Author Topic: Music that reduces you to a blubbering wreck (Read 34225 times)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #100 on:** 04 August, 2013, 06:34:25 pm »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 20 July, 2013, 07:01:02 pm

Just listened to Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis.

Through the basic speakers I have it's wonderful. I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to be at a live performance (if it is ever performed these days). If ever there's a possibility I shall do my utmost to hear it. It's completely wonderful and out-of-this-world!

Spem in Alium is indeed a magnificent work. I would argue that Tallis and Byrd ought to occupy the same rarified air in people's minds that Bach, Beethoven and Mozart do, but of course their stuff is out of fashion.

I'm pretty sure that my brother's choir did a performance of Spem in Alium not that long ago - he live near Shrewsbury but I don't know which choir he belongs to.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #101 on:** 04 August, 2013, 06:45:04 pm »

The Kyrie in Cherubini's Requiem. It's no wonder Beethoven had it at his funeral. Also Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aloswFXkZQ

rafletcher · « **Reply #102 on:** 05 August, 2013, 03:43:14 pm »

The final verse of Steve Earle's "Johhny Come Lately"

Now my granddaddy sang me this song
Told me about Londen when the Blitz was on
How he married Grandma and brought her back home
A hero throughout his land
Now I'm standing on a runway in San Diego
A couple Purple Hearts and I move a little slow
There's nobody here, maybe nobody knows
About a place called Vietnam

andrewc · « **Reply #103 on:** 05 August, 2013, 03:56:05 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2013, 06:34:25 pm

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 20 July, 2013, 07:01:02 pm
Just listened to Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis.

Through the basic speakers I have it's wonderful. I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to be at a live performance (if it is ever performed these days). If ever there's a possibility I shall do my utmost to hear it. It's completely wonderful and out-of-this-world!

Spem in Alium is indeed a magnificent work. I would argue that Tallis and Byrd ought to occupy the same rarified air in people's minds that Bach, Beethoven and Mozart do, but of course their stuff is out of fashion.

I'm pretty sure that my brother's choir did a performance of Spem in Alium not that long ago - he live near Shrewsbury but I don't know which choir he belongs to.

This is a lovely box set - Tallis: Complete Works - Chapelle du Roi Regulator recommended it a couple of years ago.

Andrij · « **Reply #104 on:** 05 August, 2013, 08:46:48 pm »

Чуєш, брате мій

The title translates as "Do you hear, my brother?" The song is about cranes (read: people) flying off into the distance and across the sea, never to return.

This song is commonly sung at funerals of people who emigrated from Ukraine around the time of WW2, but died and were buried abroad. Usually sung at the graveside, and done spontaneously. You don't get perfect four-part harmony like in the clip, but as many people have sung in choirs at some point you do get harmonies.

I'm just about OK (usually) listening to it, but I always struggle when singing it. For performances I can manage to hold back emotions. When sung elsewhere I don't think I've ever finished with a dry eye. When we buried my grandparents I didn't even try to sing.

EDIT: Original clip no longer available; new one provided. Contrary to the opening of my last paragraph, the floodgates opened when listening.

Regulator · « **Reply #105 on:** 06 August, 2013, 08:47:05 pm »

There are so many song that bring a tear to the eye...

Hine e Hine - a Maori song by Princess Te Rangi Pai. It was played at my father's funeral.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DcizehXVS4o&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DcizehXVS4o&rel=1</a>

The Kyrie Eleison from the Laudario di Corona. It's fabulous 13th century Kyrie from the Lebanon that was played at a close friend's funeral.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/wm6QTPyzMm0&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/wm6QTPyzMm0&rel=1</a>

The Salve Regina, sung in the 'Templar Style', by the Ensemble Organum. This just makes my heart soar... it's such a fabulous recording.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/hz--X5mvZpM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/hz--X5mvZpM&rel=1</a>

Adam Brand's The ANZAC:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3Q5sYsN7Mas&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3Q5sYsN7Mas&rel=1</a>

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #106 on:** 09 August, 2013, 12:13:41 pm »

I was thinking of songs that summed up my feelings about LEL. Seeing riders of so many nations put me in mind of Coney Island, by Van Morrison, which was informed by The Troubles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPfybDTJ-Bo

Tigerrr · « **Reply #107 on:** 12 August, 2013, 04:05:01 pm »

I have been listening a lo to Arvo Part's Spiegel im Speigel a lot lately. It is not so much tearjerking as deeply serene.

Regulator · « **Reply #108 on:** 12 August, 2013, 05:33:56 pm »

I love Arvo Pärt's stuff. The problem is that I like to listen to music as a I drive and I find his composition a little too relaxing...

Torslanda · « **Reply #109 on:** 19 December, 2015, 02:53:12 pm »

This just nailed me completely.

