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I threw this song on today and it never fails to bring me to the verge of tears. I mean it is such a beautiful song in it's own right, but that's not why I get so emotional while listening to it. This song has such close ties to my childhood. My father had a large vinyl collection when I was a child. He would throw on records all the time for me and my sister to listen to. I remember he had the 45 of this song, and one of my earliest childhood memories is of the three of us, in the basement, listening to it. I was on the couch watching my father hold my sister in his arms and swaying back and forth to the song. Every time I hear it I am instantaneously taken back to that exact moment in time. It is probably my favorite song of all time.
What songs have become deeply emotionally connected to you?
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We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Post by SilentEyedStorm on Oct 11, 2014 0:06:42 GMT -5
This song came out around the time my ex went into the Marines. He and I remained good friends and he would call me every week over the months he was in California. Then, the calls stopped and I found out he had gone AWOL. They found his body on base a month later.....he had died of dehydration and exposure. To this day, we still don't know what happened. Anyway, I always think of Jimmy when I hear this song.
EDIT: What the heck? I didn't realize the first vid I posted wasn't even him singing. So, here's Garth actually singing the song that makes me cry every time I hear it
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We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Post by davidbyrnesbutler on Oct 11, 2014 0:53:36 GMT -5
My first girlfriend and I a few years ago decided this was "our song" and it still gets to me this day even though we broke up and don't really talk. This song reminds me of our late night conversations...
More recently I am in love with Sam Smith and the first time I heard this song (a few days ago) I instantly got teary-eyed on the highway. I'm really surprised this song made it to mainstream radio but I'm glad it did. I'm glad the days of Latch and Stay With Me are over. His whole album is fantastic.
The Alpha is the first song Whoreshack ever sent to me, as we were planning what turned out to be our first date. We took a weekend to go camping in late October. It is his fav Wilco song, and it includes the lyrics "We could use a hand full of wheel, and a day off". It was a pick up line for him.
The Mu is the song he proposed to me to 8 months later, the middle of the time we had together.
The Omega, the song that was playing when his last breath passed through his lips. I was singing along, holding him and stroking his head. So these, and dozens more get me. But these do especially, because of summation.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
God Only Knows was pretty much the soundtrack to my first high school romance. The Beach Boys were her favorite band and we listened to Pet Sounds non-stop. I had a doo doo brown Corolla that we had hooked up a walkman in the glove box (because I was too lazy to buy an actual cassette player), and listened to it over and over on late night drives down the parkway. She was a tennis virtuoso and ended up getting a full ride to Rice . We broke up shortly before she left and since then I can't hear that song and not tear up a bit.
State Trooper is just great f*cking songwriting. It was the first song I connected with from Springsteen.
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This one does it for me - and beyond just the general Joy Division morose-ness in all their songs. I had epilepsy until I was 16, and that song perfectly captures the entire experience of a seizure. The confusion, the fear, the judgment, the fatigue... everything. It's a frightening thing to lose control of your body. It brings me back to a place that I don't necessarily want to revisit, but I think it's important that I do. When something like that is such a major part of your life, it's amazing to find an artist who not just understands the experience, but who expresses it so beautifully. There are a lot of songs out there about more universal experiences, but so few about rarer experiences like this, and it's amazing when you can connect with the work on multiple levels.
And yet, what I love about Joy Division is that the beat is so infectious that I just want to listen to it over and over, even though it's very emotionally trying. For me, it has all the gravitas of The Eternal, and yet... it's just so dance-y. So vibe-y. So brilliant.
God Only Knows was pretty much the soundtrack to my first high school romance. The Beach Boys were her favorite band and we listened to Pet Sounds non-stop. I had a doo doo brown Corolla that we had hooked up a walkman in the glove box (because I was too lazy to buy an actual cassette player), and listened to it over and over on late night drives down the parkway. She was a tennis virtuoso and ended up getting a full ride to Rice . We broke up shortly before she left and since then I can't hear that song and not tear up a bit.
State Trooper is just great f*cking songwriting. It was the first song I connected with from Springsteen.
God Only Knows is one of my all-time favourites, but the album version is little too light and airy to really make me cry; this version, on the other hand, can do it for me:
Post by FuzzyWarbles on Oct 11, 2014 8:57:20 GMT -5
There are quite a few songs that can work me up emotionally at certain times. The only thing coming to mind at this moment isn't a particular song but Willy Mason's whole set at ACL '07. I don't know what was going on with me that day. I kept finding myself with a tear in my eye throughout the whole performance and became a big fan of Willy. That was a solo acoustic set with his mother, folk singer Jemima James, sitting in on a couple of songs. I can't find youtube clips that properly represent that moment in time.
