Tracks of Emotional Significance...

[Alex_UK]

I've been thinking about starting this for a while, but wasn't sure whether it is a good idea or not - guess we'll soon find out! :eyebrows:

The idea is that you tell us all about a track that has a particular emotional significance, and, if you're feeling brave/soppy/reflective - the reason why it is emotionally significant for you, or the memory that is particularly associated with it.

So, to kick us off, a soppy one: I chose this piece of music as the entrance music for my wedding to my current (2nd) wife - it had to be something unusual, as we didn't really want to do traditional, and this fitted the bill. Needless to say, it always reminds me of our wedding day whenever I hear it - we had a fabulous day - happy memories.

Hybrid - Finished Symphony (Hybrid's Soundtrack Edit)

Spotify Link (http://open.spotify.com/track/5Qg2X4NcMZ7srEzJDsgaue)

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This one reminds me of by best mate Mark when I was a lad - I remember playing it doing one of my first "DJ sets" - well, we hired the church hall and some disco equipment, and pulled our record collections together to do a disco for his sister's 13th Birthday. Sadly Mark was killed in a motorbike crash not long after when I was 17, but I always think of him whenever I hear this track:

Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams

Spotify Link (http://open.spotify.com/track/1hVAlfoZDcfCV0SjNPWfLQ)

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I can think of a few more, but let's see how this goes before I bare my soul any further!

Anyone else got any they're brave enough to want to share? :)

[Neil McCauley]

"Can't Explain" by The Who. On countless occasions when I've seen them perform this live (and always first on the set-list) I've seen wild punch-throwing audiences immediately and I do mean immediately fall into line, eyes to the front, jaws open and focused utterly on the band. As indeed it should be.

“Dark End Of the Street” by Linda & Richard Thompson live at the Q.E Hall in London. Recorded on a cassette for reference but so emotive than the cassette was used for the release. Tears in my eyes when I hear it on vinyl and none when on digital. And even when I don’t know which one is playing.

“In My Room” by The Beach Boys. Brian Wilson was still a teenager when he wrote this. Just listen to the words and then wonder if he ever had a childhood or was born as an adult. Heard him perform this live at RFH London a few years back. I caught my breath. I looked around. I couldn't see a dry eye anywhere near me.

[Beechwoods]

Tracy Chapman's first album. It always brings tears to my eyes, something about the sequencing of the tracks is magical; it makes me really angry for the state of the world and she writes personal songs that capture intense personal sadness. Incredible.

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One other that really gets me is One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boys II Men. Seriously, whatever you think of these two artists, this is another intensely moving song.

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[Alex_UK]

Great, thanks chaps. :)


Tracy Chapman's first album. It always brings tears to my eyes, something about the sequencing of the tracks is magical; it makes me really angry for the state of the world and she writes personal songs that capture intense personal sadness. Incredible.

There's you getting all philosophical and deep, and I love that album for those attributes, but I also have fond memories of it for a very different reason! http://theartofsound.net/forum/showpost.php?p=142774&postcount=6624

[John]

I listen to different for different emotional responses and I guess the music I listen has some reflection in my private inner world. I tend to be more an album man than just one track
Here is my first take on this
Jeff Buckley Grace because I find it haunting, at times beautiful at times you can here that manic depressive side in his lyrics and at times just pure beauty and hope. The album is in my mind very emotionally revealing of Jeff inner state, its complexity and promise, above all a man following his muse to its own conclusion. It reminds me both of the fragility of life and its beauty

[Alex_UK]

I listen to different for different emotional responses and I guess the music I listen has some reflection in my private inner world. I tend to be more an album man than just one track
Here is my first take on this
Jeff Buckley Grace because I find it haunting, at times beautiful at times you can here that manic depressive side in his lyrics and at times just pure beauty and hope. The album is in my mind very emotionally revealing of Jeff inner state, its complexity and promise, above all a man following his muse to its own conclusion. It reminds me both of the fragility of life and its beauty

Great post John - am I the only one that finds it difficult sometimes to listen to music from an artist that has passed on, especially if the circumstances are extra sad (as I find Jeff Buckley's death was - I'm still not 100% convinced it was an accident...) Grace gets me every time.

Another album that I feel this way about is Alice Martineau's Daydreams - I can hardly look at the cover without welling up, let alone play the damn thing! Such a tragic loss - but yet such a positive young lady - died at only 30 after a long struggle with Cystic Fibrosis, but still managed to do more in her short life than most of us achieve in 2 or 3 times as many years.

