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koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:57 am

I love emotional music. I'm talking about songs that rip you apart to the point that when you're done, you're almost emotionally drained. It goes beyond clever lyrics and thumping basslines, but takes you on a journey through a soul full of turmoil, pure happiness, or any other emotional extreme.

So I'm curious what song you think is the most emotionally intense song you've heard. Not just a hard hitting song, but a song that takes you further than you may have been before.

My nomination(and you can have more than one if you want) is the version of "Roxanne" that appears in Moulin Rouge. Granted the cinematography involved in the scene with it sure helps things, but listening to that song I can get lost by the end.

What is yours?

Brent

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:03 am

"Pearls" by Sade is sad and very moving

Also "Strange Fruit" by Bliie Holiday should get a mention

and "Mad Mad Me" by the hugely talented and underrated Tuck & Patti always blows me away

anything off "Over" by Peter Hammill ("Betrayed" maybe the most harrowing)

oh and "Take Me or Leave Me" by the Magic Numbers is just so beautiful and touching

shanecgriffo · Post by **shanecgriffo** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:03 am

i've just been watching the Page/Plant unledded dvd which i bought today..
theres some pretty amazing emotionally intense performances on there,
well worth the $11.95!

blackboyrockinit · Post by **blackboyrockinit** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:04 am

probably emocore. 7 inch by a band called Jayhawker. don't forget Struggle.

blackboyrockinit · Post by **blackboyrockinit** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:10 am

it's wierd though I get intesnely emotional over certain music but it doesn't mean it's intensely emotional music.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:10 am

How could I forget:

"You don't love me when I cry" by Laura Nyro

lotus2035 · Post by **lotus2035** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:13 am

"I will always love you" - Whitney Houston...
Chokes me up every time...I listen to it over and over for hours on end....

dacaumodo · Post by **dacaumodo** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:17 am

"Sometimes it snows in April" by Prince
"Hallellujah" as covered by Jeff Buckley
"They won't go when I go" by Stevie Wonder
"Glenn Tipton" by Mark Kozelek with Sun Kil Moon

and perhaps more curiously,

"The Origin of Love" by Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a VERY emtional film IMO.

Speakeasy · Post by **Speakeasy** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:18 am

Barbers - Adagio For Strings

Waker · Post by **Waker** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:18 am

"Street Spirit" - Radiohead
...One of the best songs ever!!!

rhythmtechnologies · Post by **rhythmtechnologies** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:19 am

lover you shoulda come over - jeff buckley

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:28 am

Hurt - Johnny Cash version

galwaypark · Post by **galwaypark** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:30 am

When the tigers broke free - Roger Waters (well, pink floyd actually, but it's so obviously his, to the bone, and it always feels wrong crediting any of it to the rest of the floyd)

but god, what a song.

galwaypark · Post by **galwaypark** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:31 am

geoffrey wrote:Hurt - Johnny Cash version

+1. oh yes.

Brittlestem · Post by **Brittlestem** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:32 am

"From a late night train" - Blue Nile
"Take it with you" - Tom Waits
"Out of blue comes green" - A-ha
"Life" - Devin Townsend
"That next place" - Thomas Newman
"Volcane" - Fields of the Nephilim
"Disintegration" - The Cure

Various Lisa Gerrard/DCD songs.

The most emotionally intense song you've ever heard?