Songs that Evoke a Strong Emotion

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]What songs make you feel a strong emotion? Maybe it's a deep sadness or melancholy, or a powerful charge, or jsut makes you feel good. I'm talking about that song that makes you feel that way each time you listen - a little bit of magic in music.

For me, the strognest one is probably Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) by Coheed and Cambria. I cannot easily describe the feeling I get - it's one part rebellious, a part emo, and a part venting your frustration. The lyrics are pretty emotional themself, and quite emo I might add XD. Just the repeated line, "pull the trigger and the nightmare stops!" is one of the most powerful images you can get, and a sort of ultimate emotional conflict. I tell you, I sing this song louder and more animatedly than any other, sometimes jumping around my room, jumping on (and thereby toppeling) chairs and flipping out while screaming the words (my room is really damn big). It's the sort of song that always makes me feel a little angry when I listen and makes me want to move faster than normal.

How about you? (expecting Clurr with an AFI song in T minus 10...9...)[/COLOR]

[Panache]

[B]Wings of Marie part 2-Tool[/B]
This song if I listen to the whole thing brings me to tears every time. I am not really sad or anything but God damn the song is full of passion. I dunno what exact emotion I feel when I listen to it....but it is damn strong.
[B]
Bottom-Tool[/B]
This song makes me feel angry. Not a violent angry....more of a "Man I ****** hate this ****" angry.

[B]Calling Doctor Love-Shandis Addiction[/B]
This song makes me feel smug and happy. When MJK says "I got the cure your thinkin of" I always laugh.

[B]What's goin on-(covered) by A Perfect Circle[/B]
This song always makes me feel happy and sorta empathetic. It also makes me wanna be nice to everyone even if they are being dicks.

Last but not least
[B]Cassie Eats Cockroaches-Acid Bath[/B]
This song makes me wanna break ****...

[Mr. Maul]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Against my better judgment, I'm going to take a risk and post in a [B]DB[/B] thread...


I'd have to say that I'm a sucker for the classic "emotional" bands (note: not Emo). Anything by [B]Death Cab[/B]/[B]Postal Service[/B], [B]Coldplay[/B], [B]Bright Eyes[/B], et. al, really gets me thinking about ex-girlfriends, current crushes, and other such topics of love.

[B]David Bowie[/B]'s "[B]Heroes[/B]" (the [B]Aphex Twin[/B] remix), select songs by [B]Arcade Fire[/B] (especially "[B]Tunnels[/B]"), select songs by [B]The Shins[/B], and "[B]Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime[/B]" (both the original, and the [B]Beck[/B] cover) all do the trick, as well.

I guess that aside from a song evoking the "awesome!" emotional reaction from me, "love" is the only other emotion I ever feel due to music.




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[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]@ Panache: Bottom is a good one - I've actaully gotten tired f the ong from playing it too damn much, but I can't help but listen to it when it comes on - it gets you in the '**** the world' attitude where you look around, see everything you hate, and just start screaming. Another one I like to sing loud.

@ Mr. Maul: Bright Eyes "Four Winds" is the only song I've really heard by them, but it's sort of melancholy nature is deep and touching. It's a song I really have to be in the mood for, though, but when I feel like the world is messed up, it always fits. I used the lyrics in an english report once. [/COLOR]

[Vicky]

[SIZE=1][B]Depeche Mode[/B] have some songs that provoke some sort of emotion in me, mostly [B]Enjoy the Silence[/b] and [B]Blasphemous Rumours[/B]. The Acoustic remix for Blasphemous Rumours makes me real sad and the lyrics, though simple like every other song they seem to do, make me smile ironically even though I'm sad.

[B]Marilyn Manson's Ka-Boom Ka-Boom[/b] is one of the song that makes me damn hyper and excited and all 'screamy', for lack of a better word. It gives me a nice goth feeling. There's also [b]mOBSCENE[/B] and [B]Posthuman[/B] that give the same feeling. His remix of [B]Sweet Dreams[/b] makes me angry on an opposite note, haha. In fact, most of Manson's songs invoke some sort of strong emotion.

I don't know what emotion it is but the [B]Sex Pistol's[/B] version of [B]My Way[/b] makes some sort of mix between excitement and... maybe reminiscence, irony and humour. Dunno, that's a weird one. [B]Pretty Vacant[/b] makes me all jumpy.

