Reply With QuoteThe Weaver's answer - Family
Kick out the Jams - MC5
White light, white heat - Velvet underground
In my life - Beatles
Try a little tenderness - Otis Redding.
Nothing compares to u, Sinead o'connor.
Without doubt THE best song of the 1990's by a country mile..... Can bring a tear to a glass eye!
I don't know anyone in my circle of friends who didn't have a breakup/makeup to that anthem in the decade!!!!
Written by prince, don'tcha know?
The Weaver's answer - Family
Kick out the Jams - MC5
White light, white heat - Velvet underground
In my life - Beatles
Try a little tenderness - Otis Redding.
Cheers,
Neil.
Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley, I still find myself frozen in time when I hear it.
Wild horses- Ray Lamontagne.
then a bit of Northside, Take 5 and I snap right out of it.
Dignity-Deacon Blue,,,,,,,, for personal reasons it brings a tear to my eye, and strengthens my resolve.Originally Posted by deerworrier
Ghost Love Score by Nightwish (with Tarja Turunen), I still play it on repeat after 4 years.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
The Parting Glass - The Voice Squad.
Just looked it up on Wiki and see that it was recently recorded by the Felice Brothers which reminds me of another (by them): Frankie's Gun.
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OAP's choice:
Something in the way she moves - James Taylor
She - Gram Parsons
Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort (it's Gordon Huntley's steel guitar that does it).
Regarding Annie's Song, as an old-time Archers listener, the line 'You fill up my senses like a night with Tom Forrest' gives me the creeps
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Stop ! - Sam Brown
The first 7" single I ever bought... still got it somewhere, although I've NEVER owned a record player.
Yes, a one hit wonder, maybe, but she nails that.
Oddly, "The winner takes it all" by ABBA is the one that immediately sprang into my mind.
There's so much personal feeling in that song, something they never matched with anything else, despite their huge success.
M.
Simply can't argue with that. One of the best covers that has ever been done IMO, he made that song his own.
Chaps
I admit it is corny but I actually always stop to listen to "Move over darling" by Doris Day.
This came out around 1962 and I have been hooked on it ever since the day I first heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FodJJJzQk4I
Regards
Mick
I Feel For You by Chaka Khan - first record I ever heard with scratching in it.
Where Love Lives by Alison Limerick - dancing in a field at dawn. Best house record ever made?
Just few , off the top of my head!
No Woman No Cry Bob Marley.
The Tracks of My Tears Smoky Robinson.
Just My Imagination The Temptations.
Willow Joan Armatrading.
Preyed Upon Tanita Tikaram.
Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum.
Heroes David Bowie.
I will think of some more later on!
Small Faces - Tin Soldier
Totally agree with James Taylor, many of his would make it on here.OAP's choice:
Something in the way she moves - James Taylor
She - Gram Parsons
Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort (it's Gordon Huntley's steel guitar that does it).
Regarding Annie's Song, as an old-time Archers listener, the line 'You fill up my senses like a night with Tom Forrest' gives me the creeps
g
All Along The Watchtower, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, from Electric Ladyland. The first few seconds make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Many Rivers To Cross by Jimmy Cliff.
stops me in my tracks every time I hear it, and I cant watch the video as it brings me to tears,
The Cinematic Orchestra - 'To Build A Home'
****WARNING BIG MAN TEARS BE HERE****
Buffy Sainte-Marie. The Big Ones Get Away. Its a beautiful song, but politically charged about greed, power and corruption and the ineffectiveness of the little man or the persecuted (she's a Native American)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JlDY63i2iM
Afterglow - Genesis
Duke's End - Genesis
Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac
The Tower That Ate People - Peter Gabriel
Secret World - Peter Gabriel
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Hush Hush Hush - Paula Cole
I've always liked song, takes me back to the Christmas songs that Gap used to play on loop when I worked there as a teenager.
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Roxette - Dr Feelgood
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
Fast Cars - Buzzcocks
Love like Blood - Killing Joke
at the moment ...Rather Be - Clean Bandit
Do they use a bit of this for an advert? Parts of it sound familiar.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I have so many I wouldn't know where to begin but the intros to "Heard it through the Grapevine" and "Baker Street" blow me away.
Etta James "At Last" stops me dead.
Sky TV, Waitrose, Specsavers & Guinness have used it. There may be more.
+1... Mrs G10 and I had our first dance to this at our wedding last year. It translates to a Viennese waltz nicely... :-)
I'm on my way - Dean Parrish
I'm 15 years old upstairs in Annabella's (Cats Whiskers) on a Sunday night in Burnley every time I hear it. Probably the last song I wanted to dance to...
Whenever I hear these I'm transported back to being a 16 year old with fond memories of days/nights out with my mates, drunken dancing and girls...happy days:
How soon is now - The Smiths
This is the day - The The
Monkey gone to heaven - Pixies
Boys don't cry - The Cure
I wanna be adored - Stone Roses
Yup either of those Will do it
Jeezus! 'You got gooooood taste' (The Cramps)
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Always sends a shiver and will be played at my funeral.
