What song makes you feel? - Blog PT6

For this question, you get to take a look into the connections people have with music and why particular songs can captivate you. sometimes music can just hit you for no reason, there is just something about the track that makes you feel a certain way. But, most of the time there is a connection to the song that triggers that emotion. A happy memory or a lyric that you feel strongly about. Reading these answers made me realise, that these moments in time, where everything is perfect for that split second or not and everything is terrible, prove that you are alive and feel. Being able to use music as a way of preserving those memories or emotions for later on in life is beautiful.

I have tried my best to think of just one song but it’s just too hard.
So my first is Stereophonics - Maybe tomorrow. When it was just my boys and me, we would sing this all the time. Every time I hear it now it makes me so emotional and full of love for them. They got me through that time in my life and I will be forever grateful. I then have to have Pavarotti’s - Nessun Dorma. I think it is unbelievable and I am not sure why I love it. It just builds and builds and I have to cry every time.
Next is Jake Bugg - Simple as this. It reminds me of going to Cornwall with my family thinking it was the last time we would all be together as my eldest was growing up. This song came on the iPod and the lyrics said everything that I felt about being with my family in my favourite place in the world. Sheer joy.
Lastly, Joni Mitchell Both sides now, sung when she is older. It makes me cry. She sings so sadly and like life has broken her. Absolutely stunning but heartbreakingly sad
Sorry to waffle on but I could choose a million!
Honestly, this is one of the hardest questions so far and to just pick one is probably impossible.
My first one would be Adele because it reminds me of when I was younger and my mum always played it while washing the dishes. I also have to pick Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks because it makes me feel really calm and relaxed and is probably one of my favourite songs. lastly, just because I have to include it and if I do any more i wouldn't be able to stop. Green green grass of home, Tom Jones. I also just thought of In my life, The Beatles and I have to put that in cause both of them songs make me feel sad and happy and nostalgic and thats, why I like them so much.
I now like classical music mostly, but many years ago when I lived in the country, my husband, five-year-old niece and I used to walk through the lanes, picking dandelion heads to make dandelion wine. As we worked at it we would sing (at least my niece and I would, my husband was tone-deaf) at the top of our voices. “Blanket on the ground” by Billie Jo Spears. My niece shouting “keep in, keep in” every time the occasional car went by.
Wonderful memories of my favourite days.
Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones is the song that makes me feel the most. The song makes me feel bittersweet. I get the sensation that something really good has ended but that it’s okay that it ended. Almost like a good movie or tv show where you’ve grown attached to the characters. The show’s now ended but the characters are happy. My favourite lyric in the song is “ Let’s do some living, after we die”. I always interpreted the lyric as if the song was telling me to go out and live, to do something different and memorable, because of course, after we die and the shows over. The happy-sad feeling I get for 5 minutes 41 seconds makes me feel weightless as if I’m being carried by the song from the start of the livin, to the end of the dyin.
Stereophonics - all in one night,
Makes me think of the build-up to having my little boy and all the emotions that came with it, the panic and the excitement
I thought this would be an easy question until I realised how much music has played a part in my life. I cannot think of any music that makes me sad, maybe anything by Glen Campbell as he was my father's favourite but I would feel sad if that was the only music that I had to listen to. (sorry dad) Maybe Father and son by Cat Stevens, that can put a lump in my throat.
There are too many bands for happy so let's go with The Smiths, Morrissey's sometimes miserable lyrics and that happy Johnny Marr guitar, how can you not smile. I've seen punks, skinheads, rockers, mods, and even the odd new romantic try to dance on one leg to them, a fun thing to do. Rusholme Ruffians a stand out track.
Excited and pumped, again so many songs by different bands, Teenage Kicks by the Undertones has to get a mention but Led Zeppelin's first album gets me there every listen, just what you want out of a rock album, 45 minutes of pure noise. How many more times has to be the stand-out track, only because when it ends you just want to play the whole album again.
Nostalgic has to be The Steve Miller Band. A friend that I worked with made me a mix tape of his favourite tracks (he had all their albums). It reminds me of one summer going down to Saundersfoot with all me mates, I brought my cassette player but only one cassette and two visits to the shop to buy more batteries, we played it all day. The stand-out track has to be The Joker, being sat outside the Hean pub in the sun half pissed singing along to this with all my mates, happy days.
I can't end this without mentioning David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Chicago Transit Authority, The Beatles, Wings, and Ween of which I could answer these questions ten times over.
For everyone who knows me this one is probably very predictable, but I think it’s a song that I play most often and consistently over the years and it just makes me feel good, so I have to choose it.
It’s difficult to explain, but just love the way the song sounds and Liam Gallagher’s voice works brilliantly with it, if someone else was singing it probably wouldn’t be half as good, it gives me a real buzz every time I listen to it, thinking what a fucking song. I’m sure someone else could listen to it and think what a pile of shit, but not for me it makes me really happy, but I guess that’s the beauty of music one man’s poison is another man’s gold.
Death in Vegas – Scorpio Rising
Led Zeppelins - Ramble On
This song fills me with a range of emotions. Takes me all the way back to being young and careless, fills me with nostalgia and a bit of sadness, wishing I could venture back to those times and live it all again. What I love about the song is depending on my current mood, it can take me back or hype me up to prepare me for war. You know truly how powerful a song is when it can take you on a different ride on every playthrough.
I find myself lost when it comes to lyrics, I can relate to them and understand them but never find myself feeling emotion towards anything that is said in most songs. I get taken by the music much more, but saying that, I think the voice can invoke much more emotion than any instrument can, but it’s never for me what they sing it’s more how it's being sung.
And that's why “The great gig in the sky” will be the song that just suffocates me with emotion. I can never really work out what emotion it is. It's like when something is too much and you don't know how to process it. The way the song starts so simple and beautiful and then builds into this agonising storm of punching drums and raw vocals creates this perfect blend of beauty, anger, passion and everything els that gets you feeling something.