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
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
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
Though my favorite composers are Brahms and Dvorak, it is Mahler's music more than any other composer's that instills in me the feeling I'm experiencing one's deeply personal odyssey. His intermittent bittersweetness and sentimentality are most affecting.
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