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Post by slgersztoff on Jan 8, 2009 14:47:17 GMT -5
The last few that I can remember: Poor Places-- Wilco Backstreets-- Bruce Springsteen Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands-- Bob Dylan The River-- Joni Mitchell
In honor of Elvis, who would have been 73 today-- his version of Blue Moon always mad me sad.
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Post by theblondette on Jan 8, 2009 15:51:07 GMT -5
There's no song that makes me ALWAYS cry or want to cry. There have been songs that have rubbed at raw spots at different times in my life, though. For instance -
Bowie - Survive (You alone across the floor You and me and nothing more You're the great mistake I never made I never lied to you, I hated when you lied But I'll survive your naked eyes I'll survive)
The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven (Heaven is the whole of the heart And heaven don't tear you apart)
You Are My Sister - Antony and the Johnsons
(We felt so differently then So similar over the years The way we laugh the way we experience pain So many memories But theres nothing left to gain from remembering Faces and worlds that no one else will ever know You are my sister And I love you May all of your dreams come true)
Goodnight LA - The Counting Crows (And it’s a dangerous time For a heart on a wire Shuttle from station to station Noisily not knowing why So I put my head on the ground And the sky is a wheel Spinning these days into things that I’ve lost But you can keep all the years But I don’t mind the days Gone rolling away Cause all this sunlight feels warm on my face today)
Also, Stuck Between Stations either makes me feel elated, or weepy. Depends. It's interesting.
Slapped Actress gets me choked up these days.
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Post by Sunny D on Jan 8, 2009 16:44:23 GMT -5
It depends on my mood, I very rarely cry. I'm being serious too, I'm not trying to be all macho or anything.
Songs normally only make me sort of teary eyed, I don't normally shed a tear. Here's songs I think I have cried/nearly cried to.
* THS- Crucifixion Cruise/How A Resurrection Really Feels * The Mountain Goats - Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident *The Mountain Goats - San Bernardino * The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely * The Mountain Goats - Dinu Lipatti's Bones * The Mountain Goats - Love, Love, Love/Pale Green Things * The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee * The Mountain Goats - Game Shows Touch Our Lives * The Mountain Goats - Have To Explode/Old College Try/Oceanographer's Choice/Alpha Rats Nest * The Mountain Goats - Mole * Weezer - Pig * Weezer - The Spider (Holy shit) * Socratic - I Haven't Seen You In Years * Say Anything - Spores * Say Anything - Goodbye Young Tutor, You've Now Outgrown Me * Say Anything - Plea * Say Anything - A Boston Peace * Say Anything - I Am A Transylvanian * My Chemical Romance - Disenchanted/Famous Last Words * Pink Floyd - Brain Damage/Eclipse * Pink Floyd - Hey You * Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Holy shit) * Pink Floyd - Stop/The Trial/Outside The Wall * Pink Floyd- When The Tigers Broke Free * Green Day - Homecoming/Whatsername * The Pillows - Bran-New Lovesong (Instrumental, too) * The Pillows - Beautiful Morning With You (Instrumental, too) * The Pillows - Crazy Sunshine * The Pillows - Hybrid Rainbow * The Pillows - I Think I Can * Bruce Springsteen - Reason To Believe * Bruce Springsteen - Used Cars
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Post by essbee on Jan 8, 2009 19:44:03 GMT -5
Fairytale of New York
Always. Sobbing. Instantly.
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Post by ct on Jan 8, 2009 20:33:32 GMT -5
Ben Harper - Walk Away/Another Lonely Day
don't know what he was thinking performing them back to back on the Live From Mars album.....
might as wells push me off the bridge.....
DBT - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
Johnny Cash/Rosanne Cash - September When It Comes
Johnny Cash/Joe Strummer- Redemption Song. mainly because i think about those two men and what a loss it when they died.
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Neil Young - Living With War album. the entire thing captured all of the sadness, anger, disappointment, etc. that i had built up for i had for 6 years......
