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Thewlis Dish
16 Oct 2003, 16:44
Apologies if this has been done before, but what's the most powerful song you've ever heard?
For me it would have to be 'Bad' or 'Running To Stand Still', two ballads by U2 about drug addiction. When I hear live versions of these songs I get chills up my spine.
"Fee Fi Fo" by the Cranberries is about child abuse. Great song.
CharlieG
16 Oct 2003, 17:53
When The War Is Over has to be up there.
Holy Grail on Grand Final Day takes on a new meaning.
Braddock
16 Oct 2003, 18:15
Well I'm not quite sure how you'd define powerful in terms of songs, I mean Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day is an extremely quiet song but it still stirs me up. Anyway, if I take it the way I think it's meant my list is: Muse - Space Dementia, Weezer - Only in Dreams, Radiohead - Wolf At The Door, Smashing Pumpkins - Zero and Tool - Stinkfist.
mouldy_bread
16 Oct 2003, 21:27
Placebo - My Sweet Prince
--edit--
Totally biased opinion, but isn't everyones?
Plus their piano version of Teenage Angst makes me want to cry.
BomberGal
16 Oct 2003, 22:11
Do I think I can go past Wonderwall?
Nup, I can't. Like mouldy_bread, biased, but still. I wouldn't love it/Oasis so much if it wasn't so good.
Edit: post below reminds me, With or Without You (how did I forget) & All I Want Is You, by U2.
emotional:
With or Without You - U2
Stay Together (long version) - Suede
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
pumped up:
Kick Out The Jams - MC5
I Was Made For Lovin You - Kiss
Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim
GhostofJimJess
16 Oct 2003, 22:38
"Three Days" - Janes Addiction
Jeffers
16 Oct 2003, 22:48
Powderfinger - These Days
U2 -All I want is you (my fave U2 song but it is pretty powerful)
U2 -With or Without you
10CC -I'm not in love :eek:
Two out of Three ain't bad - Meatloaf
Long Black Veil - The Band
It's a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
True Colours - Cyndi Lauper
Tomorrow Wendy - Andy Prierboy and Concrete Blonde.
Some of my picks:
The first movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony (particularly the Kleiber/VPO recording)
Bach's keyboard concerto in D minor BWV. 1052
Sibelius' 4th symphony
Carter's 2nd string quartet (all of his string quartets are sublime)
Wagner's "Parsifal"
Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" oratorio.
(yes, I know that technically these aren't songs)
TheWackedYak
17 Oct 2003, 00:14
Gotta agree with jeffers on "All I want is you"
But seriously...
"Power" - Ice T
"Fight the power" - Public Enemy
"Power of love" - Huey Lewis & the News.
Now, unlike Tenacious D, that's a power trio.
Jeffers
17 Oct 2003, 10:05
REM - Everybody Hurts
Van Halen - Dreams
Disgustipated
17 Oct 2003, 10:24
46 & 2 -TOOL
Human evolution TOOL style with the greatest end to a song. The last minute is nothing short of spectacular.
Have seen them live five times and just cannot fathom the brilliance of this band.
Uncle Steve
17 Oct 2003, 11:46
Originally posted by Weaver
Tomorrow Wendy - Andy Prierboy and Concrete Blonde.
Good pick.
Also:
Marianne Faithfull - Why'd Ya Do It?
Iggy Pop - The Endless Sea - used to great effect in "Dogs In Space"
Leaping Lindner
17 Oct 2003, 18:23
"Atmosphere" by Joy Division
"Wide open road" by The Triffids
"You are just dead skin to me" by Primal Scream
Buddykin
17 Oct 2003, 21:37
GOD - John Lennon
Something to beleive in - Poison
Angie - Tori Amos/Rolling Stoners
Pushhhit - tool
They all affect me for one reason or another!
The Searching Kangaroos Music Jamborreee (http://www.searchingkangaroo.com)
fitzmantle
18 Oct 2003, 02:36
Who ever wrote "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & the News needs bloody help fast. Im not joking thats bloody scary.
Leaping Linder, damn straight "Wide open road" what a bloody classic.
