What song hits you hard whenever you listen to it?

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For me it's "We won't be a alone" by Feint feat. Laura Brehm. I just have nostalgia attached to it and it brings back some nice summer memories.

This post is also for song recommendations since I listen to the same songs for years and I guess I wanna hear something new.

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NiN - Hurt.

Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence.

It's interesting how original Hurt by NiN has very different vibes than its cover by Johnny Cash. It's like it's different song, but still the same. Both deep, just different.

The best way I can describe the emotional difference is that Reznor's version depicts ruinous destruction of a young person's life, and Cash's version depicts a lifetime of regret. Their literal ages obviously help convey it, but the arrangement and style really sell it

Yeah, the original always hit me harder but both are very emotional. I think it's also to do with the orchestration.

Disturbed’s cover of the sound of silence is profoundly better than the original; I highly suggest you check it out

Have you seen the Disturbed covid video of Sound of Silence? Makes me cry every fucking time!

I did and I don't think I liked it for some reason, but it's been such a long time I can't clearly recall.

Specifically this performance of Danny Nedelko by Idles: https://piped.video/watch?v=Sc63fTPttEQ

It's a song about how immigrants are normal people with thoughts and feelings, our friends and family and so on, released when an anti-immigration sentiment was completely mainstream, but also just as Corbyn was becoming popular, and the singer's belting it out despite being knackered, and the crowd's belting it back, until he falls down crying because everyone's onside with his song he'd written about friendship and love, and the guitarist takes over without a second thought, and his wife comes out with their baby in a papoose to kiss him... I'm getting a lump in my throat just describing it.

Long time Nine inch nails fan. Love everything he’s done.

Hear Johnny Cash do Hurt.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Yeah that song hits quite hard

Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

I'm currently re-aligning my entire life with the goal of not becoming the dad in this song.

Part of this song is about how fast life goes by, not just the dad not being there. Sad to say you can't fix that.

I actually don't have much of a problem with that.
If I die tomorrow, I'll have a smile on my face knowing I've lived well.
On the other hand I'm still looking forward cause life keeps getting better.

Selena - No Me Queda Más

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Eminem - Headlights

GnR - November Rain

"Hits hard" may be subjective and situational, but I guess it can be interpreted as emotionally touches you?

Ever since I have my own children Zombie by The Cranberries hits twice as hard.

Creating the list made me wonder what more I could list so I took a peek into my music collection. Maybe Neil Young, which reminds me of my deceased mother (I didn't include it here). Or other genres that would fit too, given that I do listen to a lot of or more of other genres. I found more highlights:

Charles Bradley’s cover of Changes by Black Sabbath.

He sings it dedicated to his mom and that gets me every time.

Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

I'm doing my best to not let my life be like the song, but that's tough...

No matter how well you succeed in not being the song, you'll still feel like the song. That's ok. It's why the song is so relatable; it applies to everyone. Like a horoscope...

So, I almost never listen to this song because somehow it always makes me so so sad. I am a metal guy, I love heavy shit, from Kill'Em All to Watch The World Burn; but an old friend passed me this song once and it broke me into pieces.

It's the saddest lullaby ever.

I recommend this fan-made lyric video specially for those who don't have English as first language. I find it funny that it doubles on views the original song.

Terrible Things, by Mayday Parade.

Hallelujah performed by Jeff Buckley.

And, as mentioned, Mr Cash's haunting and painful rendition of Hurt.

My son does a really nice job on Hallelujah. That song always gets me.

Jeff does the best version.

I know I have the minority opinion; even Cohen said he like Buckley's version better. But I just like Cohen's more. Part of it is his baritone voice, but I love the depth the backup singers give it.

What's neat is that people have such strong feelings on this. It's truly a great song.

I have so many, but today I was listening to the radio and was really getting into Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", Heart's "Crazy On You", and Peter Schilling's "Major Tom". It was truly a good day on the radio.

The Sun, The Moon, The Star - Æther Realm

A ~20 minute metal masterpiece telling the story of someone leaving home in search of purpose and only upon leaving realizes the beauty of what he had before.

Melodically beautiful and I cry every time I hear it!

Great post idea! My list is based mostly on nostalgia for a certain period of time in my life:

Fog (again) - Live - Radiohead

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Fake Empire - The National

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Headlong - The Frames

Scattered Black and Whites - Elbow

Grace Under Pressure - Elbow

Starálfur - Sigur Rós

Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós

October - U2

Kill 'em All era Metallica, or the MTV acoustic Alice in Chains.

I love Layne's voice! AIC was one of my favorite bands.

Ocean Lab - Breaking Ties (https://youtu.be/g13nsQaCxbg )

Great breakup song if you want to just let it out

John Farnham - Help (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dv54giOSRKs )

This is a cover of the Beatles song. Very different vibe to the original

Realising now my music tastes are a bit weird...

