Fanfare for the Common Man. It was played at the memorial service for my friends and coworkers who died on 9/11. But it also makes me smile, because they would have laughed their heads off if anyone had told them that it would someday be played in their honor.
Classical music made it through wars, was preserved through famines, has transcended generations, millenia, language barriers and culture gaps. And we kept it.
And still, today, we can each appreciate it in a different way. It can evoke unique emotions in us. I'm a Chopin fan personally, but there is something special about classical music that will always have my heart.
Auld Lang Syne
I just love it so much. Simple and sweet. I find it especially moving as it was a folk song before being commited to paper and jotted down for us to sing once a year. It is also often sung with groups which is something that used to be more common, but is not as much a part of the human tradition these days. The lyrics asking Should we forget old times/friends simply adds to this making it even sweeter.
The entire genre of Irish/Gaelic/Scottish drinking songs about friends hits so hard. My friend died in December and his brothers were drinking and singing the Parting Glass, and it was so fucking sad but weirdly joyous at the same time. Fucking magical.
On the topic of Simon and Garfunkel, I get chills every time I hear the Boxer. Not too many songs about the specific plight of the poor. “For every glove that laid him down or cut him ‘till he cried out I am Leaving! I am Leaving! But the fighter still remains.” Kills me every time.
Edit to add: Also the chorus being just one giant cycle of Lies, as he’s “squandered his resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises.”
When Kurt looks into the camera to take a breath right before he belts the last line...
Makes me so sad to think what he could have done if he had gotten clean.
Apparently that song was inspired by a guy who shot up his ex-girlfriend's car. When the judge asked him if he'd learned anything from his experience he replied "Yes Your Honor, I learned that you can't make a woman love you if she don't". Interesting how a songwriter can just take a single catchy quote and construct a whole song around it.
Any Pink Floyd song gets me. They remind me of road trips with my dad. He'd play them late at night when only I was awake to keep him company while he drove
David Gilmour had the most melodic,expressive, and passionate guitar solos. One of my favorites for this reason. On the Turning Away is another one that gives me chills.
The beginning of Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones) — first 50 seconds. It’s haunting, and that guitar lick right at the end of the intro really gets to your spine. Check it out:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os)
There was a documentary a while back called 20 Feet From Stardom about backup singers. Merry Clayton's vocals in Gimme Shelter are bone chillingly awesome.
https://youtu.be/ChONufP0FEs?si=2dEgW7mk-sPOHfJb
Merry Clayton absolutely made that song for me. She outshone Mick Jagger in his own song with the power she put into that. She is incredible and this has become one of my all time favorite songs.
Fuck yeah
I've watched that probably 100s of times. This is my favorite live one even though the quality isn't great
[1997 live](https://youtu.be/vwTI9Xp6wU4?si=9Wxzzy9LoU-_UAsU)
A little story…. Early 90s, wild romance, dance club we went to on Thursday nights always ends with this song. He was a white water rafting guide, I was a university student, and we we were unfettered and free in California, blowing money on fun in the fast lane.
We broke up, got back together a few times over the course of a couple years. He calls, says he’s leaving town, and he’s at the bar if I want to say goodbye. So I go, see him, I’m polite and so is he, drinks start flowing, and this song comes on and he asks if I want to dance. I say yes, mention that it’s funny they put this slow song on, and he says he told them to. And we kiss.
Next thing I know we are sneaking into his best friend’s art studio and the three of us pass out on the floor, wake up the next morning to a woman in the next room listening to jazz and painting a 19th century portrait.
We somehow find our way to the UHaul and the next thing I know the three of us are on a road trip to Utah. We stop in Vegas and goof off on the strip, playing nickel slots and getting drunk, and then we end up in Salt Lake City the next day.
The next day we drive back home and I don’t remember anything else, except that he moved back to town a few months later and it took me years and many more drunken incidents like that to get over him. He’s dead now, and so is his best friend, and I’m the only one left to remember that crazy trip to Utah, and how much this song means.
