Songs and music that have made you cry..

[tattuchu]

Natalie Merchant's Ophelia. The album as a whole, the mood it creates, just heartbreakingly sad and beautiful. Here's one song from it:



But then, Natalie has always done it for me:

[hadespussercats]

Jaysus. I must be always balling listening to music!

[hadespussercats]

Cormac, I almost chose this one:



But I thought I should keep my list to one song per artist.

[Cormac]

Jaysus. I must be always balling listening to music!

When I say "balling" - I mean - crying...

I wish I meant a bit of the other...

[hadespussercats]

Jaysus. I must be always balling listening to music!

When I say "balling" - I mean - crying...

I wish I meant a bit of the other...

Bawling?

[hadespussercats]

Natalie Merchant's Ophelia. The album as a whole, the mood it creates, just heartbreakingly sad and beautiful. Here's one song from it:



But then, Natalie has always done it for me:

I love her, too. Used to have "Blind Man's Zoo" on constant repeat in the tape deck in my car.

[Cormac]

Cormac, I almost chose this one:



But I thought I should keep my list to one song per artist.

It is a good one. I can picture the old geezer on his porch, his remaining leg and the pain of his memories...

Lots of Irish were killed at Gallipoli, along with the ANZACS and British soldiers from both the UK and across their Empire.

[Cormac]

Jaysus. I must be always balling listening to music!

When I say "balling" - I mean - crying...

I wish I meant a bit of the other...

Bawling?

Jesus Christ. How did I make that error - and then how did I compound it?

Freud and his slips...

[tattuchu]

Talk Talk. Holy Christ they always had a way of getting right to my crying glands:

[tattuchu]

A-Ha's Scoundrel Days. Laugh all you want, but this album is a melancholy masterpiece.

[hadespussercats]

Cormac, I almost chose this one:



But I thought I should keep my list to one song per artist.

It is a good one. I can picture the old geezer on his porch, his remaining leg and the pain of his memories...

Lots of Irish were killed at Gallipoli, along with the ANZACS and British soldiers from both the UK and across their Empire.

Not that it matters, really, to the sense of things, but I always thought he lost both.
Just realized the line that made me think that doesn't necessarily mean that.

[Cormac]

Drive.

The Cars - Live Aid.

[Cormac]

Cormac, I almost chose this one:



But I thought I should keep my list to one song per artist.

It is a good one. I can picture the old geezer on his porch, his remaining leg and the pain of his memories...

Lots of Irish were killed at Gallipoli, along with the ANZACS and British soldiers from both the UK and across their Empire.

Not that it matters, really, to the sense of things, but I always thought he lost both.
Just realized the line that made me think that doesn't necessarily mean that.

"I looked at the place where me legs used to be..."

"To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs"

Hah! I think I'm the one that might need to reconsider the interpretation, not you.

[Cormac]

This used to get me. Not so much now.

[tattuchu]

Well pretty much anything by The Smiths.