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Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« on: 01 Nov 2014, 16:15 »

Okay, so I'm working on some stuff I hope to be showing the world in January, and a song happened to get stuck in between the Godspeed You! Black Emperor I'd been listening to on repeat.  Said song makes my eyes get blurry and puts a lump in my throat.  Without fail.  Mind you, I'm a sap at heart, so I'm more easy to move than most, but it made me wonder what else is out there I could flagellate myself with, so I'm asking you - what (if anything) does that to you?

Oh, the song I'm listening to is

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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #1 on: 01 Nov 2014, 18:58 »

Love this song, love the lyrics and love the artist BUT. I say BUT.

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I tend to avoid it in my lists because a single listen can and will destroy my mood for the whole weekend. I also tend to use it as a "make everybody sad quick" button - with impressive results.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #3 on: 01 Nov 2014, 20:07 »

I started singing this song when they were talking about the Voyager explosion and I started crying
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #4 on: 02 Nov 2014, 06:19 »

For me, it's this song. 

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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #7 on: 02 Nov 2014, 08:37 »

Damn, Beo beat me to a Cohen song. I would have gone with "Coming back to you"
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #8 on: 02 Nov 2014, 08:48 »

  Without fail.  Mind you, I'm a sap at heart, so I'm more easy to move than most, but it made me wonder what else is out there I could flagellate myself with, so I'm asking you - what (if anything) does that to you?



Sheeeeeeit.

I am so tempted to drown this thread with a long collection of songs tailor made for driving at night and feelin' horrible, it's an old timey specialty of mine. I'll try to restrain myself to a few.

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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #9 on: 02 Nov 2014, 15:41 »

I can think of several. Some resonate with a particular time in my life (like the REM tune below). Others I can think of didn't have any particular significance, but just blindsided me. The first time I heard the Peter Gabriel song, I was sitting at a bus stop at six in the morning and just started crying uncontrollably.


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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #10 on: 02 Nov 2014, 16:27 »


I can think of several. Some resonate with a particular time in my life (like the REM tune below). Others I can think of didn't have any particular significance, but just blindsided me. The first time I heard the Peter Gabriel song, I was sitting at a bus stop at six in the morning and just started crying uncontrollably.



Your REM video won't load for me so I'm just going to assume it's "Nightswimming", cuz it makes me happy to do so. 

Stipe & Co. have a lot of winners in this category. "You are the everything" and "the wrong child" spring easily to mind.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #11 on: 02 Nov 2014, 16:29 »

Ain't young love grand

http://youtu.be/nAB4vOkL6cE
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #12 on: 02 Nov 2014, 17:42 »

Your REM video won't load for me so I'm just going to assume it's "Nightswimming", cuz it makes me happy to do so. 

Stipe & Co. have a lot of winners in this category. "You are the everything" and "the wrong child" spring easily to mind.

It was actually "Sweetness Follows," though you'd get no argument from me on "Nightswimming," either.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #13 on: 02 Nov 2014, 17:45 »

A great many REM songs are perfectly crafted to attach themselves to the listener in a pretty brutal "time and place" memory stamp. Music sure does fuck us up.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #14 on: 02 Nov 2014, 18:12 »

Thanks for the suggestions - I knew a few of 'em (been an R.E.M. fan since Automatic for the People*), but there's more than enough emotion fuel here to keep me drawing tearjerkers for the next couple weeks. 

Don't let me stop you adding to the list, though.

A great many REM songs are perfectly crafted to attach themselves to the listener in a pretty brutal "time and place" memory stamp.

Funny you should say that - Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite will instantly take me back to the breakup with my college fiancee, and leave me there for a minimum of two hours or until I listen to something that can make me even more morose.

Music sure does fuck us up.

Yeah, but it's a good fucking. 

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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #15 on: 02 Nov 2014, 18:21 »

Short question: Why isn't this thread in the BAND forum? That's the one for music discussion…


Anyway:
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #16 on: 02 Nov 2014, 18:36 »

Short question: Why isn't this thread in the BAND forum? That's the one for music discussion…

'cause I'm a n00b and didn't know any better.  If a mod could move it, that'd be cool.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #17 on: 02 Nov 2014, 18:41 »

Okay, a handful of others (I'm not doing YouTube links on most of these because I don't want the post to be insanely long):

Billy Bragg, "Tank Park Salute"
Jeff Buckley, "Last Goodbye"
John Cale, "Close Watch"
Chocolate Genius, "My Mom" This song just leaves me gutted. Every. Damn. Time.
Ben Folds, "Still Fighting It"
Robyn Hitchcock, "She Doesn't Exist"
David Sylvian, "Forbidden Colours" or "Let the Happiness In"
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #18 on: 02 Nov 2014, 18:47 »

Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #19 on: 02 Nov 2014, 19:15 »

Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.

You should probably stay away from Tom Waits then.

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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #20 on: 02 Nov 2014, 19:16 »

BTw thanks for reminding me I first saw REM for "Green". Shit I'm old.
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« Reply #21 on: 02 Nov 2014, 19:21 »

Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.

You should probably stay away from Tom Waits then.


