It's weird what songs do this, I find it;s not whether they are of any particular quality, but the memories they evoke.
Am I the only person who finds themself shedding a silent tear at the likes of
'True Blue'
by Madonna and 'Nantes' by Beirut.
It's so odd what makes people happy or teary.x
braille by regina spektor
:'(
Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea.
Sorry, I know everyone thisnks it's a cliche and overrated, but this song brings tears to my eyes every single time.
Ditto Arcade Fire's 'In The Backseat'
neutral milk hotel
two headed boy is even worse for this
The 2nd part
is in fact worser.
To continue the sad theme
The Battle of Land Of Sea - Harden My Heart, despite the fact the song is actually about getting over someone it's possibly the WORST song to listen to, if you've just broken up.
I couldn't listen to
"The Predatory Wasp of The Pallisades Is Out To Get Us" by Sufjan Stevens for a long long time due to personal reasons.
stars
one more night :'-(
'that was a good one'
yeah, that song is mega emotional, i don't even like stars a massive amount but that song makes me a bit sad
The National - Mistaken for Strangers
It came on shuffle as the first song I heard after a much-beloved teacher was killed, and in the first few songs I heard after breaking up with someone after two years. :(
ok... *deep breath*
Baring my soul here... it's not Neutral Milk Hotel, or Mountain Goats or anything like that it's 'Goodbye My Lover' by James Blunt. Ex-lover's favourite song - she played it at me a lot (especially when we were in the throes of breakup) and there's the 'i'd be the father of your child' line that gets to me for involved reasons. Best avoided for me, that song.
LOL U IZ WELL GAY
innit
oh
bloody hell
this was a sad thread.
i meant in liek holiday memories happy memories sometimes ahha
I don't think theres many songs that people get so happy when they listen to...
...that they have to turn it off? Sort of the opposite.... sad songs however... memories and such.
Cosmonaut by At The Drive-in
tears of blood!
hahahah
genius
I don't think I actually have any songs that do this to me
lots of songs that make me sad for whatever reason... I don't much like the whole of Sea Change by Beck, I bought it a month oir two before my Gran died and I was intending on lending it to her, was going to visit her in the hospital and give it to her the week she died... Its a tragic album anyway. Come to think of it, I haven't really listened to it at all for the last 2/3 years... i still bang out the odd tune from it though. If someone put it on I wouldn't have to ask them to turn it off.
I'm really sad no
bastards!!!!!!! the internet is supposed to make you happy!!!! Porn and such!!!!!!!
Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
Reminds me of a Norwegian girl who broke my heart. I just can't listen to that album now. Same goes for Sufjan's 'Seven Swans' LP.
Sniff.
I often quite like it when songs make me sad though
its quite inspiring... good when you can really relate to music, makes the music seem so much more powerful and generally brilliant... I guess thats why I have never been 'choked up and unable to listen'... though there is the Beck exception, generally that album makes me feel very shit.
the stooges
any song on 'the weirdness'
The Flaming Lips
'Do You Realize'
Funerals are rubbish.
Empty Cans
by The Streets, first heard it the weekend my Mum broke up with the guy she'd been with for 9 years. The line "it's the end of something I did not want to end, beginning of hard times to come" nearly had me in tears on a bus.
Slightly embarrassing...
Ditto
That song makes me shiver.
Also:
'First Day Of The Holidays' by Ooberman
'What Can I Say To Change Your Heart' by Trembling Blue Stars
'Slow Grafitti' by B&S - specifically the line "It's worse to wake up with her falling round the room"
Probably loads more that I can't think of right now - I'm a bit of a wimp...
Leonard Cohen-
Chelsea Hotel No. 2
The Decemberists-California One/Youth an Beauty Brigade
...for, er, personal reasons...
"Lament" by Nick Cave...
..although its a happy kind of sadness. Melancholy has never sounded so good.
...
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy Done Wrong Again
judy and the dream of horses - belle & sebastian
loads by b&s actually. i'm such an alpha male.
REM / 'Let Me In'
about kurt cobain. the vocal was recorded in 1 take cause m stipe couldn't get through doing it more than once. the geetar bit is played on one of kurt's. it ends with what amounts to stipe wailing in a high pitch. its almost impossible to listen to.
but they've oddly done it on every date of the new tour so far.
^this
completely heart-wrenching.
i've just given this a re-listening
and it is unbelievably moving. i never knew what it was about before, and haven't ever paid much attention to that album bar a few songs, but that song is fucking harrowing now...
Pendulum - Slam
I'm serriouse its the only tune I can't listen to right now as that was playin when I first started gettin a spark goin on a dance floor with her and we were dancing drunkenly and ended up singin he synth line togther lots. She later bought me it on record and we have broke up now :(
in the past some Bright eyesdid it esspecialy the Digital Ash In A Digital Urn album.
the killers - mr brightside
it happened to be a popular song at the time.
only in dreams
and butterfly by weezer
and yesterday went to soon by feeder :/
Guided by Voices - Motor Away
Death Cab For Cutie - pretty much anything on Transatlanticism
JJ72 - Always and forever (though I've not heard that in YEARS)
All because of the same ex.
a few
Jeff Buckley's Opened Once, Ryan Adams' Dear John and Badly Drawn Boy's Epitaph.
tim buckley
'song to the siren' - oh this really does make me feel too upset and i usually have to turn it off
nancy sinatra sometimes
some songs by daniel johnston
guided by voices 'hold on hope' because it reminds me of this new year's eve where i almost got together with someone i've been in love with for five frigging years :(
Two
by Kate Bush...
"This Woman's Work" and "Mother Stands for Comfort" are filed as Unlistenable to on Public Transport.
Antony & The Johnsons - Spiralling
:'(
^
tru dat
Jeff Buckley is a great one for this
for me the most choking comes during 'I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby', also Whiskeytown's 'Houses On The Hill' and Elliott Smith's 'I Didn't Understand'..
If things go wrong with my current girlfriend I am fairly sure I will be able to add 'No One's Gonna Love You' to that list!
Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
You and I
by Stevie Wonder
High, Low and In Between by Townes Van Zandt
Hot Burrito #1 - Flying Burrito Bros.
We Don't Own It by Joan As Police Woman
...had me choking up when she played it last night, took me quite by surprise. Beautiful.
That's a lovely song.
I spent last summer listening to that album, so I don't think it will ever be classed as a choke up song.
The Funeral by Band of Horses
really chokes me up. It's the way it's so hopeful and sombre all at once.
The one that always gets me
is I See You You See Me by Magic Numbers. For various reasons that keep repeating themselves.
"For All We Know"
or
"Mr Bojangles",
both by Nina Simone - every time.
A Sorta Fairtale
by Tori Amos. Tip: If/when you break up with a girl/boy and you've gotta get yourself home or you want to put some music on, keep listening to shit you really fucking hate for the first few days. 'A Sorta Fairytale' was one of my favourite songs in the world ever. I made the mistake of putting it on straight after last words were spoken with ex-girlfriend and now it's ruined forever. I really wish I'd had the foresight to play "Lady in Red' by Chris de Burgh or something instead.
BRAND NEW-JESUS CHRIST
also pretty much the whole of the devil and god are raging inside me