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I’m a great big hairy Biker and I like to think I can keep my emotions in check and be a stoic, stiff upper lip, calm in a crisis sort of guy.
But I can’t listen to “The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot without somehow developing the emotions of a 13 year old girl.
It’s a song describing a ship sinking and it’s the line “at 7pm a main hatchway gave in, he said ‘Fellas it’s been good to know ya’“. Gets me every time 
Is it just me?
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Some songs make me emotional as do some pieces of music.
Having and expressing emotions and being moved by music isn't something that only happens to 13 year old girls. I'd say it's a sign of maturity myself. |
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"Yes definitely. Music can transport you to a time or make you think of a person "
This. It can invoke so many memories. I cant listen to 'the living years' without shedding a tear. Personal reasons why it gets to me x |
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Having and expressing emotions and being moved by music isn't something that only happens to 13 year old girls. I'd say it's a sign of maturity myself."
I know you are right. Society, or at least the bit I spend most of my time in, still says that “real men” don’t show emotion like that. |
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Having and expressing emotions and being moved by music isn't something that only happens to 13 year old girls. I'd say it's a sign of maturity myself.
I know you are right. Society, or at least the bit I spend most of my time in, still says that “real men” don’t show emotion like that."
I'm here to tell you that "real" men are human beings and expressing emotions shows that. I'm happy to say that it appears that the younger generations are better able to show emotion and I feel really glad when I see our son hugging his friends. |
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Having and expressing emotions and being moved by music isn't something that only happens to 13 year old girls. I'd say it's a sign of maturity myself.
I know you are right. Society, or at least the bit I spend most of my time in, still says that “real men” don’t show emotion like that.
I'm here to tell you that "real" men are human beings and expressing emotions shows that. I'm happy to say that it appears that the younger generations are better able to show emotion and I feel really glad when I see our son hugging his friends."
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I meant to add that seeing men in touch with their emotions is a good thing. Keep it up   |
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The living years Mike and the mechanics.
Every bloody time.
My dad died and I couldn't get to him, and he never got to meet my kids.
That bloody song should be banned I tell you, banned lol |
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Having and expressing emotions and being moved by music isn't something that only happens to 13 year old girls. I'd say it's a sign of maturity myself.
I know you are right. Society, or at least the bit I spend most of my time in, still says that “real men” don’t show emotion like that."
Maybe you need to find a different part of society to hang around in? |
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"There are too many to list, tend to associate music to people or moments in time. They're memory reminders for me"
Same for me too. Good times bad times happy and sad times.
Amy Winehouse Love Is A Losing Game the acoustic version from Oct 2006 on the tube is amazing. One of my favorite songs. |
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Having and expressing emotions and being moved by music isn't something that only happens to 13 year old girls. I'd say it's a sign of maturity myself.
I know you are right. Society, or at least the bit I spend most of my time in, still says that “real men” don’t show emotion like that.
Maybe you need to find a different part of society to hang around in?"
Well I’m here, so that’s something... virtual society
I work in an industry that is almost completely male dominated and, in many respects, behind the times. |
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So many in so many different ways. From happiness to sadness of remembering loved ones. I relate music to times in life , memories, places and people.
Some i hear a few notes and I fill up |
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Loads......
The Eagles..Take It To The Limit..reminds me of my dad. He passed away 4 yrs ago. I bawl listening to it, had to take it off my playlist.
Anything from M People...my mam liked them. She passed away almost 2 yrs ago.
Then I take inspiration from other songs. I LOVE music...think its incredible good for the soul.
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"There are too many to list, tend to associate music to people or moments in time. They're memory reminders for me
Same for me too. Good times bad times happy and sad times.
Amy Winehouse Love Is A Losing Game the acoustic version from Oct 2006 on the tube is amazing. One of my favorite songs."
Love Amy Winehouse too, last song I cried at was Kesha praying.
Love where you live, only the Welsh can understand hiraeth x |
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Not a song but a beautiful piece of classical music
Ludovico Einaudi - I giorni
Stunning, my son plays piano and it was one of the first pieces he learnt to play.
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"Not a song but a beautiful piece of classical music
Ludovico Einaudi - I giorni
Stunning, my son plays piano and it was one of the first pieces he learnt to play.
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I absolutely love Ludovico Einaudi. I think the compilation “Islands” is great and Nightbook is beautiful.
I’ll take in one of his concerts one day |
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"Southern Cross" by Crosby Stills and Nash. If you've ever loved and lost. The language of oceans and sailing speak of a distant separation with the power of music your only succour. |
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I am old enough to know Jeff Buckley’s dad , Tim Buckley, there is a song of his called Dolphins, which is just amazing, also Neil Young’s “ the needle and the damage done “ never fails to hit the mark . |
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This changes alot for me. Music is always part of my mood. The Pretender by Foo Fighters get ne emotional because of a previous relationship I was in for example.
