Nimrod by Edward Elgar, gets me every time.
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As a child that whole Last Night of the Proms sequence got me every time.
Jerusalem/ Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory).
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
Fish - Garden of Remembrance
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“We’re just sugar mice in the rain”
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I don’t have Jeff Buckley’s guitar, sadly, but I do have one his plectrums which I stole from his microphone stand after a concert at the Junction Club, Cambridge.
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“Wind Words” from Stomu Yamashta’s East Wind album “Freedom is Frightening”.
This track is totally unrepresentative of the rest of the album, but the melody played by the lead electric violin is utterly beautiful.
I bought this album on vinyl back in 1973 primarily because of this particular track, and I have never tired of it to this day.
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Damien Rice Eskimo
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Ed Sheeran.
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Which category? Beautiful music or reduces you to tears?
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Reduces me to tears in that I feel there is no hope for mankind.
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Barbara Bonney singing “Morgen” by Richard Strauss
“Whatever’s written in your heart” by Gerry Rafferty from the City to City album
Sandy Denny - No End (the acoustic demo version from I Kept a Unicorn, definitely not the studio version from An Old Fashioned Waltz). Just Sandy at the piano in an old church hall, overseen by her husband Trevor Lucas.
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Whilst I sit slightly bored in covid isolation, couple spring to mind
Fauré: Requiem - in paradigm (LSO Live version)
Stars of the Lid - a meaningful moment through a meaning(less) process (though the rest of the album can be quietly moving in the right frame of mind)
More generally I find ambient / modern classical can catch you when you don’t expect it too, such as Anthene, Celer, Warmth and Zake. Each to their own I guess. Must be close to my day 6 test
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She had a lovely voice.
Brenda Lee - The End of the World (1963)
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Bruce Springsteen, lost in the flood, imagining the scenes!
This song, a tribute to Neil and Tim Finn’s mum, on the Crowded House ‘Woodface’ album always gets me when I sing along.
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Morgen by Richard Strauss as sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
America by Simon & Garfunkel.
Trouble Loves Me - Morrissey
To name but three.
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Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House has an added impact due to the memories of a failing marriage at the time.
The End of The World by the Carpenters from earlier, happier times at one of their concerts.
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The last two tracks of Bowies Blackstar album, Dollar Days and I Can’t Give It All Away get me a little misty every time I play them.
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