Listening to Sam Cooke right now and, while I am not bawling or anything... there is a swelling in my heart and mist in my eyes, for as long as he is singing to me.

That is why I love music.

Right on Todd!

It feels GOOD listening to music and feeling a different range of emotion. I love that as well.

This morning I listened to the new Midaircondo on the way to work, and I was so relaxed and cheerful that the 35 minute traffic jam didn't bug me a bit.

That's cool. I need some music to really feel today. It's cold and raining where I am, summer's over here and I ain't happy.

Songs that make me feel:

Sigur Ros / Staralfur, when the music slows to a stop then crackles back into being
Pavement / Silence Kit, when Malkmus bursts into that solo and asks for a drum stick and snare kick

You know what songs make me FEEL.

When I go to the soccer match and the whole support is singing in unison. Especially at away games if you can drown out the home support.

I suppose it's like the modern church, only with swearing and the ever present threat of random drunken violence.

Andrew Bird is giving me that special feeling right now. Oh and yeah, his music's great too.

Procol Harum's 'Whiter Shade of Pale'. Despite the fact that the song is about being at sea and I can't relate to that other than a cruise I went on once, the organ just slays me every time I hear that song.

Over the Rhine's 'Latter Days' is a tear-jerker as well.

a few years ago i created a 3-mp3-cd, 333 song music compilation called "beauty in darkness". a song had a great chance of making the compilation if it compelled me to cry. i don't cry of course, cuz i'm a man, but if it compelled me to, it could be in like flan.

Right now a song that makes me feel, as to what I feel I don't know, but it makes me stop what I'm doing and just listen-

"Meadowlake Street" off of Cold Roses.

one of the most emotional songs i've ever experienced. get's me every time.

I call this kind of music "rainy day music," because it's the type of stuff I'd want to listen to if I was feeling contemplative and quiet. Some of my faves are:

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
Del Amitri - Driving with the Brakes On
Debussy - Clair de Lune
Tom Waits - Alice or I'm Still Here
Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon, Fall at Your Feet or Neil Finn's "Sinner"

I can definitely understand the Sigur Ros and Andrew Bird inclinations.

Obviously, you were not brought up Seventh Day Adventist. Those people really get into it.

One of my very favorite "sad" songs. I once bawled to this song driving home after being broken up with back when I was in my early 20's. oy.

these . . . . arms . . . . offfff . . . . . . miiiiiiiiiiiiine
they long to hold you


gets me every time.
pretty much ANYTHING by otis gets me.

now that i know the story behind (or should i say just in front) of "sitting on the dock of the bay" i get all sad when i hear it.

the story if you don't know: Otis came back from the Monterey Pop festival feeling all pumped up from an amazing show and wrote "sitting on the dock of the bay" very quickly, and thankfully recorded it right away.

becaue four days later he died in a plane crash.


(the rest of that album was a collection of songs that were left off of other albums)

I listened to Sam Cooke today