Music-how does it touch you?

arewethereyet
arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
edited September 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I just heard "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and cried. :cry:

I was sitting in the car the other day when a song came on the radio, and I can SMELL the perfume my friend was wearing that day we heard Benny and the Jets for the 1st time.:smokin:

If I am in a bad mood, music will lift me up.:happy:

If I dont feel like working out, I make sure I have great music in my Iphone and BAMM I am moving! :bigsmile:

At the gym yesterday I didnt have my music, but when I heard Hey Yah on the overhead, I HAD to run!! :laugh:

How does music "move" you?:flowerforyou:

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  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I just heard "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and cried. :cry:

    I was sitting in the car the other day when a song came on the radio, and I can SMELL the perfume my friend was wearing that day we heard Benny and the Jets for the 1st time.:smokin:

    If I am in a bad mood, music will lift me up.:happy:

    If I dont feel like working out, I make sure I have great music in my Iphone and BAMM I am moving! :bigsmile:

    At the gym yesterday I didnt have my music, but when I heard Hey Yah on the overhead, I HAD to run!! :laugh:

    How does music "move" you?:flowerforyou:
  • stef_e_b
    stef_e_b Posts: 593
    my boyfriend doesn't get why I listen to "sad" music. But its a good way to get emotions out.

    I can't not dance when I hear micheal Jackson or the spice girls

    I am one of those crazy people dancing to the music in their heads
  • awestfall
    awestfall Posts: 1,774 Member
    I just heard "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and cried. :cry:

    I was sitting in the car the other day when a song came on the radio, and I can SMELL the perfume my friend was wearing that day we heard Benny and the Jets for the 1st time.:smokin:

    If I am in a bad mood, music will lift me up.:happy:

    If I dont feel like working out, I make sure I have great music in my Iphone and BAMM I am moving! :bigsmile:

    At the gym yesterday I didnt have my music, but when I heard Hey Yah on the overhead, I HAD to run!! :laugh:

    How does music "move" you?:flowerforyou:
    The song that gets me up and moving is Raise Me Up by Josh Groban.Beautiful music and wonderful inspirational lyrics.
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    "step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the

    contrast of white on white.

    and in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling

    difference between wrong and right. "

    "Round Here" by Counting Crows


    I go on kicks with what I listen to and lately it is Counting Crows.
    I can listen to "Round Here" and get several different feelings depending on my mood,,,,I like it
  • yadiraj82
    yadiraj82 Posts: 23
    I feel the same way you do:)

    Music has the ability to make us feel so many emotions..

    Every time I hear "por ti volare" by Andre Bocelli I cry like a baby :)
  • réalta
    réalta Posts: 895 Member
    LOVE LOVE LOVE the counting crows, missed them when they were here, stupid work! :grumble:
  • Rachael
    Rachael Posts: 168 Member
    "step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the

    contrast of white on white.

    and in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling

    difference between wrong and right. "

    "Round Here" by Counting Crows


    I go on kicks with what I listen to and lately it is Counting Crows.
    I can listen to "Round Here" and get several different feelings depending on my mood,,,,I like it

    I know exactly what you mean about Counting Crows - I always go back to them.

    Time and Time Again - Counting Crows

    "So when are you coming home, sweet angel?"
    You leaving me alone? All alone?
    Well, if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own."

    Another one that really moves me - Life Without You by Stevie Ray Vaughn

    "Life without you
    All the love you passed my way
    The angels have waited for so long
    Now they have their way
    Take your place."
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I feel the same way you do:)

    Music has the ability to make us feel so many emotions..

    Every time I hear "por ti volare" by Andre Bocelli I cry like a baby :)

    Oh I LOVE Andrea! la voce de silencio makes me cry......dont even know what he is saying. It is more to do with his lovely voice.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    "step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the

    contrast of white on white.

    and in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling

    difference between wrong and right. "

    "Round Here" by Counting Crows


    I go on kicks with what I listen to and lately it is Counting Crows.
    I can listen to "Round Here" and get several different feelings depending on my mood,,,,I like it

    I know exactly what you mean about Counting Crows - I always go back to them.

    Time and Time Again - Counting Crows

    "So when are you coming home, sweet angel?"
    You leaving me alone? All alone?
    Well, if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own."

