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Wheatus SUX! They never did a song as good as "Hear The Engines Roll Now."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

this happened to me a while back and i was going to post and then i couldnt find the thread and now i forget what it was i was going to post

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

1. I was on my "vacation of a lifetime", traveling by train from London (OMG, *I* was in my *favorite* city, LONDON!) to Manchester (OMG, *I* was going to get to go to MANCHESTER!) to visit a friend of mine, when I decided to pass the time looking out the window at the scenery and playing something on my Walkman. I decided to play the slow version of Duran Duran's "Faith in This Colour", already one of my favorite songs, when I just felt an overwhelming sense of feeling that life *could* be good and that I *could* feel the whole "floating on Cloud Nine" feeling. I mean, I was in England, a dream of mine since I was a little girl, listening to this song I had so many positive feelings toward, and the train tracks were clanging along in time to the song, and everything was truly amazing at that moment.

2. I was riding in a vehicle as a passenger on New Year's Eve some years back when my parents and I decided to go through the neighborhood we lived in, looking at the Christmas lights that were still on the houses. I decided to listen to something while I was looking out, so I took out my Walkman and played what was in it -- which happened to be cued up to The Cure's "A Forest". Seeing the utter and complete darkness of the night sky illuminated by all these little glittery holiday lights to the soundtrack of this song was a truly magical moment and I will remember that moment for the rest of my life. The song even somehow managed to make those lights seem a little bit spooky and atmospheric-looking.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

YUCK! the Ben folds 5 when he says "I saw your old school ID and your dressed just like the cure"

I got weepy the first time I heard that QUITE embarassing cuz they suck

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

There's something hilarious about how vehement Ned gets about Bon Jovi every time someone mentions them.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't bring myself to hate Bon Jovi as much as I'd like to -- my tri-state-area pride gets in the way. They're local boys made good. Even at their worst moments, there's something so sweet about them.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(Actually it's more of a bi-state-area pride. I don't give a rat's ass about Connecticut except that I think it's funny Thurston Moore comes from there.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

There's something hilarious about how vehement Ned gets about Bon Jovi every time someone mentions them.

That is because they are stinky, horrid and mean. And JBJ himself just looks like he deserves beatings. SMUGFUCKERY BASTARD!

However, I give credit for Tico Torres because he used to play briefly in this slightly mimsy and fun enough New Jersey psych-pop band back in the late sixties or something -- forget the name of the band, got the reissue on ArfArf Records. I like to imagine him as the one guy who ended up caught up in the band years later and thought, "Ah, fuck it, it's a living," and he just stays at home most nights and shakes his head with a laugh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

JBJ

haha

― Jody Baines Jovi (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I love "I'll Be There For You," but I hate Bon Jovi. Who the fuck heard Loverboy and said NOT BLOATED ENOUGH, MORE SPRINGSTEENIAN PRETENSION PLEASE.

Though they were probably right that the singer needed to be hotter and they needed some of that crazy mouth-tube-guitar action. Both "It's My Life" and "Livin' On A Prayer" benefit from such silliness.

I can't believe they toured WITH the Goo Goo Dolls. How much hair-in-the-eyes sexy-boy-rasp can the human ear take...

here's all the hair-in-the-eyes sexy-boy-rasp you need
http://www.mellencamp.com/images/1985/jmfield.JPG

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT JBJ and Jonny Rzezeznickwhateva are NOT "sexy" in any sense NOT NOT NOT sexeee!!! Just look at that fugly face!!! There's just a lot of hair in the eyes, but thank god, since if someone cut off the hair off you'll be left with a skinhead spawn of Satan!!!!

― Vic, Monday, 7 April 2003 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I had tears in my eyes during the anti-war demonstrations a fortnight/three weeks ago. All those kids standing down buses in the name of peace = hope for the future = very moving, even if they're just doing it to get the afternoon off school.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

brief re-revival:

Squeeze's "Up The Junction" (one of my all-time top 20 songs anyway) made me burst into tears outside Mile End station one evening a year or so ago. Just the horribleness of the narrator's situation, the hopelessness in the lines about drinking, the stultifying, truly pathetic inevitableness of it all, got the better of me.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I was reading the original liner notes to Bitches Brew tonight whilst listening to Cold House by Hood and I started crying a bit. It was all the stuff in the liner notes about electricity and newness and stuff. I am so weird.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

i was watching the 'work it' video for the umpteenth time, and the song finishes and missy makes that 'okay, that's it, let's get outta here' gesture, turns her back and there's that aaliyah picture, and i just started crying. well, there were people near so i had to choke back the tears before they came. somehow i don't think it was as simple as 'picture of deceased celebrity i liked when they were around' = tears.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm very tired and quite stressed at the moment, i suppose that had something to do with it.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

mya - fallen, again and again lately.... de la f cee lo - held down...

― trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

abba's "the winner takes it all" makes me sniffle.

Occasionally I will cry during WNBA games on television.

"Say it Isn't So" by Hall and Oates used to make me cry. That song vividly marked a time of young teen rejection.

― p.j. (Henry), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

peter gabriel's 'solsbury hill.' the terrible dj at a bar in germany threw this on one night when i was visiting recently. i was with people that i didn't know and couldn't communicate with very well, and drunk, a bit stoned, and quite homesick despite my hosts' kindness. i really can't stand gabriel but as soon as the first chorus hit i was like, "WAAAAAAAAAAAH." no doubt the bit about someone coming to take you home resonated with my maudlin inner self.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Langley School Music Project - Saturday Night. I know, of all the songs, but still it works.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Tico Torres is old enough to have been in a 60s band?!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(And Anthony "I'll Be There for You" over "You Give Love a Bad Name" or "Livin' On a Prayer"?)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Not ludicrous, I guess, but I don't know what it is about the line 'from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads' in Life On Mars? that gets me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a lovely thread.

