I'm deliberately not defining emotional as it's a wide topic..

It doesn't take much to make me blub, but one thing it's almost guaranteed to get me going it's "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. Also "Sometimes When We Touch" - Dan Hill, because I associate it with my parents splitting up .. I don't know if it was in the charts but I was hearing it a lot at the time)..

Music that makes me feel good:
The "Sing Choirs of Angels" and "Yea Lord we Greet Thee" descant verses of O Come All Ye Faithful - but only at Christmas and I prefer them with a big old pipe organ joining in
The Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Fit but you Know it by the Streets (as I found recently)
The Soundtrack of Les Miserables and Cats
Holst - The Planets
Practically anything by Gershwin or Leornard Bernstein

Music I play when I want to think..
Beethoven's Mass in D Minor (Missa Solemnis)
Mozart's Requiem
Brahm's German Requiem.

I'll think of other as soon as I post this, but they sprang immediately to mind.

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What music has an effect on you?

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Yeh, The Winner Takes It All, The First Cut Is The Deepest, It's Raining Again... get the drift?

I've got a whole list of songs on this computer that, when I'm a bit drunk and it's about 1am, I stick on. So various Johnny Cash, Air, Radiohead etc.

Then I normally fall asleep at the computer.

He aint Heavy He's My Brother
I had 5 brothers now there are 4

The Australian National Anthem always gets me going, especially when played after beating the Poms in any sporting event, consequently I hear it a lot.

By 'Poms', I take it you mean Pomeranian dogs...

Not too difficult I would have thought..

I am pleased to say I have no idea how that one sounds though I am sure it will be very tuneful and understated.

Swing Low Sweet Chariot comes to mind.

Elgar's Cello Concerto played by Jaqueline Du Pre - shivers up my spine every time, and a big lump in the throat!

Saint Saens Organ Concerto - but mostly because of Babe, i suspect!

'Morning' from the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg

'Pounding' by Doves

'Love Will tear Us Apart' by Joy Division

'Those Were the Days of Our Lives' by Queen

'Anchorage' by Michelle Shocked

'Under the Bridge' by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers

'Everybody Hurts' and 'Nightswimming' by REM

.... I'll be here all day at this rate!
Music just pushes my buttons!

<handymelon trots off to put the CD player on..>

What's with Swing Low Sweet Chariot? How and why have English rugby fans adopted that as an anthem?

Good song.

Pretty much anything by Bob (Marley).
On the soulful side, Roberta Flack
the first time I ever saw your face - what a song! Tink it were used in the film 'play misty for me' with Clint Eastwood, but could be wrong though.

Canadia national anthem: O Canada
Alison Moyet: Ordinary Girl

Have a nice day!

Creep by Radiohead

Carrickfergus

Hundreds of songs make me cry!

Stay Another Day by East 17 - which just happened to be on Live & Kicking (or whatever Saturday AM show it was) when I found out my Nana had died...

The Cheeky Girls - The Cheeky Song always makes me cry.

Just about anything by Muse.

Seasons in the Sun.

The lines:

Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there

My sister-in-law, Michelle, was murdered in the spring of 2001.

I'm so sorry to here that.
If that song wasn't sad enough as it is. Now I'd feel even more sad listening to it.

Pretty much everything by Bon Jovi now. Also "Hurt" by Johnny Cash makes me feel strange.

I can dig where you're coming from "Advance Australia Fair" is a stirring song, sung in praise of a young country,unlike our own dirge, sung in praise of some old bird that, through accident of birth,manages to live a life of grace and favour. I had arguments at all three of last year's GB v Oz test matches for standing during the Oz anthem and sitting through ours. I am so looking forward to the Tri-Nations

I am not usually moved by any hymn, apart from "Eternal father, strong to save" I suppose that is through coming from a trawling family and having lost too many friends to the sea.

Mama Cass's "It's getting better" never fails to lift my spirits

If you look at good or happy emotions nothing makes me smile more than "Do You Feel Like We Do", from Frampton Comes Alive. It's 14 mins long and is fantastic for picking you up. Same goes for Sweet Child O' Mine and Welcome to the Jungle.

I really love 'In My Life' by The Beatles as it reminds me of a special time in my life.

Also 'Angel' by Sarah McLachan is a really beautiful song

westlife did a DIRE cover of it a couple of years ago

Likewise

There's a lot that make me cry too. 'Do they know it's Christmas' for the obvious reasons and also because it reminds me of a friend who died at a young age very suddenly on Christmas day 1990.

Ooooh I'm getting all maudlin here

You should listen to Bonnie Tyler's version (no honestly, it's a classic cover)