DriveYourCarDownToTheSea

Oh geeze, I've got tons of songs that make me all teary. Though it depends on my mood.

And it's not just "sad" songs either, there are a bunch of songs that get me all chocked up just because of the way the chords and melody take you on a little journey and resolve themselves in time. There is a certain kind of "tension" in a lot of songs that really gets to me. As the song goes on the tension is built up a bit, then at some point (usually in the refrain) it "releases" the tension.

A great example is this. It's not a sad song by any means, but the chordal transitions and the way the melody takes you on a sort-of journey until it resolves itself really gets to me. Songs like this don't always make me tear up, but more often than not they do.



The part where he sings, "Singles remind me of kisses; albums remind me of plans" really does it most, for some reason.

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EPOCH6

I can only recall three songs that have made me tear up.

The mid-track crescendo in King Crimson's Epitaph while driving into an incredible sunset. Boards of Canada's Music Is Math on an early morning walk. And Creedence Clearwater Revival's Green River while driving to my hometown after an exhausting week at work.

It really comes down to setting for me, sometimes a track in the right setting is just overwhelming.

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Goofle

This is pretty lame, but I was drinking red wine and in the process of an Aesop Rock binge. Now, remember, red wine + my favourite artist of all time. And I came across this song:



My reaction wasn't a sad cry, conversely it was a joyous reaction, with a few tears. I found something I considered awesome involving my favourite artist (and a song I actually like), and I knew I was going to fall in love with it almost instantly. Weird, as I pretty much never cry listening to music.

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kriswright

I'd never heard the SMiLE bootlegs when Brian finally got around to releasing his version of the album. Just happened to see it at the store and picked it up because Holy Holy Cow he'd finally recorded SMiLE.

It was after midnight before I got home and I laid in bed with my headphones on thinking I was going to go to listen to a bit and then go to sleep. No sleep for me that night. I felt a rollercoaster of emotions and, by the time I got to the "Hum-ee-dah" Hawaiian section that was added to Good Vibrations, I had tears in my eyes. I stayed up all night listening to it over and over again.

By the end of the night I was typing up a weird document of my first reactions to the album and it reads like a fever dream on paper, talking about how SMiLE was like the Kill Bill of 60s pop, rising from the grave to take out Sgt Pepper. It sounds like lunacy, but it's one of the times I've been most emotionally affected by an album.

Pet_Sounds

Do you still have the document?

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kriswright

This was a while back, of course, so I think the only current copy is on an old hard drive. I'd have to dig it up.

It's atypical for my writing style. I'm still new here and posting that would be pretty strange way to introduce myself.

Pet_Sounds

Well, I'd certainly like to see it, if you ever feel like sharing.

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Chula Vista

If there really is a God, he gave his voice to Eva Cassidy.

(and then the f*cker took her away from us way too soon)

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Black Francis

During lonesome nights, ive cried with Travis 'Love will come through'

i don't listen to that song unless im severely depressed.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

Madda

I cried over The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the debut solo album of Lauryn Hill. It was the day before I had to move away from home and go to live by myself in another city. At the end of the album, when "Nothing Even Matters" started, and Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo began singing with their sweet voices, and that mellow music.. Too much for me, given the circumstances ahah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEq3qMLToM

P.S. Man, I shouldn't have remembered that album. If I'm gonna cry again tonight, while listening to it, it's all your fault