Agreed; with two teenage boys that are very much into their music, I hear a lot of it. I honestly give it all a fair chance, but not much even begins to pique my interest.

The list of older tunes that will make time stand still for me is based more on memories surrounding that particular tune than any kind of musical or technical merit. Some will make me break out laughing, thirty years after the memory they invoke. Some will make me cry, some will make me daydream, some will make me wonder "whatever happened to... (girlfriend, buddy, etc.)" Some of them that move me the most I have to play when I'm alone, if that makes any sense.

hahaha

love it.

Songs that stop time - there are a few for me.

Here's a couple that really do it for me. Man, they take me back to being a mid/late teen, and discovering the fairer sex.

one

two


(Of course, the quality of a song has little to do with whether it stops time for an individual! But hearing these really take me back).

one more

last one

This song & video has always "worked" for me -

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Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

Last kiss by J frank Wilson and the cavaliers.

An old mans song of reflection and regret.

Welcome to the Dark Side of the Force Jeff.

I guess U said it just about as good as anyone...

Late 60s 70s and early 80s. Love the sounds of early Motown.

Good call, dad. Stunning tune.

Great musical arrangement, but he isn't anywhere near to any of the high notes. He's a bit more aggressive on this version from '86

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That is one of top 10 favorite songs, EVER. Especially this time of year, early summer, roof down, driving in the evening. I had never seen the video, thanks!

For stopping time:
Helpless, Neil Young
Red Rain, Peter Gabriel
Last Dance with Mary Jane, Tom Petty
Magnolia, JJ Cale

Indeed. When I hear Maggie May, I'm fourteen again. When I hear Tiny Dancer, I'm snuggling with a lost sweetheart in the back of a '68 Mustang.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

one of the rare occasions where the video enhances the song. pure adrenaline followed by descent.

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I get a feeling of calm like no other when I hear this.
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this one never quite got finished...maybe when I get some free time

http://nostatic.com/mp3/brother.mp3

I was disappointed by the latest NIN album.

OTOH, Allison Krauss has the perfect female voice IMO. Of course she if from Champaign, IL. Those central Illinois girls...

I listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" all the time...


KT

Time standing still? Easy. SRV "Little Wing". No words needed.

Here ya go,

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