What song hits you hard whenever you listen to it?
What song hits you hard whenever you listen to it?
For me it's "We won't be a alone" by Feint feat. Laura Brehm. I just have nostalgia attached to it and it brings back some nice summer memories.
This post is also for song recommendations since I listen to the same songs for years and I guess I wanna hear something new.
Edit: grammar mistake corrections
Specifically this performance of Danny Nedelko by Idles: https://piped.video/watch?v=Sc63fTPttEQ
It's a song about how immigrants are normal people with thoughts and feelings, our friends and family and so on, released when an anti-immigration sentiment was completely mainstream, but also just as Corbyn was becoming popular, and the singer's belting it out despite being knackered, and the crowd's belting it back, until he falls down crying because everyone's onside with his song he'd written about friendship and love, and the guitarist takes over without a second thought, and his wife comes out with their baby in a papoose to kiss him... I'm getting a lump in my throat just describing it.
Selena - No Me Queda Más
Arctic Monkeys - 505
Eminem - Headlights
GnR - November Rain
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle
I'm currently re-aligning my entire life with the goal of not becoming the dad in this song.
"Hits hard" may be subjective and situational, but I guess it can be interpreted as emotionally touches you?
- Lissie - Pursuit of Happiness (Live at Brighton Great Escape 2010)
- The Cranberries - Zombie
- Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
- The intro soundbit on Infinity Train
- The episode intros of Jobless Reincarnation ("Mushoku Tensei") (song with video mix) - always with episode relevant content, showing the world, incredible world-building, with its amazing harmonic conclusion)
Last Kiss by Pearl Jam
So, I almost never listen to this song because somehow it always makes me so so sad. I am a metal guy, I love heavy shit, from Kill'Em All to Watch The World Burn; but an old friend passed me this song once and it broke me into pieces.
It's the saddest lullaby ever.
I recommend this fan-made lyric video specially for those who don't have English as first language. I find it funny that it doubles on views the original song.
Terrible Things, by Mayday Parade.
Bones in the Water by Battle of Mice. I've never heard that level of unhinged screaming in my life. Plus it's creepy as fuck
I have so many, but today I was listening to the radio and was really getting into Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", Heart's "Crazy On You", and Peter Schilling's "Major Tom". It was truly a good day on the radio.
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Charles Bradley’s cover of Changes by Black Sabbath.
He sings it dedicated to his mom and that gets me every time.
Linkin Park - One More Light
Toy Soldiers by Martika
Pink Floyd - marooned.
For me, I've gotta say "Machine Messiah", by Yes. It's one of the longest, and most interesting songs I've heard. Most songs have just one "mood" explored in them, but this one shifts from joyous to melancholy and back multiple times, and does so perfectly. Plus, I'm very nostalgic about it since it was one of my favorite songs as a child. Drama was the one of the first two albums I bought as a kid, almost entirely because that one song was on it. (Also--is that a Sonic pfp, op? A person of culture, I see 😉)
The Taxpayers - Go Fetch a Priest
Ghost - Badflower
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Ocean Lab - Breaking Ties (https://youtu.be/g13nsQaCxbg )
Great breakup song if you want to just let it out
John Farnham - Help (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dv54giOSRKs )
This is a cover of the Beatles song. Very different vibe to the original
Realising now my music tastes are a bit weird...
Great post idea! My list is based mostly on nostalgia for a certain period of time in my life:
Fog (again) - Live - Radiohead
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Fake Empire - The National
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Headlong - The Frames
Scattered Black and Whites - Elbow
Grace Under Pressure - Elbow
Starálfur - Sigur Rós
Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós
October - U2
The Sun, The Moon, The Star - Æther Realm
A ~20 minute metal masterpiece telling the story of someone leaving home in search of purpose and only upon leaving realizes the beauty of what he had before.
Melodically beautiful and I cry every time I hear it!
Self Destruct - kublai khan tx
yukikosan - midori (NSFW ALBUM COVER)
All songs that hit hard for different reasons... for me
Hopsin - I'll mind if Hopsin 7
About how he'd believe in God (Christianity) if God showed us his existance. Hopsin went to be a Christian follower but fell out after a while because he couldn't blindly follow a baseless religion. The whole song is pleading with "the creator" to show his existence while explaining that he really does care and wants to believe but can't.