    Another one that really moves me - Life Without You by Stevie Ray Vaughn

    "Life without you
    All the love you passed my way
    The angels have waited for so long
    Now they have their way
    Take your place."

    just listened to a clip on Itunes...........so mournful:cry:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I just heard "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and cried. :cry:

    I was sitting in the car the other day when a song came on the radio, and I can SMELL the perfume my friend was wearing that day we heard Benny and the Jets for the 1st time.:smokin:

    If I am in a bad mood, music will lift me up.:happy:

    If I dont feel like working out, I make sure I have great music in my Iphone and BAMM I am moving! :bigsmile:

    At the gym yesterday I didnt have my music, but when I heard Hey Yah on the overhead, I HAD to run!! :laugh:

    How does music "move" you?:flowerforyou:
    The song that gets me up and moving is Raise Me Up by Josh Groban.Beautiful music and wonderful inspirational lyrics.

    love it!
  • cheermom11
    cheermom11 Posts: 393 Member
    Music is such a 'bookmark' in life! Some songs bring me up, others bring me down, some relax me and some rev me up. I don't think I could pick one song that moves me, because lots of 'em do.
  • tomyhealth
    tomyhealth Posts: 181
    I love all kinds of music. It is funny how a song will bring you back in time (bad or good times). My daughter is going through a break up:cry: and is listening to Taylor Swifts new break up:cry: songs I hope it helps her get through this.
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    I can't hear Wooly Bully without thinking of my mother. I often get a tear! (It's a fun song but she died in 2000 and it was one of those songs that she couldn't sit there if it came on..she had to dance!)

    You Raise Me Up also touches me

    I love classical music as well and several pieces usually tug at my heart. Mahler's 5th Sympony is especially touching to me.

    I have sung Stand By Me to my son since he was a newborn. It seemed to calm him somehow. Now he can sing along with me! :heart:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I can't hear Wooly Bully without thinking of my mother. I often get a tear! (It's a fun song but she died in 2000 and it was one of those songs that she couldn't sit there if it came on..she had to dance!)

    You Raise Me Up also touches me

    I love classical music as well and several pieces usually tug at my heart. Mahler's 5th Sympony is especially touching to me.

    I have sung Stand By Me to my son since he was a newborn. It seemed to calm him somehow. Now he can sing along with me! :heart:

    My mom and I danced to La Bamba. My son was 4 and he would sing.."blalalablablamba" and my mom would laugh till she cried. I hear that song and sing along..........just like that!!
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    Ohhhh and let's just say I can't listen to Ravel's Bolero without..............well..........feeling "frisky"

    :glasses:
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    Ohhhh and let's just say I can't listen to Ravel's Bolero without..............well..........feeling "frisky"

    :glasses:

    I can feel "frisky" listening to a garbage truck; or a freight train and Counting Crows
  • Rachael
    Rachael Posts: 168 Member
    I can't hear Wooly Bully without thinking of my mother. I often get a tear! (It's a fun song but she died in 2000 and it was one of those songs that she couldn't sit there if it came on..she had to dance!)

    You Raise Me Up also touches me

    I love classical music as well and several pieces usually tug at my heart. Mahler's 5th Sympony is especially touching to me.

    I have sung Stand By Me to my son since he was a newborn. It seemed to calm him somehow. Now he can sing along with me! :heart:

    Isn't it funny the songs we sing to our kids? I love that. I have always sung "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd to my son. Now he's almost 15 and we both love that song. I made him promise me that if he ever gets married he'll dance with me to that song :smile:
  • kel9680
    kel9680 Posts: 173 Member
    I can't hear Wooly Bully without thinking of my mother. I often get a tear! (It's a fun song but she died in 2000 and it was one of those songs that she couldn't sit there if it came on..she had to dance!)

    You Raise Me Up also touches me

    I love classical music as well and several pieces usually tug at my heart. Mahler's 5th Sympony is especially touching to me.

    I have sung Stand By Me to my son since he was a newborn. It seemed to calm him somehow. Now he can sing along with me! :heart:

    Isn't it funny the songs we sing to our kids? I love that. I have always sung "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd to my son. Now he's almost 15 and we both love that song. I made him promise me that if he ever gets married he'll dance with me to that song :smile:

    My brother got married a few years ago and Simple Man was the song him and my mom danced to, they didnt use the skynrd version though, i think the one they used was hank williams jr., it was a little slower and easier to dance to.
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    I can't hear Wooly Bully without thinking of my mother. I often get a tear! (It's a fun song but she died in 2000 and it was one of those songs that she couldn't sit there if it came on..she had to dance!)

