I think there's a few songs that'll do it for everyone, whether it be a certain couple of lyrics, or just something perfect in the music.
I've never had a song make me cry, but there's a few that always choke me up in a good way. MMJ's "Golden", right at the "we'll go through tis thing together, and on Heaven's golden shores we'll lay our heads" always gets me. Also, Iron and Wine's "Each Coming Night" does it, right at "will you say to them when I'm gone, "I loved your son for his sturdy arms"?" that bit never fails to give me a lump int he throat.
And I bit of a stranger one, Steve Burns (you may or may not recognize him as the original Steve from Blues Clues - go buy the album, its awesome) he has this one song called "Stick Around" there's this bit right around 3:06 that turns my heart inside inside out. The cellos in it just perform this heart-wrenching transition, I can't even begin to describe it, but its perfect. If you're not feelign sad when you listen to it, it will make you so.
That's all I can think up right now.
So what are yours?
A couple of nights ago I put on I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, and I started to cry, really really hard, to Landlocked Blues, and then I couldn't stop until the record was done. Good thing that headphones have absorbent sponges on them for such occasions.
Bermuda Highway and Golden get me pretty bad. There are a few MMJ songs.
I used to put on Beethoven's 9th, and lie in the middle of the floor, and it always got me really bad. But in a happy way. Like a releasing way.
Dark Side of the Moon was the same. I cry when things are really good, as well as sad, or evoking a certain time in my life.
^^^OH man...I feel so at home here! hahaha, you guys really get it and are crazy like me when it comes to music...and that's a good thing!!!
I can honestly say when I first got into MMJ every song I heard kept blowing me away and just grabbed me...
But as of now, Strangulation fucking hits me like a truck to my face while I am tied to an electric chair...
But as I said...too many songs to list here.....I love um all...
The Bear, Bermuda Highway, Golden, The Way That He Sings
"Medication" by Damien Jurado.Don't get too teary-eyed,but it is such a sad song.
Here's a selection that comes to my mind, These can really get to me but I know there are more... and lotsa MMJ! Watch out, some usual suspects here!
NEIL YOUNG
Expecting to Fly
Mellow my Mind
Motion Pictures
Tired Eyes
TOM WAITS
Invitation to the Blues
Johnsburg Illinois
Tom Traubert's Blues
Ruby's Arms
Time
JOHN CALE
Close Watch
LEONARD COHEN
Famous Blue Raincoat
BIG STAR
Nighttime
Dream Lover
IRON AND WINE
Our Endless Numbered Days
OTIS REDDING
I've been Loving You For Too Long
A Change Is Gonna Come
BEACH BOYS
Caroline No
I'm almost teary-eyed writing these down ;)
And they can all fit in the rainy day songs category, I'll call em rainy day, teary eyed songs!
megan you can't cry! that's too sad... :'(
the aforementioned "golden" does it for me, i just choke all up on that one. "the bear" also sends the tear ducts into overdrive...not to mention "come closer"...
galaxie 500's "don't let our youth go to waste"
neil young's "the needle and the damage done"
morphine's "the saddest song"
oh shit, is this not a parallel to the "rainy day songs" thread or what??
It seems to be, no problem for me
'Caught you knocking on my cellar door
I love you baby can I get some more?'
Quotemegan you can't cry! Êthat's too sad... :'(
It's a GOOD cry, though!! It's okay! :)
I don't know if I'd say I cry, but I think Hopefully MMJ, Rhiannon- Fleetwood Mac, Wish Ain't Missen You- John Waite (I love the 80s) off the top of my head are all fairly emotional songs...
As long as everybody's being honest and we are in our "safe nest". I'll admit to crying to "Don't you Cry Tonight" by Guns and Roses. I was in highschool and my girlfriend had just broken up with me while we were at this party, I got really drunk and that damn song kept taunting me. :'(
Other than that I cried quite a bit durning that movie "8 seconds". I'm not sure why, but I did.
i really love seeing everyone's answers to this one.
mmj: the bear, steam engine, i needed it most
other: hands down, i shall be released by the band. richard manuel's voice has this crazy power to make me cry like nothing else. also, it makes no difference. especially the version from the last waltz. it's a one way ticket to no mascara town.
oh ho ho, sweatboard, you poor little thing.
