Music Matters Community Group

Music can soothe in a way that nothing else can, it can express things that might otherwise go untold. I believe music can heal...or at least help us to heal. I'd like this to be a place to share the music we love, and the songs that saved us...or that might save us.

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bridgie101
bridgie101

Here's a song I first heard in a skody flat in Auckland in about 1990.  It was well older than that at the time.


From caribou, which contains such derivative crimes as 'don't let the sun go down on me' (permission to spew) here it is as the last track of the album.  Completely, completely blew me away.



So here it is. let me share.  Listen to what the piano says.  I think it's the first time I've heard anyone attempt to 'soundtrack' a song by making the piano echo the storyline.


I also felt it was a fucking great warning to us all on how we raise our children.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYj1Zwx7xE


ah nostalgia.

Group FounderTheLastStanding
TheLastStanding
I suppose I hold some kind of prejudice against Elton John, probably because in my life time he had only ever appeared to me as some drama queen in a wig..or is it hair plugs or something...but yeah, I've never really looked past that much. But in all honesty, he has written some pretty good songs, but it's always better to listen without seeing his obnoxious face...it's right off putting otherwise.

I've been feeling pretty nostalgic today...well quite often really. I've been thinking about those first few songs that you hear and something just clicks in your head, and suddenly music is not just background noise...it's absolutely imperative for all or any future happiness. You've finally found it, it all makes sense now, everything makes a bit more sense and there feels like a world of possibility and power held within a song. It's very freeing.

One of the first songs that really meant something to me...

https://youtu.be/aWmkuH1k7uA

And a song that changed my life...

https://youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No

One that saved my life...

https://youtu.be/gavcjNniIvk
Group FounderTheLastStanding
TheLastStanding
No fucking way, that is literally one of my favourite songs. Although I think it's actually about alcoholism...still has a cheerful feeling. Haha.
Group FounderTheLastStanding
TheLastStanding
Feeling cold, sad and mopey. "Your life is a funeral". Here are some songs that remind me to keep breathing.

https://youtu.be/QYEC4TZsy-Y

https://youtu.be/Iww6UAIZxYo