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Music that makes you stop in your tracks

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

This is a thread for those exceptional pieces of music that, for some reason, just touch you so deeply that you can't really do anything else while they're playing.

One of mine is a very small piece by Bach that thankfully someone edited out on YouTube because the bits before and after it are awful. This small segment, however, just touches me every time... ignore the subtitles if you wish... its just beautiful beautiful transcendent music imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCUFedx38p8

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

Barbers Agnus Dei, the choral version. I was reminded of it on Monday when Jeannette Winterson chose it on Radio 3

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Barbers Agnus Dei, the choral version. I was reminded of it on Monday when Jeannette Winterson chose it on Radio 3"

Thanks for reminding me about this

a link to it for others to enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wr5AD6_8qI

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By *ilberryMan over a year ago

Scarborough

Sam Smith tonight live on the Graham Norton Show, what a voice?

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By *irceWoman over a year ago

Gloucester

Procal Harum, A Whiter Shade Of Pale.

And

Witch house

History of the Witch..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

You know when Neil Finn plays his solo stuff I just sit and listen, his lyrics are so good they compel me to sit back,he is the best lyricist on the planet as far as I'm concerned.....and I'm a metal fan!

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

LOVE & AFFECTION by Joan Armatrading

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgDIa9ndcY

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams

A beautiful piece of music .it reminds me of a summers evening The Pooch still a pup. Playing in the long grass in the meadow. The swifts darting around him. A happy memory

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Sunrise Pulp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3pTr4MwM4

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By *aturisttwoCouple over a year ago

dumfries

"Procal Harum, A Whiter Shade Of Pale.

And

Witch house

History of the Witch.."

Absolutely brilliant...........but "Cream" White room does it for us.......

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

George Michael singing Somebody to love.

Barbar Adagio for strings

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By *ntimatediscretionMan over a year ago

eaglescliffe

agadoo by black lace

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Gomez - Make No Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYfPalNjbDw

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Night on a bare mountain- Mussorgsky

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By *eanontiWoman over a year ago

Limerick

Richard Clydebank Ballade pour Avening. Never gets old

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

https://youtu.be/mm-sbOH-nEc

https://youtu.be/2pCv7k_Hzvg

https://youtu.be/VgNyQocxoCM

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By *ladallMan over a year ago

Clowne

The aria from the marriage of figaro which is in the Shaw shank redemption is awesome

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Velvet Underground-"Venus in Furs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQzaLr1enE

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams

A beautiful piece of music .it reminds me of a summers evening The Pooch still a pup. Playing in the long grass in the meadow. The swifts darting around him. A happy memory

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8"

This for me too but for not so happy reasons, a beautiful piece of music though.

Adagio for Strings gets me too!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Well that was weird

I was gonna write a reply when this piece of music came on and totally stopped me in my tracks. Another one of my favourites...

Vangelis - One Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCj8xhUy6t8

btw... the Youtube video is really beautiful too so do check it out if you get a mo

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Instant Karma - John lennon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Garnet Mimms 'As Long As I Have You'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc2y9X08tN8

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By *eanontiWoman over a year ago

Limerick

"Richard Clydebank Ballade pour Avening. Never gets old "

*Aveline damn phone

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

PILs guitarist on jules holland is fantastic

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PT9PPfSkwQ

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By *ntimatediscretionMan over a year ago

eaglescliffe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w3lJzlyWoI

very sad but you got to stay with it to the end..

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBx1Q3DEyDY

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By *ivinefoxWoman over a year ago

Coventry

Another vote for Adagio for Strings!

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Another vote for Adagio for Strings! "

If you're gonna go *that* way... this is the most sublime piece ever recorded...

Jacqueline du Pré - Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOzatzJEnSo

imo

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBx1Q3DEyDY"

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Although having said that, these two look like they;re gonna expire from the sheer ecstasy of it

2CELLOS - Benedictus [LIVE at Arena Zagreb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RjlIPuqyc

(I'll take the one on the right)

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Although I want this played at my funeral

Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068AFYvd58E

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm already there and you raise me up: the westlife versions.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Delerium - silence (enigma remix).

Dishwalla - until i wake up.

Lifehouse - broken.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Agadjo for strings

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Meditation de Thais, Massenet.