A couple other songs that leave me absolutely depressed in a good way are:
Down in spleandor - Straitjacket fits
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
At my window sad and lonely - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Falchoon
18 Oct 2003, 20:27
Originally posted by Weaver
Tomorrow Wendy - Andy Prierboy and Concrete Blonde.
love that song & Joey fwiw
Most powerful song
can't beat the pommie anthems
Rule Brittania, Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem etc last night of the proms type stuff.
McAlmanac
18 Oct 2003, 23:46
Originally posted by Leaping Lindner
"Wide open road" by The Triffids
You beat me to the punch there. Also "Life of Crime", "Lonely Stretch" and any number of songs from Born Sandy Devotional.
catattack
19 Oct 2003, 00:54
Powderfinger - These Days
Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail
Green Day - Time of Your Life
NorthBhoy
19 Oct 2003, 14:52
Originally posted by Disgustipated
46 & 2 -TOOL
Human evolution TOOL style with the greatest end to a song. The last minute is nothing short of spectacular.
Agreed.
I am not a TOOL junkie, but this song does weird stuff to my head. I can't listen to it in the car. Serious.
vanders
19 Oct 2003, 15:52
Frank Sinatra - My Way
REM - Everybody Hurts
2 songs that really have a powerful feel for me are
Exit Music - Radiohead
Changes - Black Sabbath
Both songs still send shivers down the spine.
For a good dose of powerful music I listen to a lot of Muse
Feeling Good is a standout.
Milkman
19 Oct 2003, 20:43
Night-Rocker by David Hasselhoff.
the fly
20 Oct 2003, 00:17
Originally posted by catattack
Powderfinger - These Days
Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail
Green Day - Time of Your Life
Time of Your Life????? You mean Good Riddance.
the fly
20 Oct 2003, 00:18
New Order - Close Range
Goldenblue
21 Oct 2003, 02:29
Sweet Child O' Mine by GNR.
Kicks A$$ Hard!!!!!
Another vote for U2's
"All I Want is You."
Anyone seen the video clip with the circus dwarf? Sad.
Rusty Brookes
21 Oct 2003, 16:18
I'll go for Into the Void by Black Sabbath. Sounds like armageddon is upon us with a great lyrical message to boot.
Resurrection - Fear Factory (album version).. a monstor of an arrangement
Angel - Massive Attack.. Through head phones, this song can alter your brain
Undenied - Portishead.. An unervingly beautiful song. Can sometimes make me feel uncomfortable
High and Dry - Radiohead.. in a certain frame of mind, this can stop me from speaking/thinking.
Like Suicide - Soundgarden.. magnificent dynamics
Times of Trouble - Temple of Dog.. inspirational.
Noddy Holder
21 Oct 2003, 22:32
Pumped Up:
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Emotional:
Miracle of Love - Eurythmics
Grendel
22 Oct 2003, 10:46
'Nessum Dorma' or maybe it's just got the most poweful word with the 'vincero' bit at the end. My Dad had an album by some famous opera singer (Bjorling?) and played it.. quite a lot. Think I leared to hate it at one stage but then as I grew found that it invoked a lot of memories... Good and bad.
For me at least, nothing quite raises the heckles like this song does.
Daylight,
'And the Band played Waltzing Mathilda' - Pogues version, Bogles is alright, just prefer MacGowans voice.
'New Dawn Fades' - Joy Division.
'God Only Knows' - Beach Boys.
'See me'(cant remember if that's the actual name of the song or not) - Tommy. You know the final track, 'See me. Feel me. Touch me. Heal me', that bit. ;)
and I might get howled down for this but..
Memories - Elaine Page. Yea, I know.. Andrew Lloyd Webber.. but it WAS from TS Eliot's poem and the lyric/poem is just genius.
"VINCERO.... VINNNNCCCEERROOOOOOOOO"... :)
Great pick, Grendel.
I find it particularly moving on Anzac Day. I know a lot of ex-servicemen, and I'm thinking of them when I hear it.
Originally posted by Grendel
'And the Band played Waltzing Mathilda' - Pogues version, Bogles is alright, just prefer MacGowans voice.