bumping this one for you, so folks see it.

Welcome to the site (you may have been here for ever! -- but, I don't think we have met -- hi, i'm pinga..nice to meet you)

AHHHHH so hard to choose I have so many a few are:

Self Concluion- The Spill Canvas

Were in Heaven- Brian Adams (I think he did the original maybe?)

Was I The Only One- Jordan Sparks

Skin & Bones- Marianas Trench

Love Drunk- Boys Like Girls

Appreciation and The Bomb- The Spill Canvas (ok my as well just say every single Spill Canvas song... something about their lyrics just grabs me everytime.)

Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine

Wyrd Sisters - Farewell to Clayquot Sound

Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter, Last Watch

Lots more, but those are the ones that popped to the top at this moment.

...between the sheets

(or... That's what she said)

 Dante's Prayer - Loreena McKennit

First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes

Easy/Lucky/Free - Bright Eyes

The Pinata Song - Bright Eyes

I Can Only Imagine - Mercy Me

Pachelbel's Canon - Johann Pachelbel

Run - Snow Patrol

I Know - Aden Trouvere

Daisy a Day - Jud Strunk  (my Dad used to play this one all the time on his guitar)

That's a hard one. I totally respect your choices of Opel, Wish You Were Here and Let it Be.

1. Imagine: John Lennon

2. Wouldn't You Miss Me?: Syd Barrett

3. Accross The Universe: The Beatles

4. Tell Me About The Forest: Dead Can Dance

5. Remember A Day: Pink Floyd

6. Dust in the Wind: Kansas

7. Solsbury Hill: Peter Gabriel

8. High Hopes: Pink Floyd

9. Colours: Donovan

10. Leave Them All Behind: Ride

11. Enigma Of The Absolute: Dead Can Dance

12. Sunrise Sunset: Fiddler on the Roof sountrack

13. Cry Freedom: Gaia Consort

14. Shake the Disease: Depeche Mode

OK I better stop now or I'll be at it all night...

In no particular order...

1. Together Forever by Rick Astley

2. What a Faithful God Have I by Robert Critchley

3. Theme to Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith (technically not a song)

4. You are my All in All by Dennis Jerdigan

 5. Breakout by Swingout Sister

6. Hold On by Wilson Philips

7. Lydia the Tattooed Lady by Groucho Marx

8. Shout for Joy and Sing by David Fellingham

9. Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

10. Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield

 11. Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac

 12. Mad World as sung by Adam Lambert

Jae, nice that you put the links in there. I'm surprised this thread is so quiet! I've been thinging about meaningful songs ever since! In fact I'd like to add a few...

Song of the Dispossessed: Dead Can Dance

Devorzhum: Dead Can Dance (DCD)

I'll Weave My Love  A Garland: Julie Murphy

People Are People: Depeche Mode

Ullyses: DCD

Fake Plastic Trees: Radiohead

In My Life: The Beatles

John Barleycorn: The Watersons

...

This Woman's Work : Kate Bush. Ladies if you don't know this one, check it out. It applies to us all. You'll need tissues.

 All the Way my Saviour Leads Me - Rich Mullins

Honeysuckle Breeze - Lost Dogs

Breathe Deep - Lost Dogs

Tea-House Moon - Enya

My Deliverer - Rich Mullins

She's Electric - Oasis

Beat Box - Matisyahu

1. SNOW PATROL- chasing cars (i sung this to my ex fiance)

2. KELLY CLARKSON- behind these hazel eyes (betrayal)

3. LADY GAGA- paparazzi (love or career, cant have both)

4. KINGS OF LEON- sex on fire (intial attraction when dating)

5. KEITH URBAN- somebody like you (heartfelt love ballad)

6. FRAY- heartless (cover of Kanye West song speaks volumes)

7. FALL OUT BOY- dance dance (reminds me of when i was 18)

8. RIHANNA- rehab (letting go and moving on with life)

9. LINKIN PARK- shadow of the day (life's puzzle)

10. NIRVANA- come as you are (classic punk rock song when i was a punk)

One of my favourites is Alison Krause singing

"When You Say Nothing At All"

Hi there thanks, I signed up pretty early in the morning & guess the thread just got lost thanks.

Puppypaws & Rev. Matt cool choices! I like some brian adams too my friends love the Indigo girls.I love that song by snow patrol as well.

Elanorgold-Hi nice to meet you Donovan is an excellent choice, goes well with Syd who I'm a huge fan of also.In my life is a classic I'm a huge music fan too!

