Rolling Stones - Rocks Off (Mainly because when I turn this album on and hear Rocks Off, I know I'm about to experience the greatest 70 minutes of music ever recorded... There's actually many times in the album where it gets to me.)
Oasis - Half The World Away - Gets me a lot
KISS - Forever (First time I had a girl say "I love you")
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover (There's a live bootleg version I heard that was one of the most flawless pieces of guitar playing ever)
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
i could on here, i must like to cry....
― Molly, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― sculley mulder (ilkshake), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
With all due respect, this song makes me cry too -- but for entirely different reasons. I cry because I cannot believe the band that wrote "Deuce" and "Cold Gin" could turn out such a gloppy dollop of tepid cheeze whiz as this (then again, they did give us "Beth", alas).
The only song that can guarantee a lump in my throat ABSOLUTELY. EVERY. DAMN. TIME. is "This Woman's Work" by the incomparable Kate Bush. Without fail.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"ruby's arms" by tom waits (live version on 'big time' only)"i've got to dance to keep from crying" by smokey robinson"just my imagination" by the temptations"it never entered my mind" by miles davis quintet (on "workin'")"across the universe" by the beatles
― dave heaton, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
"Don't Give Up" by Gabriel/Bush"Pearl of the Quarter" by Steely Dan "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2 (ever since that Super Bowl performance, I connect it with 9/11)"Misery" by Merle Haggard (covering Bob Wills)"Outfit" by Drive-By Truckers"Holland 1945" by Neutral Milk HotelDylan's Blood on the Tracks -- the whole thing.
... and then a few will catch me if in a raw emotional mode, stuff that is so exultant that I lose it occasionally -- Television's "Marquee Moon," "Freebird," "Crosseyed and Painless," "Dr. Jimmy/The Rock/Love Reign O'er Me."
― Chris O., Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I somehow associate U2's Stuck in a Moment with going to my own wedding, specifically dealing with my wife losing her dress right before the ceremony (informal wedding, new dress procured quickly with help of some dear friends, makes a good story now). i think we heard the track in the cab on the way to the ceremony (dress crisis in the past) but perhaps I added that memory in afterwards.
I'm not a big crier from songs but those two are probably in the realm for me.
― gspm (gspm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Tom Waits - MarthaBeach Boys - God Only Knows
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
On its own. I like to pretend it has nothing to do with the film.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― CL, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― mclaugh (mclaugh), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
"Something Changed" - Pulp"Time" - Tom Waits"West Palm Beach" - Will Oldham"All That I Got Is You" - Ghostface Killah"Pearl of the Quarter" secondedLarge chunks of Bacharach and DavidPretty much anything when I've had a few.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gspm (gspm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
But there are lots of songs that will make me tear up if they're passionate and vibrant, and the artist is dead now. Listening to the song makes me grasp the fact that the artist was actually full of life once. Practically every song by Laura Nyro will do this to me.
― Mila, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orange (Orange), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
"Unravel" by Bjork (while seeing her live in Boston in 99)"Cocoon" by Bjork (first time i heard the record, in the midst of intense unrequited love)"Switched on Bach" by Wendy Carlos (during a psychological beakdown)"Caroline Says Pt II" by Lou Reed (while driving home after a breakup)"Always on My Mind" by Pet Shop Boys (last night was the first time i ever heard this. it didnt make me cry but it did make me sad and feel bittersweet)
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Orange (monkeynibje...), February 1st, 2005.
Every one of there songs would probably be on my list, but when i think back on it, they mostly just made me momentarily depressed and nostalgic.
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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 (sixteen 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