What was the last song you wept to?

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i would second chris O, but that was actually thursday night, the second to last time, during "no children"
the last time was yesterday, driving home from work/school, it had been a great day, but for some reason i just felt like shit, but then "cybele's reverie" by stereolab came on and i couldnt help but smile. after maybe 30 seconds of laughing at godknowswhat i just had to cry a little.
the last time i really let loose though was right after my heart was broken, about 18 months ago, "no one will ever love you" by the magnetic fields just broke me down

Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Songs that have made me cry on their own merits are listed in another thread.
tell me more, colin.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

Earlier on this year "We're All Alone" by Rita Coolidge came on the radio driving home late at night from a gig. A song I'd completely forgotten about until that moment....and it seemed like every line in the song, every note, every sound, was there simply to make me cry. So I did.

"Close the window, calm the light, and it will be alright, no need to bother now, let it out, let it all begin, owe it to the wind my love."

So, Boz Scaggs S/D?

harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

abba - knowing me knowing you

The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

There are a couple of other threads that have asked this question, and I answered it before. Can't find the thread now, though.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 04:53 (twenty years ago) link

it wasn't in songs that made you cry, colin. still searching...

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link

In July I came home from a friend's funeral and listened to "Missing You" by Puff Daddy, et. al. It was a fairly unserious gesture, but the thought of how much it would have made her laugh and the reality of the lyrics made me shed a tear or two.

Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 07:31 (twenty years ago) link

3Ds - "Spooky"

etc, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

Oh another song that usually leaves me all WRACKED w/SOBS is "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The thing is not to think about/play in yr head these songs in public, crying a little as you walk along the street is a stupid "look"

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

the Celtic fans' rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone last night at Parkhead. The emotion gets me every time.

ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

Cornelius' 'Rock/96', the climax of 69/96, seems to get me mildly emotional each time and I dunno why. I guess there was a heatbreak point in 'I Am The Walrus' he managed to locate when he wrote the song. Best of all, I only understand 4 lines of the song (cause they're in English, duh).

Because of the title and Beatles appropriation, I read the song as a perspective/betterment on Oasis and Britpop.

Barima (Barima), Thursday, 2 October 2003 06:46 (twenty years ago) link

the Celtic fans' rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone last night at Parkhead. The emotion gets me every time.

I've never sung this song in my life because it's not our song, it's Liverpool's and it's also a shite song

Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 2 October 2003 12:09 (twenty years ago) link

the last track on fennesz field recordings, "codeine", which i believe is a reworking of a ekkehard ehlers + stephan mathieu track. driving down I-95 as the sun was painting a lovely picture at dusk.

jason m (jason m), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

funny, i can recall a few, perhaps many times i cried to music, but i don't remember the songs. there is one song though that is absolutely impossible for me to listen to without breaking apart, i don't even like R.E.M., but the song "you are the everything" to me is about a young runaway boy i madly fell for, summer 91. tragedy stroke and he is no more but he still is everything and i can't bear even a single note of this song, though i don't even recall why i associated it to him in the first place.

oh and the first time i heard that silly "silent night/news report" thing by simon & garfunkel i fell to the floor and wept for a little hour. "last" time i wept was probably to cheree by suicide but it was late and tipsy.

chomipop, Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

Iron and Wine - "Upward Over the Mountain".

every frickin time.

beaty (beaty), Saturday, 11 October 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link

goodbye

The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 11 October 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

by the spice girls

The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 11 October 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link

before that was viva forever

The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 11 October 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link

Pick Up the Pieces by The Royals about 10 minutes ago on my way home.

oops (Oops), Saturday, 11 October 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

'You're Missing' - Bruce Springsteen

John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 11 October 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

i think it was a couple of years ago at the funeral of my godfather when two of my cousins played the first movement of bachs first violin concert.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link

Scott walker - it’s raining today

can’t remember why

brimstead, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link

Recently, "Gone" by Charlie XCX. I was totally caught off guard by that. Tears of joy.

irerisered, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link

*Charli

irerisered, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link

Mariah Carey - "Hero"

Less the song and more me not taking my meds one day and it taking me back to my teens and me realizing I'm almost middle aged now

looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:20 (four years ago) link

Not a joke, i was weeping to everything on my Spotify playlist, even Taylor Dayne

looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link

Rainer Bruninghaus - "Strahlenspur"
Gottsching/Ashra - "Sunrain"

Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 05:21 (four years ago) link

Rainer Bruninghaus - "Strahlenspur"

Beautiful song.

Maresn3st, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link

Solomon Burke - Don’t Give Up On Me, when Wendell Pierce picked it on Desert Island Discs.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link

“Who Knows Where the Time Goes” - introducing my daughter to the music of Sandy Denny with way too much wine in me

Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 2 January 2020 01:17 (four years ago) link

sandy denny's voice alone is indeed quite tear-inducing for me too and especially that song.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 2 January 2020 08:21 (four years ago) link

The Stone Rosees - Fools Gold

holidays are over

anvil, Thursday, 2 January 2020 08:58 (four years ago) link

Folk songs, all the time.

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 09:31 (four years ago) link

Between the end of Fools Gold and the start of Bohemian Rhapsody in the cafe, the cold hard facts of life hit me. I would be hearing these two songs every day for the rest of my life. Go to another cafe you might say. Its not that simple

anvil, Thursday, 2 January 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link

What was the last song you slept to?

nostormo, Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link

#xmas2017

I’ve probably heard this 6 times (mostly on Spotify) this holiday season. Laughed at it the first 3 times as millennial tripe, then secretly liked it the next couple times. This time, now that I’m away from my family, it snuck up on me and got me good.

epistantophus, Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link

adam driver singing in Marriage Story tbh

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link

I've never not wept to a song

geoffreyess, Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link

i didn't like openly weep or anything but i was in nashville last weekend and we went into a honky tonk where a trad. duo were playing and they covered "i'm so lonesome i could cry" and i got pretty blubbery.

ingredience (map), Friday, 3 January 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link

a propos nashville, pedal steel guitar together with accordion (after that violin) are the two instruments that make my eyes wet the most often.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link

i cry to music so often i can't remember the last time it happened. i almost never cry to *not*-music.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link

on any given night there's a very good chance that the last song I've slept to is by zimoun

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 January 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link

There is something about 'Rue the Day' by the Walkmen that catches me by surprise and kicks my legs out from me every single time I hear it:

There's a miracle in
Going way too long and way too strong
Twisting all the bad things into good
I'm a lucky guy, now
But I never know it til it's gone

Just typing out the gahdamn lyrics puts a lump in my throat.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Saturday, 4 January 2020 07:04 (four years ago) link

Jobriath's 'Street Corner Love' - a light fluffy song about casual sex that drops the line "love me like we never met" out of nowhere.

just another country (snoball), Saturday, 4 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link

Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" - the title refers to a bottle of cheap(ish) wine, which I'd only just found out.

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link

Never knew that either.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link

That makes at lease two Neil Diamond songs about drinking alcohol to try and forget about your problems.

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link

A fine subject for a song.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

did any of you catch those copyright-extension rolling stones tracks that were dumped on youtube on the 1st? they're gone now but a judicious search of iorr.org will lead you to them. anyway the demo version of "ruby tuesday" is for the ages. there's a fierce debate on that site over whether the prominent piano is played by brian jones or nicky hopkins.

Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link

Well, tough day but Judee Sill just broke me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feFedDW_iQ

Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link

ugh that particular performance slays me

ingredience (map), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link

Emperor, "Thus Spake the Nightspirit" live last night.

FUCK YOU, YOU WEREN'T THERE!

papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link


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