Jason Isbell - Dress Blues (forgot to add that....woohoo modify button)
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Post by missalabamanobody on Jan 8, 2009 20:36:20 GMT -5
I am a notorious weeper. Like caz, car commercials, patriotic stuff, which I'm dismissive of in my real life, teen dramas, the whole bit. I have to be careful if I go to movies with my sister because she, cold-hearted bitch that she is, mocks me mercilessly.
A few that get me just about every time:
Sweet Old World - Lucinda Williams OR the Emmylou Harris, which I heard first.
Dress Blues - Jason Isbell - I've listened to it 3-4 times in the past week and I keep crying. Got busted at work.
Gotti, I'm so sorry about your father, but Days is something I'd want played at my funeral (though I am partial to the original). It's a very special song and I always wondered if he wrote it for a parent.
One of our publishers is putting out a book of children's letters to Obama and that made me cry like crazy for about the first ten letters. Until I got busted.
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Post by ekennedy on Jan 8, 2009 22:08:10 GMT -5
Clapton's Tears in Heaven... played at my cousins funeral, can't listen to it without crying
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Post by njtownie on Jan 8, 2009 22:50:26 GMT -5
2 Daughters and a Wife-DBT Yes, for sure. Instant welling up.
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin (Not Ugly Kid Joe)There, I said it. I'm a dad for crying out loud. Today's my son's 9th birthday. I'm getting teary just thinking about it.
Your Name is Wild - Guided By Voices. Written for Bob Pollard's daughter. I have a 7 yr. old daughter too.
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Post by parock on Jan 9, 2009 10:44:56 GMT -5
Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute
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Post by lilhan on Jan 9, 2009 14:44:15 GMT -5
Slapped Actress gets me choked up these days. hearing this song on my new sound system the first time made me cry. i still don't know why.
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Post by meoskop on Jan 9, 2009 18:14:10 GMT -5
I'm not a crier, but I do sometimes get teary at...
J. Mascis - Where'd You Go Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart Who - Behind Blue Eyes (when played in a stadium as an encore only)
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Post by 212margarita on Jan 9, 2009 18:18:16 GMT -5
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin (Not Ugly Kid Joe)There, I said it. I'm a dad for crying out loud. Today's my son's 9th birthday. I'm getting teary just thinking about it. The Ugly Kid Joe version illicits tears for a different reason.
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Post by Evan on Jan 9, 2009 18:36:01 GMT -5
I'm not sure what it is about these songs that hits me on such a gut level, but it happens every time.
Drive-By Truckers, "Outfit" ("Don't tell 'em you're bigger than Jesus/ Don't give it away" gets me every time) Warren Zevon, "Don't Let Us Get Sick" Vertical Horizon, "The Man Who Would Be Santa" Elton John, "Indian Sunset"
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Post by Five Alive on Jan 10, 2009 1:51:45 GMT -5
Drive-By Truckers, "Outfit" ("Don't tell 'em you're bigger than Jesus/ Don't give it away" gets me every time) Great Song. The line in the chorus that actually gets me more is right before that "Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sister's birthday" (But then again I have a two younger sisters... ) Also from Outfit: "Well, I used to go out in a Mustang, a 302 Mach One in green. Me and your Mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy her a ring." --- (and don't even get me started about how "That new machine was cheap as hell, and only John could work as well. So they left him laying where he fell... The Day John Henry Died.")New Jason Isbell Feb 17...
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Post by hard corey on Jan 10, 2009 22:30:03 GMT -5
cigarettes and chocolate milk by rufus wainwright - reduces me to a crumbling MESS love is hell by ryan adams - this entire record slays me and is the purpose of my courting the engineer to do my bands' record (and he did and we are bff and everytime i listen i am amazed that this man loves our music) dodante by my morning jacket - that guitar line!