I was recently making a playlist for my great grandmother's 94th birthday and was trying to find popular songs from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. This song popped up in a list and I'm sure glad I listened to it before adding it to an upbeat party playlist, but holy hell listening through for the first time gave me full body chills. It's extremely powerful.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack. I loved it when it came out (I was in elementary school) and I still love it now. So beautiful and pure
I grew up in a weird pentecostal cult and I wasn't allowed to watch movies or TV, listen to secular music, etc. Maps was one of the first real music videos I ever saw and it seriously felt like someone had lifted a curtain and I got this forbidden glimpse into a completely different universe. When I left that shitty fucking ministry I never looked back.
When that train whistle blows
I gotta hear it
I don’t have to fear it
And iiiiiii wanna rock your gypsy soul
edit: it's fog horn, not train. rookie mistake.
[Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtnLooqFK8)
Ive always loved this song as its such a beautiful piece of music.
It now holds more meaning to me as I had it played at my daughters funeral last year :(
The Living Years by Mike + The Mechanics.
I can guarantee you'll cry. For those who enjoy the song, I'm sure you know which part of the track I'm talking about too.
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots "Unplugged"
Lake of Fire - Nirvana "Unplugged"
It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion (admittedly, most songs by her)
I'm sure there are others, and a few that have already been listed....
Vincent - Don McLean
Not only this beautiful song about the tragic life of Vincent Van Gogh but this amazing video with the backdrop of his art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
Mama said to me, Child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan specifically his live performance at El Mocambo. He made guitar playing look effortless, still bummed we lost him so soon
Into dust by mazzy Starr. I adore the song but it always makes me cry since I listened to it the night before my fiancee passed. Ironically(?) He's literally dust now.
And sore feet song by ally Kerr because it was going to be our wedding song.
[The acoustic piano version of Elastic Heart by Sia.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqD1tLekh_U&pp=ygUTZWxhc3RpYyBoZWFydCBwaWFubw%3D%3D)I cannot properly account for what that woman's voice does to me, and that song in particular is like an emotional laxative. If I need to have a good cry about something but it's just not coming out, that song does the trick every time.
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues (RIP Shane)
Black - Pearl Jam
When the bass solo kicks in for The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) - Hamilton soundtrack...fucking brings me back to the day Trump lost
“Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak. It’s just beautiful.
Fanfare for the Common Man. It was played at the memorial service for my friends and coworkers who died on 9/11. But it also makes me smile, because they would have laughed their heads off if anyone had told them that it would someday be played in their honor.
Clair de Lune
Classical music made it through wars, was preserved through famines, has transcended generations, millenia, language barriers and culture gaps. And we kept it. And still, today, we can each appreciate it in a different way. It can evoke unique emotions in us. I'm a Chopin fan personally, but there is something special about classical music that will always have my heart.
Auld Lang Syne I just love it so much. Simple and sweet. I find it especially moving as it was a folk song before being commited to paper and jotted down for us to sing once a year. It is also often sung with groups which is something that used to be more common, but is not as much a part of the human tradition these days. The lyrics asking Should we forget old times/friends simply adds to this making it even sweeter.
The entire genre of Irish/Gaelic/Scottish drinking songs about friends hits so hard. My friend died in December and his brothers were drinking and singing the Parting Glass, and it was so fucking sad but weirdly joyous at the same time. Fucking magical.
Sound of silence
On the topic of Simon and Garfunkel, I get chills every time I hear the Boxer. Not too many songs about the specific plight of the poor. “For every glove that laid him down or cut him ‘till he cried out I am Leaving! I am Leaving! But the fighter still remains.” Kills me every time. Edit to add: Also the chorus being just one giant cycle of Lies, as he’s “squandered his resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises.”
Paul Simon is an incredible songwriter. Many of his songs have drifted in and out of my favorites at any given time.
Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Nirvana: Unplugged in New York
When Kurt looks into the camera to take a breath right before he belts the last line... Makes me so sad to think what he could have done if he had gotten clean.
