Songs that are atmospheric

by FlyingHighNow 112 Replies latest social entertainment

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    This is a song thread that will take a little thought. I'd like for you to share songs that sound atmospheric and conjure up feelings of night air or a smokey room, the energy of the ocean's roar or capture the joy of a party or celebration. The songs can be transportive and take you other places by their sound and the visuals they evoke from the stories they tell.

    My first one is from Tim McGraw. There is an eery sound through out the song, I think it's played on a keyboard. And the description of the two women characters, Jesse and Jenny, taking off like a bottle rocket through a field of corn, through the moonlit night towards the railroad tracks.... This feels just like the meadows across from the house in northwest Georgia where I raised my children. Beyond them was a railroad track. We lived so far out in the country that you could see billions of stars and for a long time the Hale-Bopp Comet. Sounds carried long through the summer night air. The train whistle would blow and the train would feel like it was much closer to us than during the day. It was spooky and beautiful. This song conjures up the atmosphere, the air, the dark, the light and the sounds of that place and time, when my children were young and I was 25 years younger than I am today.

    Treat yourself to a listen. This is a sad song, but it's done so well:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSA1MaXx_I

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    Here is my next song: Night Moves by Bob Seger. I was 18 when this song hit the radio airwaves. I was listening to an older man summoning up his teenaged times. Now when I listen to this song, time somehow bends over to touch its self and takes me back to the autumn and winter that I was 18, a southern girl living in huge city of Chicago, listening to this on the radio and missing home very badly...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN1_3zHjhW8

  • watson
  • still thinking
    still thinking

    ooooh...I love the alan parsons project...how about eye in the sky...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Cen0DyZeo

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    Oh yes, Alan Parsons, definitely atmospheric. Thank you both.

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    Greg did a solo version that way out did the version the Allman Bros Band did of Midnight Rider. Gives you that feeling of creeping through railroad yards and trying to slip into a box car to hide from the law. A train headed for the Mexican border maybe...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yojZ-Ksr8AE

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    See if this song doesn't take you back into old England to the times of knights and castles and the Court of the Crimson King. The sweet thing is that my grandson Mickey loved this song intensely when he was five years old and we'd listen to its magic together.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuF7VoVkSpY

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    I'm interested to see if you post some of the songs that I am thinking of.

  • Ucantnome
  • Ucantnome

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