This one does it for me - and beyond just the general Joy Division morose-ness in all their songs. I had epilepsy until I was 16, and that song perfectly captures the entire experience of a seizure. The confusion, the fear, the judgment, the fatigue... everything. It's a frightening thing to lose control of your body. It brings me back to a place that I don't necessarily want to revisit, but I think it's important that I do. When something like that is such a major part of your life, it's amazing to find an artist who not just understands the experience, but who expresses it so beautifully. There are a lot of songs out there about more universal experiences, but so few about rarer experiences like this, and it's amazing when you can connect with the work on multiple levels.
And yet, what I love about Joy Division is that the beat is so infectious that I just want to listen to it over and over, even though it's very emotionally trying. For me, it has all the gravitas of The Eternal, and yet... it's just so dance-y. So vibe-y. So brilliant.
My most recent ex battled epilepsy for years, since she was a young girl. Watching her have seizures was always hard, and one of the things that stood out to me the most is when she described how tired and sore she felt afterward. We broke up over four years ago, but stay in touch. She has been seizure free for nearly 3 years. I will definitely share this song with her. Thanks.
Post by dreamingtree on Oct 11, 2014 10:06:19 GMT -5
Grey Street - Dave Matthews Band. This is one that relates to my past life with my abusive ex, so it's a bitter sweet song for me. I cry partly out of sadness, because I was the person in that song, and remember very clearly how it felt, and partly out of happiness because I'm not that person anymore
Ocean - John Butler. No idea why it has that effect on me (there are no words in the song) but whenever I hear it, I cry. It's just so beautiful and powerful, and the fact that one person can make music like that is mind blowing to me. Hearing it live, even more so. I always have tears running down my face at his shows during this song. Druid can attest to this
Ballad of Love and Hate - The Avett Brothers. It's just beautiful and makes me cry every time I hear it.
A song about missing home on its surface. For me its a song about getting out in the world, getting all fucked up on drugs and bullshit, and wondering why you can't get back to what made you happy when you were younger.
Drive-By Truckers - Tornadoes
Wanee 2009 was my first sober music festival. Truckers took the amphitheater stage in beautiful spirit of suwanee music park. A light rain was falling, it was hot so it felt amazing. They opened with this song. Absolutely destroyed me, and destroys me every time I hear it.
"as it echoed through them storm clouds / i swear / it sounded like a train"
Phish - 2001
For me live music is about moments. Is there any greater moment than the peak in 2001?
Slayer - Raining Blood
So often a song makes me cry, not because of any particular memory, or because of the lyrics, but because its just so goddamn perfect. So yes I tear up almost every time I hear this song. I don't think anything has approached the sheer metal intensity of this song, except for maybe some Opeth song.
When this song kicks in, even if you aren't a fan of metal, you will feel SOMETHING. Something scary maybe, but something.
Ween - The Argus (version from live in chicago)
The album version doesn't quite do it for me, but this version from the Live in Chicago release gets at the emotion in the song. Insanity in music makes me tear up, insanity performed with absolutely conviction in belief in what the artist is doing (which is why there are too many Talking Heads songs that make me tear up to put on this list. because david byrne).
"and the argus is practiced compassion / with an eye on you, as one is on me"
Ween - I Don't Want It
FUCK. Everything from the lyrics, to Gener's vocals (who can evoke sadness and emptiness better than any vocalist ever), and then you have this perfect reverby guitar solo from Deaner, oh my fucking GOD. One of my favorite guitar solos of all time, its flawless.
As a side note, I love the track listing on "Quebec", because you go straight from the deep introspective sadness of this song to "The Fucked Jam".
Phish - Tahoe Tweezer
Talking about moments in live music. When Phish drops into that completely different type II jam out of nowhere all because of a simple piano riff from Page at about 26:18, and Trey quickly follows suit by completely changing up his melody at 26:24, then Fishman starts building up to that peak at 26:32, and everyone starts following Fish, leading to that indescribable peak, and the ensuing crowd participation, its like every single person at the show was locked in to exactly what was going on at that moment. Everyone was in the moment, everyone was there. Then Trey comes out of it with that SCREAMING guitar solo. Oh my god. Its a perfect phish moment, and proof that even 3.0 phish can do whatever they hell they want to whenever the hell they want to. Phish is fucking back.
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
See "Raining Blood". The absolutely perfect post-punk 1980s dance track. Has to be the long version.
From my impressionable youth: Don't Worry Baby came out when I was 11 and I was just getting into girls and romance and it still takes me back to that time and how love should be like a comfortable blanket. So it's happy tears.
I went (briefly) to West Point and at our orientation they played this song as the closer. I was away from home for the first time and while a career as an Army officer never panned out (I made it all of 3 months) it still reminds me of that first time out on your own.
