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For me it's "We won't be a alone" by Feint feat. Laura Brehm. I just have nostalgia attached to it and it brings back some nice summer memories.

This post is also for song recommendations since I listen to the same songs for years and I guess I wanna hear something new.

Edit: grammar mistake corrections

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Long time Nine inch nails fan. Love everything he’s done.

Hear Johnny Cash do Hurt.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Yeah that song hits quite hard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

YouTube: Johnny Cash - Hurt

I didn't know it by name, but it's an iconic classic. I immediately recognized it.

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat 5 points 8 months ago

Oh man. That song is all the feels. Even Trent Reznor said Johnny did it better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Specifically this performance of Danny Nedelko by Idles: https://piped.video/watch?v=Sc63fTPttEQ

It's a song about how immigrants are normal people with thoughts and feelings, our friends and family and so on, released when an anti-immigration sentiment was completely mainstream, but also just as Corbyn was becoming popular, and the singer's belting it out despite being knackered, and the crowd's belting it back, until he falls down crying because everyone's onside with his song he'd written about friendship and love, and the guitarist takes over without a second thought, and his wife comes out with their baby in a papoose to kiss him... I'm getting a lump in my throat just describing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Thank you, I didn't know the song and I am deeply moved by it ❀️

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

NiN - Hurt.

Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's interesting how original Hurt by NiN has very different vibes than its cover by Johnny Cash. It's like it's different song, but still the same. Both deep, just different.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The best way I can describe the emotional difference is that Reznor's version depicts ruinous destruction of a young person's life, and Cash's version depicts a lifetime of regret. Their literal ages obviously help convey it, but the arrangement and style really sell it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, the original always hit me harder but both are very emotional. I think it's also to do with the orchestration.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I hear Baby Shark, I get very emotional.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Selena - No Me Queda MΓ‘s

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Eminem - Headlights

GnR - November Rain

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

I'm currently re-aligning my entire life with the goal of not becoming the dad in this song.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Originally from Harry Chapin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Part of this song is about how fast life goes by, not just the dad not being there. Sad to say you can't fix that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I actually don't have much of a problem with that.
If I die tomorrow, I'll have a smile on my face knowing I've lived well.
On the other hand I'm still looking forward cause life keeps getting better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If "Cat's In The Cradle" doesn't get you, you are not a father.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

"Hits hard" may be subjective and situational, but I guess it can be interpreted as emotionally touches you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ever since I have my own children Zombie by The Cranberries hits twice as hard.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hallelujah performed by Jeff Buckley.

And, as mentioned, Mr Cash's haunting and painful rendition of Hurt.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bones in the Water by Battle of Mice. I've never heard that level of unhinged screaming in my life. Plus it's creepy as fuck

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

I'm doing my best to not let my life be like the song, but that's tough...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So, I almost never listen to this song because somehow it always makes me so so sad. I am a metal guy, I love heavy shit, from Kill'Em All to Watch The World Burn; but an old friend passed me this song once and it broke me into pieces.

It's the saddest lullaby ever.

I recommend this fan-made lyric video specially for those who don't have English as first language. I find it funny that it doubles on views the original song.

Terrible Things, by Mayday Parade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

this fan-made lyric video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I have so many, but today I was listening to the radio and was really getting into Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", Heart's "Crazy On You", and Peter Schilling's "Major Tom". It was truly a good day on the radio.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Charles Bradley’s cover of Changes by Black Sabbath.

He sings it dedicated to his mom and that gets me every time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ocean Lab - Breaking Ties (https://youtu.be/g13nsQaCxbg )

Great breakup song if you want to just let it out

John Farnham - Help (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dv54giOSRKs )

This is a cover of the Beatles song. Very different vibe to the original

Realising now my music tastes are a bit weird...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Toy Soldiers by Martika

[–] arandomthought 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"That funy feeling" by Bo Burnham

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Ghost - Badflower

99 Red Balloons - Nena

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Great post idea! My list is based mostly on nostalgia for a certain period of time in my life:

Fog (again) - Live - Radiohead

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Fake Empire - The National

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Headlong - The Frames

Scattered Black and Whites - Elbow

Grace Under Pressure - Elbow

StarΓ‘lfur - Sigur RΓ³s

HoppΓ­polla - Sigur RΓ³s

October - U2

[–] reev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Sun, The Moon, The Star - Γ†ther Realm

A ~20 minute metal masterpiece telling the story of someone leaving home in search of purpose and only upon leaving realizes the beauty of what he had before.

Melodically beautiful and I cry every time I hear it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Linkin Park - One More Light

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

For me, I've gotta say "Machine Messiah", by Yes. It's one of the longest, and most interesting songs I've heard. Most songs have just one "mood" explored in them, but this one shifts from joyous to melancholy and back multiple times, and does so perfectly. Plus, I'm very nostalgic about it since it was one of my favorite songs as a child. Drama was the one of the first two albums I bought as a kid, almost entirely because that one song was on it. (Also--is that a Sonic pfp, op? A person of culture, I see πŸ˜‰)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

HAHA yes it surely is. Shadow with a watermelon helmet is one of my favorite Sonic memes.

Sonic is maybe for kids but it's my childhood so I do not care what people say about it. Anyway thanks for the comment 😁

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Other Side by Public Service Broadcasting really drew me in the first time I listened to it.

Also Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol gives me the feels for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The Other Side just hits right in the good parts of humanity. I just can't help but be amazed that humans did that whenever I listen to that song.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Pink Floyd - marooned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Guess you should go search for more Laura's songs.Ii love her voice too!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Lately, Bjork - Stonemilker

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Kill 'em All era Metallica, or the MTV acoustic Alice in Chains.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I love Layne's voice! AIC was one of my favorite bands.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lay low. Tiesto.

Summer beach when I was young. Carefree. Good looking. Partying. Ahhhh the good ol days. πŸ˜€

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The Babysitter's Here - Dar Williams

Told from the perspective of a little kid, the emotions are just so immediate. I could go on about how nuanced the lyrics and emotion are but man, such a great song.

Runner up: Murder In the City - Avett Brothers

Man, that line: "Make sure my sister knows I loved her", in the past tense, oof

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