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Post by richard on Oct 3, 2020 17:56:55 GMT
This forum is just 'treading water' at the moment, and maybe it will continue this way until the new ABBA songs appear. In the meantime, I think this section offers the best opportunity to discuss some music.
I was listening to Don Black, the great lyricist, doing his 'Tracks Of My Years' segment of the Ken Bruce Show (BBC Radio 2), and his final choice was the standard song, The Party's Over, sung by Anthony Newley, which I found quite poignant. It made me think of the songs that really move me.
To be honest, with ABBA, for me, it's more about straightforward, uncomplicated enjoyment, rather than being moved, as such, although LAAPTMR can affect me that way.
The one song that does spring to my mind, now, that does move me is Army Dreamers by Kate Bush. It's not just the words: the young soldier who never got to his twenties - "What a waste". It's that beautiful lilting melody that Kate sings, and the wonderful arrangement, including that little four-note motif - de-dum, de-dum - such a characteristic and memorable feature of the recording.
Of course a song doesn't have to be a slow sad ballad to be moving, and there might any number of musical/lyrical/vocal reasons why it has that affect.
Would you care to mention any non-ABBA songs that move you?
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Post by shoshin on Oct 5, 2020 22:39:52 GMT
...The one song that does spring to my mind, now, that does move me is Army Dreamers by Kate Bush...Would you care to mention any non-ABBA songs that move you? Another Kate Bush composition springs immediately to my mind: This Woman's Work. The movie in which it appears came out two years after my son was born and the relevant scene could have been lifted directly from my own experience. Amazing that Kate captured the male perspective so perfectly.
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Post by richard on Nov 30, 2020 13:02:26 GMT
Recently, I've gladly been sliding down the Youtube wormhole of 'first reaction' videos, in which people respond to hearing for the first time to songs and artists unfamiliar to them, and in particular to responses to Karen Carpenter's voice. 'Beautiful' gets used over and over again to describe her singing.
As a consequence, I started listening more intently than before to some Carpenters tracks, and the quality of Karen's voice has startled me, as if hearing it for the first time: the lovely tone, clarity, warmth, intimacy, the natural and direct and unaffected style. And it brings me to this video: the last song Karen recorded. By this time, anorexia had depleted her body and she was soon to die, yet the voice is, incredibly, mostly intact, though with a bit of that wondrous timbre gone. I'd be lying if I said this song and video didn't move me and make me cry.
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Post by foreverfan on Dec 1, 2020 10:38:51 GMT
A non Abba track that gets to me.. is Barbara Streisand.. Love inside....
Depending on mood it can bring water to the eyes !! Abba Track, would be Like An Angel...............
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Post by ningenneko on Dec 30, 2021 7:27:47 GMT
I was moved by Loreen singing Euphoria. (song of Eurovision Song Contest)
Why Swedish people are so talented at singing?
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Post by joseph on Jan 8, 2022 18:00:21 GMT
A Coral Room by Kate Bush. It just kills me every time.
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Post by joseph on Jan 12, 2022 19:18:01 GMT
I'm not certain anyone here will have heard of this or if they have whether they'll like it but Antony and the Johnsons are worth checking out. Antony is trans and now goes by Anohni and, imo, her voice is incredible. So soulful and unique. Do check out You Are My Sister and Hope There's Someone.
This is short but it haunts me so much. It's eerily beautiful and melancholic.
In My Dreams.
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Post by richard on Jan 14, 2022 14:20:38 GMT
It's a January Friday afternoon, winter in the UK, and I thought of this song for thIs thread.
I understand that this song from 1963 - I thought it was much older - is included with the closing credits of the film "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), which I've never seen. But I'd been aware of the song well before that, and when I came across across it by chance on YouTube, I loved it.
A feel-good little song. And, for me, Jimmy Durante proves you don't have to be a great singer to convey a song with such charm and so touchingly. Beautiful orchestration, too. Love the strings. And, of course, the lyrics.
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Post by joseph on Jan 14, 2022 18:37:15 GMT
Harrowing topic. Hits me in the solar plexus every time.
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Post by richard on Jul 28, 2024 21:34:54 GMT
I hadn't taken any interest in Celine Dion before, but this really got to me: her performance at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. The song, L'Hymne À L'Amour (1949), made famous by the French singer, Edith Piaf, (lyrics: Piaf; music: Marguerite Monnot) has an incredibly beautiful melody and I can't deny the emotional impact on me of Celine Dion's rendition:
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Post by Michal on Jul 31, 2024 16:09:34 GMT
Out of the ABBA-related songs I have to mention Guldet Blev Till Sand, Du Måste Finnas, I Gott Bevar and Ut Mot Ett Hav. The first two moved me to tears even before I knew what they were about. You can imagine what they did with me when I found out.
Others I can think of are A Little Fall Of Rain and Empty Chairs At Empty Tables from Les Mis.
And to get out from the musicals category, Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven.
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