What music brings tears to your eyes, or gives you goosebumps, just because it is so sad, or so poignant, or just so damn beautiful?
I've always been kinda sensitive and emotionally unstable, so over the years there've been a couple of songs that have really moved me emotionally. e.g. "Forever Young" by Alphaville, or "Stay" by Shakespears Sister.
But for me, nothing else comes close to Tori Amos. As I write this I am listening to "Tales of a Librarian", her Greatest Hits, and every second song makes me feel mushy.
The fact that such "emo" behaviour is inappropriate for a 32yo, married het male, should probably bother me, but I can rationalise it away if I try.
For me it happens with quite a few songs but I'm not going to name them all.. I'll just name one and give you reasons why it makes me feel mushy.
Creed - "With Arms Wide Open" *because it came out on radio and I bought the cd just as I got pregnant with our son and we used it as a song we would remember the moment we heard we were gonna have a child by. We welcomed our little son with arms wide open, did the same for our daughter. *I also love Creed*
Anything with a certain string combination, especially with a low deep or moderate stringed drone held underneath the main melody. Also, anything which gets associated, for example, the middle of So Long and Thanks for all the Fish in the H2G2 movie. Even though I can't see the Douglas Adams tribute, I can see the point at which it is displayed in my mind because the music hits the right spot.
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There are a couple songs that can give me the goose bumps but I think the most recent one was Evanescence's remix version of My Immortal with the full band coming in at the end. Something about her voice and the piano (then set against the band in contrast) just gives me goosebumps.
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I'll break down a sob to just about any music, whether due to mood, sentimentality, or beauty of the music itself.
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3 Libras by A Perfect Circle will do it for me sometimes...Maynard James Keenan's voice at it's prettiest, and an overall beautiful song. The video for their cover of Imagine, too.
Metallica - Fade to Black
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Tool - Pushit (The live version, off of Salival)
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris. Its always held special meaning for me 'cause I've always been an outcast. "And I don't want the world to see me 'cause I don't think that they'd understand..." That's how I've felt through most of my life.
Depending on my mood, Jessica Simpson(as much as I hate her), With You, John Mayer, Your Body is a Wonderland, and Hawthorne Heights, Ohio is for Lovers. Most of those can get me to cry.
CmdrWilkens wrote:There are a couple songs that can give me the goose bumps but I think the most recent one was Evanescence's remix version of My Immortal with the full band coming in at the end. Something about her voice and the piano (then set against the band in contrast) just gives me goosebumps.
I heard that version on the video I saw off their website. That's a good one.
But something that's really moving to me is the first half of "Hummel Gets the Rockets" off The Rock. The whole Marine funeral scene. That is some moving and emotional stuff right there.
There have also been certain parts of various TV shows where the background music really gets at me, but I can't give any actual names to them.
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
The only songs which have ever made my cry were Lightning Crashes by Live, and Collective Soul's "The World I Have Known" and only after I saw the video. I bawled like a baby when I saw that video.
IndustrialNoise wrote:3 Libras by A Perfect Circle will do it for me sometimes...Maynard James Keenan's voice at it's prettiest, and an overall beautiful song.
Three Libras remains one of my favourite songs of all time, and one of the most emotional for me too.
Tool - Pushit (The live version, off of Salival)
The last 2 minutes of this song, right when drums kick in with the power of the guitars. Not sure what it is but that always affects me.
The ending of somewhat damaged by NIN's always provokes a reaction, not really a teary one, but a reaction none the less.
And Teignmouth by patrick wolf, the chorus of that song never fails to affect me. its just a beautiful song through and through.
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"Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen. Whenever I hear of it, I think about Connor MacLeod, staying by his wife's side as she aged and died, and then mourning over her lonely burial plot. It's the most beautiful scene in the whole movie, and has always been very moving to me.
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The only songs that can get me to tears are those that make me think of a few specific things that happened in my life. Of these, there are only two. One is Yesterday, by John Lennon. This one usually depresses me a bit and nothing more. Once though, it almost made me cry (though, that was right after some pretty bad stuff happened, and I wasn't expecting the song).
The other is A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics, the main title from A Beautiful Mind. Its probably the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard, and for some reason, it always, without fail, makes me think of her. And that has made me cry.
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The music from Aerith's death scene in FF7 is about the only thing that's come close to making me weepy, though I probably have to second Mike's nomination of Who Wants to live Forever
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Chardok wrote:The only songs which have ever made my cry were Lightning Crashes by Live, and Collective Soul's "The World I Have Known" and only after I saw the video.
Mee too, Thanks for reminding me.
I just haven't heard those in a while
I bawled like a baby when I saw that video.
Which one are you talking about? I've never seen The Collective Soul Video.
But the Lightning Crashes video always makes me cry.
Hurt by Nine Inch Nails becuase i reminds me of one of when i was self harming and in a very bad place. Hold On by Good Charlotte for making me realise how stupid i was being.
With Or Without You by U2 because of my 1st fiance, Paula. It was our song.
reminds me of a relationship and of the good times. not a bad tear mind.
NIN - We're in this together
Same reason. But I always play this song before I head out to the Uni Rock night, puts me in a good mood. Which is pretty much every thursday.
"groovy" - Ash, Evil Dead 2.
"no prizes for guessing 'the colour of the grass on the otherside' or the time on the moon" - Either Nick, Rye or Tony.
"your pills your grass your tits your ass"
" i pitty teh poor foo's that have to suffer Troy's anti-plan field"
"Escaped mental patients make better lovers" - Graffiti near Uni.
1916 by Motorhead. IMO also one of Motorheads greatest songs.
I'll also second felinki's vote for Komm, susser tod.
Ode to Joy by Beethoven as well, although that isn't so much the music itself as it is that it always reminds of the scene in ep.24 of Evangelion where it's used.
Pachelbel's Canon Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony When Johnny Comes Marching Home Battle Hymn of the Republic Into the West - Annie Lennox Civil War - Guns N' Roses Patience - Guns N' Roses Lavos Theme (Alternate) - Nobuo Uematsu Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (Carol of the Bells)- Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Legend of Zelda - NESkimos Terra in Black - Ailsean
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