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I have a couple of songs I dearly love, but I have to be careful when I listen to them because, well, I choke (usually because I associate them with close relatives who've passed away)

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye (and this was before he drowned)

Coldplay - Yellow (the local anti-cancer council used this song for their advertising late last year, and with my mum suffering terminal cancer at the time, the first time I saw the ad I had to leave the room)

Eddie Vedder & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Long Road If you ever saw 'Dead Man Walking' (the soundtrack of which this song is from) you'd know the emotional associations.

Anyone else got some songs that set them off?
 
that one song in Charriots of Fire when they're all running in the beach, and some song by Tracy Chapman that reminds me when i was a kid and i used to go to the beach with my parents
 
Jeff Buckley - :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Truly an underrated artist...
Sorry to hear about your mum, vat... :(

I don't know if there are any songs I can't listen to...but there are a few that really get to me. These are the ones the really take me to different, special place ~

Cowboy Junkies

This Street, That Man, This Life - chills, every single time

A Horse in the Country - very sweet

If You Were the Woman and I Were the Man - also very sweet, some of the best lyrics/delivery ever

To Live is to Fly - actually written by Townes van Zandt, but nevertheless...

...and that's all on one album!

White Sail - more great lyrics

Ring on the Sill

Come Calling (His Song)

Angel Mine - mebbe a little saccharine, but I don't mind :D
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Don Henley - End of the Innocence

There are tons of others...I could go on, but I won't... :D
 
There are definitely songs that put me in a mood. There are other songs that remind me of bad times. The list of songs that just get on my nerves from hearing them too much is really long. We use a lot of popular music in our ads at Stone & Ward, and some of that gets old. One of our clients is Baptist Health Medical Center (or something ...) - their main track for commercials is a beautiful instrumental recording of Amazing Grace, and it brings people to tears every time. The commercial for children with terminal illness was incredible (and very successful by the way).

The songs that I used to listen to with my friends in high school always bring back those strong memories of when life was easy and the friends were plentiful (and available).

(man I put a lot of stuff in parenthasis)

Jeff Buckley, one amazing musician. My favorite song is still "Please Let That Be You" by the Rentals. Expresses my desire to have the perfect friend/mate, I guess.

~LoudMusic
 
I can only think of 2 sad songs for me at the moment ..

Mike & the Mechanics - 'Living years ' (though i haven't had any close relatives pass away it's still a saddy )

Terry Jacks - 'Seasons in the sun' ( my mum used to play this a lot when i was little and when my dog died i used to think of him with this song i dont know why :confused: it made me sad :( :( i know pretty lame but they were the 2 that sprung to mind :embarrassed:
 
Originally posted by risingson77
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
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That's a GREAT song.

There's a song, called "You", by a band called "Ten Sharp" (I think). It was out in 1992, when I totally had this crush on a girl I was friends with at University. She was with someone else, and he'd heard me playing the song, which she liked, so he asked me if he could borrow the CD to play it to her, and I agreed.

So then whenever I heard the song it just reminded me of her, and how she was with him, and it was really upsetting, and even when he gave me the CD back, I couldn't listen to it. Even now, typing this, it's making me all jittery thinking about the sheer level of emotion I was experiencing at the time, and here we are ten years down the track.

And the thing that makes all this even more ridiculous and yet significant, is that in June 2000 I married the girl in question...
 
Yesterday-Beetles, I don't know why but it just makes me think of bad stuff...
Free Bird-(wasn't that from Lenard Skinard?)it's just that kind of song...
Ohh that Queen song...the one on Wyan's World...it's the part about him killing some guy...it's just depressing.
 
correction, Tim McGraw not Toby Keith.

You Shouldn't Kiss me Like This by Toby Keith makes me sad because of my life. Or really my lack of.
 
Originally posted by psonefreak
correction, Tim McGraw not Toby Keith.

You Shouldn't Kiss me Like This by Toby Keith makes me sad because of my life. Or really my lack of.
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Ugh, get a life! No, I mean it.
 
Originally posted by MazKid
Ohh that Queen song...the one on Wyan's World...it's the part about him killing some guy...it's just depressing.
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Hey Maz,
I was going to give you a slagging for not remembering the name of that song, but then in a cruel twist of fate, I couldn't remember it either, so I had to cancel the reply.

Anyway, I remembered on the bus on my way into work this morning: it's Bohemian Rhapsody.

:)
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


Hey Maz,
I was going to give you a slagging for not remembering the name of that song, but then in a cruel twist of fate, I couldn't remember it either, so I had to cancel the reply.

Anyway, I remembered on the bus on my way into work this morning: it's Bohemian Rhapsody.

:)
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...and it's on A Night at the Opera, which everyone should hear all the way through at least once. :)
 
well I like music but don't collect it at all...only music CDs I got are those free ones I collect from Target and stuff lol...

but I do listen to the radio all night every night(unless I fall asleep in the family room or in my room with the tv on, which gets turned off by my parents if they can get to it though my mess...). I leave my reciver on all night, falling asleep with music in my ears, waking up with the bob and tom show on...it helps me sleep cause I can't sleep well without anything on...
 
Yup, two:

"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd...and
"Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. I cry when I hear "Livin' on a Prayer." Don't know why, either...
 
Music and our memories go together like our sense of smell and places we've been. Think about your grandmothers place and you can almost smell the fresh cooked food. The sounds of Elton John remind me of my first high scool dance. Brings a feeling of bittersweet happiness. Life is a double edged sword, and memories can be good and bad. Man listen to me, had a couple of psych patients today, must have left their mark.


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Originally posted by Mad Medic
Music and our memories go together like our sense of smell and places we've been. Think about your grandmothers place and you can almost smell the fresh cooked food. The sounds of Elton John remind me of my first high scool dance. Brings a feeling of bittersweet happiness. Life is a double edged sword, and memories can be good and bad. Man listen to me, had a couple of psych patients today, must have left their mark.
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Nice observation - you do indeed need to post more!
 
Thanks for the good word. It's good to find a place where people aren't to full of themselves and can speak their minds. I'm a paramedic in Canada,in probably the most violent city in the country. That doesn't equal what some other places are like but violent crime espiecially mob related leaves its mark on you. Thanks for the forum, you would fit in well with my brethren,Vat Man. That's a compliment, brother.

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"Goodbye to Romance" by Ozzy Osbourne
"I ain't missing you" by John Waite
"Love, Me" by Colin Raye

All are songs that evoke strong emotion in me. In my spare time, I write songs and I aspire to write songs with that kind of feeling. Stuff that 15 years from now when your sitting in the car with the kids and "that" song comes on and your child says "dad, are you crying?" and you reply (weakly) No child, I just have something in my eye.

Giles: Congrats on getting the girl. Been there, it can hurt. It's good when it turns out right.
psonefreak: Tim McGraw has "it". AND Faith Hill. 'Nuff said.
Medic Man: you are very deep, hope to hear more from you. I'm a nurse in Kansas, (hating male nurse jokes/comments :mad: ) I understand :cool: .
 
Hey Gil I don't slag someone who pulls their load. You do what you're meant to do regardless of the male/ female stereotypes.
Good luck with song writing. Our line of work should provide endless amounts of worthy material.

My song that makes me choke, Daniel by Elton John and The Kiss, both versions

Keep your head up and don't let it eat you.

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