Songs that give you all the feels

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    There are songs, pieces of music, that when i hear them i have to change it or turn it off cause i will end up sobbing. Over the years those songs have changed, and i am facinated by what songs elicit that kind of response in people. For example my long time friend will tear up every time Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah comes on but... i cant stand that song!

    My current two or three are:

    Ben Folds - Sentimental Guy


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52U87RiJbmM


    There's a lyric in the second verse

    "Little things you said or did
    Are part of me, come out from time to time
    Probably no one I know now would notice"

    That cuts deep every time cause there are absolutely parts of me that i surprise myself with, sounding exactly like my dad or brother who both passed.

    Jill Scott - Hear My Call


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtapoGukzCA

    This song just destroys me, speaks to me in a deep deep way that just leaves me lost..


    What are your songs?
     
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    I can't think of any right now, may post some later, but there's a whole category of songs I call "3am songs". These are songs typically played in the very early AM by various radio shows... typically slower ballads, snuggly, and/or heartbreak songs. I call them "3am songs" because back in my late pre-teen, early teen years I used to stay over at a friend's house a lot and he always slept with the radio on, which I didn't, so the radio would usually keep me up most of the night. I'd doze a lot but usually wake up around 2am or 3am (multiple times) and it was always playing stuff like that.
     
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    For me, it’s two songs that relate to Vic Chesnutt’s death by suicide. The first one, Flooding, by Kristin Hersh, is probably the saddest song I’ve ever heard; almost 15 years later, I still get choked up every time she keens, “we’re alooooooone.” She says that the song came to her as a premonition shortly before he passed.

    The second one is Seeing Black, by Lucinda Williams. It’s both heartbroken and angry, and her line, “was it hard to receive that final hug” is always a punch to the gut.

    Together, the songs viscerally demonstrate the impact of suicide upon those who are left behind.
     
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    I guess 'feels' can mean a number of things. The site doesn't like a lot of media links so here are some.

    I like these songs to chill to.

    not the first bit of this one... just a few seconds in (included in link)...

    I can listen to those on loop with my eyes closed with headphones, altered or not.


    I also like the Star Trek theme a lot... it can give me chill bumps. TNG is OK but not as much as this one.


    This one is good for all the older folks, looking back and getting feels.


    This one is great... listening to her is listening to an angel sing. This isn't the original, which is great, too, but this version just edges out the original for me. This song is something if you know the history/story of the original singer Keith Whitley... so tragic. In this video, it's also touching for me to think that the artists in this are dressed in 'church clothes' in respect for Keith.
     
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    Some of MTV Unplugged was amazing. The whole of the Alice In Chains Unplugged was one of those. Seeing Layne in such a shape and his singing... I saw someone post that it was as close to seeing someone sing at their own funeral as you'd ever see.

    This particular song from Pearl Jam is brutal
     
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    fitten said:
    This particular song from Pearl Jam is brutal
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    Black is a skip for me too, especially at the end, I don't need to feel like that in the middle of traffic! I don't think I've heard the whole song in ten years or more, perhaps now my old dead heart wouldn't be as affected. Same thing when youtube wants to throw Chris Cornell's One at me while I'm looking up, like, how to carve a turkey or whatever.

    I skip Journey's Faithfully mainly because my first long term girlfriend picked that as "our song" when she was trying to get her hooks back in me after cheating. I am going to the Journey/De Fleppard concert in a couple weeks, that will be interesting.
     
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    Welcome To The Family

    It starts off "you're tough to love when you don't love yourself" and ends on "you deserve love", and at the time the album came out, I was in a dark place. I'll usually skip it for one of his more upbeat tracks like "Dent In The Moon" or "Exquisite Corpse", if only because I'll otherwise get stunlocked for a few minutes if I don't.
     
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    Pearl Jam's cover of Last Kiss (to be fair it's the only version I ever hear)

    I don't know how one could sing that song and not choke up and be unable to finish it.
    fitten said:
    This particular song from Pearl Jam is brutal
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    Fantastic song.
    Backstop said:
    Same thing when youtube wants to throw Chris Cornell's One at me while I'm looking up, like, how to carve a turkey or whatever.
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    Knowing what he was battling and how it turned out makes that so unbearable to listen to.
     
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    Backstop said:
    I skip Journey's Faithfully mainly because my first long term girlfriend picked that as "our song" when she was trying to get her hooks back in me after cheating. I am going to the Journey/De Fleppard concert in a couple weeks, that will be interesting.
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    Yeah... a friend had a hard time listening to "Hysteria" by Def Leppard way back when... that was a song special to him and his girlfriend and she died in an auto accident. It was after they had broken up, IIRC, but still.

    I have my own set of songs from a very dark time in my life. I almost posted them several times and they were the first part of my first post above with music links but it was too many media links so I deleted them.
     
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    BigVince said:
    Damn i forgot about that one. It is also a skip when it comes on...
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    I always associate that song with Dr Greene and ER.

