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"Fields of Athenry" by The Dropkick Murphys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10agPj0Vzu4 The only other thing that's moved me like this was the end of The Great Gatsby. There is no  big enough to express that.
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I never seem to be able to sing all the way through Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt without choking up a little bit. And then this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDuLiqCmDE I think it might be the lyrics, or what happens in the story during the song, but it's just so triumphant and so drat tragic at the same. "Climb to the top of the world and as you stand tall, you will see that as you fall, you will fall from a height most men will never reach." ...Except what he did ended up being worthless and he died for basically nothing. 
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Apr 17, 2013 18:29
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The obligatory Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAw And I heard this song in a soul crushing video the other day, Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQo9OQlIB8
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Apr 17, 2013 19:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtcvhV0pOGk Bear's Den- Pompeii. Written about his mother's death, this gets me every time for the honesty in the lyrics and the general simplicity of the song. Four chords really is all you need to craft a fantastic song sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o84y-5-cO0 Lucy Rose- Shiver. The fact I had the chance to see Lucy Rose and ended up not doing so is one of my biggest regrets. This song is straight up beautiful all the way through, and builds so very nicely. The video's pretty drat sad too.
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Apr 17, 2013 21:19
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I'm living this song right now. Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now http://youtu.be/f_KLRy95O8A
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May 1, 2013 17:31
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Pitty - Na Sua Estante http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3j6hgS4VY I'm learning Portuguese so I went looking for Brazilian music and found this song. I don't know what about it gets to me, but something about it just...hits me hard.
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May 1, 2013 17:58
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Lots of songs about cancer here. Here, have another one!  My mom died of cancer a year ago, so I can pretty much never listen to the Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work" ever again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ0n3itoII I also can't listen to Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro" without crying, since that was my mom's cellphone ringtone and she was glued to her phone so if you spent more than a half an hour with her, chances are you'd hear this song. We played this at the end of her memorial service and a lot of people simultaneously burst into tears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuYQ9KRJms Neutral Milk Hotel's "Three Peaches" (written for a friend of the singer who had made a suicide attempt, and who a few years later after this song was recorded made another attempt and did die) is really powerful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFFlyNzvAeY That last line, "I'm so happy you didn't die," sung in that incredibly sad voice, always gets me.
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May 1, 2013 18:52
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When my wife told me she didn't have feelings for me anymore, didn't think she ever would, and "trying would be a waste of time," I was blindsided. I listened to this: David Bazan-"I Never Wanted You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NYq5hzbrSo svartsven has a new favorite as of 05:45 on May 9, 2013 |
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May 9, 2013 05:41
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When my partner committed suicide, William Fitzsimmons' album Derivatives kind of became the CD that got me through things. This song is guaranteed to make me burst out crying every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwB56HQLFJY
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May 9, 2013 06:43
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http://youtu.be/FKKX-H3NMNI My Country tis of thy people are dying by Buffy Sainte Marie. I don't think I've ever listened to this without getting teary.
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Rubycutter posted:When my partner committed suicide, William Fitzsimmons' album Derivatives kind of became the CD that got me through things. This song is guaranteed to make me burst out crying every time. Thank you for sharing this. It's such a beautiful song, I've been looping it for hours.
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May 11, 2013 22:24
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I absolutely cannot listen to Hero of War by Rise Against without getting all teary-eyed, mostly because I was a soldier working in my post's Casualty Affairs office when 9/11 happened and we invaded Iraq, and I knew a lot of guys and gals who had exactly this "I'm gonna join the Army and defend my country" attitude, and came home all sorts of hosed up from the things they saw and did, and committed suicide. I never hated a job so much as when I would have to go in at three in the morning to receive a report about something like that, and have to send an officer to knock on his family's door and give them the news, and then sit down with distraught, crying and often hysterical families to work out benefits and funeral details the next day. Every time I hear this song, it dredges all of that back up and brings it all right back to the front of my mind. edit: RA is my favorite band, and when I got to see them live, I bawled like a big baby in the middle of the crowd when they did this song; they had a group of disabled vets from the Wounded Warrior Project with them, and it was just too much for me. Jadz has a new favorite as of 20:50 on Aug 14, 2013 |
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Aug 14, 2013 20:47
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Bluebird by Buffalo Springfield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biq0C9hR-_I That outro, goddamn! Every time I hear this song, I have to listen to it a couple more times. It just guts me, but in a good way. 
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Aug 14, 2013 21:29
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Lloyd Cole - Margo's Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZj1iquGilU I marathoned this song after I broke up with my fiancee. And you lie there without sleepin' And you stare at your wall And you realize you're not weepin' You don't need her anymore
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Dec 11, 2013 21:36
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Dropkick Murphys' version of "Green Fields of France" Tom Waits, that magnificent bastard, always gets me with "Never Let Go" Seanan McGuire's cover of Talis Kimberly's "Still Catch the Tide", last verse in particular: So you and the sea have had a fine and a fitting vengeance I’m no more capable of leaving here Than I left you able to return to your sea dreams Well I’m sorry now – I’m sorry now, do you hear: (Chorus) I never thought that I could hold you forever Always knew deep down you’d have to go home I can be grateful for these bright years together And I know you miss the salt sea foam If you hurry, you can still catch the tide, my love If you hurry you can still catch the tide
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Dec 14, 2013 06:36
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The only music I have bawled my eyes out to is Paul Baribeau Last Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpUYeILy1Ok Rolling Clouds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkW7_T0XCDk Never Get to Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzTlt5tTjPc
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Dec 14, 2013 06:47
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Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town It's not even necessarily the lyrics (though they aren't terribly happy), but more the melody. The semi-gibberish of the chorus may be grand and sweeping but holy poo poo does the lead singer sound depressed.
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Dec 14, 2013 07:10
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mewithoutyou - Bear's Vision of St. Agnes I find myself singing out the last bit trying not to choke up every time.
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Dec 14, 2013 08:13
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Billy Joel - And So It Goes I first heard this one lying in bed with my ex. I'd been through a pretty rough year in the wake of some other girl and was in a pretty hosed up place, only beginning to open up and deal with some trust issues. "You can have this heart to break" just hit me. That was a long time ago, but that lyric sticks with me. The calm, measured pace of the words and the iambic tetrameter and the lyrics make a melancholy that just hits me.
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Dec 14, 2013 14:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXVsVAj4Eqk This song always reminds me of my former roommate, who tried to kill himself, because he had a progressive muscle disorder, and he didn't want to end up like his older brother, who couldn't move at all without any help. My friend finally died of pneumonia a few years ago.
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Dec 15, 2013 00:42
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Procul Harem - Whiter Shade of Pale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AUdVfbc90). I want to say it started when I saw it in something sad, but I don't remember what that thing was... Whereas Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah was definitely used in the sad scene in Shrek, but that's not why it makes me feel teary to the core. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIw0ewEsNHs And Moments of Pleasure by Kate Bush (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5P0v0kGauc) chokes me up. Death Cab For Cutie's Plans album as a whole doesn't make me physically cry, but I feel like it on the inside.
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Dec 15, 2013 05:09
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I'm recovering from a pretty bad fever so forgive me if it's been posted already but: Brand New - Play Crack The Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyIX84ti7ao Nat King Cole - Stardust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_7iRVtxui8 Mazzy Star - Into Dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfVNH1FaT4 Yann Tiersen - Sur Le Fil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKqHjFtX7iE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5HHRT8xvw Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g Beatles - Here Comes the Sun So basically when I was really little, my dad would sing this song to me and play on his guitar as I was going to sleep. It's really stuck with me, and I basically get misty every time I hear this song. Hell, I'm kind of choked up a little even describing it.
