Well...
Actually, I prefer Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Alanis, etc.
-G
which singer/song really makes you emote?
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- KVRAF
- 8700 posts since 9 Jan, 2004 from leroyaumeuni
Emerald Tablet wrote:
try "het vlakke land" - we played that one at my uncles funeral - brings tears to my eyes everytime i hear it. even before my beloved uncle past away
you mean "mijn vlakke land"
just being annoying really
you're right, very very good song
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- KVRist
- 289 posts since 6 Jan, 2003 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
agreed - especially "Fireworks" and the utterly amazing "Bobcaygun" off Phantom PowerLunch Money wrote: Gord Downey (of the Tragically Hip): Here's a guy who started off with a somewhat imitative style, but eventually found his own voice. Love it!
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one that gets me everytime is "Is It Over Yet?" by Wynonna Judd. Amazing, I'm left crying at the end of it every time...
"Ooo, look at me, I'm making people HAPPY! I'm the Magical Man from Happyland! In a gumdrop house on Lollypop Laaaaaaane!" - Homer Simpson
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- 22457 posts since 5 Sep, 2001
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- KVRist
- 285 posts since 10 May, 2002
Peter Steele from Type O Negative.
I'am just so ... sensitive !
I'am just so ... sensitive !
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- KVRAF
- 2036 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Seattle, WA - USA
Joni Mitchell tugs at my strings like no other. I also love the music of Andreas Vollenweider, Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel and Francois Poulenc. Certain musicians and composers manage to take me on a journey, as opposed to merely stimulating my ears.
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- KVRian
- 619 posts since 15 Feb, 2004 from Birmingham, UK
What pops to my mind right now:
- Speedy J's remix of Adam Beyer's Ignition Key (warning: hard techno)
- Autechre - Bike, Garbagemx36, Vletrmx21, Drane etc. (warning: experimental/IDM)
- Gridlock's Trace, Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 when I'm feeling them (warning: IDM)
- Some ambient albums, like Biosphere's Substrata and some of Susumu Yokota's records
- Some stuff from Kitaro and Vangelis
- Sigur Ros' Agaetis Byrjun and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
- Some videogame music, like Nobuo Uematsus and Yasunori Mitsuda's earlier scores (FFIV-FFVII, Chrono Trigger/Xenogears). Also Zelda III, Seiken Densetsu 2, Terranigma and the soundtrack of the first Unreal, but a lot of their impact relies on nostalagy no doubt...
- Parts of XL's Surreal
- Leonard Cohen - especially Songs of Love and Hate
- On the classical tip, I have to mention Arvo Pärt and Erik Satie. I can't believe they haven't been mentioned already, don't you people know shit?
edit: Wait, was this question limited to singer / songwriter music? Then please disregard the majority of my list...
- Speedy J's remix of Adam Beyer's Ignition Key (warning: hard techno)
- Autechre - Bike, Garbagemx36, Vletrmx21, Drane etc. (warning: experimental/IDM)
- Gridlock's Trace, Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 when I'm feeling them (warning: IDM)
- Some ambient albums, like Biosphere's Substrata and some of Susumu Yokota's records
- Some stuff from Kitaro and Vangelis
- Sigur Ros' Agaetis Byrjun and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
- Some videogame music, like Nobuo Uematsus and Yasunori Mitsuda's earlier scores (FFIV-FFVII, Chrono Trigger/Xenogears). Also Zelda III, Seiken Densetsu 2, Terranigma and the soundtrack of the first Unreal, but a lot of their impact relies on nostalagy no doubt...
- Parts of XL's Surreal
- Leonard Cohen - especially Songs of Love and Hate
- On the classical tip, I have to mention Arvo Pärt and Erik Satie. I can't believe they haven't been mentioned already, don't you people know shit?
edit: Wait, was this question limited to singer / songwriter music? Then please disregard the majority of my list...
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- Banned
- 4073 posts since 15 Mar, 2004
I guess lyrics inspire me most of all. Good lyrics can make you literally 'taste' and 'feel' a place or happening. Good lyrics from any genre - from raw blues to hiphop, can do that.
When I was 16, I hitchhiked to New Orleans and got a job loading sweet potatoes on the docks for 3 dollars a day so I could hang out for Mardigras. Living with the ranks of the poor folks, I went to the only place most of us could eat - a plate of red beans and rice and a glass of water for 26 cents.
