Craig is a genius...and thus creates many magical elbow song moments...

*struggles to stay on topic*

The minutes before the concert the first time I've seen them. Holy crap was I nervous. All those fanatic Take That fans... Forget them. :-)
You can ask the friend that went with me. She was like: "take a deeep breath". That never happened to me before or after this Elbow concert. Not even at the U2 concert. And then Guy shakes my hand. *Squeee* :-)

We'll see how I react when I see them the second time in November! Yay!!!!! :-D

When sat in the car after being re-united with my dad.
Listening to newborn with my dad singing along at the top of his lungs banging his hands on the steering wheel, Beautiful moment.


There has been many more elbow song moments since because every time i listen to there music, its sends goose bumps all over !

pretty much everytime i listen to newborn... after all these years its still like listening to it for the first time...

there's a set of traffic lights on the coast road in newcastle... whenever i pass by there i always without fail think back to hearing newborn on the mark & lard for the very first time all those years ago too... bliss

The entirety of The Night Will Always Win.

When I walk to work I often listen to an album on my iPod, often finish one from there and back.

On New Year's Eve I decided to listen to Asleep in the Back.

Recently our small town had a pretty massive extra couple of streets with clothes shops and cafes, plonked right in the middle. It's like having London in the middle of a small town, very strange. You can see the buildings from quite a way away. I was looking at them from a park that I use to walk to work and Red was playing.
The word's
"You burn too bright
You live too fast
This can't go on too long
You're a tragedy starting to happen"
Suddenly meant something different to me, it wasn't about a person, maybe it was about we as humans.
Maybe we should just slow down and appreciate what we have, rather than building on what we have so much, soon to maybe even destroy the world.
It was a pretty magical moment, filled me with a sense of "I should make the most of this".

Anyway, I had a pretty awful day at work, won't go into why.
I had a headache the whole time, and could have gone to bed at anytime.

As I walked from home, I was nearly home, maybe half a mile away, Newborn came on.
I turned it up, but I forgot how much it amplifies at the end. It epic bit where Guy starts screaming "YEAH YEAH YEAH!" began, and I suddenly gained this rush of energy, and just started walking like a mad man. It was like walking on air, I couldn't feel my legs they were so tired, but suddenly I could almost run. I covered
Then Rest Easy came on (only just realised the irony of the name) and I lost all the energy again and crashed at home.
I told my brother about what had happened and he wouldn't stop laughing.

Went to bed and woke up to 2012. Still makes me laugh when I think about how epic it felt, great way to end 2011.

@Puncture Repair - Loved reading your New Year's Eve story...I get what you're expressing very clearly. I've had so many of those types of situations happen to me, not just with Elbow's music, but with music from a few other bands as well. I'm in the middle of some mundane activity or other, and a song happens to come around, and it's as if everything changes. Elbow, in particular, really does do that for me on a regular basis. Cool to hear about your experience w/ Asleep in the Back. Thanks for sharing!

I had this feeling with a song too. I had problems with a friend who has lost all his other friends because of a mental illness he has (he lies everytime he speaks and can't speak without telling fake stories) that + alcohol addiction... I was thinking of him while listening to Some Riot, all the lyrics seemed to talk about him, the song is so different to me now... It's interesting to see how people can interpret some songs according to the life they have.