Heartbreaking climax.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Adele's new song Hello

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello"

I've not heard it yet

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello

I've not heard it yet"

You have to YouTube it hunni

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By *eneral HysteriaMan over a year ago

Newcastle

Adagio For Strings - Tiesto version

Dance Of The Knights from Romeo & Juliet by Prokofiev

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello

I've not heard it yet

You have to YouTube it hunni"

I'll listen in the morning, everyone's asleep xxx

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By *ust MonicaWoman over a year ago

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

"LOVE & AFFECTION by Joan Armatrading

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgDIa9ndcY"

Love this

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello

I've not heard it yet

You have to YouTube it hunni

I'll listen in the morning, everyone's asleep xxx"

It's that good I'm. Sure they won't mind hahah

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Meditation de Thais, Massenet.

Heartbreaking climax. "

Yes

This one always gets me too. Here's a link for others to enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsCogBZ7Zlg

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

jeff buckley hallelujah

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello

I've not heard it yet

You have to YouTube it hunni

I'll listen in the morning, everyone's asleep xxx

It's that good I'm. Sure they won't mind hahah"

Omg That is Stunning!!!!!

Totally love it xx

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By *adenceWoman over a year ago

North Lincolnshire

Carl Orff "O Fortuna"

http://youtu.be/GXFSK0ogeg4

Enigma "The Principles of Lust"

http://youtu.be/CJ-TLZcS0Es

Saint-Sáens Symphony no. 3 in C minor (organ)

It's the theme tune to 'Babe'

http://youtu.be/YDaZfSHDpa0

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

david gray shine wat a TUNE

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

david gray shine wat a TUNE

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

god walks over water.the song at the of heat . i told u i never going bk .

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By *ost SockMan over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Yet another vote for Adagio for Strings.

I'm lucky enough to play in an orchestra and we've done it on occasions over the years. It's even more spine-tingling playing it than listening to it (and I love the latter),

Last time I remember thinking "this is so beautiful to play, I wish it would never end". It's actually a way more difficult than it sounds though and hard to get right.

This is devastatingly beautiful and emotional. Floors me every time:

http://youtu.be/SSwnyLxzyRY

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

https://youtu.be/vM4glPisJo4

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Last Post

As in the piece of music, not the post above this one

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

For an angel - Paul van Dyk

Adagio for strings - tiesto

Bullet from a gun - planet perfecto

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By *ofUs4UCouple over a year ago

Sunderland

The Onedin Line theme. Years since I heard it, Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

Another Adagio for Strings vote here too.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oh and since dads funeral eva cassidy fields of gold, although it not only stops me in my tracks it also drives a steak through my heart....I try to avoid it at all costs!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro Act IV - Contessa Perdono

https://youtu.be/t2yrDWEoCpc

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Teardrop by Massive Attack is a superb chill out tune - always the perfect antidote to stress

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This is a thread for those exceptional pieces of music that, for some reason, just touch you so deeply that you can't really do anything else while they're playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCUFedx38p8"

Barbers Adagio for strings,,spine tingling...original or Ibeefoh version depending on your mood..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

https://youtu.be/N_MqfF0WBsU

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Best Of Times - Dream Theater.

The guitar solo at the end floors me every time...

https://youtu.be/-BKHCIVzV38

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck

(Especially live, it's a goosebump inducing sensory masterpiece!)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

MGMT - Time to Pretend

https://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean

https://youtu.be/OoA0cTC228M

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

This John Martyn live performance did - can't stop playing it now, I'm such a hippie...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zce4bTqLa54

Beautiful.

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By *ikki ShooterTV/TS over a year ago

Epsom

The last post. (No matter where I am)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"MGMT - Time to Pretend

https://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk"

Yep

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"MGMT - Time to Pretend

https://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk

Yep

Gives me the goosebumpy frisson feeling without fail.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"MGMT - Time to Pretend

https://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk

Yep

Gives me the goosebumpy frisson feeling without fail."

Just watched it again. I don't know why but it made me think of this

My Vitriol - Always your way

http://youtu.be/bhPZmO48mr4

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"MGMT - Time to Pretend

https://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk

Yep

Gives me the goosebumpy frisson feeling without fail.

