A song that always feels profound to you no matter how often you've heard it?

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  1. David Stilesson

    David Stilesson Forum Resident

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    Appears to be some confusion with (a) the composition of the performance group Queen and (b) the definition of "profound".
     
  2. davebush

    davebush New Test Leper

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    Exactly - I almost posted that very thought.
     
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  3. JKaffanato

    JKaffanato Well-Known Member

    :laugh: I was scratching my head too!
     
  4. Brewmeister

    Brewmeister Forum Resident

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    Suppers Ready by Genesis
     
  5. Major Dolphin

    Major Dolphin "If music be the food of love, play on" William S.

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  6. Mal

    Mal Phorum Physicist

  7. Kate_C.

    Kate_C. abyssus abyssum invocat

    Thanks! And that prompted me think of how I've always considered Hunter's "Box of Rain", written with Lesh while his father was dying, as a song that's thematically concomitant to "Ripple". It describes Faith-in-Something-Bigger in an exquisitely unique way,

    And it's just a box of rain
    I don't know who put it there
    Believe it if you need it
    Or leave it if you dare

    And its conclusion contains perhaps my favourite philosophical denouement about human mortality,

    Such a long, long time to be gone
    And a short time to be there
     
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  8. Brian Kelly

    Brian Kelly 1964-73 rock's best decade

    I'll get my Beatles out of the way first with a top 5:
    For No One
    Tomorrow Never Knows
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    The Inner Light
    Eleanor Rigby

    Heroin (Velvet Underground)-I have never even smoked pot, much less done heroin, but this song both lyrically and musically explains the highs, lows, and whys of drug use. It is actually a very good anti-drug song if you delve deep enough.

    Two Sisters (The Kinks)

    A Most Peculiar Man and Richard Cory (Simon & Garfunkel)-my 7th grade English teacher had us listen to these and they really resonated with me.

    Clouds (Judy Collins) and Circle Game (Joni Mitchell)

    Calico Skies (Paul McCartney)
     
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  9. Sex Lies And Master Tapes

    Sex Lies And Master Tapes Gaulois réfractaire

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    Oh yes.
    His No Nukes concert performance always gives me goosebumps.
    If i should retain only one, it would be this song.
     
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  10. Tony Kaye

    Tony Kaye Forum Resident

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    Across the Borderline written by John Hiatt, Ry Cooder and Jim Dickinson, apparently over the phone. Ostensibly it describes the hazardous crossing of the Rio Grande by economic migrants but has a much wider resonance. Recorded separately by Hiatt and Cooder, performed live by Bob Dylan and covered by Freddie Fender and Willie Nelson among others.

    When you reach the broken promised land
    And every dream slips through your hands
    Then you'll know that it's too late to change your mind
    'Cause you've paid the price to come so far
    Just to wind up where you are
    And you're still just across the borderline
     
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  11. John Beasley

    John Beasley Paul McCartney's illegitimate son

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    Yep. I meant profound. Queen is also in my own opinion, one of the most annoying bands of all time.
     
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  12. tim_neely

    tim_neely Forum Hall Of Fame

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    "Darkness Keeps Chasing Me," a song that can be interpreted in several equally valid ways, written and performed by a then 13-year-old Grace VanderWaal:

     
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  13. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

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    Couch Flambeau's The Zoo Is Cool

    See the monkey in the zoo
    You hate it and it hates you

    It reminds me of Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
     
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  14. 57 Goldtop

    57 Goldtop Forum Resident

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    Karen Revisted -- Sonic Youth

    The Rising Tide -- Lee Ranaldo
     
  15. kannibal

    kannibal Forum Resident

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    Richard Ashcroft - Check the Meaning

    Gets me every single time.

     
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  16. Kingsley Fats

    Kingsley Fats Forum Resident

    Yes !
     
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  17. Kingsley Fats

    Kingsley Fats Forum Resident

    Imagining a world without religion, politics & racism. If that's not profound WTF is ?
     
  18. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    Dylan - It's Alright Ma
    Stunned the first time I heard it, and it is still one of the best lyrics ever put to take.
     
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  19. polchik

    polchik Forum Resident

    strangers - the kinks
     
  20. TinMachine

    TinMachine Looking for the heart of Saturday night

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    'Sometimes' - My Bloody Valentine
    &
    'The Pan Within' - The Waterboys
     
  21. scottp

    scottp Forum Resident

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    The Raven That Refused To Sing - Steven Wilson
     
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  22. ausamerika

    ausamerika Forum Resident

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    A Pirate Looks at Forty - especially as I cruelly continue to age

    EDIT: Turns out I was actually thinking of "He Went to Paris", but I guess both apply.
     
  23. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    Bob Marley - Redemption Song, Get Up Stand Up

     
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  24. ALAN SICHERMAN

    ALAN SICHERMAN Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY

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    The great Otis Redding! This one gets me every time:



     
  25. fairaintfair

    fairaintfair I Buried Paul

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