Forgot to add Susan Boyle’s “I Dream a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent. I hate these types of shows and overwrought songs, but Wifey made me watch her performance.
Holy mutha o’ god! The reaction when this dumpy little woman tucked into the song is awesome.
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Here’s the vid, in case there’s a person left on Earth who hasn’t seen it (sans veggie tempura):
Also: someone asked me about Toni Child’s a while ago in CS. Don’t remember who, but this is the song I find so incredible:
I agree about Susan Boyle…I get the same reaction. Not sure how the Tempura appetizer relates, though!
Lately, I can’t make it through “This is Me” from “The Greatest Showman” without tearing up. I love the song, but more than that, I love the message and the defiance of the singer saying, “I’m me, and I’m not apologizing for that.”
No idea if I posted this properly, but who knew the Boston Pops playing Neil Diamond could be downright spine-tingling? (At about the 3:00 mark)
Lately I’ve been on a “Symphonic versions of Classic Rock songs” kick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TJBVUX0pqYhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=new+blood+orchestra
If you liked that then you will love Paul Potts audition:
Add to that Jonathan and Charlotte audition:
Poor kid doesn’t even know the words to her song… But she has some kind of voice all right. I hope she’s not under excessive pressure from her parents. (Or whoever else)
‘Little Wing’ by Jimi Hendrix.
Every time I listen to that it makes me so sad he died so young.
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
Good one.
Thisis pretty corny, but does the trick for me.
Audra McDonald’s Summertime
Cohen’s Hallelujah and Don McLean’s American Pie are the only two songs I cannot believe could be written by a solo individual.
The one piece of music that does it for me is Alfred Reed’s Russian Christmas Music, a 1944 composition that is, according to Wikipedia, “one of the most frequently performed pieces of concert band literature” ( Russian Christmas Music - Wikipedia ) Nevertheless, I’ve never heard anyone besides our group perform it. I’ve never found a professional recording of it. But there’s one note at the climax – or one of the climaxes, at any rate, that the piece seems to lead up to and which has concentrated emotion in it.
Edited to add – although you can apparently find several versions of it on YouTube, like this one – "Russian Christmas Music" recording - Bing video
Except for listening to Cohen’s Allelluia just after hearing of his death, I think I haven’t cried over a song for decades.
But there is a certain type of song I’d like to bring up: songs which are linked to a specific culture or place, and which can make people from there cry like a waterfall if they come up when they’re away from home. They aren’t of a specific genre; they may or may not be of a genre that’s specific or popular with that group; they may not even name the place or group. When I was in high school we called them “the handkerchief songs”.
I apologize in advance if any of the videos have bad sound quality, I don’t have internet at home and don’t want to be watching music videos at work.
Asturias patria querida (Asturias, beloved homeland; I think the Aussies recently got unexpectedly acquainted with a local version :D)
México lindo y querido (Beautiful, beloved Mexico)
No te vayas de Navarra (Don’t you leave Navarre; in this version done by an Andalusian woman, which is appropriate since the lyrics involve an Andalusian woman and Navarrese guy)
En tierra extraña, aka Vino español (In a strange land, aka Spanish wine)
Auld Lang Syne (known to many foreigners from movies, but without the connotations it has to Anglos, much less to Scotts!)
etc etc etc
I’ll see your Buckley and raise you Pentatonix.
And to keep the ball rolling, Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt. Knowing the timing – shortly after June’s death, shortly before his own – and their history together I figured he he’d written it but, no, he merely owns it. Even Reznor says, “it isn’t mine anymore.”
Beneductus from Karl Jenkins’ ‘The Armed Man’
This isn’t the best performance of it, (the CD is better), but it literally froze me in place the first time I heard it.
I always choke up a bit when I listen to Annie Lennox sing Into the West from the LotR movie.
This song was played at a the funeral of a very dear friend of mine, and it always brings tears to my eyes.
For me it’s not just the song - it’s the song in conjunction with that video. Wrenching.
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
IMO, without a doubt, the most beautiful piano piece ever written.
I like it paired with this video.
When it hits around the 2 minute mark, chills, phew.
Along the same lines, his Reverie.
Stevie Ray Vaughn’s cover. Same thing. And just wow