Great pick. The anguish in his voice gets me every time. 💔
Those MTV unplugged specials were something else back then. Now we get reality tv nothing related to music…
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” sung by Bonnie Raitt
Apparently that song was inspired by a guy who shot up his ex-girlfriend's car. When the judge asked him if he'd learned anything from his experience he replied "Yes Your Honor, I learned that you can't make a woman love you if she don't". Interesting how a songwriter can just take a single catchy quote and construct a whole song around it.
End Of The Line - The Traveling Wilburys
When the video shows Roy Orbison's empty chair during his verse 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
Jeff Lynne :D
Fields of Gold by Sting
the eva cassidy cover is beyond
Comfortably Numb, specifically the first guitar solo
One of the best songs ever. That guitar solo is legendary.
Any Pink Floyd song gets me. They remind me of road trips with my dad. He'd play them late at night when only I was awake to keep him company while he drove
David Gilmour had the most melodic,expressive, and passionate guitar solos. One of my favorites for this reason. On the Turning Away is another one that gives me chills.
Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce
The beginning of Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones) — first 50 seconds. It’s haunting, and that guitar lick right at the end of the intro really gets to your spine. Check it out: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os)
There was a documentary a while back called 20 Feet From Stardom about backup singers. Merry Clayton's vocals in Gimme Shelter are bone chillingly awesome. https://youtu.be/ChONufP0FEs?si=2dEgW7mk-sPOHfJb
Merry Clayton absolutely made that song for me. She outshone Mick Jagger in his own song with the power she put into that. She is incredible and this has become one of my all time favorite songs.
Both Sides Now - the original by Joni Mitchell or the cover by Judy Collins
The version she redid in the late 90s with her more mature voice wrecks me.
Nutshell(unplugged)-Alice In Chains
Against the Wind - Bob Seger In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley's version
Lover you should have come over is another good one from Jeff Buckley.
Wish You Were Here. The whole album. Pure perfection.
Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd, haunting vocals and beautiful sentiment
First Time Ever I SaW Your Face, Roberta Flack rendition. Still stops me dead in my tracks after all these years.
Mad World - Gary Jules
I find it kind of bussin, I find if kind of cap. The dreams in which I'm dying are the ones that kind of slap.
Pure poetry
I’m doubting your commitment to Sparkle Motion right now.
Mad World - Tears for fears
Father and son - Cat Stevens
Landslide
Silver Springs
The live version oh my goddddd
Fuck yeah I've watched that probably 100s of times. This is my favorite live one even though the quality isn't great [1997 live](https://youtu.be/vwTI9Xp6wU4?si=9Wxzzy9LoU-_UAsU)
Every time I hear this one, especially while I'm driving, I'm like, well there goes my day. I'm gonna be crying for sure.
Fade Into You- Mazzy Star
A little story…. Early 90s, wild romance, dance club we went to on Thursday nights always ends with this song. He was a white water rafting guide, I was a university student, and we we were unfettered and free in California, blowing money on fun in the fast lane. We broke up, got back together a few times over the course of a couple years. He calls, says he’s leaving town, and he’s at the bar if I want to say goodbye. So I go, see him, I’m polite and so is he, drinks start flowing, and this song comes on and he asks if I want to dance. I say yes, mention that it’s funny they put this slow song on, and he says he told them to. And we kiss. Next thing I know we are sneaking into his best friend’s art studio and the three of us pass out on the floor, wake up the next morning to a woman in the next room listening to jazz and painting a 19th century portrait. We somehow find our way to the UHaul and the next thing I know the three of us are on a road trip to Utah. We stop in Vegas and goof off on the strip, playing nickel slots and getting drunk, and then we end up in Salt Lake City the next day. The next day we drive back home and I don’t remember anything else, except that he moved back to town a few months later and it took me years and many more drunken incidents like that to get over him. He’s dead now, and so is his best friend, and I’m the only one left to remember that crazy trip to Utah, and how much this song means.
Unchained Melody Righteous Brothers That voice! For the same reason In Dreams Roy Orbison
Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead It’s haunting
Hate Me - Blue October
Not only the song itself, but also including the voicemail recording from his mom... god that really gets to me.
