Has music ever really MADE you cry?

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maybe it was another reason and the music just aggravated it

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

like it pinned you down or something?

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Damnit, I'm a sad song and you're supposed to cry. Cry, little man, cry!

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sitting in my car, listening to Elliott Smith's "From a Basement on the Hill" for the first time, I cried.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

because it was pummelling you?

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

like, really CRY?

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am one of those emotionally volatile missing persons. I cry and laugh and pee my pants on a fairly regular basis.

But I get what you're saying when you want to extract the pure response to the music - it makes complete sense.

The only times I have wept simply to MUSIC (not music + circumstances + assholes + nearing death) were when the perfection of the music astounded me to tears.

listen to Ralph VaughWilliams' 'Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis'

― jerkface (mizzjazz), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Climb Every Mountain from The Sound Of Music takes me to that brink.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

My wedding song... kinda silly, but it's true.

"14th of February" by Billy Bragg

― silence dogood (catcher), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

Music gave me a purple nurple until I shat myself. Literature and Sculpture were holding me down so I couldn't escape. Somebody oughtta do something about those assholes.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

why, that sounds like the time a guitar line tripped me up. hey-yo!

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

sorry.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 24 June 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

― vartman (novaheat), Saturday, 24 June 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

The first time I played "Jagged Little Pill," I cried all the way through. Then I listend to the whole thing through again and cried again.

OK, that's not me, that's someone I know.

I actually cried at the opening guitar riff of "Suedehead." It just laser beamed some emotional shit into my soul. I don't know.

― Mark Swiderski (Mark Swiderski), Saturday, 24 June 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

At first I was going to be all stoic and say no. Then I remembered an incicent where a tune made me cry. But then as I thought about it, it was all about the context.

The musician was Tom Gullion, who is a tenor saxophonist, music professor (I think), and has a band in western Wisconsin. The tune was Coltrane's Equinox, which I have heard Gullion play before without inducing tears.

But the occasion was the memorial service for my best friend, who was also my brother-in-law, who drowned last year in Hawaii on his first vacation from sheep farming and organic farm inspection in many years. Gullion played a solo version of Equinox on his saxophone & I couldn't stop the tears.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, I've never cried so far as I know. Maybe at a concert once, but never while listening to a record. I think the closest I came to crying was, when listening to Chris Bell.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ambushed by Unexpected Emotion.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

John Vanderslice's Trance Manual made me cry. The guy is so sad to be in Iraq/Afghanistan and making a prostitute dress up.

― WillS (WillS), Saturday, 24 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say that when I was in highschool, Kate Bush made me cry on one occasion. I also remember really loving Goldfrapp's 'Felt Mountain' - I listened to it on Valentines, and I felt totally duped by this girl when I was in grade 10, so I walked home listening to "Deer Stop" and felt like utter shite and cried.

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

>maybe it was another reason<

maybe it was a perfect storm of a dozen or so reasons

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Sunday, 25 June 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

The first song I remember crying to was "Protection" by Massive Attack, and I was definitely moved by the song and the lyrics, not for some other reason. These days I cry to songs like "Feed the Birds" off the Mary Poppins soundtrack. So the answer is yes.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 June 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

"glow worms" by vashti bunyan. twice. the first time, i was high with my best friend and it hit me how beautiful the song was. the second time i was with my best friend on a bed and, uh....i cried. so yeah.

― rockaction (rockaction), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, and "changes" by 2Pace right after he died. werd.

― rockaction (rockaction), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

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