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Music and Emotion

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As a tag along to the "Band Sound" thread, I am starting this thread to share pieces of music that you find elicit the strongest emotions for you.

I think, as a ground rule, we should try to differentiate between music that elicits emotion on its own and music that elicites a memory that carries an emotion. I'm looking for the form rather than the latter. My Bacon/Big Band connection carries a whole host of emotional feelings that have nothing to do wit the emotions intended by the song.

So, hit me wit the songs that you believe illicit emotion all on their own...
 


clever vocal sample always makes me feel kind of somber
 
My contribution...

Before there was Peter Gabriel in my life... even before there was Pink Floyd... there was Vangelis.

I'm an old man, so most kids won't understand how novel Vangelis' synthesized music was back in the 70s. While ELO and other bands made synth a big part of their sound, Vangelis was all synth, and he was awesome at it.

For me, there is what I would call a unique emotion that kind of defies my ability to explain. It is a combination of hope, hopelessness, joy, love and sadness.. like becoming aware of the vastness of a great thing, and being humbled at the same time. It doesn't feel like a combination of those, but an emotion all by itself.

That emotion, for me, is triggered whenever I hear Movement 3 of Vangelis' work Heaven and Hell. Most people would recognize it as the theme to the Carl Sagan's series "COSMOS".

I don't think the video link allows a link to a point in time... so if not, fast forward the video to 12:48 (or maybe the link works)



Such a stirring piece.
 
On the same plane as Heaven and Hell Movement 3, a lot of people have the same response to Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky".

I have found great pleasure in watching youtube reaction videos to people hearing that song for the first time.

this is probably my favorite:

 
jmotivator said:
So, hit me wit the songs that you believe illicit emotion all on their own...
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The Maestro, at his finest. And a tip of the hat to the greatest directed film of all time.




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jmotivator said:
As a tag along to the "Band Sound" thread, I am starting this thread to share pieces of music that you find elicit the strongest emotions for you.

I think, as a ground rule, we should try to differentiate between music that elicits emotion on its own and music that elicites a memory that carries an emotion. I'm looking for the form rather than the latter. My Bacon/Big Band connection carries a whole host of emotional feelings that have nothing to do wit the emotions intended by the song.

So, hit me wit the songs that you believe illicit emotion all on their own...
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Ashokan Farewell ...

 
jmotivator said:
On the same plane as Heaven and Hell Movement 3, a lot of people have the same response to Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky".

I have found great pleasure in watching youtube reaction videos to people hearing that song for the first time.

this is probably my favorite:

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I started watching music video reaction videos last week and haven’t stopped. They are a lot of fun. My favorite are ones where people listen to genres they aren’t familiar with, like rap fans listening to country or rock and vice versa.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I started watching music video reaction videos last week and haven’t stopped. They are a lot of fun. My favorite are ones where people listen to genres they aren’t familiar with, like rap fans listening to country or rock and vice versa.
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It's a deep rabbit hole.
 
jmotivator said:
My contribution...Before there was Peter Gabriel in my life... even before there was Pink Floyd... there was Vangelis.
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I know Vangelis only later (I'm slightly younger I suspect) as part of the reason the original Blade Runner was such a masterpiece. Sci-fi synth track can go so easily wrong...can be so absurd and be dated almost as soon as it's releasted...but I feel he did one of the better jobs from that era. Definitely gave a mood to the move that added to its greatness. There are two recent songs popular on Pandora that include parts heavily reminiscent of his Blade Runner melody (credits track), still relevant it seems.
My avatar of course, coming from the most epic high note of an epic work, in part, with sounds from Vangelis.
 
This one gets me every time. The last of Freddie's recordings.

 
Wagner's Liebestod/tristan and Isolde


Liszt's Les Preludes (here's the finale)


And for something completely different.
Coverdale/Page - Easy Does It. It's like a rock classic in 3 movements.
 
Mach said:
I know Vangelis only later (I'm slightly younger I suspect) as part of the reason the original Blade Runner was such a masterpiece. Sci-fi synth track can go so easily wrong...can be so absurd and be dated almost as soon as it's releasted...but I feel he did one of the better jobs from that era. Definitely gave a mood to the move that added to its greatness. There are two recent songs popular on Pandora that include parts heavily reminiscent of his Blade Runner melody (credits track), still relevant it seems.
My avatar of course, coming from the most epic high note of an epic work, in part, with sounds from Vangelis.
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Edit: Also, absolutely right about Sci-Fi synth music so easily going wrong... even worse is attempting synth music on non-sci-fi movies (I'm looking at you, LADYHAWKE)
 
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jmotivator said:
On the same plane as Heaven and Hell Movement 3, a lot of people have the same response to Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky".

I have found great pleasure in watching youtube reaction videos to people hearing that song for the first time.

this is probably my favorite:

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Oh hell yeah I'm with that guy.
 
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia ... Love



try not to get chills at about 2:20...
 
bubbabgone said:
Oh hell yeah I'm with that guy.
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I love the "Hold up, I have to rewind, I wasn't ready for that..." moment.

I know the feeling, brother.

Likewise, I have seen the Pink Floyd song Time bring men to the verge of tears...



Watch as he plays around wit the song, only to be punched in the psychological face with the lyrics.
 
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I guess that any instrumental should qualify as emotional - here some fine guitar players...





 
Some less gentile emotions...

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30


Carl Orff - Carmina Burana


Gustav Holst - Mars
 
jmotivator said:
I love the "Hold up, I have to rewind, I wasn't ready for that..." moment.

I know the feeling, brother.

Likewise, I have seen the Pink Floyd song Time bring men to the verge of tears...



Watch as he plays around wit the song, only to be punched in the psychological face with the lyrics.
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Good one. I totally get that.
 
jmotivator said:
I love the "Hold up, I have to rewind, I wasn't ready for that..." moment.

I know the feeling, brother.

Likewise, I have seen the Pink Floyd song Time bring men to the verge of tears...


Watch as he plays around wit the song, only to be punched in the psychological face with the lyrics.
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Another song about TIME.

The Alan Parsons Project.



The strings did it for me. And the tune and lyrics. And the vocal counterpoint starting halfway through was a nice touch.
I have to admit, when strings started appearing regularly in pop/rock they usually had me.
ELO. Procol Harum, BEE GEES ... and they had good material too.
 
Another Wagner blockbuster ...


 
 
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