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Originally Posted by lph
Thank you so much for mentioning the Linda Eder song. It definitely qualifies as hauntingly beautiful. I can't stop crying now. Thank you. For what it's worth, if any of the rest of you haven't heard it I recommend that you do. It's on YouTubeQuote:
Originally Posted by Aint Doody
Pachbel's Canon is an oldie for me. The building of the music is like walking towards a magnificent mountain.
Gabriel's Oboe from the Movie, "The Mission". I am not religious but the music is moving --wistful, haunting.
If you know the movie about Jesuit priests who live among a particular tribe in the Amazon in 1500's or 1600's (I can't remember.).. Indians plus priests get slaughtered at the end.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?...um=7&ct=title#
Secular images here, not religious. (yeh, the advertising spoils..)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?...um=7&ct=title#
This was hilarious :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
I'm one of the ones who likes classical music, grew up in a house full of it and can identify at least a handful of composers by their music - but I couldn't name a piece to save my life. They're all called symphony this or quartet that, and they don't have any catchy lyrics to stick in my mind ;)
Thanks. Loved that clip.Quote:
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Becca, I took music appreciation as an "easy" credit in university. They knew we would take it as a fluffy course, so they made it so esoteric and hard. I barely passed it. I didn't appreciate the music they threw at us, either. Too bad!
badger I LOVE your avatar
Lakme's Flower Duet. Easily one of the prettiest duets ever, although overused. Puccini's Humming Song a close second.
I play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata -- that one always gets me.
A couple of my favorites...
Green The Whole Year Round by Celtic Women (Lisa Kelly is the singer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIoayxhfRs
A Little Fall of Rain from the Les Miserables 10th anniversary concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4
Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd. I love the juxtaposition that this beautiful song is sung by two villains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4
Green Finch and Linnet Bird, also from Sweeney Todd. I like the movie version of this song much better than the play. Or maybe it's the singer that I like better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rmi...eature=related
I know, I love him, too! I've had him as my wallpaper on my computer for about 4 years now. I don't know who he is, but a friend forwarded it to me and I just fell in love :)Quote:
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Originally Posted by badger
I took music in film and the professor was the same way. I worked hard and had a 97 going into his multiple choice final. He made me come back 100 miles from my grandfather's funeral to take the final or else he would give me a F. My mother asked if he could have me go to a local community college where she knew a professor and have him proctor the exam, the professor said no because he needed me to take his final in his presence. I missed one question.
Grayson--All I have to do is think Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way" to tear up.
If you're interested it's on her Gold album, which has some other beautiful songs, too.
That was actually going to be my next question. Thanks again. Beautiful! I love that woman!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aint Doody
Hmm. You did say 'moved by', not "obsessed by" So, in more or less chronological order
The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia
One Piece at a Time by Johnny Cash-first single I ever bought, started the rockabilly thing for me that continues to this day
Tommy The whole frickin' double sided album by the Who
I'm a Boy by the Who
Behind Blue Eyes by the Who
The Seeker by the Who
Nostradamus by Al Stewart
Please Don't Judas Me by Nazareth
Riverside by the Beat Farmers
Iron Man with Sir Mixalot and Metal Church nothin' rocks harder
Tennessee Waltz
My Baby's Moved by the Hillbilly Hellcats
All Apologies by Nirvana this will be played at my funeral
The River by Bruce Springsteen still makes me cry every time I hear it
TC-that's a cool list ya got dere ;)
Umm..does anyone know a pied piper by chance? You're needed in Hamelin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7737604.stm
Thx for the Pachebel's Rant...it will be a link sent my partner's brother, a piano shop owner/manager ..it's his birthday tomorrow. And he does have music in his blood....he had better he has spoken with the brilliant but eccentric pianist, Glenn Gould who lived in Toronto...about what else pianoes.
I also love Vivaldi's, Gloria in excelsis Deo..more celebatory invigorating music (to me). Another baroque hit from long ago.