Just watched it again. I don't know why but it made me think of this

My Vitriol - Always your way

http://youtu.be/bhPZmO48mr4"

That made me think of Foo Fighters - Everlong

https://youtu.be/eBG7P-K-r1Y

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Nearer my god to thee, so moving

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Whenever I hear Abide with Me I get choked up. Very evocative memories for me of that hymn

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Thin Lizzy - still in love with you.

Sting and Eric Clapton - it's probably me.

Van Morrison - have I told you lately.

George Michael - father figure.

Stevie Wonder - lately

David Sylvia and Ruichi Sakamoto - ghosts

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"MGMT - Time to Pretend

https://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk

Yep

Gives me the goosebumpy frisson feeling without fail.

Just watched it again. I don't know why but it made me think of this

My Vitriol - Always your way

http://youtu.be/bhPZmO48mr4

That made me think of Foo Fighters - Everlong

https://youtu.be/eBG7P-K-r1Y"

Breathe out so I can breathe you in..

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By *tandingtallMan over a year ago

york

If I'm in a club and the DJ decides it's time for a classic and puts Tiesto - Traffic or suburban train on....I've got about 100 other heartstoppers too in my head

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Sigh... this doesn't just stop me in my tracks!

Mazzy Star - Blue Flower

http://youtu.be/hun_yAPDR2Y

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You know when Neil Finn plays his solo stuff I just sit and listen, his lyrics are so good they compel me to sit back,he is the best lyricist on the planet as far as I'm concerned.....and I'm a metal fan!"
I love Neil Fill see him 3 times and Crowded House 5 times & my best Rock gig was Guns'N'Roses Manchester 91.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Chopin's Nocturne, opus no9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6b3swbnWg An ex-girlfriend used to play it for me on the piano when we were teenagers. she had big tits!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

This song by Bjork, my pixie

Hyperballad live this song and its meaning it always takes me away to a past some one

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=26sP2WsA5cY

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This song by Bjork, my pixie

Hyperballad live this song and its meaning it always takes me away to a past some one

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=26sP2WsA5cY

Bjork can caress my brain any day of the week Taff!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello

I've not heard it yet

You have to YouTube it hunni

I'll listen in the morning, everyone's asleep xxx

It's that good I'm. Sure they won't mind hahah"

Just heard it, not sure why everyone's getting their knickers in a twist about it to be honest! Just Adele being Adele, don't shoot me please!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Adele's new song Hello

I've not heard it yet

You have to YouTube it hunni

I'll listen in the morning, everyone's asleep xxx

It's that good I'm. Sure they won't mind hahah

Just heard it, not sure why everyone's getting their knickers in a twist about it to be honest! Just Adele being Adele, don't shoot me please!!"

It's ok, I don't like Adagio for Strings either *ducks behind parapet*

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

j s bach's orchestral suite no3 air. beautiful and so well used in the film se7en

Elgar's enigma No9 makes me pause and remember loved ones

for personal reasons "the drugs dint work" always stops me dead in my tracks.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This song by Bjork, my pixie

Hyperballad live this song and its meaning it always takes me away to a past some one

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=26sP2WsA5cY

Bjork can caress my brain any day of the week Taff!

My little Icelandic Pixie

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

JAMC - Some Candy Talking

http://youtu.be/LDmzfVMVr8k

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This song by Bjork, my pixie

Hyperballad live this song and its meaning it always takes me away to a past some one

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=26sP2WsA5cY

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Elbow - Sad Captains

http://youtu.be/9lAVeeuwRiI

Fab is a perfect waste of time...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This is a thread for those exceptional pieces of music that, for some reason, just touch you so deeply that you can't really do anything else while they're playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCUFedx38p8"

Mine is Mendelssohn's Violin concerto in e minor by Maxim Vengerov.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Stereophonics - Local Boy in the photograph

http://youtu.be/cfpW5pAq71c

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By * TRUE GENTMan over a year ago

west bromwich

The music that so much capsulates me is the entire Las MIserables the pure consepted of a story told in the lyric of music in the film there are only three words spoken and theatre productions just exceed any other musical

Glenn

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Beth Jeans Houghton - Sweet Tooth Bird

https://youtu.be/6ABPsWq6XZU

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Roxette- Vulnerable

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

John Lennon- imagine

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

if you follow the instructions, u can't touch this. STOP- Hanmertime hahaha

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By *om and JennieCouple over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"The last post. (No matter where I am) "

Same here. My cousin played it at our town's Remembrance Sunday service. It gives me goosebumps & brings a tear to my eye.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

REM - Everybody Hurts

Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Prince - Purple Rain

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

For very different personal reasons

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"if you follow the instructions, u can't touch this. STOP- Hanmertime hahaha"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work. Barely anything makes me cry, but that has me bawling.

