OK, so every so often i do a "most depressing songs" thread, this time i am going to try a different spin. on it. I want to hear yalls opinions for most passionate songs. And i mean passionate in a sense of raw emotion, like pain or anger, in terms of the singing or lyrics or both. a song where you can feel the pain and anger just from the voice and words and it hits you like a brick. i do NOt mean passionate in terms of love songs, i dont want love songs. just pure raw emotion through song (no love emotion). i havent made my list yet but i will shortly

7/15/2007 11:33:24 AM

I was tempted to post a rickroll, but instead:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9GNhdQRbXhc

7/15/2007 11:40:27 AM

Cash's Hurt cover?

7/15/2007 11:40:37 AM

i would definetely agree with cash's hurt cover, thats gonna be on my list

7/15/2007 12:01:13 PM

so you're looking for emo

7/15/2007 12:02:26 PM

since im sure to get flamed no matter what I'll say I'll choose Korn's Daddy

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 12:14 PM. Reason : http://youtube.com/watch?v=0a0mT1udjZU]

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 12:16 PM. Reason : more towards the end of the song, which my link neglects]

7/15/2007 12:11:21 PM

Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Valley OH!

7/15/2007 12:11:29 PM

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"i would definetely agree with cash's hurt cover, thats gonna be on my list"

Quote :

"Cash's Hurt cover?"

What I don't understand is how someone singing someone else's lyrics can hold more legitimacy than the original song writer in terms of emotion. Please explain this to me.

7/15/2007 12:20:24 PM

I write a song about losing a girlfriend who died in car wreck

You listen to a song and can relate, because you had a wife for 40 years and in the last 10 lived a life of pain due to cancer.

Your experience was far more traumatic.

ie

Cash had more of a lifetime of experience and memories to back up the song than Reznor did

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 12:28 PM. Reason : a]

7/15/2007 12:28:01 PM

just because he didn't write it doesn't mean he can't have legitimate emotion while singing it.

7/15/2007 12:28:47 PM

Whether it was intentional or not, most people probably like Cash's deathly-voice (plus his whole musical history, rebel musician, failing health, etc.) along lyrics like "What have I become" and "everyone I know goes away in the end."

7/15/2007 12:30:02 PM

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"so you're looking for emo"

no i am looking for good music/songs that you can feel the passion in the words or singing

Quote :

"What I don't understand is how someone singing someone else's lyrics can hold more legitimacy than the original song writer in terms of emotion. Please explain this to me."

because the way cash sung that song, and knowing what was going on in his life gave the words more emotion than the true emo fag trent reznor ever could.

7/15/2007 6:16:17 PM

blower's daughter by damien rice is pretty passionate.

7/15/2007 6:23:24 PM

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"Cash's Hurt cover?"

i can't think of a song that i would more emotional over.

7/15/2007 6:45:43 PM

The Mountain Goats, "No Children"

7/15/2007 6:51:01 PM

Clapton - Tears in Heaven

7/15/2007 7:09:12 PM

Neko Case's cover of 'runnin out of fools' by aretha franklin. Seriously....one of the most passionate bouts of singing ever. incredible.

7/15/2007 7:11:44 PM

this thread shouldnt exist without at least some reference to chris simpson


(and i totally do not mean the religious r&b dude....


chris simpson from mineral and the gloria record)

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 7:26 PM. Reason : r]

7/15/2007 7:15:10 PM

^ good call Ben. a lull in traffic ftw

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 8:08 PM. Reason : eh]

7/15/2007 8:07:38 PM

pearl jam - black "whyyyyyyyyyyyy"

pac - hit em up

ben folds five - brick



[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 8:19 PM. Reason : a]

7/15/2007 8:16:29 PM

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"Cash's Hurt cover"

That is a powerful song, and not too hard to play on guitar either. You really can put a lot of emotion into it and it sounds good.

7/15/2007 8:41:15 PM

^^^ i couldnt even begin to count the nights driving home at 4 am, chain smoking cigarettes, all the windows open, with miserere on single track repeat, refusing to go home.... just driving to drive.


[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 8:45 PM. Reason : whats up with the nutfest over hurt]

7/15/2007 8:43:28 PM

^ I know man... I still pull out that EP from time to time and listen to it, and it always brings back so many feelings associated with driving out in the country roads off 301 N. in rocky mount, windows open, smoking cigarettes... probably feeling like my life was way shittier than it actually was

7/15/2007 9:01:08 PM

Painted Black

7/15/2007 9:35:01 PM

Emo

7/15/2007 9:36:07 PM

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"the true emo fag trent reznor"

That statement alone shows your ignorance about music.

7/15/2007 9:39:56 PM

I'm confused, you want powerful songs, but no love songs that happen to be powerful? You realize there are more songs related to love than just about anything else, right?

Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
and a bunch of songs by The Magnetic Fields

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 10:24 PM. Reason : I could think of more, I'm just being lazy.]

