SONGS that make you CRY

[Okkervil River]

The Antlers - "Kettering"
The Antlers - "Wake"
The Antlers - "Epilogue"
(Though, I pretty much bawled throughout all of Hospice.)
Elliott Smith - "Everything Means Nothing to Me"
Elliott Smith - "The Last Hour"
Okkervil River - "The War Criminal Rises and Speaks"
Okkervil River - "A Stone"
Strawbs - "So Close and Yet So Far Away"
Sufjan Stevens - "Casimir Pulaski Day"
The Tallest Man on Earth - "This Wind"
Voxtrot - "Sway"
Yann Tiersen - "Summer 78"

After my dad died, I couldn't listen to any of the music he used to listen to for the next six months.
Some of the songs still leave me in ruins.

[JackAltman]

The version of Listening to Otis Redding.....on Golden Opportunities.

Oh, man. I think it's something in the way Will says that "yeah, well" with such desperate, angry resignation, like he's not even convincing himself. I know that "yeah, well" well.

I used to judge the quality of most songs by their ability to make me cry; "The Boxer" used to kill me. I've since found a bit more emotional stability, but there's a few that still make it hard for me to take satisfying, full breaths:

-"Black Pear Tree," The Mountain Goats & Kaki King. No one is better at fist-pumping heartbreak like John Darnielle, but this one's pretty dirge-like.
-"Okkervil River Song," of course.
-"A Stone," of course.
-"I Know Where the Summer Goes," Belle & Sebastian. So wistful, just like the potential of summer fading into September.
-"Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right," The Decemberists. Post-coital depression summarized.
-"Ooh La La," The Faces, but only after finishing "Rushmore" (EVERY TIME.)
-"Keep Yourself Warm," Frightened Rabbit. Another grand fuck-up song. "I'm fundamentally flawed! Clap your hands, la-la-la!"
-"Walk, Don't Run," Herman Düne.
-"Only Skin," Joanna Newsom (God, just the epic scope of the song is enough to wound me...)
-"Age of Consent"- New Order. Like being rejected and knowing there's nothing you could ever do.
-"Sixteen Blue" and "Left of the Dial"- The Replacements. Who knows why? It's just being Midwestern and emotionally repressed, I suppose.

The obvious stuff I remembered first, like Songs: Ohia, Elliott Smith, and "Casmir Pulaski Day" make me feel that future happiness is hopeless, yes, and sometimes that's just perfectly what one needs, but I've taken to preferring the stuff that builds you up at the same time it tears you down, sneaks around the back door of your brain while you're dancing along to it and reminds you of the cycle of good feelings fading into bad, that true love is an illusion and that we're all going to die.

How's this for a first post topic? Despite it all, happy to be here!

[condor]

Bob Marley's Redemption Song...the version that was recorded live in Pittsburgh on September 23, 1980. This was Bob's final concert and right before his death. The vocals are haunting...

[Nally]

Jet - Look What You've Done
Rolling Stones - Angie
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
OKKERVIL RIVER - LOST COASTLINES

there are so many songs...

[Faded Foreign Lord]

1. Title Track from The Stage Names - Okkervil River
2. A King and A Queen from Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River

I can't listen to anyone else at the moment. If I never discovered any more music in my lifetime, I would be fulfilled by OR.

[Lysistrata]

"Girl in Port" had me tearing up in my car today. Wicked excited about the Boston show, btw. Tickets in the mail.

[Hroros]

Red House Painters- Drop

The lyrics are so honest, if you ever loved someone it should touch you.
:
so much that i can't say to you
my voice shakes from the hurt that i hide
ashamed of my existence
and of my petty often wounded pride
i'd like to come home to see you
and to catch your sickness by the bedside
but then you'd know how much i really need you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

if only i were blind to your selfish fling
and your desperate cause
and didn't press you for the details
that threaten my physical flaws

i'd like to come home to see you
and embrace your illness under soft light
but then you'd know how much i really need you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

so much that i can say to you
with affection that i burn inside
you're aching from the distance
avoiding strain that's running still alive
if only i could heal you in the sprinkling of the ocean side
but then you'd know how much i really love you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

[Hroros]

Red House Painters- Drop

If You ever loved someone, it should touch you.
:
so much that i can't say to you
my voice shakes from the hurt that i hide
ashamed of my existence
and of my petty often wounded pride
i'd like to come home to see you
and to catch your sickness by the bedside
but then you'd know how much i really need you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

if only i were blind to your selfish fling
and your desperate cause
and didn't press you for the details
that threaten my physical flaws

i'd like to come home to see you
and embrace your illness under soft light
but then you'd know how much i really need you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

so much that i can say to you
with affection that i burn inside
you're aching from the distance
avoiding strain that's running still alive
if only i could heal you in the sprinkling of the ocean side
but then you'd know how much i really love you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop