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The Beatles - Now and Then

It just came out Friday and the fact that it is being called the last Beatles song just hits me a lot harder than being called the new Beatles song. The Beatles have always been a part of my life.

My mom raised me on the Beatles. One of my proudest moments as a son was taking her to see Paul McCartney in concert.

I proposed to my wife by hiding her engagement ring in the Hard Days Night DVD case. We had watched it on our first date. Our wedding song was In My Life.

We used to play Beatles songs as lullabies for both of our kids. When my son, who is autistic, was a toddler, playing Hey Jude would instantly calm him down.

So even though I wasn't ever expecting anything from them again, the fact this song from the band who is my favorite, my mom's favorite, my wife's favorite, and my kids favorite has been dubbed "the last Beatles song", hit me harder than I imagined it could.

Heard When Alexander Met Emma by Chumbawamba for the first time a few months ago and it made me cry hysterically and I'm not sure why

First time I heard Blouses Blue play in Cyberpunk, it caught me off guard. Fuego by Bomba Estereo was another video game banger. Born Free by MIA went pretty hard, back in the day. That riff in Pantera's Cemetery Gates never ceases to get me fired up. Bobby Shmurda's Hot N**** is up there with the best eats, ever, and got me the first time.

Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ by The Velvet Underground

Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11 what a journey

Havenless by Enslaved changed my life when I heard it for the first time in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

I have been slowly dipping my toes in Brother Ali the past few months, and recently listened to this for the first time. His voice is awesome but some of the words may be a little hard to catch. It's worth looking up the lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ

His voice is like caramel in my ears (in the most complimentary way), but it's his lyrics that get me in this and a few others.

Just this morning I was listening to Ramsey Lewis - Only when I'm dreaming and I had to run it back a few times just to soak it in.

Harmony Parking Lot Song - Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains

“Here’s to our lives being meaningless And how beautiful it is Because freedom doesn’t have a purpose”

Really that whole album. Taught me a lot about how to be ok with being broken.

Can't believe it took so long to actually listen to Staight outta Compton, but that has some interesting observations on race and law enforcement in America.

Poor man's poison' feed the machine? Excellent track.

I haven't laughed so hard in ages.

Fucking meme songs... Literally. Two specific ones I had heard a while in meme videos always sped up so I couldn't understand the words. Find the original songs, Pretty Boy by Naethan Apollo and Cupid, Twin Version by FIFTY-FIFTY.

I definitely feel the lyrics hella hard to both after hearing them legitimately for the first time. To a lesser degree, The UwU Song is fucking hilarious.

The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions

I remember this album from when it came out, but I first heard this song again about a month ago. It encapsulates y feelings about the Gaza war, and how the more I learn, the more I feel like there are very few moral choices one can make.

Recently? This song is just the kind of menacing I like: https://wolvennest.bandcamp.com/track/accabadora

I was making a playlist for my friend's Halloween party and found this album. Though a different friend was like "this song makes me feel.. something I don't know if I like it"

A few months ago now, but both; wish you were here by pink floyd and show me how by the foo fighters.

Go. By Asia (English band).

By coincidence the first time I ever listened to it was being hospitalized for suicidal thoughts, and the last song I listened to before being hospitalized (you don't have your phone).

As such it sort of felt like fate, like it was supposed to happen, especially considering the lyrics of the song and the context of being dragged to god knows where. The lyrics really struck deep.

Lyrics if you don't want to listen to it

Dig for victory, go for gold I don't want to die before I get old And I wonder where I'm going to There's some way out, there's some way through But I'm lost, I'm lost, I'm down again My direction is changing, which way, Which way can I go...

Cobra by uhh...Megan Thee Stallion. My boyfriend recommended it and although the content isn't my thing (sex-neutral ace here) I cannot deny that it does indeed Go Hard.

Ado - Freedom. Such a powerful and versatile voice.

I recently got recommended Money Game 3 by Ren. I've never been more focused on a music video.

Hey OP I just realized I should have linked the very tiny (so far no one but me posts there) kbin magazine I mod which is intended to more or less collect songs such as you describe. For each post I've included the lyrics.

I'm not sure how to link it that it will clickable on Lemmy, but it's:

@musicwithamessage

Music with a Message

@[email protected]

Edit- I'd love not to be the only one posting!

I don’t seek out her music but anything by Sia makes me emotionally charged.

For me, it was The Beatles’ new “Now and Then” track. A couple of things to mention though:

• I was born after 1996. This is the only new Beatles song released in my lifetime that hasn’t appeared as bootlegs or the like. Unless Hell freezes over and they release “Carnival of Light”, this is the only opportunity I will ever have to experience a truly new track by the group.

• I didn’t have as strong of a reaction the first that I heard it. Or the second time. I suffer from TMJ, which tenses and aches my jaw and puts pressure on my inner ear, oftentimes dampening my hearing. It wasn’t until late the date of release that my jaw popped and released the tension which it had had that day and I could hear clearly. The first thing I did was put on the new song so I could experience it in its whole. And there were so many layers to it that I couldn’t hear with the first listens. There was a mix of appreciation marred by the frustration of how fleeting the moment was, not just from being part of the once in a lifetime zeitgeist but also a brief moment of physical relief and undamped senses.