Damn, Beo beat me to a Cohen song. I would have gone with "Coming back to you"
Without fail. Mind you, I'm a sap at heart, so I'm more easy to move than most, but it made me wonder what else is out there I could flagellate myself with, so I'm asking you - what (if anything) does that to you?
I can think of several. Some resonate with a particular time in my life (like the REM tune below). Others I can think of didn't have any particular significance, but just blindsided me. The first time I heard the Peter Gabriel song, I was sitting at a bus stop at six in the morning and just started crying uncontrollably.
Your REM video won't load for me so I'm just going to assume it's "Nightswimming", cuz it makes me happy to do so.
Stipe & Co. have a lot of winners in this category. "You are the everything" and "the wrong child" spring easily to mind.
A great many REM songs are perfectly crafted to attach themselves to the listener in a pretty brutal "time and place" memory stamp.
Music sure does fuck us up.
Short question: Why isn't this thread in the BAND forum? That's the one for music discussion…
Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.
Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.
You should probably stay away from Tom Waits then.
(you'll probably think this is blasphemy, but for me, Waits' voice ruins some awesome songwriting -- aside from stuff like "The Piano Has Been Drinking," which fits his voice to a T). It's not on YouTube, unfortunately, but you may be able to find it elsewhere.
Gary Jules version of "Mad World" makes me cry every time I hear it. Everytime.
Mad World - Gary Jules: http://youtu.be/4N3N1MlvVc4
"I find it kind of funny, I find it kinda sad that the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"
That line alone cuts me to the quick, it hits home so hard.
Gary Jules version of "Mad World" makes me cry every time I hear it. Everytime.
"I find it kind of funny, I find it kinda sad that the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"
That line alone cuts me to the quick, it hits home so hard.
I had the version from The Red Paintings somewhere and my mom used it as alarm. It truly has disturbing lyrics, but then again, "it's a very very mad world".
Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.
I don't think I'm old enough to cry at Springsteen's The River just yet. It's his finest work, imo.Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.
Yeah, I think I'll pass altogether. If it touches on Alzheimers/Dementia at all, it will just hit too close to home.
I don't think I'm old enough to cry at Springsteen's The River just yet. It's his finest work, imo.