A song that really speaks to you

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:58 am

Rob Dougan - Born Yesterday

older_gohan · Post by **older_gohan** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:02 pm

Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:01 pm

Songs that have really spoken out to me:

My Sacrifice - Creed
Don't Stop Dancin' - Creed
Broken Wings and Open Your Eyes - Alterbridge
Spirit Never Dies - Master Plan

The reason Don't Stop Dancin' it really hits me hard as I typed in my video profile. The song described exactly how I felt but I knew what I had to do and it was a hard and troubling time.

Video profile link:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=94224

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:35 pm

I think "speaking to" does not have to be just on the emotional level, and perhaps better off not just on the emotional level.

Most recently, some of DDT's music has been massively effective on me. I would even take the first 3 songs of their 2002 album "Edinochestvo-1" as excellent examples ("Kogda Edin [When you are one]", "Poet", "Rabochiy Kvartal [Working Quarter]").

DDT's work, primarily Shevchuk's lyrics, has had 3 important 'speaking-to' effects: bringing me to better terms with the idea of letting go, bringing me to better terms with to better terms with the idea of not letting go, and bringing me to better terms with my nationality and culture - which I fervently tried to escape for the last six or so years.

The effect of 'speaking to' by DDT can be measured by the fact that it had seriously knocked me out emotionally for a period of about 2-3 months, and caused more permanent effects elsewhere.

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Otherwise, David Sylvian will be one of the artists whose songs have consistently 'killed' me, in a way I can't quite explain.

And of course, I think my encounter with King Crimson material was more than 'speaking to'. That music blew my head off, not for a definite period, but to a large extent - permanently. This might sound like an exaggaration, but it isn't. Contact with that music had put me in contact with things I hadn't thought of before, and had led to a complete changeover in my internal architecture and external approach to life. Some pieces, mostly instrumentals like 'Fracture', in excercises of active listening caused not only emotional reactions and changes in ways-of-thinking, but even very real, almost physical sensations. If I were religious, I would probably say that the music "put the fear of God in me".

'Speaking to'? I guess so

kornrocker1489 · Post by **kornrocker1489** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:43 pm

i gotta say Dido "this land is mine" is a song that really catches me in the midst of doing something busy. like seriously this song is very unique.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:34 pm

Opeth's "A Fair Judgement" and "In My Time of Need" and "Bleak"
Death's "Lack of Comprehension"
Megadeth's "A Tout Le Monde" and "Addicted to Chaos"

Bardiel13 · Post by **Bardiel13** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:03 pm

"Get This" by Slipknot. I'll admit it, I cried.

But, seriously, it'd be "Like Light to the Flies" by Trivium or "Believing Dreams" by Naiad. At first you're like 'WTF are they saying? It's just mindless screaming' then you look up the lyrics and you never think of the song the same way again, it's seriously wonderful.

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:00 am

Roadrunner United AllStars Album

~Roads
Mikael Åkerfeldt (OPETH) - vocals
Josh Silver (TYPE O NEGATIVE) - keyboards, backing vocals
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Very touching song about being alone, and fighting your own heart against the fact that maybe a loved one will not be comming back... God I could cry all day if I wasnt a guy, very sad song indeed and ill be making a video out of it soon.

Bardiel13 · Post by **Bardiel13** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:40 am

They're making Roadrunner United Music Videos?

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:26 pm

This song isnt a music video, the lyrics alone tell the story.. they do however have a video of The End featuring ...

Matthew K. Heafy (TRIVIUM) - vocals, lead guitar
Dino Cazares (FEAR FACTORY) - rhythm guitar
Nadja Peulen (ex-COAL CHAMBER) - bass
Roy Mayorga (ex-SOULFLY, MEDICATION) - drums
Logan Mader (ex-MACHINE HEAD, SOULFLY) - melodic guitar harmonics
Rhys Fulber (FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY) - keyboards, programming

Link just scroll down.