Inspirational Songs

[soulslicer]

I found this song really inspiring..mainly due to the chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XhauVBdcvw

So I was wondering what you people would consider inspirational and uplifting for you all..

[knut]

Inspiring to do... what? I refuse to believe something can be just 'inspirational' unless it actually makes you go and do something because of how the song makes you feel, or something. Otherwise it's just another song amongst a hundred others that I enjoy.

Often, when listening to something really raw, with in your face energy, like The Sound of Animals Fighting, or At the Drive-In, it really makes me want to start up a band like that and go tear up some tiny stage in a venue with no barrier, just to make a lot of noise and go mental. Other times I'll want to go and draw something really ****ed up and abstract whilst listening to Autechre or Mr. Bungle, and if I want to do some proper, in depth drawing I'll put on some A Silver Mt. Zion or Isis' ''In The Absence of Truth'' album because I can work really well to them, be it through the music or because of all the images/artwork I've seen of them both that have made me sit and think. I don't know, it's a touchy subject.

[Shakermaker]

Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th symphony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZJ1Tgf4JL8

Bernstein's intro is pretty inspirational in itself, but the music tops it.

EDIT

And for those with a shorter attention span: Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem. This is the closest classical music comes to hard rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl-wRbJoWVA

Also conducted by Bernstein. He's god.

[evil^milk]

Check out The Rescue by Explosions in the Sky.

Particularly tracks 2, 7, and 8.