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Post by spaniel on May 25, 2009 13:21:16 GMT -5
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Post by Star Cluster on May 25, 2009 16:00:34 GMT -5
Odd you should start this post. My daughter recently got married, but she did so in Jamaica. My wife and I went to the wedding but we had a reception for them just this past Saturday night. The song I picked out for the Daughter-Daddy dance was I Loved Her First by Heartland. I'm not really into country music, but this song just seemed almost perfect for the occasion. Unfortunately, it got to me and I was nearly blubbering throughout the whole song. But I wasn't the only one.
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Post by Old Viking on May 25, 2009 16:50:57 GMT -5
The Wedding March from Lohengrin.
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Post by MaybeNever on May 25, 2009 17:04:02 GMT -5
Badly Drawn Boy's The Shining. I don't know why, really.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 25, 2009 19:28:11 GMT -5
Fall Out Boy: Beat It. It's just so awful.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on May 25, 2009 20:14:17 GMT -5
MONO and world's end girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain. It's 75 minutes long in its entirety, with 5 themes, and its basically a funeral march. Always reminds me I have no friends.
Oceansize - Music for a Nurse
The feeling of almost having someone, and losing the opportunity. I could've loved her once, and even though I know it couldn't have worked out anyway, I regret that we never gave it a shot when we could've.
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Post by Jebediah on May 25, 2009 22:02:26 GMT -5
I'm probably the only person in the entire world who cries to this song. Indian Outlaw by Tim McGraw.
My siblings and I frequently sing (scream, really) this song at the top of our lungs, and we enjoy this immensely. We will also text the lyrics back and forth until we have completed the entire song.
Sometimes when I'm at school, and I miss them, I will put this song on. I don't scream it, or even sing, because it's just not the same alone, but it never fails to make me tear up.
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on May 26, 2009 0:19:01 GMT -5
Concrete Angel. About child abuse. Angel.Was in that commercial about animal abuse. Defying Gravity. I know it isn't sad if you watch it by itself, but if you see the rest of the musical, you'd be bawling.
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Post by darthtoxic on May 26, 2009 16:29:27 GMT -5
Most of these don't actually make me cry, but they're sad and powerful nonetheless.
"Only Women Bleed" by Alice Cooper; it's from the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and is one of the few songs not from the POV of the main character, Steven. This song is about his wife, who stays with him through all of his abuse and excess and selfish behavior because of how much she loves him and wants him to recover from his mental illnesses.
"Dirt" and "Down in a Hole" by Alice in Chains. The whole Dirt album is so bleak, but these are the two emotional low-points of the album that don't turn to anger or anything. "Dirt" is about a heroin addict who takes every fix hoping that it kills him, and "Down in a Hole" is just a general 'sad song', but they're both depressing.
"Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell. It's an instrumental, but damned if it isn't powerful. And it's from the movie Requiem for a Dream, so associating it with the events of the film makes it even sadder.
"Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith. Mostly because I associate it with the suicide scene from The Royal Tenenbaums... It's sad on its own though. It's about alienation and all that.
"Man That You Fear", "Count to Six and Die", "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" "Great Big White World", "Coma White", "Coma Black", and "Fundamentally Loathsome" by Marilyn Manson. Those are his saddest and most powerful ones. I'm not going to delve into each one right now.
"A Warm Place", "Eraser", "The Downward Spiral", "Hurt", "The Great Below", and "And All That Could Have Been" by Nine Inch Nails. "A Warm Place" is an instrumental, but again, very powerful. The rest are just sad. "The Downward Spiral" has got to be one of the darkest, angriest 'suicide songs' ever. I love it.
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Post by gadfly on May 26, 2009 18:12:11 GMT -5
Mike and the Mechanic's "In the Living Years" never fails to make me cry or at least tear up whenever I listen to it. It's about a man whose ailing father dies, apparently shortly before the narrator's wife gives birth, and so then the man faces the joys and challenges of being a father himself. It's basically a song about loving those around you before it's too late and they're gone. Given the fact that my own father has faced multiple brushes with various potentially lethal health complications over the years, it really tends to resonate with me.
Likewise, Sarah McLachlan's song for Toy Story 2 made me cry in the theater.
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Post by The_L on May 26, 2009 18:40:57 GMT -5
"Eva" by Nightwish. Probably because it describes my childhood so disturbingly well.
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Post by captainhooker on May 26, 2009 20:24:30 GMT -5
Artist: Sufjan Stevens Title: Casimir Pulaski Day Album: Illinois
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Post by Art Vandelay on May 26, 2009 20:33:59 GMT -5
I don't think any songs make me cry, although some do come dangerously close.
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Post by erictheblue on May 27, 2009 12:53:57 GMT -5
"Tonight I Want to Cry" by Keith Urban
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Post by MysticalChicken on May 29, 2009 7:15:07 GMT -5
There are actually a LOT of songs that have made me cry at least once, but these ones will usually get the tears flowing whenever I listen to them:
Pink Martini - Que Sera Sera The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle Beirut - Cliquot Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO) Gorillaz - El Manana (especially the video) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Parts 1 & 2 Jeff Buckley - practically every song on Grace
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