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Well the meaning is all in the title, had a quick check back through the archives and couldn't find a thread on this particular topic. I just wondered if there were any sort of song (or specific song) that just makes you tear up? Either because it reminds you of someone, or just because its so emotive of something in your own life.
I was going to start with "Thunderchild" from Jeff Waynes war of the worlds. It made me cry as it tells the story of a loan battleship bravely and suicidely charging into battle against the martian invaders buying time for the refugees who are fleeing behind it. It made me cry because I knew that if there was an event like that in real life someone would do something so good and noble, it just hit me then how much I like humanity :-).
I realise that this will most likely not get many responses, this tends to be a very personal issue and I can completly understand why people wouldn't want to put something so important to them on show.
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For some reason, I tend to get choked up during Iron & Wine's Trapeze Swinger (namely this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRRVOFNiZ0&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRRVOFNiZ0&feature=related))
I wish I knew why...
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Archive's The Pain Gets Worse.
And India Arie's Ready For Love.
Stuff Sounds More Profound If You Put It In All-Caps.
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Baba O'Riley by the Who was playing at the end of my uncle's funeral ('twas one of his favorite songs, and one of mine), so I shed a tear or two for that one.
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'Far From Me' by Nick Cave. It used to make me cry anyway because it's a song where the musicianship and production is virtually flawless for the song. But nowadays, the first two verses describe my current relationship and the second two describe a former friendship that got in the way of that relationship. Perfectly. It's uncanny.
'Love Letter,' also by Nick Cave, makes me cry simply because it's one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard.
'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' makes me cry because it remind me of my late friend Dave, a great, great man who once played it live at a charity gig that I booked. I've never looked at the song the same since and can't even listen to it now. Honestly I thought it was such a beautiful song anyway that it used to make me tear up a bit in the first place. I'm a sucker for what I feel is a real sentiment.
'The Universal' by Blur makes me cry, especially the closing strings. I have no idea why.
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The two that come most quickly to mind are Neutral Milk Hotel's "Three Peaches" and Iron and Wine's "Passing Afternoon".
Actually, some of Jeffrey Lewis's stuff is like that too.
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Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Silver and Gold
Last song on the posthumous last album, all about the things he wants to do before he gets too old to do them. The song I want played at my funeral.
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For some reason, I tend to get choked up during Iron & Wine's Trapeze Swinger (namely this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRRVOFNiZ0&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRRVOFNiZ0&feature=related))
I wish I knew why...
Because it's a fucking brilliant song?
Songs that get me teary-eyed:
"Sorrow Boy" by Akron/Family
"Left & Leaving" by The Weakerthans
"Poison Oak" by Bright Eyes
"Staying Alive"/"A Gentleman Caller" by Cursive
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEldRCMreQ&fmt=18
Mainly because I'll never be as good as Gavin Harrison at the drums.
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For some reason, I tend to get choked up during Iron & Wine's Trapeze Swinger (namely this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRRVOFNiZ0&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRRVOFNiZ0&feature=related))
I wish I knew why...
Because it's a fucking brilliant song?
It definately is a brilliant song but none of the moments the song covers really resonate with my life. I suppose it transcends all that and makes me forget what I've actually experienced.
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Over the years, too many to list or even remember. But what comes to mind as a moment I can never pass dry-eyed is the appearance of the spirit of the boy near the end of Britten's Curlew River. Music can do more to my emotions than anything else, which is why I love it so.
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cat power-metal heart
france gall-chanson pour qu'un m'aimes un peu
and possibly slowdive-alison?
i rarely cry over music. i prefer to dance to it.
oh just remembered another song that has made me cry when i was younger but probably wouldn't nowadays:
oasis-wonderwall
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"New Dawn Fades" - Joy Division
Always. Always, always, always.
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blindblindblind - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band
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Almost anything they ever fucking did - Joy Division
Always. Always, always, always.
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The Night by Morphine always provoked a few emotions. Never got to the point of crying but it's been close.
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The Radio Dept. - I Wanted You to Feel the Same
Fuck
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blindblindblind - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band
Oh hell yes.
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I like to cry in my free time.
Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
Maybe I'm the only one who gets overblown by the fact that this song has over 100 tracks in it, maybe I'm the only one who's read the incredible book that the song is based on (Angel Riots - Ibi Kasilisk), and maybe I'm the only one who cries to this song on a good day
Circulatory System - Yesterday's World
For those who don't know, the Circulatory System is the last of E6 endeavors, and this song best represents the last dying cry of the E6 collective; a reflective theme, an epic build up, and half the collective riding on its back.
John Frusciante - Smile From the Streets You Hold
The title track of the of Frusciante's album, an album that was sold just for heroin money. Give this song a listen. Tell me that song isn't tragic.
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wow, I didn't think I would get this many replies, thanks guys.
Second song that made me cry "the last post" every time its played I get a little bleary, never mind when its played on the 11th of november.
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Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
Maybe I'm the only one who gets overblown by the fact that this song has over 100 tracks in it, maybe I'm the only one who's read the incredible book that the song is based on (Angel Riots - Ibi Kasilisk), and maybe I'm the only one who cries to this song on a good day
That is a damn good song. A few songs off of You Forgot It In People never fail to move me. Particularly "I'm Still Your Fag," "Lover's Spit" and "Pitter Patter Goes My Heart."
Also, thank you, whoever uploaded The Apple Miner Colony's self-titled to the mediaf!re thread. "The Heat Haunted Fever" is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard yet, and is damn powerful, too.
EDIT - Oh, also "Instrumental Died In the Bathtub and Took the Daydreams With It" by K.C. Accidental.
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Oh, also, the live/acoustic version of Nutshell by Alice in Chains.
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I may be mocked for this, but-- Death Cab for Cutie's "What Sarah Said" chokes me up every time I hear it. The combination of the imagery, message of the song, and the melody of it..it gets me. I don't know why.
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I agree with the Broken Social Scene; the first time I heard "Pitter Patter Goes My Heart"? Goddamn.
But anyways, "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin and "Samskeyti" by Sigur Ros are guilty. :cry:
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"Race for the Prize" and "Do You Realize???" by the Flaming Lips (hell, most of The Soft Bulletin), "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Baby Huey, and "Here Comes the Sun" by The Beatles can bring (or at least, have brought) tears of joy to my eyes.
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The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion always makes me cry. That is my emotional gut punch song though, whatever I am feeling, it amplifies it and allows me to release. Actually probably a lot of Okkervil tunes do.
Sunday Morning Coming Down gets me but only when I'm already feeling depressed. It doesn't really matter who sings it-- Kris or Johnny, either will do. The Boat by Chuck Ragan is another.
Actually I think I cry at a lot of songs depending on situation... lots of old country tunes (I'm looking at you, Jolene by Dolly Parton) and once it was a GY!BE tune from ages ago for absolutely no reason, that was the worst cuz I wasn't alone. ("Are you crying?!" YES. "...Why?" IT SOUNDS SAD FUCK YOU) Tons of church songs, the ones we played at my Grandpa's funeral and the ones they played at my good friend's dad's funeral especially.
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Air On The G String - Bach
I don't really cry when I listen to music. I never have. But if I was to do so, it would be to that piece.
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Do You Realize, Flaming Lips... when my Grandpa died. Because he certainly did NOT realize. Bitter, cantankerous old man, I was sad that he lived his life so full of hate.