This song just makes me cry about how empty some lives can be despite appearances. It's nothing of a personal nature but.... Tweedy can always make me cry:
Post by Son of a Beek on Oct 11, 2014 13:18:14 GMT -5
Thom Yorke- Atoms for Peace
This song helped me a lot while I was going through dark times. Everything about this song is absolutely perfect to me. From the tone of Thom's voice to the dark and monotonous bassline that drive the whole song. The lyrics hit me hard whenever I put the song on as well. Music has been a big part of my battle with depression and this album, and particularly this song, have gotten me through a lot.
Explosions in the Sky- Your Hand in Mine
The first post rock song I ever listened to. I had never heard anything like this and it made me cry like a baby
Deafheaven- The Pecan Tree
This is the first song that made me cry out of sheer beauty. This eleven minute epic is a magnificent journey through post rock, Shoegaze, and metal. This song in particular uses all of what makes Deafheaven so great to the maximum. The last three minutes of this song is the best thing I've ever listened to. Seriously, of the thousands of songs I've listened to, there is nothing better than that anthemic guitar riff at the end of this song
This is one of those songs that encompasses such a large swath of sadness for me. I think of everyone I've ever lost, to both death and differences. I was lucky enough to attend LCD's last two shows, and had this moment when this song was playing where I was overcome with the thoughts of personal loss, but also with the idea of the band itself disbanding, that THEY were the "something great" that would now be gone. It's hard for me to describe this moment or rationalize it to people who don't feel the same way about music that I (and most of you) do.
Elvis Costello - Veronica
My first Bonnaroo was in 2009. A week before I was scheduled to leave for Tennessee, my grandmother lost her long battle with Alzheimer's. It was a terrible disease and what it did to her was savage. I was devastated to lose her, as she was the woman who I had looked up to the most in my life. My parents talked me into still going to 'roo, they knew I would regret it if I didn't go and that my grandma would've wanted me to. Fast forward to Elvis Costello's set at roo, I'm super excited cause I love Elvis, and I'd never seen him before. The moment he starts into "Veronica", it hits me that this is a song about the grandmother he lost to dementia, and I just crumbled into a crying mess. There was an older gentlemen next to me, who without a word just hugged me. I never got his name, but he made me okay again, and I'll always thank him for that.
Blink 182 - Adams Song
When I was 18, I lost my best friend Adam to suicide. I don't really have to explain why this song would make me feel sad.
How could I forget my teariest? I don't think this one needs any explanation. I'm not so old that I experienced the Civil War so there's no personal attachment. Just one of the saddest tales put beautifully to music.
This was on Roo Radio as we drove into BFE in 2012, and I could hear my friend (in his convertible in front of me) singing along and saying hi to everyone we drove past. It was the year I lost my friend. Found out a few months ago, watching a PBS program, that I still weep like a baby during this song.
This man's voice and songwriting have provided plenty of things for me to cry to, this might be the one that affects me the most. I was at this taping last December, and had never really given this song much thought. He introduced it by saying "This song is about family and wishing someone would stop circling the airport and land." It hit me. Hard. So I paid the song a great deal of attention while he was playing it and I was in tears by the end.
Bright Eyes - Lua
Somehow it took me until very recently to really discover Bright Eyes, this time coincided with a not-so-great period in my life and this song just wrecked me
There are so many songs that get me teary eyed, but the most recent would be "Do You Realize?" this past summer. My grandfather passed away very unexpectedly and I drove down to the funeral over 4th of July weekend. As I drove back to North Carolina where I was working (away from my girlfriend and basically alone all summer), this song came on. I always have loved this song, but as it played I noticed the sky was the most beautiful combination of blues and purples at sunset. I had tried to be strong for my family that weekend, but in that moment of solidarity, I just broke down. It was one of the saddest moments of my life, but also one of the most beautiful. Just shows how amazing music is and how even after hearing a song a million times, it can still find new ways to touch you emotionally.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Oct 13, 2014 10:43:21 GMT -5
As a small little monkey trainer when my mom showed me a country music song that made me cry. Mainly because it's a love story that has some tragedy and I don't know why but it really hit me as a kid. I think it's cuz my mom helped explain the song to me a bit. The verses take place over three time periods. Main character "Johnny" doesn't want to go fishing with some neighbor girl but his dad takes her with them. Then cut ahead and the next part is teenage "Johnny" sacrificing himself and anything he has to a mugger to protect his girlfriend (same girl from before). Then the last part of the song is about the girl (who is now the wife) having complications during birth of their kid and passes away. It was always the pleads from "Johnny" to God about not taking the girl and offering his life to take her place that really got to me.
It's not an amazing song or anything. Okay songwriting but nothing epic. But little ITM used to turn on the water works for this one. I was probably 8 or 9 years old when it would make me cry. Doesn't make me tear up anymore but it definitely used to.