Which piece(s) of music move you deeply?

[XmisterIS]

Here's a good 'un if you're in need of movement...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNO0BfBecc

F*cking class.

 

[User169]

I'm surprised none of you German types have chosen "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions!

I have a very close German friend who lives in the UK now, but she was actually on the Berlin Wall on the day it came down - she's a teenager somewhere in the crowd in those famous TV pictures that were broadcast all over the world. She always cries when she hears that song (which I think is cute and gives me an excuse to hug her ... not that I need one! ).

Does the Hoff have the same effect? Wasn't he prancing around at about the same time.

 

[XmisterIS]

Does the Hoff have the same effect? Wasn't he prancing around at about the same time.

I think it's because "Wind of Change" is the iconic song that is associated with the fall of the wall - I think everyone over a certain age automatically thinks "Berlin Wall" when they hear that song!

 

[Kirstie]

When my kids moved on from Junior school their final assembly was held in the church. Each child had written a short piece about their favourite teacher, and read it out. My twins' favourite teacher was a guitarist, and was in turn very fond of all of her class. They loved to sing Sufjan Steven's song at family assembly, and on that last Friday, with all the kids close to tears good old Mrs C stood up and played it and played it (it's nicely repetitive) and the kids sang it and sang it until they just couldn't do any more. I've got a lump in my throat just thinking about it.

Amazing...i can't even hear it without dissolving. It was sent to me as a gift by one of my friends a while back.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I can't make you love me by George Michael.

Unapologetically slushy.

Guy that wrote that and recorded it originally is called Mike Reid (not that one!)

He was an professional American football player before retiring through injury, quite a career change - football to songwriter!!

His version's very good.

 

[Blackandblue]

'All the trees of the field will clap their hands' by Sufjan Stevens.

I have just listened to this for the first time and also wept. Beautiful.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Heavy metal, opera and country and western all move me, usually into another room.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Yep, and it can also mean "arise", which is why they chose it, so as to give the song title a double meaning. They did the same thing with "Mann gegen Mann" (which works in English too!)

Not according to the Pons Schule und Studium dictionary on my desk it doesn't. Reise translates, as already stated, as journey and going in the other direction arise translates as aufstehen or sich erheben.

 

[Blackandblue]

Guy that wrote that and recorded it originally is called Mike Reid (not that one!)

He was an professional American football player before retiring through injury, quite a career change - football to songwriter!!

His version's very good.

Cheers, 3BM. Interesting background to the song. Couldn't find the version by Mike Reid (limited access to some websites at work) but watched Bonnie Rait perform it live with powerful effect.

 

[Andy in Sig]

"Stayin' Alive". I first thought of that as a joke, but considering my recent brush with the Reaper, it may be deeper than I first thought.

Seriously though, I'm also moved by songs about war. Two spring to mind:

Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" and Jackson Browne's Lives in the Balance.

Both guaranteed to reduce me to bittersweet tears.

The song about war which gives me a lump in the throat is The Keeper by Show of Hands.

 

[XmisterIS]

Not according to the Pons Schule und Studium dictionary on my desk it doesn't. Reise translates, as already stated, as journey and going in the other direction arise translates as aufstehen or sich erheben.

Yes, I know, my Oxford-Duden German dictionary also says "Reise" means Journey. *but*, according to my German friend who introduced me to Rammstein, they took their inspiration for the song from an old Platt Deutsch sailing song, in which "Reise" can be translated as "Arise" (as in "wake up"). So we're not talking about Hoch Deutsch here. Sorry, I should have explained before that it's from Platt Deutsch and not Hoch Deutsch. Anyway, she's the native German speaker (my friend), not me! So I could be wrong.

 

[Kirstie]

I have just listened to this for the first time and also wept. Beautiful.

If listening to it made you cry for god's sake don't look up the lyrics...you won't stop for hours.

 

[swee'pea99]

Ok, so it's a bit 'obvious', but if you can watch Pavarotti perform Nessun Dorma without the hairs rising on the back of your neck, check for a pulse. A master at the top of his game.

 

[Blackandblue]

If listening to it made you cry for god's sake don't look up the lyrics...you won't stop for hours.

That's what happened to me when I read the lyrics to (Something Inside) So Strong. It has added poignancy for me as it is the song played at the end of the day at my daughter's school - which is a special needs school.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Yes, I know, my Oxford-Duden German dictionary also says "Reise" means Journey. *but*, according to my German friend who introduced me to Rammstein, they took their inspiration for the song from an old Platt Deutsch sailing song, in which "Reise" can be translated as "Arise" (as in "wake up"). So we're not talking about Hoch Deutsch here. Sorry, I should have explained before that it's from Platt Deutsch and not Hoch Deutsch. Anyway, she's the native German speaker (my friend), not me! So I could be wrong.

That makes sense. As you travel through N Germany, platt eventually becomes Friesian which is the nearest living language to English.