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Dec 17, 2013 20:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHTTFOwsDs Yesterday by Atmosphere. It sounds like a generic love song, but if you listen to the end, it drops a sentence that absolutely destroyed me the first time I heard this song.
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Dec 19, 2013 07:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P6tLNnksZQ Turn Into by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. As soon as the piano kicks in at 1:30 I crack up, I have no idea why but it shook me the first time I heard it.
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Safetyword - Charm Bracelet http://www.last.fm/music/Safetyword/_/Charm+Bracelet (Apologies for the last.fm link - I can't find the song on youtube) Pink Floyd - The Final Cut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvARL0Hzcoo Peter Gabriel's cover of The Boy in the Bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAJfXuEdOA No personal reasons for any of these. I just find them really sad.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IsXKMkDAMQ Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton gently caress, hard to get through it without my lip trembling.
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Far Horizons from Skyrim (as done by the London Phil) gets me every time, not because it makes me particularly sad but because of how beautiful it sounds and how it moves me. Especially the horn part, as a former horn player I dreamed about playing solos like the opening phrase -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzk_56gZk0 Viva La Vida by Coldplay reminds me of a dear friend of mine from high school, while she isn't dead or anything we haven't spoken in six or seven years, and of all the people I fell out of touch with from that era I miss her by far the most It's really easy for music to make me tear up, but oddly enough nothing else immediately springs to mind. It's more like a song will come up and it'll just hit me "oh yeah, this is one of those songs that gets me". I wish I could remember more without needing to hear them first. E: Ha, and just like that one comes up right now on my music library- On Every Street by Dire Straits C-Euro has a new favorite as of 06:48 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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It's stupid, but Disney's Frozen has the song "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" and it makes me cry every single loving time.
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Let's Dance by Lady Gaga
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I've been listening to this all day, and crying: Les Miserables (Anne Hathaway) - "I Dreamed A Dream" The broadway version is good, but the way it's portrayed in the movie with Fantine, broken upon her bed, caked in dirt and tears, her heart empty except for this song lamenting the failed dreams of her childhood.... Gah, I can't even finish that sentence. It's absolutely gut-wrenching.
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Jan 27, 2014 20:43
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I'm Your Moon, by Johnathan Coulton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3kfZnpbKWU I don't know why, but it just makes me sob every single time. I'll think, "Oh, I'm okay. I really like this song, I can listen to it now, I'm not emotional now." and then, boom! I'm crying. It's one of those songs that means more than it does, you know? I mean, yeah, obviously, it's about Pluto, but it's obviously about feeling devalued and maybe a little bitter. It's about trying to keep your head up, and maybe mourning a little, too. There's a lot going on. And then I think about poor Pluto sitting out there, all alone and feeling left out. It's dumb, but sometimes I kind of cry about the literal meaning, too, 'cause Pluto is one of my favorite planets (it'sstillaplanetshutup). Ah, I'm tearing up again, now!
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Jan 28, 2014 00:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGt1YG3UP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TLTjqUyog
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The Commander Thinks Aloud- by The Long Winters It's written from the point of view of the commander of the Columbia mission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnHMj67FCs The crew compartment is breeeeaking up
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Jan 28, 2014 04:31
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So, I was listening to Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme on vinyl. It's a great album, some beautiful stuff. Then it ends on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y The news bulletin is itself created, but it was stuff really happening when it was recorded.
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Feb 8, 2014 08:27
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I don't know why, I guess Bowie can just write a really powerful song. Any time he's sings it live he just puts his heart and soul into it. drat I don't know why this one hits me. Life on Mars-David Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ
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Feb 8, 2014 09:54
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Ol' Man River from the soundtrack to Show Boat always makes me bawl up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s Partly because I saw the musical the night my grandmother died, although this song is pretty heart-wrenching regardless. Every time he gets to the line "I get weary and sick of tryin' / I'm tired of livin' and scared of dyin'" I lose it.
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This one always get to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chr2Hg5qNl4
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