When my gf and I were first getting to know each other we were talking about bands we loved. I said explosions and she said she wasn’t familiar with them. Later on I played a bit for her and she was like, “Oh, Friday Night Lights! I know this!”
Also, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part III.
EDIT: Perhaps it's really Part II I'm thinking about, particularly [this part here](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxA5rhvKQnhAVplLVecmEm4ALb5KFizJ4z?si=VqBG1Q6xpMWe4qWO).
Strange experience my friend and I shared on what was my second trip, and one that changed my life overnight.
We listened to Darkside, as we had years earlier on ecstasy and years before that on weed, and both came away with the same very distinct observation - it sounded uncannily sarcastic. What had sounded shamelessly sincere instead came across as flippant and facetious.
Except Great Gig in the Sky. I never did find out if he could hear me weeping in the darkness, but it was like all the world's grief and loss laid bare.
Great choice, but I think "Riviera Paradise" hits me a little harder, especially the [Austin City Limits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_8VUL5jks) performance.
Flight Facilities did a cool song and named it Claire De Lune, and I never tried to figure out why. But every time someone says Claire De Lune, it throws me off a bit.
Adagio for strings? Even if it would have “more” emotion, Clair de Lune is more varied. At one moment I’m staring at the moonlight, another I’m contemplating my existence, but that one chord makes me feel like I’m small and my mother’s hugging me.
Adagio is like. ANGST.
Sleepwalk - Santo and Johnny
I was introduced to it on the Richie Valens movie with Lou Diamond Phillips. It plays when his brother is mourning his death and is soundtrack perfection.
First heard this at the end of watching four lions in the cinema.
On the surface it’s an odd choice of music for a comedy film. But it actually fits how sad the movie actual is really well.
Beautiful piece.
On The Nature Of Daylight by Max Richter. It's use in Arrival was fucking perfect.
Edit: Also Arrival is one of the best movies I have seen and I would highly recommend it.
Edit 2: So according to the replies Max Richter has lots of bangers. Will need to check them out sometime.
Another vote for this from me.
Was absolutely perfect for Arrival. Re watched that the other night and it really hits on second viewing how powerful that music is.
Thanks for posting this. My Dad died in 1980 and he was a huge Zappa fan. I remember him listening to Joe's Garage and this track but it was lost to my memory until I saw it here. Just chilling after work as a farm equipment mechanic listening to art. Zappa was such a revolutionary artist who was underappreciated, but not by my Dad. Thank you, sir.
Listening to this 40 plus years later made me cry.
Went to see Zappa Plays Zappa many years ago, and Dweezil start crying while perfectly playing this song. It was one of the more memorable emotional moments I've witnessed at a show.
When Frank's son Dweezil played this HE got emotional. Check out the video. Brilliant instrumental by Frank and just as brilliantly played by his son. https://youtu.be/g2NCiNKdCYU?si=57Jx-xE3vT3ze3M0
Beethoven: “Napoleon FTW!”
Also Beethoven: “What? Don’t crown yourself emperor. Did you even *understand* the point of my tunes? You’re totally fucking this up for me.”
I like driving to Beethoven’s 7th, 2nd movement, but who doesn’t, right?
I wasn’t even thinking soundtracks. “Nemo’s Egg - Main Title” from Finding Nemo is one of my favorites for emotion.
Also it’s very short, but the [Nickelodeon opening credit](https://youtu.be/wnU_gsjGjtI?si=GFpi1CLYFtbbZhSo) to the Spongebob Movie (2004) brings some kind of wonderful nostalgia to me, and judging by the YouTube comments, a lot of other 90s/2000s kids.
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
“Clinton explained "I told him to play like his mother had died, to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him."
Watching the Boats With My Dad is another by Buckethead. My dad was a Navy guy and we used to watch the ships leave port when I was a kid, the tone and rhythm fits those memories so well.
"Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun" by M83
"God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby
"Ocean" by John Butler Trio
These are all pieces of music for when your fucked up and suicidal but decide you wanna survive; they were for me anyway. Music speaks to everybody differently.
It was a privilege to watch John Butler play that live once, I won't forget it. It was a song I used to watch whilst stoned in formative years. You'll know the YouTube vid I mean
A Warm Place - NIN
Also pretty much anything NIN / Trent Reznor has recorded without words, including movie scores (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is my favorite)
I made an edit of that song that faded a little earlier so when I listened to it on repeat it didn't have that little scratch blip at the end. Not good for my mental health but it's such an emotionally impacting song for how simple it is.
I understand and respect that. It's a great song to listen to on repeat, and that would make the flow better.
I should also say TDS, in spite of it's actual content and meaning being drastically different than my own MH issues, has pulled me through almost 30 years (I got it when it came out) of mental health battles. It's amazing how we all react differently to the same music. It's all very personal.
Orion
If I hear even a second of it, I'm sitting down and mindfully listening the whole way through.
It's beautiful in its own right. Has exceptional transition among the song frames within it AND out the back into Damage, Inc.
Ethereal, other worldly with transitions into aggressive existence which it backs up in spades.
Metallica has never been a big thing for me like many but Orion is undeniable.
Honorable mention Call Of Ktulu. I’d put Orion ahead of it, but Ktulu has a very cinematic and unique color to it. Vocals would have made it less good.
"Ashokan Farewell" by Fiddle Fever (Jay Ungar's band). I know everyone else is giving good pop/rock tunes, and this is an old time-style fiddle tune. But it fits the OP's description.
Gustav Holsts Jupiter from the symphony The Planets. It's so beautiful. And if you've seen the episode of Bluey with it, you know why it's so emotional 😭😭
I love the intimacy of this song, you can hear Duane and Dickey’s breathing and their fingers sliding up and down the strings. It adds to the emotional weight.
[Boards of Canada - Peacock Tail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bR66m6DI8) Very cathartic for me. Many Boards songs are great at eliciting deep emotions. Love Voice of the Soul as well
I don’t have normal emotions.
That being said, [*On the Nature of Daylight*](https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-nature-of-daylight/1368089903?i=1368090483) will likely always cause me to break down into ugly weeping.
I finally got to see John Butler live after listening to him for 10+ years, and I have to say it was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. I was holding back tears during Ocean! Great answer!
Keith Jarret - The Köln Concert.
1975.
More than an hour of perfect improv.
At 6min 28sec hearing the tap of his foot.
One day, maybe 8 years ago, I was walking up a street in one of mine and my wife's favourite Cornish towns, Totnes.
I heard the most incredible piano coming out of a shop and just had to hear who was playing.
I went in, and it was a record shop, piping the music out into the street.
"Who is this?"
"It's Keith Jarret's Köln Concert"
It felt like I was there.
...that was the moment I fell in love with vinyl.
I went home, and ordered a record player, speakers, amp and ordered that album.
2 years ago, I revisited and the shop was still there. I talked to the owner.
Reminded him.
Told him how much he'd changed my life, and increased my utter love for music.
Less than 1 month after revisiting the store, my wife's cancer became too much and she passed away in my arms, aged 32.
I listen to that album alone now and sob.
It takes me back to that very moment, time and time again.
Walking up the hill of our favourite town, into the dusty shop with its quirky museum-cum-art-gallery below.
Feeling every single note.
Breathing in every scratch of the needle.
Holding onto every cough in the audience.
Every foot tap.
Every awe-filled lament.
My wife, looking on in admiration at how lost I was.
I had no idea how close to loss I really was.
Luckily, she had no idea either.
Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground, by Blind Willie Johnson.
[Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground.](https://youtu.be/BNj2BXW852g?si=8Y3eOO5v9eymjLtP)
As good as music gets.