I always hail back to Marmalade and "Reflections of My Life."
the folk song "Pretty Saro"
The Babysitter's Here - Dar Williams
Told from the perspective of a little kid, the emotions are just so immediate. I could go on about how nuanced the lyrics and emotion are but man, such a great song.
Runner up: Murder In the City - Avett Brothers
Man, that line: "Make sure my sister knows I loved her", in the past tense, oof
Lately, Bjork - Stonemilker
Bôa - Duvet (Acoustic Version), it's an alternate version of the opening song to the fantastic show Serial Experiments Lain. I don't have any particularly impactful memories associated with it, but for some reason it just gets me feelin. Night walks with this song just hit different.
Falling in Reverse's cover of Last Resort
Everclear - Everything to Everyone
It has one of my favorite lines in a song ever: "I think you are blind to the fact that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down."
Holy diver man
Also do the evolution and hellraiser
Wake me up when September ends
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane, it always makes me think of good time with my ex. Sting like a bullet train everytime i listen to it.
Although I'm not a fan of U2, I think "sometimes you can't make it on your own" is such a song to me. Also some stuff from hospice and burst apart albums from the antlers.
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Bury the Light and Devil Trigger from the DMC5 soundtrack are absolute bangers
Change by Skyelle is pretty good too
Helpless by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
I heard it in a very sad moment of my life and it will be forever bound to be "the song that makes my eyes need to pee"For me it's Answers from FFXIV
Such a heartfelt moment that I tear up as soon as I hear the melody
Cecily Smith by Will Connolly is just some bonus track from a musical I've never seen or heard but every time I hear it I almost weep.
I love my wife very much and the core concept of "life isn't about the things that we do it's who we are doing them with" is a core ethos to my life, so the song is personally very relatable.
All of the Virtute The Cat songs by The Weakerthans, but Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure in particular will make me tear up any time I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuhBQoE1Hr0&si=L-SNqYjqBp1EGukD
(for those curious, here are all 3 songs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zYG186spkY&si=g0t_hvbwx3NvxYOT
Emerson Drive’s moments
I used to do Renaissance Faires.
"Wild Mountain Thyme" was the song the entire cast sang together at the end of each day, my first year.
It hits me like a truck every time.
Almost Blue Elvis Costello
Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There's a girl here and she's almost you
Almost
All the things that your eyes once promised
I see in hers too
Now your eyes are red from crying
Almost blueFlirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to beAlmost blue
It's almost touching, it will almost do
There is part of me that's always true
Always
Not all good things come to an end
Now it is only a chosen few
I have seen such an unhappy couple
Almost me
Almost you
Almost blueCalifornia Wasted - Toad The Wet Sprocket.
Moby - Porcelain. I don't even know why but it always destroys me.
Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun” hits me so hard I can’t listen to it when I’m driving. I bawl every time.
I have a lot of songs giving me shivers, Beatles' Let It Be being the oldest and HVOB's Capture Cass the newest
Rita Coolidge - We're all alone
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Doors and fours by NOFX.
Sunset in the blue - Melody Gardot
Juliene Baker - Something
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle
TWIT podcasts
Sufjan Stevens "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois"
Darren Korb & Ashley Barrett "She Shines"
Thursday "Tomorrow I'll be You"
Underoath "In Regards to Myself"
Emery "Listening to Freddie Mercury"
Beirut "Prenzlauerberg"
Circle takes the Square "A Crater to Cough In"
August Burns Red "Indonesia"
Every Time I Die "Planet Shit"
Norma Jean "Face:Face"
Less Than Jake "History of a Boring Town"
Touch Starved by BB Bean.
I don't think I need to explain why...Also whenever I listen to I'm Not Crazy by Kevin Walkman, I always tear up at "No way, I've watched that TV show you've loved since like sixth grade. I wish that we grew up together, is it too late?"
Right in the fucking heart.
Rum & bass by boom kitty
Not quite the same vibe as the rest here but this song makes me feel like I could walk through a cement wall and fist fight an army
Great on a rowing machine at the gym if you really want to set a PR
Witch by TotalDeadCenter hits similarly