hello everybody,
i hope all is fine. as the title said what are the 10 best song that touch your soul
here are my 10 (it's hard to choose just 10 so i'll do my best)
- Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkle
- Seems so long ago Nancy by Leonard Cohen (quite a few of his songs actually)
- One more cup of cofee for the road by Bob Dylan
- Be not too Hard by Joan Baez
- In the year 2525 by Zager and Evans
- American Prayer by The Doors
- Logical Song by Supertramp
- Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles
- Painted Black or Angie (couldn't make up my mind ) by the rolling Stones
- Where do the Children Play by Cat Stevens

 

Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin
Radiohead - The Numbers
Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonely I Could Cry
Ordinary Elephant - The War
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Sly And The Family Stone - Thank You (live on Soul Train version)
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
John Mayall - Prisons On The Road

 

Steve Jensen + David Sylvian - Playground Martyrs
Pink Floyd - Marooned
Nils Petter Molvaer - Solid Ether
Little Feat - Spanish Moon
Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters
Japan - Still Life in Mobile Homes
Verve - Drugs don't work
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities
Elin Ey - Soulslots
Mari Boine Persen - Reindeer of Diamond

Special Mention to:
Eivind Aarset & Sonic Codex Orchestra- Still Changing (original version)

 

I think touching your soul goes a lot deeper than songs you happen to like. I doubt there could ever be 10 pieces of music that have such a profoud effect as touching your soul. Some music may make you happy or sad or bring back memories but that's not quite the same.

There are only 2 pieces of music that have touched my soul like no other
1. Travelling Boy by Art Garfunkle
2. Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto

 

gangam style

 

Guilty - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb (really)

 

Sigur Ros - Von
Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around To Die
Beatles - In My Life
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For A Train
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Rodriguez - Sugar Man
Pink floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pts 1-5
Don McLean - Vincent

 

I might have mentioned that I'm a hyper-sensitive manical depressive, with a touch of ADD and bi-polar disorder, who likes to drink red wine. That's a sure combo for being incredibly touched [makes me cry like a little kid] by any music that I like enough. I take it that songs that make me cry are pretty good, I guess. However, there's a lot of that stuff that I like. It's hard to pick 10. I'm going to try to pick 10 that I'm absolutely sure will make me cry when I hear them, especially after a couple of glasses... This list is going to look weird I think...

Albinoni - Adagio in g minor
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes
Depeche Mode - Waiting For The Night
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division - Decades
Placebo - Bitter End
Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Bush - Letting The Cables Sleep
Bush - Comedown [acoustic version]

oops... that's already 11.

edit: this is a list of the songs that make me cry. It happens. LOL /s

Cheers!

 

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Ah man theres so many , ive bin on this planet 4 ever

Black Sabbath Junior's Eyes
Jeff beck Where Were You
deadmau5 Strobe
Shostakovich op.110
Neal Schon & Jan Hammer Untold Passion
Deep purple when a blind man cries
Meshuggah Born in Dissonance
Enya Amarantine
Venetian Snares 10th Circle Of Winnipeg
Bob Marley Three Little Birds

 

Three Little Birds... oh man you got me with that one. Love it to pieces.

It's one of those that I really love to sing to when I'm down shambles street... to make me feel better.

 

It's a really good thread. It tells a lot about the people who post in it. At least that's what I like to think.

Keep posting dudes!

p.s. I'd like to add Bush "Little Things".

 

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Brandi Carlile - Just Kids
Cockney Rebel - Tumbling Down
Copeland - You Love To Sing
The Honey Trees - Wild Winds
Ian Hunter - Man Overboard
Indigo Girls - Kid Fears
Red Sky July - White Feather
Simon & Garfunkel - America
Strawbs - Autumn
The Weepies - All Good Things

 

Yeah pretty much anything by that guy brings me back to my true home , Your Depeche Mode likes totally blew me away i had absolutely no idea that band were so good will defo be listening to them some more ...........

 

Bread - If
Heart warming to see how many likes there are for Simon and Garfunkle individually as well as a group, man I love their music!

 

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Whoever can't feel Bob Marley, have no feelings.

Some Depeche Mode stuff is really heart breaking. Martin Gore is a 1st class writer, but like with all songs, it depends on your mood, taste etc. of course. "Walking in my shoes" gets me every time, though. Can't grow tired of it. Even when I'm not depressed. It's a great song about empathy, the thing we all need more. It's never enough. I'm sick and tired of all the "bling, titties, and booties" songs that only imply envy, greed, looks, and all other things we're completely sick of [or we should be IMHO]... but we're not talking about those in this thread. Thankfully.

I'm absolutely not surprised by the stuff that came up so far. All great stuff. Most of musicians have at least a better taste than your average neighbour, so I'm not surprised. People should check these out. Even if they don't make them cry, but you will feel something, and that's a good thing.

 

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After posting mine, I've made an alternate list, but when I see for example Depeche Mode here, well I think this band deserve a list on it's own.
Play this game (10 songs only) seems impossible for me

(I'll need 10 lists a least)

We'll discover wonderful things here

 

Here is my list (no specific order).

- The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
- Depeche Mode - Waiting for the night
- Yazoo - Softly over
- The Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
- Depeche Mode - Home
- Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (12" Mix)
- The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
- Depeche Mode- Oberkorn (its a small town)
- Depeche Mode - The things you said
- David Bowie - Starman
- Moby - Porcelain
- Depeche Mode - The Sun and the Rainfall
- Depeche Mode - Higher Love
- Depeche Mode - Mercy in you
- Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (especially "There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear, where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears - And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom, well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you)

Ahhh fu-..ck I think its clear enough I'm a Depeche Mode fan!

Here are some more just for statistics:

- Moby - In this world
- David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
- Kraftwerk - Kometenmelodie1+2
- The Cure - Pictures of you
- John Lennon - Woman
- The Smiths - I wont share you
- Marc Almond - Only the moment
- David Bowie - Space Odyssey

Finally its impossible to mention all that touches my soul!

 

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Jonsi - Tornado
Mount Kimbie - Break well
The Cure - Plainsong
Nicolas Jaar - The three sides of audrey
James Blake - The Whilhelm scream
Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and sand
Mormor - Heaven's only wishful
Thom Yorke - Ingenue
Burial - Ashtray Wasp
Boosire - Draft031217

 

I'm back to break the rule of 10

#11 is Bowie's last, Dark Star
and then Louden Wainwright III singing Red Guitar which is sooooo good...and played on piano! The song and performance get me every time.