What songs make you cry?

[Teacher's Pet]

This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately.

 

I was raised on music, and was a music major in college, until I discovered beer pong.

 

In my studies, I've learned how music is used as therapy for the mentally challenged, and how it can even be used to calm wild animals.

 

But...music has it's dark side.

 

Music can also make us relive painful moments in our lives, and bringing bad memories to the surface, no matter how far they are buried.

 

Thanks to being an over-sensitive fool, I have a LONG list of songs which can easily make me break down.

 

I thought I'd share them with you, in case anyone comes to NJ to join me for karaoke, so you know what is OFF LIMITS.

 

In no particular order:

 

1. "Always" (Bon Jovi).... it was my ringtone for my last gf.

2. "I Believe In You And Me" (The Four Tops).... our song

3. "Hello" (Lionel Ritchie).... first song we ever made love to

4. "Bernadette" (The Four Tops).... you figure it out

5. "Love Bites" (Def Leppard).... heard it tonight on my way out...I had to literally pull my car over on the Jersey Turnpike.

6. "Tears" (Rush).... reminds me of my first gf.

7. "The Rose" (Bette Midler).... reminds me of a past love.

8. "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" (Bonnie Tyler).... reminds me of my ex, "H".

9. "I'll Stand By You" (The Pretenders).... "H"'s and my song.

10. "Fade To Black" (Metallica).... first song I played on my old radio show after a girl I was seeing briefly dumped me WHILE I WAS ON THE AIR

11. "Silent Lucidity" (Queensryche).... makes me think about my kid.

 

There are more, but these songs always bring out my worst emotional state.

 

Does anyone else have specific songs that hurt to hear?

 

And more importantly, am I the only moron who has most of them in his IPod, so he can force himself to listen to them and get angry?

 

-tp

smiling next to you

[LakesideDream]

Pet, you are an eccelectic sort aren't you?!

 

While nothing makes me sad enough... or longing enough to actually tear up anymore... a few that make me "think, think, think" are:

 

James Darren, "The Way You Look Tonight" (Rod Stewart's version isn't bad if you're a youngster).

 

Van Morrison, Brown Eye'd Girl, (that one's the ex)

 

John Stewart, July You're a Woman, with a bit of the original Daydream Believer by the same writer thrown in. The '60 Monkee's version is just a hoot.

[burning 4 revenge]

When I hear old Spanish ballads and sad Cuban boleros I get that melancholy feeling. Throw a few drinks in there and leave me alone in a room to reflect about things past and present and yeah, the potential is there.

 

Those kinds of songs trigger memories that take me back to my childhood and those are the most dangerous memories. I treasure them, but I almost despise them in a way, because theres something haunting about childhood memories isn't there? You see people who vanished, dreams that vanished, beliefs that vanished and yet they still exist in your mind and seem almost tangible.

 

If I hear one of those songs, I don't hear something from Cuba like my grandparents might have heard, I hear a party going on in a Spanish ghetto apartment somewhere on Chicago's northside. I'm probably building a fort made of pillows, or hiding under a table so my cousin Peter wont pull my hair again and the Christmas tree is lit up and right next to it are the Three Kings, the traditions of the new country and the old country being honored side by side. All the adults are talking and laughing and they're loud and my father is probably arguing politics again and he can't understand why some of my mothers family want to replace a Communist dictator with another Facist dictator.

 

Everything smells like pungent garlic and my grandmother is crying, because my cousin Peter is breaking things and his parents are hunting him with a belt, but he's running around hiding places and we're all waiting for my grandfather, because he stays in his store late everynight to catch the late sales. Even Christmas. And everyone looks so, so young...especially my parents. All the while its those old Cuban boleros playing in the background. Already nostalgia, but other peoples nostalgia. It wont be years until I realize its mine too...just different.

[alphamale]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Wonderful Tonite - Eric Clapton

End of the Innocence - Don Henley

[Guest]

While some songs have memories for me, none of those pain me. I think I'm very good at getting over relationships. I still like the songs because they're good songs. But there are several songs associated with nothing in my life that get me every time.

 

Landslide by Stevie Nicks. Dixie Chicks' version is good but something about Stevie's version grabs me.

 

There's also A Song for You by Leon Russell and In My Life by the Beatles.

 

And a whole raft of classical pieces - one especially even though it's 'only' A. L. Webber and not Bach or someone - Pie Jesu

[lindya]

I haven't done the total wallowing in misery thing for ages, but on the last occasion I can distinctly remember bubbling in angst ridden fashion to:

 

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell

Everybody Hurts - REM

Creep - Radiohead

 

and (most embarrassingly...)

 

Wake Me Up Inside - Evanescence

 

PS - I love your post there, B4R, Very evocative.

[Touche]

When I hear old Spanish ballads and sad Cuban boleros I get that melancholy feeling. Throw a few drinks in there and leave me alone in a room to reflect about things past and present and yeah, the potential is there.

 

Those kinds of songs trigger memories that take me back to my childhood and those are the most dangerous memories. I treasure them, but I almost despise them in a way, because theres something haunting about childhood memories isn't there? You see people who vanished, dreams that vanished, beliefs that vanished and yet they still exist in your mind and seem almost tangible.

 

If I hear one of those songs, I don't hear something from Cuba like my grandparents might have heard, I hear a party going on in a Spanish ghetto apartment somewhere on Chicago's northside. I'm probably building a fort made of pillows, or hiding under a table so my cousin Peter wont pull my hair again and the Christmas tree is lit up and right next to it are the Three Kings, the traditions of the new country and the old country being honored side by side. All the adults are talking and laughing and they're loud and my father is probably arguing politics again and he can't understand why some of my mothers family want to replace a Communist dictator with another Facist dictator.