On that note of a bit of punk, [B]Crass[/b] and their song [B]Bloody Revolutions[/B] makes me angry. Not that it's bad (because, you know, Crass is bad anyway), just it does. Same with [B]the Exploited's Chaos is my Life[/B].

That silly song [B]Somewhere Over the Rainbow[/B] makes me well depressed, though.[/SIZE]

[Panache]

[quote name='2008DigitalBoy'][COLOR="DarkOrange"]@ Panache: Bottom is a good one - I've actaully gotten tired f the ong from playing it too damn much, but I can't help but listen to it when it comes on - it gets you in the '**** the world' attitude where you look around, see everything you hate, and just start screaming. Another one I like to sing loud.
[/COLOR][/QUOTE] I almost got in trouble on my bus once for screaming "**** ADDS UP ON THE BOTTOM!"

The only song I sing out loud besides that one is Rosetta Stoned("**** my bead again!"

My Friends who only listen to go-go(I mentioned it in premonitions thread...it is garbage) think I am crazy.

Speaking of Rosetta Stoned that song makes me feel really desperate when he says, "You believe me don't you? Please believe what I just said."

He says it with such desperation in his voice that I feel it. It's kinda haunting.

[QUOTE]Depeche Mode have some songs that provoke some sort of emotion in me, mostly Enjoy the Silence and Blasphemous Rumours. The Acoustic remix for Blasphemous Rumours makes me real sad and the lyrics, though simple like every other song they seem to do, make me smile ironically even though I'm sad.[/QUOTE]
All of the Depeche mode songs provoke emotion for me. Enjoy the Silence most of all. Their songs make me feel the same way Undertow by Tool makes me feel but Depeche puts me in the mood even more. Very gloomy.

[Aberinkula]

[COLOR="1234"]Mother Superior by Cpoeed and Cambria gets to me. A little bit of sadness, a little of rock-out-loud fury. But the lyrics and piano are what make this song shine.

[I][B]Your answer is in there, just stare down the barrell
This sincerest apologies, wont write you out of this one
Tonight, you'll find the right in the pull of the trigger, now bite
Young fool, don't cry....[/B][/I]

These lyrics especially. Those words grab me and hold me down, mostly because I've felt this way before..

Gravemakers & Gunslingers, another Coheed song, fills me with emotions. The emotion that I want to draw out a gun and start shooting **** for action purposes. The guitar, the riffs, it all adds up.

Vicarious by Tool, this song makes me want to kill soemthing and watch it be tortured. Not a person, an animal. When Maynard says "You all need it too, don't lie," I get the feeling that I need to open a can of Hulk on soemone.[/COLOR]

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=arial][size=1]If you ever need to feel inspired to do anything, I have two songs for you:

This Will Destroy You - "The World is Our _____"
Sigur Rós - "Glósóli"

The first is so inspiring that I think it was the Marines... used it for the soundtrack to a presentation video at one point and it was shown to quite a few and maybe even G.W. Bush. It really is a magical song. Meanwhile, I think for "Glósóli" you'd need to see the video. [url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ[/url]

As for sad songs... ANYTHING BY SAETIA. Especially "Venus and Bacchus." You will hate the vocals, but it adds to how frantic and upset the song in general feels. Also, pretty much anything on Opeth's Blackwater Park album.[/font][/size]

[DeathKnight]

[quote name='Goodbye, Face'][font=arial][size=1]
This Will Destroy You - "The World is Our _____"

The first is so inspiring that I think it was the Marines... used it for the soundtrack to a presentation video at one point and it was shown to quite a few and maybe even G.W. Bush. It really is a magical song. Meanwhile, I think for "Glósóli" you'd need to see the video. [url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ[/url][/font][/size][/QUOTE]

[color=crimson]Should try it live man. It was loud enough I could feel the vibrations reverberating in my body. That added a kind of nice atmospheric quality to it - like it was really moving through me.

