Speaking of Lucinda, I adore her song "West", which ends the album of the same title. Another of hers that chokes me up is on the same album: "Are You Alright?". Lucinda is the queen of melancholia.
Have to remind everyone of Ray Davies' masterpiece "Waterloo Sunset".
I think Russian orchestral music conveys emotion so well, especially rage, anger, loneliness and at times humor. Rimsky, Shosty, Borodin and Mussorgsky are my go to composers.
both sides now. Seal cover Joni Mitchell 75 th birthday
heroes cover by Peter Gabriel with the London symphony. This one isn’t the most meaningful song, but reminds you that you are a music lover that makes every effort to reproduce beautiful music in their home
Continuing tony1954's theme of music to wallow in:
Cowboy Junkies: Cause Cheap is How I feel
Janis Ian e.g. Between the Lines
Jewel: Foolish Games
Warren Zevon: Knockin on Heaven's Door (Zevon was dying of cancer)
Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat
Only happened once, but I guess it counts - Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy. That being said - Louis Armstrong Black and Blue gets me close every time.
The nomination of "Our Town" by @waltersalas is a great one. I’ll add her devastating song "No Time To Cry" (also done by Merle Haggard). Then there is Brian Wilson’s "God Only Knows", as good as songwriting gets, with wonderful singing by his brother Carl. Another is "The Weight" by The Band, and "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted", sung by Jimmy Ruffin (Joan Osborne also recorded great versions of the song, both live and in the studio)..
I won't say that anything invokes that kind of reaction in me, but, there are some extremely beautiful or otherwise evocative music that I really love:
The second movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto
Schubert's String Quintet (D. 956)
Korngold, Die Tote Stadt-duet "Gluck, das mir verlieb"
I cry everytime I play my MoFi Original Masters Recording of Ry Cooder's Paradise and Lunch, as I am reminded of how much I paid for that record and it doesn't really sound any better than my 45 year old original copy. 😭
I tried to paste a link to Steve Earle doing Tecumseh Valley, failed at that, but think it's one of those that are asked about here. For me it definitely is.
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