Bruce Springsteen - Terry's Song. I was at a beautiful funeral recently where this was played.

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By *om and JennieCouple over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"Sigh... this doesn't just stop me in my tracks!

Mazzy Star - Blue Flower

http://youtu.be/hun_yAPDR2Y"

Oh I like this!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche

Ludovico Einaudi - Fuori Dal Mondo

Both tracks feature in This is England (film by Shane Meadows )

Gut wrenchingly painful,beautiful and melancholic.And more importantly unpretentious.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The last post. (No matter where I am)

Same here. My cousin played it at our town's Remembrance Sunday service. It gives me goosebumps & brings a tear to my eye.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

REM - Everybody Hurts

Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Prince - Purple Rain

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

For very different personal reasons "

Huggles x

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By *harpDressed ManMan over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Many Rivers To Cross - Jimmy Cliff

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

The intro to I Don't Like Mondays.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

We are a very cultured collective! Great thread, OP.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan over a year ago

here

"We are a very cultured collective! Great thread, OP. "

Other than the op describing 99.5% of the Bach St Matthew Passion as being "awful"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Controversially, I think I agree with OP... having sung it a few times, it isn't in my top ten choral works (or top 50 for that matter).

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Tuvan throat singing......

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Björk - Play Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiHZ35TPfM

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Had to be done...

This was the stand-by tune of my 20s...

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qvglWAHDak

Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival of the birds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqoANESQ4cQ

So relaxing.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI"

Only one of the best tunes ever

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

And while we're down their - one of the best opening lines of any song:

"Slip inside the eye of your mind

Don't you know you might find

A better place to play?"

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8OipmKFDeM

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

wind beneath my wings.... played at dad's funeral.

Always stop everything im doing and just close my eyes when I hear that song.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

https://youtu.be/d7ujfuSh3u8

This is a great video,

Millionare-im on a high

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By *apillonNoirWoman over a year ago

There...

Pachelbel - Canon in D major

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck brings back amazing wonderful memories and makes my heart pound

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

But to get back on theme - this is beautiful and I commend it to the House.

Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus - Adagio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHf7vjkrrhU

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Björk - Play Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiHZ35TPfM"

My favourite Bjork song

Kate Bush - King of the Mountain

https://youtu.be/F8xk_AkeP5c

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm not normally a fan of her stuff but this is exquisite

Bat for Lashes - Laura

https://youtu.be/UznHTBZIa8E

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By *apillonNoirWoman over a year ago

There...

Oh and the Flower Duet from Lakme by Delibes - wonderfully uplifting. Before anyone thinks I'm an opera snob (yup!) I'm also stopped in my tracks by It's My Life Bon Jovi. (Anyone else go a bit weak at the knees over Jon Bon Jovi?!!)

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Oh and the Flower Duet from Lakme by Delibes - wonderfully uplifting. Before anyone thinks I'm an opera snob (yup!) I'm also stopped in my tracks by It's My Life Bon Jovi. (Anyone else go a bit weak at the knees over Jon Bon Jovi?!!)

Only my missus - but I worry about her taste in men tbh

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

https://youtu.be/mTLF9TIx6lE

Along the same lines., aria from diva sung by wihelmenia wiggins

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By *apillonNoirWoman over a year ago

There...

Only my missus - but I worry about her taste in men tbh"

... You make me laugh

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwqknq7nuI

One of of my earliest musical memories

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Darkside of the Moon.

Blows my mind when ever I listen to it. Especially The Great Gig in the sky.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm putting this on again because I can!

Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro Act IV - "Contessa perdono"

https://youtu.be/t2yrDWEoCpc

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Nina Simone Feeling Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Cranberries - Empty

https://youtu.be/t2yrDWEoCpc

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By *ultry SuccubusTV/TS over a year ago

London

Something About The Way You Look Tonight - Elton John.

Felt empowered by it when I started crossdressing (2013).

