right now.

Posted: 2007-11-30 06:36pm
by Guardsman Bass
Definitely the Blue Oyster cult song, although that's also because they used it as the opening song for the tv miniseries "The Stand", and it's picked up that mental association.

"Pictures of You" by a band whose name I can't remember.

"The Unforgiven II" by Metallica.

Posted: 2007-11-30 06:56pm
by Darth Fanboy
Guardsman Bass wrote: "Pictures of You" by a band whose name I can't remember.
The Cure!

I would have to say that there's a bit of a list here:

Picture of You - The Cure
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Jerry - Mustard Plug
More Than Yesterday - Mustard Plug
Eyes on Me - Faye Wong
Blue - Yoko Kanno
Long and Winding Road - The Beatles
Still Fighting It - Ben Folds Five

Posted: 2007-11-30 09:00pm
by Sturmfalke
Michael Nyman - the heart asks pleasure first

Or when I'm in a sad mood:

Ralph McTell - Streets of London

Posted: 2007-11-30 10:47pm
by NeoGoomba
"Map of the Problematique" - Muse
"Fiddler on the Green" - Demons and Wizards
"Adagio for Strings" - Samuel Barber
"The Sons of Fate" - The Protomen

Posted: 2007-12-01 12:55am
by Phantasee
NeoGoomba wrote:"Adagio for Strings" - Samuel Barber
How could I forget that one?! It makes me cry inside. :cry:

Posted: 2007-12-01 01:34am
by Gullible Jones
Armor and Sword (Rush). Weird story there... I first heard it when I was reading Glasshouse, and it somehow became stuck in my head as Robin's theme.

Chava's Song (Michael Hedges - instrumental). I'm pretty well convinced it's not possible to listen to this without tearing up.

Posted: 2007-12-01 01:28pm
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Duh, I knew I forgot a big one:

Rolling Stones - "Paint it Black"

Posted: 2007-12-01 06:34pm
by TithonusSyndrome
The entire Lurker of Chalice self-titled debut. It's enough to make even the most beloved and cherubic child turn into a shell of winterblasted angst and desolation.

Posted: 2007-12-02 01:15am
by Glocksman
One song that puts me in a retrospective mood and think about what once was is Arlo Guthrie's The City of New Orleans.
That song makes me feel as if I were born 50 years too late.

Posted: 2007-12-02 01:38am
by The Yosemite Bear
Hurt-Cash Cover
Working Class Hero-John Lennon
Mother-John Lennon

Posted: 2007-12-04 09:31pm
by Qwerty 42
The Beatles- Let It Be
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven (my favorite song, obviously. It's the only song that I stop doing whatever I'm doing to listen to. I love it)
Led Zeppelin- Since I've been Loving You (The Song Remains the Same take)
Yes- Give Love Each Day (I just found this one, so it may not count just yet)
The Beatles- Yesterday
The Beatles- In My Life
Pink Floyd- Brain Damage/ Eclipse (nothing scares me more than lobotomy)
Pink Floyd- The Narrow Way (Part III) is the only song I've ever skipped because it made me nervous)
The Beatles- For the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Love version) is freaky, for some reason.
James Taylor- Fire and Rain (most depressing song ever? maybe)
America- Sister Golden Hair

A vote for whatever that song is in the Gears of War commercial, too.

Posted: 2007-12-04 09:36pm
by The Yosemite Bear
what no "Candle in the Wind" or "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"?

and when the tigers broke free is a much sadder Pink Floyd song...

Posted: 2007-12-04 09:39pm
by Qwerty 42
I forgot about Candle In the Wind.

I haven't heard When the Tigers Broke Free, actually, but I wasn't shooting for sad: The Narrow Way (Part III) and Brain Damage/Eclipse are both very creepy. It occurs to me that may not have been the intention of the OP, however, for which I apologize.

Posted: 2007-12-04 10:52pm
by The Yosemite Bear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFZLJA3Wqg

here you go with the full experience by using footage from band of brothers.

Posted: 2007-12-05 03:29am
by Lord Relvenous
"Somewhere over the Rainbow" by that one hawaiian artist with the ukulele. That for some odd reason makes me very emothional everytime i hear it.

Posted: 2007-12-06 11:04am
by Joviwan
"Hold on, Hold on" by Neko Case
"Ocean Gypsy" and "Again Someday" by Blackmore's Night
"Starlight" by Muse
I have to second "Don't fear the reaper"

there's more, but those come first to mind.

Posted: 2007-12-06 01:10pm
by Chardok
Laugh if you will, but Space Oddity is touching.