― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― paul c (paul c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link
~3 years ago, Boards of Canada - "Dawn Chorus" (after a long drunken night, it was actually dawn by this point).~4-5 years ago... a few DMB songs got me on various occasions when I was entirely sober.
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, that one.
Also:
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - from The Wizard of OzClimb Every Mountain - from The Sound Of Music
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Saturday, 19 February 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
"Innocent When You Dream"-Tom Waits (first time seeing him play live, 5 years ago)"Footsteps" - PJ (the first time they ever toured Australia, 1995. I just couldn't believe I was finally seeing them play.)"Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O Connor (hubby snuck this in on a compilation cd he made for me when we got engaged. him not being the soppy type usually, I burst into tears)"True Colours"- Cyndi Lauper (Last year, live. My sister -still in Australia- loved this song when we were kids, and I started crying because she wasn't with me to see her sing it.)
Oh. And "If You Leave" by OMD makes me cry every time without fail. No real reason though, I just think it's a sad song.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― -the-night-watch- (-the-night-watch-), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― -the-night-watch- (-the-night-watch-), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
The live "Train Song" from Big Time kills me.
The first song I remember making me cry was Let it Be when I was in 8th grade. I was such a wuss.
― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link
"You've Changed" -- Billie HolidayUntitled 2 (from ()) - Sigur Ros"I Believe in You" - Talk Talk
― Pat, Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
But now I thought of one: "Set Me Free" by Esther Phillips. Something about the break in her voice as she wails into the chorus, especially the last time through, gets me all choked up. Plus, there's something about the construction of the song, a narrated tale of love gone wrong, but told from the third person. Then, before the last chorus, it turns inward: "I just don't know what I'd do if my lover said to me, 'Set me freeee-eee-eeee, let me fly...'" Silly to try to analyze emotional impact, I guess, but man does it tear me up.
― briania (briania), Saturday, 19 February 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Saturday, 19 February 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― La Camilla Henemark, Saturday, 19 February 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jermaine, Saturday, 19 February 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Saturday, 19 February 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orange, Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones is the saddest song ever, but that just makes me want to drink.
― joygoat (joygoat), Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 19 February 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Richard K (Richard K), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
New Order, "Age of Consent"
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Like "$1000 Wedding."
Freedy Johnston's "Responsible," as I mention in thread about FJ.
"Waters of March" by Regina and Jobim--such a perfect, almost-blithe song about things that are actually pretty melancholy. Plus it's so beautiful.
Ray Charles, "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'."
Nick Drake, "Chime of a City Clock." Boy, that one gets me.
Prince, "How Come U Don't Call Me Any More." This is my favorite Prince track ever.
Aretha's "Oh No Not My Baby."
I find Big Star's "Third" somehow not conducive to crying, exactly--it dares you to feel, I guess--but I find the way old Alex sings "She's not afraid to take a chance" incredibly moving, in "O Dana."
Sure, a lot of "Pet Sounds" fits. Actually, I find the title track itself unspeakably evocative, so goofy and so determined to proceed along its way, until that last little guitar lick brings it home.
Oh, and Mekons, "Learning to Live on Your Own," my favorite song of theirs. In fact, I need to hear this now.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― TayBridgeCatastrophe (TayBridge), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Ambushed by unexpected emotion
As I mentioned on that thread, I lost it in August 1998 while merely *thinking* about Lou Reed's "The Kids" (I had heard it either earlier that day or the day before.
That was it for crying until August 2001, when I completely and unexpectedly fell apart listening to Travis' "Driftwood".
Then in April 2003, I blubbed to Drugstore's "I Don't Wanna Be Here Without You", although in truth I think I would have cried anyway, but I wanted to do it to that song (and it was certainly the catalyst).
And that's about it.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 21 February 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link
coldcut "doctorin' the house" (esp. the big ben chimes near the end)oddfellows casino "oddfellows shanty"ultrasound "best wishes"ooberman "shorley wall"eric matthews "faith to clay"
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 21 February 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 21 February 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― davidsim (davidsim), Monday, 21 February 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― smirky, Monday, 14 November 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Monday, 14 November 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Boohoo (Monty Von Byonga), Thursday, 1 February 2007 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_NxYbfNYZU
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I've only heard the Mott version.
― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Graham, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
"Dreaming With a Broken Heart"--John Mayer. just captures the exact feeling you have when someone you loved is gone and you are still in the stage where you can't get her out of your mind, so it's just torture to go to sleep, but too painful to stay awake.
This one also hits me for other reasons...namely:
*There was a devastatingly beautiful and sad routine choreographed to it on So You Think You Can Dance*John Mayer's Continuum was one of the first things my g/f and I bonded over. When we split briefly the first time, I thanked God I didn't hear that song or I woulda lost it.
― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Sunday, 2 August 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"sensitive" "straight"
― Turangalila, Sunday, 2 August 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Bonnie Raitt “Nick Of Time”
― Drowning in TG, he sent me Discipline (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 10:09 (one month ago) link
The 6ths - Just Like a Movie Star
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 10:29 (one month ago) link
Pet Shop Boys, Being BoringBy the time we get to the third verse, I’m a weeping mess (I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be, but I thought, in spite of dreams, you'd be sitting somewhere here with me)
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 11:59 (one month ago) link
A couple Bruce Hornsby songs of late but Song C got me real good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTiMCE8Z32A
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:16 (one month ago) link
Anchorage by Michelle Shocked
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 25 April 2024 07:17 (one month ago) link
map, “shine a light” doesn’t make me cry but it does make my heart feel bigger. same with “let it loose”
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:23 (one month ago) link
last song to make me well up was probably “this is the sea” by the waterboys. zevon’s “desperados under the eaves” got to me a few days ago too
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:31 (one month ago) link
As You Turn To Go will do it for me
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:58 (one month ago) link
sometimes it feels more like tears of gratitude than tears of grief. Like I'm crying that such a beautiful song exists or something.
YES, I dig it.
This sort of thing happens to me so often since I last had neurosurgery that I could probably almost eschew music that doesn't elicit such observable physiological responses lol. Endless songs, many already mentioned, but it's the ability of wordless music to do it that endlessly amazes me.
eg.Messiaen - 5th movement of Quator pour la fin du TempsLove Unlimited Orchestra - Love's ThemeJanko Nilovic - Pop Avenue (HEAPS of corny/manipulative library music c.1972 really - those cats knew what they were doing)Andrew Wasylyk - Last Sunbeams of ChildhoodRavel - 2nd movement of Piano Concerto in GPiero Umiliani - almost the entire soundtrack of La ragazza fuoristrada fercrissakesAphex Twin - Mookid/Alberto Balsalm sequenceDonald Byrd - Lansana's Priestess
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 26 April 2024 00:55 (one month ago) link
There's several that make me tear up, the one that gets me going more than any other is Wyatt's Sea Song
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 26 April 2024 01:11 (one month ago) link
there are a few songs that make me cry in grief and pain on sade's soldier of love, like absolutely bawling. for such a smooth and immaculate recording artist, that is a seriously harrowing album.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 26 April 2024 01:25 (one month ago) link
Messiaen - 5th movement of Quator pour la fin du Temps
is this the cello one?
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2024 01:55 (one month ago) link
Cello and piano, yep! Also apologies to the French for mangling spelling.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 26 April 2024 02:42 (one month ago) link
I was just on a car drive with an early 00s Low soundtrack going and pretty much every Mimi lead had me misty-eyed.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 26 April 2024 06:28 (one month ago) link