    You Raise Me Up also touches me

    I love classical music as well and several pieces usually tug at my heart. Mahler's 5th Sympony is especially touching to me.

    I have sung Stand By Me to my son since he was a newborn. It seemed to calm him somehow. Now he can sing along with me! :heart:

    Isn't it funny the songs we sing to our kids? I love that. I have always sung "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd to my son. Now he's almost 15 and we both love that song. I made him promise me that if he ever gets married he'll dance with me to that song :smile:
    I know. I just sang it one night and it really seemed to soothe him and even if we'd be out at a store and he was fussy, I would sing it softly and he would stop crying and listen. And then over time I just liked singing it and knowing that he could always associate that song with me. Especially if Heaven forbid something were to happen to me, I thought it could comfort him.

    Sappy mommy moments you know!! :cry:
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    just downloaded Bruce springsteen: Fever
  • xbonbonx
    xbonbonx Posts: 170
    music affects me the same way most of the time, that is why I'm so addicted to it lol. it's a good motivator. I listen to my favorite music when I go out for a walk and it makes me feel even better about what I'm doing.
  • Shadowpaws
    Shadowpaws Posts: 109
    I tend to listen to the more meditation-oriented, Trance, and Symphonic Metal stuff these days. I do like the occasional Duran Duran though. :p I'm an 80s child... always have loved the music from that era.

    A few favorite artists:
    Loreena McKennit
    Nightwish
    Kamelot
    Ian Van Daahl

    The list goes on, and on. :smile: Music tends to relax or motivate me... depending on which I'm listening to at the time.
  • 1Corinthians13
    1Corinthians13 Posts: 5,296 Member
    my boyfriend doesn't get why I listen to "sad" music. But its a good way to get emotions out.

    I can't not dance when I hear micheal Jackson or the spice girls

    I am one of those crazy people dancing to the music in their heads

    My husband was the same way. I'd get into a mood and just want to listen to sad music. I don't know why. I wasn't depressed. But he hated it! He just didn't get it.

    Good thing he's not around to hear what I've been listening to lately.

    I think for me, I listen to something that emphasized my mood. I can't listen to happy music when I'm sad, and I can't listen to sad music when I'm happy. Even when I'm running - I'll run to sad music if that's the mood I'm in. Strange, I know, but it's true.

    Musice for me is very personal. I take the lyrics to heart. That sounds crazy, but it's true. I know the singer isn't singing to me, but I always take the lyrics and apply them to my life.
  • memaw66
    memaw66 Posts: 2,558 Member
    I LOVE music!!! I have never been one to listen to just the music. I listen to the words, the story.
    There are so many songs that remind me of things the minute they start playing. That's why I love the song "The Song Remembers When" by Trisha Yearwood. It basically says that when ever she hears a certain song it reminds her of certain things. It's a beautiful song. one of my all time favorites. I love all kinds of music from country, to rock, to blue grass, the ony kind I DON'T like is Rap. I just bought an Etta James cd. I love the way she sings or sang!!!

    Memaw
  • memaw66
    memaw66 Posts: 2,558 Member
    my boyfriend doesn't get why I listen to "sad" music. But its a good way to get emotions out.

    I can't not dance when I hear micheal Jackson or the spice girls

    I am one of those crazy people dancing to the music in their heads

    My husband was the same way. I'd get into a mood and just want to listen to sad music. I don't know why. I wasn't depressed. But he hated it! He just didn't get it.

    Good thing he's not around to hear what I've been listening to lately.

    I think for me, I listen to something that emphasized my mood. I can't listen to happy music when I'm sad, and I can't listen to sad music when I'm happy. Even when I'm running - I'll run to sad music if that's the mood I'm in. Strange, I know, but it's true.

    Musice for me is very personal. I take the lyrics to heart. That sounds crazy, but it's true. I know the singer isn't singing to me, but I always take the lyrics and apply them to my life.
    I do the exact same thing!!!! I do the same with some movies!
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