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'.

Also, Dolly Parton's original I Will Always Love You.

For some reason, it always makes me think of the day dd will leave home, even though

a) she is still only 9
b) it was written for a lover, not a child
c) I also have a ds and I will always love him too

So many songs I want to listen to and I've just thought of others that set off

Foolish games- Jewel
Fast car- Tracey Chapman

and the tiny wee song Lullaby at the end of Newton Faulkener's album

piratecat, a friend of mine sang that Adele song to her new husband at their wedding reception - not a dry eye in the house :)

Because Of You - Kelly Clarkson

David Bowies 'Major Tom' used to make me feel really panicky and ill when I was a child. I took things very literally, and assumed that Mr Bowie was actually floating in a tin can and going to die. Sob.

The 'War Of The Worlds' album gave me nightmares

Ooh! And Crowded House's 'Distant Sun' always reminds me of my college days, and being in love for the first time

Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross :(
Somewhere over the rainbow by that Israel guy

Tracy Chapman - She's Got Her Ticket. I think. My parents used to listen to her first album and it's all melded together for me.

My father was an evil emotionally abusive alcoholic and my mother a typical co-dependent. That album gave me the strength to leave even if I was only 16 and in a terrible state.

I got myself a room in a student house, forced my mother to write a letter saying I'd been thrown out (was to young to get benefits otherwise and was at collage) and left.

I can't believe I did it. Anything from that album has me fighting back the tears.

Young girl ain't got no chances
No roots to keep her strong
She's shed all pretenses
That someday she'll belong
Some folks call her a runaway
A failure in the race
But she knows where her ticket takes her
She will find her place in the sun

And she'll fly, fly, fly...

Turns out today that Natalie Imbruglia - Torn does too.

"You couldn't be that man I adore, don't seem to know, seem to care, what your heart is for" made me sob hysterically this morning

I am very sorry to say, but Bat Out Of Hell makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It's mortifying. I like it for kitsch nostalgia value but nothing beyond that (honest).

Other than that, one of the saddest songs is 10000 Maniacs, Eat For Two, about a woman who's accidentally become pregnant yet again. I can't really listen to it any more (would love to accidentally become pregnant but it's not going to happen!).

Eddi Reader singing Ae Fond Kiss and Run by Snow Patrol.

Stay on these roads by A-ha.Has a strong "death" theme. At the last A-ha concert that I went to, it made me think of my cat who was put down and reminds me in a way of the poem "The Rainbow Bridge" about losing a pet, especially the line "We shall meet, I know, I know".

Queen - Show Must Go On does it for me. The lyrics are so poignant. We are big Queen fans in this house.

Slipping Through My Fingers also. Watched Mamma Mia with some friends on a child free weekend and blubbed - they are all child free and couldn't understand my despair as DD wasn't quite two at the time.

Kiss the Rain - I can't even remember who sings it, but it kills me. DH is in the forces, and has spent a lot of time in some of the more, um, exciting areas of the world, and it's something to cry to, on my own, when he's not here and I can't speak to him.

And on that note...DH spent six months in sunnier climes last summer. He said he's avoid ringing during the bedtime hour because he heard the theme tune from ITNG once and it made him cry because he missed DD so much.

Saturday Night - The Blue Nile
Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
In my Life - The Beatles
Vapour Trail - Ride