What recent song has turned you into a blubbering wreck?
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Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
'If you could read my mind girl' - Johnny Cash
Listen to a snippet here
http://www.amazon.com/American-Hundred-Highways-Johnny-Cash/dp/B0002W18MU
Listen to a snippet here
http://www.amazon.com/American-Hundred-Highways-Johnny-Cash/dp/B0002W18MU
sojourner said:God, tell me about it
I can't listen to Ne Me Quitte Pas without filling up. I mistakenly played it to me mate on a long drive tother week and couldn't see the motorway properly for tears
Jaures is Brel's top tearjerker and my all time beautiful sad song.
Also think Nanci Griffith's version of Morning Song For Sally is a weepy classic albeit entirely sentimental.
PieEye said:
The Lady With The Braid by Dory Previn.
isn't this the RECENT song, though?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I am such a cryer 
Recent jags have been soundtracked by:
Nina Nastasia - Bird of Cuzco
Gillian Welch - Revelator/Everything is Free (most of that album makes me weep tbh, it's so spectacularly bleak)
Kate Bush - A Coral Room (the other guaranteed weeper from that fine lady is This Woman's Work, but I haven't listened to that for a while in an attempt to cry less)
Last night when on the train home from London, I had an amazing music experience. I haven't listened to any music for the last two weeks, at first because everything was so chaotic and then after my brother died because I couldn't face the inevitable opening of floodgates that music would effect. But I was fed up on the train and thought I might as well make a start on the playlist for his wake on Friday - we're playing a load of music that he loved, in the background. I had a flick through a couple of things and thought "Hey, this isn't too bad actually". Then I reached Arcade Fire - Funeral, an album which Si was mad passionate about and which he introduced me to. As the opening bars of the first song played through my headphones, I found myself thinking about when I saw them live at Prima a couple of years ago; I spent the whole time thinking about him and crying (in a good way), and when they had finished I sent him a text message saying that when he was better we would go and see them together. Obviously, all of this meant the tears came, but they were happy tears. I was inexplicably filled with joy. The memory was so clear, I realised that it's true what people say, that people stay alive in us because of our memories of loving them. So I know that he is with me, and also that I don't have to be scared of listening to one of my favourite albums!
Recent jags have been soundtracked by:Nina Nastasia - Bird of Cuzco
Gillian Welch - Revelator/Everything is Free (most of that album makes me weep tbh, it's so spectacularly bleak)
Kate Bush - A Coral Room (the other guaranteed weeper from that fine lady is This Woman's Work, but I haven't listened to that for a while in an attempt to cry less)
Last night when on the train home from London, I had an amazing music experience. I haven't listened to any music for the last two weeks, at first because everything was so chaotic and then after my brother died because I couldn't face the inevitable opening of floodgates that music would effect. But I was fed up on the train and thought I might as well make a start on the playlist for his wake on Friday - we're playing a load of music that he loved, in the background. I had a flick through a couple of things and thought "Hey, this isn't too bad actually". Then I reached Arcade Fire - Funeral, an album which Si was mad passionate about and which he introduced me to. As the opening bars of the first song played through my headphones, I found myself thinking about when I saw them live at Prima a couple of years ago; I spent the whole time thinking about him and crying (in a good way), and when they had finished I sent him a text message saying that when he was better we would go and see them together. Obviously, all of this meant the tears came, but they were happy tears. I was inexplicably filled with joy. The memory was so clear, I realised that it's true what people say, that people stay alive in us because of our memories of loving them. So I know that he is with me, and also that I don't have to be scared of listening to one of my favourite albums!
May Kasahara said:
And Elvis Presley Blues is such an amazing bit of work too - kinda captures the magic in a really impressionistic way.
May Kasahara said:
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Conversely, we had a grotesque comedy music moment at the start of the week. On Monday evening, me, P, my dad and stepmum nipped home to grab a change of clothes etc. on the grounds that there probably wouldn't be another chance - it was looking like he would die that night and no one wanted to leave him. So we rushed back, grabbed some stuff and then got a cab back into town. The cabbie was of course listening to Magic FM or something, and as we ploughed up Euston Road towards our destination what should come over the airwaves but..."Without You" by Harry Nilsson. There was a palpable silence in which you could cut the bitter irony with a knife. At least it was cheesy instead of genuinely evocative though, I would have been fucked if the Carpenters had played.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons. It was played at a cremation service I went to just before Christmas, when the coffin was slowly disappearing behind the curtains. I don't like Antony and the Johnsons and the person who had died was not a close friend of mine (she was my partner's friend), but it was very moving - a little too much, to be honest.
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
Dylan's acoustic version of Idiot Wind on the Bootleg Series 1-3 album.
Sorrowful unlike the original and beautifully played.
Sorrowful unlike the original and beautifully played.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Dunno about blubbering wreck, but songs that get me all emotional include Radiohead's "Let Down" and Sebastien Tellier's "La Ritournelle". In the latter case, not sad but so so beautiful - perfect sunset tune. 
Then there's Joy Division's "Atmosphere"...
Then there's Joy Division's "Atmosphere"...
joustmaster
offcumdun
some times jeff buckleys lover should have ome over and last good bye really get me. but thats cos of what its tied to.
can't watch the hurt video with out feeling sad
can't watch the hurt video with out feeling sad
yeh, it's in there somewhere. I warn you - it's 3 minutes or whatever of sheer fucking heartbreak and then in the last, i dunno, 5 seconds she blows it. But you can hit stop before thatmadamv said:
Another vote for JC's "Hurt". It sound-tracked a very difficult period of my life and I can still here it repeatedly which I can say about few songs.
Also worth a mention are Brian Eno's "By This River", Mogwai's "2 Rights Make 1 Wrong", and for good pop measure Daniel Bedingfield's "If You're Not The One".
Also worth a mention are Brian Eno's "By This River", Mogwai's "2 Rights Make 1 Wrong", and for good pop measure Daniel Bedingfield's "If You're Not The One".
sometimes it snows in april by prince
dark globe by barrett
these are oldies
newbies?
the Nurse by the white stripes
dark globe by barrett
these are oldies
newbies?
the Nurse by the white stripes
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I do love the Innocence Mission there's a number of there songs that reach places that few if any musicians can.
My vote (that will be thoroughly mocked by some predictable quarters) is for Seize The Day: 'With My Hammer', it brings tears to my eyes everytime I listen to them on CD or live.
I'm not a crier either so this is quite something.
My vote (that will be thoroughly mocked by some predictable quarters) is for Seize The Day: 'With My Hammer', it brings tears to my eyes everytime I listen to them on CD or live.
I'm not a crier either so this is quite something.
Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
Not recent but
Pogues 'a pair of brown eyes'
Spancil Hill
Fields of Athenry
Most Joy Division
Pogues 'a pair of brown eyes'
Spancil Hill
Fields of Athenry
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