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WHAT SONG TOUCHES YOUR HEART THE MOST?
DON'T DIVORCE a song from the perspective of a child https://youtu.be/FFbSR5OLcQs
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Nearly all Chopin. Check out Rafal Blechacz. Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs. Jesse Norman is tremendous and has good liner notes, but worth exploring, Google for "Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs, A discographical survey by Ralph Moore" Mascagni https://youtu.be/7OvsVSWB4TI https://youtu.be/vEhSUYEXwAk |
Some great suggestions I might have made, if I’d thought of it first. Peter Gabriel Don’t Give Up, try Willie Nelson’s version too Joni Mitchell almost anything, but “ If I had a River “ will do, or anything on “Blue” Bonnie Raitt “I can’t Make you love me”. Just reminds me of my fruitless love affairs in my youth. So what about me Maria Callas “Casta Diva”. Check it on You Tube, the definition of an artist pouring their soul into a song For Popular music: Sara K. Waterfalls Jonatha Brooke. Back in the Circus Just because I love both artists. Ask me tomorrow and it would be different |
Last Train From Poor Valley. Norman Blake. And the many cover versions from others! https://www.last.fm/music/Norman+Blake/_/Last+Train+From+Poor+Valley |
I'll get to the sweeter side of emotion eventually, just happened to be listening to Ani Difranco, 'To The Teeth', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81tmJAxvlds btw, that whole album is a great one to dust your dust caps with! |
"Letter Never Sent" - REM"; Carpet Crawlers" - Peter Gabriel era Genesis; " Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" - Ralph Vaughan Williams; "The Past and Pending" - The Shins"; Casimir Pulaski Day" - Sufjan Stevens; "Carry Me Ohio" - Sun Kil Moon"; Symphony No.3" - Henryk Gorecki; "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot.....to name a few |
@oldhvymec Amazing Grace. When my grandmother sang it.. Still hear it to this day. Playing the piano and singing in Moody Texas Local Baptist Church 1966 (close). That a great story! Amazing Grace is as good as a heart touching song gets. And to hear your grandma sing it in church. What a memory! Are you familiar with John Newton, the author of the song? That's a story as amazing as the song. He was the captain of a slave ship. On a particularly rough journey he believed it was God's wrath poured out on him. He gave his life to Christ. The song was a result of his conversion. The original title was "Faith's Review and Expectation" |
OP: 'touches your heart'. Many people see The Carpenters as pretty much pulp, but Karen's plaintive but confident aspiration in 'We've Only Just Begun' is cast into harsh focus with her death just a few years later from anorexia. That is an extreme example because of the reference in the lyric to the terrible ending but listening to the end-scene work of musicians who died young brings out the emotion. There are so far far too many of them but for me it's Sandy Denny, John Lennon, Frank Zappa, George Harrison. And Roy Orbison whose soaring high tenor, intact to the end, on his final album and the Wilburys somehow evokes the pain of facing early death. |
"Anthem" by Leonard Cohen. The chorus goes like this: "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in." That song inspires me to always keep an open mind. The song that evokes the most romantic feelings in me is George Harrison’s "Something". |