It was too bad. This Will Destroy You was the first band out of six, on at 6:30, and the joint was half empty. They deserved a bigger crowd.[/color]

[Panache]

[QUOTE]Vicarious by Tool, this song makes me want to kill soemthing and watch it be tortured. Not a person, an animal. When Maynard says "You all need it too, don't lie," I get the feeling that I need to open a can of Hulk on soemone.[/QUOTE] I kinda thought the song was suppose to have the opposite effect. It sorta makes me feel disgusted with us as a species.

[Goodbye, Face]

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson]Should try it live man. It was loud enough I could feel the vibrations reverberating in my body. That added a kind of nice atmospheric quality to it - like it was really moving through me.

It was too bad. This Will Destroy You was the first band out of six, on at 6:30, and the joint was half empty. They deserved a bigger crowd.[/color][/QUOTE]

[font=arial][size=1]I saw them opening for Fear Before the March of Flames and there were maybe 15 people in the room, it was so sad. If you look at most of their live videos, the band itself isn't very energetic, but before I saw them they got a new bassist and he really livens up the place, I guess you know what I mean. My friend took videos of them and uploaded them all to Facebook instead of YouTube so I can't show anyone, what a shame.[/font][/size]

[John]

Most of [I]I Get Wet[/I] by Andrew W.K. can really get my blood moving and put me in a state of "who cares, rock 'n roll". Man, brilliant album.

[I]Loveless[/I] by My Bloody Valentine has a sedative effect on me that's peculiarly consistent.

Then there's a few things that can get me sad for a little while, like Slint and a few Bowie songs ("Life on Mars?", "Rock 'n Roll Suicide", etc.).

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Taiyou no Mannake he by Bivattche is the third opening theme to Eureka Seven, and I have to say, nothing out there is quite as upliting and generally make you feel like following your dreams, which is my favorite feeling in the world. Having first heard it in the show, I always loved the parts where he yells 'I WANNA FLY AWAY!' though hearing the full version it's just an all-around epic song. Can't beat symphonic indie, lol.[/COLOR]

[Aberinkula]

[quote name='2008DigitalBoy'][COLOR="DarkOrange"]Taiyou no Mannake he by Bivattche is the third opening theme to Eureka Seven, and I have to say, nothing out there is quite as upliting and generally make you feel like following your dreams, which is my favorite feeling in the world. Having first heard it in the show, I always loved the parts where he yells 'I WANNA FLY AWAY!' though hearing the full version it's just an all-around epic song. Can't beat symphonic indie, lol.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
[COLOR="1234"]I agree. I loved almost every theme song for Eureka Seven. [/COLOR]

[Vicky]

[quote name='Goodbye, Face'][font=arial][size=1]
This Will Destroy You - "The World is Our _____"
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[SIZE=1]Agreed. Whole-heartedly and a high-five for the mention.

My friend linked me to This Will Destroy You on MySpace and, actually, every piece they have on there is emotionally moving somehow. Them lot are probably one of the best instrumental bands out there, in my opinion anyway. Their tracks are beautiful.[/SIZE]

[Nomurah!]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="HotPink"]Aha.. God. First of all, Definitely Three Evils by Coheed and Cambria, the whole song is just so moving... especially the ending. It sounds so happy with such a brutal subject to be singing about. "Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops"

And then there's my favorite song of all time, literally.. "Light and The Glass" by Coheed. I can't tell you how many times I've cried on that song. The choir singing "Pray for us all"... Claudio yelling out "Your father's dead, he died in his sleep", which reminds me of my wife, who the lyrics follow closely.. It's sad, yes.

"Remembrance Dialogue"- Number 12 Most of it is just the singers screaming those two words in the name, but they manage to make it so sad, with all of the ringing and guitars...Hell, even the drummer sounds moving in that song.

These next two bands both..are very depressing, while nothing alike. Saetia, definitely, and As Cities Burn as well. So, anything by them is great, even though I lost interest in ACB for a while, I regained it... by actually LISTENING to the music.

Underoath evokes so many emotions, with their two great albums "Changing of Times" and "Define the Great Line".. While Define has a raunchy southern Norma-Jean style to it, and makes you kind of...angry? Or is it afraid? Since most of the songs deal with being totally... helpless. Changing is a broken-heart album...every song on that album is just depressing, but somehow it brings a uplifting sense into your heart.

While I'm talking to myself about Underoath, you guys should also listen to This Runs Through, the former project fo the Chamberlain brothers, which is a much sadder experience than Spencer's work on Define.