If I were a boy- I love Nirvana & Lady gaga, I have lots of Nirvana stuff. :)

Hi Piper, Yeah we like Donovan at our house. His songs also made great lullabies. Sunshine Superman I find, is one of the 5 cd's I play most often.

So, what does Wish You Were Here mean to you? I have strong memories attatched to the song myself. Pining over a certain guy in high school...

I love Donovan -- always have.  This song is priceless IMO.  Enjoy.

(rude alert)

 KD Langs Version of Hallelujah 

Jann Ardenn Good Mother

No Day But Today From Rent

Will I from Rent

Since Michale Jackson Died I discovered that I really like "Will You Be There

dark wood circus- vocaloid. i dont care if its japanese. it was so beautiful, luckily with subs, i was able to understand. it just hit me, the artwork, song, everything.

Meaning, meaning:

Gabriel and the Vagabond - Foy Vance (I cannot listen and NOT cry)

Some others:

All We Have - Brett Dennen

There is so Much More - Brett Dennen

Adrian - Jewel

Beautiful - Christina Aguilara

Personally:

Sweethearts -Foy Vance (another crying one)

A Song for You - Donny Hathaway

One in a Million You - Larry Graham

Pipper, I am going to be 60 next month and I only know ONE of the songs you list.  In fact, in this whole thread, I maybe know 3 or 4.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  Ok, I will laugh. LOLOL!

Donny, Which one of Piper's do you know? Let it Be? or Wish you were Here? Or perhaps the Stevie WOnder? There's a lot of songs on this thread I don't know either. My knowledge is pretty sketchy after 1995.

Interested to know what songs are most meanignful to you?

 What a great thread!

To be played at my funeral: a beautiful version I have (by the Palm Court orchestra) of "I'm forever blowing bubbles" with musical saw accompaniment!

Mike, That sounds good! Not that I've heard that but it sounds funny!

I get tired of radio playing the same line-up of songs over and over. So, I actively seek out indie music or find stuff nobody has heard of.

People do not always know Brett Dennen's name, but they know the Rogers commercial where the kid is going to bed and dad is watching hockey and he lets the kid stay up and a song plays "the one who loves you the most". It stuck in my head and I wanted to know who sang it. Once I found out, I got some of his other music and was "wow".

Foy Vance's "Gabriel and the Vagabond" was on an episode of Grey's Anatomy. It was instantly  "wow, who is that guy?" Then I saw mention of his stuff on "The Alternative Hymnal" and had to get his album.

Listen to Gabriel and the Vagabond.... I do not think it matters your age or what kind of music you like, something will get you whether it be words, haunting guitar or just Foy's accent....

Right now it is Pale Shelter by Tears for Fears.

 I find it varies, with a certain song becoming very evocative - and then fading. One, for example, caught my fascination for a time simiply because it so perfectly caught the mood of more than a century ago when a waitress responded to a flirtatious customer..

My mother was a lady

As yours you will allow.

And you many have a sister

who needs protection now....

or for the 30s...

Once I built a railroad, make it run,

made it race against time.

Once I built a railroad, now it's done.

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Or I can get caught up in the wonderful magnificence of a welsh male choir singing chorus of the Hebrew slaves.

Sometimes it's the stunning breath control of an old recording by Caruso.

I'm afraid, though, I never got caught up in current popular music at any time in my life - though Vera Lynn can do it now in evoking a war atmosphere I only vaguely remember from childhood.

Effevescing Elephant by Syd Barrett

The Sleepwalkers by Van der Graaf Generator

The Emperor in His War Room by Van der Graaf Generator

Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance by The Mothers of Invention

Ant Man Bee by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

...I could go on for hours

Yep, you got it.  Almost none of the songs with which I grew up are meaningful to me.  This thread seems to be about nostalgia.

Don't even know Wish You Were Here?

If you are talking to me, then no, don't know it.  I am a musician but not a music fan.

Odd.  You'd think you would have to enjoy music in order to make it

I tell my wife that "Two out of three ain't bad" by Meatloaf is "our song" but I'm really kidding.

For some reason the song that sticks with me through the years is Won't Get Fooled Again by the Who. 

Keith Whitley - When You Say Nothing At All

Lorrena McKennitt - Dark Night of the Soul

Loreena McKennitt - The Old Ways

Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer

Don Williams - 'Til The Rivers All Run Dry

Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun

I still think this takes some beating...

 Then there's THIS!!!

