post songs that you have a hard time listening to...

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... because they evoke strong emotions in you. any emotions. please offer as much of an explanation as you are comfortable with.

my mom introduced me to Moby's music a bunch of years ago. she had a soundtrack album that included the song "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" and it was one of her favourites on the CD. it grew on me too, and it continued to be one of his songs that i liked best.

when she died by suicide, i wasn't able to really listen to that song anymore. i felt like it was about HER. even thinking about the song makes me cry. but i thought it might help me to share this story with you.

i'd like to hear your stories too.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLvbpcsPj4[/youtube]

Music is very strong for me - thanks for starting this thread. Many songs evoke strong emotion - good and bad. Sometimes even the good is a bit overwhemling.

L'ultima Notte, Cinema Paradiso, Oceano - Josh Groban
These songs are all in Italian, and not being able to understand them makes the music that much more beautiful. It gives the listener a chance to look deeply into the sound itself and draw meaning from the instruments rather than the words. At least I think so.

With Arms Wide Open - Creed
This song was very popular when I was a little girl, so I consider it the song of my childhood. Weird feeling I get when I think about the past - I would do literally anything to be able to go back to those times. I feel like I rushed my childhood and adolescence away - it really does feel like wasted time. This emotion is very powerful.

When it first came out, I could not listen to 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins. It had too depressing a sound and drove me into the emotional gutter. The weird thing is that it drew a picture in my mind that was very similar to the one that lead singer Billy Corgan said was in his mind when he wrote it. Oddly though, it is now one of the songs I like to listen to, as well as many other of their songs.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow. My grandma's favorite song, ever. Played it at her funeral, haven't listened to it since.

thanks for sharing, schizoid26, IndieSoul, and outofplace! you can post youtube links if you want. i kind of wish i hadn't, as it started playing when i opened the window, arrrrgh

That's why I don't listen to the radio much anymore. I need to be able to control what songs come on, and when. Sometimes it's just easier to ignore the feelings that come with music.

I so recommend this song - it's just beautiful.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUekzRBm7-4&feature=related[/youtube]

oh yes, so beautiful. the strings and his voice are very evocative. you can get carried off on a song like that.

I know!! ! God I am in love with this man. If you like that....this one will send you flying -

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cKQSL76Oko[/youtube]

I was exposed to that song through MTV and it presented a view of nostalgia I never got to fully experience, so there was a bit of malaise.

"The Boys Of Summer" by Don Henley - it was really big in the weeks leading up to my hospitalization. Hearing it almost daily in the recent triggers flashbacks of one of the lowest periods in life. I will stop whatever I was doing and immediately get out of earshot from wherever it is playing.

Closer to what Outofplace is saying I find that in Green Day's "September" - chords, lyrics, and melody have me feeling like someone is pulling my intestines out of my body

"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman

This song reminds me of my mom and all the hard times she went through while growing up. Listening to the lyrics makes me feel like I'm listening to what she was thinking during those times in her life, and it makes me cry every time.

"Hands" - Jewel

On September 11th, 2001, this song was playing on a news station along with a montage of the planes crashing and shots of people crying. After I watched it, I went outside and sat on the swings and cried while the song echoed in my mind and gusts of wind from a windstorm blew leaves all around me. Every time I hear this song, all those memories come rushing back to me.

"If You're Not The One" - Daniel Bedingfield

This song was very popular around the time my grandmother died, and I heard it on the radio twice on the day of her funeral. For a few months it made me cry because I associated it with the day of her funeral. A couple of years later, I realized that the lyrics applied more to someone who I was in unrequited love with, which gave me a whole new reason to cry over it.

Nick Cave: into my arms

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjz5hNZF-A&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]

This song makes me remember the day I had to drive away from my kids when my ex was awarded full custody

It Don't matter to the Sun - Rosie Thomas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mim5mTQCV2M

This one makes me remember my awful relationship with my ex husband

Skyscraper -Demi Lovato http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_8ydghbGSg

Scott James - Through My Eyes - Autism Awareness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGCrzmJfwcE

My boyfriend dedicated this to me the first time he told me he loved me

Ronan Keating - This I Promise You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXHzaWA_84

Great thread - though very emotional. cried a bit searching for some of these songs.