Madahoochi's "Seems Like She Loves Me" - fell in love to that song, and then couldn't really listen to it after that girl broke my heart.
Mofro's "Florida." Just some really powerful lines in that song. "Like watching someone you love die slow..."
Couple others during my more angsty moments, usually love songs when I'm feeling lonely. Or occasionally songs that remind me of my asshole brother who hasn't called me in like 2 years.
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Summer in the Sun- Terry Jacks
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Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel
Gets me every damn time.
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"Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two." Fuck, man.
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"You are the New Day" by Randy Newman, performed by the King's Singers.
"Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor" credited to J.S. Bach, one of the best muscial representations I've ever heard of raw power -- not uncontrolled volume, but power, the attitude that says "I don't have to blow away your village with storm force ten; I can just rattle your liver to jelly like this. Two points damage: you die."
"Patriot's Dream" by Gordon Lightfoot (before he defected to country music).
Last, but hardly least:
"The Bravest" by Tom Paxton. http://www.tompaxton.com/download.html (http://www.tompaxton.com/download.html)
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Tom Smith - "A Boy And His Frog".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-xvlYMGck
I cry. Like a baby.
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Oh my. I think I have found a new love.
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Jim White's "Christmas Day" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6vlBpbk5g) never fails to make me tear up, particularly the imagery of the last verse:
I remember quite clearly a bad Muzak version
Of James Taylor's big hit, called "Fire and Rain"
Was playing as you crouched down and tearfully kissed me
And I thought, "Damn, what good fiction I will mold from this terrible pain"
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Low's Lullaby is almost like an emotional ipecac for me - it provokes a purgative reaction if I need one.
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For some reason, "Last Days of Disco" by Yo La Tengo always gets me down.
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pink turns into blue by husker du.
i mean, damn.
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Death Cab - Styrofoam Plates
Bic Runga - Sway
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Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure - Weakerthans.
I don't even like cats, man. Why does this happen every time?
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While Your Lips Are Still Red - Nightwish
Love Story (I have no idea who it's by, I was just learning to play it for someone.)
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Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure - Weakerthans.
Yessssss. John K. Samson is an amazing lyricist. Left & Leaving is filled with sad, sad songs.
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I didnt think it was appropriate to say The Weakerthans so I thought of some others.
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I don't think a song has ever made me cry, but I guess I listen to some pretty sad music.
I think "Modern Girl" by Sleater-Kinney is maybe the saddest song ever.
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you're all a bunch of pussies for crying to music, pussies
Nah, I've just never felt compelled to cry while listening to a piece of music. Any case where I might have is solely based on the music's relation to some kind of life event and not the merits of the songs themselves.
That being said, although I refuse to listen to ITAOTS for the near future, some Neutral Milk Hotel songs can make you feel really dead and needing inside. For several nights straight I listened to Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 thinking about a girl I could never have and it was the epitome of being really pathetic to music. If I were in a pathetic mood, I could easily envision blasting Jets to Brazil's "I Typed For Miles" while shouting "YOU KEEP FUCKING UP MY LIFE" ad nauseum.
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yo la tengo - tiny birds
the mountain goats - no children
probably a lot of other stuff by the mountain goats too, but that one comes most readily to mind. and just about everything on sufjan stevens' seven swans. and also just about everything on broken social scene's self-titled album. and a lot of stuff by bedhead and the new year.
so basically, 50% of the time i spend listening to music is spent in my room with the door locked crying into my pillow.
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yo la tengo - tiny birds
This. So hard. Tania knows what's what.
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Stars
Her Space Holiday
Spiritualized
Elliott Smith
Bedhead/The New Year
But the big one...
Nineteen Forty-Five's song "Someday I'll End It All"
I'd paint the walls bright red
with a gun and my head
if I thought that it would send me to you
When my ex-fiancé very abruptly left me, I used to lay on the floor and listen to that song on repeat while sobbing uncontrollably.
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A Stone by Okkervil River.
Seriously, it just ruins me.
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Untitled 8 (Popplagid) by Sigur Ros still gets me everytime. Especially live it's just so overwhelming.
Grace by Jeff Buckley used to get me with the wailing at the end.
Cicatriz ESP - The Mars Volta (that double guitar solo (Froosh and Omar <3) with the percussion at the 9 minute mark)
Fitzcarraldo - The Frames
Also Bright Eyes used to get to me a lot with the first three albums.
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I cannot say that any given song has ever possessed the raw energy to bring me to tears based solely within itself.
however i would be lying if i said there wasn't a period after i lost my fiancee where i found it incredibly difficult to listen or do anything for that matter without breaking down. to this day there are four songs that manage to get me every time for various personal reasons
wish you were here- pink floyd
the sound of silence- simon and garfunkle
the grace- the never ending white lights
to be alone with you - sufjan stevens
to be perfectly honest i have no idea why I'm dumping this on whoever reads it so my apologise.
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Don't apologise. No-one is callous enough to jump on you over that. This is a thread about being emotionally affected and you contributed as such. I'm sorry you lost your fiancee.
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Man.. i lot of the songs mentioned here should get on a mixtape together or something.
A tape to send to someone.... that needs to kill themselves? nah.
But srsly. Great songs in here <3
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Don't apologise. No-one is callous enough to jump on you over that. This is a thread about being emotionally affected and you contributed as such. I'm sorry you lost your fiancee.
thanks mate, but i think its a defense mechanism more than anything to tell you the truth. i was young and still am but its left me jaded or what have you, im really not sure what im trying to get across here but thanks again.
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if i was capable of crying anymore, "Save You" by Pearl Jam would definitely be the song to do it.
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Good lord, this year crying was all about Skinny Love by Bon Iver. "I tell my love to wreck it all // cut out all the ropes and let me fall" : oh devastating.
I'm also prone to get a little glassy-eyed during Sigur Ros's Staralfur.
Oh and I totally second whoever wrote A Stone by Okkervil River. Actually most things by Okkervil River could make it onto the list.
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"The Testimony of Patience Kershaw", as performed by Elle Osborne. The line after "a lady, sir, oh no not me" is just a killer.
http://www.elleo.com/mp3s/The-Testimony-of-Patience-Kershaw.mp3 (http://www.elleo.com/mp3s/The-Testimony-of-Patience-Kershaw.mp3)
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"Revelation Big Sur" by Red House Painters. Especially when the first solo kicks in. That is a damn beautiful melody.
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Don McLean's Vincent. Damn my fucking dyslexia, that took forever to type out FUCK IT
I am typing much slower than usual now.
The Highwaymen - Live Forever
The Beatles - Because
Enya - Orinoco Flow (Apparently this and the previous one were both played for me while I was in the womb, so maybe it brought back that sense?)
And almost, Iron & Wine's "Naked As We Came." "Each Coming Night," too.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4wm6QQy36U
See also:
"Remember When" - Alan Jackson
"The Background" - Third Eye Blind (not so much cry, but I get chills)
"Neil Gow's Lament For The Death Of His Second Wife" - Neil Gow (Scottish baroque violin player)
The Neil Gow piece is easily the most beautiful piece of music ever written, and I stand firmly by it. If anybody can find a good solo violin version of it, no fucking around, no showoffy bullshit, I would love it if you'd link me the file.
