Have you ever had an emotional reaction to a song/album that isn't overtly emotional?

For some reason, funk is really cutting me deeply lately. Don't get me wrong, I always appreciate funk when I hear it, but lately, it's nearly moved me to tears. Songs like "My Eyes Don't Cry" by Stevie Wonder, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" by Gap Band and the entire 1999 and Controversy albums have nearly made me cry these past few weeks. I don't know what it is- they just are really tapping into something that my soul is loving now.

I think that I'm just starting to realize how much of my roots are in funk music. I started another thread about location playing a factor into our likes and dislikes. http://www.prince.org/msg/100/66594

I think my emotions are coming from the realization that I identify with it so much. Those songs/albums just touch a nerve in me that feels like home- my roots.

Seems like Dr.Funkenstein put his mojo on U.
Funk get´s stronger!!
/peace Manki

manki said:

I knew you'd get it.

Welcome home.

TRON and I were just talking about this. The point where the music touches a core part of you ~ even when you've always loved the work ~ this is another level. It is like you so totally understand and feel the sound that it becomes fused into your Soul. It is the most exquisitely painfully beautiful feeling. When Stymie says "welcome home" ~ a perfect description and home is the best place in the world to be. Beautiful thread Moonbeam.

bratchildsfriend said:

Wonderfully put!

I had that reaction to several that I didn't really expect:

"Get By" Talib Kweli

"Where I'm From (Aural G Ride Mix)" Digable Planets

"Time Remembered" Bill Evans

"A Different Drum" Peter Gabriel (quite possibly the most beautiful song I have ever heard)

"Heart-Shaped Box" Nirvana

"Deacon Blues" Steely Dan (I've been there . . .)

'Fly Me To The Moon" Frank Sinatra

"Rock Hard In A Funky Place" Prince

as far as the overtly emotional stuff, a lot of Me'Shell, Prince's " No," "And God Created Woman" and "Adore," Beck's last LP, Chaka Khan's "Earth Song," Jesus Christ Superstar's "Everything's All Right," Stevie Wonder's "Superwoman/Where Were You . . ." and Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil" come to mind.

A bootleg tape of Sly and the Family Stone on the Midnight Special circa '74 (?)...

"Music Lover/Higher"

can't even think about it right now without starting to well up...


-SWANG's

Moonbeam said:

Heres what I think..for some reason it is tapping into someting in you at the moemnet..it is expressing certain emotions --aiding them in you expressing them...this happened to me a few years ago excpet with movies..seems like I couldnmt go to any damn movie without being moved..one certain movie was cathartic for me..after that seems liie each movie had elements that spoke to me , about me, for me..and to this day it still happens to a lesser extent but its there. Thank god for u Ian that whats speakin to ya is the funk and not Punk lol. No offense to the punk rockers though

rdhull said:

You're right. I think it's just helping me realize who I am. You're right about modern punk- it's TERRIBLE!

Moonbeam, yes... I think I understand what you mean, Ian...


"There Are Many Stops Along The Way" ~~~ Joe Sample


...I have a window seat with a pretty view I love to curl up in, and a couple of weeks ago while doing so, this song was playing. It's an instrumental track, one which I've always enjoyed---it speaks to me...so tenderly and deeply this one particular time that I was in fact crying and only half consciously realized that I was doing so until my daughter touched me and asked me why I was crying...

That song had never moved me to tears before...but, I was really feeling it that day as well as the one other time I've listened to it since then...


For me, it has been happening with older R&B and some Jazz...

Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus brings me to tears for all the wrong reasons.