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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Johnny C on 08 Jul 2006, 21:20
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Seriously. Why does every song the sonofabitch releases bring me to or near to tears? Like, come on. I was listening to "Casimir Pulaski Day" which I hadn't listened to in a while and suddenly I realized it was about the girl's cancer and I just went "FUCK FUCK FUCK" and almost lost precious fluid out of my eyes. That twee fucker.
Does anyone else have this same problem?
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Aye...
With the same song. Particularly cause it hits home for me. I had a friend die recently of leukemia.
Also, with John Wayne Gacy... that song's just flat out sad.
"His father was a drinker, and his mother cried in bed..."
*sob*
But that's not the case with all of his songs. For instance, the first track on "Greetings to Michigan" (All Good Naysayers...) always gives me a wide smile and makes me want to dance around with my arms swinging in random directions.
Also, the new album "The Avalanche" is REALLY good and has a lot of happy songs on it.
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Gosh, 'Casimir Pulaski Day' is about the saddest song I've ever heard. The first time you actually really listen to the lyrics... man.
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Geez. The only album that brought me to tears was Autechre's "Amber."
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Only songs that have ever bought me for tears have been 'Here Am I' by Sol Invictus and 'Something to Cling To' by Skyclad. Both for good reason. Their songs about the human condition that, I believe, anyone could be bought to tears to in the right circumstances.
The right circumstances being, for me, excessive drunkenness.
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Pearls Before Swine's "I Saw The World", from their 1968 album Balaklava made me cry like a little boy when I first heard it. A combination of circumstances in my life and the pure fragile beauty of the song itself just made something snap inside me.
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Oh. Here was me thinking this was a thread about some mash-up between Sufjan Stevens and some indie band I'd never heard of called "My Tearducts".
Seriously.
EDIT: as for sad songs, the saddest I can think of is "The Testimony of Patience Kershaw" by some bloke called Frank Higgins. I know it via its recording by a lovely English folk singer named Elle (pronounced "Ellie") Osborne:
http://www.elleo.com/mp3s/The-Testimony-of-Patience-Kershaw.mp3
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Because NO THING COMPARES
NO THING COMPARES
TO YOU
Godammit, I'm starting to tear up now after just typing that. There we go, one single tear.
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And now I'm fine.
(sinead oconnor version obviously)
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Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons is probably the song most likely to make me cry. There's just something about that song, I dunno.
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I think Bird Gehrl is the bigger tear-jerker, but I get chills from all of the Johnsons' songs.
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Antony And The Johnsons is so sad that it ranks past The Cure on the mope-o-meter. Like, "I'd dig my own grave if it wasn't for the fact that someday you'll want there to be more earth and I'll just be taking up space" levels.
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geez.. i never listen to lyrics. unless you're Pulp. i'm gonna go experiment with that now.
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If you are experimenting with Sufjan, you should take a hanky with you to catch your weeping.
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Ah come on! They have some affected gay humour, listen to My Lady Story for example. Antony and the Johnsons are not allways a mopefest, though most of the time of course you are correct.
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Yes... Casimir Pulaski Day is officially the saddest fucking song ever.
But, there are a lot of his songs that make me tap my feet and smile.
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Ah come on! They have some affected gay humour, listen to My Lady Story for example. Antony and the Johnsons are not allways a mopefest, though most of the time of course you are correct.
You mean the song that's at least partly about breast cancer?
"My lady story is one of breat annihilation/my lady story is one of breast amputation"
LOL
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If there's one song that can stir up some emotion in me it is definitely The Legendary Pink Dots' Close Your Eyes, You Can Be A Space Captain. For various little reasons.
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Hey Darling...
NO THING COMPARES
NO THING COMPARES
TO YOU
(There goes that single tear drop AGAIN. Every fucking time! You know what I thought about when I had to cry in drama? Yeah, that's right)
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Man, there are quite a few songs by elliott smith that almost make me cry. (yeah, I've been whoring him too much, my bad)
If you have a significant idea of what his personality was like and the awful circumstances in which he died, there is a line in Kings Crossing that give me chills at the VERY least.
He sings "Give me one good reason not to do it" and then in the background you can very faintly hear his girlfriend say "Because I love you" I swear, it brings so many images to your head at once (elliott, his girlfriend, and him plunging the steak knife into his heart).
Wow, that sounded way too emo for my own good.
