The most emotional music you know

[Executor]

Music is an amazing thing. It is the closest thing humanity has to a universal language. Of all the great pieces of music you know, what affects you emotionally the most?

For myself:

Nearer, my God, to Thee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwLl5nY5WPI

Dettingen Te Deum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EfcFfP960

Tallis Fantasia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSyjEEcmnQ

Ave Maria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPvAQxZsgpQ

Nessun Dorma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTBml4oOZ8

How about you guys?

[Moff Chumley]

As I believe I've mentioned several (dozen) times on this forum, All My Friends, by LCD Soundsystem, is the only song that's ever managed to affect me enough to have me in tears. Honorable mentions go to Portishead, Bon Iver, and of course Mountain Goats. (inb4 Vaynor)

[Tengu_temp]

Most depressing:
Cowboy Bebop, Blue

Most uplifting:
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Pierce the Heavens with your XXX! v.2

[Nameless Ghost]

For me, Dream Theater's The Best of Times.

[Yanagi]

Aram Khachaturian, Adagio from Spartacus

Puccini, Un Bel Di from Madam Butterfly

...which, along with Nessun Dorme, are the three pieces guaranteed to get me a bit teary.

It's actually a lot harder to peg down "most emotional" for more jubilant moods.

[dromer]

Verde's Deus Irae

[TheThan]

Nistalga hits me hard when i hear this. Even though I am not even close enough to recall it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbd6iMyIx30

[SamBurke]

This music.

[Ravens_cry]

"The Inner Light" Orchestral made me cry.

[Jan Mattys]

J.S. Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor

[Hida Reju]

Hawksley Workman - Anger as Beauty

Morandi - Save me(Feat helene)

Cold - With my mind

T.A.T.U - 30 Minutes

Brian McFadden - Demons

[shiram]

I'd probably have to go with The Gathering on this one, and I'll choose the song Forgotten, as an example...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1H34ANYEw

But emotions can be a great number of things, and some songs can affect me emotionnaly in different ways...

Devin Townsend'd things beyong things : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWfTQ2yn1Go


And of course the same artist can bring forth a very different vibe and emotions, so I'll list another song, Detox from Strapping young Lad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM

[Warlawk]

The Fiddle and the Drum is one of the few songs that can consistently bring out a powerful emotional response.

There are other songs that hit me at particular times and such, but this one gets me every time.

If you get there before I do has been a recent thing since both of my grandparents passed fairly recently and the song does a fine job of capturing their attitudes about death.

[Ursus the Grim]

There are some good ones, but I'm going to go with songs I listened to in my younger, more emotional days. Don't worry, no MCR or Green Day.

Seeman was especially relevant when I was loneliest.

The OTHER emotional Cowboy Bebop song.


Sleeping beauty waltz.

I'm sure I'm the only person who gets teary from that last song. Backstory is that I proposed to my fiancee in a hot air balloon over the fireworks at disney. This will be our first song at our wedding reception. I could ramble on and get all mushy, but that's the gist of it.

[drakir_nosslin]

Gortoz a ran J'attends - Amazing song. I'm considering to have it played at my funeral.

[SympathyBot]

I Luv the Valley OH! by Xiu Xiu

[Linkavitch]

J.S. Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Really? That makes me want to burst out in maniacal giggles whenever I play it.


As for me, this song by my favorite band ever just about makes me cry everytime I hear it.

[Science Officer]

I'd have to say Neon Lights by Kraftwerk,though I'm forgetting many others...

[thompur]

This always gives me chills. Just beautiful.

[Moff Chumley]

I'd have to say Neon Lights by Kraftwerk,though I'm forgetting many others...

I can honestly say, when I saw this thread, the last name I expected to pop up was Kraftwerk. I love Kraftwerk, don't get me wrong, but a band so associated with robots and computers is... not the sort you expect to get name-checked in this sorta thread.

[No brains]

In my extreme niche, the song that moves me most is the theme for Madness Consternation. The first time I saw the movie the music ran in perfect time with the action, adding pathos to the series for the first time. In the same vein, the theme to Madness Abrogation mixes in the older track to change the theme from dicey and terrified to bold and victorious. (it's not often I spontaneously head bang, but when I do, it was to that song).

The soundtrack to Batman Begins is similarly awe inspiring.

[JabberwockySupafly]

For a song that has no problems making me cry? Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore. It's a sad song on it's own, but it has the extra weight for me of having been the song playing on my stereo when I got the news my grandfather, who was my hero, had passed away. Now, I can't listen to it without tearing up.


For a song that has no problems putting me in a good place emotionally?

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul. Every time I hear it, I just grin like an idiot because it's so damn fun. Plus the lyrics are, in classic TMBG style, completely absurd and the song itself is infectious. Honourable mention to Exquisite Dead Guy & Mr.Me by TMBG as well for always maing me feel better. Actually, TMBG makes me feel better.

If I've come home from a bad day at work or some other negative emotional state, I put on TMBG and I find it impossible to be in a bad mood. So, in a way TMBG is the most emotional music for me, it just happens to be an incredibly positive emotion. :)

[Sneak]

Sparklehorse - Sad & Beautiful World

[Vaynor]

As I believe I've mentioned several (dozen) times on this forum, All My Friends, by LCD Soundsystem, is the only song that's ever managed to affect me enough to have me in tears. Honorable mentions go to Portishead, Bon Iver, and of course Mountain Goats. (inb4 Vaynor)

I'll see your No Children and raise you a Woke Up New, Going to Georgia, Store, and Downtown Seoul, among many many more.

[Gaelbert]

Don't Speak by No Doubt. I can't even listen to it anymore because it reminds me of someone very close to me whom passed away.

[Athaniar]

Definitely Baba Yetu. It's been one of my favorite songs ever since I first heard it.

[Dacia Brabant]

Flight takes the top spot for me (the Myth album version is quite good, too).

[Science Officer]

I can honestly say, when I saw this thread, the last name I expected to pop up was Kraftwerk. I love Kraftwerk, don't get me wrong, but a band so associated with robots and computers is... not the sort you expect to get name-checked in this sorta thread.

There are few things I love more than computers and robots.
By "forgetting many others" I meant other songs, not other Kraftwerk songs.
This is the only of theirs that affects me emotionally. The simple, whimsical, wistful sound of it is so perfectly captures something, about the past and the future, and my connection to technology, though I'm not sure I can say what.

Here's another example of a very emotional electronic song, I think.


Here's a few more conventional examples, though, unfortunately, 'Nitcomb' was taken off of youtube.

[Tengu_temp]

Flight takes the top spot for me (the Myth album version is quite good, too).

Great choice. I love that theme.

[H Birchgrove]

A pity most of you won't get the lyrics:

"Hand i hand" by Magnus Uggla

This one is in English, and very sad IMHO:

"Forever Young" by Alphaville

Aggressive and triumphant music:

"Conan the Barbarian" suite by Basil Poledouris