HEVYDEVY FORUMS

Just been a-thinkin'... The music I'm most drawn to is that which produces an emotional response, and Dev's music is far more emotive than anything I've experienced.

What music (be it an album or even a single moment in a song) genuinely brings out emotion in you? And I don't just mean I-wanna-put-eyeliner-on-and-dress-like-the-cat-in-the-hat's-evil-twin. Anger, joy, pain, awe, pure exhileration... you name it.

For me, the first that come to mind are:

Dev - Dynamics.
From about 1:30 on, it sounds like the heavens really have moved and the Earth really shall shake.

Dev - Greetings.
Goosebumps all over. Every time. Especially from 1:47 to 2:15. Mind-blowingly epic. Sounds like the world on the verge of going supernova.

Dev - Truth.
No wonder G-Hog cried.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.
Heart-breakingly beautiful. I guess in a way we were fortunate even to get one album out of the boy.

Neil Finn - Message To My Girl (Live with the NZ Symphony Orchestra)
Haunting. Finn at his bittersweet best.

Sigur Ros - Starálfur
Beauty as sound.


Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen
Joy. Joy. Joy. Hearing all those beautiful voices makes me want to give it all up and go live in a village in the mountains somewhere, weaving baskets and growing pumpkins for a living.

There are plenty of others, but that's a start.

I'll surely be back on that.

Agalloch - The Mantle [album]
The entire album grips me with desolation, but leaves me feeling great anyway. Feels really optimistic and comforting at the same time.

Deftones - Digital Bath
I feel.... languid, yet enthralled by some visceral need...

Devin Townsend - The Death of Music/Bastard
Depressed.

Devin Townsend - Tiny Tears
This one is awesome. Sad to the extreme, but uplifting because of the resolution at the end. I love listening to this when I'm down because it usually elevates my mood.

Devin Townsend - Night/Tiny Tears/Storm
Love.

Devin Townsend - Triumph
self-explanatory...

DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem
Same as the Agalloch.

Einsturzende Neubauten - The first few albums
It's so disjointed and metallic. Gives an overwhelming sense of agoraphobia. This is the pinnacle of cathartic music in my opinion. Oftentimes brooding, the music creates an unparalleled miasma.

Faith No More - Zombie Eaters
Not sure. Just gives me goosebumps. It reminds me of someone I know, so it also makes me feel uneasy at the worst of times.

Fantomas - Rosemary's Baby
Goosebumps, big time. It sounds so deliciously evil. I love it.

Joanna Newsom - Everything
I feel a giddy, childish sort of happiness. Nostalgic feelings of running around on playgrounds and swinging on monkey bars, etc.

Kaizers Orchestra - Bris
Makes me feel incomplete, as though I'm missing something...

King Crimson - Epitaph
Same as above.

Meshuggah - NMCC
This one throws me into a paroxysm of rage if I'm already angry. Same thing goes for Future Bread Machine (i made that typo on purpose)

Mr. Bungle - Carry Stress in the Jaw/My Ass is on Fire
METALLL!! *headbangs*

Neurosis - Aeon
Total destruction, at a very slow and deliberate pace.

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
His "ahhhhh"ing gives me goosebumps. I luff it. with two f's.

Pain of Salvation - A Trace of Blood
It makes me want to cry.

Pearl jam - Black
Hopeless and pushed aside.

Prince... Lots of it...
Sex! NOW!

Queensryche - Jet City Woman/I Don't Believe in Love/Another Rainy Night
I used to listen to Queensryche a lot when I broke up with my first love. These remind me of that. They can pick me up, but they also have the capacity to knock me back down.

Scott Walker - The Drift [album]
Hopeless. Bigggggg time.

SYL - OMFG/Underneath the Waves/Shitstorm/Thalamus/Skeksis
Grrr anger

Dillinger Escape Plan
Grrr anger

Most ambient... Dead Can Dance, The Hummer, Scorn, etc. makes me want to just let go of everything and drift away into a world all my own.

