[Kate!]

Which songs (mainly through lyrics but the music itself if it 'gets' you enough) really touch your heart, either in a happy sense or sad sense?

Ones that really make you feel something....

Halo by Beyoncé is one that gets me every time, If Tomorrow Never Comes by Ronan and How Do I Live by Leann Rimes. Very powerful.

One more that's just come to mind... FGTH - the Power of Love.

Yours?

[Kizzy]

colourfield - thinking of you
bluebells- young at heart
bangles- walk like an egyptian
tocas miracle

[Kate!]

The Bluebells. Aha that one brings back memories Kizzy love it. They had another one called Falling that I loved too.

[Chuck]

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[Sophiee]

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[Alf]

You'll never walk alone gives me heartburn, I have to take two Rennies every time I hear it.

[Kazanne]

Ava Maria ,Aaron Neville
Chasing Cars,Snow patrol
Everybody Hurts,REM
Precious Child,Karen Taylor
Earth Song,Michael Jackson

[mizzy25]

atomic kitten cant remember wot its called but the words are * looking back on when we first met, I cannot escape and I cannot forget. Whole again I think. Prob most of Bruno mars songs too.

[mizzy25]

sailing rod steward, played @ my mams funeral

[Kate!]

It was Whole Again Mizzy

[HD]

Christina Aguilera - Hurt

[Jake.]

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Christina Aguilera - Hurt

This and You Lost Me

[Sophiee]

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[Shaun]

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[Z]

I have a thing for that sort of poignant hidden sadness either in the lyrics or in someone's voice but the song doesn't necessarily slap you about the face with how sad it is... and obviously outright sad songs too.

All-American Rejects - Can't Take It, absolutely love violins in pop music, really great for evoking emotions and this is no exception.

Amelle - God Won't Save You Now, sadly not likely to ever see the light of day on a release but an absolutely epic song that I just find weirdly emotional even though it's set to a dubstep-influenced track.

Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy, just reminds me of my dad playing this lots when I was younger and the lyrics tell a story rather than just a basic rhyme, find it very poignant.

Athlete - Black Swan Song, one of my absolute favourite songs of all time, written about the lead singer's grandfather passing away and it's written from his grandad's point of view about how he'd had a long and hard life but he was so happy that he would be reunited with friends he lost in the war, his beloved wife who had passed away before him and even though he was dead he would have all his friends and family carrying him "home", honestly just makes me well up thinking about it, just a beautiful song and I don't care if people want to call bands like Athlete 'beige' because this song is just so wonderful that I can't take people who think that seriously.

Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone, I don't know if it's so much the song but the accompanying music video with the old man clutching his dead wife's clothes and crying his eyes out because she's passed away, oh my days.

Blink-182 - I Miss You, just what it says on the tin, a song about missing someone, very universal and I think one of their best hits yet also underrated because it's not one of their recognisable punk-pop-rock songs that are so popular all these years later.

Busted - Sleeping With The Light On, probably not one of the first songs you think of when you think of Busted but I think it's a well crafted song and again has a great message behind it.

Christina Aguilera - Hurt, obviously just an emotional song sung very well.

David Gray - This Year's Love, THIS YEAR'S LOVE HAD BETTER LAST, SING IT DAVID!

David Guetta/Usher - Without You, this one's another poignant song set to a dance beat which is kind of deceiving but works so well, I just love that mix.

The Dykeenies - Stitches, a little known track from a Scottish band but it has a wonderful line that I love "it's out of your hands but not out of reach" that closes the song.

Elkie Brooks - We Don't Cry Out Loud, again just because it tells a story and reminds me of music my parents would play, my mum loves this one and so do I.

Goldfrapp - A&E, such a sad story being told in this song about a horrible relationship essentially.

Jimmy Eat World - Drugs Or Me, this song's very personal to me after seeing someone I loved go through a lot or problems with drugs though thankfully not as seriously as the person being described in this song... it's a plea for someone to stop taking drugs because it's turning them into a stranger and they're losing everyone that loves them.

The Killers - When You Were Young, "he doesn't look a thing like Jesus but he talks like a gentleman like you imagined when you were young" is one of the best lines of all the songs I'm mentioning here... so much packed into that, ideas about the ideal man being something religion had taught this person and the reality being somebody who is imperfect and nothing like how they had imagined "the one" would be but there's something about him that draws them in... just a wonderful song, once again, that sort of hidden sadness in the lyrics that I love.

Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Flatline, about a failing relationship that should be going well but it no longer is; the middle eight by Siobhan is just so sad, about the man desperately clinging onto the love he is losing and the woman begging him not to make it any harder than it already is.

Nat King Cole - Unforgettable, just a lovely song really. Also more generally Nat King Cole reminds me of my grandmother which is always nice.

Rihanna - Umbrella, I think towards the end the chorus sounds really melancholy and it goes from being a song about friendship to being about protecting someone when the world is out to get them and I think that's a really lovely message.

Shontelle - Impossible, "and now when all is done there is nothing to say, and if you're done with embarrassing me, you have won you can go ahead tell them, tell them I was happy and my heart is broken..." just really simplistic lyrics that I think are quite universal really.

Siobhan Donaghy - Don't Give It Up, "don't give it up, I heal and hide, forgive this hurt of mine, we all have the scars to show", picked this one over any of her other tracks (though she has a few that touch on a similar theme) because the backing track's pretty glorious so it's nice to have the lyrics set to something that sounds quite unique. A song about overcoming depression and recognising that other people have their problems too and they're all managing to get by, pain is universal.

Sugababes - Stronger, just love this song to bits and I like that the song's message is about finding light at the end of the tunnel and making it through tough times. Also really liking Siobhan's reinterpretation of Heidi's lines and what she does with the big note, sort of cascades down and then has this soaring ooh-ing, just think it's really effective and matches the theme of the song really well.

[King Gizzard]

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and Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Welsh national anthem) ever since my grandad died last month

[Kate!]

Ahh I didn't know your grandad died Nathan

[King Gizzard]

GSTQ pales in comparison (well, GSTQ is generally ****e anyway) and I'm English

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[Alf]

This song by Eric Clapton written about the loss of his 4 year old son who fell to his death from a 53rd floor apartment in New York.

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Here's the story of what happened to little Conner Clapton in the words of his mother, make sure you have the tissue's handy.

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So next time you hear that song, you know what it means.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Nathan

GSTQ pales in comparison (well, GSTQ is generally ****e anyway) and I'm English

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Inspired to make a thread by this.....

[Jake.]

Also He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother ( The Hollies) and These Are the Days (Queen) both played at my grandads funeral

[Shaun]

srs answers (even though i never use the phrase 'touch my heart' lol)~

oasis - live forever (song i was listening to last time i saw my brother alive)
pink floyd - wish you were here (my dad's favourite band)
u2 - sometimes you can't make it on your own (i know it's a bit OTT but it was something i sort-of broke down over soon after my dad died)
fleetwood mac - landslide (generally difficult 'growing up' song)
patsy cline - crazy (no sentimental reason, just find it extremely moving)
gordon lightfoot - if you could read my mind (same)
antony & the johnsons - hope there's someone (most emotional vocal performance i've yet encountered)
radiohead - fake plastic trees (one of those songs that can just take me away to feeling deliriously happy)
david bowie - starman (same)
massive attack - unfinished sympathy (same)
nat king cole - unforgettable (same)
suede - the wild ones (same)

[Marc]

All funeral songs basically

[smeagol]

im not really into instrumental music much but this song ive been listening to lately since i rewatched the film
best piece of instrumental music ever. always gets me. might play it at my funeral which might be soon way i feel right now lol

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