I'm done. Nuff said.
p.s- you have good taste in music, DB. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Aberinkula]

[COLOR="1234"]Whoa, Mann, I have another reason to respect you dude. The Light and the Glass is an epic with unimaginable feeling. I cry when I lsiten to it too. BTW, Define the Great Line is a great album, and Underoath is good as well.

[B]FMLYHM by Seether[/B] is a good song filled with emotion. FMLYHM is an acrynym for "**** me like you hate me." even though I don't like Seether, this song is really good and filed with love and depsair. Sometimes bad bands have good songs.

[B]Welcome Home[/B] by Co&Ca just gets me enraged. The lyrics, the guitars, the dualing guitars, it's jsut an orgy of feelings. Hate, love and murder, it tells a talle of love that smashes a man in the face. Ironically, dont' like [B]Three Evils [/B]that much, it's good, but I don't relaly see the feeling. Anyways, I love towards the end when Claudio says "Before I hope you die." When he screams die I get shivers down my spine.

Now, Claudio Sanchex is one of the best when it cmes to emotions. He allows it to flow for the songs, I can see why some poeple call the band emo.

[B]The Velourium Camper II: Backend of Forever [/B]tells the tale of man who can't find love. "I have no luck with girls," "I overheard you were unnappy too" and "I wish I would never hurt agian" are soem of my favorite lines on In Keeping secrets of Silent Earth: 3 because I used to feel like that all the time. Along with [B]Al the Killer[/B], another song that is punped with grungy and slimey feelings of misery, despair, malice and hate. [/COLOR]

[2010DigitalBoy]

[quote name='Whoa, Mann'][SIZE="1"][COLOR="HotPink"]And then there's my favorite song of all time, literally.. "Light and The Glass" by Coheed. I can't tell you how many times I've cried on that song. The choir singing "Pray for us all"... Claudio yelling out "Your father's dead, he died in his sleep", which reminds me of my wife, who the lyrics follow closely.. It's sad, yes.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Ah, some great (terrible?) memories to that one. I love the ending most of all for being so epic, but my experiences are with the rest. Having been in a long-distance relationship, it was too fitting.[B] 'Carving her name across your arm.... with every wish, it's hit or miiiiiiiiiss heeeeeeeer I tooooold you sooooo, I measured a distance in lines, departing the rest of our lives' [/B]lyrics to die bye, hehe. I can't tell you how many times I laid in bed listening to that song and hoping sleep or death would come before 21:13, but thankfully that's all in the past ^^;;

next I'd like to mention another anime song, [B]God Knows...[/B] from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. In my opinion, it's the best vocal performance ever, and it gives me chills (especially watching with the anime footage.... the part where she yells "dakara....WATASHI!!" is animated so well it's moving). That song always just makes me feel blown away, like I've just witnessed something truly beautiful *likens it to the intoduction of Boogiepop vs. Imaginator novel. EVERYONE should read that intro.... and all Boogiepop-related material*[/COLOR]

[Panache]

I listened to that coheed Song. It was pretty meh for me. It ain't even close to Welcome Home.

Anyway I rediscovered Mayhem. I used to listen to them but then stopped for some reason.

Deahtcrush makes me ready to break ****...like no joke it makes me wanna break ****.
So yea lot's of really strong anger there.

[Nomurah!]

[COLOR="HotPink"][SIZE="1"]Haha, that's funny.. 21:13 is one of my favorite songs as well. :] That album has so many emotional elements.. II is pretty emotional too, and IV is..well, okay. Welcome Home was a good single, but I'm tired of everybody only knowing that song and A Favor House Atlantic (not saying you guys only know those songs, but every kid around here..pretty much says the same old crap).. But I will say, that A Favor House Atlantic makes you feel... pretty? It makes you want to act feminine (maybe that's just me, lol) and be SEXY.

Sex-eeeee.

Speaking of that, I must bring up the Blood Brothers. That band is pretty sexy-sounding... The singers sound all.. old-woman-ish (not really, but very feminine, yes) with alot of key sounds and quirky guitar riffs, and weird chorus'. :] but, I don't guess I know much of them besides of the music on Young Machetes.. But as far as Young Machetes goes, the whole thing is pretty much sex sounds. Yeahhh.

