Music that moves you

pploeser
pploeser Posts: 88
edited March 2010 in 2 Channel Audio
There are many times where I'm moved by a specific element of a recording. It could be especially well performed instrumental solos, vocals, or an especially well recorded part. You know, I'm talking about those moments that give you goosebumps, or bring tears to your eyes, or just plain rock your socks off.

I'll start us off with a few of my current (subject to change) favorites.

Drums - Phil Collins - Hand in Hand (from Face Value)
Acoustic guitar - Foo Fighters - Stranger Things Have Happened (from Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace)
Electric guitar - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (from The Wall)
Piano - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (from Trilogy)
Bass - Dave Matthews - Save Me (from Some Devil)
Vocals - Incubus - Oil & Water (from Light Grenades)
Synth/Instrumental - Genesis - Fading Lights (from We Can't dance)
Crank up & rock my socks off - Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (from In Your Honor)
Pipe organ crescendo - Peter Richard Conte - Nimrod by Edgar Elgar (from Magic)

What are yours, and what particularly do you like about them? As you can see, most of mine are from rock/pop recordings. I'd love to see some good orchestral/vocal favorites. I mean, these are the moments that give birth to our obsession with hifi audio gear right?
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  • Rodeo0530
    Rodeo0530 Posts: 797
    edited March 2010
    Even though this is in the wrong section I will say that I thoroughly enjoy listening to some Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Maybe not the best band ever, but they sure are fun to jam to from time to time.


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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Stravinski's "Firebird," Schubert's "Ave Maria," Beethovan's "Ode to Joy" and many many more.

    I just noticed Mark beat me to the Ave Maria above. It always brings me to tears.
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  • pploeser
    pploeser Posts: 88
    edited March 2010
    Oops, how do I move it? Just create a new one there?
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Stravinski's "Firebird," Schubert's "Ave Maria," Beethovan's "Ode to Joy" and many many more.

    I just noticed Mark beat me to the Ave Maria above. It always brings me to tears.

    Ave Maria - one of my favorites. Glad I'm not the only weak one. :D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    janmike wrote: »
    Ave Maria - one of my favorites. Glad I'm not the only weak one. :D

    Now that my mom has passed, Ave Maria has even more emotional impact on me than before as it reminds me of her.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2010
    Listening to Karen Carpenters voice makes me melt into my listening chair.
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  • jm1
    jm1 Posts: 618
    edited March 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Beethovan's "Ode to Joy"

    Saw this performed live twice in the past three or four years. There are no words to describe the experience.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Listening to Karen Carpenters voice makes me melt into my listening chair.

    Most anything she sang was emotionally moving.

    Another piece that moves me is Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyrie" especially the part when Siegfried bursts through the cloud's, I get choked up and some major goosebumps.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited March 2010
    Suo Gan by the Ambrosian Junior Choir. Music of John Williams.
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  • rcrook317
    rcrook317 Posts: 280
    edited March 2010
    well im not into classical.....or the carpenters,prefer hard/alternative rock(the louder the better).

    every time i hear nirvanas "lithium" it makes my blood pump!
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited March 2010
    Any type of RAP! when I hear rap music it moves me, I get up and get well out of audible range!
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited March 2010
    :eek:
    zarrdoss wrote: »
    Any type of RAP! when I hear rap music it moves me, I get up and get well out of audible range!



    Now that is funny!!!
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  • JPSmario
    JPSmario Posts: 142
    edited March 2010
    Keith Jarrett- Koln Concerts - 1st side
    Stravinski- Firebird
    Jan Garbarek - Desireless
    Barbra Streisand- Somewhere, Send in the Clowns
    Boston- Foreplay/Long Time
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Pretty much anything the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Listening to Karen Carpenters voice makes me melt into my listening chair.

    I feel the same thing about Eva Cassidy.
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited March 2010
    Loreena McKennitt
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I feel the same thing about Eva Cassidy.

    Eva Cassidy's Songbird was in heavy rotation for me right at the same time my mom died a few years ago. Now, I can't hear her version of Fields of Gold without getting all misty. It just takes me back to those raw emotions.
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  • pploeser
    pploeser Posts: 88
    edited March 2010
    zarrdoss wrote: »
    Any type of RAP! when I hear rap music it moves me, I get up and get well out of audible range!

    I couldn't agree more!
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited March 2010
    Composer: Claude Achille Debussy (22 Agust 1862 - 25 March 1918), Composition: "Suite Bergamascque" -- Claire de Lune .

    One of the most moving & beautiful pieces ever recorded. My personal favorite version is Van Cliburn Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. ( 22 July 1934 ):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1obAw1fS3o
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited March 2010
    Arthur Lee of Loves' vocals on "Andmoreagain" are phenominal and some of the best vocals ever done.

