songs that make you cry

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

so overplayed though. i don't rank it with her best so that too.

yeah - just hits a weird memory button for me. I'll be driving the car with kids in the backseat and start crying to "landslide", remembering my mother driving the car with kids in the backseat crying to "landslide".

"Storms" and "Beautiful Child" almost every time. And "Silver Springs" too.

i have a hard time with John Mayer's "I Don't Trust Myself with Loving You" cos I first heard it on behalf of my then girlfriend and it perfectly encapsulated why that relationship never worked. yet it also digs up a series of memories of a period of time when it was actually perfect which is probably why the song fucks with me so much.

"Landslide" is a good one.

any choral rendition of "May the Road Rise to Meet You" makes me an instant puddle too.

billy bragg - "tank park salute"

TVZ: Tecumseh Valley, Lover's Lullaby, Rex's Blues, You Are Not Needed Now, sometimes Pancho and Lefty

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" tho that's an obv voice

perhaps I should stop sobbing to music so much

*choice

Also: I blubbered mightily, and continued with multiple replays, to Kanye West's "Celebration" the other day, upon graduating from college after eleven years of false starts and fucking around. So that was probably entirely situational.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, May 7, 2006 7:22 AM (8 years ago)

o man, Deric W. Haircare. i miss having that name around. always used to brighten my day. Deric W. Haircare. congratulations, man.

don't really give a shit about "celebration" tho.

I'm still around, contendo. Belated thanks for the super belated congrats.

Bowie's "Five Years" is doing this to me every. freaking. time I listen to it these days.

I've probably mentioned this before, but Folkal Point's cover of 'Sweet Sir Galahad' has this effect on me. oddly, Joan Baez's original doesn't move me nearly as much, even though she wrote it about her own sister (Mimi Fariña) after the death of her husband.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an6EoevSSIs

others that have done this to me: EBTG's 'The Night I Heard Caruso Sing' and (inexplicably) The Sundays' 'My Finest Hour'

"Love will leaf you back"

*leave

sure you don't mean 'lead'?

God I'm out of it today. Yes....

Cos what I wrote doesn't make sense

Certain classic rock songs that I've heard thousands of times now make me cry. Most recently, 'Won't Get Fooled Again.' Not long ago, 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' of all things
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bicep - glue

Hell yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ZxRs45tTg

may as well post it. great UK footage

It great, and makes me sob every time.

Melancholy bastard, me

semimental or sentimental

Sentimental, unashamedly. Windmill massive, forlorn warehouse raves near the moors around Hebden Bridge at bonkers-o'clock. This tune like no other is an invocation.

cheers mate

cheers m8 <3

O Superman