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Songs that actually touch your soul and give goose bumps?

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wheresmymojo · 05/09/2023 21:22

I don't know how many of you have come across this song already on social media but I wanted to share it because I feel like it's touched my soul in a way not many other songs have...

It's called Hi Ren...

Really interested in what people think about it...I'm not very emotional but it nearly brings me to tears every time I watch / listen to it

Any songs that do the same for you?

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SlippinJanie · 06/09/2023 13:10

She's Leaving Home - The Beatles
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
She Goes On - Crowded House
Cowboys & Angels - George Michael

Crikeyalmighty · 06/09/2023 14:30

@JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain and who can forget 'slipping through my fingers' - a real tear jerker!!

AlwaysGinPlease · 06/09/2023 14:40

I know each to their own but that's just an awful bloody noise,not a song!

Woman's Work by Kate Bush. Makes me cry every time.

Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran and I can't stand him but that also makes me cry every time.

Tears in Heaven Eric Clapton because of why it was written

Loads more probably.

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JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain · 06/09/2023 14:41

Crikeyalmighty · 06/09/2023 14:30

@JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain and who can forget 'slipping through my fingers' - a real tear jerker!!

Yes, definitely!

Ykn · 06/09/2023 14:45

Faded - Alan Walker

Ykn · 06/09/2023 14:45

Afire Love - Ed Sheeran

googleyourheartout · 06/09/2023 14:53

Lots already mentioned but wanted to add 17 going under by Sam Fender. Gets me every time. The pain in the lyrics is so powerful.

LindorDoubleChoc · 06/09/2023 15:07

Graffiti on the train - Stereophonics

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Just watched it for the hundredth time and still can't get over how it makes me feel. To me it is perfect.

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Iamlikesorry · 06/09/2023 15:22

I was sitting in a little candlelit square in a Tuscan hamlet last week, listening to a community band play some favourites.

They weren't musically the best but when they played Nessun Dorma, I could feel the goosebumps from the top of my head down to my toes and back again. I was actually trembling, it's so unlike me!

It was the combination of the setting, the emotion and the music itself. Magical.

JuliusWho · 23/09/2023 22:18

A little late to the thread. I listened to snippets of Hi Ren a few months ago. Recognized he was talented but dismissed it as not being quite my thing so didn’t play it through.

A YouTube rabbit hole led me back to it yesterday and I was spellbound. It’s an absolute masterpiece and some of the most exciting new music I’ve heard in many a year.

Noshowlomo · 23/09/2023 22:20

Gimme shelter - Rolling Stones. Ooooof

BeretRaspberry · 23/09/2023 22:30

Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
A Different Corner, Jesus To A Child, Praying For Time, Cowboys & Angels - George Michael
Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
Man in The Mirror - Michael Jackson

Thepossibility · 23/09/2023 22:32
She really makes me appreciate the mastery of the lyrics.
Everywednesday · 23/09/2023 22:34

Well, I found that pretty irritating. Here's a few of mine.
Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe - by the writer Albert Hammond
I don't want to miss a thing - Aerosmith
Songbird - Fleetwood Mac

NanTheWiser · 23/09/2023 22:44

I’m rather old, but a couple of my favourites:

if You Go Away by the fabulous Scott Walker,

and one from my childhood (a long time ago) - Scarlet Ribbons by Harry Belafonte.

saltnsaucey · 23/09/2023 22:57

Tears in the Rain from Bladerunner
Barcelona by Freddie and Monserrat
Loving the Alien by Bowie
Nothing compares to you by Sinead

RosewoodBox · 23/09/2023 22:57

Coat of Many Colours- Dolly Parton. Though there is a raw version of it on YouTube by Billy Connolly of all people, and it hits me right in the heart.
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris.
I love you because - Jim Reeves. My mum used to sing this to me when I was small and we played it at her funeral last year. I have to turn off the radio if it ever appears when I'm driving.

everythingthelighttouches · 23/09/2023 23:00

Yes, I heard the REN said no a few months ago and couldn’t stop thinking about it for ages.

I thought it was brilliant on so many levels.

I think I’ll go and watch it again now!

HeadNorth · 23/09/2023 23:02

Coat of Many Colours by Saint Dolly always makes me snivel

omega4ever · 23/09/2023 23:10

I have three come to mind immediately.

Everybody hurts. REM
Nothing compares to you . Sionead O,Conner
Moon River.. Audrey Hepburn.

saltnsaucey · 23/09/2023 23:16

Not really my sort of music btw

vipersnest1 · 23/09/2023 23:17

@omega4ever, I like the cut of you jib!
For me, it's Erasure 'You surround me'. It makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Lunaballoona · 23/09/2023 23:22

Oof, what a song. ‘I was far too scared to hit him, but I would hit him in a heartbeat now…’

Orders76 · 23/09/2023 23:35

Sia 'eye of the needle' makes me cry to the point I can't listen to it anymore.
Ron sexsmith Galbraith street
A lot of Jeff Buckley , from satisfied mind to you and I

HellToupee · 23/09/2023 23:38

L’hymne á l’amour - Edith Piaf
And so it goes - Billy Joel
Malade - Lara Fabian (live version)
Het Dorp - Wim Sonneveld
Both sides - Joni Mitchell

They make the tears flow.