Songs that you have an intense emotional reaction to

My hair still stands on end when I hear the solo to “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones or “Making the Nature Scene” by Sonic Youth.

I’m pretty sure everyone’s heard this one, but here it is.

Not sure how many have heard this one, but it boils away underneath through the whole song, then erupts.

Yep, both of them still work after decades of listening to them.

But the one that totally debilitates me is George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today”. When it comes on the radio, I’ve got to either change the station as soon as I hear the opening lines, or pull over to the side of the road. If I don’t, I’ll be crying and unable to see by the first chorus. Just typing the title in the YT search made me tear up. Why? I don’t really know. I know George is pushing all those emotional buttons and it’s a stylish Nashville production. It still somehow gets to me for no really good reason.