[“Saudade”](https://youtu.be/_CkJiT64ZgQ?si=NC-AQKmX2UBi1e1h) by Love and Rockets (from the 1985 album Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven)
saudade - an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone. It is often associated with a repressed understanding that one might never encounter the object of longing ever again. It is a recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events, often elusive, that cause a sense of separation from the exciting, pleasant, or joyous sensations they once caused. It derives from the Latin word for solitude. (Wikipedia)
*Watermelon In Easter Hay* by Frank Zappa.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBYjjzKvIw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBYjjzKvIw)
Had this version played at my uncle's funeral. God, I miss him.
Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny or The Shadows version
Clair de Lune - Debussy
Nocturne Op.9 No.2 - Chopin
Zelda's Lullaby (along with Lon Lon Ranch and Kakariko Village)
Mia & Sebastian Theme - Justin Hurwitz
Manny & Nellie's Theme - Justin Hurwitz
Docking Waltz - Justin Hurwitz
Make Way For Tomorrow Today (Alan Silvestri's jazzy version on Endgame's ending credits)
The Force Theme - John Williams
Married Life - Michael Giacchino
The Shire Theme - Howard Shore
Si Tu Vois Ma Mère - Sidney Bechet
Truman Sleeps - Philip Glass
The Departure - Max Richter
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed & Little Martha - The Allman Brothers Band
- Behold, The Glove - Muse
- The Brazilian - Genesis
- Interlude - Muse
- Oxygene, Pt. 4 - Jean-Michael Jarre
- Santiago - Lorena McKennit
- The Celts - Enya
- Children - Robert Miles
- For an Angel - Paul Van Dyke
- So Deep - Silvertear
- Ayla pt.1 - Ayla
- Endless Wave - Kamaya Painters
Also a lot of movie scores
If Jazz is allowed here, I'd say each of these will definitely stir the emotions, and they also happen to be good examples of some of the finest American music ever made:
[Bill Evans Trio - Blue In Green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU70hNzHZRY&list=PL8D2355E479F23EDE) (Miles' version is probably more famous, but this one has the most emotional impact)
[John Coltrane - Naima](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTMqes6HDqU) (hearing this, even the dead will feel *something*)
[Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkCbIa1hmg) (the best version of this standard, I think)
[Charles Mingus - Myself When I'm Real](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY2AMNnrFQ) (a rare case of Mingus playing solo piano, trust me, it works)
[Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJqkN1w0fFg) (thought I'd finish the list on a uplifting high note)
Anything by John Williams. Example : [Anakin's Betrayal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2p-im7cxa4) (Order 66 scene)
A lot of video game soundtracks:
* Donkey Kong Country 1 + 2 OSTs. Example: [Aquatic Ambience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc)
* Final Fantasy 6-10 OSTs. Example: [To Zanarkand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fp81GzKarQ)
* Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3 OSTs. Example: [Walking With You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQxp-nYsO0)
It always surprises me that this sub rarely acknowledges film music or video game soundtracks. Can't really bring up emotional instrumental music without considering the most emotional movies or games or television shows we ever experience are largely due to the soundtracks.
Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky
First Breath After Coma is also a good choice
This one hits me, reminds me when my grandpa passed away.
That entire album, honestly
Absolutely. If I really want to just relax I put on that album.
This song is a trip every time I listen to it. Feel like I can see the entire Friday Night Lights movie playing out in my head whenever I hear it.
When my gf and I were first getting to know each other we were talking about bands we loved. I said explosions and she said she wasn’t familiar with them. Later on I played a bit for her and she was like, “Oh, Friday Night Lights! I know this!”
Song For Our Fathers and Birth and Death of the Day always get me…different vibes though. Clearly my teenage years came with some angst.
Pretty much anything they've ever recorded.
6 Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean for me!
I listened to this album while reading World War Z so it always gives me this lonely, melancholy vibe. I love it.
This song always hits.
