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".
― Brio2, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
"Storms" and "Beautiful Child" almost every time. And "Silver Springs" too.
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
billy bragg - "tank park salute"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
TVZ: Tecumseh Valley, Lover's Lullaby, Rex's Blues, You Are Not Needed Now, sometimes Pancho and Lefty
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" tho that's an obv voice
perhaps I should stop sobbing to music so much
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
*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.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― U SNOOZE U LOOZE BRAH (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
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'
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
"Love will leaf you back"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
*leave
sure you don't mean 'lead'?
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
God I'm out of it today. Yes....
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Cos what I wrote doesn't make sense
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
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'
― Heiress Too (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
bicep - glue
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 23 December 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Hell yes.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 23 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ZxRs45tTg
may as well post it. great UK footage
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
It great, and makes me sob every time.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
Melancholy bastard, me
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
semimental or sentimental
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
cheers mate
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
cheers m8 <3
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
O Superman
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 February 2018 06:28 (six years ago) link
Everything I Own - Bread
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 5 February 2018 06:57 (six years ago) link
Spinning Away by John Cale and Brian Eno, currently. Not entirely sure why, but the 'I have no idea exactly what I've drawn' line breaks me up. Maybe it's a distant evocation of summer?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
i'll read you a story by colleen
― meaulnes, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
forget about by sibylle baier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU_XAgDlnE
Shut up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tD6FayGPyw
I said shut up, and also leave me alone. God.
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
'Fantastic Voyage' in particular feels so goddamn resonant right now. Like it just about wrecks me every time I hear it these days. Even just thinking about it. Ugh, shut UP.
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
^^Maybe remedy with "It's No Game (No. 1)"
― willem, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
Oh, I do, believe me.
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Television Personalities - If I Could Write Poetry
I feel a bit sad just thinking about it
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
Was just trying to think if there are any songs that actually make me cry (as opposed to just making me very sad), and realized that the only one I could think of was "Begin Again" by Taylor Swift. Which is odd because I'm not really a Taylor Swift fan at all. But that chorus, "on a Wednesday, in a cafe" really gets to me, something about the juxtaposition of the ordinary and mundane with this unpredictable moment of coming back to life.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 11 November 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Mine would be "Dirty Boulevard" by Lou Reed and "The Dutchman" by Michael Smith.
― banjoboy, Monday, 11 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Shipbuilding is pretty gut-wrenching
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01r0g4h
― koogs, Monday, 11 November 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Just realized there's at least one other song on my list: Neko Case's "Thrice All American," the last verse in particular. There are much sadder songs that don't make me cry, but this one just hits the right mental nerve somehow.
Well I don't make it home much, I sadly neglect youBut that's how you like it, away from the world.God bless California, make way for the Wal-MartI hope they don't find you, Tacoma.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 11 November 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
O Superman, so totally OTM
― Maresn3st, Monday, 11 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Kinks, "Some Mother's Son" made me well up yesterday.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
The Unthanks' "Fareweel Regality" gets me every fucking time.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 November 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Fairytale of New York. Especially if I'm whiskey'd up.
Once, driving home from a get-together with friends, "Brandy" came on the radio. Pushed some buttons and I got really worked up, blinky-eyed and biting my lip. I can't say what it was exactly and while I still like the song it has never moved me that much again.
But Fairytale of New York gets to me on the regular. The bit where they say "you took my dreams from me...." So busted, so sad, so good.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
i went to see an interview with julie gold at the library, and geez, the story she told about writing "from a distance," then her performance, made me well up. it would make anybody well up. maybe start at around 24 minutes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBDsu1BAzc
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
Still hasn't put this on an album.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrodis8sX-Y
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tLbSIwPqu0
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
The only piece of music that makes me choke up without fail is Movement V of 'Quartet for the End of Time' by Messiaen.― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, March 12, 2014
OTM. This was the first thing that came to my mind. And I'm nodding furiously at "Goin' Back", "This Guy's In Love With You" and "Landslide" etc, too. (Pretty much any recordings.) I feel like I could list a zillion things -- music with at least some potential to make me weep is the only music I can be bothered with a lot of the time!
[XP: oh god, that entire album!]
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
I know I have posted it on a similar thread, but my God, "Alicia Ross" by Kathleen Edwards...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Fareweel Regality destroys me but the live version of King of Rome is somehow even more moving.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
Here's The Tender Coming too, oh my stars...
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link