|
Post by Helmut83 on Feb 26, 2016 4:16:18 GMT
I find Blown Away quite affecting. Well said, Platypus! I didn't mention it because I thought the thread was about ELO songs, but Blown Away is amongst the very best ballads Jeff Lynne has ever written. I find it extraordinary.
|
|
|
Post by onesummerdream on Feb 26, 2016 6:05:37 GMT
Latitude 88 North. Sometimes it just makes me Midnight Blue.
|
|
|
Post by sparky123 on Feb 26, 2016 8:53:14 GMT
I must be a hard hearted person as no song has made me emotional
|
|
|
Post by soonerorlater on Feb 26, 2016 9:53:30 GMT
Emotional? I'd have to say The Battle Of Marston Moor and most songs on Discovery - but probably not in the way that most of you are articulating here!
On the positive side of 'emotional' I'd like to add in a couple of instrumentals: Fire On High and After All. I associate both with specific moments in my life. Isn't that what music is all about?
|
|
|
Post by nickheynes on Feb 26, 2016 14:59:21 GMT
Well .ELO wise I welled up during ICGIOOMH in Hyde Park .Shangri la is another one. For other songs; I just cannot listen to "When she loved me" from Toy Story 2 without dissolving into a puddle of mush! (mainly because it reminds me of my daughter when she was little. She just loved Jessie the cow girl so it brings back loads of memories). Father and Daughter by Paul Simon "As long as one and one makes two, there could never be a father, love his daughter more than I love you " Also, "I dreamed a dream". Not Susan Boyle's version but when I've seen it sung in the West End it knocks me bendy. and there's a song called "Harry" by Catherine Howe that gets me 'cos Harry is my son's name. (See a theme developing folks?)
Any way I'm now looking at the screen through misty eyes so I'm gonna sit in the corner of the room and eat Crème Eggs 'till I recover.
|
|
|
Post by Helmut83 on Feb 26, 2016 16:54:40 GMT
For me, top of the "touching songs" list is Louis Armstrong's "What a wonderful world".
|
|
|
Post by Helmut83 on Feb 26, 2016 16:58:57 GMT
Emotional? I'd have to say The Battle Of Marston Moor... Well, to each their own, but talk about a surprising choice... ...but probably not in the way that most of you are articulating here! If it has to do with an urge to press the skip button, I feel that too.
|
|
|
Post by vlogdance on Feb 26, 2016 19:29:32 GMT
There are two French songs that never fail to make me well up.
"Mon Pere Disait" and "La Chanson Des Vieux Amants". Both written and sung by the legendary Jacques Brel.
|
|
|
Post by nickheynes on Feb 26, 2016 23:46:37 GMT
|
|
|
Post by fourlittlediamonds on Feb 27, 2016 4:51:17 GMT
Well as the OP, I would say, feel free to expand this beyond ELO songs, but you already have done!
And on that basis, I would have to add Supertramp's Hide In Your Shell and A Soapbox Opera.
|
|
|
Post by Chippa on Feb 27, 2016 18:20:52 GMT
Emotional? I'd have to say The Battle Of Marston Moor.
This is my answer. In fact, every time I hear the opening strains of this song, I grab a handful of big, thirsty bath towels and head to the basement to gather myself. Usually after about six to seven hours of uncontrollable laughter,weeping,and delusional babbling, I emerge several pounds lighter, and psychologically scarred.
|
|
|
Post by BSJ on Feb 27, 2016 18:50:25 GMT
|
|
|
Post by unomusette on Feb 27, 2016 19:50:42 GMT
The violin solo in Kuiama gets me every time. And once I was deprived of Muse for about a week, and the first tune of theirs I listened to afterwards surprised me by bringing tears to my eyes. It was a particularly brilliant early song though (Microcuts). Since then they've brought out a couple of right dodgy efforts, if it had been one of them it probably wouldn't have happened
|
|
|
Post by Helmut83 on Feb 27, 2016 21:37:54 GMT
Well as the OP, I would say, feel free to expand this beyond ELO songs, but you already have done! Do you use Reddit by any chance?
|
|
|
Post by jackpunch on Feb 27, 2016 23:07:13 GMT
Wilco - One Sunday Morning. Was on the cd in the car as I was driving to the hospital to be told my mam had died.
|
|