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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.
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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
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"Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2."
I actually came here to mention that song. I'm sorry about your friend.
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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.
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"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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No word on "saddest song in an obscure Inuit tongue" but I hear that's coming soon.
That day is today.
"It's fuuuucking cold..."
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I'll bite
"Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips
"Collapse The Light Into Earth" by Porcupine Tree
"The Grey Havens" by Howard Shore
Those 3 are pretty big ones....
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LONG POST IS LONG
Really shitty music makes me depressed and cry. I'm serious. It's like, if people around the world consider THIS shit great music, then what the fuck am I doing even bothering anymore?
But really...not all of the following have made me cry, but they've brought me damn close...
Bob Dylan ~ Lay Lady Lay
It's a warm song. It feels warm and comfortable to me, very inviting...like I want to lay down in this song and just be there. It brings up vague nostalgia like I don't know what.
Coldplay ~ The Scientist
My ex-girlfriend used to be obsessed with this song. Now I connect it with her. Fuck I miss her.
Don McLean ~ Vincent
I remember standing completely still in my kitchen, this song playing in the living room, and just letting tears run down my cheeks, listening to this beautiful, sad song. "And when there was no hope in sight, on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do...but I could have told you, Vincent, the world was never made for one as beautiful as you."
The Highwaymen ~ Live Forever
This is a striking song about death and immortality through your works...but what strikes me the hardest and actually brought me to tears is that it's being sung by four people - Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings - the last two of which are already dead.
Iron & Wine ~ Naked as We Came / Each Coming Night
Two songs that deal with death and love in such tranquility it astounds me. Each Coming Night made me cry, Naked as We Came has threatened me. It suckered punched me in my heart.
J.S. Bach ~ Fugue in G Minor "Little Fugue"
This song makes me feel the same as Lay Lady Lay. This song makes me feel more at home than any house I've lived in. It alternately makes me want to cry and comforts me.
John Prine
Shit, too many to name offhand.
Marilyn Manson ~ Tourniquet
Okay, shut up, I like Manson, even if I'm not "supposed to" for whatever fucking reason. ...Anyways. This song feels immensely powerful to me (Coma White is another one), from the intonation to the way he describes her and the relationship he shares with her.
Melanie ~ Freedom Knows My Name
This is a song that I grew up listening to. When I met Melanie I requested this...it now evokes a lot of emotion thinking back to when I was younger.
Melanie ~ Arrow
Song preceding Freedom Knows My Name. Originally written by Cheryl Wheeler, it's one of those post-love songs that I'm a sucker for. "Maybe these dreams are leading me, maybe love is not as gentle as my memory, maybe time and wishful, half-remembered fantasies, are the greatest part."
Melanie ~ Photograph
Pointing out very simply how you're not the starry-eyed little idealist you were, that you had to grow up at some point and leave your dreams behind.
Too much Melanie. I listen to too much Melanie...ah, "Detroit or Buffalo," "In My Rock and Roll Heart," "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
Mogwai ~ We're No Here
This is the only Mogwai I know please don't lynch me. I still have to thank Jeph and these forums, though, for it.
This song really hits me, full force, everytime I listen to it. It's really simple, but something about it just hits a chord in me and blows me away...hits me with such strong emotion, it's crazy.
The Moody Blues ~ Forever Autumn
I am a sucker for post-love songs, have I not stated this? This one has so much dramatic quality to it that it never fails to make me shiver.
Pink Floyd ~ The Great Gig in the Sky
If I had to choose but one song from Pink Floyd, it would be this song. Such unbridled energy made me cry once, and I wish I could forget this song so I can listen to it with a fresh ear and hear its full impact once more.
The Who ~ Behind Blue Eyes
So many times, I think that this song was written for me.
W.A. Mozart ~ Rondo Alla Turca "The Turkish March"
For years I loved this song, but I never knew who it was. Just a few months ago I learned it was Mozart (I thought it was Tchaikovsky), and then a little while later bought a Mozart CD with this song on it. I couldn't stop listening to it, because it's this song that I've been wanting for years upon years, finally summed up in one moment. My father was with me when I listened to it for the first time, but he usually don't give a shit if I'm crying or not...saved on the questioning, at least.
Yeah, I was bored at 2:30 in the morning and wrote this out...
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"Half The World Away" - Noel Gallagher
Fuck the full-band arrangement with the rest of Oasis. Just Noel and an acoustic and the raw, unbridled sadness of living a kind of life you don't want to live. A good friend showed this to me right after I had moved away from my dad, with whom I've shared a turbulent relationship. The song became instantly relevant not only to that, but to my life soon after, as I realized that from then on, all of my old friends and all of my family would be, quite literally, half the world away.
And now, since I'm coming up on another transcontinental move, the song's relevance to my life is right back as strong as it's ever been, and so every time I've ever sung it at a gig, I've dedicated it to everybody in the expat community here. They're in the same boat as me.
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Warren Zevon's version of Knocking on Heaven's Door gets me every time.
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"The Only Moment We Were Alone" by Explosions in the Sky makes me replay every "so close, yet so far!" moment in my mind. I've cried several times while listening to it.
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Angels Son by Sevendust gets me to tear up when I listen to it.
And, while it doesn't any more, Forever by Papa roach. It came on when I was on my way home from work after my ex left and it just summed up everything I felt at that moment. I didn't want to hear anything remotely ballad like that day.
That's all I fucking heard at work. There was a song right before I left that was titled her name (which I don't want to mention) and I had to cover my mouth to muffle my scream.
That day sucked.
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Too many to count, this is just off the top of my head.
Radiohead- How to Disappear Completely and Idioteque(Two of the most beautiful songs ever)
The Weakerthans- The Pamphleteer
Devotchka- How it Ends
The Decemberists- Red Right Ankle
Death Cab for Cutie- Tiny Vessels
The entirety of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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First post! I joined just to respond to this thread; what an awesome topic to discuss. I love that someone mentioned Bon Iver. I'm from Eau Claire, WI (their hometown) so I've grown up with Justin Vernon around, and he's always been such an influence around here. A friend of mine is in the band as well; I love seeing them mentioned in the places I'd least expect. Not to mention the always heartbreaking Neutral Milk Hotel. Good taste around here!
Songs that kill me every time:
> Sia - Breathe Me
Be my friend/
Hold me, wrap me up/
Unfold me/
I am small/
I'm needy/
Warm me up/
And breathe me
(Just, oh my god. You have to hear it to understand; just the lyrics do nothing. This song has always tugged at my heartstrings, but to top it all off it's in the season finale of Six Feet Under, which makes me absolutely sob every time I see it. Highly highly recommend this song, and show!)
> The Books - Motherless Bastard
(The intro is silly and I love it, but the actual song is all instrumental and is so beautiful and, to me, completely devastating.)
> The Magnetic Fields - Grand Canyon
If I was the Grand Canyon/
I'd echo everything you say/
but I'm just me/
I'm only me/
and you used to love me that way
(If you don't know who Stephin Merritt is ((I assume most of you do)), I request that you go watch a few interviews with him on youtube and check out at least his 69 Love Songs album. He is absolutely brilliant. He is generally very sarcastic with his lyrics, but this song still gets me.)
There are definitely more, but I'll refrain from writing a novel here. :-)
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John Prine
Yes. Sam Stone & Angel From Montgomery get me every time.
Also, Origin Of Love by Hedwig & the Angry Inch. I know it's from a musical comedy, but that final verse never fails to bring the sob.
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"Our Love is Here to Stay" by George & Ira Gershwin always brings a bit of a lump to my throat. If you're not familiar with the song, read the lyrics below and then I'll tell you the story behind it:
It's very clear
Our love is here to stay
Not for a year
But ever and a day
The radio and the telephone
And the movies that we know
May just be passing fancies
And in time may go
But oh, my dear
Our love is here to stay
Together we're
Going a long long way
In time the Rockies may tumble
Gibraltar may crumble
They're only made of clay
But our love is here to stay.
Seems like a pretty normal love song, right? Well here's the story: George & Ira Gershwin were one of the great song-writing teams from the Tin Pan Alley era of American songs. George wrote the music, and Ira wrote the lyrics. In 1937 they were flying high, having moved from a successful career on Broadway to write songs for musicals in Hollywood. Then George started getting terrible headaches. Nobody really knew what was going on, and he continued working. On the 11th of July 1937 he collapsed and died: he'd had a brain tumour. He was 38. At the time of his death he'd been working on the music for a new song, and after his death his older brother Ira wrote lyrics to go with the melody left behind by George. The completed song was Our Love is Here to Stay.
Now with all that in mind, go back and read the lyrics again and see how they make you feel.
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"He Walked On Water" - Randy Travis
A song about his great-grandfather. I can't listen to this song anymore ever since my grandpa died. The music isn't particularly beautiful, the words not particularly poetic, but man, the song brings back memories, and I've just looked at the lyrics and man, I'm tearing up something vicious as I write this.
Man I really shouldn't have gone and looked at that, totally fucked with my day.
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"Thin Line"- Jurassic 5 Feat. Nelly Furtado.
I guess I can relate all of my emotions to J5, Decemberists and Weakerthans songs. In particular, this reminds me of a person that used to be really close to me, but a lot of things happened between us, and now we've kinda come apart... And just 6 minutes ago, I stopped talking to the person because of what they just told me.
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Frog Eye's "Caravan Breakers", for some reason. It doesn't make me cry but I've been overcome with emotion to it.
Also Sunset Rubdown's "Shut Up I am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers ave Wings", although I suspect that's been said already (I am too lazy for "CTR+F).
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when i thought i was a hippy in high school, i saw phish post-hiatus and i cried like a little girl when they played "wading in the velvet sea."
but, manchester orchestra's "sleeper 1972" is pretty sad
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John Prine
Yes. Sam Stone & Angel From Montgomery get me every time.
Also, Origin Of Love by Hedwig & the Angry Inch. I know it's from a musical comedy, but that final verse never fails to bring the sob.
I haven't seen the movie, but isn't that the number based on Aristophanes' speech in the Symposium?
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well, get a bunch of tissues and watch this:
http://cz.youtube.com/watch?v=cun6DzK7teI
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Wow, that George Jones song is sad :cry:
One that gets me every time though is Maggie by Colin Hay. Such a sad story.
Also, The Foggy Dew by The Chieftains with Sinead O'Connor. Great vocals but heart-wrenching.
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What Do You Go Home To? By Explosions in the Sky and a Change is Gonna Come by Baby Huey and the Babysitters both had me crying full on Big Girl I-Dropped-My-Ice-Cream-Cone tears when i first listened to them.
The only sing that consistently inspires tears these days in the Kingdom hearts Theme song (Stupid Ex girlfriend, still being associated with that awesome song cause we did it like 8 seconds after I beat Kingdom hearts the first time).
As far as songs that emotionally move me, Seaglopur by Sigur Ross and The Conspiracy of Seeds by 65daysofstatic.
Edit: I just listened to Conspiracy of Seeds and started crying, so take that as you will.
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Bon Iver: Wow, I knew they were from Wisconsin, but I did not know they were that close to me. Cool.
Hedwig: I wouldn't call it a comedy. It goes from hilarious to heartbreaking over the course of the story. I wouldn't judge anyone for tearing up. Hedwig is pretty fantastic, and I usually despise musicals.
I could go on and on on this, because I have cried to a lot of songs. I was pretty much a whiny self-pitying sap as a teenager, and I would actually make mix CDs designed for wallowing in misery, even before "emo" was "cool." I will second Tori Amos as a tearjerker. I discovered her at the height of my teen angst, and it was a match made in weepy teenage hell.
The first song that comes to mind is "Tunnels" by Arcade Fire, and it's an example of circumstances colliding with lyrics. It was winter, and I was in this really terrible, codependent, emotionally charged, self destructing relationship with a guy who was borderline suicidal. He disappeared one morning, and I went to class trying not to be a wreck. Over a few days, the snow had piled up several feet deep, so much that that morning, I had to climb drifts just to get to campus. During studio, we listen to music, and that song came on. "Tunnels" refers to two lovers who dig tunnels through the snow to be together. I broke into tears in the middle of class, but most people were drawing intently and didn't notice. I got myself together and went home "sick." (The boy is still alive, and from what I hear, seems to be getting over his issues.)
I can only think of two songs that have made me cry on their own. The first is "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" by the Smiths, the first time I heard it. It is just so darn poignant.
The second, which still gets me going every damn time is called The Cat Carol by Meryn Cadell. It is probably the worst Christmas song ever.
LYRICS (http://www.lyricstime.com/cadell-meryn-the-cat-carol-lyrics.html). Just reading these made me sniffly, if you hear the actual song it is far worse. No songs with Santa Claus in them should be allowed to be this goddamn depressing.
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Songs that kill me every time:
> Sia - Breathe Me
Be my friend/
Hold me, wrap me up/
Unfold me/
I am small/
I'm needy/
Warm me up/
And breathe me
(Just, oh my god. You have to hear it to understand; just the lyrics do nothing. This song has always tugged at my heartstrings, but to top it all off it's in the season finale of Six Feet Under, which makes me absolutely sob every time I see it. Highly highly recommend this song, and show!)
Oh man, me too. I haven't watched the show, but this song is so, so dripping with sadness. I always end up listening to it when I've had a terrible day.. bad idea, that. I was going to say "Breathe Me", too, but I have a few more.
Sigur Ros - "Hoppipolla". It's actually a pretty happy song, but it stirs up layers and layers of nostalgia for me, so I end up weeping over the "good old days" or something.
Buddy - "Blindsides". "You're not your best, so/let's just stay home/Disconnect the phone/we're still on hold" ... I've never cried, but it's damned depressing. Actually, most of the album "Alterations and Repairs" brings me down a bit.
Tegan and Sara - "You Wouldn't Like Me". Only when I'm incredibly lonely, though. That's more circumstantial.
Straylight Run - "Swing Life Away". Yeah yeah yeah shoot me. I don't listen to Straylight Run, but this was our senior song from band camp :[
Hey, I made a mix playlist for wallowing in sorrow too! :D (Even though emo got to the idea before me.) Good catharsis, anyway.
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The only two songs that have ever made me cry are:
Find the River - R.E.M.
