What song "speaks to you" the most?

[Wadders]

well, this obviously depends what mood I'm in, but currently it's 'Most of the Time' by Bob Dylan. Who the fuck doesn't love some Bob Dylan?!

http://videos.sapo.pt/sGHkEzgER3y8yK6aEwlp

It's safe, honestly

I just cant find the original song on youtube for some reason

And listen to the damn lyrics!

Johnny Cash - Hurt.

Not to sound tired, worn out or on a bandwagon, but this song truly "speaks to me the most".
Maybe not in the literary meaning of the song, but in how it makes me feel.


If I'm not allowed "Hurt", then it'll be "Float" by Flogging Molly, for the same reason.

Flogging Molly are brilliant, glad to see some appreciation for them on here

 

[Dags90]

This song really speaks to me, quite insistently.

 

[Raiha]

"Reject Yourself" by Killswitch Engage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhIbX-uDjQ

i wish i would remember how to embed videos

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

It depends on my mood, but this gets me every time:

 

[Choppaduel]

Tool - Disposition

Spoiler: Watch the weather change....

Watch the weather change....

tool has many song that "speak to me," though I would say "have messages that I agree with."

 

[Caligulust]

First one is self explanatory, the second one takes some explaining.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

A number of weeks ago I was doing my usual routine of watching YouTube video after YouTube video when I stumbled upon this song:


I've listened to it hundreds of times since then and can't get it out of my head. It's the lyrics that really get to me, this line in particular:

...'Cause I wanted my name in lights,
when I could have fed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights.​

It affects me as I am overwhelmed and not just a little angered at artists and publishing companies (across all forms of media), yet longs to become an artist myself. It's a personal conflict that has been raging inside me for months, but that's not really what this thread's about.

My question is this, Escapists: What song speaks to you in a unique way, and why? What about it do you connect with?

Note: This is a personal opinion thread. The point isn't to compare our tastes in music.

Awesome, Bo Burnham. You should really check out his other stuff; he's my favorite comedian, specializing in musical shock humor. But yeah, that song does make you think.

As for me, I've got a couple of different ones that kind of "get me".

I was raised Baptist. I'm sorry to say that I've gotten far less... interested in my faith, but this song never fails to give me goosebumps whenever I hear it. A poetic description of the faith. Sit through the whole thing, I dare you... I submit that it's a powerful song even if you don't believe in it.

Also, there's a video of a song that can't be found on ITunes or anything; she's just a very talented girl with a ukelele. I heard her perform this live, with my parents sitting next to me. Given the subject matter, and the fact that I had just left home for college a couple weeks prior... my mom cried, and I felt a little emotion, myself.

So, yeah. Songs that speak to me are not generally the kind of music that I listen to on a daily basis. I likes me some metal, but it's just for entertainment, not emotional reaction.

 

[Xenetethrae]

So, yeah. Songs that speak to me are not generally the kind of music that I listen to on a daily basis. I likes me some metal, but it's just for entertainment, not emotional reaction.

BLASPHEMY!


Some contenders:



Granted not too mainstream but they all still fall in the wide genre that is "metal"

 

[xHipaboo420x]

QFT, it's especially poignant for me since the week after I got it my grandfather was diagnosed with bone cancer. Though it was in his spine and not the femur.

Also Aeroplane over the Sea, the entire album not just the song by Neutral Milk Hotel

and "Rejoice" by Andrew Jackson Jihad

Quite.

Also cool music, bro.

 

[The_Echo]

I have multiple, I think. So I'll spoiler the embeds.

Spoiler

For "Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart," it just really gets to me. Coming from a guy who had little more than a straight face for the first 16 years of his life, and who is still in the process of receiving the ability to have real emotions, this song has a deep-set familiarity to a situation in which I've been in for over a year. I was listening to it on the bus one day and had to distract myself because I was tearing up. Many of HIM's songs are something I can relate to, but this one in particular is a little more personal.

With "P.S. Shock the World," it gets a little more into my personal faults. The line "... doubting all my dreams" reminds me of all the worrying I do, about everything. I just want everything to be alright forever, but with that comes the frightening aspect--that'll never be the case. And so I worry that absolutely everything I don't know for sure is in some way going to have a negative effect on me. But all around, I feel like if I were in a movie, this would be my character theme.

 

[SsilverR]

Here we are by Breaking Benjamin
Haunted by POE
Spanish Doll by POE

 

[bulbasaur765]

21st Century (Digital Boy) by Bad Religion. Sums up my teenage years.

 

[gostchiken]

"Batman beat the hell out of me and knocked me to the floor, I got back up and knocked him to the floor he was being such a jackoff." Gets me every time.

 

[LittleJP]

Any song I write, and most songs I play. You can't hold an audience without understanding a piece in its utmost detail.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fqN4cz5Rc[/youtube]

Being new here, I'm not entirely sure how to embed video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fqN4cz5Rc

 

[Anarchemitis]

I see your true colors shining through, I see your true colors, and that's why I love you.​

De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine;
Domine, exaudi vocem meam. Fiant aures tuæ intendentes
in vocem deprecationis meæ.
Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit?
Quia apud te propitiatio est; et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.
Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus:
Speravit anima mea in Domino.
A custodia matutina usque ad noctem, speret Israël in Domino.
Quia apud Dominum misericordia, et copiosa apud eum redemptio.
Et ipse redimet Israël ex omnibus iniquitatibus ejus.

{Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;
Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to my voice in supplication:
If you, O Lord, mark iniquities,
Lord, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness,
that you may be revered.
I trust in the Lord;
my soul trusts in his word.
My soul waits for the Lord,
more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn,
let Israel wait for the Lord;
For with the Lord is kindness
and with him is plenteous redemption;
And he will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.}​

 

[lolelemental]

This song by Avenged Sevenfold, the last song The Rev wrote before he commit suicide. The lyrics are so telling about the way he was feeling in those last few days. It's almost like a musical suicide note

 

[Berserker119]

Love it.

 

[ChippedShoulder]

Hurt by Johnny Cash, almost every Rise Against song ever, and this, a thousand times this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2K7D-uMH2g

 

[Torlux]

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

Why? It's funny. It's clever. It's utterly insane. And it's metal!

...what more could you possibly want?!

 

[Acier]

QFT, it's especially poignant for me since the week after I got it my grandfather was diagnosed with bone cancer. Though it was in his spine and not the femur.

Also Aeroplane over the Sea, the entire album not just the song by Neutral Milk Hotel

and "Rejoice" by Andrew Jackson Jihad

Quite.

Also cool music, bro.

Yay! My taste was vindicated by a stranger!