[JMan]

Basically, post your songs here that make you feel happiness, sadness, love, hate, anything.

I'll go first: November Rain, by GNR, from UYI1.

I get the picture that I'm in a lush green forest forest surrounded by trees with bright sun rays turned green by the leaves they shine through, and yet raining at the same time, with the thunder and the lightning, while I'm thinking about the wildlife there letting the raindrops fall on my face.

This is probably an overreaction, but I honestly do get that kind of picture.

[MrFrogger]

This is most songs for me

But the albums that do it the most for me are Animal Collective-Campfire Songs and The Microphones-The Glow pt2

[Jasonconfused]

The Next Episode: It makes me picture smoking blunt after blunt and drinking 40s with Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg and Kurupt.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds: I imagine soaring over meadows and just feeling really free.

Gold Dust Woman: I just think of the wild west and cowboys and shit.

2112: I imagine sitting a dark cave alone with my acoustic guitar and I feel so peaceful.

How Many More Times: This is THE song that I picture myself performing live.
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This is the best thread you've made thus far. I'll extend the thread topic to albums or even artists for my post.

A lot of Joanna Newsom's music puts me at the banks of rivers, in the doorframes of cabins, or in the Pyncheons' garden from The House of the Seven Gables.

Talk Talk's Laughing Stock makes me imagine an orange-purple sunset on a landscape of grassy, rolling hills. I can look one way and see Christ crucified next to the two thieves, or I can look the other way and see Judas hanging from a mulberry tree in the distance.

Oval's "Do While" makes me imagine a safe zone from Resident Evil 4, or laying down in a cold surf while the waves wash over you, or overcoming arachnophobia while thousands of tarantulas crawl across you.

Dirty Three's Ocean Songs obviously puts me in the ocean. Specifically, the violin on "Deep Waters" sounds like sinking to a depth at which there is no longer light. The drums throughout most of the album tend to keep me on the beach, near the surf and breaking waves.

Tortoise's "Swung From The Gutters" puts me in France as a burglar, hopping from rooftop to rooftop while evading guards. Very Sly Cooper-esque.

That's some from my top 10 for now, will likely post some more later.[/b]

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For me it's more albums that evoke emotions rather than songs, though as for songs, the White Stripes' "You've Got Her In Your Pocket" comes to mind. It's a very powerful song. Always manages to make me feel a certain degree of sadness paired with pity and empathy for the character in the song.

As for albums, Boards Of Canada's Geogaddi is a really intense emotional experience. I can't describe how unsettling this album is. It's fucking paranormal. It's like the album is slowly whispering to you that everyone you believe to be your friend is going to drag you into the pits of hell as soon as the album ends

[MrFrogger]

[Guest]

I am an incredibly visual person - pretty much everything I hear forms an image in my head of some description (and it isn't always pleasant!). This 'special' talent means that all songs I listen to give me some kind of visual and paint pretty pictures in my head. Anywhere here is a snap shot of what goes on in my head when I am listening to music!

'Isolation' - Joy Division... makes me think of sitting on an orange double decker bus driving through a washed out grey industrial city. As the bus drives past one grey non-descript building blurs into the next grey building and the rain keeps pouring down.

'Going to a Go-Go' - The Miracles... a jitterbug club in the 1940s. The place is packed to the rafters with people throwing themselves around the dancefloor to the constant thump thump of music

'No Rain' - Blind Melon... A warm sunny day eating a picnic of baguette and cheese in a poppy field that stretches for as far as the eye can see.

'Baby's on Fire' - Brian Eno... Two very over the top drag queens standing on a street corner arguing and bitch fighting with each other.

'Mr. E's Beautiful Blues' - Eels... a long white sandy beach with the sun beating down and a light ocean breeze

'Back to the Old House' - The Smiths... a row of condemned red brick terrace houses on a main road. There is a girl in the upstairs window of one of them looking down onto the street and waving

'Summertime Clothes' - Animal Collective... jumping out of an aeroplane and watching the clouds whoosh past as I plummet to earth.

'Nightclubbing' - Iggy Pop... a squalid run down bedsit.. the image focuses on a woman lying spreadeagled on the bed, totally out of it with a needle sticking out of her arm

'Son of a Gun' - The La's... a wooden clipper pitching and falling on a rough sea with no land in sight

'Nothing Natural' - Lush.... two laughing girls whizzing around on a waltzer at an old fashioned fairground. Their hair is whipping around their faces as the cars spin faster and faster.

'Harvest Moon' - Neil Young... two teenagers making out in a car on the edge of a forest. It's their first time and I can feel how nervous they are.

'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' - Neutral Milk Hotel... a guy in a waistcoat and trilby hat sitting on the steps outside the railway station, playing his guitar for passers by.

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[Necharsian]

Those who know me already know ive had 2 or 3 crazy ass experiences listening to this album but it's the best example for this thread.

The first three songs to me represent being completely lost in a frozen tundra or forest. Lost and frozen. Each one of those songs have an uneasy calmness about them followed by absolute terror. (Plain of Ida is the most terrifying song ive ever heard). It's a battle to stay alive and not succumb to the harsh winds, brutal snowstorm and the wolves (i always picture wolves for some reason).

Then comes the Prayer. It's like a temporary safehaven. For a moment it seems like survival may actually happen. But that thought is shortlived and it turns to a realization that death is imminent. It's the acceptance of death that makes this song so incredibly powerful.

Next two songs. This is no longer a journey to find your way back from where you came, but the slow journey of a man dying. These two songs are the perfect example of when i was trying to explain how black metal is more of the emotional side of death (rather than physical) with Jack and Saoirse. I imagine these songs are the depiction of the emotional weight of impending death. These are the last living moments and what the mind has to endure to reach the last final one.

Rigsthula. The last moment. It's bliss. A completely ethereal experience. This is the last time you will see anything ever again. It's slow motion; it seems like this moment will literally last forever. And then...

The Last Journey. Death. One last emotional burst and everything is gone. The tone of this song changes completely as life fades into the unknown. The beginning and end of the song are completely contrasted in style and emotion yet made symmetrical by those last and final screams. It's beautiful and hopeful. It's death.