― 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
"clever"
― galumphing lummox (bug), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"upstanding""dutiful"
― Turangalila, Monday, 3 August 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
stfu
― Cyberdune Butt (Elvin Wayburn Phillips), Monday, 3 August 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 August 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
No Matter What - TI :`[
― bnw, Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Billie Holiday's recording of I Thought About You
― iago g., Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I was embarrassed to say "Rainbow Connection" but then I saw it upthread - OTM. Such a corny song but it freaking destroys me. I'm sure it's partially a sentimental attachment - songs you sang in elementary school chorus can do weird things to you. If you get misty-eyed at the Kermit version check out the reprise at the end - "The lovers, the dreamers, and YOUUUUUUU!" Oh my god...
Under the right circumstances, most of the acoustic side of "Rust Never Sleeps" could do the trick - especially "Thrasher" ("they were waiting...waiting.") "There Goes The Sun" by the Pernice Brothers. "Da Art of Storytellin' Pt. 1" (Andre's verse). "Return of the Grievous Angel." "Here Comes A Regular."
― thewufs, Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAM8Hc4qUG8
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Saturday, 23 November 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
some of the right answers in this thread: Up On the Roof, Andre's Da Art of Storytellin' verse, Oh No Not My Baby and Pearl of the Quarter.
a couple of my favorite Public Enemy and James Brown songs do this with intensity alone.
― g simmel, Saturday, 23 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
I discounting stuff from early age to mid teens because emotional music seemed more of a shock at that age and it wasnt difficult for any very sad song to make me cry. But none of these songs make me cry every time, but they are the ones most likely to...
Beach Boys - "Baby Blue" ((A Dennis Wilson song from the late 70s; I was really pissed off when there was a big Dennis hype back a few years ago and nobody talked about this song despite it being one of the most powerful things they ever did))
Red House Painters - "Katy Song"Red House Painters - "Down Colorful Hill"Neil Young - "Philadelpia"
I sometimes cry when I get really excited, in that case...
Yes - "Gates Of Delirium"Rush - "Cygnus Hemispheres"Renaissance - "Scheherazade"Frost - "Milliontown"
I might have cried from some early Emperor too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
bill withers - my imaginationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3g2QJNBtQthe rhodes, harp and guitar are enough to get me but then you add withers and my eyes dont stand a chance to stay dry
― Spottie, Friday, 30 October 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
I’m sitting in a brewery having a beer and “Ready or Not” by Jackson Browne comes on the house music and I immediately get the goosebumps and teary eyes. Other JB songs including “Before the Deluge” do this too. I’m not a mega fan or anything but some of his songs just hit me that way.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 April 2024 23:27 (one month ago) link
echo and the bunnymen - nothing lasts forever
― brimstead, Friday, 19 April 2024 00:09 (one month ago) link
"Vieilles courroies" by Harmonium.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 19 April 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link
Time to pretend by MGMT got me real emotional driving to a med school test the other day. Hit me straight in the stomach. Hopeful I'm not pretending
― H.P, Friday, 19 April 2024 02:48 (one month ago) link
nizlopi jcb song
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 19 April 2024 03:52 (one month ago) link
Unexpectedly, "Grounded" by Pavement got to me a couple weeks ago. I guess age & nostalgia put it over the top because I've always loved the pathos of it, it's been one of my favorite songs for decades now, but it never made me cry before. Suddenly, it was like I was seeing it from the old doctor's perspective and all the boys he'd seen dying on these streets throughout his career & malkmus just driving the chorus right into my chest.
― BrianB, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:46 (one month ago) link
I guess I'm not the only person this happens to. I guess maybe I'm getting more emotional as I get older. Its weird because sometimes I get a little teary-eyed about a song that is not even such a sad song. Other songs that are much sadder have no effect. It seems kind of random, but particular singers seem to have the effect more than others.
― o. nate, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:08 (one month ago) link
billie eilish’s ‘what was i made for?’ does this on the reg for me recently
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 April 2024 16:32 (one month ago) link
This is kind of embarrassing but sometimes it feels more like tears of gratitude than tears of grief. Like I'm crying that such a beautiful song exists or something. I don't know. Guess I should see a therapist.
― o. nate, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:34 (one month ago) link
suede - “sleeping pills”give me the time they kill
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 21:43 (one month ago) link
i've had the stones exile on main street on repeat in my car cd player for literally months and almost every time i get to 'shine a light' i cry. 'make every song you sing your favorite tune'
crying because a song is beautiful is one of life's greatest pleasures. i think most people could probably do with some therapy, but not for that reason.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 23:50 (one month ago) link
Aside from the songs of my youth and a brief dalliance with poptimism in the 00s, I'm not really into pop. We play some around the house for our kids but shake it off was literally the only taylor swift song I knew. So I put on 1989 in the house a couple of times and got into it a little bit, then yesterday decided to put it on when I went for a run. When the chorus of out of the woods came on I started welling up, wtf! I think it was 10% crying @ beauty, 10% feeling simpatico with the lyrics, and 80% welling up at completely random things now I'm a dad.
― ledge, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 08:38 (one month ago) link
I pity people who don't tear up from the beauty of music
― H.P, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 09:25 (one month ago) link
Sorry, I'm a crying elitist
The bit in What a Wonderful World when he says 'they'll learn much more than I'll ever know' always tips me over the edge.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 09:59 (one month 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