Right now, Adele, "Set Fire to the Rain." I'm grateful for music for helping me feel. Some days I'm so tired I nearly feel numb and music penetrates that most of the time.

Even more, music was a part of helping me feel unauthorized and uncorrelated feelings when I was Mormon. Music was important in keeping me alive inside until I made it out. No wonder Boyd Packer said we should hum hymns. Can't have a deeply felt emotion not directed toward the church!

What music or songs make you cry or keep you alive and uncorrelated inside?



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Wow.

I had the thought that after we fight a battle, we need people to return to who will hold us.



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gets me every time.

I think that is the name of the song. The lyric, "Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in. Are you aware the shape I'm in" recalls my young single mother in the 60s seeking refuge in Brooklyn where I attended a few years of elementary school.

That is wonderful.

I know I am totally dating myself, but one that never fails to lift my spirits is John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High." It is a song of rebirth, of hope, of youth and when I hear it, it takes me there.

Another that still resonates with me is the Eagles song "Take it Easy." I remember myself at 21, listening to that song, running from my life in Arizona and heading to California, knowing I couldn't go on as I had, not knowing what was ahead and whether I would lose or win, but knowing I had to take the chance--kind of a burn your bridges kind of song. Plus, I've driven through Winslow, Arizona, and ..., well, if you've been there, you know what I mean.

Music is such a gift.

LOL. I can just as easily date myself with those songs. My partner makes me listen to something that is not the 60s or 70s once in a while. She even has me liking some country. :-)

I love Chopin's music :) and barbershop. Imma nerd :) I just love music!

Gershwin, Porter, Berlin.

Bright Eyes "first Day of my life"
The format "on your Porch" (for more personal reasons)

Yeah. When my daughter (now 25) took a "History of the 60's" class at the U of Oregon, her teacher wanted to know how she knew all this stuff about the 60's--the history, music and a lot of the movies and books. She just said "Oh, my mom was a 60's hippie--not full on, but sort of."

If you listen to her ipod playlist, she has everything from Brubeck to classical, hip hop and latin. A well-rounded kid. I did my job!

Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen

Sugar Mountain, Neil Young

Letter to Hermione, by David Bowie

Who Are You This Time? Tom Waits

Diary, by Bread

Hide Your Love Away, The Beatles

Superstar, by The Carpenters

To Sir, With Love, by Lulu

So Far Away, Carole King

Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
But it doesn't help to know that
You're so far away...

The sense of longing in those lyrics...

"Please Read the Letter" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Not just the song but the chemistry between them--shot to the heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axhLruo9SqA

I think I could fall in love with her--maybe both of them.



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The soundtrack of the Mission. This has three songs on it and it is etherial.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-fiu5umVnI

The music from Lord of the Rings, haunting.

Forest of Flowers

Played on the bagpipes, whilst the piper walks off into the distance.

Heard it too many times as I bid farewll to fallen comrades.

Oh . . . that is sad and haunting and beautiful--The Flowers of the Forest.

Ravel's Bolero. I loved it from the first time I ever heard it. Exotic, compelling, it engulfs you and sweeps you along. The best thing about the movie "10" was that it made it popular so that it was played more often.

Andean flute music.

"La habanera" from Carmen--bewitching.

The whole musical of "West Side Story." It is full of life and love and tragedy.

There was a Spanish cook on Chopped who was criticized for putting a raw chile on a dish because it would burn out the palate of the judges. Her answer was, "Well, at least you would know you're alive." Needless to say, they booted her off. :(

That's kind of my feeling about these songs. They're alive and so am I when I hear them.



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Florence and the Machine -Never Let Me Go
Some of the lyrics are wrong in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKbeV3wM84

EnVogue - Don't Go

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

Dave Matthews - Some Devil

George Michael - Somebody to Love (live with Queen)

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

Gabriel Fauré - Pavane

Joni Mitchell - Borderline

Marvin Gaye - Ecology

Nirvana - Lithium

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Peter Gabriel - My Body Is a Cage (cover)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl

Seal - Dreaming in Metaphors, Prayer for the Dying, Don't Cry

Sheryl Crow - Home

Sinéad O'Connor - You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart

Beach Boys - In My Room

Stone Temple Pilots - Still Remains and Pretty Penny

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean

Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy

Train - Drops of Jupiter

The Who - See Me, Feel Me

Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live, Fell on Black Days, Like Suicide

Depeche Mode - The Policy of Truth, Shake the Disease <--Hooverphonic's cover

Alice in Chains - I Stay Away, Heaven Beside You

The Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider

The Beatles - In My Life, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Rocky Raccoon, A Day in the Life <- Jeff Beck Cover

Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Concha Buika - Mi Niña Lola

Carly Simon - No Secrets

The Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin

The Gits - Second Skin

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Elton John/George Michael - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92: II. Allegretto (makes me think of Leonard Bernstein)

k.d. lang - Wash Me Clean

XTC - Dear God (Sarah McLachlan cover)



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Hear ya.

You have good taste. :)

"Isle of Hope" Celtic woman version

"Fix You" Coldplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-o25K6B-E

Briggy

Neutral Milk Hotel is the band. Song is Two-Headed Boy. A little jarring but worth listening to.

Ever since I first heard it upon its release it can still make me cry:

Alanis Morissette "Thank You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU

Really, the whole album (Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie) is amazing but this particular song hit me between the eyes when I first heard it as a woman in my 20's, still struggling to make sense of my neuroses and figure out who the hell I was after having left mormonism:

Eating disorder, near constant feelings of shame and guilt, crippling self-pity, a young marriage that had just been through a devastating crisis, fear but hope for the future...

Music has always been the best medicine for my soul, and in many ways her song was the beginning of a miracle cure: a new attitude, a growing maturity.

"Thank You" captures frailty, pain, uncertainty, acceptance, gratitude and courage all in one song. I will always love it.

Great thread, robertb.

Alanis Morissette has a way of gettin to us ladies. My favorite one is 'perfect' from the jagged little pill album. Makes me cry everytime.

Have you listened to some of her more recent stuff? Flavors of Entanglement is a great album.

Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95jkCdOeIy0

Gets me most every time. :)

The sound track music to the Pearl Harbor movie, not sure why lol! And pretty much anything with violin in it. What is it about the violin that makes me cry?

Instrumental. Here's the teaser: this guy is playing an instrument you've likely never seen or heard. BC, I think you'll like this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkyTk5OmVaU&sns=em


No crying here. Something for Raptor Jesus at 5:20


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIhUpVzEFE&sns=em



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Reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxopViU98Xo

k.d. Lang, Hallelujah and Skylark

1. Sarah McLachlan, "In the Arms of the Angle"

2. Whitney Houston, "I Look to You."

3. JoJo, "Exceptional."

4. Leona Lewis, "Footprints in the Sand."

correction.

1. Sarah McLachlan, "In the Arms of the ANGEL"