― bh, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I was contemplating starting a new thread on ILE with the same name, but this is always worth a revive even if it's not music.

I just totally blubbed at the end of The Simpsons - it was "And Maggie Makes Three" when Homer covers the sign at work which says "Don't forget you're here forever" with pix of Maggie, so it reads "Do it for her". I must've seen it half a dozen times, and, frankly, this time I was piss bored. And then I started blubbing like a girl, wtf?!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Hearing Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" on the radio in the copy room a moment ago made my hairs on my neck stand up. Hard to tell if it's b/c it's a great song, or if it's b/c I remember how much it meant to me when I was 16. One thing I like is how the chorus is a million times more interesting than the verses, which makes for great contrast. When Pete's "instincts return" the song starts getting good, which is very appropriate.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This morning, turning on the R2 news and finding it followed by ... 'Rush Hour'!

― the janefox, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i cried at titanic

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i cried enough to drown all the people on the real titanic ten times over.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Pod People rules! And who knew Jem had such an effect on a generation of American women? Great thread revivial.

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bleh. "Black and White," by Three Dog Night. It's just... the children are all playing together, and nobody cares about their differences, AND there's a good beat underneath that's neither black NOR white! (For me, I think it only works if the musicians don't seem to be trying TOO hard to getchya.) Maybe it's my biological clock. That Phil Vassar song "Another Day in Paradise" did it once, too. Geez, my kids are gonna fucking hate me.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and in the trailer to Air Force One, where Harrison Ford says "I'm the President of the United States," and his daughter says "You're NOTHING like my father!" Why can't we get a president like that?!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've cited it many times before, but "This Woman's Work:"....when she starts blubbering about "all the things that we never did" as the piano crescendo builds before she breaks with the "Oh darling, Make it GO AWAY!" Hell, I just got choked-up typing that just now. It's positively visceral.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

..by Kate Bush, obv.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Black and White," by Three Dog Night.

So nice to get a witness on this one. I absolutely love this song. It makes me so happy.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

For some odd reason, I put on Laurie Anderson's Strange Angels. I'd forgotten how much "Ramon" makes my the skin on my arms tingle. I guess it's the look-out-for-your-neighbor vibe. The echo on "And you, you're no one. And you, you're travelling. Travelling at the speed of light." has always sent shivers.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Lycia's "Pray" makes me cry. Mike VanPortfleet's voice is so incredibly melancholy amidst all the ambient synth washes and big reverby drums/bass.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

keane's "this is the last time" affects me in ways i wouldn't have predicted

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "Black & White" the other day in a car. It made me feel really cool about betraying the speed limit.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember once I was out record shopping with some friends when I was about 19, we were walking through an indoor gallery in Glasgow that used to have cool record/comic shops (name escapes me now) I was in the basement where there were lots of antique stalls set up and I hear New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello and for some reason it just stopped me in my tracks, something impossibly perfect about that song/place/time just glommed together. So I rush upstairs and buy a second hand copy of Get Happy! It still moves me greatly, especially the chorus.

― mzui, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a handful of Tom Waits songs (Good Old World Waltz, Introduction To The Blues, Downtown Train, I Don't Wanna Grow Up) which I have played a million times and every one of those times freeze me solid and/or make me cry. The thing is it's so unexpected. I can be in a perfectly stable frame of mind and then there's a line eg:

"I climb through the window and down to the street/I'm shining like a new dime"
"And her hair was so yellow and the wine was so red back in the good old world"

and that's the point I stop being able to move or do anything for the next 4 or 5 minutes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"There are a handful of Tom Waits songs (Good Old World Waltz, Introduction To The Blues, Downtown Train, I Don't Wanna Grow Up)...."

You can definitely add "Martha" to that list as far as I'm concerned.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, most Tom Waits songs make me blub, the more beaten down he sounds, the more I get suckered into it.

I'll add to that list:

Time
The Train Song
Falling Down

― mzui, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy Cliff singing "Many Rivers To Cross" very nearly reduced me to a complete blubbering wreck the other day for no particular reason.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Day Before You Came" by Abba makes me cry EVERY TIME.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer the version by Blancmange!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I get this a lot during Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4, Friday mornings). When Meera Syal picked Bob & Marcia's Young, Gifted & Black, I just Lost It and started bawling my eyes out all over the breakfast table.

Most recent unexpected emotional ambush: Keane's Somewhere Only We Know, doing the dishes, last night. I've not even LIKED it up until now...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

when laurie anderson sings "oh mom and dad... mom and dad..." in "o superman", i always feel pretty emotional.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Watching the movie "Philadelphia" years ago, at night, I was greatly affected by the song they played when Tom Hanks' character passed- it was Neil Young's Philadelphia. Definitely teary eyed.
I liked the song so much I bought the otherwise subpar soundtrack, and filed it away; it was always teetering near the edge of "sell it back", except for that one song.
Now the album's been ripped, and this morning my Ipod randomly plays the song, sandwiched between some Elvis Costello & some DJ Shadow.

― mclaugh (mclaugh), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"God Only Knows" had the tears welling up in my eyes at a Brian Wilson gig a few weeks back too.

Must be turning into some sort of a softie in my old age.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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