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Music has the incredible ability to evoke powerful emotional responses in us. It can give us goosebumps, uplift our spirits, and bring tears to our eyes. Electronic beats can drive us forward, while a thunderous orchestra can send pleasant shivers down our spines. A deep singing voice can have a calming effect, and listening to sound patterns designed for deep sound immersion can create a trippy experience. However, the exact workings of how music affects our emotions remain a mystery in the realm of science. The power of sound is truly remarkable, and the interplay between sound waves and emotions is undeniably fascinating.
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#1
I've told this story before, but there was a very special moment for me that immediately popped into my head when I read your post, so I'll tell it again:
I love dancing (both in clubs and at home), and it's also very important to me as a means to calm down and shut off the intrusive thoughts I always have due to my OCD and Generalized Anxiety. At some point in my life there was just way too much going on, and during that time I somehow lost the ability to "dance myself away". I still enjoyed dancing, but that special feeling, almost like being in a trance, just didn't come up anymore, and I found that really sad.
Then, a few years ago, when I visited my old favourite club and was already on the dance floor, the DJ played "Dark Allies" by Light Asylum. I didn't know the song, but thought it sounded cool, so I started dancing and suddenly.... Bam! There it was! The feeling of "dancing right into the song", being alone on the dance floor, just the song and me, the very feeling I thought I had lost forever. I was so, so happy! This song really brought it all back, so it will always be the one that gave me the most important emotional support.
Final score:
4points
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
I'm right there with you, and I've been waiting for a new Light Asylum release for too long but "Dark Allies" is one of my favorites. I think, there can never be quite enough of these wonderful cresendo/uptempo songs. However, their song "Shallow Tears" always makes me cry because it reminds me of someone who was not allowed to be on the planet for a little more time....
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#2
"Keeper of my heart" by Indigo Girls....Used to be my favorite band, introduced my ex to their music and they rapidly became our band....... As such I haven't listened to them for 20 years, just couldn't, but after posting a story about them being my favorite concert , I faced up and revisited their music........ Jeez, they are truly a gorgeous band, still remember every damn lyric.....
But instead of sadness, that I feared would come with listening to them again, all these happy bittersweet memories came flooding back.... Those glorious, magical, transcendent years, sharing a house with the 2 people I loved the most in the whole world..... A house filled art, love and belonging, just a bunch of weirdos on the outside doing their best in a sh!tty world.... Before everything turned to sh!t and my brain broke..... I miss my weird little polyamorous family..... It was the last time I belonged anywhere.....
Final score:
3points
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
In these days it seems like kind another life lived by another person but it's been us who are now craving the golden days to come back to stay forever....
#4
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” sung by Glen Campbell in 2014. This was the last song he recorded, having been diagnosed with, and showing more than just mild symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Couple it with the family album-style video, and I’m a mess.
Final score:
3points
#5
It’s Western classical music but I’m sure it counts.
Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity from the Planets suite by Gustav Holst. That song makes me cry happy tears because I associate it with a time when I had nothing to worry about
Final score:
2points
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
There are no genre-limitations given....and happy tears are also allowed 'cause they are as salty as the tears of sadness...
#6
"The Winter" by CAKE. They were big in the 90s but their best music was in 2011. Groovy, sad song.
Final score:
2points
#7
Cigarettes and saints by the wonder years. Go listen to it and tell me I'm wrong.
Final score:
2points
#8
Any Sufjan Stevens song pretty much. Particularly Fourth of July or Casimir Pulaski day. Soul meets body or I will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie. Songs about death really put me in my place. There’s probably others I can’t think of right now.
Final score:
2points
#9
Two I have are The Sundays cover of Wild Horses. Delores from The Cranberries gets so much attention for her voice, but to me it's not as good as Harriet's. The other is This Woman's Work by Kate Bush. First time I heard it was during the scene in She's Having a Baby where there's a complication when Elizabeth McGovern is giving birth. Watched it with my wife who was pregnant with our first.
Final score:
2points
#10
Gilded Lily by the Cults.. Makes me cry cause I relate to it so much.
More that make me sad are "Silent Scream" and "Shatter me". .
Final score:
2points
#11
Past Lives.
I get pretty sad thinking about how my friends and family are gonna die one day and that’ll be it.
Final score:
1point
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
The loosing game called »life«...every breathe we take would only bring us closer to the end but if we'd stop breathing we wouldn't solve this problem anyway...
What do you think ?
Jonathan Labelle 1 year ago
can you fell the love tonite by By elton john The lion king was the last movie i saw with my father before he die
DreamingDoggos 1 year ago
Another Love by (I forget who lol)... and not JUST the song but the music video adds onto the sad tears... And also Safe And Sound (hunger games soundtrack) first time I heard it I bawled my eyes Oooo and Deathbed by Powfu (???)
Jonathan Labelle 1 year ago
can you fell the love tonite by By elton john The lion king was the last movie i saw with my father before he die
DreamingDoggos 1 year ago
Another Love by (I forget who lol)... and not JUST the song but the music video adds onto the sad tears... And also Safe And Sound (hunger games soundtrack) first time I heard it I bawled my eyes Oooo and Deathbed by Powfu (???)
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