The Feeling

[rejectconvenience]

This is a great video that dives into something I've talked a lot about before, you should check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZjJ3KfYmZA

What are your "The Feeling" songs? (if you reply here, you better comment on that video too, help the algorithm out)

[onelius]

Ahh love this! Since starting to think about it, so many songs popped into my mind but here's some of them:

Exeunt - The Oh Hellos
Honestly this whole album is very nostalgic to me. It reminds me of summer days, tabletop games and running around in the woods.
Touch - Daft Punk
Daft Punk was one of the first musical artists I got really into. This changed my brain chemistry.
Weightless - Koda
This song gives me the feeling of being outside in the cold dark, watching the first snow of a winter fall down.
Rät - Penelope Scott
Kind of a different vibe, it has a clear association to a specific time for me. Very cathartic.
Empire Ants - Gorillaz
Another winter song (to me)... it makes me feel calm and melancholic.
Maailma on sun - Tehosekoitin
So many memories from my childhood associated with this song.

[JINSBEK]

• Scott Barber - Into the Red
  When it comes to something that touched me like a gentle hand personally, it would be the intro theme to the game Waking Mars. It’s plaintive, it’s reaching out, it’s asking, “Is anyone out there?”, and conversational. I was very depressed as a teenager, and this game, particularly this track, helped me get through that.
• Youko Kanno, feat. Origa - Inner Universe
  Something hauntingly beautiful. It feels like a human trying to communicate with an angel, and vice versa. The ethereal vocals are underlain by electronic syncopation, so you have a symbiosis of human, mechanic, and transcendent. Sung in three languages, too. Youko Kanno, throughout the score for Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, outdoes herself in adding humanity to new inorganic contexts. This is the opening theme for the show and it sets the tone for the whole story.
• Nobuo Uematsu - One-Winged Angel, arr. for heavy metal orchestra
  I’m always in awe that something like this can be composed and performed by human hands. I always listen to this and think, “Man, we could melt the faces off the Ancient Greeks with this!” I don’t usually care for reaction videos, but I love this reaction and analysis by a classical composer. This rearrangement for the film Advent Children does fantastically in conveying the feeling of a God playing with you. The woodwinds give haughty, courtly Baroque-esque elements, there’s hard-driving vocals that hearken to the best of Romantic/National programmatic music, and the heavy metal adds a flair of youth, exuberancy, and sheer organic strength without being tacked on.
• Hiroyuki Sawano - AOTF-s1, Final Season reprise of “Xl-Tt”
  There is something intensely theatrical about this recording. It begins with the orchestra tuning, as if preparing for the final movement of a play—highly resonant with The Final Season of the Attack On Titan story. And the sheer collective horror conveyed in this piece… The original piece is also great, but that has a cool, steely, almost largely martially logistical feeling that this reprise ejects in favour of sheer boiling blood and individual terror.