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Much to my dad's chagrin, the one song that always gets to me if I'm actively listening to it is Loretta Lynn's "Miss Being Mrs.". Knowing her history doesn't help at all. It's just a simple song played on acoustic guitar, but her voice is so powerful and full of sorrow over the loss of her husband, and it's filled with all the simple little things that changed. It gets me everytime.
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I lost it during:
Eels - It's A Motherfucker (when I realized it was about how empty it was when you lose your family. I thought it was about a girl leaving him)
Songs that make me really said and teary-eyed:
Pearl Jam - Footsteps
Modest Mouse - The Cold Part
Back when I was a depressed teenager, I would cry whenever I heard:
Dashboard Confessional - This Old Wound
Staind - Epiphany
From Autumn To Ashes - Autumn's Monologue
Evanescence - Hello
KoRn - Daddy (mostly because Davis sounds so goddamn distraught throughout this song, plus the subject matter, makes me believe it's probably true)
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Eels - It's A Motherfucker
Ok, you stole my crying song, what the hell?
I am known to cry to song though, here are some specifics:
-Ryan Adams - half the songs of Heartbreaker
-Cat Power - Names/I Don't Blame You
-Death Cab For Cutie - Tiny Vessels
-some Jenny Lewis songs just because of her voice
-Jets To Brazil - Further North, Lucky Charm, Sea Anemone (they're the -winners of making me cry)
-Martha Wainwright - Who Was I Kidding
-Sufjan on numerous occasions
-The Cure
-fucking BRIGHT EYES - Lua (I hate Bright Eyes so much, this was like a defeat)
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...as for sad songs, the saddest I can think of is "The Testimony of Patience Kershaw" by some bloke called Frank Higgins. I know it via its recording by a lovely English folk singer named Elle (pronounced "Ellie") Osborne...
Been listening to this song all day, and it's definatley more depressing than Casimir Pulaski Day by miles.
Edit: I just listen to Romulus (by Sufjan) and it really struck a chord with me. I've not been this close to crying in a long, long time.
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-fucking BRIGHT EYES
I like Bright Eyes. And they make me sad sometimes. "Bowl Of Oranges" especially.
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There's this subset of post-industrial type songs about the fact that the human race is doomed by its own nature that should really make me cry if I think about it. They're often too badass though. The best are 'C'est un Reve' by Death in June, in which Douglas P shouts out in French 'Where is Klaus Barbie' to answer himself 'In the Heart, in the black heart', finally capping it off by stating with immense finality 'Liberty is a dream', and 'Reign I Forever' by Blood Axis, which is basically just Thor laughing at humanity because war and hatred will rule forever.
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...as for sad songs, the saddest I can think of is "The Testimony of Patience Kershaw" by some bloke called Frank Higgins. I know it via its recording by a lovely English folk singer named Elle (pronounced "Ellie") Osborne...
Been listening to this song all day, and it's definatley more depressing than Casimir Pulaski Day by miles.
YAY! I WIN!!
I don't want to spoil the song for anyone, but there's one particular line in it that really gets me. She sings "A lady sir, oh no, not me" - and then the line after that, oh man. You just wanna hug her.
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-fucking BRIGHT EYES
I like Bright Eyes. And they make me sad sometimes. "Bowl Of Oranges" especially.
I too like bright eyes, but he can get heavy-"The joy in discovery" really makes me sad. M83-farewell/goodbye is another one-the music alone gets me all weepy 'sobs'
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Casimir Pulaski Day is truly heart-breaking. I recall driving along Lakeshore Drive in Chicago while fresh snow fell in the mid-afternoon and this song coming on. I was overcome by the power it had, especially in the atmosphere around me.
Other songs that have played with my tear ducts:
"Try Not To Breathe" - REM
"The Weight" - The Band
"Crawling Back To You" - Tom Petty
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I don't understand how this song has "cancer of the bone" in the second line, and it still took me like 5 listens to actually figure out what it was about. It think it's the fucking banjo. It just makes me think that it's a happy song. Yeah, put me down in the "cried when he realized what the song was about and really listened to the lyrics for the first time" column.
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Oh. Here was me thinking this was a thread about some mash-up between Sufjan Stevens and some indie band I'd never heard of called "My Tearducts".
I fell for that, too. Coincidence? In fact, I was going to name my reply "Sufjan Stevens vs. My Tearducts vs. Badly Drawn Boy" (in terms of musical similarity), until the thread turned into everybody's sob story.