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Post by laurenjean on Jan 11, 2009 1:02:23 GMT -5
I am a crier. Atmosphere's "Dear Jacob" pushed me into a sobbing mess than went on until I feel asleep one night. (A child wondering why your life just ain't all right. What's the violence about and why's it in my house? And even the memories are turned up too loud) I was listening to "When life gives you lemons..." for the first time on the bus back from Minneapolis. On first listen to "Yesterday," I thought he was talking about his dad leaving, which almost always does me in. When he gave away that his dad passed away I started crying on the bus. I was quiet, but I couldn't stop. That still gets me sometimes, as does the Grateful Dead's "Box of Rain." My dad has come close to dying a few times and I am not getting any better at dealing with the thought. Elliott Smith's "Twilight" Modest Mouse's "Polar Opposites" (I'm trying to drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away) and "Positive Negative" (when you're living your life, well that's the price you pay...) Gram Parson's "A song for you" the Eagles "Desperado" and "Here comes a regular" by the Replacements because they remind me of someone I loved
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Post by lilhan on Jan 12, 2009 6:12:40 GMT -5
Guillemots - Redwings
This is where we fall from the trees, This is where the sky covers up, Daft killers of joy, you made a man out of me.
And this is where the glass leaves the lens, Splintering a chemistry of friends, I'll treasure you always.
You know I love you.
And this is where we wake in the ditch, This is where our bodies sing no more, Fallen apples on the floor, pecked at by redwings.
So pour another whisky out for me, It'll be the last bottle we share, As I drift into nowhere.
Know that I loved you.
But love was not enough to hold my grip, Can't you just feel my fingers slip, Into those oceans in the sky where people swim, Oceans in the sky calling me in, Oceans in the sky I tell myself, Though I'm not kidding anybody else, They know I'm leaving, They know that I'm leaving this behind.
So I'm leaving my best friend, Just for the hell of it, Just for the sake of it, But how much I loved you.
beautiful.
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Post by WhiskeyDaisy on Jan 12, 2009 12:45:13 GMT -5
Silver and Gold - Joe Strummer All My Little Words - Magnetic Fields Beeswing - Richard Thompson Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips (I have absolutely no idea why) Million Miles Away, Love and the Lack of It, The Toughest Girl in the World - Syd Straw
XO WD
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Post by sketchyjoe on Jan 12, 2009 14:39:11 GMT -5
Johnny Cash - I Hung My Head is the only one I can think of off the top of my head but I know there are more.
Some more: Jason Webley - The Last Song Tom Waits - Day After Tomorrow
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Post by red on Jan 16, 2009 0:43:14 GMT -5
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Post by frannyglass on Jan 16, 2009 1:18:36 GMT -5
Cat Stevens - Don't be Shy & Trouble (the whole Harold and Maude soundtrack can set me off) Bob Dylan - If Not for You (played at my cousin's funeral) Angelo Badalementi - Falling (from Twin Peaks - it just gets me) Death Cab for Cutie - I will follow you into the dark Warren Zevon - Keep me in your heart Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (makes me think of my mom)
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Post by johnnyboy on Jan 22, 2009 19:36:48 GMT -5
"pale green things" and "the best ever death metal band out of Denton" by the Mountain Goats. Lately I seem to choke up easily around anything dealing with mistreated children.
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Post by deadelectromix on Jan 22, 2009 20:16:00 GMT -5
The last time I remember crying to an album was when I listened to Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary. The circumstances, however, were really what caused it, but the album definitely didn't help.
I think I've teared up to quite a few Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil songs though. Sometimes Blake really cuts deep.
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Post by toastie on Jan 23, 2009 2:51:15 GMT -5
Killers - Read my Mind.
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Post by stevedave on Jan 23, 2009 10:31:47 GMT -5
Paul Westerberg - Hide N' Seekin' (because of the times) Suede - New Generation (Because once, we were) The Almighty - Little Lost Sometimes (Because it's hard to hold it steady when half your friends are dead already)
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