There's a version of "Train Song" done by the Holmes Brothers that you might want to check out. The arrangement's not that much different, but the vocals take the song somewhere else entirely (you'll probably think this is blasphemy, but for me, Waits' voice ruins some awesome songwriting -- aside from stuff like "The Piano Has Been Drinking," which fits his voice to a T). It's not on YouTube, unfortunately, but you may be able to find it elsewhere.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #22 on: 02 Nov 2014, 19:29 »

Gary Jules version of "Mad World" makes me cry every time I hear it. Everytime.
Mad World - Gary Jules: http://youtu.be/4N3N1MlvVc4

"I find it kind of funny, I find it kinda sad that the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"

That line alone cuts me to the quick, it hits home so hard.
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« Reply #23 on: 02 Nov 2014, 19:30 »

(you'll probably think this is blasphemy, but for me, Waits' voice ruins some awesome songwriting -- aside from stuff like "The Piano Has Been Drinking," which fits his voice to a T). It's not on YouTube, unfortunately, but you may be able to find it elsewhere.

I sort of do. I always thought Waits voice for perfect for Train Song, but I'll go dig it up on your recommendation.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #25 on: 02 Nov 2014, 23:42 »

Gary Jules version of "Mad World" makes me cry every time I hear it. Everytime.
Mad World - Gary Jules: http://youtu.be/4N3N1MlvVc4

"I find it kind of funny, I find it kinda sad that the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"

That line alone cuts me to the quick, it hits home so hard.

I had the version from The Red Paintings somewhere and my mom used it as alarm. It truly has disturbing lyrics, but then again, "it's a very very mad world".
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« Reply #26 on: 03 Nov 2014, 01:26 »

Gary Jules version of "Mad World" makes me cry every time I hear it. Everytime.

"I find it kind of funny, I find it kinda sad that the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"

That line alone cuts me to the quick, it hits home so hard.

I had the version from The Red Paintings somewhere and my mom used it as alarm. It truly has disturbing lyrics, but then again, "it's a very very mad world".

That is it. That it is.
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Re: Songs Guaranteed to Bring Tears
« Reply #27 on: 03 Nov 2014, 09:14 »

I don't think I'm old enough to cry at Springsteen's The River just yet.  It's his finest work, imo.

Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.

Yeah, I think I'll pass altogether.  If it touches on Alzheimers/Dementia at all, it will just hit too close to home.
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« Reply #28 on: 03 Nov 2014, 09:16 »

I don't think I'm old enough to cry at Springsteen's The River just yet.  It's his finest work, imo.

Okay, when the first lyric showing on the youtube video is "She calls out for a dog that's been dead a year," I'll wait until I have some bourbon handy before I give it a listen.

Yeah, I think I'll pass altogether.  If it touches on Alzheimers/Dementia at all, it will just hit too close to home.

It does, and it probably would.
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« Reply #29 on: 03 Nov 2014, 09:19 »

I keep coming back to REM, which feels a little weird, cuz if you had asked me to name an artist beforehand, I wouldn't have come up with that.

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I don't think I'm old enough to cry at Springsteen's The River just yet.  It's his finest work, imo.


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« Reply #31 on: 03 Nov 2014, 09:47 »

Reliable tearjerkers for me include Christmas in the Trenches
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
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« Reply #32 on: 03 Nov 2014, 10:24 »

I have a Grooveshark playlist called "Sad and Beautiful". Here are a few of the top contenders.


Jeez, I start crying just thinking about this one.  :-\

The guitar solo at the end gets me almost as much as the rest of the song.

I've actually cried watching Robert and Allison dance to this on SYTYCD.

Honorable mention.....this one doesn't make me cry as much any more but I've spent many a night crying to it.


Ankh- that Death Cab song gets me too....

I wanted to add a Snow Patrol song but I can't pick just one. Run, You Could Be Happy, How To Be Dead, Set Fire To The Third Bar.......ugh. They were my go-to for a while whenever I needed to wallow.
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« Reply #33 on: 03 Nov 2014, 10:45 »

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Into My Arms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEUgORVsECs

This one makes me cry, not because the song itself is sad, but because I played it for my late wife at our commitment ceremony. It really reflected a lot about our relationship. I can't hear it without being reminded of her and the fact that she is gone. It brings back the pain of her death fresh and raw.
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« Reply #35 on: 03 Nov 2014, 12:11 »

Speaking of Warren Zevon, "Hasten Down the Wind" has gotten me more than once.
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« Reply #36 on: 03 Nov 2014, 13:46 »


Ev4n's comment about age struck a note with me, got me thinking about how my emotional reaction to music has changed over the years. I think I may go on a spelunking mission to find some songs that I thought were really brutal when I was 19. In the meantime, Bob Dylan.
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« Reply #37 on: 04 Nov 2014, 15:55 »


 :cry: It's winter, and Jason Molina time.
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« Reply #38 on: 04 Nov 2014, 16:18 »

Gavin Bryars, "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet." This one sorta sneaks up on you... This is the original (1971) version, not the later version that tacked on Tom Waits and a fuller string section.

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