    I couldn't think of one TBH, there were no songs that jumped at me until..I remembered this one.


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpgz3uQ58U


    It came out in '04 and the album was released about 2 weeks after my Mom died. I remember my girlfriend(now wife) at the time was listening to this and it jumped out at me:

    Rosemary
    Heaven restores you in life
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    Rosemary of course being her name, and her dying suddenly(on a airplane in the Rome airport) this song just hit different at that time. And then later in the song:

    Sandy, why can't we look the other way?
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    Our dog at the time was named Sandy and she always would cuddle up with my Mom and watch tv with my parents.
     
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    Sad songs... sure, plenty. I'm not sure if there's any that have a particular attachment to me. Shoutout to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, which of course is powerful but has lost its meaning to me due to a. overuse in movies and TV and b. I once went to a conference where the keynote speaker used Cohen's Hallelujah as his centerpiece about... something? Following your dreams? Wonder and awe? In a way that I'm like... okay, sure, it's a pretty song, but did you ever actually listen to the lyrics?

    More upbeat, and full disclosure, I got this from an AV Club article more or less on this topic from years ago, but it's a great track... Latterman's "Doom! Doom! Doom!" with its throbbing chorus of set back the setbacks one more f***ing day. It's one of those driving punk songs with that chorus which isn't so much about cheering yourself up as picking yourself up and getting angry/amped enough to push on a little longer, which is sometimes (rarely!) exactly what I need.

     
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    This one because very time it came on the radio when I was a kid my Dad would say how it reminded him of the relationship he had with his father, and why he had the relationship he had with us (which is the opposite of the song).

    It was a good warning in a way as it helps me stay centered on the relationship I have/want to have with my kids versus the warning of the song.


    View: https://youtu.be/puJt66y0TBw?si=_-vpsulkyINqFRgO


    This one because I honestly don't know what it's intended to be about, but I kind of think it is about one person being able to move on and the other person not? I kind of think about it more in terms of the parent/child relationship versus like, romantic. So like, your kids eventually have to move on without you as they get older, even though you tell them to go slow...but they can't.


    View: https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU?si=PtZ4QTh5wg8NHAz3
     
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    Any Tori Amos from her first album, Little Earthquakes.

    Winter is always a sure bet:


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDlGUdDF8Y
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    I saw Tori here at the Tampa Theater back in the 90's and it was one of the most moving concerts I've ever seen. So intimate and personal.



    This one ALWAYS gets me:

    Colin Hay - I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You.


    View: https://youtu.be/O5J-DtKldpE?si=DKGdRGRzKSH-87yN



    This was our wedding song, so...yeah.

    Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life to Begin


    View: https://youtu.be/Ko5isS9JQKM?si=zCoxZxYScXzi8J2s
     
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    Les Miserables - I Dreamed a Dream. Always, always punches me right in the feels, both for story reasons, and personal reasons looking back on my life.

    Disturbed. Sounds of Silence. So totally against genre, but so damn, damn powerful.

    Under Pressure, the My Chemical Romance version.

    And there's a bunch of Linkin Park songs... but I have trouble listening to them, because of Chester.
     
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    John Denver's Country Roads, it has this sense of nostalgia and long-overdue homecoming that just gets me.

    Also, Within Temptation's Our Farewell, there's just something about it for me:


    Several songs from The Lord of the Rings soundtracks:
    The Ring Goes South from Fellowship. This is the first time you hear the full Fellowship theme and it hits hard.
    Also from Fellowship, The Breaking of the Fellowship, specifically the vocal parts toward the end. They really sold the bitter loneliness of immortality here... it makes me imagine being alone with my memories in a dying world.
    Similarly, Into the West from Return of the King is a nice conclusion, but I personally hate endings and partings so it gets me a bit sad.

    nquinnell said:
    Les Miserables - I Dreamed a Dream. Always, always punches me right in the feels, both for story reasons, and personal reasons looking back on my life.
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    A lot of good choices on that soundtrack, though I would have to say One Day More is my favorite, probably from watching this video someone made for all the giant robot fans over and over:


    nquinnell said:
    Disturbed. Sounds of Silence. So totally against genre, but so damn, damn powerful.
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    It is as good as a cover can get, but the harmony in the original is really something else.
     
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    thrillhouse said:
    SO, SO good.

    There are a ton of reaction videos on YouTube to this song, and they're pretty great as well.
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    Yeah, I like watching some reaction videos for songs and movies. Some reactions are obviously acting because that's what gets clicks but for the legit ones, it's fun experiencing something vicariously with someone else for their first time (since you can't see/hear it again for the first time, obviously).
     
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    thrillhouse said:
    I saw Tori here at the Tampa Theater back in the 90's and it was one of the most moving concerts I've ever seen. So intimate and personal.
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    Tampa Theater would be a great place - it's so compact. I saw her at the Fox in Atlanta.

    At this point, she's Ruth Eckerd Hall, which is a nice and comfortable place, but my wife and I joke that when your name goes up on that marquee, it's because your prime is long past.
     
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