I loved it forever, but then our youngest cat ran away when I was away at school, who happened to be named River, and when I heard she'd been found hit by a car I knew this song would never really be the same. The lyrics are basically a complete metaphor for death anyway. I guess in terms of losing a friend or family member it's not on the same plane, but she was always a little screwed up from living in the wild, very hard to touch or even get near physically, and the thought of her running around terrified, and then dying alone on the street, is a really hard thing to think about for long. And this song always brings that back. Which is sort of a shame, because I love this song, but it gives it power.
Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver
My mother sang this to me when I was young and it just ruins me. It's so pretty, and it's just so sad. I guess when you're a kid, you're afraid of being left alone, and that's basically what this song is about.
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Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Silver and Gold
Last song on the posthumous last album, all about the things he wants to do before he gets too old to do them. The song I want played at my funeral.
Oh my God, I am so with you on this one. I can't even tell you. That song kills me.
Other ones that make me, if not quite tear up, get me as near as I ever get. Choked up at least.
The Carter Family - Can the Circle be Unbroken (mainly the line, "I told the undertaker, undertaker please drive slow, cause that body you are hauling, lord I hate to see her go." Something about that is so RIGHT and so exactly how I imagine losing someone you love.)
Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart for a While (basically his goodbye note)
Blanking on the rest right now. A bunch of Old Crow Medicine Show tunes get me right here.
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I am stupid and girly and music makes me cry a lot, but here are the big ones:
Wish You Were Here - Rasputina cover
Lucky - Bif Naked
Love Ridden - Fiona Apple (I'm sort of embarassed about that one, but there you are)
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Snowblind Friend - Steppenwolf
Edit: How did I forget this one?
A Quitter - Rasputina
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Cases of actual tears in my eyes:
Listening to "Ommadawn - Part one" by Mike Oldfield while driving in my car after not having listened to it for many years. Overcome by memories I had to pull over and exit the highway. Right to this day I get very emotional, when hearing that chorus.
"Requiem - Libera me" by Gabriel Fauré and "Requiem - In Paradisum" by Maurice Duruflé - these two seem to always get me - as well as some parts in Profiev's first three piano concertos and the final scene of "Tosca" by Puccini with Maria Callas singing.
"In the backseat" by Arcade Fire. Wonderful and extremely emotional song.
Lately, "Bluish" by Animal Collective had me in tears - but of joy rather than anything else. It's just beautiful.
Serious cases of lump-in-throat:
"Jesus, etc." by Wilco
"This woman's work" by Kate Bush
"Fruit tree" by Nick Drake
"Ugly love" by Eels - one of the best piano ballads ever.
"Wise up" and "Save me" by Aimee Mann - for ever connected to the movie, and it really hit me at that time
"Blue Spanish Sky" by Chris Isaack - I just can't help it
... and then there is Jacques Brel: "La fanette", "Jef", "Fernand", "Les désesprés" and of course "Ne me quitte pas" really strike a chord in me.
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sleater-kinney - jumpers
the theme (http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858559824/) is pretty tear jerking but that haunting voice just does it for me..
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"Don't Take The Girl" by Tim McGraw. Last verse. Guy's wife is dying in childbirth and he's praying to God to take him instead. Damn if I don't well up almost every time.
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Nothing's got there yet, but Tom Wait's Kentucky Avenue probably gets closest.
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Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart for a While (basically his goodbye note)
God.
I'm listening to that now...
Fuck you for reminding me.
I'm...not crying... *sniff*
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Treefingers - Radiohead
I was in downtown Boise after my Grandmother's funeral with this song on repeat. Still gets me.
I feel like I'm going to get blasted for this one, but here it goes.
Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley
A good female friend of mine got married. About a month later, I had realized that she had married the wrong man. We had a long discussion about the impossibility of our potential love, then I heard this song for the first time. I can't hear it without choking up.
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Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
"When the cardinal hits the window", god, gives me goosebumps every time.
Also Romulus, to a lesser extent.
A couple that haven't been mentioned yet:
He Was a Friend of Mine - Dylan or Willie Nelson either.
And "Hurt", the version by Johnny Cash.
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Warren Zevon's version of Knocking on Heaven's Door gets me every time.
Yeah, he was dying of brain or lung cancer when he recorded it and he knew he hadn't much time left. You can just feel his sadness.
Also: Space Oddity by David Bowie
Patience, November Rain, and Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses because they reminded me of a girl I'll probably never see again.
And "Powderfinger" by Neil Young.
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Thanks to him dying, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" kindof makes me choke up. I guess he finally needed to go to bed.
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For Today I Am A Boy by Antony & the Johnsons is absolutely beautiful.
And i don't even want to be a woman.
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I've never cried at a song, but there some that have moved me considerably and will always have a place in my heart </cheesy>
Dinner at Eight - Rufus Wainwright
Untitled 1, 2, 3 and 4 - Sigur Rós
Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
How To Disappear Completely, Pyramid Song and Let Down - Radiohead
Looks Just Like The Sun - Broken Social Scene
Bedshaped - Keane (I know, Keane are uncool here, whatever)
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I hate today- godhead ...actually most of 200 years is pretty mopey, and i wish they had stuck with that sound...
eden-sarah brightman ... pretty much the only song by her i own!
forever can be- ashes divide
confession-cold
goodnight-dry kill logic
best i am-FLAW
alfred- hungry lucy
into the light - In This Moment (this one SOOOO much! the POWER of maria brinks voice amazes me! why she sings metalcore i dont entirely understand!)
you are loved- josh groban (shaddup)
breathe life- killswitch engage (its not a sad cry, its an inpiring one!)
i know... i know... its all mainstream and cheesy... but i get misty easy!
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Tonight I got myself into an awful mood and cried to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Alllll the way through it.
And as soon as I started to feel better, Nightswimming by R.E.M. came on and I started up even worse than before. :cry:
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"Maybe Baby" by Buddy Holly.
I was just becoming acquainted with unrequited love when I suddenly heard this song again (it had always been a childhood favorite, and the only Buddy Holly song I ever paid any attention to), and it was "sack of lead bricks to the face" potent. Doesn't help that the guy promptly died after an 18-month career. And even sadder that his widow was pregnant, and sadder still that she miscarried. That guy's life seemed pretty well blessed, but his death was basically tragedy after tragedy after tragedy.
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Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
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I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine by Beth Orton and Woke Up New by The Mountaain Goats. Oh, and randomly Phat Planet by Leftfield.
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David Bowie - "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" - Bowie desperately screaming "You're not alone" at the end always gets me
XTC - "I Can't Own Her" - The "swirling sky" refrains, where the strings come up has been making me tear up lately
Granddaddy - "Underneath the Weeping Willow"
That's just the last month or so, though...what songs make me cry change all the time. Sometimes I need something packed with lyrical meaning and intensity, sometimes I just need the right timbre at the right moment of a song.
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For Today I Am A Boy by Antony & the Johnsons is absolutely beautiful.
And i don't even want to be a woman.
"Another World" is even more delicately tragic.
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"Skyway" by The Replacements.
specifically the last verse:
Oh, then one day, I saw you walkin' down that little one-way
Where, the place I'd catch my ride most everyday
There wasn't a damn thing I could do or say
Up in the skyway...
kinda seems like a metaphor for needing to tell someone something important (you love them etc.) and leaving it too late. i was that in that situation, and i heard that song... hit me pretty hard.
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Hello Earth by Kate Bush is the only song that's made me cry, although when my cousin's husband died of cancer aged 25 I used to find Naked As We Came brought on a bit of the onion-eyes.
