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Camper Van Beethoven: All Her Favorite Fruit

― kephm, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 04:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hallelujah - The Leonard Cohen and the Jeff Buckley versions; I can't pick one or the other. Also "I'm Your Man" by Mr. Cohen. The strain in his voice, the quiet yearning, gives dignity even to those creaky old synth lines. A pair of utterly amazing songs that bring tears to my eyes years after I first heard them.

"Letdown" by Radiohead. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. This song almost makes me wish I was a weepy, over-emotional teenager again. Fuck emo; this is where it's at.

"Waking Up Beside You" by Stabbing Westward. I will not entertain criticism here. This song is just too damn sad.

― justin s., Tuesday, 25 March 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Forgot one. "Home" by Depeche Mode. The album is already beautifully textured and miserable to begin with, from beginning to end (yes, even those last few tracks which all sound alike). But this song is the kicker. It's one of their favorites to play live, and I can see why. It stands up against all criticism, the possible over-emoting, the maybe too-powerful strings, nothing detracts from the song's simple agony and heartbreak. God. If I don't stop I'm going to need to break out the Kleenex *grins*.

― justin s., Tuesday, 25 March 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just cried to Schoenberg's Erwartung.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Unoriginally, Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah and The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. God Only Knows has done, as has The Not Knowing by Tindersticks. Lately, a song I can't remember the name of, possibly by a Man Called Adam, possibly not. It is pretty and has a northern child talking over it about cows and football.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Justin S - agree with the DM 'Home' choice - Gore has such a more emotive voice than Gahan. Quite why they need Dave is beyond me...!
Also, A Question Of Lust (which I'm sure Shirley Bassey could have a go at).
But the one that does it for me is the only track I like from 'Exciter' - 'Freelove'. One of their greatest songs.

Another song I heard at the weekend which always brought a lump to my throat was Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'The Power of Love'. Gorgeous

― russ t, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

brighter - tinsel heart
field mice - and before the first kiss
field mice - willow
joy division - atmosphere
jam - beat surrender (no, can't explain why! it just happened!)
hood - cross the land
harper lee - ALL

― kieron, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMG "willow" *slays* me. i can't even think about listening to it.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, and don't EVER listen to it on a break-up, especially if you've initiated it. it will have you in FLOODS.

― kieron, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, i've been there. hence why...

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was just getting sobby to "Lied der Waldtaube".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Also by Schoenberg, of course.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Red House Painters "Katy Song"
Matthew Sweet "Nothing Lasts"
Good Charlotte "Say Anything," "The Day That I Died" & "Movin' On"
Heavens To Betsy "Complicated" & "Paralyzed"
Sleater-Kinney "Lions & Tigers," "Good Things," "Heart Attack"
Queen "Under Pressure"
Flock Of Seagulls "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)"
Desaparecidos "Man & Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)"
REM "Perfect Circle," "The Flowers Of Guatemala" (the latter song worked better when I didn't know what it was "about")

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

"Give Me the Reason" by Luther Vandross

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:04 (twenty years ago) link

"Asleep and Dreaming," Magnetic Fields
"Bottle Up and Explode!," Elliott Smith
"Time," Tom Waits

Yaz(oo)'s "Only You" used to have that effect, but now it's just cute...

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

Bizarrely, the coda of "Across this Antheap" by XTC (wherein Andy Partridge somewhat emphatically splutters "ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON"...) for some inexplicable reason gets to me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

"Message to My Girl" by Split Enz

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link

Rainy Day Regatta, "California"
Aerial M, "Last Caress"
Hoover, "Private"
Dylan, "If You See Here Say Hello"
Yo La Tengo, "Our Way To Fall"
Low, "That's How You Sing Amazing Grace"
Indian Summer, "Reflections on Milkweed"

― Ian Johnson, Friday, 13 June 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link

Radiohead - Let Down
John Cale- Thoughtless Kind
Time - Tom Waits
Alameda - Elliott Smith
Not Knowing/ Raindrops/If She's Torn - Tindersticks
Cattle and Cane / Devil's Eye- Go-Betweens
Simon and Garfunkel - I am a Rock/ Old Friends/ Bookends/Sunday Morning 3AM
Scott Walker - If You Go Away
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne/Take This Longing/Chelsea Hotel 2
Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done/ Birds
Johnny Cash - Spiritual

And whoever was right about Wheatus - it's..... poignant.

