xxxp yeah everyone hates on Across The Universe but it fills me with melancholy
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Not a song and a complete cliché, to boot, but the fourth and final movement of Mahler's 9th Symphony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkChdHBuoiQ&t=3237s
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
YT time stamps are not ILX-friendly, alas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkChdHBuoiQ
(It starts around 53:57.)
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Half Asleep by School of Seven Bells, gets me by the second line. Cannot explain it, I've never analysed the lyrics to see if *omg it me* and I have no great love for anything else by them.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
Richard Dawson - Jogging. There's a precise part of that song where the song starts building and he sings 'There's no such thing as a quick fix'. It's the double-meaning behind that line: He can't fix his personal demons just by jogging, but at the same time there's no quick fix for the problems faced in the world
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
why did i put 'do you remember walter' on just now ffs
― imago, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
oh, because it's one of the best songs ever written? sure, but
― imago, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
Schubert - Nacht und Traume (probably without vocals)June Tabor - And The Band Played Waltzing MatildaNick Drake - All My TrialsDaniel Johnston - I Had A DreamEpic Soundtracks - Sad Song Richard And Linda Thompson - For Shame Of Doing Wrong
― gravalicious, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
A recent recording of Alfred Schnittke's 3rd Violin Concerto, with Vadim Gluzman, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and James Gaffigan, prompted me to revisit the piece for the first time in years. I can't bear to listen to it very often because of the excruciating affect it inflicts. The music itself is in pain, each note played a pure exposure of nerves, from the tremolo-laden violin solo that kicks off the work in medias res to the final chorale-like 'Andante', which achieves release – as always in Schnittke – through exhaustion and extinction.
This is a different recording, featuring the concerto's dedicatee, Oleg Kagan, a mere year before his death from cancer, further exacerbating the piece's obvious pathos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwItJPUz6A
So yeah, not a song, but it tears me up every time.
― pomenitul, Monday, 2 August 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
That Paul Buchanan song about the cars in the garden always gets to me.
― henry s, Monday, 2 August 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 2 August 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
The ”I miss my grandmother” part at the end of Dry Cleaning’s “Goodnight”.
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 2 August 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
Oh, and Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 2 August 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Thanks Pom, I’ve been on a big Schnittke jag the last year. I also have kind of a thing for communist era color tv footage so it scratches two itches.
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 2 August 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
My pleasure – and apologies for the risk of weeping involved.
― pomenitul, Monday, 2 August 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1C00e__5c
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:10 (two years ago) link
St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Nikolai Korniev - аллилуйя. се жених грядет (alleluia. behold, the bridegroom) (Anon)
fromSacred Russian Choral Music
https://img.discogs.com/vpmFoXzYFzoE4xJyVJ8o9hkhlgw=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14196628-1569681018-5180.jpeg.jpg
― meisenfek, Friday, 31 December 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
"Temptation" (the New Order one) pierces my armour far too often
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
I very rarely hear a new song that makes me cry. I think the last one might have been "Snow is Falling in Manhattan" by Purple Mountains.
― Chris L, Friday, 10 June 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5V8DB_D-BU
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 6 March 2023 12:22 (one year ago) link
Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus "Encuentro en Brooklyn" ^^^