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Perthshire Majesty by Samuel Hazo.
It's beautiful, we performed it in concert band and I was grateful my instrument had a minor part so I could just listen.
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I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine by Beth Orton
Original of I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-5HpMhJtk), if you're interested. I generally don't like Beth's covers because they show up how pathetically limited her voice is, but she obviously made this heaps more tender.
Actually, Beth's Feel To Believe on 'Central Reservation' used to get me teary when it first came out.
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Pints of Guinness Make You Strong by Against Me!
The entire narrative is depressing, and more than sad it reeks of despair. You can infer that the Evelyn didn't have the greatest life with James (A.A. card, ect) but they were in love and when she lost him she never got over it. 37 year later she looks back and decides it was all a waste. Things don't get better.
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What Have I Done by Cursive
When you're young you're going to Be Someone/
When you're old you're ashamed of what you've become/
Well take a look around/
You're preaching to the choir/
I think I'm going through a quarter-life crisis. Sigh.
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King Creosote - The Somone Else
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I've teared up a few times while listening to Godspeed! you black Emperors.
they really know how to convey Emotion through their music. amazing stuff
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What Have I Done by Cursive
When you're young you're going to Be Someone/
When you're old you're ashamed of what you've become/
Well take a look around/
You're preaching to the choir/
I think I'm going through a quarter-life crisis. Sigh.
Halfway through a midlife crisis when you're only a quarter of the way there?
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Wouldn't that be an eighth-life crisis?
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What the hell, since when do I need to know math to have a crisis and panic properly?
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What the hell, since when do I need to know math to have a crisis and panic properly?
since december eleventh, 2002.
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Tonight I got myself into an awful mood and cried to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Alllll the way through it.
Wait, really? That's very strange to me, and while the movie and the soundtrack are both incredible, I can't imagine crying through "Mr. Blue Sky", any of the Polyphonic Spree, and "Wada No Todd". Are you just talking about the instrumentals by Jon Brion?
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Just recently, "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from Rent. I won't spoil it for you who haven't seen it (you should), but those who have can sympathize, I'm sure.
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"She'll Come Back To Me" - Cake
For no better reason than that it is written from a reverse viewpoint from the one I am living right now, and I feel so goddamn guilty.
I think the last 10 posts I've made have been bloggy. Weak boarding, Patrick.
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Weak boarding is a form of torture, according to Obama.
Wait, no, that's...nevermind.
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BSS - Lover's Spit.
February 14th, Manchester Academy, me, by myself, recently dumped, this song, roses being thrown on stage, towards the end Kevin Drew gets down off stage, gets into the crowd and starts giving out hugs left right and centre.
Damn that was a good night.
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Tonight I got myself into an awful mood and cried to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Alllll the way through it.
Wait, really? That's very strange to me, and while the movie and the soundtrack are both incredible, I can't imagine crying through "Mr. Blue Sky", any of the Polyphonic Spree, and "Wada No Todd". Are you just talking about the instrumentals by Jon Brion?
Okay, I guess not all the way through it; it was just the instrumentals, "I Wonder" and "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime". Still the majority of it, though.
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Tho' You Are Gone I Still Often Walk With You by A Silver Mt. Zion is one of the most goddamned sad songs I have ever heard. Actually, that band is just one devastating song after another.
Memorial by Explosions In the Sky is another one that makes me all lumpy in the throat regions. And for some reason, Anniversary Of An Uninteresting Event by the Deftones.
Also, the emotional masochist in me loves this thread so much...
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The songs that make me feel really sad, dare I say overly emotional, are always the ones that have close lyrical relevance to my life. They just remind me what's wrong, and doing that through music; well. You can imagine.
The Scientist - Coldplay
Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor) - Atreyu
Will You Smile Again For Me - ...And They Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Karma Police - Radiohead
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mike hale's "lives like mine"
seriously, how does a line like "what do you say when you realise you're not necessary" not hit you right in that place?
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i've only ever REALLY cried at songs when its been live, and the only two that really spring to mind then are these two
the childcatcher (acoustic) by patrick wolf
divine intervention by taking back sunday
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There's a handful but the one that comes to mind the strongest is "A Better Son/Daughter" by Rilo Kiley.
I'll also third or fourth "Two Headed Boy pt. 2"
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recently,
Lord I'm Discouraged-- The Hold Steady
dont fall in love with a junky.
and
Romeo and Juliet-- Dire Straits
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The Perfect Fit by the Dresden Dolls used to make me cry when I was depressed about the way life was going.
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A Shot in the Arm has recently reduced me to tears. The melody and words and just so heartbreaking, especially the "Somethin' in my veins, bloodier than blood" part.
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Tears in Heaven.
Just because I know he means every word because it's true, not just because it sounds good.
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Conor Oberst's "Breezy"
It was written by Conor in memory of his friend Sabrina Duim. She toured with Bright Eyes and played on Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.
I went to see him in November 08, and he played this song, and I choked up at the FREAKING concert!!! 3 months earlier, one of my close high school friends passed in a DUI accident. Whenever I hear this song, I think of her, and man, if I'm in a good mood and this song comes on shuffle, I have to skip it or tune it out.
:cry:
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Aesop rock- No regrets.
its a rap song about a Visual artist who lives a simple life, but is really just so damn touching and USEFUL it blows my mind.
a rap artist with something to say?... and its something that matters? refreshing!
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Brick by Ben Folds. It's about a couple dealing with an abortion and so terribly sad. The Luckiest also makes me tear up because my boyfriend sent it to me the night we started dating and says it describes how he feels about me perfectly.
BRMC's Promise pulls on my heartstrings pretty hard.
Oh, and Jack the Lion - Harvey Danger
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Aesop rock- No regrets.
its a rap song about a Visual artist who lives a simple life, but is really just so damn touching and USEFUL it blows my mind.
a rap artist with something to say?... and its something that matters? refreshing!
You can dream a little dream, or you can live a little dream...
I like Aes a lot, and this is one of those rare tracks where his lyrics aren't so esoteric you have to spend weeks deciphering what they mean. It's straightforward, powerful, and just freaking awesome. Can't say that it makes me cry, though...I get more of a pump-the-fist-triumphant feeling when I listen to this one.
EDIT-On topic, for hip-hop songs that make me choke up, see Stepfather Factory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acgr18qpcPM) by El-P.
Also, basically the last 1/3rd of Sage Francis' "Human the Death Dance" record...Blackout On White Night, Hell of a Year, Waterline, Keep Movin'...all heavy on the eyewater induction.
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Aesop rock- No regrets.
its a rap song about a Visual artist who lives a simple life, but is really just so damn touching and USEFUL it blows my mind.
a rap artist with something to say?... and its something that matters? refreshing!
You can dream a little dream, or you can live a little dream...
I like Aes a lot, and this is one of those rare tracks where his lyrics aren't so esoteric you have to spend weeks deciphering what they mean. It's straightforward, powerful, and just freaking awesome. Can't say that it makes me cry, though...I get more of a pump-the-fist-triumphant feeling when I listen to this one.
yeah there arent any real tears here either, but it touches the hell out of me. because I've been drawing and obsessing over all things art since I was 5. so it is just so relateable to me!
and that El-P is fantastic!