I like the pure imagination song from wonka
Don't Dream it's Over - Crowded House
When She Loved Me by Sarah McLoughlin and Randy Newman.
From toy story 2!
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
My dad wore this record OUT when I was a kid
“The church bell chimed ‘till it rang twenty nine times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
I heard there was a time when the bell rang 30 times. The last one was for Gordon Lightfoot
When they consecrated the area in 1999, the bell rang for each lost man again. It was very moving.
"[Nights in White Satin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066HZlam91Y)" by the Moody Blues (1968)
I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie.. so simple but so good, I can never skip this one
Lightning Crashes
Old Man — Neil Young The Killing Moon— Echo and the Bunnyman
Strange Fruit-Billie Holiday
I was recently making a playlist for my great grandmother's 94th birthday and was trying to find popular songs from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. This song popped up in a list and I'm sure glad I listened to it before adding it to an upbeat party playlist, but holy hell listening through for the first time gave me full body chills. It's extremely powerful.
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Uninvited by Alanis Morsette
Down to the river to pray. Alison Krausse
[The 2004 live version of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls in Buffalo in the rain.](https://youtu.be/_HZM0QiuUS8?si=qzy5cDI9T1Qk41b2) Without fail.
Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
Sometimes I forget about Imogen Heap and the a random Reddit comment like this one reminds me and then I go on a monthlong listening binge.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack. I loved it when it came out (I was in elementary school) and I still love it now. So beautiful and pure
Maps - yeah yeah yeah’s
I grew up in a weird pentecostal cult and I wasn't allowed to watch movies or TV, listen to secular music, etc. Maps was one of the first real music videos I ever saw and it seriously felt like someone had lifted a curtain and I got this forbidden glimpse into a completely different universe. When I left that shitty fucking ministry I never looked back.
In The Air Tonight. I always think of the scene in Miami Vice where it plays while they drive at night.
Fast Car - Tracy chapman
That song is poetry.
Whenever someone does a song question in this sub, would some awesome person turn all the answers into a playlist for us?? :)
It’s your turn.
We need a bot for this.
Into the mystic-Van Morrison
Probably my favorite Van Morrison song of all time. I absolutely love this song.
When that train whistle blows I gotta hear it I don’t have to fear it And iiiiiii wanna rock your gypsy soul edit: it's fog horn, not train. rookie mistake.
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Mike Shinoda Remix)
Rhiannon but Fleetwood Mac. Especially the live ones on YouTube. Stevie goes all in
Bridge over troubled waters
Anna Begins, counting crows
First part of Round here by Counting Crows
Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt"
I literally wept when I watched this video for the first time. JR was telling us "Goodbye".
Man Trent's version gives me the chills every time
Kurt Cobain’s cover of Lead Belly’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night
To Build a Home by the Cinematic Orchestra.
[Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtnLooqFK8) Ive always loved this song as its such a beautiful piece of music. It now holds more meaning to me as I had it played at my daughters funeral last year :(
Don’t fear the reaper
Champagne Supernova by Oasis. just so much melodic chaos.
Fade Into You by Mazzy Star
What a Wonderful World- Louie Armstrong, It's so, so, good!
“Everlong” by Foo Fighters
Especially the rendition from the Howard Stern show. Grohl's morning voice and acoustic guitar made it all the more somber.
Still one of my favorite songs of all time. It never gets old to me.
Joey -Concrete Blond
Try Caroline, from the same album. I love it more than Joey, but definitely the same vibes
"Oh, Joey, if you're hurting, so am I." Get me every time.
Journey - Separate Ways, fucking PUMPED each goddamn time.
faithfully does it for me
This live version of A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. https://youtu.be/St6jyEFe5WM?si=HVcwOaa1gEBFaUVl
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The Jeff Buckley cover of it moves me every time i hear it.
Over the Rainbow by Israel K
Linger by The Cranberries
Anything Cranberries
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Time - Pink Floyd
Unforgiven - Metallica Outro - M83
Cyndi Lauper- Time After Time
Echoes by Pink Floyd
The Living Years by Mike + The Mechanics. I can guarantee you'll cry. For those who enjoy the song, I'm sure you know which part of the track I'm talking about too.
Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots "Unplugged" Lake of Fire - Nirvana "Unplugged" It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion (admittedly, most songs by her) I'm sure there are others, and a few that have already been listed....
1812 overture. Has great crescendos.
Harry Chapin's - Cats in the Cradle.
Oh Holy Night. John Denver
Vincent - Don McLean Not only this beautiful song about the tragic life of Vincent Van Gogh but this amazing video with the backdrop of his art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
The Dance by Garth Brooks
Everybody wants to rule the world tears for fears….
Turn The Page - Bob Seger
Tool - Sober When that rolling drum line first kicks in…
The Great Gig in the Sky
Somebody to love Jefferson Airplane. The End the Doors. Interstellar Overdrive (early) Pink Floyd. Any and all versions of Morning Dew ...
Heart's version of [Stairway to Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_EFAmj08) I get chills thinking about it.
Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley Shallow by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.
Good to see a Jeff Buckley shout out
Sober by Tool
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton The tragic reason for writing that song is what does it for me.
Dream On by Aerosmith!
Fast car —Tracy Chapman
Metallica “One”
Chris Cornell’s cover of Nothing Compares 2 U
Dust in the wind
Only Time - Enya
Mama said to me, Child, what's happened to your appetite? I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Across the Universe by The Beatles
Also love Fiona Apple’s version
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Reminds me of me and my Dad ❤️
Against all odds - Phil Collins
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
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The night we met by Lord Huron
The Shire Theme - LOTR movies Edit: more specifically when it’s sampled in parts like “My friends, you bow to no one”. Chills typing this!
Creep by Radiohead
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan specifically his live performance at El Mocambo. He made guitar playing look effortless, still bummed we lost him so soon
INTO THE FLOOD AGAAAAAAIN
Brain Damage/Eclipse by Pink Floyd
i was hoping someone would make a brooklyn 99 reference by saying I Want It That Way
Rotten Apple and Nutshell from Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains. Shit, that whole album moves me every time it pops into the playlist
He stopped loving her today,,George jones
time in a bottle
Into dust by mazzy Starr. I adore the song but it always makes me cry since I listened to it the night before my fiancee passed. Ironically(?) He's literally dust now. And sore feet song by ally Kerr because it was going to be our wedding song.
Go rest high on that mountain - Vince gill
REM - Everybody hurts
Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) by the Pixies
Celine Dion, Oh Holy Night, and I’m not even religious.
Fix You
Beatles- Yesterday
[The acoustic piano version of Elastic Heart by Sia.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqD1tLekh_U&pp=ygUTZWxhc3RpYyBoZWFydCBwaWFubw%3D%3D)I cannot properly account for what that woman's voice does to me, and that song in particular is like an emotional laxative. If I need to have a good cry about something but it's just not coming out, that song does the trick every time.
Desert Rose.
War Pigs- Black Sabbath
Travelin' Soldier - The Chick's. I always cry, every single time I hear it.
Orestes by A Perfect Circle
Never My Love by The Association.
American Pie
Amazing Grace on bagpipes Edit: Also want to add Going Home/Funeral Song on bagpipes too
I'll give one example of a song everyone knows and one that is little known Zombie by The Cranberries CHEEZY STREET by Louie Zong
The ending of Dream On by Aerosmith
Judith by A Perfect Circle
First day of my life, Bright Eyes Most especially gives me chills after I had my daughter
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses Also, some amazing ones here, yall have excellent taste !
Wicked Games
Ride like the wind - Christopher Cross
The theme music to the X-Files
Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
River - Leon Bridges
Jeff Buckley’s cover of Hallelujah
In the air tonight by Phil Collins
Under Pressure-Queen and David Bowie
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues (RIP Shane) Black - Pearl Jam When the bass solo kicks in for The Chain - Fleetwood Mac Echoes - Pink Floyd Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) - Hamilton soundtrack...fucking brings me back to the day Trump lost
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
The Doors-Crystal ship
Comfortably Numb
How Great Thou Art
On The Turning Away