#39114 - 06/06/10 05:49 PM
Ready for a Good Cry?
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Michael A.Aquino
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If you're like me, you have some favorite songs that you never listen to because they always reduce you to a slobbering mess.  I don't even know how the singers & musicians can get through them without breaking down. 
Anyway, here are some of my never-listen-tos if you're feeling masochistic:
Colors of the Wind, Vanessa Williams
Greenwaves, Secret Garden
My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion
Song of the Seahorse, Miriam Stockley.
Feed the Birds, Julie Andrews
Into The West, Annie Lennox
and the emotional zinger of them all:
Bright Eyes, Simon & Garfunkel
And if you want an entire album to bum you out, try Joanie's Baptism. Here's a sample. 
Or if you're just feeling sorry for yourself, Old Blue Eyes' Only the Lonely [including his classic rendition of that Anton Phibes & Anton LaVey favorite "One for my Baby"]. 
I'm not sure if anyone's going to thank me for this post, but you were too happy today anyway ...
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#39116 - 06/06/10 06:06 PM
Re: Ready for a Good Cry?
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Meq
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Not terribly 'satanic', but here you go - and the first MP3 I ever downloaded back in 1998:
Angels, Robbie Williams
Despite being a Christmas classic in the UK, this also begs for a mention here:
Walking In The Air, Howard Blake, sung by Peter Auty
And don't forget this classic number:
If We Hold On Together, James Horner, sung by Diana Ross
Meq
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#39117 - 06/06/10 06:11 PM
Re: Ready for a Good Cry?
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Jake999
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Well, I will freely admit that sometimes I get a little misty when I hear Taps being played across the street at a GI's or Vet's funeral...
But within the mainstream, there's only one song that seems to hit me that way (so far), and I avoid it like the plague. I won't even play it on my show because I would have to hear it when compiling the show or monitoring the station.
On Three Dog Night's album HARD LABOR, there is a song called "I'd be so Happy." Ironic. There's a line in the song that rips my heart from my chest every time I hear it, and just writing it gets me...
"Once in a while, twenty years from now,
after all we've been through,
I could tell you by one caress,
That it's been good being loved by you."
Damn, I hate that song.
You can hear it here: I'd Be So Happy
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#39307 - 06/13/10 11:06 PM
Re: Ready for a Good Cry?
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Nyte
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Came to think about it, a song that really puts a rock in my chest is the song from Evanescene - My Immortal, especially after it was put in a very strong movie that promotes driving safely.. Just makes a chill through my body when she hit the high, clear tones.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwh_nM4wtrg
That song is powerful enough all on it's own. I couldn't watch the video. I didn't get past the Jeep. I know those things happen for real, I don't need to see them in a video like that.
Good new: She's got a new release coming out this fall. She's got a powerful voice and I can't wait to hear what she's produced this time around.
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#39553 - 06/25/10 07:20 AM
Re: Ready for a Good Cry?
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mattie
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This is a fun post.
After serving in the infantry, and then in my unit honor guard, nothing pulls the tears out of me like the haunting echo of Taps at a soldier's funeral.
As far as popular music goes, I had heard this song a hundred times with no effect, and though I can't tell you why, I cried like a baby when I heard it played live. Since then it's always stuck with me.
"Papa Was a Rodeo" by The Magnetic Fields
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#39678 - 06/29/10 01:03 PM
Re: Ready for a Good Cry?
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NeoZombie
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Thank You. I like to creating the illusion of suffrage just so I may experience a relative elevation within. Music is a great medium of being.
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#39679 - 06/29/10 01:21 PM
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Little Horn
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If there ever was a song that could bring me to tears, it would be "Underground" by Voltaire. It's a depressing, strangely beautiful folk song about a child's suicide and the effects on his family.
If you're in for a few tears, here it is: "Underground" - Voltaire
I'm usually not into that kind of music, but Voltaire seems to get a bulls-eye wherever he aims, and in that song, he aims to make you choke.
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#40374 - 07/17/10 12:20 AM
Re: Ready for a Good Cry?
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Draculesti
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Good call on Sinatra's "Only for the Lonely". The whole album is great, but that song in particular is great. It's probably the first album by Sinatra that I really got into.
6satan6archist6 mentioned "Dust in the Wind" already, but I'm seconding it.
Also, Jim Croce's Time in a Bottle is a powerfully beautiful song, and he was a hell of a guitar player to boot.
I have to have at least one ballad in here, no? So, here is a song by W.A.S.P. (We Are Sexual Perverts, not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) from their album The Crimson Idol. Hold On To My Heart
Anathema are a band very close to my heart, from their early days of classic British doom metal, to their more Pink Floyd/Radiohead inspired rock. This song was written for and dedicated to the mother of Vincent and Danny Cavanaugh, who had passed away before the release of the band's 1999 album Judgement. Many people stupidly mistake it for a breakup song (just read the comments on the youtube videos), but it is assuredly a song of mourning. The song is called One Last Goodbye
[There are a few videos of them playing this song live, and I'm disappointed to say that in none of them are they able to pull it off (especially the vocalist). I suppose it's understandable, considering the emotions it must bring to the surface.]
This next one isn't a song, it's a piece of instrumental music. The Adagio movement of Joaquin Rodrigo's (1901-1999) "Concierto de Aranjuez" for guitar and orchestra is one of the most heart-wrenchingly beautiful pieces of music I've heard ever. It is played here by Narcisco Yepes. He is playing a 10-string guitar (which is not required by this piece, but Yepes was a 10-string guy; a 10-string is especially helpful in playing Baroque repertoire, especially stuff written for lute. This piece, however, is not from the Baroque period). I chose this particular video for Yepes' interpretation (which is, in my opinion, fairly unique), but I definitely encourage those who are interested to find interpretations of the piece by other performers.
Enjoy!
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