[Beechwoods]

There's you getting all philosophical and deep, and I love that album for those attributes, but I also have fond memories of it for a very different reason! http://theartofsound.net/forum/showpost.php?p=142774&postcount=6624

Just as well it's a short album, Alex!

[John]

Ben Harper Alone
For me loneliness is something we can all experience and it reminds me that sometimes just having someone next to me is enough

[DSJR]

I've got far too many but some of the biggies -

Delia Derbighshire's realisation of the Doctor Who theme (of course :))

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (my first life epiphany)
ditto: Song of the Whale pt2 - To Dusk (so beautiful)

The Beatles - In My Life (ahhh yes.....)

Robert Palmer - You Ought To Know By Now (well, she did zat the time...)

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (I was twelve when this came out - need I say more :eyebrows:)

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on.........

[Techno Commander]

The year was 1990.

I was the manager of the Student Nurses Bar at the local hospital. :eyebrows::eyebrows:

There were 400 student nurses living on site.

350 of them were female.:eek::eek:

I had just finished rebuilding the bike.
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And this was on the jukebox.
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Life was good.:)

[John]

Sounds like life was very good

[MartinT]

For me loneliness is something we can all experience and it reminds me that sometimes just having someone next to me is enough

I so agree with you, John. I'm fairly happy living on my own now that my son has moved out, but some evenings I do get lonely. Luckily my partner can sit next to me in the weekends and we revel in these small moments.

[MartinT]

Guess I should properly contribute; so many that I could post but one of the first of great significance for me was Genesis - Many Too Many.

1978, the Shakespeare's Head in Carnaby Street, down in the basement with my summer work colleagues. Dancing (yes, really) to the above on the jukebox with the girl who would become my girlfriend for the next six years. Even now when I hear it, I remember that scene so vividly.

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[Canetoad]

Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen at my brother's engagement party. It was cheesy then and is still cheesy now. Actually puts me right off the song when I hear it now considering his (now) ex-wife was a soul-sucking bitch!

Back in 1980 I discovered the Dune series of books. I used to read while listening to Bachman Turner Overdrive. When I hear Blue Collar it always reminds me of Arrakis, the worms and Paul Attreides.

[Tim]

Blimey Alex, that's a tall order....... but one that always springs to mind if this question comes up, is Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately? as it reminds me of some of the best times of my life. I have always loved the song anyway, but it's certain events that have occurred when I've heard it playing that have moved me emotionally - there are many connected with Have I Told You Lately, but this one's at the top of the pile.

I was travelling in New Zealand once and had met two great girls, we just all clicked on so many levels and spent some time together (well a lot of time actually). It was 22 Nov 2003 (my birthday) and we were all broke, but found a great coffee shop and had the amazing luxury of a coffee and cake to celebrate. I was sat there with the biggest grin, feeling blissfully happy, when Van the man started playing this song - one of life's very special moments and I just need to hear it to be right back there, with glazed eyes and a big smile - that whole day was a stonker, I can't tell you all that went on, but there was a lot ;) and England won the Rugby World Cup too!

Now watching that in a Kiwi bar full of All Black supporters, who were loving the English beating the Aussies, was also something special............ a day never likely to be repeated and quite possibly the best of my life :)

Spotify Link (http://open.spotify.com/track/6r9AeTxW6sqBJRH3y1vUa5)

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[Alex_UK]

Some great stories chaps, keep 'em coming! :)

[keiths]

Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" reminds me of a fist-fight I had with Lloyd Cole in 1979...

[Thing Fish]

A couple of bottles of decent red and a few Nick Drake albums normally leave me a blubbering mess...:glug:

A friend of mine claimed he was saved from suicide after I suggested to him he buy 'Bryter Later' Go figure...:doh:

[Welder]

Piere Fournier, French army deserter last seen Bharatpur April 1984 headed for China.
I met him in 1981 traveled across some of Asia with him and nobody has heard from him since.

Recent events have brought him very much to mind.
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[DSJR]

Gong - Chandra (from Shamal)

Steve Hillage - too many tracks to mention just one - oh alright - "Palm Trees (Love Guitar)" - a love song to humanity.....

[Reid Malenfant]

Too many to list :eek: I think i have my whole emotional life on tape & other mediums going back to the age of 13 maybe 14 :scratch:

It all stopped back in 1998 though, so did my emotional life :(

Yeah, i turned into a robot :eyebrows:

[WAD62]

Just Another Day - Another Day On Earth (Brian Eno)

Played at my mate Steve's funeral, who died 18 months ago after a long illness...he was a big Eno fan, and he'd had a long time to pick it.

He was always keen on irony...