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Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:37 pm
by karder
"Amarillo by Morning". I like that one when I am on the interstate traveling from job site to job site.
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"Always on my mind". I prefer the Willie Nelson version to the Elvis version, but they are both good.
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Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:41 pm
by Dave2
karder wrote:"Amarillo by Morning". I like that one when I am on the interstate traveling from job site to job site.
I can see that... I'll have to add it to my "on the road" playlist.
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:42 pm
by tqu9047
The song that gets me every time is
Poison, Something to Believe in.
The line that gets me is, "My best friend died a lonely man, in a Palm Springs hotel room.
I got the call last Chistmas eve, when they told me the news".
I got a phone call on Christmas eve 1998, that my father had passed away.
That line gets me every time.
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:09 pm
by Abraham
Nessun dorma from Puccini's opera Turandot - for me, most especially, when sung by Pavarotti.
It's available on the internet and will bring tears to your eyes. It's only 3 minutes and a few seconds long.
As a younger guy, I thought opera was a whole lot of jittery screaming and yes, some of it is, but not Nessun dorma.
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Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:45 pm
by Songbird
Abraham, have you heard Nathan Pacheco sing it?
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Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:27 pm
by WildBill
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:09 pm
by x007x
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Gravity of Love-Enigma
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:22 pm
by kragluver
Most lately:
"I'm not home yet" by Building 459
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:53 pm
by MadMonkey
"Escapist" by Nightwish. I'm kind of a dreamer (just ask my coworker with whom I just had a long conversation about the feasibility of an orbital burrito delivery service
) so it describes some of my mindset.
There a LOT of songs I get emotional with though.
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:28 pm
by Dave2
MadMonkey wrote:I just had a long conversation about the feasibility of an orbital burrito delivery service
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Also, Nightwish is great.
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:36 pm
by JP171
MadMonkey wrote:"Escapist" by Nightwish. I'm kind of a dreamer (just ask my coworker with whom I just had a long conversation about the feasibility of an orbital burrito delivery service
) so it describes some of my mindset.
There a LOT of songs I get emotional with though.
yea after 18 months in Iraq I really like the song let the bodies hit the floor, gets me all excited and ready
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:43 pm
by snatchel
Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
Purple Rain- Prince
Edited to add one more:
Mariposa Traicionera- Mana
+1 on Ave Maria. One of my favorites as well!
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:51 pm
by The Mad Moderate
Won't back down - Tom Petty
A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
Kiss my Country *** - Rhett Adkins
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:58 am
by Rex B
J.R.@A&M wrote:As a piano player and youngish baby boomer, I've always been partial to tunes like "Let It Be" and "Imagine". The latter, by John Lennon, is one of the most soulful and beautiful songs that I know of. But it is also one of the most stupid and dangerously naive messages that I know of. "Imagine no possessions... nothing to kill or die for..." Oh realllllly? Well, first just tell me who controls the water supply, and then we'll see. Do away with property rights, and while we're at it, do away with traditional constraints on human evil ("and no religion, too") and we'll see what kind of a peaceful utopia results. Probably one that Pol Pot would approve of.
Re: One song that "speaks" to you
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:02 am
by Rex B
"Dimming of the Day", Bonnie Raitt
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"Taxi" by Harry Chapin
"In the Misty Moonlight" I think Jerry Wallace' cover is the one I like
Too many more to list here