Another vote for Unfinished Sympathy, but if I can be indulgent and have another one, then it'd be History by The Verve. I think that's the best track of the 1990s.
Thank you. (at least one normal person on this thread..) Seriously people..
These three off the top of my head:
Another vote for 'Caledonia' by Frankie Miller (anyone remember the Tennents ad?)
Also '12 days of Christmas' by Bill Barclay (makes me chuckle everytime I hear it still)
And: 'New Emotion' by T.T.F (takes me back to my younger years!)
Music - it's a wonderful thing.
Sam Brown has had one No.1 single, and several successful LP's
Here she is as a backing singer with Pink Floyd on tour.
Learning to fly is a favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn4_..._zur5hjw#t=123
And at the Deep Purple albert hall concert, singing for John Lord (skip the advert)
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
Monochrome - Lush
Couldn't agree more, especially if you do hear it unexpectedly and then if I do tends to make me quite emotional, I confess I fall into the "fart in a can" category when it comes to Liz Fraser.
Also agree with the Hurt and Heroes ones
And a more recent one would be the Only Exception by Paramore
For me:
Good place = Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly, closely followed by Comfortably Numb
Melancholy place = Green Day - Good Riddance. It was Played at a good friends funeral (taken too soon) and is a bitter sweet track. Sad for the loss, but happy to remember the fun times and laughs we had.
F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown
Breathe me - Sia
When the man comes around - Johnny Cash
A Matter of fact - Innocence
Killer - Seal
every one takes me instantly to a specific moment in my life that shaped who I am today
Ray Lamontagne - Joelene.
Tom Waits - The heart of Saturday night.
Kate Bush - Running up that hill.
Mick Flanney - Boston.
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing.
Pink Floyd - Time.
AC/DC - Highway to Hell.
And completely agree with Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy...a real masterpiece that.
These two always strike a chord with me...
Working away & Longing for home...
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Back home after working away ...
Violent Femmes
Good Feeling.
z
On a similar level of meaning to me, for a small number of intimately personal reasons - Sam Baker - Waves.
http://youtu.be/ivJva71KaL0
I dare you to not be touched
+1 for Song to the Siren. There's actually a brilliant newer version of this by Brendan Perry, ex of Dead can Dance, with Robin Guthrie of the Cocteaus/This Mortal Coil on guitar....
http://youtu.be/g4en3W5U1yo
Tim Bucklley - buzzin fly - just because
Tim Hardin - misty roses (a cd I got in the post 2 hours before my eldest daughter was born)
Mark capanni - I believe in miracles (wedding song)
Steely Dan - Peg - über 70's cool
Mayer Hawthorne - maybe so maybe no - feel good
I could go on and on and on....!
This.
Yes.
There's this.
I can't tell you the story behind it though as it's too personal.
It does stop me in my tracks though.
Despite being a big music fan, with very wide and varied tastes, I`m struggling to think of many. Here's a couple:
Rebel Rebel (David Bowie): aged 16, I was having the time of my life despite the teenage angst thing (which I actually enjoyed!). Loved this song first time I heard it, and I still love it.
Deacon Blue (Steely Dan): best track off the immaculate Aja album. First heard this whilst soaking in the bath after a hard training run......still love this song.
Under a Raging Moon (Roger Daltry). Title track from the album, Daltry at his best
Northern Sky (Nick Drake). Heard this on a compilation album and was blown away. Still one of my favourites.
Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground) and White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane): Heard both these for the first time in the Students Bar at Huddersfield Poly whilst bunking off lectures for the afternoon, circa 1977. A bunch of hippies were feeding the jukebox!
Paul
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I`m 15 years old, back in Wakefield Mecca circa 1973 when I hear this!
Those were the days.....really must start getting along to some Northern Soul revival nights!
Paul
A month back I'd been dragged out to one of those god aweful out of the way retail parks by the beloved. It's a beautiful day, so I let her crack on with popping into M&S, and i stay by the car with the radio on ... it turns out it's 60 years to the day that Elvis recorded his debut record in Memphis, and radio 2 are there, and they're doing a show.
Anyway, they introduce some lady named Candi Staton who I've never heard of (I'm only a pup!) and she sings this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023tggn
Blew my little mind!
Some great stuff chosen already.
I'd go with:
Minnie Riperton.... Loving you.( Have a guess why.)
Steely Dan ... Reeling in the years or Haitian divorce.
Buzzcocks....Ever fallen in love ?
10cc .... I'm not in love or Dreadlock holiday.
Most bizarrely Deep Purple .... Fireball
Lost in the Flood- Springsteen
Free bird- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Paper Wings - Barclay James Harvest
Simple Twist of Fate- Dylan
Is your love in vain- Dylan
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