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Posted 08/14/03 - 10:18 AM:	#1
Which songs do you personally find awe-inspiring, spine-tingling or lyrically thought-provoking? There are soooo many I could list so I'll have to think for a while before I post mine.

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Posted 08/14/03 - 11:22 AM:	#2
to forfill your brief is not easy but how about http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/ as a starter

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Posted 08/14/03 - 11:56 AM:	#3
reflector wrote: to forfill your brief is not easy but how about http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/ as a starter giggles Maybe not quite what I had in mind!

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Posted 08/14/03 - 12:03 PM:	#4
I always thought that Bruce Cockburn's song, "If I had a Rocket Launcher" was pretty awe inspiring and spine tingling. Seriously, there is tons. Maybe I will put mine up tonight.
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Posted 08/14/03 - 03:36 PM:	#5
The moon song! I thought I was the only one who knew about that Try "Evinrude-fifty" by the Brian Blade Fellowship. It has inspired lots of awe in me.

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Posted 08/14/03 - 09:32 PM:	#6
She's Gone by Nofx, not really awe inspiring, but it makes me all tingly up the spine. oh yeah there's also Lower by the same band, friggin rocks if you like punk. sorry for the spam!
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Posted 08/14/03 - 10:16 PM:	#7
It's hard to pick one song from the following CD's: they are all worth being stuck in the CD player and should be heard over the radio air waves, I hope someday the radio robots will get some good stuff in their brains. Jackpot - Weightless - SHE'S SO COOL hiding under the covers like a baby in the womb painting pictures of the devil swallowing the moon RADIO ROBOTS the ice cubes have melted a long time ago and the breeze was stirring up the weirdness cotton candy wasteland, brain rot city oblivious, haywire, consequences Modest Mouse - the moon & antarctica THE STARS ARE PROJECTORS all the stars are projectors projecting our lives down to this planet earth projecting our minds down to this planet earth Was their a need for creation? that was hiding in a math equation and that's this where do circles begin? Grandaddy - Software Slump

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Posted 08/15/03 - 03:23 AM:	#8
Ya' know, it's just my nature to question things, but I can't help wondering how easily ya'll consider such things as songs to be "...awe-inspiring, spine-tingling or lyrically thought-provoking." I mean, like, are you really awe-inspired by songs??? ...and by so many of them?? I try to reserve being "awe-inspired" by ...well, more "awe-inspiring" things, ya' know? Geez, I feel so alone in the world. Baron Max

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Posted 08/15/03 - 03:52 AM:	#9
Baron Max - I don't know you and you may curse me for life, BUT, go buy the 3 stinkin CD's I mentioned. You would be the biggest nincompoop (sp?) to base your disbelief in the possibility of actually feeling you made a worthy purchase. You can check them out on line, but that is pretty lame and is rather an injustice to the songs given you hear a snip it. futurefarmer.com grandaddylanscape.com For the most part they are all chill party CD's, most definately car music, have not met one girl who doesn't like them, it's cool dude music, they all speak about life and the meaning to them (only a couple girlie luv songs- mostly existence), some could fall asleep to them with the volume low. Rusty (from Jackpot-great voice and talent) paints amazing visuals I'm sure most can relate to, Jason (from Grandaddy- great voice and talent) ties the entire CD together from the perspective of Ned the space robot, I don't know the Modest Mouse fellas but they are all over theory of existance of the afterlife (not in a preachy you are going to burn in hell way, don't worry).

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Posted 08/15/03 - 06:53 AM:	#10
I can remember being awe-inspired by Yes singing Tales from Topographic Oceans.. Laying in the soft cool grass with headphones, the night sky a strangely glowing cerelian blue with puffy white cloud animal shapes and feeling the earth reeling under my feet... ah it was so fine... Bzzzt!
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Posted 08/15/03 - 07:25 PM:	#11
I've heard plenty of awe-inspiring songs, I have well over a thousand songs in my playlist right now, quite a few of which I would consider 'awe-inspiring'. A song that I just have to mention, even if it is the type of song that wouldn't strike many people at all as 'awe-inspiring' would be 'Everything is Automatic' by Matthew Good Band. I love that song so much I posted the entire 50mb music video on my website and I highly recommend you click [here] to download it. Stylish and brilliant, in my opinion. There are plenty of other MGB songs that I would consider brilliant, but I won't list them off for the sake of not being redundant. U2 has some 'awe-inspiring' songs in my opinion. If I'm going to list off bands I'd really have to go for a long time so I'll just stop there. My favorite is mgb and I've leave it at that Awe-inspiring without words... Orbital!
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Posted 08/15/03 - 11:04 PM:	#12
I try to reserve being "awe-inspired" by ...well, more "awe-inspiring" things, ya' know? Geez, I feel so alone in the world. Such as? Music is god. Listen to the guitar 4 minutes into Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley". To the question, I can't say I'm impressed so much by songs as by the instrumentation in some of them. The abovementioned....Tommoso Talamanca's amazing percussion in the ninth track off "Crust", jesus, anything off Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" umm, shit... The closest I can say is Nine Inch Nails, "The Great Below". God this is a fucking amazing song.

