That song is pretty heartbreaking by the end. Makes me tear up.
In Your Image
by 54-40. I bought the album, Since When, at Blockbuster one night, on a whim. (I already had Trusted By Millions, so I figured I'd give the album a try.) I popped it in my discman when I was in bed. And I was blown away by the whole thing, but by that song in particular. I was listening to a lot of heavy metal at the time - Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Black Sabbath - and the album was really different from what I usually liked. A lot more mellow, and a lot prettier. In retrospect, it's a middling album - good, but not great. But at 13 or 14, something about it really appealed to me. I think it started an evolution of my musical tastes.
Too many to remember (and I couldn't say which one came first), but Neko Case's song "The Virginian", Simon and Garfunkel's "I am a rock", Helen Sjöholm's "Gabriellas sång" (from the movie As it is in Heaven) and Nordman's "Det sista du ser" have all been very important to me in the love/hurt/getting back on your feet-kind of way. Music is an extremely important part of my life, and I could make a list of important songs for each emotion I've ever known. Too much work and too dull for anyone else to read for typing it out now though ^_^;;
I'm just here now, and soon I'll be goneBig Star - Holocaust. To me this song sounds like what depression feels like:
edited 9th Apr '13 2:51:37 PM by MikeK
Quite a long time ago Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (Homogenic Version) sent shivers down my spine.
Just recently Aphex Twin - 4
I'm so sorry that my avatar doesn't appear fully in the shot, but the cat was threatening the photographer.Just tonight, something I bumped into by chance whilst I was researching and debating Margaret Thatcher's legacy in OTC. Billy Bragg's Northern Industrial Town. The interesting things that it isn't even about a northern industrial town. It's about Belfast. But the imagery and description are some of the most powerful I've heard. It's basically a ballad to a lost Britain...right up until the last line, which turns it into a listener punch about The Troubles. Maybe you have to be from the North of Britain, but it made me weep Manly Tears of sorrow for the communities we've lost over here.
edited 13th Apr '13 8:03:59 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiFrom the upcoming The Great Gatsby soundtrack album, "Over the Love" by Florence + the Machine and "Kill and Run" by Sia. Wow. Both Florence and Sia sure know how to hit the right buttons.
And while I just have cursory experience with Sia, I'm starting to admire her talent and skill. She manages to be relevant in today's pop scene (her collaborations with David Guetta and Flo Rida, writing Rihanna's "Diamonds" and many other songs), rocking a great voice—all while being a Reclusive Artist, or at least keeping her face out of the spotlight.
edited 27th Apr '13 1:24:36 PM by chihuahua0
the first time I heard fun.'s Some Nights was on an iTunes preview and I was like "ehh. It's no We Are Young." A couple months later in June, I listened to it in full... and was completely blown away. It was a complete upending of everything Pop Music was supposed to be- The Anti-Pop Pop Song. The drums, the minimal but wonderful guitar, the Auto Tune Solo, the Intro, OH GOD THE INTRO. The lyrics being a perfect mix of sorrow, desperation, regret, and utter triumphantness... It was perfect. I hoped and prayed that it would gain recognition, and I was so happy when I heard it after every other song the rest of the year.
See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.
100% agreed, aside from the fact that I first heard it on the actual album itself and loved it from the moment I heard it
(it would be better if you just listened to Erotomania before this as this is just the second part of "A Mind Beside Itself", a suite made up of three different songs, but this is what really has an impact)
It just creates such an atmosphere with the quiet sections contrasted with the loud, chaotic parts, not to mention the vocals and lyrics. And that's not to mention the guitar solo at 7:20...

Iron Maiden's Children of the Grave almost had me in tears when I first heard it. I hadn't even figured out it was about a kid being atomized at the end of World War II yet.
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