Old song that still gets to you

United States
September 25, 2010 4:03pm CST
Have you ever heard a song that you use to listen to when you were younger and it still touches you? I don't know why it is, but I sometimes feel like music today doesn't touch me or evoke the same emotions old songs from when I was a teenager use to. Maybe its because being a teenager, anything makes you emotional. I don't know. But I just saw the name of an artist and her number 1 hit that was popular when I was in high school and in a flash I can remember how much that song moved me when I first heard it. I didn't even have to hear it for the memories and old feelings to come back up to the surface. Does this ever happen to you? What old song still makes you emotional or inspires a certain emotion in you?
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@baiku88 (47)
• Romania
25 Sep 10
There are many old songs that please my ears , among them Enjoy the silence from Depeche Mode , What is love - Haddaway , All that she wants - Ace of base .
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@greenline (14838)
• Canada
25 Sep 10
Oh yeah, that happens to me all the time, I should say. Some of the songs are so enchanting and romantic, bringing back all the beautiful memories whenever I hear it. If the lyric carries a story, that makes it more meaningful. Here is a song I am pretty much addicted to, "Tennessee Waltz". The music is so beautiful, and the lyric carries all the meaning !!
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@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
My husband and I are fond of listening to old songs. We also observed that old songs have more sense than the new ones. New songs are released just for the sake of profit but there are no souls in those songs.
@cajimenez (452)
• Philippines
25 Sep 10
Whenever I heard some 80's song ,makes me feel nostalgic. The New Wave era is my favorite. It makes me feel young again whenever I heard them being played in the radio. Depeche mode, Flesh For Lulu , INXS , OMD, etc. songs were among on my list of favorites.
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• Philippines
26 Sep 10
There are still old songs that really touch my heart. Most of them are love songs from different artists especially songs by Chicago and Michael Jackson. :) That's why some songs from the past are still revived up to these days because those are really beautiful and cannot be forgotten. :)
@IoanaBI (494)
• Romania
25 Sep 10
Yes, i still listen to that song that impressed me than, and find it very relaxing when i see that the same tinkle is still giving. The song is called "the weakness in me", and i think it touched me because i associate it with a real event in my life
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@gunagohan (3414)
• India
26 Sep 10
Music now days are rocking with the special and new instruments and the musicians are accordingly good...I am not telling that old musicians are bad, but i'm telling new musicians are also good like the old .. There is an old song which probably came 20 years before, i wasn't born at that time, but that movie was a mega hit and it still stays in many's hearts ..It's about friendship movie.. I understood that movie when i was 13.. A song in that movie was really exceptional, it always rocks my ears.. The singers have done it exceptionally well !! i always remember and listen to it !!
• Singapore
26 Sep 10
Definitely! Woah I thought I'm the only one who is nostalgic about old songs. For me, there is one chinese song which still brings back memories. It's a song from Jeff Zhang. Any responders here who are chinese will know who he is. The name of the song is 'yong qing'.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
26 Sep 10
I listen to a lot of music. some of the older songs are still some of the best to listen to. i can still get moved by Joy to the World. some songs just never lose their feeling.
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
Yes some old songs still gets to me and well lol yes the newer songs sometimes don't mean much at all. Lol your tiltle makes me remember a song by David Pomeranz lol "The Old Songs" wonder if you know that song or Karen Carpenter's Yesterday Once More lol.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
26 Sep 10
I remember being caught for not paying attention and for copying the lyric of a song while the teacher was teaching in class. For that I was punished to write lines. It's the same song of Let It Be by Michael Jackson which still makes me emotional as much now.
@jaijaye (168)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
The songs that makes me feel so emotional are the songs from the westlife, backstreet boys, A1, 98* and many more artist in 90's. They give me inspiration and makes my heart melt with their songs. Till now I uploaded their songs. Love to listen with it.
• Vietnam
26 Sep 10
I always listen my songs in phone, in pc and laptop, the songs help me rememeber my memory. ^^,,,
@blessyme (33)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
Me too. I listen to a lot of music. I thought then that I can't live without it. Back in high school, it's like first thing I do when I got back at home is to turn on the stereo and play it loud. I grew up with music though I'm not a singer or anything. My mother loves music so much and there's always good music in the house. Speaking about songs that would bring childhood memories back or awaken the long forgotten good feelings, it's the old songs. I'm young and I'm a fan of the oldies...old movies,old songs,old books/stories.From the Everly Brothers to Matt Monroe to the Platters,etc..And of course there's also the Spice Girls!!!Two become one evokes a feeling of "sometime in the past" in me everytime I hear it:)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
Yes, everytime I heard a song which I used to listen to when I was a kid, I still listen to it. Sometimes, it makes me reminisce especially when there's an unforgettable moment within that song.. And remembering the friends you have met by the time that song was in a hit!
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
26 Sep 10
Old songs that used to touch me even up to now are, Without you by Mariah Carey, that's why u went away by MLTR, Whole again by atomic kitten, Power of love by Celine Dion as well as I have nothing by whitney Houston. All these are have never left my mind and they never fails to make me think about the past, touching me once again. Every song has got a story to tell and those listed somehow relate to my life. I agree that songs nowadays are missing out on the touch feeling when they think looks are more important than anything else.
@von_xy (35)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
Yes definitely,i am not that old now but i am fond of old songs rather than the new kind of music of today though there are also songs today that is nice but for me old song still gets into my being,songs that has been on the year when i was born, when i hear theese songs especially love songs, it strucks into my heart and i will feel like ive been born again. My father used to introduced me to this kind of songs that's why i am also influenced to hear it and to the extent i will love it forever.