# What song gives you an emotional response everytime you hear it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2001, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441 "2001-09-29T02:13:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoomphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ec9cab/32.png) [@zoomphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoomphy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/21 "2001-09-29T07:59:12Z")
Songs that make me wanna get my groove on: “Heatwave” by Martha and the Vandellas “Walkin’ On Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” by Kenny Chesney “You Sexy Thing” by Hot Chocolate Songs that make me and my friends simultaneously sing along: “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon “Lola” by The Kinks “Natural Woman” by Carole King “Friends In Low Places” by Garth Brooks Songs that make me wistful and occasionally teary-eyed: “Moonlight Serenade” by the Glenn Miller Orhcestra “It’s Magic” by Doris Day “Crying” by Roy Orbison “Memory” as sung by Barbra Steisand ---
**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/22 "2001-09-29T08:11:04Z")
“Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes is almost a universal sad/mourning song. However, whenever there is even a small ceremony they often play “Scotland the Brave” on the pipes, regardless that the event has nothing to do with Britain - they’ll play it at graduations and such. That kind of makes me think “God, isn’t there some other song that piper can play??” Just me though. ---
**Author:** ![dave99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@dave99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave99)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/23 "2001-09-29T08:21:01Z")
Being Canadian, I’ve only heard “God Bless America” twice. Once was at the end of **The Deer Hunter**. The other time was on the 11th, when the Congressmen spontaneously broke into song on the Capitol steps. Both times I was moved to tears. ---
**Author:** ![Xixox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/13edae/32.png) [@Xixox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xixox)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/24 "2001-09-29T12:07:47Z")
Songs for bloodrage (Great for Quake, Tribes, or other FPS): [ul][li]Orff’s **O Fortuna** (Battle charges in Excalibur)[/li][li]Wagner’s **Ride of the Valkyries** [/li][li]Philip Glass’s **Mad Rush** [/li][li]Staind’s **Mudshovel** [/li][li]Static-X’s **Wisconsin Death Trip** [/li][li]Disturbed’s **Down With The Sickness** (ooooooOOOWAHAHAHAH!)[/li][li](Endless list of techno crap)[/li][/ul] Songs of the wistful muse: [ul][li]Vince Guaraldi’s **Cast Your Fate To The Wind** [/li][li]Anything by Abba (Hey I grew up listening to 'em while playing with Legos)[/li][li]King Crimson’s **Walking On Air** [/li][li]Led Zeppelin’s **Going to Californa** [/li][li]Incubus’s **The Warmth** [/li][/ul] Tear Jerkers: [ul][li]America’s **Ventura Highway** [/li][li]Jesus Jones’s **Right Here Right Now** (Makes me think of all I’ve lived through)[/li][li]Concrete Blonde’s **Tomorrow, Wendy** [/li][li]Loreena McKennitt’s **Prospero’s Speech** [/li][/ul] Songs that make me groovy: [ul][li]Anything by Morphine 🆒[/li][li]Guess Who - **No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature** [/li][li]Hawkwind’s **Flying Doctor** [/li][li]Jimi’s **Are You Experienced** [/li][li]Dada’s **Dizz-knee-land** [/li][li]Tragically Hip’s **New Orleans Is Sinking** [/li][/ul] Songs I can’t help but sing to: [ul][li]Bloodhound Gang’s **Fire Water Burn** - Living in Duluth, MN, we always sing it “Duluth, Duluth, Duluth is on fire” :D[/li][li]Raaaaaaaaahhxaaaaane![/li][li]Harvy Danger’s **Flagpole Sitta** [/li][li]Violent Femmes **Blister In The Sun** [/li][li]Cake - **Sheep Go To Heaven** [/li][/ul] Erg… I could fill pages here. I’ve got like 7000 mp3’s on constant rotation these days, and every one of them is special to me in one way or another. Except for maybe the Belinda Carlisle stuff my wife ripped 😛 ---