Most of Devin's stuff...most Smashing Pumpkins stiff...most PoS stuff...largely due to the fact that I think these are the 3 vocalists on this earth who put the most feeling into their singing

These are all Dev's stuff. Nothing else doesn't 'bring me to tears'.

Strapping Young lad - S.Y.L.
Rage. I'll hate everything and smile at the same time. This one is too much for me if I'm drunk.

Sunday Afternoon
Love.

Life/Stagnant
Happiness. Joy. Hope.

Truth/Life Is All Dynamics
Precense of God. One night I was listening Truth, sober, and at the God yeeaah!!!!-part everything clicked and I freaked out. It felt like a bright light in my head.

Things Beyond Things
Makes me miss something I'm not sure I ever even had. Can't pick one feeling. This one us the first song that made me cry a bit.

oh and Tears in Heaven...you'd have to be literally made of stone not to want to cry at that!

Dev - Deep Peace: it may be the most beautiful piece of music in my book. if i focus too much on the associated memories and try to do some catharsis on the "it's all going away now" part, i'll most definately cry. No other piece of music does it to me like that.

Dev - Bastard: completely hypnotic. It kinda stirs frustration if i focus on it. I actually explained how to get the "Bastard High" to a friend, and she got the exact same feeling. It's so huge and hypnotic, without ever getting tired

Dev - Storm: tons of mixed feelings. If i play that on the drums live, i'll most definately cry too. And once again, i'm not the crying kind of guy. When i play it (well, airdrums, i know, ridiculous but i still get the feeling of it ), it feels like there's a huge BALL of energy coming out of my chest, it's emotionally stressing but feels like a bliss. The same thing kinda happens with Pain of Salvation's Undertow too.

and funny thing is, the stronger musical emotional experiences i have are all devy related

If you count in excitement with the idea of playing them and feeling like i'm gonna blow up with the energy that runs through them, then there are tons of other songs (but i'm not gonna say hypergeek and that i felt that on my bus ride just today because i mentioned devin enough ), then there are tons of others, by a ton of other bands.

But hell, this is an emo thread, so keep the emo entries

The most powerful piece of music I have ever heard is The Mars Volta - Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt "Who brought me here/Forsaken, depraved and wrought with fear " climax, even thinking about it makes my spine tingle. Apparently the end to the "concept" of the album is the main character awaking from a coma and then committing suicide, and I think the end of the song captures the emotions someone doing that would go through perfectly, especially the way it just completely and abruptly stops.

Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore is up there too. It's outro is so perfect. I wish more bands used volume dynamics the way Mars Volta do.

Neurosis - The Passage
-the most metal song ever, I can't hear that opening riff without want to rip the head off of the person nearest to me. I think this has to do with when I saw them live. Actually Enemy of the Sun, Through Silver in Blood and Times of Grace are all full of ridiculously metal moments.

Dev - Dynamics.
From about 1:30 on, it sounds like the heavens really have moved and the Earth really shall shake.

That is up there as far as metal moments goes for me. I think it's Devin's heaviest song to date.

Devin Townsend - Night/Tiny Tears/Storm
Love.

+Things Beyond Things. Those songs always make think of people I've been in love with

Neurosis - Aeon
Total destruction, at a very slow and deliberate pace.

Every time I hear that song I think of the starting of a funeral march that gets engulfed by some sort of cataclysm.

SYL - Underneath the Waves/Shitstorm

Yup. Those songs sound like how my brain works when I'm angry, if that makes any sense.

Dev - Deep Peace: it may be the most beautiful piece of music in my book. if i focus too much on the associated memories and try to do some catharsis on the "it's all going away now" part, i'll most definately cry. No other piece of music does it to me like that.

That song reminds me of walking through a forest with my girlfriend.

Some other great songs:
Converge:
First Light/Last Light; One of the few songs where I actually find the lyrics very meaningful and suiting. "i need a purpose and i need a reason/i need to know that there is trophy and meaning/to all that we lose and all we fight for/to all our loves and our wars" combined with the desperate music fits so perfectly.

In Her Shadow/Eagles Become Vultures; Two amazingly different songs that go together ever so well, the drum intro to Eagles is so jarring after In Her Shadow's 6 minutes of accoustic melancholy.