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By *om and JennieCouple over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"Nina Simone Feeling Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs"

Listening to this as I get ready to go out

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

"Gomez - Make No Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYfPalNjbDw"

Good choice. Tijuana Lady is a massive favourite of mine from that album as well.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I want you by Elvis Costello. You can hear the bitterness in his voice and the pain in the guitar strings ...... FANTASTIC SONG ..... I urge you to listen to it ??

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Tunnel of love.....Dire straits

Especially live versions.....Outro brings me to tears.

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By *alandNitaCouple over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Bohemian Rhapsody ...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I want you by Elvis Costello. You can hear the bitterness in his voice and the pain in the guitar strings ...... FANTASTIC SONG ..... I urge you to listen to it ??"

Elvis costello good year for the roses and to top it, Alison.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"We are a very cultured collective! Great thread, OP.

Other than the op describing 99.5% of the Bach St Matthew Passion as being "awful"

Not at all... only the pierces of music immediately preceding it and immediately after it are not to most people's tastes... bunch of Germans shouting stuff at us lol. There are plenty of truly heavenly moments throughout St Matthews Passion... but you need to cherry pick them imo

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan over a year ago

here

"We are a very cultured collective! Great thread, OP.

Other than the op describing 99.5% of the Bach St Matthew Passion as being "awful"

"Cherry pick" Bach St Matthew Passion

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By *uby0000Woman over a year ago

hertfordshire

"Sam Smith tonight live on the Graham Norton Show, what a voice?

agree there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

bridge over troubled water simon and garfunkel

if your looking for a way out odyssey

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I've taken a liberty with the video but only because it's my favourite opening scene from a movie ever

the track is just amazing...

MBV - Sometimes

http://youtu.be/1c8Selr9Aec

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By *r and mrs willingCouple over a year ago

SOUTH WEST & WALES

"Although having said that, these two look like they;re gonna expire from the sheer ecstasy of it

2CELLOS - Benedictus [LIVE at Arena Zagreb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RjlIPuqyc

(I'll take the one on the right)

Wow ! I think that's the best version of this I have seen. I love Karl Jenkins' Armed Man and usually manage to hold back the tears until this point.

I'll fight you for him ( or would that be futile ?)

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By *onbons_xxMan over a year ago

Bolton

Echo & The Bunnymen, Nothing Lasts Forever.

Also, even though I've no idea what the words mean I think whenever I hear Talcin Songh's, Jaan, in my head it's beautiful.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Changing ,paloma faith

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By *mmabluTV/TS over a year ago

upton wirral

Somewhere over the rainbow and Fields of Gold both by Eva Cassidy

Brothers in arms guitar solo Mark Knofler

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By *educedWoman over a year ago

Birmingham

Orange Juice from Brassed Off (Rodrigo's Concerto design Aranjuez), almost anything by Ennio Morricone but in particular L'arena.

Also Elbow's One Day Like This and Everybody's On The Run by High Flying Birds evoke emotions...

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"We are a very cultured collective! Great thread, OP.

Other than the op describing 99.5% of the Bach St Matthew Passion as being "awful"

"Cherry pick" Bach St Matthew Passion

Seeing as you seem intent upon vilifying me as some kind of pleb or philistine

Below is the Youtube clip of the same section of music that I posted in the OP but with the piece before it and the piece after it included. Just so everyone else can make their own mind up about the music you so adore.

You, I assume, absolutely love the shouting ranting German narrator which intersperses each of the pieces of music. Whilst I agree that, at times, it is quite beautiful... you only need to skip past him to the next item of music to realise how much better off the whole 3hr long piece would've been without any of the narration. I mean... it's not as if the story's all that important is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeU_Bns8brg

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Another Lark Ascending fan, here.

The version where Hugh Bean is the soloist. So beautiful it makes me want to cry and never loses its poignancy.

Ralph Vaughan Williams fought alongside my great grandfather in the trenches and was godfather to my granny, so I feel a connection, too!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Hello,Adele gorgeous song me and Trevor McDonald love it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

november rain - guns n roses

eagles - hotel california

metallica - nothing else matters

sing - my chemical romance

there are many others too that have a more personal meaning

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Trevor McDonald has a musical career?

No way!

Xxx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Another Lark Ascending fan, here.