Years later, when I heard this song, I was blown away with memories:
Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams,
Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me
Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen
To that tenor saxophone calling me home
And I can hear the band begin When the Saints Go Marching In,
And by the whiskers on my chin, New Orleans, I'll be there
I'll drink you under the table, be red-nosed, go for walks,
The old haunts what I wants is red beans and rice
And wear the dress I like so well, and meet me at the old saloon,
Make sure that there's a Dixie moon, New Orleans, I'll be there
And deal the cards roll the dice, if it ain't that old Chuck E. Weiss,
And Claiborne Avenue, me and you Sam Jones and all
And I wish I was in New Orleans, 'cause I can see it in my dreams,
Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me
New Orleans, I'll be there
Also by Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" - probably the most beautiful lyrics ever created by a human being (imho).
When I was 16, I hitchhiked to New Orleans and got a job loading sweet potatoes on the docks for 3 dollars a day so I could hang out for Mardigras. Living with the ranks of the poor folks, I went to the only place most of us could eat - a plate of red beans and rice and a glass of water for 26 cents.
Years later, when I heard this song, I was blown away with memories:
Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams,
Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me
Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen
To that tenor saxophone calling me home
And I can hear the band begin When the Saints Go Marching In,
And by the whiskers on my chin, New Orleans, I'll be there
I'll drink you under the table, be red-nosed, go for walks,
The old haunts what I wants is red beans and rice
And wear the dress I like so well, and meet me at the old saloon,
Make sure that there's a Dixie moon, New Orleans, I'll be there
And deal the cards roll the dice, if it ain't that old Chuck E. Weiss,
And Claiborne Avenue, me and you Sam Jones and all
And I wish I was in New Orleans, 'cause I can see it in my dreams,
Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me
New Orleans, I'll be there
Also by Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" - probably the most beautiful lyrics ever created by a human being (imho).
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- KVRAF
- 3057 posts since 9 Apr, 2003
by emote I'm supposing that you mean getting misty and weepy as opposed to dancing on roller-skates to "Sir Duke" as I might do 
in yesteryear, it might have depended on how much wine I had and whether I was pointlessly in love at the time
then and now, I think I have usually been more appreciative than moved, even with my favorite, most compelling voices
even so, here are some that I love and avoid :
Mary Chapin Carpenter's "10,000 Miles"
Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms"
one that I only heard recently and love but don't avoid, is Chet Baker's "My Funny Valentine" ... a little heartbreaking that he could paint like that ...
cool thread btw, many to check out
in yesteryear, it might have depended on how much wine I had and whether I was pointlessly in love at the time
then and now, I think I have usually been more appreciative than moved, even with my favorite, most compelling voices
even so, here are some that I love and avoid
:Mary Chapin Carpenter's "10,000 Miles"
Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms"
one that I only heard recently and love but don't avoid, is Chet Baker's "My Funny Valentine" ... a little heartbreaking that he could paint like that ...
cool thread btw, many to check out
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- KVRAF
- 8700 posts since 9 Jan, 2004 from leroyaumeuni
spaceman wrote:Jeff Buckley
Jacques Brel
and some more..
oh oh..
Dave Matthews as well
My other host is Bruce Forsyth
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- KVRian
- 1098 posts since 25 Feb, 2004 from Europe
Simon Le Bon
DURAN DURAN
"Still Breathing"
"Midnight Sun"
"Fallen Angel"
"Late Bar"
All songs can be found under the following link
Especially all the synthworks
of NICK RHODES are fantastic.
Look at
http://www.klausolsen.no/duran/downloads.html
for the live and demo stuff and
http://www.duranduran.com
http://www.duranitaly.com
for infos regarding REUNION and
forthcoming album in
OCTOBER 2004 !!!
DURAN DURAN
"Still Breathing"
"Midnight Sun"
"Fallen Angel"
"Late Bar"
All songs can be found under the following link
Especially all the synthworks
of NICK RHODES are fantastic.
Look at
http://www.klausolsen.no/duran/downloads.html
for the live and demo stuff and
http://www.duranduran.com
http://www.duranitaly.com
for infos regarding REUNION and
forthcoming album in
OCTOBER 2004 !!!
Last edited by vista on Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:59 am, edited 2 times in total.
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- KVRAF
- 7879 posts since 16 Apr, 2003 from -on the outside looking in
I agree with Xander re: lyrics.
Good lyrics, for me, make a good song great! Lyrics don't get enough attention these days! (Well, they probably do, I'm just not looking in the right places yet.)
Right now though, Pink Houses by Melencamp is touching a homesick nerve for me.
Good lyrics, for me, make a good song great! Lyrics don't get enough attention these days! (Well, they probably do, I'm just not looking in the right places yet.)
Right now though, Pink Houses by Melencamp is touching a homesick nerve for me.
..what goes around comes around..
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire