Getting teary-eyed to bollocks: c/d?

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This morning I stuck on one of my old trance 12" records (Chakra - Home - Above & Beyond mix) and found myself getting teary-eyed in the first breakdown just before the vocal came in (which is one of the reasons I always liked dancing to trance, at least before it mutated and split into monkeyarse pop-trance and stupid hard-house). Also movie scores - anything with a vague Thomas Newman touch tends to have my throat clogged up no matter how arse the movie underneath is.

The feeling is odd - like, 'Ok, this is such stupid music but it's putting tears in my eyes, what's going on here?'

But classic, I think.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Very recognisable. You really, REALLY need to hear:

Active Sight - The Search For Freedom

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This is how I realised I loved DJ Sammy.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Very apt. Melancholia in excelsis.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Getting teary-eyed to any music you enjoy = big time classic

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Evanescence - My Immortal (original version) I had to call my Mom last week because of this song

― LC, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

this is embarassing but i cannot physically sing 'this womans work' by kate bush because i get too choked up.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck me, "The Innocent Age" by Dan Fogelberg kicks my sad old man arse.

I'll log out now.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No song is completely bollocks if it makes anyone teary-eyed.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Fogelberg's "Major League" has choked me up a couple of times in the past.

Dido's "Thank You" gets me emotional every time.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(er... John Fogerty's "Centerfield" not what I said)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

As long as your not talking about "my angel is a centrefold" getting you choked up.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

J Geils 4-ever

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Beethoven's "Song of Joy".

Way, way too powerful.
Um, maybe it's not bollocks after all.
Maybe indie snobbery against classical is often stupid...

― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' - The Band from The Last Waltz.

So horribly plaintive it should come with a government health warning.
Also I'm Scottish and neither care nor know much about the civil war but when Levon Helm sings 'In the winter of '65, we were hungry and just barely alive' it *kills* me.

― mzui, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud if they smell! (Talk about a late reaction)

― LC, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah ditto to the Band but it's hardly bollocks!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Squeeze's "Up The junction" and, uh, Kate Winslet's "What If" have both brought me to tears on occasion, but I'm sure only one of them could ever be considered "bollocks" on any level.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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