"Airplanes"-Hayley Williams feat. B.O.B
It reminds me of the summer in Calgary when I was going downhill.

"All Around Me"-Flyleaf
It reminds me of the first night when my boyfriend and friend reunited in Calgary at my new apartment and we were having such a good time.

"Alone Again"-Alyssa Reid
It reminds me of living with my ex boyfriend.

"Angel on My Shoulder"-Kaskade feat. Tamra
It reminds me of the night when I knew that things would never be the same between my boyfriend and I when I lived in High River.

"Ayla"-Tiesto
This song evoked strong emotions i me as soon as I heard it. It definitely brings out my emotions.

"Bad Romance"-Lady Gaga
This song reminds me of moving to Alberta with Josie and starting work in High River.

"Body Bounce"-Kardinal Offishalal
It reminds me of driving around High River with my friend.

"Two is Better Than One"-Boys Like Girls
This song reminds me of the first guy I met after moving to Alberta and going on drives with him.

"Break My Fall"-Tiesto feat. BT
This song always brought out strong emotions in me as soon as I heard it.

"Breakeven"-The Script
This song reminds me of the time right before my boyfriend and I broke up.

"Bruised Water"-Chicane feat. Natasha Bedingfield
This song reminds me of my first summer in Alberta.

"It's My Life"-Chanel
This song reminds me of the bad times in Calgary when I was going downhill.

"Amazing"-Inna
This song reminds me of driving to Banff in the middle of the night with my friends.

"Could You Believe"-ATB
This song reminds me of looking for and getting a job in downtown Calgary.

"Cry Tonight"-Kim Sozzi
It reminds me of the first time my ex boyfriend broke up with me.

"Sofi Needs A Ladder"-Deadmau5
Driving around with my friend.

"Dirty Picture"-Taio Cruz feat. Kesha
Working at my first daycare job in High River.

"The Edge of Glory"-Lady Gaga
It was popular around the last time I saw my ex boyfriend.

"Feel it in My Bones"-Tegan and Sara
This song automatically brings out my emotions.

"Fight For You"-Morgan Page
Automatically reminds me of my old friends in Alberta.

"Fire"-Sunloverz feat. Rosette
Reminds me of my last days in Calgary.

"Fireflies"-Owl City
Reminds me of my ex boyfriend.

"Wild Ones"-Flo Rida feat. Sia
Reminds me of visiting my friend in Kingston and leaving the past behind me.

"Fly Like A G6"-Far East Movement feat. Dev
Cruising around downtown Calgary.

"FML"-Deadmau5
Driving around in my friend's car.

"For the First Time"-The Script
Being poor and arguing with my ex in Calgary.

"Fragile Bird"-City and Colour
Automatically brings out my emotions.

"Give Me Everything Tonight"-Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo
Reminds me of my ex boyfriend right before I moved back to Ontario and tried the long distance thing.

"Invincible"-Hedley
Reminds me of being in the hospital last September.

"Move for Me"-Deadmau5 feat. Kaskade
This song brings out a lot of my emotions.

"I Remember"-Deadmau5
Again, brings out a lot of emotion in me.

"Seize the Day"-Avenged Sevenfold
Reminds me of my ex boyfriend.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo[/youtube]

When I was hospitalized, they played this song over and over on the internal muzak loop. It played in my room, so I could not get away from the horrible, horrible music. I'm sure Celine Dion was in that mix too.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcEu47mR43U[/youtube]

Reminds me of the first of many bad relationships.

I Miss You - Blink-182
Reminds me of my last relationship... felt like her voice was in my head... luckily though it's not affecting me like it would have done before.

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden
Though I don't listen to the song... a friend I know likes this loads.

A Sadness Runs Through Him - Hoosiers
Reminds me of suicidal thoughts I have gone through.

Sometimes I feel like the only way I can truly "hear" music is removing all the rest of my stimuli, the music seems purer to me, absent of all memories, it just becomes pure thought.

I try to make music a solo experience as much as possible, because then I won't have any melancholy thoughts of others tainting the purity of the sound.

Actually, now that I think about it, I have heard somewhere over the rainbow since then, I was watching taxicab confessions on HBO, and this old guy came into the cab at the end of the show, he had just been to a casino (the show's in las vegas) and he was talking how much he missed his wife who had just died. It was a melancholy moment when they played that at the closing credits.