Likewise "New England" after I heard about Kirsty MacColl.
I also spent best part of a decade unable to listen to "Love Cats" by The Cure without wanting to burst into tears - but that wasn't really anything to do with the song itself.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Tears. Every. Single. Time.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
2) The Byrds' "Turn, Turn Turn", The line "A time for peace / I swear it's not too late" plays, and then I bawl like a small child.
3) More recently, the song "Forever" by Bruderschaft was introduced to me by an EBM-loving coworker. Even though the song is your typical industrial disco angst-fest, I find the lyrics especially moving as they were written for the father of one of the group members, who died of cancer:
"I will walk this ground forever / and stand guard against your name / I will give all I can offer / I will shoulder all the blame / I am sentry to you now / All your hopes and all your dreams / I will hold you to the light / that's what forever means".
This speaks to me, as I was dumped this winter after an intensely brief relationship with a young woman who has cystic fibrosis. Most people with CF don't make it past their early forties, and while we don't talk anymore, I will always wonder about her health and whereabouts....
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I got a flat tire once when mountain biking and the frustration of it coupled with the fact that I had Lou Reed's "The Kids" stuck in my head made me cry. Yes, I didn't even have to hear the song, I just had to think about it and it set me off.
And you can't really blame the flat tire because I've had loads of punctures and nothing like that ever happened.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Movie: The end of 'Singles,' when the camera pulls up and you hear the voices of the whole city searching for love. A dozen years later, I live a block away from the apartment building that's the center of that picture.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
I was really surprised the first time Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom had that effect on me too; sort of hit a trance while listening to the album and suddenly the damn thing just burst on me. But I suppose that might not be that odd, all things considered; just very unexpected.
― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 6 March 2005 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 6 March 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 6 March 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone else feel sorry for those who say they never cry at music? Can't believe it myself; I'm blubbing far too often for my own good.
Most unexpected blub has been to Cartman's version of Styx's Come Sail Away from the South Park album. I've no idea wtf happened, but it still does it to me.
Very belated OTM to Alec in NYC for Kate Bush's This Woman's Work - I'm a fucking quivering wreck every time I hear this.
Add Soldier's Things to the Tom Waits list.
And(and I am suitably ashamed)one line in Barbra Dickson and Elaine Page's version of I Know Him So Well by fugging Andrew Lloyd Webber. I remember the first time... there I am sitting at home berating the jumped up little Lord's vacuous attmept at real emotion when Dickson and Page get to the middle eight and sing:
"...if I knew from the start, why am I falling apart?"
and I had to leave the room. Fast.
Finally, one that I think I share with a lot of people, but most of us hate admitting it; The Muppets' Rainbow Connection.
― Jeff Cook (Bro_Danielson), Sunday, 6 March 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
also, get this: my roommate's mom was in a convent, like: a full-on nun & she heard "turn turn turn" by the byrds on the radio & took it as a calling to start a secular lifestyle. incidentally, the song is a bible verse, right? i love that story. it's really ...poetic. i was like: "dude, you wouldn't exist if weren't for that song. ever think of that?!". that kinda flipped his wig.
― joey b, Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Even though I'm a political cynic, and I hate the course of the current administration, and I think a lot of us are truly deranged, the religious right is ruining it for the rest of us.
That damn song still makes me tear. Oh, and "America the Beautiful." No matter where, no matter when.
― patricia h, Monday, 11 July 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
My brother and I got along uncommonly well as children, and my parents didn't neglect me for him, so I'm not drawing on that particular experience. I guess there's the universal feeling of being misunderstood. But actually, when Ashlee addresses that - "So if you're listening, there's so much more to me you haven't seen" - she's lovable: nakedly vulnerable yet audacious.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i was feeling anxious and uneasy the other day and put on my bloody valentine's 'lose my breath'. it somehow made me feel even more upset.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
t.A.T.u., "Show Me Love":
"Like a game of pick-up sticks / played by f#*!ing lunatics"
Dunno why, ambushed every time.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 13 December 2008 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link