[JuZ]

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.

It's getting out of control when people describe ANY clean vocals as "emo". Although that attitude mostly demonstrates the number of kids populating internet forums!

Anyway, Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever

One of the first ballads I really enjoyed as a kid. From Brian May's fragile voice and sweeping keys at the beginning to Freddie's ridiculously powerful voice letting rip, to the spine-tingling ending it's just a crashing wave of love and grief and anger and sorrow and... yeah... it's pretty good stuff!. You know there's a lot of genuine love and loss that went into the creation of this song.

Freddie was such a god damned genius.

Strapping Young Lad - "S.Y.L."
I just love the "here I am, fuckers! Dig it or kiss my arse!" attitude to this.
I can in no way ever play this at low volume. Gets the blood flowing.
Kinda sums up my outlook in a sonic nutshell.

Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
Particularly Mick Moss' contributions. Bleak and melancholic.
Portrait of the Artist as an old man whose faith has long since atrophied.

Pearl Jam - "Black"
Pure, bitter regret.

Porcupine Tree - "Collapse The Light Into Earth"
Cold and alone, fear of abandonment.

Dredg - El Cielo
Not often I can listen to this without some kind of emotional response. Exhilaration and sadness all at once, particularly "Sanzen", "Of The Room" and "The Canyon Behind Her".

Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb"
Still the most amazing guitar solo I've ever witnessed. Images of letting go of all the pains and burdens of one's life.
This will be played at my funeral.

Liquid Tension Experiment - "Hourglass"
Simplistic warm beauty. Sitting under a tree with a cool breeze on my face. Almost that drowsy, "post-coital" feel to it.

Nick Drake - "Northern Sky"
Love. Love undiminished by time or distance.

Devin Townsend - "Death Of Music"
Just about the most extraordinary song I've heard. So many layers and levels of emotion that build immensely.
I often miss the part with Dev walking around in Japan because I'm sitting there, stunned. Even to this day.

Sigur Rós - "Viðrar vel til loftárása"
Another one that begins gently before soaring into the stratosphere. I have no idea what this song is about, but it always takes me away from wherever I happen to be.

Strapping Young Lad - "Detox"
I never heard this until I was into my 30's, but it dragged out all these memories of teen angst, of conforming to an image and being accepted by your "peers" at school. It, to me - is rage. Very cathartic.

Corrosion Of Conformity - "Vote With A Bullet"
I hear this song in my head whenever I watch the news, and see the disgrace that is World Politics.
Music to start a revolution by.

Explosions In The Sky - "First Breath After Coma"
For an instrumental, this says so much to me. Glory. Passion. Transcendence.
Enriches my spirit with every listen.


Complicated bugger, me.

[JuZ]

Dredg - El Cielo
Not often I can listen to this without some kind of emotional response. Exhilaration and sadness all at once, particularly "Sanzen", "Of The Room" and "The Canyon Behind Her".

You deserve a smiley lollipop for that.

I'm incapable of creating a list right now, but I do know the song that popped into my head as soon as I read the thread:

Devin Townsend- Planet Rain

I know some people think that Planet Rain is terribly overrated, but I don't see that. This song is easily one of my favorite songs ever. Dev's one of the only artists/bands I know that can create pictures with melodies. Every time I listen to the song, I like to turn the lights off and stare at the ceiling. If I can't do that, I'll just close my eyes. I can imagine a planet that looks slightly green from space, but not a bright green. A really deep, dark, forest green. The planet is mostly covered in rainforests, massive waterfalls, and lakes and ponds. On the planet, I see a guy standing on a huge rock cliff, screaming the last part of the song "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" And the rain sounds at the end just top it all off.

Dredg - El Cielo
Not often I can listen to this without some kind of emotional response. Exhilaration and sadness all at once, particularly "Sanzen", "Of The Room" and "The Canyon Behind Her".

You deserve a smiley lollipop for that.

ive been trying to find some music by these guys but im finding it almost impossible

Dredg - El Cielo
Not often I can listen to this without some kind of emotional response. Exhilaration and sadness all at once, particularly "Sanzen", "Of The Room" and "The Canyon Behind Her".

You deserve a smiley lollipop for that.

ive been trying to find some music by these guys but im finding it almost impossible

Do you mean samples or somewhere to buy it? If you can't find samples just take a risk and buy el cielo

If you do buy a Dredg album, I'd start with El Cielo, and then go onto Catch Without Arms, and then, if you really, REALLY like them, check into Leit Motif. Leit Motif has a very odd, spacial sound, and I wouldn't really recommend it for a first-time listener. Great band, overall, though. Amazing sound, and great atmosphere in their music.

Dredg - El Cielo
Not often I can listen to this without some kind of emotional response. Exhilaration and sadness all at once, particularly "Sanzen", "Of The Room" and "The Canyon Behind Her".

You deserve a smiley lollipop for that.

ive been trying to find some music by these guys but im finding it almost impossible

Do you mean samples or somewhere to buy it? If you can't find samples just take a risk and buy el cielo

i mean i cant find a place to buy it. its way too expensive on ebay because theyre being sold in europe and the euro doesent take kindly to the aussie dollar

oh wait! completely different band im thinking of. Im thinking of Drudkh i always get them mixed up

[JuZ]

oh wait! completely different band im thinking of. Im thinking of Drudkh i always get them mixed up

Good one.

