1 song. just one, that emotionally just hits you

[Fluffy Lothario]

I'm going with a very recent one, I could list like 20, but this one just hit me so hard when I heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago:

Steven Wilson - Routine

this song is just too depressing for me, I can't stand it

A statement which could easily be applied to almost everything he's ever written.

[Sacul]

His music certainly isn't happy most of the time

[Fluffy Lothario]

To copy/paste from a post I once made at 5/8:

I sometimes imagine a room in Steven Wilson's house where he goes to write music. I think of it as The Steven Wilson Room. There are no windows in this room, and it's lit by only one dim bulb. He intentionally keeps this room damp, moldy, dark and cold. On the walls are pictures of past loves and/or girls who were horrible to him; people who bullied and/or otherwise hurt him at school and beyond. He goes into this room wearing clothes that won't keep him warm, sits in an uncomfortable folding chair, dwells on all those faces, waits til he's cold all over and his fingers and toes have that numb stinging cold and he wants to cry.

Then he starts to write.

[Sacul]

Probably a bit too exaggerated - his music is certainly melancholic/sad most of the time, but far from depressive imo

[Lowdz]

Although I like a good ballad they don't tend to touch me in the feels - with the odd exception.

As a mental health nurse it's the two ballads on Alice Cooper's From The Inside.
The quiet room - where the protagonist is in a padded cell for his own safety. He's been telling the walls all about his life.

How You Gonna See Me Now - he's being released from the hospital and will have to face his family and friends following his breakdown.

On DTs The Astonishing I did get emotional when the Ravenskill people come together to help the chosen one. He'd been there for them and now he needed them and they stepped up. That one surprised me.

[The Trooper]

Breaking my own OP rule but Alter Bridge-Blackbird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrQlvTfB_4

Not even to mention the best guitar solos maybe ever

[Train of Naught]

Breaking my own OP rule but Alter Bridge-Blackbird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrQlvTfB_4

Fucking right on. This song makes me cry like a baby if the timing is there.

I have a hard time calling anything my absolute #1 song of all time, but this is definitely a contender. It's the studio version that does it for me though, never been a fan of the live videos as Myles tends to make small adjustments to the vocal melodies.

[The Trooper]

It may be my # one song ever. Agree Myles can differ. But this version, with the "yes I will" kills me. To me the best singer out there. And the song is just monster.

[Big Hath]

O Magnum Mysterium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn5ken3RJBo

[TempusVox]

Ged calls it "Tsufal", which is supposed to mean coincidental or something.

"Zufall" is the german word for coincidence.

He says it's Yiddish. I'm sure I'm spelling it wrong.

[ZKX-2099]

Anybody say Soothsayer by Buckethead yet?

[Architeuthis]

Porcupine Tree - Lazarus

Good choice!

[carl320]

For me, it has to be The Alan Parsons Project - Since the Last Goodbye, from Ammonia Avenue.  Everything, from the singing, the chord progressions and the melancholic lyrics break me down every time.

[Tiko]

Prepare for the feels.

Riverside - Time Travellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QZzb9WONg

[jakepriest]

Prepare for the feels.

Riverside - Time Travellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QZzb9WONg

I don't know what it is about the song, but I find it really overrated. The ending melody is really good, but I don't find the rest of the song really emotional or even that interesting. Afloat and Saturate Me are the songs that really hit me on the album.

[Tiko]

Prepare for the feels.

Riverside - Time Travellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QZzb9WONg

I don't know what it is about the song, but I find it really overrated. The ending melody is really good, but I don't find the rest of the song really emotional or even that interesting. Afloat and Saturate Me are the songs that really hits me on the album.

It's a great album. Somehow the minimalism and especially the message of Time Travellers gets me every time. In all it's simplicity it's a very emotional song.

[T-ski]

Prepare for the feels.

Riverside - Time Travellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QZzb9WONg

I don't know what it is about the song, but I find it really overrated. The ending melody is really good, but I don't find the rest of the song really emotional or even that interesting. Afloat and Saturate Me are the songs that really hits me on the album.

