Aint there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?

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I learn a lot from ILM about new avantpop booty-waggling sensations who might make you burn up the dancefloor or grin uncontrollably or pack in your job or think very hard, but not much about those who might ~~pierce you with shards of sublime soulfire~~ break your heart (maybe the the avantpop booty wagglers DO do this and I haven't been paying attention). So which songs have broken your heart in 2002?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Off the top of my head:

Pearly gates – The Court and Spark
Romance – Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
Caetano Veloso – Cucurrucucu Paloma in Almodovar's ‘Talk to her’
The Spanish version of ‘Crying’ by Rebecca Del Rio in 'Mulholland Dr' (what is it about pop in films?)
Not this year, but not heard by me til Valentine's Day this year: ‘Never my love’ by the Association

and every year: 'Come Here' by Kath Bloom

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"drunk" by tweet.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 November 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Saturday - The Clientele

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's Too Late", The Streets

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 November 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

There's an old Ray Charles song I heard a couple of weeks back that caused me to get a bit weepy -- this year, though, nothing comes to mind as yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

was it "That Lucky Old Sun," by any chance? That one always gets me.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Not sure -- it was from the country and western box set on Rhino.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i didn't quite break down, but "drunk" is indeed the saddest nu-r&b i've ever heard...

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"Eddie You Should Know Better" by Curtis Mayfield. Saddest strings you'll ever hear.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 1 November 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Song for You" by Gram Parsons -- the harmonies with Emmylou during "take me down to your dance floor/ and i won't mind the people when they stare"

"Hello, Stranger" by the Carter Family

― Aaron A., Friday, 1 November 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"Soma" and "Disarm" by the Smashing Pumpkins

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Song for Ireland"/Mary Black
"Sanvean"/Dean Can Dance

― Trace, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Beck's "Nobody's Fault But My Own" gets me quite disgustingly weepy

as does

Beck and Emmylou Harris's version of "Sin City"

not to mention

Wilco's "Jesus, etc"...especially the line:

'tall buildings shake, voices escape singing sad sad songs...'

...in conjunction with the fact it was originally supposed to be released Sep. 11th, 2001.

― Nickalicious, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, jebus, I can't believe I forgot Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"!

Good god, I'm getting weepy just thinking about it! Too powerful.

― Nickalicious, Friday, 1 November 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"vletermx" by Autechre usually brings me to tears, no lyrics required.

Otherwise, a lot of Current 93 (e.g. "All the world makes great blood" and most of the Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre LP)

― fletrejet, Friday, 1 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

"Another Day," Roy Harper or This Mortal Coil.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 1 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

two songs that got me real choked up this year, both while i was driving:

the avalanches - eto
and
dmx - slippin'

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 1 November 2002 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

mitch with the dark man x tears. realness.

i can't think of a single song that has made me cry this year! which is a bit worrying really...

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 1 November 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

no song has evah made me cry (and i'm not even worried abt it) but a couple have made a 'lump' in my throat. but not this year.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

mary mary - praise you

― ep, Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

That song from the batch of old 78s that my grandfather used to have. One was called "Ohio Prison Fire" by God-knows-who. It was a really sad song about a prison that caught fire and the inmates couldn't get out and they all burned to death. Probably based on a true story, old folk number that it is. Sure I cried, but hey, I was five years old at the time.

Anything off the last two Talk Talk records are pretty damn weepy. Go buy everything they have ever recorded. Now.

As for this year - oh I don't know - that "Do You Realize??" song by the Flaming Lips is really sad. "Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?" Well, it's TRUE.

― Evan, Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie - "It's Gonna Be Me"

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Neat that Emmylou popped up a few times already. When I saw the title of the thread I thought immediately of her song "Red Dirt Girl", which made us weepy in the kitchen not 20 minutes ago.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

lee hazlewood and nancy sinatra's version of dolly parton's "down to dover" always gets me a little red-eyed and weepy.