I flinch everytime I hear Death Cab's "Marching Bands of Manhatten", as it was playing the first and only time my boyfriend was sentimental to me. "Your love is gonna drown"- I'm testament to that. Other than that, I can't think of individual songs with emotional repercussions, though certain lines just trigger the faucet.
"Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole ...And there is comfort in the sound."
EEEECK. It's a damn good thing I don't pay particular attention to Sufjan's lyrics while the tracks are playing.
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When my grandfaher died i wanted the radio station i volunteer at to play something but the only thing i could think of was 'Chicago', which was overplayed but they played it anyway.
So i played it for my mom and she heard it for the first time and cried.
Yeah.
He's like that
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Also when I listen to Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' album I can sometimes get to the second song without crying.
If i'm lucky
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You mean the song that's at least partly about breast cancer?
"My lady story is one of breat annihilation/my lady story is one of breast amputation"
LOL
Great, now they are all mope. Damn.
If we are talking about sad songs nothing beats Low - listen to (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace and tell me that is not the saddest song ever.
But generally I do not weep to songs(or anything really, I rarely have a good cry). However the first couple of times I listened to The Arcade Fire - In the Backseat I could feel I was choking up. It doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics(though they are sad enough) but the overt emotion in her voice, especially at the end. In my experience it has a lot to do with your general mental state ie. when you are down and out you are more likely to cry when you hear a certain song.
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Great i didn't know the Antony song went like that, now it's not half as beautiful as before. Sucky sucky sucky. Btw Prae Mech i agree, very much. If i'm happy i don't cry over Casimir Pulaski Day, i mean it takes more than a song to bring me down. But maybe that's just me.
Kite Flying Society - Breathe (they cry, scream, yell, whelps and whispers as if they were running away from the ancient ones)
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Risking any shred of indie cred, I have to say Maggie May by Rod Stewart. Does the trick every time.
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There are a couple of Cat Power songs that make me a little misty-eyed. Good Woman comes to mind.
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Also when I listen to Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' album I can sometimes get to the second song without crying.
If i'm lucky
:(
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Astral Weeks is a great album.
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I <3 Astral Weeks
Maybe I need to listen to it again, because I don't remember ever feeling that sad listening to it. >_>
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There are a couple of Cat Power songs that make me a little misty-eyed. Good Woman comes to mind.
Good woman is a magnificent song.
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Risking any shred of indie cred, I have to say Maggie May by Rod Stewart. Does the trick every time.
Lester Bangs wrote a great short story based on that song. Its in 'Psychotic Reactions and Carbeoratour Dung', the same collection that has the review that convinced me to buy Astral Weeks
Don't knock it until you listen to it
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Ah, Casimir Pulaski Day. The last lyrics, "And he takes and he takes and he takes" get me every time.
I like Bright Eyes. And they make me sad sometimes. "Bowl Of Oranges" especially.
I'm a big Bright Eyes fan, and that song is actually one of the few happy ones I can think of.
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Risking any shred of indie cred, I have to say Maggie May by Rod Stewart. Does the trick every time.
Lester Bangs wrote a great short story based on that song. Its in 'Psychotic Reactions and Carbeoratour Dung', the same collection that has the review that convinced me to buy Astral Weeks
Lester Bangs is pretty much one of my heroes and I try to rip off his writing as much as possible.
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Good woman is a magnificent song.
"This is WHYYYYY, I am LYYYYIING,
When I SAAAAAY
I don't love you no more"
Get's me every fucking time. And those damn kids in the background. Damn kids.
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I'm a big Bright Eyes fan, and that song is actually one of the few happy ones I can think of.
I know, and that makes me even more sad! I wish I knew why it made me mist up.
Also: Cat Power's some seriously sad tunes.
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Hellz yeah! I just read on Pitchfork that Sufjan in playing a gig in Manchester. At last, a good indie artist is playing in the north of England!
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I think that John Wayne Gacy, Jr. is way sadder than Casimir Pulaski Day
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Man, I think they are both on an identical level of sadness. And so are most of his songs, or at least the ones off of Illinois. (I haven't heard Michigan or Seven Swans yet.)
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I've never listend to Sufjan Stevens but "Remember Forever" by Tiger Army and "Save You" by Pearl Jam are two songs that make me very very sad.