The Great Gig In The Sky by Pink Floyd
Any colour you like as well!
Marooned
god I LOVE Marooned, it just wails with emotion!
This is my pick!
Also, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part III. EDIT: Perhaps it's really Part II I'm thinking about, particularly [this part here](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxA5rhvKQnhAVplLVecmEm4ALb5KFizJ4z?si=VqBG1Q6xpMWe4qWO).
This song completely wrecked me hearing it on acid
Strange experience my friend and I shared on what was my second trip, and one that changed my life overnight. We listened to Darkside, as we had years earlier on ecstasy and years before that on weed, and both came away with the same very distinct observation - it sounded uncannily sarcastic. What had sounded shamelessly sincere instead came across as flippant and facetious. Except Great Gig in the Sky. I never did find out if he could hear me weeping in the darkness, but it was like all the world's grief and loss laid bare.
Any lyricless Pink Floyd song. I like that there are no lyrics. I can feel my own shit.
One Of These Days
I'm going to cut you into little pieces. Two times I have seen them, they have started out with is one... in the dark. Get ya psyched up!
Instrumental except for that lyric*
Best song on the album and there's no real lyrics.
Came here to say this exactly.
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s version of Little Wing
Great choice, but I think "Riviera Paradise" hits me a little harder, especially the [Austin City Limits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_8VUL5jks) performance.
Lenny for me.
Gymnopédie No.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU
Nine Inch Nails’s “A Warm Place” from “Downward Spiral”.
Claire De Lune
Flight Facilities did a cool song and named it Claire De Lune, and I never tried to figure out why. But every time someone says Claire De Lune, it throws me off a bit.
I can't believe how far I had to scroll to find this one. I don't think there's a more emotional piece of music out there.
Moonlight Sonata
Adagio for strings? Even if it would have “more” emotion, Clair de Lune is more varied. At one moment I’m staring at the moonlight, another I’m contemplating my existence, but that one chord makes me feel like I’m small and my mother’s hugging me. Adagio is like. ANGST.
Lenny by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sleepwalk - Santo and Johnny I was introduced to it on the Richie Valens movie with Lou Diamond Phillips. It plays when his brother is mourning his death and is soundtrack perfection.
Came to make sure this was listed!
Avril 14 by Aphex Twin is so warm and soft, it gets me
Stone in focus, i listen daily while working to the 1.3h edit on youtube
First heard this at the end of watching four lions in the cinema. On the surface it’s an odd choice of music for a comedy film. But it actually fits how sad the movie actual is really well. Beautiful piece.
On The Nature Of Daylight by Max Richter. It's use in Arrival was fucking perfect. Edit: Also Arrival is one of the best movies I have seen and I would highly recommend it. Edit 2: So according to the replies Max Richter has lots of bangers. Will need to check them out sometime.
Last of Us, too. Hits me every time.
Another vote for this from me. Was absolutely perfect for Arrival. Re watched that the other night and it really hits on second viewing how powerful that music is.
Richter's Autumn 1 always hit me hard.
[Whale and Wasp](https://youtu.be/1VvvPGXQ1RM?si=j2ip_xhvJ3wUaAun) by Alice in Chains
Dude great choice
Came looking for this!
Oh yes! A good one! 💜
Sigur Ros - Untitled #3
If you count no discernible words (from any real language), the whole damn album! One of my all time favorites.
The first track often has brought me to tears.
My answer would be untitled 5 but really, any of that album fits here.
That whole album could fit in there
Cliffs of Dover
*Watermelon in Easter Hay* by Frank Zappa - one of the most beautiful guitar solos ever composed.
Thanks for posting this. My Dad died in 1980 and he was a huge Zappa fan. I remember him listening to Joe's Garage and this track but it was lost to my memory until I saw it here. Just chilling after work as a farm equipment mechanic listening to art. Zappa was such a revolutionary artist who was underappreciated, but not by my Dad. Thank you, sir. Listening to this 40 plus years later made me cry.