Somewhere Only We Know by Keane, it always makes me think of good time with my ex. Sting like a bullet train everytime i listen to it.

The Other Side by Public Service Broadcasting really drew me in the first time I listened to it.

Also Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol gives me the feels for some reason.

The Other Side just hits right in the good parts of humanity. I just can't help but be amazed that humans did that whenever I listen to that song.

For me, I've gotta say "Machine Messiah", by Yes. It's one of the longest, and most interesting songs I've heard. Most songs have just one "mood" explored in them, but this one shifts from joyous to melancholy and back multiple times, and does so perfectly. Plus, I'm very nostalgic about it since it was one of my favorite songs as a child. Drama was the one of the first two albums I bought as a kid, almost entirely because that one song was on it. (Also--is that a Sonic pfp, op? A person of culture, I see 😉)

HAHA yes it surely is. Shadow with a watermelon helmet is one of my favorite Sonic memes.

Sonic is maybe for kids but it's my childhood so I do not care what people say about it. Anyway thanks for the comment 😁

YouTube link for anyone else who wants to check it out/listen to it: Machine Messiah (2008 Remaster) and Machine Messiah (1980?)

/edit: My personal assessment: Too wild/disorganized for me :P

Guess you should go search for more Laura's songs.Ii love her voice too!

yeah I already visited her website. I like it too.

The Babysitter's Here - Dar Williams

Told from the perspective of a little kid, the emotions are just so immediate. I could go on about how nuanced the lyrics and emotion are but man, such a great song.

Runner up: Murder In the City - Avett Brothers

Man, that line: "Make sure my sister knows I loved her", in the past tense, oof

Hopsin - I'll mind if Hopsin 7

About how he'd believe in God (Christianity) if God showed us his existance. Hopsin went to be a Christian follower but fell out after a while because he couldn't blindly follow a baseless religion. The whole song is pleading with "the creator" to show his existence while explaining that he really does care and wants to believe but can't.

Bôa - Duvet (Acoustic Version), it's an alternate version of the opening song to the fantastic show Serial Experiments Lain. I don't have any particularly impactful memories associated with it, but for some reason it just gets me feelin. Night walks with this song just hit different.

I always hail back to Marmalade and "Reflections of My Life."

Lay low. Tiesto.

Summer beach when I was young. Carefree. Good looking. Partying. Ahhhh the good ol days. 😀

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Bury the Light and Devil Trigger from the DMC5 soundtrack are absolute bangers

Change by Skyelle is pretty good too

Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun” hits me so hard I can’t listen to it when I’m driving. I bawl every time.

I used to do Renaissance Faires.

"Wild Mountain Thyme" was the song the entire cast sang together at the end of each day, my first year.

It hits me like a truck every time.

Almost Blue Elvis Costello

Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There's a girl here and she's almost you
Almost
All the things that your eyes once promised
I see in hers too
Now your eyes are red from crying
Almost blue

Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue
It's almost touching, it will almost do
There is part of me that's always true
Always
Not all good things come to an end
Now it is only a chosen few
I have seen such an unhappy couple
Almost me
Almost you
Almost blue

Cecily Smith by Will Connolly is just some bonus track from a musical I've never seen or heard but every time I hear it I almost weep.

I love my wife very much and the core concept of "life isn't about the things that we do it's who we are doing them with" is a core ethos to my life, so the song is personally very relatable.

I have a lot of songs giving me shivers, Beatles' Let It Be being the oldest and HVOB's Capture Cass the newest

Although I'm not a fan of U2, I think "sometimes you can't make it on your own" is such a song to me. Also some stuff from hospice and burst apart albums from the antlers.

Sufjan Stevens "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois"

Darren Korb & Ashley Barrett "She Shines"

Thursday "Tomorrow I'll be You"

Underoath "In Regards to Myself"

Emery "Listening to Freddie Mercury"

Beirut "Prenzlauerberg"

Circle takes the Square "A Crater to Cough In"

August Burns Red "Indonesia"

Every Time I Die "Planet Shit"

Norma Jean "Face:Face"

Less Than Jake "History of a Boring Town"

Touch Starved by BB Bean.
I don't think I need to explain why...

Also whenever I listen to I'm Not Crazy by Kevin Walkman, I always tear up at "No way, I've watched that TV show you've loved since like sixth grade. I wish that we grew up together, is it too late?"

Right in the fucking heart.

Rum & bass by boom kitty

Not quite the same vibe as the rest here but this song makes me feel like I could walk through a cement wall and fist fight an army

Great on a rowing machine at the gym if you really want to set a PR

Witch by TotalDeadCenter hits similarly