Pop Songs - which ones stir your emotions?

Ride a white swan -T Rex and Satisfaction -Stones. remind me of lazy hazy summers in fields, for some reason ..but also can picture my Dad cursing every group on Top of the Pops

Flowerofthewest oh yes! early Neil Young!

The rose, by bette midler, high sierra, by boz sags, led zep, bryan adams, the list is endless, x

Don't think that one would be allowed these days ...

phew! hard one.... i would say 'young girl get outa my mind', loved it

nightowl I love "Slipping through my fingers" - it used to make me cry as well. I also like "The Day before you came", which is on the same Abba album. They were such clever songwriters - such brilliant lyrics.

Nearly forgot Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks.

Although I didn't like ABBA the first time around (not at all cool) the song 'Slipping through my fingers' moves me to tears as it strikes such a chord, possibly for all mothers of daughters.

I am also moved by a lot of Leonard Cohen's stuff, and Lou Reed 'Perfect Day' (but not the horrific group enterprise version produced for Chidren in Need - aaaaaagh)

Led Zepplin Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.I love early Led Zepplin! Sherry the song I mention before just makes me happy when I here it.

Every time that you walk in the room (The Searchers)

Where do you go to my lovely (Peter Starsted)

Golden Brown (The Stranglers)

Tracks of my Tears (Smokey Robinson)

Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits)

Several by Gordon Lightfoot including Song for a Winters Night, If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown.

Nothing Compares (Sinead O Connor)

Suspicious Minds I'm not a big fan of Elvis but this one is a favourite.

Fever (Peggy Lee)

Many, many, more I love music it brings back so many memories and it often makes me cry.

Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Ottis Redding Sitting on the Dock of the bay. Sherry by the Four Seasons

Ralph McTell (?) Streets of London, no idea why, but I suppose just makes me realise I am lucky. Love Bridge over Troubled Waters, and of course The Way We Were. At our 50th Wedding Anniversay party, my husband did not make a speach, instead he got my son in law to play "You're once Twice, Three time a Lady", and everyone went "aahhhh".
(that's the recording, my son in law did not actually play it)

~When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook, cos I think its about me :D

Behind Closed Doors (Charlie Rich)

When a Child is Born (Johnny Mathis)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8x38USBiM

Eagles are touring again, aren't they Flower? I learned a long time ago not to listen to music if I was going through a bit of a crisis as I could then never listen to it again but you don't realise that when you're in your teens. I agree about California Dreaming and House of the Rising Sun, which touch a nerve somewhere. For some reason I always hated The Honeycomb's 'Have I the Right' and still can't listen to it; I was a very lonely only child on holiday with my very elderly parents when it came out. Early Yardbirds stuff such as 'For Your Love','Heart Full of Soul' and 'Evil hearted You' [got to go and play them now] make me feel all funny inside; not quite sad but not happy either. Itchycoo Park. Dan Fogelbergs 'As the Raven Flies'www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8x38USBiM....Johnny Cash's 'Hurt'. And everything from Levelling the Land. [sorry, I'm going into a nostagiafest...]

Pop songs mostly stir emotions like loathing and disgust1 Not all of them, though... I quite like The Eagles and ABBA and the Carpenters' output.

I'm more affected by GAS - Great American Songbook material, like
All the Things You Are (Kern/Fields) or Solitude (Ellington)

Not the end 'wan't' should, obviously, be 'want'.

I'm going to have to stop reading this thread if I wan't to get organised to go on holiday.

I love Kris Kristofferson and 'Help me make it through the Night' is really haunting.

That made me think about all of Johnny Cash's 'America' CDs, which I find incredibly moving, Dolly Parton's 'I will always love you' and, especially, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash singing 'Far side banks of Jordan'

The end, possibly

Oh the memories,

I too get goosebumps at 'Kris Kristofferson's" Help me make it through the night and several others of his.

Saw him at Cambridge Folk Festival a couple of years ago. There was me a 62 year old woman hanging over the barrier, lusting after a 70+ year old superstar. He is still gorgeous!

'Ballad of Lucy Jordan' - Marianne Faithful - really powerful lyrics and delivery.

Anything from Francoise Hardy's first LP "Tous les garcons et les filles de mon age...." Excuse lack of cedilla.

Ella Love Letters is so smooth - and I love It was a very good year - so poignant.

shysal I've only recently heard "Should've brought you flowers" on the radio. What a beautiful song, beautifully sung.

Help Me Make It Through The Night the Gladys Knight version.

DH were dancing to this when he proposed.