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Man, I think they are both on an identical level of sadness. And so are most of his songs, or at least the ones off of Illinois. (I haven't heard Michigan or Seven Swans yet.)
Gacy Jr is more chilling than sad. Polaski Day makes me choke up (most of his songs do), but when Sufjan sings "and on my best behavior/I am really just like him/look beneath the floorboards/for the secrets I have hid"...man. It hits me in a very different way.
I need to check out Michigan and Seven Swans, also.
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I haven't heard Michigan or Seven Swans yet.)
Oh gosh. Seven Swans...that entire album is just a collaboration of sad. I mean, some of the lyrics are more pointless than they are in Illinois, but a lot of those songs are gorgeously heartbreaking. The Dress Looks Nice On You is a personal tear-jerker favorite. But the whole album has that kind of softer, melancholy sound.
I do love Casimir Pulaski Day, though. Sufjan Stevens has a gift for making me incredibly sad/happy whenever he wants. Stupid him.
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Elliott Smith - Twilight
Iron & Wine - Upward Over the Mountain
Those are the only two that ever get me.
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So what do you guys think of "Enjoy your Rabbit"?
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I got the Sufjan Stevens album before reading this article and was like "Shoot, this thing is going to make me cry and stuff."
Strangely enough, none of the songs caused me to shed a tear, not even "Casimir Pulaski Day."
I guess that means I have no soul...
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So what do you guys think of "Enjoy your Rabbit"?
I've heard that. Holy crap. I was NOT expecting...whatever the hell that was.
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Gacy Jr is more chilling than sad.
"Chilling" is pretty much the best word to describe that song. Way to hit that nail's head.
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I've heard that. Holy crap. I was NOT expecting...whatever the hell that was.
Sufjan's second album. Contrary to popular belief, he didn't spring from the womb fully formed. In fact, he dabbled in electronica.
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A Sun Came(his debut) has some great tracks though. Demetrius is even more spooky than Seven Swans and A Winner Needs A Wand has this middle eastern folk feel.
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Fond Farewell by Elliott Smith is definately a tear jerker, as is Tommorrow tomorrow; also by Elliott.
As for Casimir Pulaski Day, I get choked up now and then when i hear it, but it almost always brings a tear to my eye when I play it on the guitar and sing the words myself.
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Sufjan Stevens...though I generally like his music...he's totally the kid who needed to get beaten up in high school...and not just by the typical jock bullies...I'm talking random d & d geeks looked at sufjan and said...dude..you seriously need a beatdown
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That is my absolute least favourite type of post.
"Hey kids, senseless violence! YEAH!!"
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I hate this thread.
Everynight I come home after a nice evening and feel the urge to download any song here that I haven't heard or relisten to the ones I have heard and I end up crying.
People on the interenet are making me cry.
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Don't care how overplayed its gettting; the first few times i heard Augie March's 'One Crowded Hour' i teared up
Once while he was in a studio next to me singing it I think i almost cried
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As for Casimir Pulaski Day, I get choked up now and then when i hear it, but it almost always brings a tear to my eye when I play it on the guitar and sing the words myself.
Replace "guitar" with "banjo" and voila, you have me.
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Sufjan Stevens songs played on the banjo? And just when I thought that mans music couldn't get any whiter.
Seriously though, I agree with the Elliott Smith songs that have been listed. Not so sure about Sufjan, I think I could probably be more moved by the Illinoise album if there wasn't that feeling of affectation surrounding it. I find the songs on Seven Swans much more powerful.
Oh, and ditto on "Good Woman" by Cat Power.
EDIT: And I just noticed firefly made that point about Seven Swans earlier. My bad. :-/
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"Feeling of affectation?" What does that mean? Just curious.
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The sense that it's all show, that Sufjan is adopting a particular attitude in order to convey a false or heightened impression, rather than providing an honest and genuine account of himself. Don't necessarily agree with it, but that's basically what it means.
Like if you go to a party full of posh people, and you start acting posh too even though you're not.
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Right.
Essentially what I'm saying is - unlike with Seven Swans where one got the feeling Sufjan was writing songs from the heart (like with subject material that dealt very closely with his faith etc.) with Illinoise, though his choice of subject material was both unique and clever, it (to me at least) didn't feel as genuinely empassioned.
Not that I think it's a bad album. Not at all. In fact as a piece of art, I think it transcends Seven Swans in a number of respects. But if we're talking emotion and the ability to move me... I prefer Seven Swans.