**Author:** ![psylocke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@psylocke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psylocke)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/25 "2001-09-29T13:51:43Z")
Smashing pumpkin’s Perfect for a friend-lover thing that went wrong. Live’s lightening crashes makes me sad for no particular reason. Fiona apple’s Fast as you can makes me feel really bad ( but in a good way) Party song : Dexy’s midnight runners C’mon eileen ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/26 "2001-09-29T13:57:26Z")
_Ave Maria_ makes me cry. _Unchained Melody_ by The Rightous Brothers makes me think of my friend Chris who died when we were 17. It was on my Do Not Play list at my wedding. I still miss him. _Say Goodbye_ by Dave Matthews Band reminds me of someone I hold very close to my heart. _Closer_ by Nine Inch Nails makes me…well, it makes me horny. 😃 Rose ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/27 "2001-09-29T14:24:05Z")
_Whiter Shade of Pale_ by Procol Harum. _Crescent Moon_ by Cowboy Junkies. _Paranoid Android_ by Radiohead. Some others I can’t think of right now. > [@](#): > > Closer by Nine Inch Nails makes me…well, it makes me horny. I actually dated a girl some years ago who liked to listen to NIN when we had sex. It was…interesting, to say the least. It’s a little hard to concentrate when Trent Reznor is screaming “Head like a hole, black as your soul, I’d rather die than give you control”, though. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/28 "2001-09-29T14:36:29Z")
“Tears in Heaven” always chokes me up. But the most emotional response I get is when I hear “Last Kiss.” I have nothing attached to that song. No good memories, no bad memories. I just really, really loathe car-crash songs. Most of them I can just turn off. But “Last Kiss” just makes me want to stab myself in the ears repeatedly with sharp sticks. ---
**Author:** ![UniversalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8491ac/32.png) [@UniversalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UniversalGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/29 "2001-09-29T15:08:12Z")
‘Dream Weaver’ and ‘Love hurts’. When I was younger and more optimistic, I had just begun to visit strip clubs and was having a good time. The women were pretty, the place was nice, and I did not know much about the downside of such a business. Dancers dancing to those two songs appeared then to be beautiful, somehow ethereal and exquisite, like something out of a wonderful dream. Especially after a few beers. ‘Oh What A Night’ That song reminds me of a beautiful, petite little redhead I used to date and the first time we made love, because she hummed and sang it in-between sessions of some of the best sex I have ever had. ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’ This song reminds me of a petite and pixie-like beautiful woman I knew and once pursued who had more than her fair share of hard knocks and troubled bridges to cross. She sang that once when I was visiting her, when it came on the radio. She looked so hurtingly pretty, small and delicate in the soft light of her apartment and I was so in love, but it was not to be. ‘Stand By Me’ It reminds me of better times when I was young and had some of the greatest friends in the entire world to hang around with. We were pals and still naive about what the world could hit us with, full of youthful energy, confidence and willing to take on almost challenge. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/30 "2001-09-29T15:42:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mmmiiikkkeee \* > \*\*“Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes is almost a universal sad/mourning song. > \*\* That was my Grandfathers favorite piece. It was played at his funeral. It breaks me up whenever I hear it, too. ---
**Author:** ![zber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@zber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zber)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/31 "2001-09-29T18:01:20Z")
Three songs will stop me in my tracks and usually bring on tearing up: \*\* Little Drummer Boy \*\* - especially the David Bowie/Bing Crosby version (1977 - Crosby died a month later). \*\* Space Oddity \*\* - again Bowie (the line “Tell my wife I love her very much”) \*\* Rocket Man \*\* - Elton John (same theme as space oddity… - and again with the “I miss the earth so much I miss my wife” line) There is also a song from 1985 - \*\* Walking on Sunshine\*\* by Kartina and the Waves. I just can’t help but want to bounce up and skip gleefully whenever I hear it… z ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/32 "2001-09-29T18:16:36Z")