― Yes/No Interlude (Yes/No Interlude), Saturday, 2 November 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I wear my heart on my sleeve so they say, and this happens to me a lot. They don't even have to necessarily be sad songs, because very beautiful ones can also bring on that ache - the one deep in the chest. But for two specifically sadness oriented ones - if I listen to it when it's dark, and it's cold and I'm alone (and like, wolves are after me) the Trash Can Sinatras - Snow can pretty much always do me in. Then there's also the Blade Runner end theme that makes me want to leap off tall buildings and fall straight through the earth because it's just soooo despairing...

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 2 November 2002 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

try skeeter davis' the end of the world....its hauntingly beautiful and try joy divison...love will tear us apart...

― esiotrot, Sunday, 3 November 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The last song that made me cry was Squeeze's "Up The Junction". Bit of a shock, too.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 4 November 2002 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Most recently I got all choked up by 3LW's "One More Time".

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 4 November 2002 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Bjork's Vespertine is doing it for me at the moment. Driving down the A345 in a white van in driving rain on Friday, with 'It's not up to you' at top volume, my eyes needed windscreen wipers too.

How she manages to express such painful longing when singing with such joy beats me, but let's just say it's all quite appropriate right now.

― jon (jon), Monday, 4 November 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"They don't even have to necessarily be sad songs, because very beautiful ones can also bring on that ache..."

I was just thinking about this: some of the songs that really get me weepy are the beautiful, powerful songs made by people who would die soon after making them, such as...

Nirvana's "All Apologies"
Mad Season's "River of Deceit"
any Blind Melon or Sublime tears me up too

― Nickalicious, Monday, 4 November 2002 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Alphawezen Into The Stars

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Love - Alone Again Or

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think any song this year has made me want to cry, or broken my heart, or anything like that. Sorry Jerry :(

(hey though what about MR HECTIC??)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 4 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, someone else likes Alphawezen! I think that "Gai Soleil" is the one that affects me from that album though.

I find it pathetically easy to get choked up by music, usually just by its romantic wistfulness rather than any real misery. Even Cosmos's "Take Me With You" brought tears to my eyes. See especially that unholy triumvate of great MOR-ballads, Brandy's "Wow", Blue's "If You Come Back" and Daniel Bedingfield's "If You're Not The One".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 4 November 2002 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

only these songs have ever made me cry:

frodus- "6/99"
erik satie- "gnossiennes no.1"
godspeed you black emperor!- moya
godspeed you black emperor!- bbf3

and i think autechres "cichli" once made me cry but i could be an illusion...

― X, Friday, 15 November 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Had to dredge this one back up to the top, because forget what I said about the fucking Trash Can Sinatras etc.. I must just cry too easily then, because this afternoon I've been listening to Martin Tielli, esp. his song 'I'll Never Tear You Apart' and you know - really took it all in for the first time. It's almost too much to bear, but it's so incredible to do so. The truth is that most of the other stuff that I might think is getting to me, isn't even from the same planet as this is, so I feel almost ashamed for having said such rash things.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim, interesting you mention Cosmos, I find the vocal version very moving, it's such a simple but beautiful idea, it feels like lyrics which went deeper than those would ruin the song, but the notion of "i'm gonna follow you down that road" gives the whole thing a kind of mysterious resonance with me, a sort of shot in the arm for believing in fate or destiny.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rock Against Ass" by Turbonegro always gets me a little misty-eyed. Damn. I love those guys.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Witchita Lineman - Jimmy Webb
Maybelle - Ida
Oh, My Love - John Lennon

― Carey, Sunday, 17 November 2002 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

helltime producto is otis wheeler and i claim my my dog-eared fake nude printout of the "american pie 2" cast and half a pretzel

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 17 November 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The only song to ever effect me deeply was God Only Knows by the Beach Boys.

― David Allen, Monday, 18 November 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

there are three songs that choke me up that I can think of, and one is indeed recent. I don't get all weepy, though. More like my hands just get really sweaty and I feel nauseated. Kind of like a hangover. Hmm.