Just haven't taken time to know of enough contemporary hits/favs.
My music appreciation is amateurish..based on listening and reading ages ago on baroque era. I had a good friend who became a Mozart freak..she saw Requiem over 10 times. She got me started on baroque.. (I realize Mozart isn't exactly baroque.)
My degree was in music, but music engineering, and I'm still working as an audio engineer, so it's all neatly tied together. I grew up in a 'classical home' too - my parents still go to the NY Philharmonic, some 40 years later!Quote:
Originally Posted by beccaB
I can't believe no one mentioned "Ashokan Farewell"
Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" makes me bawl. We played it as the recessional at our wedding and I always thing of it and cry. There's a Bach piano concerto that also makes me cry because it makes me think of my dad. There are actually a lot of music pieces that make me cry, it's funny, I'll just get in the car and something will come on and I'll get all teary eyed.
Great thread! I'm late to the game...
Beautiful and haunting music for me is mostly classical.
- Faure's Requiem, absolutely (although I have heard it at so many memorial services recently that it is almost unbearably sad for me now)
- Bach's Cantata 82 (Ich habe genug) sung by the late, extraordinary, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
- The duet 'Au fond du temple sant' from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet - I know it's sentimental, but gets me every time
- Mozart Piano Concert #23 - I find the Adagio achingly beautiful
- Bach's Solo cello suites - so mesmerizing
- Bach's St Matthew Passion and the B Minor Mass - all the way through and at a decently loud volume - wow.
- Beethoven's 5th - Andante - I've loved it since I was a (geeky) kid.
Sometimes it's only a few measures that really hit me, other times the whole piece in different ways.
That was my processional at MY wedding! How cool is that? We had a trumpet trio play it. My mom always liked the idea of it too, and I love Mussorgsky, so I went along with it. Both my husband and I are SERIOUS music-philes and wanted to have very untraditional music at our wedding. That's so cool that someone else liked that piece for the same purpose!Quote:
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Annie Lennox. She was performing last night at the AMA's ("why") and her voice has a haunting way about it. My friend I mentioned that was murdered got me into her about the time she released Medusa. Her voice is so amazing, I really love her and she is an inspiring woman all around.
There are some really good songs on these lists... and many I've not heard of. I'll take the time to look them up. There are a lot of classical songs that are truly amazing -- many I don't know the names for!, but appreciate all the same.
Here's some of my favorite more contemporary that bring chills and tears for me:
Bruce Spingsteen's "City of Ruins / Rise Up" about 9/11. Here is a live version that is so amazing -- Springsteen at his best here.
Also from the same cd: You're Missing... between the words and the haunting violin, it gets me every time.
Angel by Sara McLaughlin: Chokes me up every time I hear that commercial with the very sad dog and cat faces attached to that haunting song.... I can't take it. I'm practically sobbing if I watch it.
I know there are many others, but none I can come up with right this second.
Don't ask me why, but the song "Shenandoah" chokes me up.
"Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you. Away, you rolling river.."
some of my others have been previously mentioned .... and my mind has just gone blank...
I'm not sure this strikes me as haunting, but whenever it comes on (our local public radio station has an all-classical channel that I listen to sometimes) I just want to stop everything and listen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedal Wench
Two items perpetually on my Christmas list:Quote:
I play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata -- that one always gets me.
-box set of Beethoven sonatas
-box set of Beethoven symphonies
Unfortunately it's intimidating to research which ones to get.
Maybe this is weird, but Louis Armstrong singing "what a wonderful world" makes me cry. I guess I can't really explain why, but it always does.
Also, totally dating myself and this is a little embarrassing, but "more than words" by Extreme gives me goosebumps. Doesn't make me cry, but definitely tugs at some strange emotional strings.
Oh boy, you and me both.Quote:
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I can't even watch that commercial anymore :oQuote:
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I also love "It's a Wonderful World" by Israel Kamakawawio'ole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM
Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold" is beautiful, too. Made even more so by the fact she died so young. (not her video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc