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For all the babies out there on SA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9h2nO5SIo Heptones - Book Of Rules The way he sings "I know the sun will only be missing for a while" got me all teary on my way driving home today. Edit: Oh boy, didn't even see the other thread on the very first page. I'm a dope. But, this thread is more specialized, so uh, maybe it can stay here. Doctor Tupac has a new favorite as of 20:47 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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This is Liam Clancy performing 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda'. Always gets me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg (I also sob every time I hear Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris)
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Oct 10, 2012 20:49
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Can't listen to The Luckiest by Ben Folds without getting tearful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XwAKrLidw
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Oct 10, 2012 22:37
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An End Once and For All by Clint Russell is pretty much the saddest song ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JvbD2Zc9I Also, I can barely listen to one of my favorite Chili Peppers tracks, now. It's definitely the most underrated Chili Peppers song of all time imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPTBq18shxo It's about a woman Kiedas knew in rehab who was always super nice to him and basically got him to kick his habit. She died of cancer. Anytime I think about it I can't help but think of my aunt. 
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Oct 10, 2012 22:54
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Keep Me in Your Heart For a While  .Nothing like a song about dying from a guy actually dying.
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Oct 10, 2012 22:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvB_UmmIzk Sigur Ros are basically the best.
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Oct 10, 2012 23:16
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Desperado by The Langley Schools Music Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9hf92iOhqk Nullarbor Song by Kasey Chambers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPwuTJgZcNo Highway Patrolman by Bruce Springsteen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wPDmQEy2Y
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Oct 10, 2012 23:47
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Bad Liver and a Broken Heart by Tom Waits got me last night. http://youtu.be/AmEUGD42SfY
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Oct 10, 2012 23:55
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Swans - Failure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWStaRmuXzY It's very 
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Oct 11, 2012 00:17
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I Will Wait For You - Connie Francis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMAdEmR2Mc Yeah, I know it's in that one episode of Futurama. Still breaks my heart whenever I hear it.
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Oct 11, 2012 00:30
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joat mon posted:Desperado by The Langley Schools Music Project This is just beautiful.
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Oct 11, 2012 00:45
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Half a page and no Sigur Ros? Jesus christ. Staralfur is e: NOT my kryptonite. Staralfur. ...and if you're feeling down and as if you need new batteries, there's another song that's a great pickmeup.
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Oct 11, 2012 03:04
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Cats in the Cradle~Harry Chapin
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Oct 11, 2012 03:08
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Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Just kills me every time especially with the visuals from the video. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l95D7leeU3w
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Oct 11, 2012 03:18
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Radiohead-Videotape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvv-LpTBWVk
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Oct 11, 2012 03:24
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Martha by Tom Waits always gets me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Mse62NFl4
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Oct 11, 2012 03:27
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Mumford and Sons - Timshel Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out
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Oct 11, 2012 03:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRacaXCm0UE When my grandfather died a few years ago we had a pipe and drum band play this at the funeral.
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Oct 11, 2012 03:46
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Brian Wilson's Midnight's Another Day. Perhaps it's the rawness of it, that Wilson isn't 100% on key. Wilson's had a bunch of songs about his struggles and all of them tug, but this is the big one for me, slightly more. "Live" version (it's the exact same as the album cut) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBfgPdxeIU
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Oct 11, 2012 04:12
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Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULmbLlPvVk I didn't even grow up in a broken home or anything and it still makes me teary. Beautiful vocals in my opinion.
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Oct 11, 2012 04:16
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbn-OfIWNNo And Elvis's last concert, Jesus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ReFrisbUYA That is some loving incredible singing.
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Oct 11, 2012 04:19
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On the Tom Waits train, "Kentucky Avenue" from Blue Valentine gets me every loving time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZK8Wl7RQ8 Whenever I listen to it I always think it won't get me, but every goddamn time when the strings do that big swell and he sings how he'll "take the spokes from your wheelchair, and a magpies wings, and tie them to your shoulders and your feet" I just lose it completely. I don't even know why it gets me like that, but it just does. Jygallax posted:Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Just kills me every time especially with the visuals from the video. Yeah, this one too. Edit: Telemarchitect posted:Half a page and no Sigur Ros? Jesus christ. Seriously dude? Look up 6 posts from yours. the future is WOW has a new favorite as of 04:32 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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Oct 11, 2012 04:28
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Levon Helm's "Wide River to Cross" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2_7o8DGtI
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Oct 11, 2012 04:35
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For me, teary stuff always comes from overdosing on the female vocals and harmony. I don't know why, it's just some kind of emotional trigger. First, Portishead - Undenied a live cut that is awesome and totally rattles my teeth, except one lovely part at the beginning with some idiot talking over the audio. Horrible. But then, Beth Gibbons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Lx7ryU3dQ Second, Red Molly - Wayfaring Stranger Evocative stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQjccr8wQA&feature=related I'm sure this is some kind of deeply-rooted gender issue at work.
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Oct 11, 2012 04:55
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Gotta second Cash's Hurt. Its almost a cliche now. That too makes me sad.
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Oct 11, 2012 05:09
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Silvio Rodriguez - Ojala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u80ocuvZxmY Especially this version, When he stops and the crowd sings Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter (Tibetan Freedom Concert 1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frWF3AStaxY Wasn't a huge fan of the studio version but this live version is amazing. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzZhtrsbJzs
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Oct 11, 2012 05:40
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The late, great Eva Cassidy destroying all other versions of an American classic with just herself, her guitar, and the human spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXYu-3r1S8 There's a radio station in DC (her hometown) and every Wednesday around 0130, the DJ puts this song on. And it never once, and never will, lose its power.
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Oct 11, 2012 06:40
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Seconding the effect Cash has, although this is the one that gets me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25674XPNqmo (Further On Up The Road)
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Oct 11, 2012 08:57
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Going to have to go with Where We Would Be by Porcupine Tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcQkgbI2qFk
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so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
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David Bowie's 1979 acoustic re-recording of Space Oddity from the Scary Monsters sessions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW8tCBTWpdk This is Bowie a decade after having initially recorded the song that more-or-less kicked off his career. Much more importantly, he's sober now- and there's this beautifully palpable harshness, weariness, and sorrow to the way he presents his famous drug allegory. That 12-second pause that replaces the synth rocket launch after "may God's love be with you" feels like it could stretch on forever. This is from the same series of recording sessions that would yield the declaration, we know Major Tom's a junkie/strung out in Heaven's high, hitting an all-time low and it loving shows.
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Oct 11, 2012 10:30
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joat mon posted:Desperado by The Langley Schools Music Project You’ve got two out of three there that I love and make me sad, so you betcha I’m going to check out the Kasey Chambers one. Especialy as I’ve never heard of her. (Ugh – is that a cover of Runaway Train in the YouTube sidebar?) (Listening to it now – it’s a bit…. Australian?  ) I get absurdly moved by music. I was trying, just this weekend passed, to explain Shipbuilding – the Robert Wyatt version – to a friend. And I couldn’t. I couldn’t finish a sentence, I just burst into tears. He didn’t write it (the lyrics are by Elvis Costello) but his is the best performance of it – it’s about trying to reconcile the increased employment that the building of ships brings to the ports of the UK with the knowledge that ships will carry the young men of the region to their deaths. (Early 80s, Falklands War.) Something about the fragility of his high voice, the arrangement, the performance from a wheelchair, everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6T9qp9XbRY (I’m listening to that The Swans track right now, and I’m reminded that this is so very subjective – I’ve not been moved by either it, or by the Kasey Chambers track.) It’s a totally different tone, but Big Rock Candy Mountain always saddens me. I don’t know, but it always feels like a hobo’s dream of heaven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ Jygallax posted:Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Just kills me every time especially with the visuals from the video. That’s very good – will have a look at the video now. I’ve always loved the track Underneath The Weeping Willow by Grandaddy. Just so simple and easy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYeNZkqCWHw Liking all the Tom Waits, too, and will be back to check on this thread later for more good stuff – please keep up the good posting. Play nice.
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Jygallax posted:Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Just kills me every time especially with the visuals from the video. Yes. Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxBUuuOjycA Junior's Eyes by Black Sabbath. Irrational, maybe a little shallow, but it still gets me. Every. loving. Time.
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Oct 11, 2012 13:45
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O Children - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtrKPsUlM0E There´s something about the lyrics and the overall tone of this song that I just find deeply touching.
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Oct 11, 2012 14:44
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Damien Rice's Cold Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6rV2dwV4kk That's the song I had playing when I was told that my grandmother was dying. It's a very melancholy sort of song anyway but attaching that memory to it makes it incredibly sad for me. Beautiful song.
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Oct 11, 2012 16:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4_C68PmFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrqVfuGHh0 I could be having the best day ever full of rainbows and sunshine and puppies, and putting these two songs on will still bring on A BLOO BLA BLOO BLOO within a minute
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Oct 11, 2012 16:50
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V is vor Vivaldi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOhlg8uYja0
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Oct 11, 2012 18:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQ4nuUuwNo The woman for whom this song was written died a few years back of cancer, just to add that extra layer of sadness.
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Oct 11, 2012 18:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWtzLU_naPM Soldier - Neil Young
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Oct 11, 2012 18:50
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Amanda Palmer's cover of I'll Follow You Into The Dark. The song itself isn't sad even though it's about death (as long as you aren't watching the drat bunny video), but the way she sings it kills me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm3IeNy6jHs&feature=related
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Anything where you can really hear the emotion in the singer's voice will probably make me tear up. These are a couple of my favorite examples. Leaves from the Vine, from Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's sad enough that the character is singing to his dead son, but an extra layer of sadness was added when the voice actor, Mako Iwamatsu, died. Even if I'm able to last through the first part, when he starts crying as he sings I lose it too.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6a5OHvhQTs Clip-Clop by Cloud Cult. Honestly, Craig Minowa might sing with more emotion than any other artist I've ever heard. Something about his voice is just so sincere and raw. The way his voice breaks as he almost yells some of the words makes me shiver and blink away tears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVLpbMXdCM
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