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Mumbai · Post by **Mumbai** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:57 am

John Cale: Captain Hook (and the rest of that Sabotage album).

h moll · Post by **h moll** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:22 am

blackboyrockinit wrote: I would also have to go with Bach's Organ werks.

How true. Toccata and Fugue? (Either BWV 565 or BWV 538, 'Dorian') or 'The' Passacaglia? Yes, those and more. But at least one of his organ works begs the question, "Herr Bach, what were you thinking?"

From some program notes ...

"Bach's reason for composing the Fantasia in G Major (Pièce d'Orgue) BWV 572 may probably never be discerned, and the work stands unique in his output and uniquely mysterious. In texture and temper its three sections could hardly differ more strikingly from each other, yet in conception they are clearly one. Further, although the work is in the major mode, it conveys such a sense of grief mixed with resignation - especially in the middle part, where five fugal voices interweave in unparalleled serenity and majesty - that one wonders if Bach wrote it just after the sudden death of his first wife. Whatever the truth may be, few works by any master reveal their consummate beauty more slowly or make greater demands on the listener. The title Pièce d'Orgue was adopted by Kenneth Gilbert and the editors of the New Bach Edition (NBA) in 1954, published by Bärenreiter, as a more appropriate reflection of the characteristically French ornamentation and tempo indications in certain sources of BWV 572."

There is no more majestic example of counterpoint in 5 voices. None.

h Moll

blackboyrockinit · Post by **blackboyrockinit** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:37 am

h moll wrote:
There is no more majestic example of counterpoint in 5 voices. None.

h Moll

Said like a true Bach fan. In my opinion, he's the first techno artist and pretty much nailed the gun on arpeggiation and dichotomy.

I've had amazing acid trips with his organ werks. To tears. His pieces are 16 times stronger in psychedilia than any goa or trance piece ever. ever.

amazingly, a lot of death metal guitar is based on bach's music. Including slayer, of which i am also a huge fan. (until dave left)

kadar · Post by **kadar** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:37 am

Ok i might be totally out of line and probably completely out of everyones taste and it is nothing like what im into but the most emotional song to me is sarah mclachlan's "in the arms of the angels". That song may be very intermediate at its production but damn sarahs voice really gives me ghost bumps

and the piano is just heaven. Id love to know what reverb they used on her vocals.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:45 am

amazingly, a lot of death metal guitar is based on bach's music. Including slayer, of which i am also a huge fan. (until dave left)

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Yes, that is true. There are at least three Bach for guitar or bass tab books that I know of. Not easy stuff to play on either instrument...
G.

boysbeingboys · Post by **boysbeingboys** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:54 am

I'll narrow this further to songs about band breakups. In that regard, I'll say David Bazan's "Fewer Broken Pieces." It's electronic at all....but man, is the chorus gorgeous. For someone who likes to write (vaguely) melody-driven electronic music, this man is a major inspiration. Amazing song writer.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:45 am

here's my blabber on the topic...

For me, music is often connected to visuals and a story, a personal experience, personal needs or a film that touched me.

Examples:

- Lexx's Brunnen-G warrior song "Yo-Way-Yo" (it's about dying a good death)
- Please Save My Earth's theme. (cellos stab my heart)
- the synth cellos in Until the End of the World's score by Graeme Revell.
- the "funeral music" in "the message" on Firefly at the end of the episode
- Depeche Mode's "Home" and "One Caress"
- and the song from Boa that the series Lain used for it's title music.

(for that Firefly episode, i knew the context... the musician was REALLY writing funereal music for the show because they knew it was canceled at that point and it hurt everyone deeply, and this brought out such an emotional piece of music because of how deeply saddened everyone was to have their show canceled - more than a lost job. i knew this upon seeing it and it makes me cry because i empathize with people's sadness and pain so much.

they can bring me to tears just hearing them after having heard them in context of the stories. just thinking about it can do the same...

i just found a website that offers the download of the entire Graeme Revell Until the End of the World SCORE (not pop soundtrack, which is good too) and just listening to some of it (and thinking about it) gives me tears and chest tightness because of the final act of the film after all that came before it... damn... it just gets me...

So, no one song ever feels "the most deeply emotional" to me. They all have to have context. Either they evoke feelings from my OWN personal experiences (which is why i LOVE Sunnyday Realestate, Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode so much) or they "become" their first contextual experience (whatever it was that first introduced me to the music. Most often it is something of pain and suffering or sadness... but the ones that get me the MOST are those that connect to "Redemption" (as i think most of my examples above really are at their core).

it hurts to write this. i'm so messed up. i must seem like an idiot to anyone watching me (not that anyone is).

last comment before i shut up: "Booth and the Bad Angel" ... Tim Booth and Angelo Badalimenti created such a fantastic CD. Booth's singing is amazingly uplifting. The most emotionally uplifting album i've ever heard, i think.

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:15 am

Frank Zappa and the Mother's of Invention hit a few for me, thanks to cutting sarcasm and great musicianship. Their album Freak-Out! is punctuated by songs that really ring of Frank's commentary on his recently-failed relationship that just bite me.

"Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder"
"How Could I Be Such A Fool"
"You Didn't Try To Call Me"

thezagnut · Post by **thezagnut** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:22 am

Tears For Fears- Mad World, Donnie Darko version.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:07 am

Dark Hollow - Grateful Dead
Brokedown Palace- See above

A.M. Gold · Post by **A.M. Gold** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:12 am

koolkeys wrote: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.

I agree, but I would add that it is possible to touch on a very special emotion using music that I'm not sure I know how to classify. It is exemplified by the term "tears of joy", in that it produces an immense upswelling of emotion that is not sad, rather is joyous, but still it causes people to begin spontaneously crying. This is like an emotional paradox. Music isn't the only thing that produces this phenomenon but it can do so quite effectively. If I can ever achieve the ability to repeatedly compose music that has this type of impact, I will have reached my goal in music.

Rattleshock · Post by **Rattleshock** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:12 am

"Advertising On Police Cars" - Matthew Good Band. Fantastic and moving piece. CHEERS!

hackenslash · Post by **hackenslash** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:11 am

Compyfox wrote:some stuff by MUSE

Sing For Absolution.

cgnat · Post by **cgnat** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:23 am

Rick Wakeman - Love's dream
Eric Burdon & The Animals - As the years go passing by

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:27 am

blackboyrockinit wrote:
h moll wrote:
There is no more majestic example of counterpoint in 5 voices. None.

h Moll

Said like a true Bach fan. In my opinion, he's the first techno artist and pretty much nailed the gun on arpeggiation and dichotomy.

I've had amazing acid trips with his organ werks. To tears. His pieces are 16 times stronger in psychedilia than any goa or trance piece ever. ever.

amazingly, a lot of death metal guitar is based on bach's music. Including slayer, of which i am also a huge fan. (until dave left)

hell yeah!

Hooked on Bach

(check out Wendy Carlos)

The most emotionally intense song you've ever heard?