Bad songs that have a profound emotional effect on you.

Mostly anything that I listened to before I was 20 but really, this is usually just called nostalgia.

dylannn, your post ;_;

I don't have any bad songs that do this to me-- there are some bad songs that make me drop everything and leave, like, a deep physical response, the two songs that I know trigger this response are La Roux "Bulletproof" and Flaming Lips "Oh Yoshimi you gotta believe me" or whatever it's called. Those songs make me despair on a fundamental level, but I think it's more "this song is too bad for me to finish my grocery shopping" and the cart is abandoned and I run for the door. (I shop with earbuds now).

my local grocery shop plays La Roux a lot, good shopping music imo

Seeing as La Roux has caused me to stop shopping and order pizza on the way home, it's not particularly good shopping music imo

Some Green Day song

cat's in the cradle by harry chapin is very cheap and obvious and the melody is annoying but it will get me every time.

Magic Power by Triumph. It's overwrought, riddled with cliches and flat-out goofy. But I love it to death.

the wannadies You and Me Song

it reminds me of a very specific set of friends, one specific and brief time, chaotic and obliterated before i even realized wtf was happening

Oh God, I remember being in a CVS late at night about a week or two after my mom died and Randy VanWarmer's "Just When I Needed You Most" came on and I just started bawling my eyes out, and I have a feeling I'd do the same thing if I ever heard it again.

I went through a phase after a bad breakup where Total Eclipse of the Heart had me like this. I could count on it being played once a shift at the IHOP where I worked.

i remember this being a booming thread