Feeling altogether too fragile at the moment.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #110 on:** 31 January, 2016, 11:15:19 am »

Ride Into The Sun ~ The Velvet Underground. The original, not the shoddy 2024 remix which puts too much distortion on the lead guitar.

Odd that a three-and-a-half minute instrumental can do that, but I want it played at my funeral.

LEE · « **Reply #111 on:** 31 January, 2016, 11:18:18 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 31 January, 2016, 11:15:19 am

Ride Into The Sun ~ The Velvet Underground. The original, not the shoddy 2024 remix which puts too much distortion on the lead guitar.

Odd that a three-and-a-half minute instrumental can do that, but I want it played at my funeral.

Send me £1,000 in unmarked bank notes or I'll make sure they play a Cheeky Girls medley instead.

rafletcher · « **Reply #112 on:** 31 January, 2016, 11:36:15 am »

I've just remembered another. On Natasha Kaplinsky's "Who do you think you are" her guide in Poland sang Shiva in a ruined synagogue.

MagnusOpus · « **Reply #113 on:** 11 February, 2016, 04:24:48 pm »

The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5

I know all the words, but when rapping along to it I can rarely make it through the last verse without cracking

This also applies when I try signing along to Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers, but I guess that's a little more understandable

Andrew · « **Reply #114 on:** 11 February, 2016, 04:28:30 pm »

Portishead's 'Roads' has been known to make me a mess of me. I have to be a bit ale-ed though, and in the wrong mood.

Legs · « **Reply #115 on:** 11 February, 2016, 05:02:21 pm »

Quote from: MagnusOpus on 11 February, 2016, 04:24:48 pm

This also applies when I try signing along to Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers, but I guess that's a little more understandable

Is Grandma hard of hearing, then?

When You Come Back Down by Nickel Creek gets me every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng5-VUDcjJ8

tiermat · « **Reply #116 on:** 11 February, 2016, 07:27:09 pm »

The other night we turned off the TV and had an evening of playing songs on YouTube to one another.

TLD said "I really like this one" as she cued up "Tea and Toast" by Lucy Spraggan. Tears flowed, I had forgotten just how much it gets me.

citoyen · « **Reply #117 on:** 11 February, 2016, 09:54:58 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 31 January, 2016, 11:15:19 am

I want it played at my funeral.

That can be arranged.

Steph · « **Reply #118 on:** 22 February, 2016, 02:53:26 am »

The whole of Sibelius' fourth symphony, especially the final collapse at the end. The slow movement of Mahler's sixth.

Tori Amos (and the Blackdyke mills band): Putting the Damage On.

Linda Thompson: Go Home

Mabsant: Can y Bugail, with its chorus "Dydy'r bugail ddim ar y bryniau mwy; fe aeth e mas o Drawsfynydd. Wedi mynd y bard y gadair ddu, i ymladd yn y ffosydd."
The shepherd is no longer on the hills, he has gone from Trawsfynydd. Gone is the bard of the Black Chair, to fight in the trenches.

Also the line "Ac yn Nhrawsfynydd, ar lan y llyn, yr oen yn araf marw" And in Trawsfynydd, by the lake, the lambs slowly die.

Dibdib · « **Reply #119 on:** 25 February, 2016, 12:27:08 pm »

Not quite a blubbering wreck, but Veronica by Elvis Costello caused something to get in my eye this morning.

Ruthie · « **Reply #120 on:** 25 February, 2016, 02:04:20 pm »

Quote from: Dibdib on 25 February, 2016, 12:27:08 pm

Not quite a blubbering wreck, but Veronica by Elvis Costello caused something to get in my eye this morning.

I love that song.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #121 on:** 07 June, 2018, 12:09:45 am »

Another one... Cantique de Jean Racine by Fauré

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzUMfVpugq4

Our choir is singing this at our summer concert.

pumpkin · « **Reply #122 on:** 13 June, 2018, 09:22:28 am »

Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold. I like Stings original but her version just has 'something'. Bruce Springsteen - 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'. Watched the re-recorded live version yesterday and 40 yrs on it has lost none of its power

pcolbeck · « **Reply #123 on:** 13 June, 2018, 09:41:35 am »

Thousand Dollar Wedding - Gram Parsons

https://youtu.be/QiaCZ3KgJe8

And he felt so bad when he saw the traces
Of old lies still on their faces
So why don't someone here just spike his drink
Why don't you do him in some old way

Supposed to be a funeral, it's been a bad, bad day

T42 · « **Reply #124 on:** 13 June, 2018, 10:32:35 am »

Parts of the first movement of Kachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor get me, but only (so far) the 1965 Oistrakh/Kachaturian recording. They remind me of summers, rivers and girls long gone. The strange thing is that they gave me much the same feeling when I first heard them, when I was 20 or thereabouts, and the girls long gone were ~~all~~ mostly in the future.

Author Topic: Music that reduces you to a blubbering wreck (Read 34225 times)

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