The version where Hugh Bean is the soloist. So beautiful it makes me want to cry and never loses its poignancy.

Ralph Vaughan Williams fought alongside my great grandfather in the trenches and was godfather to my granny, so I feel a connection, too!"

Beautiful piece...had forgotten about that. Off to YouTube

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Slipknot - sic

NWA - straight outta Compton

pachelbel - canon

P Diddy - missing you

All for different reasons, between those songs I can go from bouncing happy to raging moshing then being hit for 6 and wanting at just sit and get towards crying.

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By *onnie55Man over a year ago

Port Talbot

Great thread - just came in and saw it..

Hmmmm, I've got so many:

Pavane for a Dead Princess - Ravel

One Fine Day aria (Madame Butterfly) - Puccini

Larry Carlton's guitar solo and fade-out on Kid Charlemagne (The Royal Scam) - Steely Dan

Fade-out on Where's the Orchestra (The Nylon Curtain) - Billy Joel

Anything by Charlie Parker/Miles Davis

Intro to Fireflies - Owl City (I know, but it always makes me stop and listen..)

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By *onnie55Man over a year ago

Port Talbot

"I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwqknq7nuI

One of of my earliest musical memories"

Love that!

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBTiv3WGU0

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By *callycatMan over a year ago

Mid Wales

Karl Jenkins...Benedictus from his mass The Armed Man

Carl Orff....In Trutina from Carmina Burana

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBTiv3WGU0"

Ooo his Valse Triste does it for me... utterly transfixing and haunting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ls8-pk4IS4

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Shinedown - second chance

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By *aucy3Couple over a year ago

glasgow

Shine on you crazy diamond

-pink floyd

This bitter earth - Max Richter Dinah Washington

The power of Love-frankie goes to Hollywood

The killing of Georgie-Rod Stewart

Through the barricades-spandau ballet

Philadelphia-Bruce Springsteen

Whiter shade of pale-procol harum

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

This also changes for me regularly. I will happen upon a piece of music and play it a lot. Whilst it is my favourite song I will stop to listen to it.

Once a new one comes on it becomes background music.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan over a year ago

here

"We are a very cultured collective! Great thread, OP.

Other than the op describing 99.5% of the Bach St Matthew Passion as being "awful"

"Cherry pick" Bach St Matthew Passion

Seeing as you seem intent upon vilifying me as some kind of pleb or philistine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeU_Bns8brg"

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By *llaboutthecockCouple over a year ago

Bromley

Great thread guys try this it's painfully beautiful

https://youtu.be/S-Xm7s9eGxU

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Preach! I absolutely adore Crowded House

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Kissing a fool- George Michael

Feel- Robbie Williams

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"LOVE & AFFECTION by Joan Armatrading

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgDIa9ndcY"

Oh My GOD......YES

Used to go see her EVERY year at Wembley during the 80's

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Adagio For Strings, along with Oh Fl'wer of Scotland.(only when sung by the crowds at a Scotland rugby game. The original does nothing for me) The first makes me cry. The latter fills me with a feeling I cannot describe.

Something more modern that stops me is Cold Desert by Kings Of Leon

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Any of Burial's music

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Loads but this does it for me!

Mazzy Star - Blue Flower

http://youtu.be/hun_yAPDR2Y

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By *obwithkiltMan over a year ago

Belton

Tooo many to choose but the following come to mind:

My immortal -evanescence

Flower duet -lakame ( Katherine Jenkins version)

Will you -Hazel O'connor

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Most of Massive Attacks back catalogue especially their track Black Milk, sends shivers down my spine.

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By *o30Woman over a year ago

Lincoln

Eric Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven" makes me tear up every time

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Eric Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven" makes me tear up every time "

That's spooky, I was just scrolling to the end to add this as my contribution!

Also songbird by Fleetwood Mac although both for different reasons

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By *oggoneMan over a year ago

Derry

Portishead. - sour times

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"LOVE & AFFECTION by Joan Armatrading

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgDIa9ndcY

Oh My GOD......YES

Used to go see her EVERY year at Wembley during the 80's"

Good choon, if I say myself

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

But, ladies and gentlemen of the Fab, this is (hopefully) an appropriate end to the thread and testimony to a most delectable evening

Diamond Joe - Moanin' and Screamin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u80agStc-8w

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