We haven't had a music thread for a while, so lets get deep and emotional with those songs and pieces of music that pulled the heartstrings, featured in an important part of your life or are just so technically crafted that you wanted to cry when you heard it... you don't have to say why, just what...




(Louis Clark's finest orchestration, and one of Jeff Lynne's best vocals)


John Grant is my favourite current artist, he just brings that 70s singer/songwriter vibe I love.
bonus: I love the Depeche Mode influence in this:

My mood is . . . Soul.

beautiful choices letterboy1

Can't find The Dance by Garth Brooks anywhere, just covers of it.


Bruce!


My favorite pair of Elton John songs:






Trace Adkins best song fits the bill:




Tim McGraw can cut you. This one was tough.




Possibly the king of these songs:

A master of melancholy:

Eva Cassidy; These were done LIVE while she was dying of cancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc&feature=kp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc&feature=kp

This is one my favorite melancholy songs--the composer/singer is Mary Fahl

Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot

Ooh there's lots. Mickey Newbury has a vast work that includes much of this very kind of music. Too many to try to post here.

I saw Leonard Cohen in concert last year. Hands down the most beautiful concert I've ever attended. He sung this song, one of my favourites:

Oliver Schroer

Can't get the link to work, but Crimson and Clover, Tommy James & The Shondels.
Full version.

Some mispaste or something, as those are two of the same link,
so here's another:

Context for the next one, he is dying of cancer, (died this year April 11),

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Not the most beautiful I ever heard, but surely one of France most liked melancholy song.


With a rough translation:

There's a place that looks like Lousiana,
Like Italy
Laundry is spread out on the front yard
It's very pretty

One says that in the South
Time is longer
And life for sure
More than a millions years
And it's always summer

There are a lot of children who loll about in the grass
There are lots of dogs
There's even a cat, a turtle, gold fishes
Nothing's missing

One day or another there has to be war
We know it for sure
We don't like it but we don't know what else could be done
We say it's destiny

Too bad for the South
It was so nice all the same
One could have lived
For more than a million years
And it would have been always summer.