What songs give you the feels? Maybe they hit you emotionally a certain way or even get you a bit verklempt as Mike Myers used to say on SNL. Some of mine:

Nick Drake (anything off Pink Moon)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPe5ZQx0O ... NreQ%3D%3D

Neil Young (lots of his, but especially this one)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=An2a1_Do_ ... IGxpdmU%3D

Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cRjQCvfcX ... c3RvY2s%3D

Anonymous37 wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 9:52 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd4F-f6_amI

Nice one. I'd never heard that band before.

Band of Susans have a deep undercurrent that gets me every time. They find it and just stick with it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5A7LleVW ... lmZQ%3D%3D

Pastoral and/or terrestrial songs that sound as if the creator is searching for something abstract and greater usually get me.

Beautiful song but Masaki and Michio from Ghost create an alchemical and otherworldly coda that sends me. I share it whenever a topic such as this arises. It's one of the most beautiful passages I've ever heard.

https://youtu.be/KCOgmIIiPnU?si=HJ9ibC993em5txJV

so twinkly, so spiritual

https://youtu.be/u-1xQYnk4hU?si=a3zgn_jd5pbTknfo

why are you so pretty-sounding? what are you hoping to accomplish with these melodies

https://youtu.be/bwkWuwI4O9Y?si=V2wsR-5iu8Ecq8Kq

libba is over it and can't wait to go home

https://youtu.be/IUK8emiWabU?si=TyPeUtObd6Ls0XHM

Beautiful tracks. I especially like the weathered voice of Libba, giving the song such an authentic feel, with great Fahey like guitar playing. And the Japanese folk song...wow! How do y'all even hear of this stuff?!

Top of my head:

Swans : 'Blind'
Motorhead : 'I Ain't No Nice Guy'
Death in June : 'Fall Apart'
Townes Van Zandt : 'St John the Gambler'
New Model Army : 'Heroes'
Mark Lanegan : 'Riding the Nightingale'
Social Distortion : ' I was Wrong'
Cat Power : 'No Sense'

I'm starting to think, so I guess I should stop

M.H wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:34 pm
Cat Power : 'No Sense'

YES

One more and I'll stop: i'm not a fan of everything this band did but this one really gets me, especially at the end.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzuOSc-JD ... ZSBkaWQ%3D

I unabashedly love all of the ballads Alice Cooper wrote with Dick Wagner and Bob Ezrin: How You Gonna See Me Now (Bernie Taupin penned lyrics), You and Me, I Never Cry, & Only Women Bleed. "Shoe Salesman" off of Easy Action is lilting jangle pop. But Alice's strongest is "I Never Wrote Those Songs" from Lace and Whiskey. Everything I've loved about music since I began to love music is found in those songs.

There was a hella cheesy lip sync competition tv show in the 80s called Puttin' on the Hits and I imagined performing "Steven" from Welcome to My Nightmare. Had a routine planned and everything. No shame.