Oh yeah. I LIKE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. Had to get that out, that I like synth pop, or whatever it is, along with the Killers.. Killers has a more sad...and happy sound, while once again, Justin is sex-eee. You can find many great emotions in that synth stuff, usually Sad, Happy, and Sexy sounds. Yes... those are the three major emotions I feel, at least.

Now, respond to what I just said. [/SIZE][/COLOR]

edit: just so you know, I was using sexy as an emotion.

[Goodbye, Face]

[quote name='Whoa, Mann'][COLOR="HotPink"][SIZE="1"]Speaking of that, I must bring up the Blood Brothers. That band is pretty sexy-sounding... The singers sound all.. old-woman-ish (not really, but very feminine, yes) with alot of key sounds and quirky guitar riffs, and weird chorus'. :] but, I don't guess I know much of them besides of the music on Young Machetes.. But as far as Young Machetes goes, the whole thing is pretty much sex sounds. Yeahhh.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
[font=arial][size=1]I'm going to pull a line out of the book of Jake and tell you to please stop listening to The Blood Brothers if you're going to talk about them like that!

Having sex to them would just be awkward, I don't find anything "sexy" about their music at all, haha. The music itself is made to be as strange and fun as possible, and the vocalists draw their lyrical content from surrealism paintings. I don't see them being a strong emotions band except for "hey, these guys are really (good/annoying)."

But yeah, The Blood Brothers are turning in their graves thanks to you.[/font][/size]

[Nomurah!]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="HotPink"]Aha. Thank you for your post, Face. I was thinking more along of the lines of just plain-out being feminine and sexy... I wouldn't have sex to any kind of music, my friend, other than the Nordic flute.

Under the circumstances you may always have a post to counter mine, because I have no talent of typing to describe how I feel about music, yes, we get it. You're smarter than me.

But The Blood Brothers make me feel sexy, like an emotion, not conceited, but. Argh. And dancey, as well.

So, overall. The Blood Brothers has happy sounds, I suppose. Happy sexy dancey sounds.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=arial][size=1]I mean, I can understand "dancey," haha.

It's just that these things aren't concrete, I can't tell you that you're wrong, just that your opinion doesn't make any sense to me!

It's just that Blood Brothers doesn't set out to make anything meaningful enough to evoke a strong emotion. Their early stuff is very aggressive, but it's done in a fun way, so it doesn't sound angry. Since then they lessened up on the aggression and became more experimental.

And again, note my tone in my last post, I was only half-serious with you. If I was attacking you there would be some different words flying. XD[/font][/size]

[Billy Shears]

[COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="1"][B]Pink Floyd[/B]'s "Us and Them"- I can go from relaxed then to very anxious, especially during the part where David Gilmour is talking about war. You kinda feel like a grunt in the army being sent into battle.

[B]So Many Dynamos[/B]- "We Vibrate, We Do"- The ultimate dance song to me. It's really off-time and a little obnoxious, but you can still dance the **** out of this song.

[B]Tom Waits[/B]- "Soldiers' Things"- Very sad song. Its about a woman whose husband died in battle and now she has to sell all his old posessions. Actually, come to think of it, all Tom Waits songs can evoke some kind of emotion.

Lots of songs also evoke jealousy, because there are certain riffs or bits of songs that make me think, "goddammit, why didn't I write that?"

And finally, a song I have a hard time listening to

[B]Kermit the Frog[/B]- "Rainbow Connection"- I am completely serious too. I don't know why, but this song gets me every time I hear it. I feel this weird happiness/extreme sadness. It may be really lame of me to kind of break down every time I hear a puppet frog sing this, but I dunno. The lyrics call for something that will never happen, but you'd swear once that song was finished, you were ready to change the world for the better. [/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Panache]

[QUOTE]Kermit the Frog- "Rainbow Connection"- I am completely serious too. I don't know why, but this song gets me every time I hear it. I feel this weird happiness/extreme sadness. It may be really lame of me to kind of break down every time I hear a puppet frog sing this, but I dunno. The lyrics call for something that will never happen, but you'd swear once that song was finished, you were ready to change the world for the better. [/QUOTE]

I was like "Your shitting me..." Then I listened to it...your absolutely right Billy.