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The Version of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Never heard another musican getting so much "feeling" out of a simple Ukulele. And that Man had an angels voice. Too bad he died. His version gets me onion-eyes every time.
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The Birth and Death of Day by Explosions in the Sky. I really have no idea but the climax has made me tear up at least twice.
Selig Sind Die Toten composed by Heinrich Schutz. My school's choir did this song and the last time we performed it was on a spring trip a month after my dad passed away.
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The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd.
Also, Brain Damage by Pink Floyd. It reminds me of my grandmother, who suffered a series of strokes in the 90's. Since then she is becoming decreasingly aware of her surroundings.
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Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna Be a Superhero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zHZrcHdxg&fmt=18 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zHZrcHdxg&fmt=18)
Damn you, Jenn Ghetto.
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once again.
I didnt know i loved you so much- REPO the genetic Opera- sung by anthony stewart head (giles from buffy) and alexa vega (the sister in spy kids.)
the fact that its the last BIG song in an awesome movie full of awesome songs, and awesome characters... that are awesome...
makes it all the more awesome... also, a little sappy.
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The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
It is my nana's favorite song, and whenever I hear it I think about her and all of the things she does for me and for the family. And I realize how much I'll miss her when she's gone.
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I so prefer godhead's Eleanor Rigby to like... anyone elses... ever. :-D
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Finale - Godspell
Crucifixion - Jesus Christ Superstar
John Nineteen: Forty-One - Jesus Christ Superstar
Pity the Child - Chess
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I so prefer godhead's Eleanor Rigby to like... anyone elses... ever. :-D
thrice's cover slays all.
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I have it, It's not nearly as impressive as godheads... though they are quite talented... i still listen to the alchemy index.
but there is just no way that this..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhFUXOxm_w
is better than this..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2a0iKn_JA
but, people tend to disregard "goth" music, i guess because "It's like sooo 5 minutes ago!"
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listened to both again, and i STILL think the thrice one is better (although if that's the version you've heard, it's a terrible lo-fi version someone's uploaded. the version on the CD is a lot better in terms of sound quality).
and i don't dismiss goth music because it's "soooo 5 minutes ago," i dismiss it because the vast majority of what i've heard has been a load of over-dramatic wank that sounds like industrial-lite guitars cackhandedly played over a half-arsed slowed-down rehash of a 90s eurodance song. also i hate music where the image is taken as being more important the music - yes there's perpetrators of this in every genre - but seriously, tell me just ONE goth band who don't dress like an attention-whorish cross between robert smith and a troll that stole some cheap makeup.
...jesus, after this and my comments about gangsta rap, i'm gonna become hated in here aren't i? fuck...
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Sisters of Mercy are good goth music and they don't dress like that. You learn something new every day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo)
Really, it's the same with any scene; the longer it's been around, the more self-celebrating it is, the more wanky imitators there are, and the harder it is to root through the dreck to find anything worthwhile. I'm not really into goth music any more so I have no idea who's making anything in that vein worth listening to nowadays.
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...jesus, after this and my comments about gangsta rap, i'm gonna become hated in here aren't i? fuck...
I agree with your stance on gangsta rap.
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Greatness.
Wow.
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listened to both again, and i STILL think the thrice one is better (although if that's the version you've heard, it's a terrible lo-fi version someone's uploaded. the version on the CD is a lot better in terms of sound quality).
and i don't dismiss goth music because it's "soooo 5 minutes ago," i dismiss it because the vast majority of what i've heard has been a load of over-dramatic wank that sounds like industrial-lite guitars cackhandedly played over a half-arsed slowed-down rehash of a 90s eurodance song. also i hate music where the image is taken as being more important the music - yes there's perpetrators of this in every genre - but seriously, tell me just ONE goth band who don't dress like an attention-whorish cross between robert smith and a troll that stole some cheap makeup.
...jesus, after this and my comments about gangsta rap, i'm gonna become hated in here aren't i? fuck...
actually i think your comment is fucking brilliant! but on the topic of what goth music is, most people dont have a clue... there is a huge differance between music for goth's... and goth music. godhead is both... and as they've progressed and lessened the goth-iocity... they've really put out some junk... so maybe they need all that black lipstick to spark the creative process. maybe they're just showmen.
but as technically skilled as Thrice is. their cover is an uninspired carbon copy of the original, I could give a shit how well its played...
I feel godhead kept the spirit of the song. but did something really unique with it... I especially like that they have a layer of the original vocals on their version also...
and besides... the VAST majority of indie music is over-analyzed shit with no real inspiration or creativity... but DAMN how those white English lit/music theory majors like bragging about how great these bands no one likes are, because they're ever so smart with teh moozics.
so... yeah...
I have shitty bands like DEADSY (you know its good because they capitalize ALL the letters!) and you have..... about 70 percent of the mediafire thread! :-P
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You make some good points but you attempt to back them with, you know, deadsy.
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Wow, 8 Full Hours of Sleep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwTKxFzj2I) by Against Me! just destroyed me. They lyrics are so full of longing... bah.
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You make some good points but you attempt to back them with, you know, deadsy.
:-D LMBFAO!
no! no! its DEADSY! all capitals! thats VERY important! :-P
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and besides... the VAST majority of indie music is over-analyzed shit with no real inspiration or creativity... but DAMN how those white English lit/music theory majors like bragging about how great these bands no one likes are, because they're ever so smart with teh moozics.
so... yeah...
I have shitty bands like DEADSY (you know its good because they capitalize ALL the letters!) and you have..... about 70 percent of the mediaf!re thread! :-P
although i've found a few awesome things on the mediaf!re thread, i don't download much from it, partly because there's a lot there that just doesn't interest me, and although i'd like to be able to at least give it a try, i just don't have the time, so i just tend to grab the odd few that peak my interest.
but yeah, i don't get the whole elitism/one-upmanship thing with music. i should clarify that my last post was partly in jest - i don't like goth in general, but there's a few songs i've heard that i don't mind. just generally not my thing. i hate when people start arguing about "true (insert genre) here" and "fakers/poseurs" etc. fuck it, it's all just different arrangements of notes and beats, and at the end of the day, you either like it or you don't. for all the (mostly) light hearted piss-taking and namedropping that goes on on this forum, i've found a lot of good shit that i'd otherwise have missed, and hopefully i'll have turned on a few people to something they might similarly have missed.
i realise i've started rambling and kinda forgotten the point i was trying to make (damn lack of sleep...), but you get what i mean right?
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and besides... the VAST majority of indie music is over-analyzed shit with no real inspiration or creativity... but DAMN how those white English lit/music theory majors like bragging about how great these bands no one likes are, because they're ever so smart with teh moozics.
so... yeah...
I have shitty bands like DEADSY (you know its good because they capitalize ALL the letters!) and you have..... about 70 percent of the mediaf!re thread! :-P
although i've found a few awesome things on the mediaf!re thread, i don't download much from it, partly because there's a lot there that just doesn't interest me, and although i'd like to be able to at least give it a try, i just don't have the time, so i just tend to grab the odd few that peak my interest.
but yeah, i don't get the whole elitism/one-upmanship thing with music. i should clarify that my last post was partly in jest - i don't like goth in general, but there's a few songs i've heard that i don't mind. just generally not my thing. i hate when people start arguing about "true (insert genre) here" and "fakers/poseurs" etc. fuck it, it's all just different arrangements of notes and beats, and at the end of the day, you either like it or you don't. for all the (mostly) light hearted piss-taking and namedropping that goes on on this forum, i've found a lot of good shit that i'd otherwise have missed, and hopefully i'll have turned on a few people to something they might similarly have missed.
i realise i've started rambling and kinda forgotten the point i was trying to make (damn lack of sleep...), but you get what i mean right?
i find about one in ten that I take from that thread is awesome.... elsiane,bitcrush and eluveite being the three i listen to most currently...