    Jimi Hendrix's playing on "Bold As Love" is rediculously moving because it is so powerful.

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Fongolio wrote: »
    Eva Cassidy's Songbird was in heavy rotation for me right at the same time my mom died a few years ago. Now, I can't hear her version of Fields of Gold without getting all misty. It just takes me back to those raw emotions.

    Alan Parson Project's "Time" from "Turn of a Friendly Card" album does the same to me since it so closely resembles my dad who passed in 1980. I get misty, my mom before she passed would ask me to play it for her all the time and she would just outright break down into tears.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    TNRabbit wrote: »
    Composer: Claude Achille Debussy (22 Agust 1862 - 25 March 1918), Composition: "Suite Bergamascque" -- Claire de Lune .

    One of the most moving & beautiful pieces ever recorded. My personal favorite version is Van Cliburn Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. ( 22 July 1934 ):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1obAw1fS3o

    I have several copies, both full orchesta & simple piano, of Claire de Lune ala George Grand. I love that piece. My sister is a concert pianist and used to play it all the time when we were younger.

    Awesome youtube clip Rabbit!
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  • dfranks
    dfranks Posts: 207
    edited March 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Listening to Karen Carpenters voice makes me melt into my listening chair.

    Same here.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,420
    edited March 2010
    Elanor Rigby, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, Let It Be...

    Pretty much anything by the Beatles these days since getting back to vinyl. I just scored several rare and pristine albums at Goodwill. One is Let It Be on an Apple Red Label.
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  • dfranks
    dfranks Posts: 207
    edited March 2010
    I guess for me it would be Paula Cole's singing "The look of love" with Chris Botti on Trumpet and ole BB himself on piano, It puts Diana Kralls version to shame.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    I just scored several rare and pristine albums at Goodwill. One is Let It Be on an Apple Red Label.

    Best vinyl score so far for me was an unopened perfect condition Meet The Beatles second pressing from a super giant garage sale last year........50 cents!!! I dropped a log in my shorts right there. I felt like a thief.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2010
    How about 25 cents for a mint Beatles "White Album" ...........

    .......on white vinyl?
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    I never heard of the "White Album" on white vinyl. Where'd you come by that George.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2010
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    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited March 2010
    Google search reveals the White Album on white vinyl sells used from $55 50 over $250~

    http://www.shugarecords.com/index.aspx?page=ProductDetails.aspx&id=44a0dd35-d770-4b80-af86-60a3b981b07a

    From wikipedia:

    Two re-issues in 1978 (one by Capitol Records, the other by Parlophone) saw the album pressed on white vinyl, completing the look of the "white" album. In 1985, EMI Electrola released a DMM (direct metal mastering) white vinyl pressing of the album in Germany, which was imported to the United States in large numbers. Another popular white vinyl pressing was manufactured in France. The 1978 Parlophone white vinyl export pressing and the German DMM pressing are considered by many to be the best-sounding versions of the album.[citation needed] This is due to the use of the famed Neumann lathe on the 1978 export pressing and the use of the DMM process on the 1985 pressing.

    On 7 January 1982, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) released the album in a non-embossed unnumbered version of cover with the ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING banner at the top. Neither the poster nor portraits were included. The labels to the discs are white with primarily black text and the Capitol dome logo at three o'clock. The MFSL discs were made with Super Vinyl, a heavy and hard compound that provides an extraordinary quiet playing surface. Although MFSL leased the album from Capitol and used the company's sub-master,[citation needed] many fans believe they sound superior to the standard British and American pressings. The discs were stored in "rice paper" static-free, dust-free inner sleeves enclosed in an off-white gatefold reinforced stiff board that fit into the custom fabricated album jacket.

    The album was first released on CD on 25 August 1987.

    In 1998, a 30th anniversary reissue of the album was released. The packaging of this release is virtually identical to its vinyl counterpart. It has the same pure white gatefold cover, complete with the title The BEATLES in a slightly raised, embossed graphic at a slight angle. It also included the now-classic sequentially numbered serial number on the front of this cover, thus making this one a real limited edition. The interior of this cover features the song titles on the left-hand side, and the four black-and-white photos of the group members on the right. This version of the cover even accurately mimics the original British vinyl pressing from 1968, with the openings for the discs at the top rather than the sides. There are miniatures of the four full-colour glossy portrait photos included, as well as an exact replica of the poster with the photo collage on one side, and the album's complete song lyrics on the opposite side. The CDs are housed in black sleeves, which were also used for the original British album. This commemorative double CD album is housed in a clear plastic slipcase.

    On 9 September 2009, new remasters of all The Beatles studio albums were released. For this new release, the slipcover holding the CD digipak is embossed in much the same style as the original sleeve. Although there is no serial number on the front, there is a serial number printed along the edges of the CD version.
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