It's a great album. Somehow the minimalism and especially the message of Time Travellers gets me every time. In all it's simplicity it's a very emotional song.

I can't even get through "Towards the Blue Horizon" without tearing up.

[TheCountOfNYC]

Christina Perri- A Thousand Years

This is one of many songs that has come to represent me and my girlfriend's relationship, but for some reason this is the one that makes me tear up from happiness the most.

[pogoowner]

Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah.

There have been a few other artists' versions that have really gotten to me as well, but his is the one that got it all started for me.

[CB]

This Is Your Life (Dio)

It hits me so much that there are times in my life I can't listen to it because I have to protect myself from what it makes me feel.

[SeventhDegree]

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing...

I always think of a cousin of mine who tragically died two years ago whenever I hear this.  Also, an aunt of mine (the cousin's mom) that died in 2011.

When I saw SW live last year I nearly broke down in tears when he played this song.

[TioJorge]

Anathema - Untouchable Pt. 1

Inner Silence is a very, very close second but every time I listen to Untouchable, I get a big fuckin' lump in my throat. These guys really make some beautiful music but god damn do they simultaneously crush you emotionally.

[Sacul]

Agreed, that's why they're my favourite band. If I had to choose one song by them that crushes me, it would be The Lost Child, probably my fav song ever. Or Anathema, from their latest album... jeez, that solo gets me every time

[Heretic]

The National - Slow Show

I've never heard a song so accurately describe the anxiety of wanting to be perfect for someone but being afraid you aren't.

[millahh]

Like so many people have said, I could list so many. I shall only list one, though, as requested in the OP.

The Firebird Suite, Stravinsky

Just thinking about the end crescendo of the Suite gives me chills and a lump in my throat. It's one of the most haunting, inspiring, depressing, and gorgeous classical pieces I have ever heard. I'm usually in tears by the crescendo because it's just that good and it hits me in all of the feels. It's not so much the beauty of the piece - it's the buildup and the journey to the gorgeous end.

Gosh, I have a lump in my throat just POSTING this.

Good call, I know exactly what you mean.  We played this in orchestra my senior year in college, and it may be the most moving bit of music I've ever been involved in performing.  In the part you're talking about, every hair on my body stood on end, every time.

[SeventhDegree]

Porcupine Tree - Lazarus

Also by PT, "A Smart Kid" and "Small Fish" (had to say (particularly those) TWO songs in addition to my previous posting.

[Cool Chris]

I am curious are peoples' replies based solely on the piece of music, or some connection they have personally with the song? All music that moves me significantly conjures up specific feelings or memories that are tied to that piece of music. I've never been deeply moved by a song without any personal attachment to it. Just curious.

[Moor]

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Storm

It hits me deep.

[EraVulgaris]

Cynic - Box up my Bones

Found the song just after my cat died, so whenever I hear that song I think about the little fucker.

[OpenYourEyes311]

Another one I listened to yesterday:

Long Distance by All

It's an upbeat punk song (All is most of the members of The Descendents), but the lyrics get me in the heart every time.

[PixelDream]

Thrice - Beggars

[Hanz Gruber]

Pain of Salvation "1979"

The version off of Falling Home is better but I like both versions

I was born in that year and the line about:

"Our grandpas were strong and our parents still young
And the world seemed a little more honest"

get me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8VfnYAzcQ

[TheSilentHam]

Trapt - Hollow Man

Sums up how I feel about my father (who passed a little over a year ago) - and warns me of the path I find myself on far too often if I don't break the cycle

[Eldomm]

Queen - Father to son

[Estiui]

I'm going with a very recent one, I could list like 20, but this one just hit me so hard when I heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago:

Steven Wilson - Routine

This is the best choice I've seen in this topic.



To bring something different, I'm gonna go with Haken's As Death Embraces, or Riverside's The Depth of Self-Delusion. I find the first more emotional when listened/appreciated carefully, but the latter hits me harder personally because I started to hear it in a moment of my life which was had some sort of extremely happiness/extremely sadness duality.