songs that make you cry

Godley and Creme's "Cry" was the last song that did this to me, stupid as it sounds.

Talk Talk- Time It's Time
Current 93- The Frolic
Robyn Hitchcock- Autumn Is Your Last Chance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5chQcTBZfw

"bright" "eyes" makes me cry, but for a different reason.

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man, i love me some Bright Eyes. was listening to some live (& non-live) performances from I'm Wide Awake era earlier tonight on the YouTubes

(i'm not a bright eyes fan. but, obv.: de gustibus non est disputandum.)

Daniel, that's not a Bright Eyes tune

the name of the song is "Bright Eyes"

which i would've realized before i made my post about loving Bright Eyes if I had clicked "play" on Abbott's video

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH . . .

apologies! i can't listen to the video now. no headphones within easy reach, and i need to keep the sound low so i won't wake up my daughter.

It's the song Art Garfunkel did for Watership Down. When the band Bright Eyes first started getting big, it was an endless source of frustration. Me: "You mean the Art Garfunkel song?" Everyone in the entire world: "Whaaaa?"

lol. i'm not much of a simon & garfunkel fan, but garfunkel has a world-class, and emotionally rich, voice.

*And* it is accompanied by dying, bleeding rabbits...*sniff*

The Beatles, I'll Follow the Sun. Of all of the pretentious hurt but picking up the pieces carols that exist, this is one of the simplest, most direct, yet most sincere. The melody is almost as hummable as a children's song, which nicely parallels the childlike feelings of abandonment when we realize someone doesn't want us.

Even though "tomorrow may rain, but I'll follow the sun" is ostensibly a positive lyric, it doesn't seem like the narrator is completely sure that brighter days are coming. There's that nagging feeling of uncertainty in there as well.

Mush all of that together and you have a song that during a trying time in my life, had me sobbing to the point of having to pull over when I heard it on an oldies station on SIRIUS.

I guess I'm not really thinking about the thread question properly. There's no one song that always makes me cry, or even makes me cry like 10% of the time I hear it. It's more like you can get in certain moods where music/art can really intensify a thought you're dwelling on, and at that point, a song like The Trees is just devastating for some reason. Or, a few months ago, I caught some old school Russian ballet on public access tv and it was the most fucking beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life, it just tore me up on a sunny weekend morning that should have been nice. And then the next week I saw some more ballet on the same channel and thought booooooooooooooooooring

sometimes - mbv
here - pavement

Not really full-on "cry" per se, but these have all made me choke/tear up a little bit in the past year or two:

Four Tet, "Angel Echoes" (at recent live show)
MBV, "Soon" (also live)
School of Seven Bells... first new song they played live... wrote about this on the SVIIB thread, in fact.
John Lennon, "Stand By Me"
The xx, "Fantasy"
Taylor Swift, "Fearless"... "Love Story"... and "The Best Day" (echoing xhuxk on that last one)

biggie - juicy

Tom Waits, Martha
Sufjan Stevens, Jacksonville
The xx, Shelter
Rumo, Ladeira da Memória
The Beatles, Blackbird

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love-if i am fragile already, the whole album reduces me to tears

John Prine - Sam Stone

the part of juicy that makes me get something in my eye is always "sold out seats to hear biggie smalls speak" for some reason

Joanna Newsom - Jackrabbits

I cannot hear "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers without breaking down.

Taylor Swift, "The Best Day." Twice in the past 18 months; no other song has done it even once. (Being a parent has a lot to do with it.)

But now, as of last week, another song has: "Never Grow Up" by Taylor Swift.

Stan Rogers has quite a few songs that can do this. Songs from the film "Oh, What a Lovely War" tear me up pretty well, too. Mavis Staples can also bring this on.

In germany before the War - Randy Newman (from 'Little Criminals'

When you realise the "little golden girl" has been molested & murdered. Just heartbreaking.

Driving through North Philadelphia this morning, 'Too Hot' by Kool & the Gang." An absolutely crushing song for grownups.

I am totally serious when I say "Puff, the Magic Dragon."

You know, I realised the other day I can't even think about "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris without feeling prickly behind the eyes.

there are about 5 different ILX threads on this, so i wasn't sure which one to revive. good article here: http://thequietus.com/articles/14551-favourite-songs-that-make-you-cry-list

my personal pick goes to Stars of the Lid's Requiem for Dying Mothers Pt. 1. not to be too morbid but i have imagined what it would be like to die to that song or what it would sound like at a funeral so many times that whenever i hear it i immediately think of people i've lost. i sometimes have dreams where i die and then continue dreaming in the death state, and the song feels like that.

Halah by Mazzy Star. Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen. Pink Rabbits by the National, esp the line "so surprised you want to dance with me now / i was just getting used to living life without you around." As you turn to go by the 6ths esp "but youre the star if my life story / and i'm so sorry".

Reading through this thread and listening to some of it reminds me that I'm really intolerant of other people's self-pity and that lyrics are pretty balls, mostly.

It's only instrumentals that have ever moved me to tears, usually something like the last section of Swedenborgske Rom by Jaga Jazzist or the intro to Storm by GYSBE! if they hit me at the right moment.

The only piece of music that makes me choke up without fail is Movement V of 'Quartet for the End of Time' by Messiaen. I'm not even sure why.

"Vincent" by Don McLean does it every time.

"Hands to Heaven"

for the first 50 times, this song. every. damn. time.

http://danreeder.bandcamp.com/track/maybe

historically:

"this woman's work," kate bush
"gold dust," tori amos
"in california," joanna newsom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZZbBWmC8zM

"Moon is Sharp" - Grouper
"All Apologies" - Nirvana
"Raspberry Beret" - Prince
"Deacon Blues" - Steely Dan
"Widow's Walk" - Van Dyke Parks
"'Heroes'" - Bowie
"The Crying of Lot G" - Yo La Tengo
"Mary Star of the Sea" - Zwan
"Doggy" - Animal Collective
"Taste" (BBC 2009) - Animal Collective
"Penny Lane" - Beatles
"Here Comes the Sun" - Beatles
"I Want You" - Dylan
"In This Hole" - Cat Power
"For Martha" - Smashing Pumpkins
"The Workplace" - Jim O'Rourke
"Sawdust & Diamonds" - Joanna Newsom
"Brass in Pocket" - Pretenders
"Buzz Saw" - Xiu Xiu
"Stop Breathin" - Pavement

good times

young hearts run free

love sensation

good times

― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:15 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jim O'Rourke or Chic?

james franco otm upthread about "as you turn to go"

Let It Go and Do You Want to Build a Snowman, without fail.

after the goldrush did it to me recently when i was in starbucks

Landslide, pretty much without fail

yep, that fucking "children get older I'm getting older too" line