But what gets me a little teary eyed everytime is the rainbow connection by Kermit the Frog, or the fucking Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul and Mary. |
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Johnny Cash singing The Beatles - In My Life.
His voice fits the words perfectly, an old man looking back on his life and realising its only love that really matters.
Moonlight Sonata, such a simple melody but it can have me close to tears within seconds. Not because of any memory associated with it, just the tune itself taps straight into your soul. |
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So many songs have the ability to take me to a different time and place - some happy and some sad.
But the two that I always turn to to sort myself out when i'm having a tough time are:
Everybody Hurts by REM - it makes me ball my eyes out and lets all the pent up emotions out.
Followed by Piece of my Heart by Janis Joplin - this puts the fight back in me, ready to show that I can be tough. |
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Yes very much so mainly since I lost my mum suddenly 2 years ago I can't listen to fields of gold by sting as it was the last song played at her funeral without getting tears in my eyes there's also a song a friend of mine wrote that gets me too
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ELO "Telephone Line"... Got me through a tough time and the harmonies and strings wrench at me still.
Slipknot "Snuff" I wish it didn't resonate so much 
The Smiths "I Know it's Over"
I could think of so many others..... |
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The one song that does seem to get to me is "the other side" by public service broadcasting
Its more samples than lyrics but the subject matter always brings the goosebumps when i hear it |
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By *osie xWoman
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"ELO "Telephone Line"... Got me through a tough time and the harmonies and strings wrench at me still.
Slipknot "Snuff" I wish it didn't resonate so much
The Smiths "I Know it's Over"
I could think of so many others....."
Oh man snuff is a killer |
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"I’m a great big hairy Biker and I like to think I can keep my emotions in check and be a stoic, stiff upper lip, calm in a crisis sort of guy.
But I can’t listen to “The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot without somehow developing the emotions of a 13 year old girl.
It’s a song describing a ship sinking and it’s the line “at 7pm a main hatchway gave in, he said ‘Fellas it’s been good to know ya’“. Gets me every time
Is it just me?
Mr"
I’m a metal head and so is my man, but certain pieces of music just ruin us. ‘The Reason’ by Hoobastank gets us both. So does Fleetwood Mac ‘Go Your Own Way’. He’s a bit of a heathen too so a lot of tribal music gets him, bands like Danheim, Heilung, Wardruna etc. But we both have the flip side too - certain songs will fire us up and make us more aggressive. ‘Disciple’ by Slayer is our gym tune of choice at the minute. Instantly gets my blood up.
I saw an article not long back that said people who have a physical reaction to music, like goosebumps, shivers, tears, make up less than 15% of the population. So we’re a rare breed  |
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"ELO "Telephone Line"... Got me through a tough time and the harmonies and strings wrench at me still.
Slipknot "Snuff" I wish it didn't resonate so much
The Smiths "I Know it's Over"
I could think of so many others.....
Oh man snuff is a killer "
So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself...
Slipknot's music is always visceral but that one tears through me, I wish it didn't
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"I’m a great big hairy Biker and I like to think I can keep my emotions in check and be a stoic, stiff upper lip, calm in a crisis sort of guy.
But I can’t listen to “The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot without somehow developing the emotions of a 13 year old girl.
It’s a song describing a ship sinking and it’s the line “at 7pm a main hatchway gave in, he said ‘Fellas it’s been good to know ya’“. Gets me every time
Is it just me?
Mr
I’m a metal head and so is my man, but certain pieces of music just ruin us. ‘The Reason’ by Hoobastank gets us both. So does Fleetwood Mac ‘Go Your Own Way’. He’s a bit of a heathen too so a lot of tribal music gets him, bands like Danheim, Heilung, Wardruna etc. But we both have the flip side too - certain songs will fire us up and make us more aggressive. ‘Disciple’ by Slayer is our gym tune of choice at the minute. Instantly gets my blood up.
I saw an article not long back that said people who have a physical reaction to music, like goosebumps, shivers, tears, make up less than 15% of the population. So we’re a rare breed "
Disciple is a beaut... The one that will get me instantly ready to battle is Slipknot "People = Shit" |
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Ed sheeran perfect
Whitney Houston I have nothing
Whitney Houston I will always love you
Beyonce halo
Bob e King stand by me
Andrea Bocelli time to say goodbye
All special songs of people passed away |
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I get quite emotional over a lot of music, sometimes it just stirs something in me
First time I heard Wind Beneath my Wings - long before the film was made - I burst into tears, it still makes my cry.
For obvious reasons
The Last Post, Rouse.