I LOVE it !!!!

piperatthegatesofdawn,

what a nice invitation you have given us.

So, you want to find out the most spiritual songs to me?

Hmm.

That would have to include, but not be limited to:

Snowflakes are Dancing by Tomita
Zoolook by Jean Michele Jarre
Our Town by Iris Dement
Song of the Siren by This Mortal Coil

The Engulfed Cathedral by Debussy

Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd
Little Boxes by Pete Seeger
Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
Bells for Her by Tori Amos
Is That All There Is by Peggy Lee
Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads
Cloudbusting by Kate Bush
Glosoli by Sigur Ros
Oh Superman! by Laurie Anderson
Downtown Train by Tom Waits

Theme song from Poltergeist

Moldeau by Smetana

Alpha by Vangelis

Heaven & Hell by Vangelis

Ode to Joy by Beethoven

Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim

The Test by Chemical Brothers

Dona Dona Dona, Jewish folksong

Calypso by John Denver

River by Peter Gabriel

Know Where You Go/Tell Me Your Dream by Blue Rodeo

Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky

Toward the Within by Dead Can Dance

Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles

Teardrop by Massive Attack

Unmarked Helicopters by Soul Coughing
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot

Bud the Spud by Stompin Tom Connors

Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers

Six White Boomers by Rolf Harris

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park by Tom Lehrer

We're Going on a Lion Hunt

Little Rabbit Foo Foo

Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland by Sufjan Stevens

I Am the Lion by Neil Diamond

Hurt by Johnny Cash (much preferred over Trent's original)

Turkey in the Straw

Five Miles Out by Mike Oldfield

Don't Answer Me by Alan Parsons Project

Mr. Blue Sky by ELO

Mr. Bojangles by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Subhuman by Throbbing Gristle

God Save the Queen by Sid Viscious

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce

Moonshadow by Cat Stevens

Silent Night, Holy Night by Humanity

Quake Soundtrack by Trent Reznor

"Precious Lord". "How Great Thou Art"

and "Bat out of Hell"

 Love Louis Armstrong and What a Wonderful World too.  

Love Hallelulia by Cohen too

But I love tons of songs, depends on moods and days.

And I HAVE to add this!

I'm Sure-- Chris Cummings

Too Much Tequila Last Night

Two More Pina Coladas

Goin Thru Hell

if I may add one.....

Somewhere Over The Rainbow as sung by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

This one is worth a listen ....such an inspiring voice!

Hugs

Rita

Most meaningful is hard for me, because almost every song that I like is meaningful on some level. Also, many of the most meaningful ones are hymns for which I don't necessarily have a particular recording in mind. However, here's a few:

"Spirit of Life" - hymn by Carolyn McDade found in both UU and UCC hymnbooks

"We Laugh, We Cry" - a UU hymn by Shelley Denham Jackson

"Wake Up" and "Insurrection" - Arcade Fire, powerful lyrics set to powerful music

Mendalla

"Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones.

Fun that ths thread has been resurrected. Unfortunately Piperatthegatesofdawn left us quite a while ago, or at least I haven't seen her, and she's a Wonderfriend of  mine. I was looking forward to getting to know her better.

Anyway, Inanna, you and I share much music in common. Of cource, that is quite a long list! The Moldau was one of my first classical faves and it is thus special to me. Night on Bald Mountain...I love the disco version! Night on Disco Mountain! I love Mike Oldfield, ELO, Alan Parsons Project, DCD, Kate Bush, etc, etc. Calypso by John Denver is a special one. My fave Chemical Bros is "Got Glint". It's like aliens on a trip through space, annalyzing the humans they've abducted: red skin...brown skin...white skin (clap clap) very cool.

Mendalla, There's a Dead Can Dance song called "Spirit" which has the line, "so long as the veins in our arms still stand up, the spirit of life will keep living on." I was just reminded of that.

Enjoyed that performance of Wake Up, Mendalla. Great band. I think it was on the Canadian music awards show we first saw them. Innovative, retro, energetic, good stuff.

A song that is especially meaningful to me right now is The Servant Song (from the Voices United hymn book). We sang it just over a week ago as we spread my friends' ashes. It was one of her favourites. I'm not sure I will ever be able to sing it again without thinking of her.

I like duelling versions of "Rock Island Line" --I am alternating right now between Lonnie Donnegan's version and Leadbelly.

Also, "Parasol" by Sarah Slean.  And lately, "Help I'm Alive" by Metric, both get up and go songs in the face of things like job interviews.