Songs that make your chest feel funny

Hello hello. I'm listening to Lioness by Songs: Ohia at the minute - got me thinking about that wonderful drop-in-the-ocean feeling that certain songs and artists give me. Other examples include Ben's My Friend by Sun Kil Moon (also his cover of Neverending Math Equation), Birthday by The Sugarcubes, Farewell Transmission also by Songs: Ohia, Cup of Dreams by Thinking Fellers Union, New Partner by Palace Music, Hey Moon by Molly Nilsson and John Maus, The Fool or Naomi by Neutral Milk Hotel

Do you know what I mean? Stuff with this big, cavernous sound that makes you feel very small? Suits sitting in your garden at nighttime? I love that feeling. Most of my favourite songs fall into this category

I'm new here, so for my first post I'd like to hear what songs give you that nice heavy chest feeling (and if you have any recommendations for songs and artists similar to the ones I've listed I would love to hear them)

Stay cool

hello banjo!!!

i know exactly what you mean. a couple of these give me that feeling - cup of dreams and farewell transmission for sure. achy.

others that spring to mind:

Fish and Bird - Tom Waits
Cool Water - Marty Robbins
No Name #1 - Elliott Smith
Self Portrait in Three Colours - Charles Mingus
LA - Neil Young
Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles
Cow - Sparklehorse
Sound and Vision - David Bowie

welcome to the forum <3

you forgot motion sickness by Phoebe bridgers

oh yeah, i forgot motion sickness by phoebe bridgers

get a room lol!!!!

don't you two know each other IRL ;)

selected tracks from Chumbawamba and Patti Smith can do this, also uh "Royals" and "Style"

This is my room

yes this is my missus. she wanted to know what all the fuss was about

Chumbawumba reminds me of being a little baby playing Donkey Konga video game. Also no we don't know each other. I don't like him

“Daniel” - Bat For Lashes maybe? it sounds like that for me

God ya I remember listening to Daniel on repeat when I was skippin school and crying into overly-sweet lattes. That says nothing about the song though, it's great. I'm gonna stick it on

felt - the world is as soft as lace

I wonder if something like Hidden Place by Bjork would count here

Only if Phoebe Bridgers has covered it

First thing I could think of was 'Holocaust' by Big Star. I guess it's more a bleakly emotional feeling in the chest than the good feeling of vastness that you describe but there's something about the instrumentation that definitely gets that "everything is so big and I am but a speck" vibe that I *think* you're after?

Swans album “the seer” made me physically nauseous

Bauhaus, "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything"

Don’t know if I quite get the concept but I’ll nominate “Shivers” as performed by the Boys Next Door.

ooh nice one, otm for me

Girls - Vomit

The music that I relate to star-gazing (or to feeling as a drop in the ocean so to speak) is drone or psychedelic…

Lately I’ve been revisiting:

Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
Yellow Swans - Going Places

I think both work for me

Radar Bros. - Stay
Elysian Fields - Anything You Like

welcome to the fold y'all

nightgarden is a pretty good band name, it's no hospital radio of course but what is

eno & cale - spinning away.

I have to be careful how often I listen to it as it can stay in my head making me existentially giddy for days.

If we're talking stargazing then Lambchop - The Distance From Her To There

xpost i discovered that album the other day - maybe it was on your list?

"spinning away" and "lay my love" are the two that really stood out to me. "a silent silver plane, it draws a golden chain" is a pretty immortal line

it was on alfred's, i'm not doing one!

you have all given me plenty of sonic snacks for my trainride thanks. queuing them all up now

I like this sound a lot. Instantly thought of Waves by Slowdive.

Also, for literal stargazing (and a song that hits me in the chest), Stargazer by the Zephyrs.