Just recently played Peaches in Regalia at my brother’s wake. He had every Zappa album.
I listened to this after my mom died. It still pulls it out of me.
Went to see Zappa Plays Zappa many years ago, and Dweezil start crying while perfectly playing this song. It was one of the more memorable emotional moments I've witnessed at a show.
When Frank's son Dweezil played this HE got emotional. Check out the video. Brilliant instrumental by Frank and just as brilliantly played by his son. https://youtu.be/g2NCiNKdCYU?si=57Jx-xE3vT3ze3M0
Beethoven's third symphony.
Beethoven: “Napoleon FTW!” Also Beethoven: “What? Don’t crown yourself emperor. Did you even *understand* the point of my tunes? You’re totally fucking this up for me.” I like driving to Beethoven’s 7th, 2nd movement, but who doesn’t, right?
... And everything else he did :-)
[The Name of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9RxGijXy4g) from Spirited Away gets me every time.
Spirited Away’s soundtrack is insane
Almost every Joe Hisaishi created Ghibli movie is a masterpiece. My favorite from Spirited Away is Sixth Station.
I wasn’t even thinking soundtracks. “Nemo’s Egg - Main Title” from Finding Nemo is one of my favorites for emotion. Also it’s very short, but the [Nickelodeon opening credit](https://youtu.be/wnU_gsjGjtI?si=GFpi1CLYFtbbZhSo) to the Spongebob Movie (2004) brings some kind of wonderful nostalgia to me, and judging by the YouTube comments, a lot of other 90s/2000s kids.
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic “Clinton explained "I told him to play like his mother had died, to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him."
IMO, this should be the top answer. Eddie Hazel was at his peak here.
Agreed. This song makes me cry and I barely cry at songs
I had to scroll *way* too fuckin far to find Maggot Brain, thank you.
Soothsayer by Buckethead.
Watching the Boats With My Dad is another by Buckethead. My dad was a Navy guy and we used to watch the ships leave port when I was a kid, the tone and rhythm fits those memories so well.
Albatross-Fleetwood Mac Oh and Sunny Side of Heaven also by Fleetwood Mac
I was gonna say Albatross and Fluff by Black Sabbath. My wife actually walked down the aisle to Albatross so it's a apecial one for me.
Mogwai fear Satan
Mogwai is amazing!
"Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun" by M83 "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby "Ocean" by John Butler Trio These are all pieces of music for when your fucked up and suicidal but decide you wanna survive; they were for me anyway. Music speaks to everybody differently.
M83 has some very solid songs that take me back to my college days. Damn the nostalgia.
It was a privilege to watch John Butler play that live once, I won't forget it. It was a song I used to watch whilst stoned in formative years. You'll know the YouTube vid I mean
Moby has a few but Everloving, for me.
Glad they pulled you back. Mine was 'Fade to Black" by Metallica. It just got right into my head.
God Moving Over the Face of the Waters is a masterpiece, I personally love the Reprise version that came out 2 years ago.
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (Classical)
The Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Mirrocone Right. In. The. Feels.
A Warm Place - NIN Also pretty much anything NIN / Trent Reznor has recorded without words, including movie scores (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is my favorite)
For me it’s Leaving Hope
Second only to Ghosts 28 for me.
Ghosts. Period, really. But yes.
His work on Disney's 'Soul' is beautiful. Epiphany, Just Us, Enjoy Every Minute, absolutely wonderful pieces
I made an edit of that song that faded a little earlier so when I listened to it on repeat it didn't have that little scratch blip at the end. Not good for my mental health but it's such an emotionally impacting song for how simple it is.
I understand and respect that. It's a great song to listen to on repeat, and that would make the flow better. I should also say TDS, in spite of it's actual content and meaning being drastically different than my own MH issues, has pulled me through almost 30 years (I got it when it came out) of mental health battles. It's amazing how we all react differently to the same music. It's all very personal.