Reduces me to gut wrenching sobs
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James TW When you love someone...
A dad trying to explain to his young son about the failed relationship between his mum and dad, it's such a simple song but always makes me so emotional |
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Three Doors Down Here Without You (for what I associate that song with). But many others as well...
I’m a weepy wimp who is very moved by music in general  |
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"Three Doors Down Here Without You (for what I associate that song with). But many others as well...
I’m a weepy wimp who is very moved by music in general "
That's what it's for, to help you deal with life's pain. That's why the composer wrote it, to deal with their pain. Plus it's good for your eyes and keeps them healthy and clean |
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"I’m a great big hairy Biker and I like to think I can keep my emotions in check and be a stoic, stiff upper lip, calm in a crisis sort of guy.
But I can’t listen to “The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot without somehow developing the emotions of a 13 year old girl.
It’s a song describing a ship sinking and it’s the line “at 7pm a main hatchway gave in, he said ‘Fellas it’s been good to know ya’“. Gets me every time
Is it just me?
Mr
I’m a metal head and so is my man, but certain pieces of music just ruin us. ‘The Reason’ by Hoobastank gets us both. So does Fleetwood Mac ‘Go Your Own Way’. He’s a bit of a heathen too so a lot of tribal music gets him, bands like Danheim, Heilung, Wardruna etc. But we both have the flip side too - certain songs will fire us up and make us more aggressive. ‘Disciple’ by Slayer is our gym tune of choice at the minute. Instantly gets my blood up.
I saw an article not long back that said people who have a physical reaction to music, like goosebumps, shivers, tears, make up less than 15% of the population. So we’re a rare breed
Disciple is a beaut... The one that will get me instantly ready to battle is Slipknot "People = Shit" "
It’s the line ‘I have no faith distracting me, I know why your prayers will never be answered, God hates us all’ in Disciple that really presses the rage button for my boy
On the subject of Slipknot - Sic is a fave  |
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"I’m a great big hairy Biker and I like to think I can keep my emotions in check and be a stoic, stiff upper lip, calm in a crisis sort of guy.
But I can’t listen to “The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot without somehow developing the emotions of a 13 year old girl.
It’s a song describing a ship sinking and it’s the line “at 7pm a main hatchway gave in, he said ‘Fellas it’s been good to know ya’“. Gets me every time
Is it just me?
Mr
I’m a metal head and so is my man, but certain pieces of music just ruin us. ‘The Reason’ by Hoobastank gets us both. So does Fleetwood Mac ‘Go Your Own Way’. He’s a bit of a heathen too so a lot of tribal music gets him, bands like Danheim, Heilung, Wardruna etc. But we both have the flip side too - certain songs will fire us up and make us more aggressive. ‘Disciple’ by Slayer is our gym tune of choice at the minute. Instantly gets my blood up.
I saw an article not long back that said people who have a physical reaction to music, like goosebumps, shivers, tears, make up less than 15% of the population. So we’re a rare breed
Disciple is a beaut... The one that will get me instantly ready to battle is Slipknot "People = Shit"
It’s the line ‘I have no faith distracting me, I know why your prayers will never be answered, God hates us all’ in Disciple that really presses the rage button for my boy
On the subject of Slipknot - Sic is a fave "
Everything Ends is another good rage one. Also "Eat You Alive" by Limp Bizkit. |
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"Every Metallica album after Justice makes me cry tbh "
I get that. And the songs I go back to are all early ones, Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Bells, Seek and Destroy etc. The black album was the end. |
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As a 13 year old in 1981 getting ready to go to school putting on my school uniform I had the radio on and the song playing was Reward by a group called The Teardrop Explodes.When then had a phone call from the hospital to say my had grandfather passed away as a young 13 year old hearing my dad and grandmother crying very loudly after they got the phone call from the hospital was very upsetting and frightening for a young timid 13 year old like myself.When I have heard the song played I can only listen to about 20 seconds before switching off the radio even though it is not a sad song it brings back nothing but sad memories. |
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"Time to say goodbye - Sarah Brightman, Andre Bocelli
Played at my mum’s funeral in 2004.
Even writing this brings tears to my eyes...
(fem) "
I was going to mention this song too, as it's a bittersweet one for me. I first heard it when visiting Las Vegas and watching the Bellagio fountains with someone very special, and this was playing in accompaniment. The weather was gorgeously sunny and I had a happy tear in my eye at how perfect everything was in that moment.
It was played at my Nan's funeral too and now reminds me of the ups and downs in life. It's such beautiful, heartbreaking song and I very much understand why it moves you to tears now 
The only other one that always gets me is Elgar's Nimrod. For me it goes hand-in-hand with respecting and remembering those who sacrificed themselves for our country. A beautiful piece of music which really touches my soul.
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