Has any song ever reduced you to tears?
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Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
Yes me too. So much so, I only allow myself to listen to it occasionly so it's effect on me doesn't diminish. And sorry to be a pleb, but I prefer it without the singing.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Surely not. I hear instrumental versions and I can't hack them. You have to have human voice for the climax, otherwise it just doesn't have the same power.
Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
I take your point, but I have a bit of a problem with operatic singing in general. Did you ever see 'Un Chien Andalou' by Louis Bunuel? The instrumental version works perfectly in that.
plasticene
New Member
Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention
And most of the Trinity Session by the Cowboy Junkies
And most of the Trinity Session by the Cowboy Junkies
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Seconded. I was lucky enough to catch one of Sandy Denny's last gigs. Pretty much anything with her voice at least causes a catch in the throat, but that particular song is the killer.
last night i heard a screaming
loud voices behind the wall
another sleepless night for me
it won't do no good to call
the police
always come late if they come at all
The very first tune my brother made, which was generally a bit of a mess, used that tune to very good effect. he put Chapman's voice and distorted it so it sounded like a bloke, and then basicall fitted it in to make it make sense in a drug context: we're having this party, mate, and it won't do no good to call the police...
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
a cover version of this by a guest singer at school Christian group, when my Grandad was dying. Fortunately nobody noticed/decided to ignore it.
eta: for various reasons the previously mentioned songs: Low - Sunflower + Dinosaur Act, Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where The Time Goes,
plus The Clash - Straight To Hell (once or twice because of then current circumstances re the subtext of not belonging/being at home anywhere) & Something About England - the snippet of (probably fake) old street sleepers singing "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" got me at least once once. Chumbawamba's album A Singsong And A Scrap the first time I heard it, due to being fragile emotionally at the time + feeling powerless both in my personal life at the time and in the face of injustice.
There's more but I don't remember them right now.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I didn't know that. I'd check it out but I don't fancy the scene with the eye...
The remarkable thing about the Liebestod (and Nilsson's great rendition in particular) is that there's no sentimentality, no laying it on thick, no deliberate jerking of the tearducts. It's all in the power of the voice.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Yeah- Living isn't without you -sung by Mariah Carey-it was number one week beginning 14 Feb 1994.
But my milk had just come in and any old crap would have made me cry
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
Yeah- Living isn't without you -sung by Mariah Carey-it was number one week beginning 14 Feb 1994.
you've just remined me - the Mariah Carey and Westlife cover of Against All Odds, I was a mess at the time tbh, so the same would apply
and there's several songs in the catagory of getting mushy/sentimental about dead musicans
breasticles
the smell of life
i had a funny experience once where, out of nowehere, i started blubbing to 'heatwave' by martha and the vandellas. i always thought it was quite a cheerful song, if a bit frantic, but after that time i realised it's actually really quite heartbreaking and minor key. i don't think i always listen to music properly.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Tracy Chapman- fast car
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I know what you mean. I've been to the opera twice now, and both times I've really liked the music, but it's utterly ruined by the weird singing style. Hold the note you fuckers! Put that vibrato down you'll have someone's eye out.
Anyway, This is A Low by Blur usually gets my eyelids twitching, but only when I'm 'tired and emotional'
...politely says good night....
yeh, always used to get me that one Jolene sung by Dolly has the power to do this, plus Ne Me Quitte Pas (Brel version)
Also, Stay With Me Baby sung by Bette Midler...I listened to it a few months back after something like a 24 year hiatus...I was cooking, and by the end of the song was pretty much sobbing into the pan
This will not be news to anyone who has frequented this forum for the last few years mind
DaRealSpoon
Do not try and bend the spoon...
I'm a bit of soft so and so when it comes to music, so loads probably at various times. In fact it's usually the thing that brings out the reason to make the eyes water if that makes sense.
Just one,
Elbow - Scattered Black and Whites.
Childhood memories invocation a go go!
Just one,
Elbow - Scattered Black and Whites.
Childhood memories invocation a go go!
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