I agree almost entirely with your second paragraph, and I'm not actually a goth, so i found all you've said about them pretty hilarious! and i am so thankful for this forum! mainly because my other music forum only seems to care about music for angry bisexual goth vegans who've definitely snogged billy corgan... and may have indeed snogged brendon smalls...
so they can be a tad limited... :-D
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angry bisexual goth vegans who've definitely snogged billy corgan
This is definitely the most harrowing sentence I have ever read.
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki Requiem and China Gets The Bomb. Composed by William Stromberg and played by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
They are just so overwhelming. You can hear them in the movie Trinity and beyond: The atomic bomb movie.
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angry bisexual goth vegans who've definitely snogged billy corgan
This is definitely the most harrowing sentence I have ever read.
indeed,
It's also more or less accurate.
accept she uses terms like "pansexual" and "asexual"... both of which dont really seem to apply to her... actually I'm pretty sure the first one doesn't even qualify as a word...
who am i talking about? the lady in my avatar... she's still pretty awesome.
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I havent just derailed this thread... I think must have hucked it in to space or something....
so..
Cure My tragedy-COLD... (I dont have to capitalize that one... but it is often on albums)
its about his sister, dying of cancer... say what you want about the bands skill levels... but scooter knows how to make everyone as sad as he is!
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So I was watching The Gaslight Anthem on YouTube and decided I wanted to hear them play Angry Johnny And The Radio. Normally this song wouldn't get me very emotional, but, during the quiet part (bridge?) of the song, Brian starts singing What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.
Gets me every time.
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So, a friend of mine gave me one of those jump drive blitzkriegs of music, and amongst the high-brow indie rock bands (like there is such a thing) was the Manchester Orchestra album "I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child". It's one of very few albums that can seem more alive to me than life sometimes.
The final song, "Colly Strings" is the best one on the album, and the way I've interpreted it, it's about the singer's self admission to being gay. He's known it for a while and had already accepted it, though he's a bit world-weary after converting from Christianity and dealing with his dad's death. And the song itself is this really passionately stated love song addressed to a guy he's loved for a while, and the singer's admitting both that he's gay and in love with him. The guy he's singing to, though, is closeted, but to the singer, he's worth flushing his own church-boy image down the toilet.
That song opened up this elaborate image in my mind, and every time I listen to it, I feel his emotions, step by step. It's the first time in my life that I have not only felt gay, but felt like I was in love with this other man's soul. Thus the tears.
"My curly hair and a voting booth,
Confessingly, this is the first time I've loved you,
And God I mean, God I mean it, I hope that I mean it
'Cause like dying young, idols got the best of me,
Well don't stop calling, you're the reason I love losing sleep,"
It might be one of the best songs I've ever listened to.
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It never made me cry but it was the closest one to. Wet Sand by Red Hot Chili Peppers. For some reason, the way it builds up and then the solo kicks in... ah I don't know. Gives me the goosebumps.
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Stick Stickly made me laugh until I cried, does that count?
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^^^
Yes, also...
Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan
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What really lets me burst into tears is when a child choir sings Schuberts Music composition of Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake" Poem.
When the part "Ellens Gesang III - Ave Maria! Oh maiden mild!" comes.
Some of you may know it from the Hitman Soundtrack.
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I'm not sure if any of these songs have actually made me cry, but I think these songs tend to make me feel sadder (but in a good way?) than anything else I have heard recently.
TV on the Radio - Modern Romance (cover of a Yeah Yeah Yeah's song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSqxMW5mtA
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay (acoustic version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ugG11hr3Y
Heavens to Betsy - Complicated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci37Uh-W5dY
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'Us Ones in Between' by The Sunset Rubdown can be soul-crushing, (particularly with this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaTdM-v86fI) as a backdrop)
Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith are also both good for getting all weepy. Any track from their entire discography should suffice (except for 'Bowl of Oranges,' which has the ironic distinction of being one of the most uplifting songs I know of)
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Acid Bath - Bones Of Baby Dolls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgUjf3Hh1s)
I love the atmosphere during this song... I remember when I was in town while listening to this song and I saw an old poor man begging for money. I really felt like shit at that time and that image got stuck in my head. Everytime I hear this song it gets very dense. And the guitars are just brilliant along with the melancholic voice.
"Work for pay and pay for freedom
Fuck 'em all,.... we don't need 'em"
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Acid Bath - Bones Of Baby Dolls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgUjf3Hh1s)
I love the atmosphere during this song... I remember when I was in town while listening to this song and I saw an old poor man begging for money. I really felt like shit at that time and that image got stuck in my head. Everytime I hear this song it gets very dense. And the guitars are just brilliant along with the melancholic voice.
"Work for pay and pay for freedom
Fuck 'em all,.... we don't need 'em"
I Tried to play this song as part of an art project (playing as part of the display) in high school, the teacher thought it was brilliant... but once the principal actually listened to it... I got kicked out of the show....
so..., well...
Fuck 'em all,.... we don't need 'em"
though... the fact that my artwork was basically naked women and dessicated corpses...(strictly PG-13, I can assure you. :-P) probably didn't help either...
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O man.. That's rough. I don't talk to people who don't appreciate some good naked woman and corpses. Meh.
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I KNOW RIGHT!
any sane person can appreciate a little side boob and butt crack.... juxtaposed with rotting faces and skin torn like rice paper!
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do you have any idea how long its been since I used "Juxtaposed" in a sentence? GOD that felt good!
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I think perhaps this thread is lacking the devastating live rendition of "Ghost In This House" as performed by Alison Krauss and Union Station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRGZaHb8xE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRGZaHb8xE)
Oh, look - there it is!
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"Heroin" and "The Needle & the Damage Done" always bring me to tears ever since a good friend of mine died of a heroin overdose a few years ago. They're just so bone-chilling, and they bring the memories back every time.
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"Epilogue" by the Antlers always gets me.
"Death to Los Campesinos!" makes me cry smiley faces and bleed puppies.
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Since I Been Lovin You by Led Zeppelin. Something about the whole song just makes me tear up.
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"1234" by the Plain White T's.
Shut up. No I am not ashamed.
Also: "Something" by The Beatles. My heart breaks in two whenever I hear it.
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Black Moth Super Rainbow - Colorful Nickels
This was the song that came on when I was driving away from my best friend's house for the last time before he left for Arizona. If any instrumental electronica song can evoke the emotion of leaving something you value dearly behind, it's this one.
Eluvium - Prelude for Time Feelers 1
This song doesn't have any particular memory attached to it, but for whatever reason the melody makes me think about all the good times I've had and how they're over now and of all the things I used to love and time destroys everything.
Neither of these has actually made me cry, but I've definitely felt like it on more than one occasion while listening to these.