i am listening to music at work and a favorite song has me teary-eyed. so the new poll for this week is: what songs make you cry? ok, if you're a guy, what songs make you sad (cuz i am told boys don't cry.)
my list:
- puff the magic dragon (fuck that jackie paper!)
- yellow -coldplay (if a guy played this for me i would get so sappy and bawl like a baby)
- top of the world- dixie chicks (so depressing)
- when you fall in love- bjork (so goofy and wonderful, i cried when i saw the video on MTV out of pure joy)
- any kind of marching band music
- i hope that i don't fall in love with you/ waltzing matilda- tom waits
ok, so i'm a big cry baby. so tell me your favorite sad songs!
27 comments:
My all time crying song is "He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones....
Yeah, we bears are big on the outside but we're really softies on the inside.
"Duke of Whales", by ((rhythymism)) - No idea why; Something about the whale calls is liberating.
"C'est La Vie", by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Reminds me of someone I once knew.
"Bears", by Zebra - Okay, you saw that one coming. I'm a sap. So sue me.
oh jennifer, you forgot "desperado"
and i have to agree with mom and old georgy. but, damn, i love that sad bastard song!!!
Svefn g englar by Sigur Rós
I saw your mommy and your mommy's dead??? Dead Kennedys
Fuck you like an animal- I forget.
SInce everyone has a nifty name, I shall have one too.
mom- i remember you getting teary-eyed over that song when i was about 9 years old. we were in the old pinto and the radio was tuned to WGAR.
mr. bear- i love your sappy ways!
sis- we only think "desperado" is depressing since we saw the film "in america" (part of out suicide/ sad bastard film fest last summer.)
groound cat- welcome! those icelandic folks always seem a bit depressed to me....
now who the heck is bananas and water??? btw- the "fuck you like an animal" song is NIN "closer", i think.
Here's mine!
A Home by the Dixie Chicks
To Zion and Ex-Factor by Lauryn Hill
Nobody's Baby Now by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ave Maria
ever since it played at my dad's funeral it makes me just bawl
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald!
(The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee)
Oh and.... Feed Jake by Pirates of the Mississippi.
Now I lay me down to sleep...
I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
And if I die before I wake...feed Jake...
He's been a good dog...
My best friend right through it all...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
Ah Rachel that makes me cry just to read it.....Poor Jake.....
"a home" has made me weepy as well. and that jake song can go to hell! hahahaha!!!
a few more sad ones:
"jackie brown" john mellencamp
"love at the five and dime" nanci griffith
"cat's in the cradle" cat stevens
sorry, "cat's in the cradle" is harry chapin. duh!!!!
How bout "Puff the Magic Dragon" thats a good one....could bring a tear to your eye....
yeah, um, you might want to go back and read the original post because puff the magic dragon is the FIRST ONE I LISTED!!!!
duh.
LOL
What ever Jennifer....I am old and forgetful..Give me a break...anyway it was worth mentioning twice....
Oh God, Terry Jacks one hit wonder ... Seasons in the Sun/ that was my favorite song when I was a little kid along with Billy don't be a Hero and American Pie ---JESUS H. CHRIST no wonder I was a depressed child! lol
"goodbye Michele it's hard to die ... when all the birds are singing in the sky ..."
Bob Seger ... in your time.
okay, I could go on forever.
BTW, In America was such an incredible movie!
OK, I've got more...
I'm Still Here by Tom Waits. It was written about Alice Liddell-Hargreaves (Alice In Wonderland); as if she was signing the song. She had to make appearances in her 80's just to survive. So sad.
Ode To... by Rachael Yamagata. I keep going back to this one. It's a 'hidden track' and there's a video of her performing it somewhere on the web. Heartbreaking.
Overture (Dancer In The Dark) by Björk. Oh man, the waterworks are kicking now! (I also agree with Slytherin Chick's selections). But just hearing those strings I start to get all wobbly-like at the knees.
True Love Waits by Thom Yorke.
A Generation X love song that just makes me weep.
OK, I can't go on with this. Where's my Effexor?!
wow groundcat, so many good choices. and mostly stuff i've not heard yet (like rachel yamagata.) gosh, it would be really neat-o if some interesting boy with good taste in music made me a mix CD (nudge nudge, wink wink....)
hmmmm, ok, i'll see if i can find someone to do that for you. what's with the ticks? u got tourettes or something?
wow, making fun of people with disabilities, eh? not very PC at all. welcome to the blog, groundcat, you'll fit in just fine!!!
oh, Jennifer.
Cat's in the Cradle is Jim Croce, not Cat Stevens.
Get to know your sensitive and hairy seventies songwriters.
yeah harry chapin. Damn hypocrite I am.
sds- that made my day!!! LMAO!!!
we are both SO cliff claven! :o)
"Love of my Life" by Queen, and Jeff Buckley's "Halleluia."
But by far, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" - they use it at the end of the old B&W version of the Elephant Man, when John Merick dies. Reduces me to a mound of sniveling poo every single time.
Wow. the first documented appearance of groundcat!
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