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Songs that have made you cry
devomedes:
One of my closest friends, K, and I used to sit in my basement all of the time, bullshitting about music and smoking hookah. We'd try to one-up each other all of the time, intellectualizing whatever we were listening to, trying to find "the greatest song of all time." I'd play a Decemberists song, he'd play a Radiohead song, we'd have to get up to Mozart or something. But we always agreed on one album, and yeah, on these forums and for our generation, it's about as revolutionary to say this as "I like the White Album," but... we always settled on Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea." When we put that one on, we could just shut the fuck up and listen. The greatness was received, automatic, accepted.
A year ago, one of our mutual friends, A, died of a heroin overdose. It was sent out over campus e-mail, and I realized that I had been sitting with A about three hours before his passing.
I ran into K in the quad, and we headed to the coffee shop on campus to just be together. Not to intellectualize, not even to grieve, just to sit. Blaring over the soundsystem was "Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2." I looked at him, bleary-eyed, and said "I couldn't take any other music right now."
So yeah, that song makes me cry.
LukeSimm:
There are two Tori Amos songs that have made me cry.
Me and a Gun, just because it is the most depressing thing I have ever heard. No instuments, just her singing about a certain experience in her life. Urgh.
And then there's Hey Jupiter. I first listened to it while on a bus ride home, and actualy cried on the bus. Que a random person sitting next to me asking if i'm alright. "Yes, it's just this song is so..."
I don't think I'll ever get a stranger look in my life.
--- Luke
billiumbean:
--- Quote from: devomedes on 16 Jan 2009, 11:37 ---"Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2."
--- End quote ---
I actually came here to mention that song. I'm sorry about your friend.
Uber Ritter:
Often I cry more singing songs then listening to them.
"Sicut Cervus" by Palestrina hits me like a ton of bricks when the tenor part (my part) reaches the last repetition of 'desiderat' with that swelling, rising progression. That song, in general, is hard to beat in sheer beauty or in its evocation of love and longing, and it's two and a half minutes long and 450 years old.
The strange appalachian spiritual "This is My Beloved" has made my tear up a couple of the times I've sang it. It's a very odd, almost ethereally celtic-sounding highland song with an odd harmonic arrangement (highland spirituals being rather different from lowland black spirituals--they sound much less American, much more old world, harmonic rather than melodic, etc).
"When David Heard" by the not very famous 17th century Anglo/Cornish/Welsh composer Thomas Tomkins made my cry repeatedly while performing it. It's a very expressive polyphonic setting of David's famous "Would to God I had died for thee" response to the death of his son found in the Bible.
"Erbame Dich" by Bach from the Matthew Passion has gotten me on a regular basis as well when I listen to it.
Huh, really religious list. I guess secular music can make me get close to weepy, but it rarely pushes me over the edge. Then again, I tend to listen to religious music while feeling crappy, while I avoid Joy Division except when I'm in an okay mood.
Patrick:
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones. Yahoo recently (like a month ago) listed it as the single saddest song ever recorded in the English language.
No word on "saddest song in an obscure Inuit tongue" but I hear that's coming soon.
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