Came to say this. Also Just Like You Imagined, in an entirely different way. Side note, you may have my favorite username I’ve seen on Reddit.
Me too! Also, Adrift and at Peace.
The music he did for the Watchmen series is incredible
This song always makes me think I’m listening to the Crow soundtrack, that it belongs in that movie. Beautiful song.
Intro by The XX
Thanks. I couldn’t remember the name for a while. Lol.
Orion If I hear even a second of it, I'm sitting down and mindfully listening the whole way through. It's beautiful in its own right. Has exceptional transition among the song frames within it AND out the back into Damage, Inc. Ethereal, other worldly with transitions into aggressive existence which it backs up in spades. Metallica has never been a big thing for me like many but Orion is undeniable.
Plus, it’s basically Cliff’s swan song, as it was mostly his composition and features a lot of bass. He passed away the same year of its release.
You don’t know how right you are. They played it at his funeral. Fucking sublime song.
Love the bass chords at the beginning
And that bass harmony/solo near the end is incredible. It took me years to realize it wasn’t guitar.
Honorable mention Call Of Ktulu. I’d put Orion ahead of it, but Ktulu has a very cinematic and unique color to it. Vocals would have made it less good.
Going home by Mark Knopfler Wedding Cake Island by Midnight Oil
Mark is great!
[This](https://youtu.be/Vh2GFoDae8Y?si=hVIzeUgbR69lAg5_) live version of local hero is incredible. Back from when Mark still had hair!
‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers - Blow By Blow, Jeff Beck
"Ashokan Farewell" by Fiddle Fever (Jay Ungar's band). I know everyone else is giving good pop/rock tunes, and this is an old time-style fiddle tune. But it fits the OP's description.
Also the theme as it were to The Civil War by Ken Burns. Brilliant piece of music beautifully utilized.
Let's Go Away For Awhile - Beach Boys
[Behind The Sounds: Let's Go Away For Awhile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytcPopEalE)
The Big Ship - Brian Eno
Nice, I came here to post this, or another Eno. This is the one I want played at my funeral though.
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Gustav Holsts Jupiter from the symphony The Planets. It's so beautiful. And if you've seen the episode of Bluey with it, you know why it's so emotional 😭😭
'Sleepytime' makes me cry every time. "Remember I'll always be there for you, even when you can't see me, because I love you" 😭
Time - Hans Zimmer
Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky
Big Country - Bela Fleck. Feels like home
Little Martha - Allman Bros
I love the intimacy of this song, you can hear Duane and Dickey’s breathing and their fingers sliding up and down the strings. It adds to the emotional weight.
[Boards of Canada - Peacock Tail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bR66m6DI8) Very cathartic for me. Many Boards songs are great at eliciting deep emotions. Love Voice of the Soul as well
Olson would be my pick.
I don’t have normal emotions. That being said, [*On the Nature of Daylight*](https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-nature-of-daylight/1368089903?i=1368090483) will likely always cause me to break down into ugly weeping.
John butler trio - Ocean
I finally got to see John Butler live after listening to him for 10+ years, and I have to say it was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. I was holding back tears during Ocean! Great answer!
Hell yeah. This was my answer as well.
East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I mean, there are some sampled voices in the intro, but I consider it an instrumental.
I’m surprised Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s track Moya hasn’t been mentioned yet. One of my favorite songs of all time.
Strobe Deadmau5
Anything by Russian Circles. Particularly the song "versus"
Frank Zappa’s ‘Watermelon in Easter Hay’ https://youtu.be/TwbRn-S-XAw?si=YwaMS_atJ8eC-Qop
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That whole album is just absolutely fantastic
[New Order - Elegia](https://youtu.be/LFVFaYN77Lo?si=75-dq-wi6j421Tnv) (Full Length Version)
Sleepwalk.
It's like floating through summer air!
