Which song brings out the strongest emotional response in you?

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

I don't mean in the sense of wanting to batter the radio with a hammer (that bloody 'Thong Song'), I'm thinking a more 'It speaks to my soul' type reaction. I always well up at 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'.

I haven't heard that one - weird!

Come on, join me in the Terry Jacks:

"It's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty flowers everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there"

"StealthPolarBear" Terry Jacks, oh no, another one, that had me in tears when I was little.

"Meet on the Ledge" by Fairport Convention, sung by the late Sandy Denny.

Glasvegas- Daddy's gone

Kind of makes me scared and sad listening to it.

Two little boys....fel myself welling up after the first verse - can feel it cming no matter what i do
and

- just the line "Do i grow old? Oh no, not you"

Also - Muppets or Snoopy version - it gets me every time.

God i'm a SAP!

Oh and Pantera's version of Planet Caravan
Keith Caputo Razzberry Mockery

Let it be - The Beatles. Makes me think of my mother.

Dry your Eyes - the Streets. Still find this painful to listen to - it captures exactly how I felt when being broken up with by someone I was still in love with - but they didn't love me.

if you can be bothered, watch this.

coldplay - fix you
morcheeba - the sea
adele - make you feel my love

Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park. We lost our dd1 at 21 weeks, and when I was pregnant with dd2, I used to listen to this in the car going to work, terrified I would lose another baby, and hanging on to the refrain:

"What happens when you lose everything,
you just start again,
you start all over again"

Also Simon and Garfunkel "The Only Living Boy in New York" - I remember so clearly driving over the Tay Bridge on a sunny morning going for 20 week scan, so happy, this on CD, and thinking it should be on a playlist for dd1. Then the CD was still playing when we drove home, back across the same bridge, broken-hearted. We didn't have the heart to switch it off.

Hab

Incubus 'Drive'has me in bits as it was the song DP played to me when he realised he was being an arse about the unexpected pregnancy that turned into DS1.

Iris - the googoo dolls, reminds me of travelling.

Not even thinking about two little boys as I do in fact have two little boys. I might not stop crying....

Athlete 'Wires' - listened to it for the first time on the way home from hospital, taking DD1 home after she was born. It was late at night, snow on the ground, no other cars on the road and I just felt like the luckiest woman in the world - I sobbed all the way through it in total gratitude for my premature but healthy baby, and in total sympathy for all those people who weren't able to take their babies home that night.

If it ever comes on the radio now I'm still in bits remembering that magical journey.

oh, Hab

Can you ever bear to listen to that now?

Its A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

Yes, I can - kind of made myself listen to them a lot, so that nothing about my memories of dd1 would be taboo, iyswim?

Sorry Hab, cross-post

Oh, God, not at all, AFM. thought your post was lovely. And that song makes me cry too.

I have many, actually!

Here's another - Something in the Way She Moves by James Taylor. makes me cry wwith joy for beautiful dd2 and how happy she made us when she was born, safe, sound and enormous.

Ah, James Taylor. "You've Got a Friend", makes me come over all shivery. Carole King version does nothing.

Oh - remember the MN montage, with backing music 10000 Maniacs "These Are Days"? That makes me v fond of MN and MNers whenever I hear it.

Would love to see that montage again.

Love Of My Life - Queen, does it for me too.

I can't find my ear-doodahs (DSs asleep) but will be listening to all of these tomorrow.

Adele's version of 'make you feel my love'

Pink 'Who knew'

Simon and Garfunkel 'American tune'

Jeff Buckley 'Lover you should have come over'