Jason Becker: Primal
This song brought me to tears many times. I had Perpetual Burn when was 13, that's in 1990. I enjoyed it for different reasons of course than I enjoy it today. Then I found out about his condition. I read everything I could find about him on the net, got acquainted with his story and all. Then in 1998 or 1999 I saw Perspective was released two/three years back. Ordered it. Primal is the first song on the album. Fuuuuck. I was like nooooo. Tears. The second chorus with Jason's last recorded guitars with his hands already dropping, it sends chills down my spine. It's as emotion-packed as it gets. It's there, his emotions are recorded, musically you can't nail it better.

Devin: Things Beyond Things
The second harmonized chorus - beauty, and then the end ... it just leaves me in an empty space, alone, wondering about things and thing beyond ... and then that unholly scream brings me back again.

Dream Theater: Dissapear
I linked this song with the death of my grandfather only several years after his death. I always kinda felt I didn't say goodbye properly, but when that linkage with Dissapear occured, I felt closure, I felt connected and dealing with it and closing it and saying goodbye properly. I know now all this is cheese, but then I hade it on "repeat 1" and really really dug in. No tears or pathetics, just digging in deep and remembering all the things he's done for me, all disputes, all smacks I deserved, hehe.

SYL: Shitstorm
What can I say, I'm obsessed with this song. My ultimate metal song.

Death: Cosmic Sea
It puts me on a vacant planet where all dark is beautiful. My first death metal album, I was 14. I can't describe how blown away I was.

Steve Vai: Call it Sleep, Tender Surrender ... and many many more
Vai ... works for me. I'm in awe with what this man is capable of putting out through his music.

most PoS stuff...

And I have always tried to calm things down
Swallow down, swallow down;
It's just another small thorn in my crown,
But suddenly one day there is just too much blood in my eyes,
And I have to take this walk down Remedy Lane of whens and whys..
Fuck yeah.

A TON of Dev songs of course. But theres also some that really get me nastolgic. A lot of it's indie.

Devin Townsend
-Death of Music
-Things Beyond Things
-Noisy Pink Bubbles
-Planet Rain
-Nobody here

Death Cab For Cutue (haha)
-Marching Bands of Manhattan
-Lack of Color
-Movie Script ending

Broken Social Scene
-Anthems of a 17 year old girl

Dream Theater
-Under a Glass Moon
-Overture 1928
-I Walk Beside you
-Octavarium

Opeth
-Draper Falls
-Ghost of Perdition

RADIOHEAD!!!
-Fake Plastic Trees
-Let Down
-Climbing up the Walls
-Idioteque
-Wolf at the Door

Fear Factory
-Zero Signal
-A Therapy for Pain
-Human Shields

Strapping Young Lad
-Detox
-Spiritually (Omg, this song gives me chills)
-Bring on the Young
-Shitstorm
-Two Weeks
-Zen
-Almost Again

Snow Patrol
-Chocolate
-You Could Be Happy

Thom Yorke
-Analyse
-Harrowdown Hill

Bright Eyes
-First Day of Our Lives (I'm not really a Bright Eyes fan, but this song was playing when I had my first kiss)


Edit-
After seeing Sigur Ros being posted here, I decided to give them a looksie. Holy shit. Hoppipolla made me cry!

[JuZ]

Edit-
After seeing Sigur Ros being posted here, I decided to give them a looksie. Holy shit. Hoppipolla made me cry!

One of the best bands on the planet at the moment, no question at all. Good for you!

Afew albums, off the top of my head.

Dev Townsend - Ocean Machine, Infinity, Physicist, Devlab
Death - Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic
Opeth - Damnation, Ghost Reveries, Blackwater Park
Frontline Assembly - Millennium, Tactical Neural Implant, Implode
Ministry - Keianh (Psalm 69)
Type O Negative - World Coming Down, October Rust, Life Is Killing Me
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. I and II

I experience alot of different emotions when listening to these albums. I do get emotional when I listen to certain power metal songs, because they are so uplifting and gratifying to the human spirit. Bands like Ministry and SYL push my anger levels to the brink because they are meant to teach us to be more open minded with ourselves and not to follow what everyone else is doing...and example would be "Shitstorm"..."Im in control of the infinite mind, and I control infinite power" that really captures what we all need to do. Stop following what everyone else is doing and be unique with who we are.

There have been afew times when songs have made me cry, for example "Last Drop Falls" by Sonata Arctica. I was put through alot of stress and pain when I found out the woman I love didn't love me back because she was so confused by other peoples opinions. I know the song isn't entirely about that, but it does tell the story of a man sharing his love for one woman, but she doesn't see that and goes after someone else and all he wants is to love her and for her to stop hurting him.

I also find Chuck Schuldiners music very inspiring, I find him to be the most inspiring artist of our time, more so then anyone else...well Dev as well. The lyrics he shares with us is so profound and eye opening its hard to believe that he was the founding member of the death metal genre. Usually we see a death metal band singing about decapitating people, but with Chuck his words speak alot more then horror movie fantasy. He knows what we go through every day, weather it be with struggles with personal problems or political issues.

His music along with Dev's has opened my mind so much more, and now Im much more in control of my own life and have become a much stronger person...not so much physical, but emotional and spiritual.