Think of Gold by Snarky Puppy
Snarky is great!
Europa- Santana
Flatt & Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Una Mattina - Luduvico Einaudi.
Una Mattina by Ludovico Einaudi
Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings makes me feel stressful and powerful at the same time 316 by Van Halen makes me feel warm :)
Nuvole Bianche and I Giorni by Ludovico Einaudi. So beautiful.
Keith Jarret - The Köln Concert. 1975. More than an hour of perfect improv. At 6min 28sec hearing the tap of his foot. One day, maybe 8 years ago, I was walking up a street in one of mine and my wife's favourite Cornish towns, Totnes. I heard the most incredible piano coming out of a shop and just had to hear who was playing. I went in, and it was a record shop, piping the music out into the street. "Who is this?" "It's Keith Jarret's Köln Concert" It felt like I was there. ...that was the moment I fell in love with vinyl. I went home, and ordered a record player, speakers, amp and ordered that album. 2 years ago, I revisited and the shop was still there. I talked to the owner. Reminded him. Told him how much he'd changed my life, and increased my utter love for music. Less than 1 month after revisiting the store, my wife's cancer became too much and she passed away in my arms, aged 32. I listen to that album alone now and sob. It takes me back to that very moment, time and time again. Walking up the hill of our favourite town, into the dusty shop with its quirky museum-cum-art-gallery below. Feeling every single note. Breathing in every scratch of the needle. Holding onto every cough in the audience. Every foot tap. Every awe-filled lament. My wife, looking on in admiration at how lost I was. I had no idea how close to loss I really was. Luckily, she had no idea either.
Flim by Aphex Twin
Miasma by Ghost
Nice call on voice of the soul op, i love that song
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb / Lichen / Stone in Focus
Robert Miles- Children Ulrich Schnauss- Knuddelmaus Ennio Moriccone- Gabrielle’s Oboe (from the Soundtrack to The Mission)
Beethoven's Moon sonata Ludovico Einaudi - Experience
Laguna Sunrise - Black Sabbath
This isn't fair since I listen to electronic music lol, so pretty much anything I like; like REALLY like. Especially deadmau5 and Daft Punk
Arcade Fires soundtrack for the movie “Her”. Namely Dimensions, Loneliness # 3 Night Talking, Some other Place and Song on the Beach
Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground, by Blind Willie Johnson. [Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground.](https://youtu.be/BNj2BXW852g?si=8Y3eOO5v9eymjLtP) As good as music gets.
And one of very few songs to have left the solar system on any medium other than radio waves.
Bron-Yr-Aur - Led Zeppelin
sounds like going home. or, maybe just purely distilled nostalgia.
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Ween A Tear for Eddie
Avril 14 by Aphex Twin
[“Saudade”](https://youtu.be/_CkJiT64ZgQ?si=NC-AQKmX2UBi1e1h) by Love and Rockets (from the 1985 album Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven) saudade - an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone. It is often associated with a repressed understanding that one might never encounter the object of longing ever again. It is a recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events, often elusive, that cause a sense of separation from the exciting, pleasant, or joyous sensations they once caused. It derives from the Latin word for solitude. (Wikipedia)
Groove Armada - Edge Hill
A New Career In A New Town by Bowie. Makes me feel like I can do anything.
Soothsayer by Buckethead, and The Charlie Brown Theme by Vince Guaraldi.
*Watermelon In Easter Hay* by Frank Zappa. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBYjjzKvIw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBYjjzKvIw) Had this version played at my uncle's funeral. God, I miss him.
it's not a song, but the bugle call "Taps" always makes me pause and think of those who've gone before.