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Posted 08/16/03 - 08:25 PM:	#13
"Bullet with butterflywings" by the smashing pumpkins There's many, but recently this song is stuck in my head driving me almost insane.

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Posted 08/16/03 - 11:11 PM:	#14
I love this song. I am not a big fan of Creed but I love this song. I wish I could find the song because it is better sung, if anyone knows a link it would be much appreciated. Thanks!! Affirmative may be justified Take from one give to another The goal is to be unified Take my hand be my brother The payment silenced the masses Sanctified by oppression Unity took a backseat Sliding further in regression One The only way is one I feel angry I feel helpless Want to change the world I feel violent I feel alone Don't try and change my mind Society blind by color Why hold down one to raise another Discrimination now on both sides Seeds of hate blossom further The world is heading for mutiny When all we want is unity We may rise and fall, but in the end We meet our fate together One The only way is one I feel angry I feel helpless Want to change the world I feel violent I feel alone Don't try and change my mind

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Posted 08/16/03 - 11:17 PM:	#15
With rage born of years Of christian slavery I destroy symbols Of christian domination Falsehood and emptiness I desecrate Fight makes me a beast Subhuman are afraid of my name I am their nightmare My blood is Gods' blood Father of my ancestors Is my father I erect my temple On bloody battlefield On wings of my Revenge and hatred Stained in blood of Enemies of my freedom My honor is the victory I inflict deadly blows To falsehood and traitors On plain of death and cruelty Among barrows of beasts of war I will erect my gloomy temple Temple of war and chaos Proof of my bloody deeds Proof of my strength and will Statue and symbol of my cruelty Where its shadow will spread There will be no love anymore On altar of war and hatred I will give my death With glory and honor I will enter my father's lands I am the one who Wakes hidden dreams up I am the one who Summons demons of war I make you warriors, so fight!!! May your blood join mine In temple of war We will join our strength --Graveland, Temple of My Hatred

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Posted 08/17/03 - 12:00 AM:	#16
Anotheer good song is Hear you me by Jimmy eat world. Now if only I knew how to find it so that I could hear that song...... It's not so much inspirational as sad but I think that how it relates to you and what is happening in your life when you hear it really makes the song inspirational.

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Posted 08/17/03 - 12:16 AM:	#17
I have a few songs that have really good lyrics even if they aren't awe-inspring (considering some of the debate over whether it's possible or not). Though I think it is. Here they are: Thrice - "The Artist in the Ambulance" This is an amazing song by an amazing band. I believe I have the first lyrics in my signature. Essentially the song is about an artist's effect on the world vs an ambulance worker's effect. The singer's brother, I think, is a paramedic, and he's reflecting on the many lives his brother has saved and touched vs the amount he himself has. The lyrics are phenomenol. Besides, you can't knock a band who donates half their CD sales to charity. Rise Against - "Broken English" Rise Against is definitely a "reform" band, and pretty much all the lyrics off their new CD are amazing. This song in particular strikes me because everytime I hear the chorus "knock us down...but we get right back up again," I think of humanity's ability to go on with life after tragedy. This is what I think the band's message is here. Despite all the tragedy humanity has seen, we're still here, and we're still going. It's a really good song. Goldfinger - "The Innocent" This is a song that this band did with background vocals by Good Charlotte and Less Than Jake (I think). It's a post 9-11 song, and a very good one at that. My favorite lyric of all time comes from this song, and it is "hate can't solve the problem it began." This song really did put me into awe when I picked up that lyric. It's a very very good song. It is not comletely sentimental like most of the post 9-11 songs I've heard are. It asks a lot of questions (even philosophical, oh joy) that we've yet to find a good answer to today. Yeah, that's pretty much it. I could go on forever about songs I find good, but these are the ones that really hit me everytime I listen closely to the lyrics.
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Posted 08/17/03 - 01:24 AM:	#18
Is There For Honest Poverty -Old Blind Dogs Its based on a Robert Burns poem. I liked the album version, but when I saw them perform it live I had a feeling that approached awe. Voodoo Child -Jimi Hendrix Just love the imagery. Rudie Can't Fail -The Clash I get a good buzz every time I hear it.