1. Do You Realize on the new Flaming Lips album
2. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (sorry. It's true.)
3. Every Little Thing by the Police, also kind of embarrassing, but there's a lot of bad relationship nostalgia tied up in that sucker.

Let me know if I have any credibility remaining after this post. Oh well, at least I'm honest. God I'm a loser.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Mitch,
I'm not Otis Wheeler, I have no clue who Mr. Wheeler is, at all. I'm Otis Redding. And I invented the Boo-Yah Flip-Kick.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

'letter to bread' by scud mountain boys and sally timms's cover of johnny cash's 'cry, cry, cry', both heard for the first time this year. make me blubber like my wookie doll's just been taken from me, they do.

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Beatles - In My Life
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

― man, Monday, 18 November 2002 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Richard Manuel's "In A Station" and "Whispering Pines" get me every time, as do "Takin' My Time" and "I've Been The One" from the first Little Feat album.

― dan (dan), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

Today I heard Tom Waits's "Good Old World" and was reduced to tears.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

No offence Jerry, but I was really hoping Alex in NYC had started this thread.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles' "Across the Universe", Tom Waits "I Don't Wanna Grow Up", Bjork's "Hyperballad" (the Brodsky Quartet version), and Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" all bear the distinction of being able to make me cry and laugh in joy at the same time.

Others that have gotten the waterworks flowing: Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah", Ani DiFranco's "Untouchable Face" and "Dilate" (note: supposedly she herself was in tears recording the song "Dilate"), and Tom Waits' "Cold Cold Ground" (among MANY others of his).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the yyy's 'maps' really breaks me up

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed, nickalicious. I'm a casual listener of Waits but I think the reason I don't listen to him too often is because he manages to get me every time. "I Don't Want To Grow Up" is another that makes me cry. Especially towards the end.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs is what first springs to mind fr me. especially "DARK GLOBE" and fr most part "LATE NIGHT" rarly fails, two of my Berratt favorits.

― Jr_Vision (visionjr), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I will cry at anything. Lately:

Sarah McLachlan - Good Enough and I Will Not Forget You
Big Head Todd & the Monsters - Bittersweet
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Natalie Merchant - Jealousy and One Fine Day
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day, Forever and Beloved One.

There are a hundred more.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

2Pac's "Changes" and Ghostface Killah's "All I Got is You" always choke me up. They're so sad! :(

― Jeff Transit, Monday, 19 May 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bird Stealing Bread," Iron & Wine

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Ghostface, Cichli, Fennesz' A Year in a Minute, Malkmus' solos in Fin and the chaotic parts in Fillmore Jive or Secret Knowledge of Backroads, that bootleg of True Love Waits with the keyboards goes back to back with Motion Picture Soundtrack, the version of In My Room on the Langley Schools Music Project can get me bluthery and I really do have to say that some of the piano stuff on Drukqs was awful purdy...

― Elliott (ebb), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot "Another Lonely Day"...possibly on purpose, as that's one of those songs that reminds me of someone long gone from my life now. But geez that's a powerful song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 May 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Einstein A Go-Go by Landscape

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't it? ...I can resist anything but temptation from you...

Gets me every time.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 19 May 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

last night I found myself stumbling around the house singing variations on the chorus of "Maps" "wait I don't love you like they love you wait you don't love me like I love you wait you don't love you like I love me." But I think "Modern Romance" and the title track might kill me even more.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 May 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

and the untitled track, I meant to say.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 May 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Eminem, "Stan"
Wu-Tang, "C.R.E.A.M."
any number of songs on Nirvana's Unplugged record

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed, "NYC Man" (synopsis: "OK, you hate me. I can deal with that. I can deal with anything; I'm from New York! I'll, uh, get my coat.")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(Sorry, I guess that's not "avantpop booty waggling.")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the difference between waggling and wiggling? is it contextual?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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