A song that was written in 1974 just took my breath away, literally

[PeaceLoveAndCandy]

I went out for a long walk and had Spotify making suggestions. This song came up, never heard it before, and it stopped me on my tracks. I had to slow down as I was crying. This song was written in 1974 and I am 50. How have I not come across this song before? The song by the way is Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez. Has this happened to you and what was the song?

@Ferrylights

The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics. Reminds me of my dad who passed away in Feb, I break down when I hear it

Me too. My dad used to quote it all the time.

Joan Armatrading - The Weakness In Me! Just her voice gives me goosebumps and is so melancholy. Reminds me of a very particular period in my life. Love and Affection too.

Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello
Sensual world by Kate Bush
Lay Lady Lay Bob Dylan
Lover lover lover Leo by Leonard Cohen
When I am laid in earth/ Dido’s lament by Purcell especially sung by Barbara Hendricks/ Jessie Norman

I am listening to Love and Affection right now and thinking back to my first love. that full rounded first love.

when we look back it's ourselves we're looking for isn't it. not the boyfriend.

I love lots of these thank you to all for the reminders. My contribution is Keane ‘Somewhere only we know’.I actually really like the Lily Allen version. It reminds me of simpler times when my DS was really young. I was a single parent so it was always just the two of us. He’s a man now and I often feel nostalgic for those days, makes me quite tearful oh dear!

I wish we could ‘like’ posts. So many great reminders of great music. And I love the PP who is abandoning homeschooling for air pods!

Watching a doc. regarding difficult urban environments, about 1976.

Starts with the opening piano/synch chords of Stevie Wonder's Living For The City. Then when he shouts first line " A boy is born in hard time Mississippi" it was electric. It was like growing up, knowing the connection between politics and music.

River by Leon Bridges.

Heard it not long after my mum died and it floored me. Its not particularly related to mothers or death but it just got me.

Try this one

lovely voice

Hope There's Someone - Antony and The Johnson's.

Michael kiwanuka's Cold Little Heart reduced me to floods the first time i heard it, a month or so ago...

Diamonds and Rust is a beautiful song, nostalgia is a killer.

I very rarely cry at music (unless I've had a few ), but one that does get me is Bleecker Street by Simon and Garfunkel. I think it's the beautiful harmonies, and also that it reminds me so much of my DM - she used to listen to them a lot when I was little.

The song that did that for me as in came out of the blue and made we wonder where it had been all my life - Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. I know it’s a bit of a chestnut now, since Shrek I guess, but it hadn’t my crossed my radar at all when I first heard it in the 1990s. Hairs on the back of the neck stuff. And I knew all the Cohen classics too-Chelsea Hotel, Suzanne, Bird on a Wire, So Long Marianne.

A different sort of thing as I heard it as soon as it came out, but the first time I heard Adele’s When we Were Young (she was singling it live in some chat show) it really knocked me sideways like no song ever had on first listen.

@Smudgefell

Joan Armatrading - The Weakness In Me! Just her voice gives me goosebumps and is so melancholy. Reminds me of a very particular period in my life. Love and Affection too.

such a beautiful song. Also the song Willow does it to me, and love and affection

The other song that was a gut punch for me was also 1974 written.

Its Cat Stevens, Oh Very Young.

Again related to the loss of my mum (my dad is a big Cat Stevens fan but i'd not heard this song since early childhood, so 30 odd years) even though song is not massively about loss or mum's

I know it’s a bit of a cheesy one but “something inside so strong” by Labi Siffre always makes me tear up.

@MirandaWestsNewBFF

Joni Mitchell’s Blue album. How could a woman barely out of her teens write songs like that?

Little Green makes me 😪

@Motorcyclemptiness

Michael kiwanuka's Cold Little Heart reduced me to floods the first time i heard it, a month or so ago...

This song. A lot of his music in big little lies. I love listening to him.

Oh, and “into the mystic” van Morrison - dh and I’s first dance at our wedding. Sob!

Ok I’m now taking this off on a tangent somewhat. But I beseech you to listen to Yellow Angel by The Tiger Lillies. You’ll thank me later. Absolutely beautiful, moving piece. Please try it and come back to me.

Also ‘Asleep’ by The Smiths.

Robbybobtail - nope, not cheesy I don't think. Too searing to be cheesy.

Music and politics again, innit.

@Confusedandshaken

The Eva Cassidy version of Fields of Gold. I heard it as we drove up a remote road in the northwest of Ireland to look at a plot of land. For once it wasn't raining. The sun was setting and the mountains and water in front of us were reflecting back the light and it was just a perfect blend of sound and vision. We bought the plot of land and it's now our much loved second home. Sadly CoVid means we haven't spent any time there this year and we miss all our friends and family there very much. But our people and the sun and the sky and the mountains are there and we'll be back.

You will walk in fields of gold confused just hold on. Also a favourite of mine and a something I say to myself in tough times "we will walk in fields of gold"

Hard to concentrate by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. It’s so full of emotion

@Whattheduck

Cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits

I came here to say Cats in the cradle too