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Music that really stirs your emotions

ok, I know all music is suppose to stir your emotions . . . but stick with me.

I put the original Boz Scaggs album on the TT this morning. This has always been one of my favorites - I played it constantly while in college in the mid-70's, but haven't listened to it in over a year. Side 2 is one of the best album sides aver recorded IMO - the sequence of songs is perfect. Anyway, It's unavoidable to get sucked into "Loan me a Dime" from the beginning (foot tapping, head bobbing, etc), but about 3/4's of the way through Duane Allman's solo I begin to giggle uncontrollably. Then after all that, it goes into "Sweet Release", which really does help release all that energy from the prior track.

What music most stirs emotions for you - whether it's giggling, crying, or ?
bdgregory
newbee
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Most anything sung by Eva Cassidy, but especially 'Over the Rainbow' and due to my ancestry perhaps, 'Danny Boy'. The former reminds me of a full grown woman with real desires, unlike Judy with a soft youthful fantasy. She grabs you right in the beginning when she delivers the title - a very straight forward powerful statement - and never lets go! And she dies so prematurely, we can only hope she got to the other side. So sad!

The last movement from Mahler's Symphony #2 (when it finally arrives! - not independently).
isochronism
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Try "christmas time is here again"choral version, by Vince Guaraldi (popularized by ""A Charlie Brown Christmas" It kicks my butt each time). and maybe some prescription meds. Im not a doctor, but I play one on TV...well..cable, I'm lying again,, sorry Enjoy
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philjolet
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Nina Simone can really build some nice crescendos
isochronism
2,893 posts
 
Try "christmas time is here again"choral version, by Vince Guaraldi (popularized by ""A Charlie Brown Christmas" It kicks my butt each time). and maybe some prescription meds. Im not a doctor, but I play one on TV...well..cable, I'm lying again,, sorry Enjoy
bryoncunningham
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For me, the most emotional music is by people who are unhappy. So for vocalists, it's people like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Waits, John Lee Hooker.

The second most emotional kind of music for me is by people who are contemplative. So for classical music, it's solo works from the Baroque or Romantic eras, or choral music. For contemporary music, it's people like Brian Eno, Robert Rich, David Hykes, Steve Roach.

Bryon
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