Songs to bring a lump to your throat

[Guilbert]

Bit of a Bank Holiday burst of nostalgia.

I have to be honest and say I have always enjoyed a well written and sung ballad, and a few do bring a lump to my throat.

I am currently listening to some old Beach Boys classics, and Brian Wilson could write some great ballads, and with those gorgeous harmonies.

Songs like Dont Worry Baby, In My Room, Surfer Girl, Girls on the Beach, The Warmth of the Sun, Please let me wonder, God only knows, You still believe in me, Caroline No and so on.

What makes it worse was the fact that these songs from the 1960s were sung with such innocense by the group, before the rows, the drugs, the break ups, Brian going off his head, and then Dennis and Carl dying.

Maybe the younger ones on this forum cannot undersand, but when you are in your forties and fifties and you listen to Coldplay or Artic Monkeys or Oasis or whatever, remembering your youth, and the knowledge that half the people in the gorup are now dead, it does bring a lump to your throat.

Nostalgia eh !

[Trumpton]

Land of my Fathers.

[Lizard]

I love you so much I cant shit.


Wayne county.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Scorpions "Still loving you". Terry Jacks "Seasons in the sun". Carpenters "Goodbye to Love" also for its stonking guitar solo. Neil Young "Needle and the damage done". Deep Purple "when a blind man cries". Judie Tzuke "stay with me 'til Dawn" though I never knew who Dawn was!

Many other tunes make me want to cry, usually shitty dance mixes of classic rock songs........

[Ace]

Minnie Ripperton's 'Lovin' you' is a beautiful song, poignant in that she died after it was released

[Lizard]

Try listening to Cyndie Lauper's 'gonna be strong'.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Scorpions winds of change