7/15/2007 10:21:19 PM

laura--flogging molly
annie lennox--why
(walk me out in the) morning dew--grateful dead; dick's picks vol 3 is my favorite version

pretty sure i posted the 2nd two in the most depressing thread as well...

and if i can name a love song

untitled (how does it feel)--D'Angelo

OH! everybody hurts--REM

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 10:48 PM. Reason : REM]

[Edited on July 15, 2007 at 10:50 PM. Reason : ]

7/15/2007 10:46:20 PM

Sleater-Kinney - Sympathy
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
The Stooges - T.V. Eye
Joy Division - Digital

and BTW

Cash's version of "I Won't Back Down" is a million times better than his "Hurt"

7/15/2007 11:15:24 PM

Bruce Springsteen - American Skin (41 shots)

7/15/2007 11:19:19 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2WiMjTgh-u4

7/15/2007 11:38:41 PM

^
joke?

7/15/2007 11:59:40 PM

7/16/2007 12:10:05 AM

honestly for me there are just way too many

7/16/2007 12:19:12 AM

Ryan Adams's (ha) whole cd "love is hell"

7/16/2007 12:55:47 AM

Shinedown - Simple Man cover
Eminem - Kim
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
Damien Rice - Cheers Darlin'
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Puccini - Nessun Dorma
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
Rammstein - Mutter
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Blues Traveler - Hook
Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide cover
Guns N' Roses - Civil War
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day

7/16/2007 2:10:56 AM

most janis joplin or bob seger songs

7/16/2007 5:52:48 PM

Prince - Purple Rain

7/16/2007 6:12:17 PM

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of

7/16/2007 8:07:06 PM

Anything by Otis Redding.

7/16/2007 8:07:56 PM

most godspeed you black emperor songs
anything by explosions in the sky

7/16/2007 8:31:42 PM

"Sour Times" by Portishead

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TvAzVMdOgg8

7/16/2007 8:56:13 PM

Budgie - You're The Greatest Thing Since Powdered Milk
Goodie Mob - I Didn't Ask To Come; Goodie Mob - O.M.N.I.
Mystikal - Y'all Ain't Ready Yet
The Coup - Not Yet Free
Immortal Technique - Internally Bleeding
2 Black 2 Strong - The Iceman Cometh (aren't you a cop, you'll loooove this one )
Pantera - Strength Beyond Strength
Metallica - Dyer's Eve
Deftones - 7 Words
Shinedown - Burning Bright
Nirvana - Milk It
Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary
Type O Negative - We Hate Everyone
Korn - Faget [sic]
Alanis Morissette - Right Through You

7/17/2007 3:05:21 PM

the cure - disintegration

7/17/2007 3:25:34 PM

Pearl Jam - Release Me

7/17/2007 3:33:44 PM

Radiohead --- "Lucky"

Okkervil River--- "John Allyn Smith Sails" (if you know what he's singing about, it will explain the Sloop John B. references and why he sings it with such emotion---- read here to learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman)

Blind Melon --- "Change"

Radiohead-- "Pearly"

Radiohead-- "Fake Plastic Trees"

Flaming Lips-- "Goin' On" (Wayne sounds in so much friggin' pain)

Arcade Fire --- "wake up"

Arcade Fire --- " Anti-christ television blues"

Arcade Fire --- "neighborhood #1 (tunnels)"

I could go on all day, but this is stuff that really stands out (the radiohead stuff) or just happens to have been stuff I think that fits and has hit my playlist today at work (the rest)

7/17/2007 4:10:24 PM

portishead - roads
sarah mclachlan - wait
sarah mclachlan - shelter
sarah mclachlan - hold on
tool - wings for marie/10000 days (parts 1&2)
tool - opiate
tool - schism
tool - ticks & leeches
tool - jambi
tool - jimmy
tori amos - precious things
death cab - what sarah said
death cab - brothers on a hotel bed

this may not be what you're looking for, but there's a good mix of anger and sadness and all of these songs get a deep down emotional response from me.

7/17/2007 4:53:24 PM

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"What I don't understand is how someone singing someone else's lyrics can hold more legitimacy than the original song writer in terms of emotion. Please explain this to me."

I agree with everyone else's response to this statement. Cash could relate to every lyric in this song. Trent Reznor almost didn't give the permission for him to use it, and after he watched Cash's music video he was blown away and said he doesn't even consider it his song anymore.

7/17/2007 4:59:19 PM

Quote :

"Cash's Hurt cover"

Quote :

"ben folds five - brick"

Quote :

"everybody hurts--REM"

Alice in Chains - Down In a Hole; Man In the Box

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

Keith Whitley - Don't Close Your Eyes

George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See?

Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home; If We Make It Through December; Fightin' Side Of Me

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl

Steve Earle - My Old Friend the Blues; Billy Austin's Prayer

Temple Of the Dog - Say Hello To Heaven

Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain

Tool - Aenema

Harry Chapin - Cat's In the Cradle

Willie Nelson - Seven Spanish Angels; Always On My Mind; Angel Flying Too Close To the Ground

Weezer - Tired Of Sex

Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Coming Down

7/17/2007 7:44:57 PM

Nirvana's unplugged Rape Me performance

7/17/2007 8:10:50 PM