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Music that can make you cry with joy
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Hi Jacki. I agree. Music and art is such a wonderful thing how it can make us feel so much sometimes, affecting each of us in our own unique way given our own life experiences.
As we go through life and experience all the rainbow of emotions from joy, love, sadness to heartbreak, and everything in between, I feel it is a virtue if you have the talent and gifts to be able to express it. I think we all do have that gift to express it in our own way, be it painting, poetry, singing, guitar, piano etc… Just like how nature expresses beauty and awe in a morning sunrise or evening sunset, or the sky with it’s beautiful blue with fluffy white clouds, I think people can express beauty and awe like nature does through art. It’s like we are meant to express it; To express all the joy, love, and sadness in beauty, like in Don Mclean’s beautiful moving song “Vincent”, or Van Gough’s painting “Starry Night”.
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This melody has enchanted me for as long as I can remember. I can never escape it’s lure when I hear it. Zamfir version is awesome that I posted before.
Here is another nice one.
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Over the last year I learned this song on guitar. It was a playing breakthrough that led to learning many other songs. So, the song has a special place in my heart.
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All the different versions of this classical tune always filled my heart with amazing joy, but one day when I heard MLTs upbeat rock and roll version, I was floored, taken to another plateau. What at amazing arrangement and rework into something totally their own and supremely beautiful. This one shouldn’t be limited to Christmas time but played all year long.
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This one will always touch me deeply. Mona and Lisa’s wonderful harmonies, the gentle acoustic guitar work that builds up into a marching band, it’s all so absolutely beautiful.
Last May when I took a road trip into the interior of the province to visit a friend, I left early and the Trans Canada Hwy 1 route took me through the farmlands of Chilliwack BC, where there is the most wonderful stretch of mountain side and farmlands between Chilliwack and Hope BC just before hitting the big Coquihalla pass up into the mountains and ranch highlands. I use to drive through there with my mom, and I could some how feel her smile that early morning as I went through the “The Wide, Wide Land”. She loved the drives through those farmlands when she was alive. It was one of the very few things that made her smile with joy in the times she went through Alzheimers.
A Chilliwack BC farm along the highway.
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Hi Jung,
another soulful song written by Mike Batt that gets under your skin:
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Hi Jurgen, that is beautiful. Art Garfunkle’s vocals are so graceful, it’s one of a kind. Thanks for sharing it.
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This is a song I have been stuck on for awhile. There are others but this has been for the last few months. Very much underrated. That one line hits me like a ton of bricks: “I love you in a place where there is no space or time.” Who writes that???!!!!??? He also wrote This Masquerade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dw2r45Xzg
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Hi Mike. That was beautiful and moving, what inspired song writing. Love that phrase in the chorus too: ““I love you in a place where there is no space or time.”
Eternity exists in love.
Thanks for posting this.
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I didn’t know that Leon Russell wrote the lyrics. It is a beautiful song. I will have to say that no one does it like Karen Carpenter
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Another great one Diana, and the other one too. You know I don’t think there is a Carpenters song that is not great, I like them all.
Here is another one. When I listen to sad songs, it’s not that it makes me sad, but rather transforms that sadness into something that is bearable and can make you feel better and move you inside, and often get past the pain and heal you. That famous quote I think applies:
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable”. That is what sad songs do, they take your pain and make it bearable.
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Jung, I agree. I love it when music touches your soul so deeply that there are no words to describe it. Crazy that so many people don’t like them. On the other hand, there are so many people in the younger generation that are discovering (and loving) this incredible music. The Carpenters will live on forever. Speaking of “Rainy Days And Mondays”, it was raining on the day of her funeral and people said they could hardly bear it. I don’t mean to be a buzz kill.
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