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Posted 08/17/03 - 09:33 PM:	#19
Anything by Hendrix, especially One Rainy Wish, Third Stone From the Sun, Little Wing, and If 6 Was 9. Most stuff by U2, including the entire Joshua Tree (my all time favorite album). Just about anything by The Beatles, Radiohead, and Cream. A lot by the Stones. Seeing the Led Zeppelin DVD reminded me that they are not just a cock-rock band and that their songwriting is deep, too (There are great performances of Going to California and That's the Way). My current favorite band is Super 400 (the one in my avatar). If I ever get my webpage finished (OK, let me stop lying: I mean started) I'd love to post some MP3's on it, because it's not enough to read the words. But, the lyrics to one of my favorites is... Made Up Worlds rival birds from another troop have landed on the fence in our hometown field but if we sneak quietly through the ridge of trees we can rush the door and save our fort just another day's work done one day the tribe will play saving made up worlds believing in what they're saying one day the tribe will go find out that war is real oh what a bum deal climb the hill like a mountain man making sure to cover tracks never looking back but if we weave gracefully through the guarded weeds we can rush the door and save the world just another day's work done one day the tribe will play saving made up worlds believing in what they're saying one day the tribe will go finding out war is real oh what a bum deal
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Posted 08/17/03 - 09:35 PM:	#20
suprised no one has mentioned Tool...proabably some of the best music i have ever come accross. Lyrically it is amazingly deep/profound/moving and musically it is beyond enchanting and very technical. Truly a great band...if anyone has heard a song or two and thought, eh, not for me, consdier dl'ing the song Lateralis. Also, Radiohead is another excellent band IMO. Again, my personal recomendation would be "fake plastic trees", yet just listening to one song is such a sad way to attempt to gain a feeling for what the band really is on a whole. The final band i will mention is COMPLETELY different than the first two, but equally amazing. They are called Royksopp, and for a while i was blown away by a song they made called "so easy"...that is definetly a spine tingler for me. I could go on forever, but quickly i will mention the group Atmosphere and say dl "don't ever fucking question that", another great song

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Posted 08/17/03 - 11:06 PM:	#21
Iazon wrote: I [i]Rudie Can't Fail -The Clash I get a good buzz every time I hear it. Whent to the market to realize my soul What I neeed they just don't have First they curse Then they push me till I burst RUDIE can't fail

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Posted 08/18/03 - 12:51 AM:	#22
fantasy pony wrote: Whent to the market to realize my soul What I neeed they just don't have First they curse Then they push me till I burst RUDIE can't fail I'm dancin'

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Posted 08/18/03 - 10:40 AM:	#23
Anything that was off the Perfect Circle Album, it was pure art. If anyone can get a hold of Maynard doing the Hollow live in Detroit (I think Detriot), it is amazing. The Hollow Run desire run this sexual being run him like a blade to and through the heart no conscience one motive to cater to the hollow Screaming feed me here fill me up again temporarily pacify this hungering So grow libido throw dominoes of indiscretions down falling all around in cycles circles constantly consuming, conquer and devour It�s time to bring this fire down bridle all this indiscretion long enough to edify and permanently fill this hollow Feed me fill me up again temporarily pacifying feed me here fill me up again temporarily pacify this hungering Rose Don�t disturb the beast the temperamental goat the snail while he's feeding on the rose stay frozen compromise what I will I am Bend around the wind silently blown about again I�m treading so soft and lightly compromising my will I am I am I will so no longer will I lay down play dead play your doe in the headlights shut down and terrified your deer in the headlights locked down and horrified when push comes to pull comes to shove comes to step around this self destructive dance that never would've ended till I rose I roared aloud here I will I am I am I will so no longer will I lay down play dead play your beat down gun shy martyr pitiful I rose I roared I will I am http://perfecttool.tripod.com/aperfectcircle/id6.... http://www.aperfectcircle.com/
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Posted 08/18/03 - 11:40 PM:	#24
I love Judith and Magdalena off it. "i'd sell my soul my self esteem a dollar at a time for one chance one kiss one taste of you my magdalena"

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Posted 08/22/03 - 10:15 AM:	#25
Just realised I hadn't posted mine yet! Ok, a few that fit one or more of my criteria... Suede - The Asphalt World Catatonia - Bulimic Beats Ooberman - Open The Hatch Suede - Still Life

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