Also, this:
Quoteit's a one way ticket to no mascara town.
is awesome. :)
I put in the Black Crows "Amorica" tonight in honor of them playing bonnarroo. I had been thinking of one of my co-workers because his daughter is in criticle condition after being in a horrible car accident. Anyway, "Descending" brought a couple of tears to my eyes tonight.
QuoteI put in the Black Crows "Amorica" tonight in honor of them playing bonnarroo. I had been thinking of one of my co-workers because his daughter is in criticle condition after being in a horrible car accident. Anyway, "Descending" brought a couple of tears to my eyes tonight.
Oh no! Oh my god!!
Oh man, I hope she pulls through okay. Wow. :-/
For whatever reason (and I am probably forever ruining my credibility on this site), the first Gin Blossoms album gets to me as well.
credibility schmedibility ;)
Death is the easy way is sad,but i always choke up on O is the One that is real because it brings me back to my days of dealing smack to school children
Yeah, I just got Bright Eyes' new albums, and Landlocked blues is incredible. It's the soundtrack to getting drunk and feeling sorry for yourself
Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby :'(
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory - Johnny Thunders
QuoteYou Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory - Johnny Thunders
I remember listening to that at Leeds. In the rain. Magic.
When my wife was pregnant, we were in the car on our way home from seeing "In America" at the theater - an amazing movie, and very heartwrenching for a young couple with a young 'un on the way. We had cried all the way through it, and couldn't talk much on the way home. Then the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize?" came on the stereo. That line, "do you realize... that everyone you know someday will die?" was like someone had stolen our breath, and the tears started rolling again, for both of us. It's hard enough to accept one's own mortality, much less that of your lover and of your child.
QuoteI remember listening to that at Leeds. In the rain. Magic.
and
QuoteWhen my wife was pregnant, we were in the car on our way home from seeing "In America" at the theater - an amazing movie, and very heartwrenching for a young couple with a young 'un on the way. We had cried all the way through it, and couldn't talk much on the way home. Then the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize?" came on the stereo. That line, "do you realize... that everyone you know someday will die?" was like someone had stolen our breath, and the tears started rolling again, for both of us. It's hard enough to accept one's own mortality, much less that of your lover and of your child.
Beautiful. I mean sad, but so beautiful. And thank you for sharing. I'm a little misty...
I know exactly what you mean, tundra. That song comes to my mind every time I think of my dead grandparents, God love 'em.
Is it just me or does nearly every Flaming Lips song (especially from The Soft Bulletin) seem like one of those perfectly beautiful/melancholic works of art that makes you choke up? I don't know, "Race for the Prize" always gets me too.
QuoteIs it just me or does nearly every Flaming Lips song (especially from The Soft Bulletin) seem like one of those perfectly beautiful/melancholic works of art that makes you choke up? I don't know, "Race for the Prize" always gets me too.
Yep. And what about Iron & Wine's cover of "Waitin' for a Superman"?
Last night I listened to a live version of By My Car from the Toronto '03 Soundscapes set. (They played forEVER during the day, and THEN played Lee's at night.) And it made me misty, and it's playing right now, and man. man.
-death is the easy way always makes me teary eyed, the lyrics are so good: 'alcohol, it only makes me tired'
-M. Ward's 'undertaker'
-Sparklehorse: 'sunshine' and 'aplle bed'
-elliot smith: 'a fond farewell'
-eels: 'elizabeth on the bathroom floor', '3speed', 'daisies of the galaxy'
and a lot of others...
Long Distance Love - Little Feat (has to be Lowell George singing it though)
"Pacing the cage" and "Live on my mind" by Bruce Cockburn