Songs that actually touch your soul and give goose bumps?

[wheresmymojo]

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?

The Dambusters March, wartime RAF Dad accounts for that I think.

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, played at Dad's funeral.

Memories from Cats.

For All We Know (Nina Simone) and The Green Fields of France.

And this!

May have been said already, but These are the Days of our Lives by Queen (plus the heartbreaking video they made to go with it - when Freddie says "I still love you" straight to camera at the end I'm a sobbing mess.)

Also Queen's Teo Toriatte - the words are beautiful, written by Brian May as a love letter to their Japanese fans (and the chorus sung twice in perfect Japanese by Freddie), but it's almost as Brian had second sight into the future that we'd be without Freddie far too soon too. 😪

Too many to mention!

Sting- Fields of Gold. I always picture myself as an old lady, the winter of life, living with one foot in the memories of sun-drenched days in the English countryside with the people I love & hoping the children remember me in the west wind

Beautiful South- Sail this Ship Alone. Reminds me of my dad leaving my mum, this became a bit of an anthem for her and with every passing year, each time I bump into this song I hear it with more empathy and more compassion for who she was as a woman and a mother at that time. I was just a little girl, but I wish I could travel back as an adult to tell her of her worth in words I couldn’t form back then.

One more!

Danny Boy- played at my dad’s funeral as it was his name. The carer who helped look after him in his last nights would hum it to him; dad in and out of medicated sleep in the low lamp light of a spring evening. It was playing also when he was born, hence his name, so I think about the unfolding of my dad’s story from pink wide eyed baby to cancer stricken man, and it makes me so emotional to think that it literally bookended his life.

Crying in the Rain and the acoustic version of Take on Me both by A-ha

Falling down or Save that Shit by Lil Peep.
DS 19 listened to them full blast in the shower during lockdown, you need to listen to them full blast.
They remind me of picking DS and his friends up after their post GCSE prom and stopping off at MacDs on the way home along with a few others. Watching them all in DJs eating Mac Ds at midnight was the point when I realised he was going from boy to man.
It was when MacDs had the monopoly offer and one of the boys had a free coffee voucher. He brought me a coffee to the car while I waited outside.
Some songs take me right back to where I was when they were released, i close my eyes and I’m there.
They are all now leaving for Uni but those songs will always take me back to that moment in time.

@BrieAndChilli Aww, I’m sure you loved Rose and Gio on Strictly’s interpretation of Symphony/her deafness if you like that song. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O1GYplm3wqY

This made me blub when pregnant and hormonal! I still love watching it.

Blatant placemarking to make a playlist.

Slipping through my fingers by ABBA.

I worked with someone who is friends with Thom Yorke and was part of Radiohead before it was Radiohead (according to himself anyway).
He is one of the worst cunts I have ever had the misfortune to encounter, and I absolutely tar Radiohead with his cuntishness.

The Ireland rugby fans singing Zombie last night gave me goosebumps.

Ooh Ode to my family by the Cranberries, thanks for the reminder. Dolores voice could have read the phone book and made it affecting to be fair.
I've also just remembered Behind the wall by Tracey Chapman, it's about DV and little kid me was shaken to my core the first time I heard it.

I sang In Paradisum from Fauré's Requiem at my dad's funeral. Was months before I could hear it again without switching the radio off.

Erasure: Breath of Life
It literally makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
A part of the lyrics is 'you've got your finger on the pulse of my soul'. Just beautiful.

The UK Blessing - recorded at the height of the pandemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PUtll3mNj5U&t=10s

oh father by Madonna, about the death of her mother and problems with her father.

Ooh yes. This for certain. Also

Landslide - written by Stevie Nicks for Fleetwood Mac
Black - Pearl Jam
End of the Night - The Doors
Piece of my Heart - Joplin

A further not very well known one - 'Heroes Never Die' by the fabulous York band, Mostly Autumn.

Another +1 for Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb', and adding 'Wish you were here'.

George Michael and Mary J Bligh …always. The lyrics are amazing and want it played at my funeral!!

Go Now Moody Blues

That's a brilliant shout. Love Stereophonics. I first saw them live back in the 90s when they were supporting James.

I'll add Traffic.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=onz02Or5grE

Edinburgh Boy, by the Lake Poets.

Wistful, nostalgic and melancholic in equal parts.