 

Everything smells like pungent garlic and my grandmother is crying, because my cousin Peter is breaking things and his parents are hunting him with a belt, but he's running around hiding places and we're all waiting for my grandfather, because he stays in his store late everynight to catch the late sales. Even Christmas. And everyone looks so, so young...especially my parents. All the while its those old Cuban boleros playing in the background. Already nostalgia, but other peoples nostalgia. It wont be years until I realize its mine too...just different.

 

 

You're NUTS if you don't write, Burning. Amazing images. Amazing writing. I'm impressed.

[pjammer]

"Come Back" by Pearl Jam

"I miss You" by Incubus

[KnowHowLoveFeels]

"Winds of Change" by scorpio(sp??)

[yousaveme]

"wonderful tonite" Eric Clapton

"lips of an angel" Hinder

[Touche]

Ok, I'll throw in mine. One of my big ones is Billy Joel's Piano Man. It just brings back a flood of emotions from my 20's. I always related so much to that song.

 

Also, Elton John - Don't let the Sun go Down on Me

 

California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas will always remind me of my very first boyfriend.

 

Ok, these are really corny/cheesy but Cats in the Craddle and Cat Stevens' Father and Son.

[Quinch]

The entire Grease soundtrack

[2sunny]

Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World

[Touche]

That's a good one Sunny! We played that at our wedding..it's one of "our" songs.

[SoundedPlum]

"I'll Be There" version by Mariah Carey... I heard it while I was driving yesterday and I just started to cry because it reminded me of my ex.

"Broken Vow" by Lara Fabian... this song has been played MILLIONS of times in my iPod and really helps me through bad times, even though it's a really sad song.

[johan]

I'm a guy, so songs don't really make me cry. Nothing does. I internalize all those kinds of emotions, and instead I make fun of stuff.

 

But that song Eric Clapton made after his kid died kind of gets to me. I don't really like to hear it. But it doesn't make me cry.

[yousaveme]

I'm a guy, so songs don't really make me cry. Nothing does. I internalize all those kinds of emotions, and instead I make fun of stuff.

 

But that song Eric Clapton made after his kid died kind of gets to me. I don't really like to hear it. But it doesn't make me cry.

 

 

"Tears in Heaven" i believe is the title

[Great Gazoo]

"Heaven 9-11" remix by DJ Sammy

[BannaBee57]

Ugh, I totally know what you mean TP.

 

Music I can't listen to...

 

Anything Nickelback...(His fav. while we were together)

Anything Simon and Garfunkel, Dave Brubeck, Natasha Bedingfield, and Christina Aguilara...(used to fool around, cuddle, kiss, plan, talk, and dream to these artists)

 

How am I supposed to stay away from Simon and Garfunkel?

Grrrr!

[Teacher's Pet]

I'm a guy, so songs don't really make me cry. Nothing does. I internalize all those kinds of emotions, and instead I make fun of stuff.

 

But that song Eric Clapton made after his kid died kind of gets to me. I don't really like to hear it. But it doesn't make me cry.

 

Yeah. Tears In Heaven. I've been there, too.

 

-tp

looking skyward and wondering

[KittenMoon]

"Unchained Melody".

 

It's just so emotional- it can make me cry out of happiness, or sadness.

 

The Righteous Brotherts are amazing.

[Teacher's Pet]

Heck..

 

You can add almost anything by Foreigner.

 

-tp

i wanna know what love is

[MagnoliaJane]

TP,

 

Here goes:

 

1) The End Has Begun (Loudon Wainwright III)

2) When You Leave (Loudon Wainwright III)

3) There you go (Katell Keineg)

 

I love these more for the lyrics than for the music, and in particular for their amazing honesty. That's life.

 

Now, I have another question for you, TP, what music makes you happy? I'm also curious if Alpha has a happy side and whether he still likes women???

 

TP, ever thought of making a trip? I just came back from Bolivia and it was wnderful to hide out there for a month... Now I'm back in the City (sigh)

 

Magnolia

[Teacher's Pet]

what music makes you happy?

 

ANYTHING from "Master Of Puppets" or "Kill 'Em All" (Metallica)

"Welcome To The Jungle" (Guns N' Roses)

"Limelight" (Rush)

Almost anything by Godsmack or System Of A Down

Anything from "Dookie" (Green Day)

 

Probably my #1 song is "I Can't Believe I Left Him, He's An Adonis In Bed And Makes Me Laugh, Too" (a little known artist, unreleased)

 

Ok, I made that last one up, believe it or not.

 

I'm also curious if Alpha has a happy side and whether he still likes women???

 

Now what kind of question is th- HEY! Who just grabbed my tushy?

 

TP, ever thought of making a trip? I just came back from Bolivia and it was wnderful to hide out there for a month... Now I'm back in the City (sigh)

 

A trip WHERE? To Bolivia? To visit the chickens? I hear they raise them as big as turkeys! (If you can name the source of that joke, I'll marry you.)

 

Now if you meant a trip to NYC..... I'm 10 minutes from the GWB.

 

-tp

Native New Yorker, livin' it up Jersey style

[AriaIncognito]

Banana I think you and I have the same ex. I can't hear nickleback without thinking of him. A few other currents ones that kills me are Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol and Lips of an Angel by hinder. They remind me of him for various reasons/moments shared.

 

In the past, there's been tons of songs. More than Words by Extreme comes to mind. One song that made me bawl back in high school was "never say goodbye" because I think I was close to graduating and was hating the fact that life was about to change so much. I still remember that moment when that song comes on.

 

Some things that make me happy....any song by Rockapella. I can't listen to them and be sad for very long.