No Heroes; I think anyone who has heard this song knows what I'm talking about.

The Dev
Voices in the Fan
Bastard
Death of Music
Let it Roll
Deadhead

Amorphis
The Way
Morning Star
Rusty Moon
Summer's End

Blackfield
Blackfield
Hello
1,000 People
End of the World

Porcupine Tree
Trains
Heartattack in a Layby
Waiting Phase 1
A Smart Kid

Jeff Buckley
Morning Theft
Hallelujah (good call, JuZ)

Shape of Despair
Quiet these Paintings Are
Still-motion

Kingston Wall
Use to Feel Before
Two of a Kind

The Gathering
In Motion #1
Eleanor
Kevin's Telescope

SYL
Detox
Underneath the Waves
Two Weeks
Thalamus

Emo...such a stupid word. Ever since the explosion of the "emo" genre, which is pretty much just pop/punk that got in touch with it's emotional side, people describe anything with at least a smidge of emotion as emo. The whole purpose of music is to convey emotion, and I'm glad there are people on this forum who know exactly that.

Anywho...here's my list:

Mr. Townsend
Bastard
Things Beyond Things
Storm
Deadhead
Suicide
Noisy Pink Bubbles

Strapping Young Lad
Two Weeks
Info Dump (an odd one, but can really mess with one's mind)

Evergrey
As Light Is Our Darkness/Beyond Salvation
The Masterplan
Dark Waters
End of Your Days
As I Lie Here Bleeding
Trilogy of the Damned
Ambassador
Monday Morning Apocalypse

My Vitriol
Moodswings
Static
Pieces
This Time

Extreme (that's right...Extreme)
Rock A Bye Bye
Play With Me
Decadence Dance

Pearl Jam
The entire "Ten" album

Rush
La Villa Strangiato
Emotion Detector
Virtuality

Nine Inch Nails
The entire "The Downward Spiral" album (possibly my favorite concept album to date)

Iain Ballamy with Josefine Cronholm - Mirrormask - Close to You (Composed by Burt Bacharach)
I'm not sure why, but this song just hits me hard. It's probably the combination of the vocalist's voice and the minimalistic music.

Red Harvest - Hole in Me
This song is just awesome. Jim Bergsten has amazing emotion in this song.

Devin - Death of Music.

Don't even act like theres anything that comes close when youve got headphones, zero light and a headspace thats slightly left of centre.

Man, I gotta get back to work but I just love reading the posts here.Can't add much. The first time Metal really moved me was when I heard Black Sabbath for the first time. The self titled debute just rung me out.Tame by todays standard, I still get goose bumps when Ozzy starts his decent.
Aphroditis Child: 666 is a nice little record about the appocolypse that while not metal is so mysterious and emotive that I still love it.

Yeh This is a really cool thread. The reason I love metal so much is mainly due to the all out in your face emotion that alot of the music posseses. Im too lazy to name all the songs that give me strong feelings but Devs/SLY's music have given me goosebumps and brought me to tears many times...which is cool ... I wish more music would have this effect on me.

fullgore wrote:Devin Townsend - The Death of Music/Bastard
Depressed.

Devin Townsend - Tiny Tears
This one is awesome. Sad to the extreme, but uplifting because of the resolution at the end. I love listening to this when I'm down because it usually elevates my mood.

Devin Townsend - Night/Tiny Tears/Storm
Love.

Devin Townsend - Triumph
self-explanatory...

Meshuggah - NMCC
This one throws me into a paroxysm of rage if I'm already angry. Same thing goes for Future Bread Machine (i made that typo on purpose)

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
His "ahhhhh"ing gives me goosebumps. I luff it. with two f's.

Pain of Salvation - A Trace of Blood
It makes me want to cry.

SYL - OMFG/Underneath the Waves/Shitstorm/Thalamus/Skeksis
Grrr anger

Dillinger Escape Plan
Grrr anger

I agree with the above stated, and a few more already said. "A Trace of Blood" was actually the first song I thought of when clicking this thread.