[MoriartyL]

Originally Posted by SamNMax

Those type of songs tend to suck, lyrics and all, anyway.

No, no- I was just using that as an extreme example. None of the songs mentioned so far which I've heard moved me very much, because of the simple verse-chorus-verse structure, the lack of modulation, etc. The music brings down the lyrics.

Yeah, I know. But the type of songs you refered to, the ones that try to be depressing over a generic guitar riff, tend to just be plain bad. It has nothing to do with any of the songs listed in this thread.

[MoriartyL]

Oh, okay. Sorry then.

Oh and

Kurt Kobain - Proof

[Erwin_Br]

For when you're lonely, after a break-up:

Eels - It's a mother****er

It's a mother****er
Being here without you
Thinking 'bout the good times
Thinking 'bout the bad
And I won't ever be the same

It's a mother****er
Getting through a Sunday
Talking to the walls
Just me again
But I won't ever be the same
I won't ever be the same

It's a mother****er
How much I understand
The feeling that you need someone
To take you by the hand
And you won't ever be the same
You won't ever be the same

--Erwin

Double post.

[Erwin_Br]

Originally Posted by SamNMax

Double post.

Damn, you're fast!

--Erwin

If you take more than three minutes to post, you're dumb.

[Erwin_Br]

Originally Posted by SamNMax

If you take more than three minutes to post, you're dumb.

Or you're on a slow connection.

--Erwin

Or that.

[Manhunter71]

Hurt by Johnny Cash, or Nine Inch Nails - they are both extremely moving versions, but if I had to choose I think it would be the Johnny Cash version, mainly because of the accompanying video which shows him walking round his house and looking at photos of his late wife who had died from cancer a few months previously

I defy anyone who listens to this song whilst watching the video to not have tears in their eyes

You probably have to have prior knowledge of Cash to aprriciate the song, which I don't have.

Proof, on the other hand, is probably the only rapper who can make you feel for him.

[eriq]

HURT is an absolutely amazing song. And so is the video by Mark Romanek!!

[Manhunter71]

Originally Posted by SamNMax

You probably have to have prior knowledge of Cash to aprriciate the song, which I don't have.

Not really.
What you need to have is to have suffered some great loss at some point in your life - if you have, then you will appreciate the emotion behind this song

[samIamsad]

Well, the man died himself soon thereafter....

[Maquisard]

Shatner singing Rocket Man brings tears of joy to my eyes.

[Maquisard]

Originally Posted by Manhunter71

Hurt by Johnny Cash, or Nine Inch Nails - they are both extremely moving versions, but if I had to choose I think it would be the Johnny Cash version, mainly because of the accompanying video which shows him walking round his house and looking at photos of his late wife who had died from cancer a few months previously

I defy anyone who listens to this song whilst watching the video to not have tears in their eyes

I've heard the song and seen the video. I though it was very powerful. No tears though.

Originally Posted by Mares

Shatner singing Rocket Man brings tears of joy to my eyes.

Not emotional, but a great cover.

[Sage]

Originally Posted by MoriartyL

Take Puff the Magic Dragon. Now ignoring whether or not it is about drugs, the music is just so... ordinary. It's completely predictable, and much too simplistic.

Peter, Paul, and Mary were members of the "Folk Music" movement, and Puff The Magic Dragon is a folk song. The idealogy of the folk music movement was to focus on meaningful lyrics and simple melodies played (at least initially) on a minimum of accoustic instruments. This was something of a knee-jerk reaction to the ever-increasingly complex arrangements of popular music of the 1950s (e.g. Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, etc. who recorded albums with 30 or 40 piece orchestras backing them up, yet sang utterly vapid and often silly, meaningless lyrics).
The rumor that Puff The Magic Dragon is a song about drug use is a result of the older generation's witch-hunt for drug references in the music favored by the younger generation of the 1960s. As the lyrics show, it has nothing to do with drug use, but is about a boy abandoning his imaginary childhood friend.
Jefferson Airplane satirized that period's witch-hunt atmosphere by releasing "White Rabbit", a song with obvious drug references inspired by Lewis Carroll's book "Alice In Wonderland".

[Aj_]

The Nine Inch Nails version is much more angrier and starts off a lot more unnervingly. However Cash changed it more to a dejected, depressed, or tired song. Cash is more likely to make you cry, but I prefer the NIN version.