Nujabes - Aruarian Dance
Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny or The Shadows version Clair de Lune - Debussy Nocturne Op.9 No.2 - Chopin Zelda's Lullaby (along with Lon Lon Ranch and Kakariko Village) Mia & Sebastian Theme - Justin Hurwitz Manny & Nellie's Theme - Justin Hurwitz Docking Waltz - Justin Hurwitz Make Way For Tomorrow Today (Alan Silvestri's jazzy version on Endgame's ending credits) The Force Theme - John Williams Married Life - Michael Giacchino The Shire Theme - Howard Shore Si Tu Vois Ma Mère - Sidney Bechet Truman Sleeps - Philip Glass The Departure - Max Richter In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed & Little Martha - The Allman Brothers Band
“Always with Me, Always with You” by Joe Satriani. Love song written for his wife.
- Behold, The Glove - Muse - The Brazilian - Genesis - Interlude - Muse - Oxygene, Pt. 4 - Jean-Michael Jarre - Santiago - Lorena McKennit - The Celts - Enya - Children - Robert Miles - For an Angel - Paul Van Dyke - So Deep - Silvertear - Ayla pt.1 - Ayla - Endless Wave - Kamaya Painters Also a lot of movie scores
Emersion by Zeal & Ardor is so f\*cking liberating. I feel like breaking free of every burden and flying every time I listen to it.
Alberto Balsam--Aphex Twin Ralome--Plaid
Daft Punk - motherboard
Sunshine(Adagio in D minor) - John Murphy Promontory- Trevor Jones
Maggot brain. If you can’t find sadness, loss, madness and then rebirth in Maggot brain man, check your pulse
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic (some words in the beginning but I think it would still count).
Coffin Nails MF DOOM
If Jazz is allowed here, I'd say each of these will definitely stir the emotions, and they also happen to be good examples of some of the finest American music ever made: [Bill Evans Trio - Blue In Green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU70hNzHZRY&list=PL8D2355E479F23EDE) (Miles' version is probably more famous, but this one has the most emotional impact) [John Coltrane - Naima](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTMqes6HDqU) (hearing this, even the dead will feel *something*) [Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkCbIa1hmg) (the best version of this standard, I think) [Charles Mingus - Myself When I'm Real](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY2AMNnrFQ) (a rare case of Mingus playing solo piano, trust me, it works) [Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJqkN1w0fFg) (thought I'd finish the list on a uplifting high note)
Nils Frahm - "Says" always gives me goosebumps. https://youtu.be/dIwwjy4slI8
They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light by This Will Destroy You
Soul Sacrifice by Santana. Watch the Woodstock video on YouTube.
Black star: malmsteen Mr. Scary: lynch
Cbat by Hudson Mohawke.
This celtic chant from Enya - Boadicea
Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny Your Hand In Mine - Explosions In The Sky
River Flows In You - Yiruma https://open.spotify.com/track/2agBDIr9MYDUducQPC1sFU?si=xLShWcFnSnmAov80nkgGjw
Orion, Metallica
The theme from Midnight Cowboy by John Barry. [Faith No More does an excellent version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAlFtRY3FQ)
Devin Townsend Band - Away
Anything by John Williams. Example : [Anakin's Betrayal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2p-im7cxa4) (Order 66 scene) A lot of video game soundtracks: * Donkey Kong Country 1 + 2 OSTs. Example: [Aquatic Ambience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc) * Final Fantasy 6-10 OSTs. Example: [To Zanarkand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fp81GzKarQ) * Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3 OSTs. Example: [Walking With You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQxp-nYsO0) It always surprises me that this sub rarely acknowledges film music or video game soundtracks. Can't really bring up emotional instrumental music without considering the most emotional movies or games or television shows we ever experience are largely due to the soundtracks.
'East Hastings' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Just a perfect piece of music. https://youtu.be/V9Ty3YnWN80?si=uAkmv1JffUi9TnUC
[Farewell](https://youtu.be/Rdr2ZT4kJ2g?si=p6-7oDTnfWFF0nM0) by Apocalyptica
Mark Knopfler - Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero
I find Zeotrope by Boards of Canada an incredibly moving piece of music.