You Gotta Be Moved By Something...

The following is a list of songs that for some unknown reason I find particularly moving. This isn't necessarily a list of my favorite tunes, just songs that, because of nostalgia, lyrics, or any other reason, surprise me by how much they move something inside me. Most of them fall into the 'guilty pleasures' category. They're in no real order and this is by no means a complete list. Kind of a fun category, so feel free to leave your own in the comments section below.

-Love Bites and Hysteria, Def Leopard

-Hold Me Now, The Thompson Twins

-Raining at Sunset, Chris Thile (that whole Not All Who Wander record is ridiculously good)

-Silent All These Years, Tori Amos

-Take On Me, A-HA

-Clockshop, Billy McLaughlin

-Anything by Arvo Part

-Pacing the Cage, Bruce Cockburn

-The Scientist, Coldplay

-Sally and Jack, Mike Perry and the Longbeds

-Anna Begins, Counting Crows

-Spur Road Speed King, Doug Geeting

-Voices, Dream Theater

-A live version of a Kelly Joe Phelps tune I ripped off YouTube that I call Riverside but wasn't titled

-Kicking, Kevin Moore

-Comes a Time, Mutual Admiration Society

-Almost everything on Patty Griffin's Impossible Dream record

-My Favorite Memory, Merle Haggard

-In The Light of Common Day, Phil Keaggy

-Just Like Paradise, David Lee Roth

-Chris Thile's smokin' 16th note solo in Stranded in Kodiak

-Samson, Regina Spektor

-Life in a Northern Town, The Dream Academy

-Show Don't Tell, Rush

-Paper Airplane, Willy Porter

-When it's Love, Van Halen

-In My Time of Need, Ryan Adams

-Most of the Riverdance soundtrack, Bill Whelan (I know this sounds embarrassing, and I can live without the tap dancing, but Whelan is a genius...seriously)

-Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns n' Roses

-All These Years, Sawyer Brown

-In The Air Tonight, Phil Collins

-Almost any well done Gregorian Chant

-Get You Back, Shawn Lane

-Merry Christmas Mr. Gorbachev, Stephen Bennett

-They Dance Alone, Sting

-Music for a Found Harmonium, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

-I Love, Tom T. Hall

-Little Rain, Never Let Go, Clap Hands, Time and a crap load of other Tom Waits tunes

-Resplendent, Bill Mallonee and Vigilantes of Love