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What songs can provoke a genuine emotional response?

I ask because I'm listening to
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and the lyrics towards the end always fill the tear ducts
"And again and again and again and again"

This does it as well
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In reply to Carless:


I do like this

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In reply to subtle:

I ain't convinced your username goes with your linked lyrics

In reply to Carless:

Along a similar theme to yours youtube.com/watch?v=-k0xQDY0F5Q&

Depending on my mood Joy Division's "Love will Tear Us apart" can have me crying or dancing like a maniac

In reply to Carless:


Fair point, but I'm not that bad - just an impish sense of humour - it was worksafe but I can understand your concern

In reply to Carless:

June Tabor's version of "And the band played..." is glorious and tragic

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However for completeness, here's the Eric Bogle original

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Another song that many people think is a Shane Mcgowan original song (like dirty Old Town)

In reply to Carless:
Greenfields of France is an outstanding song.

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If I had any emotion, but I don't. Because it's weakness.

In reply to Chris the Tall:

Fine song

You remind me of an excellent gig in the Town & Country years ago when they played a fine set, then said they'd play another set if everyone was ok that they passed the collection round again...
They played til 2am - was brilliant. Luckily I lived 5 mins away

I shall have to re-listen the lyrics of Love Will Tear Us Apart

In reply to toad:

Excellent version, but I'd say the Pogues instruments add something
(but that's what I'm used to listening to)

I'm sure loads of people are unaware of Bogle's influence
True about MacGowan, but did he ever try to claim a song as his which wasn't?

In reply to Carless:

'Mad World'
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Came on my ipod the morning after one of our students had committed suicide and I realised for the first time what it was about. Had to stop and cry.

In reply to Carless:

Can't stop laughing!

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In reply to Carless:




I don't think he ever has (he has a fine song sheet of his own!) but I've had several conversations over the years where Pogues zealots have professed this and DOT to be his finest ever work. Having said that, I don't particularly engage with the Pogues, There's something a bit cloying about the Fairy Tale of New York, and it isn't helped by many angsty teens getting hysterical over it at Christmas.

And Don't get me started on The Smiths

PS sorry for the hijack

In reply to Bobling:

yeah - excellent cover (one of the rare)
I assume you've seen this youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4&

I hesitated showing Donnie Darko to my kids during a certain age...

In reply to Bootrock:

Hmm - might have to listen to James Blunt more closely
I'd always thought him as (good) background music


Not convinced about that - you might want to rethink

In reply to Carless:

Depends on the mood you're in to start with of course, but Thea Gilmore's 'The Lower Road' caught me out in just such a way earlier this afternoon.

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For very different reasons, Loudon Wainwright III and Shawn Colvin's cover of Richard Thompson's 'A Heart Needs A Home' does it too.

youtube.com/watch?v=pGcZvTkFxlE&

Great songs both and the versions posted both improve on the originals.

T.

In reply to Carless:

A breaking up song for me, painful

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In reply to Big Ger:

Jeez, overwraught?

In reply to aln:

De gustibus non est disputandum.

In reply to Big Ger:

Well aye OK but starting a thread about your fave Jethro Tull track maybe took things too far....

In reply to Carless:

I'm not ashamed to admit that this reduced me to a gibbering wreck when I saw it at the cinema with my son as a short before the film inside out.
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(Still does: "he filled the sea with his tears and watched his dream disappear" sniff)

In reply to Carless:

Couple for me

"How soon is now?" by the Smiths youtube.com/watch?v=HUMh8GQnDW8&

A song all about the social anxiety and shyness of your formative teenage years.

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone


Quickly followed by Please Please let me get what I want also by The Smiths

In reply to Carless:

Not a song, but I was crying yesterday after listening on youtube to Paul Celan reading his poem "Todesfuge" (Death fugue). At diner conversation had drifted towards rhythm and poetry, so I decided to listen to the poem just before going to bed. Not a good idea.

CB