**Songs that make me sad:** Apocalyptica’s cello cover of Metallica’s _One_ Garth Brooks, _The Dance_ Diamond Rio, _One More Day With You_ Gary Allan, _Greenfields_ Eve 6, _Here’s To The Night_ Smashing Pumpkins, _Disarm_ Sons of the Desert, _Leaving October_ **Songs that get me to pump up my adrenalin and push down the accelerator:** Disturbed, _Down With The Sickness_ Metallica, _Fuel_, the live version from S&M Full Devil Jacket, _Now You Know_ Stabbing Westward, _Save Yourself_ **Songs that get my groove on and make me feel like I’m one cool bad-ass:** Kid Rock, _Cowboy_ AC/DC, _You Shook Me All Night Long_ Dixie Chicks, _Sin Wagon_ **Songs that make me happy:** Dolly Varden, _I Come To You_\* Charlie Robison, _Sweet Inspiration_ Old 97’s, _King of All The World_ Billy Bragg and Wilco, _Secret of the Sea_ ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/33 "2001-09-29T18:52:56Z")
Xixox—you totally stole my song!! Femmes doing Blister in the Sun is classic. I don’t know how anyone can hear this song and not be compelled to get up and jump around the room like a lunatic… Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” can’t simply be listened to. It must be belted out at top volume by anyone within earshot. Cake’s version is pretty hip, too, and almost as singalongable (yes, that IS a word dammit) as the original. Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” makes me weep like a child every time I hear it. Ditto for Neil Young doing “Needle and the Damage Done”. Music=Magic bella ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/34 "2001-09-29T19:32:55Z")
Bad Day by Fuel That song really ‘gets’ me. “she slammed the door and said I’m sorry IIIIIII’ve had a bad day again” that is so me. That Pearl Harbor song by Faith Hill, makes me think of Mom dying. And PUSH IT by Salt N Peppa makes me chair dance where ever I am. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/35 "2001-09-29T19:41:19Z")
**UniversalGuy** , are you a songwriter yourself? Some of your lines on your post hit me hard, reminding me of my own petite, pixieish lady I loved and love. I am quite impressed by your post. Okay, enough with the gosh-wow brown-nosing, now for the music. Songs that fill me with energy: _Was Ist Ist_, _Headcleaner_, _Haus der Lüge_ and _Ich Bin’s_ by the Einstürzende Neubauten _Juke Joint Jezebel_ and the entirety of the album _Nihil_ by KMFDM _Be My Yoko Ono_ by the Barenaked Ladies _For Whom The Bell Tolls_ by Metallica Half of Depeche Mode’s _Violator_ album _Brick In The Wall_ by Pink Floyd Songs that make me feel strangely peaceful: _Leid und Elend_ by KMFDM _Norwegian Wood_ and _I’ve Just Seen A Face_ by the Beatles _Shine On You Crazy Diamond, I and II_, _Coming Back To Life_ and _Wearing The Inside Out_ by Pink Floyd _Imagine_ by John Lennon _When You Dream_ by the Barenaked Ladies _Salamandrina_ and _Zebulon_ by the Neubauten The other half of Depeche Mode’s _Violator_ album Songs that make me wistful and sad: _Stella Maris_ by the Neubauten _Wrap Your Arms Around Me_ and _The Flag_ by the Barenaked Ladies _Freshmen_ by the Verve Pipe _Wish You Were Here_ by Pink Floyd The information above just may be enough to pschoanalyse me… ---
**Author:** ![ThunderBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThunderBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThunderBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/36 "2001-09-29T20:01:25Z")
**Wicked Blue** already posted it, but I have to agree. _Ave Maria_ always gets me. Every time, without fail. I have the CD of the soundtrack to _The Mission_, where a little kid sings it solo. That version is especially moving. ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/37 "2001-09-30T04:57:04Z")
Most anything by Dead Can Dance puts me in a spiritual mood…light some candles and incense, put Toward the Within or Spleen and Ideal in, and chill, or maybe pull out a deck of tarot cards… Another very spiritual album for my is ‘A Feather on the Breath of God’, performed by Gothic Voices. It’s music of Hildegarde of Bingen, a 12th century abbess, and the piece “Columba Aspexit” is one of the most beautiful religious pieces I’ve ever heard. Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” had been known to make me bawl. It was used in the movie Platoon. I just found a version of it performed by Trinity College Choir, and it brings me to tears when I hear it, it’s so achingly sad. (It’s written as an Agnus Dei) Songs that make me wanna get up and dance: Brown Eyed Girl, by Van Morrison Joy to the World, by Three Dog Night Finally, by CeCe Peniston Believe, by Cher I’m Too Sexy, by Right Said Fred Lots of stuff by New Order and Depeche Mode Mack the Knife, performed by Louis Armstrong Space Dog, by Tori Amos Songs that make me feel empowered: Wonder, by Natalie Merchant I Will Survive, by Gloria Gaynor Silent All These Years, by Tori Amos Tiger, by Paula Cole You Oughtta Know, by Alanis Morrissette The Last Day of Our Acquaintence, by Sinead O’Connor That’s Just the Way it it, Baby, by The Rembrandts (The last 3 are good post-breakup songs or songs to get your anger out) Songs that can make me cry/tear up for various reasons My Heart Will Go On, by Celine Dion- I know that’s tacky, but it came out around the time that one of my cats died suddenly, and I kept having dreams that she had come back to life. “Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you, that is how I know you go on”… I heard Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2 today on the radio and I started crying. It’s amazing that a song written over 10 years ago can still be pertinent today. Winter, and Mother, by Tori Amos Love is Stronger than Death, by The The Tori Amos’ versions of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Thank You Sister, by Cris Williamson Mothers of the Disappeared, Bad, A Sort of Homecoming, others by U2 Romance: My husband’s and my song is “Eirigh Suas a Stoirin” performed by Clannad from the album Celtic Graces (great album BTW). It’s a perfect piece of music and SO beautiful. I Only Have Eyes For You, The Flamingos version- HATE the Paul Simon version You’re Still the One, by Shania Twain- it relates to me & my husband when we were getting together. Phil Collins’ version of Groovy Kind of Love Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, by Van Morrison and the Chieftans Turn of the Century, by Yes Cheek to Cheek & They Can’t Take that Away From Me, performed by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, performed by Ella Songbird by Fleetwood Mac Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers Fools Rush In as performed by Elvis Che Gelida Manina and O Soave Fanciulla from La Boheme Time to Say Goodbye, by Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman Mild Und Leise from Tristan and Isolde Post more later, just looked at the clock, tired…zzzzzzzz ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/38 "2001-09-30T05:07:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moggy \* > \*\* Songs that can make me cry/tear up for various reasons… > > Love is Stronger than Death, by The The > \*\* OMG, yes. Almost forgot about that one. What an amazing song. ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/39 "2001-09-30T05:28:03Z")
Angry music: - My own summer - Deftones - Change (In the House of flies) - Deftones - Street Carp - Deftones - Korea - Deftones - Pink Maggit - Deftones - Crawling - Linkin Park Wistful/Sad: - It’s been a while - Staind - Hemmorhage (in my hands) - Fuel - Bad Day - Fuel - Simple Kind of Life - No Doubt - If you were here - Poe - Spanish Doll - Poe - Perfect one - Lit - Miserable - Lit Happy fun: - Humpty Dance - Digital Underground - Sheep go to heaven - Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake - 5/4 - Gorillaz (this one makes me feel RAWKSTAR!) - Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz - 19-2000 - Gorillaz - Bathwater - No Doubt Probably more but that’s what i can think of right now ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441/40 "2001-09-30T06:44:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Songs that make me feel strangely peaceful: > > Norwegian Wood and I’ve Just Seen A Face by the Beatles I am not a Beatles fan at _all_, so I think it is especially spooky that these are the only two Beatles MP3s I have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-gives-you-an-emotional-response-everytime-you-hear-it/84441.md?page=3)