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Friday, 13 June 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

Not forgetting:

Joni Mitchell - Amelia
Dylan - Girl from the North Country

Big crybaby me.

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Friday, 13 June 2003 08:33 (twenty years ago) link

i havent cried in about 3 or 4 years, my heart's gotten all black and rotten over the years. however these have been known to bring a bit of wetness to the eye:
smokey robinson - so many smokey songs, but particularly - tracks of my tears
neil young - barstool blues, thrasher, albuquerque, ambulance blues, motion pictures
bob dylan - you're gonna make me lonesome when you go (blood on the tracks owns this thread), kingsport town, moonshiner, one too many mornings
palace brothers/music - you will miss me when i burn, you have cum in your hair and your dick is hanging out, new partner
bonnie prince billy - a minor place, ain't you wealthy ain't you wise
songs: ohia - blue chicago moon, hold on magnolia
rem - perfect circle, so. central rain
low - la la la song, soon
Dirty three - 1000 miles, hope, last horse on the sand, long way to go with no punch, i offered it up to the stars and night sky
red house painters - japanese to english, strawberry hill
beat happening - left behind, cast a shadow, godsend
the smiths - i know its over, back to the old house
and recently - m. ward - dead man

but still i got a black heart

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 13 June 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

Songs that have almost doubled me over with inexplicable grief:

"Musette and Drums" -- Cocteau Twins. Why? It's not like the words mean anything. But when I first heard it, I was shattered. It can still do it occasionally, too.

"Good Woman" -- Cat Power. So fucking magnanimous and kind. And those kids, even Vedder. A mess, but a gorgeous one.

"The Partisan -- Leonard Cohen. So lonely (and I'm not talking about the police), so hollow and lost.

(god, look at my choices).

Some, I cry on the inside, in the same way I get inner goosebumps occasionally. Like these:

"Metal Heart" -- Cat Power
"Have You Forgotten" -- Red House Painters
"The Plan" -- Low
"Point of Disgust" -- Low
"In Metal" -- Low
"Atmosphere" -- Joy Division
"Decades" -- Joy Division
"Faith" -- The Cure (most of that album, actually)
"Sanvean" -- Lisa Gerrard
"Yele" -- Wyclef Jean (!)
"I Will" -- Radiohead
"Wolf at the Door" -- Radiohead
(plus most of Amnesiac and half of Kid A, really)
(lots of Dylan and Tom Waits)
(some Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Nina Nastasia)

This could go on for a long time, so I'll stop there.

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 13 June 2003 10:45 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, and Calla. How could I forget? "Truth About Robots", but many more.

And there's a band called Sin Ropas that I've been listening to lately, and their "Syrup Coat" reduces me to tears on a regular basis.

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 13 June 2003 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

"Let Me In" -- R.E.M.

(Somebody stop me.)

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 13 June 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

This has been getting me lately. Great song. Hem

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

I think pretty much all the music in my extremely depressing rotation has made me cry. But of all the bands, Red House Painters has done it the most. Every album of theirs has something that makes me weep like a baby. And I like it....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

yeah but you can't listen to melancholic music all the time surely. i mean you must have some stuff you can shake your arse too as well

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

yes, yes I do.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:35 (twenty years ago) link

heh, ive just seen your sly and the family stone thread, and i am now fully reassured

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:37 (twenty years ago) link

mojave 3: prayer for the paranoid
the smiths: please please let me get what i want
red house painters: drop
jawbreaker: boxcar
neil young: helpless
soul asylum: runaway train (no joke)
cat power: sea of love

off hand.

― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:46 (twenty years ago) link

I just saw where Sundar mentioned "Pennyroyal Tea", and it made me think of a moment when me & my son's momma (back when she was pregnant with him) were discussing, um, other options to having him, and this song came on the radio, and we were both like gushing tears and couldn't speak for hours. Ben Folds' "Brick" never ever had the same kinda effect on me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

As for songs that make me cry in a not-sad way...

REM's "Nightswimming". It makes me feel like a love-struck teenager on a gorgeous summer night. It makes me feel like there's something right with the world.

Serart's "Love is the Peace". This one is really all Arto Tunc Boyaciyan. I was not expecting anything nearly this gorgeous on this album. Absurdly powerful for something so sonically subdued. It took me out of my 'self' for the duration in a way I was very surprised and moved by.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

apology for an accident, american music club

antiphon by charles atlas for a number of reasons, the first time I heard them play it live, it was so heartbreakingly pretty, and so perfectly composed (they're friends), the room fell so silent, and I felt so good for them, as thought they had written the perfect lullaby. and then they let me name it.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

"now that i'm a junkie" by the tv personalities nearly made me cry a week or so ago, nearly but not quite

― duane, Friday, 13 June 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Song to the Muhfukkin' Siren - Tim Buckley
That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen
History Lesson Pt. 2 - Minutemen

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

Song to the Muhfukkin' Siren

HAhhahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

Last song that made me cry was 'Make Up Your Mind' by the Heptones...just because it's so fucking beautiful.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'm Not Crazy - Versus

and, many eons ago:

Night Shift - Commodores

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

Leonard Cohen, "Take This Longing"
Talk Talk, "It's My Life" (the video, at least)
Big Star, "Big Black Car"
Beatles, "Long Long Long"
Eno, Another Green World (tears of joy upon first listen)
Replacements, "Satisfied"

there's more, I think.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 14 June 2003 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

heres some:

james- out to get you
cat power- good woman
cat power- color and the kids
portishead- roads
johnny cash f/ fiona apple- bridge over troubled water
mary timony- aging astronauts
sebadoh- willing to wait
flaming lips- waiting for a superman
low- will the night
low- point of disgust
low- two step
granddady- miner at the dial-a-view/so you reach to the skies

more i cant remember

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 14 June 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

The last part of 'The Way You Say Goodnight' by Magnetic Fields, and 'Come Back From San Francisco' by them also.

All of Blood On The Tracks.

'Slippin' by DMX

'Toilet Tisha' by Outkast (the part where her mum starts screaming).

― David Steans, Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

Smashmouth's "Your Man," the second track on their self-titled third album is this lost classic that perkily describes this twisted relationship with equal parts resentment, gratitude and befuddlement. At the end he starts screaming "what you need, I ain't got, you should be gone by now but you're not...but you're not" on top of clangin church bells and dorky keyboard blips. It's so pathetic, beautiful and funny that it gets me every time.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

You're Missing, Thunder Road, The Promise, Backstreets, Sandy - Bruce Springsteen
second the Neil Young from above. Flying On the Ground Is Wrong & the Rainy Day cover of same are good ones too.
Atmosphere - Joy Division
'Round Here - Counting Crows
'Irene Wilde' - Ian Hunter
'SLeeping With the TV On - DIctators
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Dylan
Here Comes a Regular - Replacements
Behind Blue Eyes -Who
Lots of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Townes van Zandt, Johnny Cash
Whiskey Bottle, Looking For a Way Out - Uncle Tupelo

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 14 June 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Oddly, there are bits on the Eurythmics' inexplicably maligned soundtrack to "1984" which I find strikingly emotional, such as "For the Love of Big Brother" and, most tear-conjuringly, "Julia." "Doubleplusgood," meanwhile, is just ecstatically silly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

pale blue eyes - velvet underground (it has gotten to the point that i HATE that song now), half of you AND good woman - cat power.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 15 June 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

baked bean teeth wrote:

I'm Not Crazy - Versus

oh yes.

but i'm without this song now, as I've only ever had it on mp3 and i've switched computers. can't ever seem to find it on slsk! (and the song's just called "Crazy" btw)

― Aaron A., Monday, 16 June 2003 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

Patti Smith-Piss Factory
Ramones-What's Your Name
Prince-Sometimes It Snows in April
Lucinda Williams-Sweet Old World
Madonna-Into the Groove (reminds me of when I was happiest, makes me feel old,boo hoo hoo)

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 16 June 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

WHOOO...wow.

Radiohead- Exit Music For A Film
REM- Perfect Circle
Cody Chesnutt- Deliberation, Enough Of Nothing
Maggie's Dream- Why Do We Sigh As We Sing
Clash- Complete Control (this 'un makes me FEEL alive)
Replacements- Unsatisfied, Answering Machine
Tito & Hector- anything by these two makes me weep for humanity

And many, many more...

― Francis Watlington, Monday, 16 June 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link

all of her handwriting by trembling blue stars, probably 'do people ever?' most

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 16 June 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

alistair galbraith 'stone'

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 16 June 2003 02:56 (twenty years ago) link

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