The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Nick Drake - Place To Be Radiohead - Idioteque Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot Wolf Parade - Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts Modest Mouse - Broke Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy, Pt. Two Neutral Milk Hotel - The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pretty much NMH's entire second album come to think of it.
Mountain Goats - 'Love Love Love' Richmond Fontaine - 'The Janitor' Sufjan Stevens - 'John Wayne Gacy Jr.' Death Cab For Cutie - 'Lack Of Color' Jeff Buckley - 'Hallelujah' Johnny Cash - 'I Won't Back Down' Elliott Smith - 'Fond Farewell' Joni Mitchell - Blue (pretty much the whole thing)
I also just thought of pretty much the entire back catalogue of Eels but particularly 'Susan's House' and most tracks from Live With Strings. 'Bus Stop Boxer' is just devastating.
"Shipbuilding" gets me every time. Whether it's Elvis Costello's version, Robert Wyatt's, or even Hue And Cry's(I'll bet that's their first ever mention on these forums!) version from their live "Bitter Suite" album. Just an incredibly moving song.
"I can't live the buttoned down life like all of you! I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odor - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about what's to be done with this Monkey_Boy?!"
Originally posted by Sammo201: I also just thought of pretty much the entire back catalogue of Eels but particularly 'Susan's House' and most tracks from Live With Strings. 'Bus Stop Boxer' is just devastating.
I'd say most of the songs off of Electro-shock Blues are more tear-inducing than those two.
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Originally posted by Sammo201: Mountain Goats - 'Love Love Love' Richmond Fontaine - 'The Janitor' Sufjan Stevens - 'John Wayne Gacy Jr.' Death Cab For Cutie - 'Lack Of Color' Jeff Buckley - 'Hallelujah' Johnny Cash - 'I Won't Back Down' Elliott Smith - 'Fond Farewell' Joni Mitchell - Blue (pretty much the whole thing)
Nice selections. I really like 6 of those 8 songs.
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Originally posted by Sammo201: I also just thought of pretty much the entire back catalogue of Eels but particularly 'Susan's House' and most tracks from Live With Strings. 'Bus Stop Boxer' is just devastating.
I'd say most of the songs off of Electro-shock Blues are more tear-inducing than those two.
Well I would agree that Electro Shock Blues is a deeply sad record, the Live At Town Hall strings add an extra dose of lonliness to the original recordings. Plus, strings seem to have no emotional middle ground, they are either uplifting or melancholy and this falls into the second category.
Originally posted by RavingLunatic: Everything except that Johnny Cash song, which I've never heard, and the Jeff Buckley song, which I've heard but don't remember anything about.
You should definitely check out both of those two you haven't gelled to my friend. 'I Won't Back Down' is mainly poignant (like most of the American Recordings sets) post-Johnny Cash's death but also holds great emotional value when you know his relationship with June and his feelings after she died. 'Hallelujah' is a personal one with myself and my girlfriend sharing that song but it also just has a sensuality to it that adds to the intimacy and ultimate heartbreak. The 33 1/3 on Grace is really good at describing how the song works so you should definitely check that out after digging out Grace and absorbing it again.
"O Holy Night" - when Christmas time comes around I hear this some lots and I get teary. In graduate school a classmate was murdered by her husband. At her funeral they played a recording of Ruth singing this song. She was such a good person.
Radiohead's There There always gets me when Thome, as only Thome can do, tells us "Just because you feel it...doesn't mean it's there". That lyric defines my life's struggles.
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This going to sound corny as hell, but a traditional rendering of "The Star Spangled Banner" chokes me up every time.
_____________________________ Weep to Water the Trees.
"This is my main concern with Obama; what if he has been groomed since childhood to blend in with the zionists and infidels? What if he has been led along by a radical islamic terrorist organization and positioned to become an influential politician?
What if Obama gets into White House and turns out to be some crazy muslim terrorist? What do we do then? We'll be pretty screwed. It could happen." -- by some fucking nutjob
Nope, pretty much the only song that I can think of that has ever had that affect on me. Never happened till after I joined the military, though. Weird, because I'm not your typical rah-rah-rah, U-S-A-Num-Ber-One kinda of jackass.
_____________________________ Weep to Water the Trees.
"This is my main concern with Obama; what if he has been groomed since childhood to blend in with the zionists and infidels? What if he has been led along by a radical islamic terrorist organization and positioned to become an influential politician?
What if Obama gets into White House and turns out to be some crazy muslim terrorist? What do we do then? We'll be pretty screwed. It could happen." -- by some fucking nutjob
Originally posted by Maximum Jack: This going to sound corny as hell, but a traditional rendering of "The Star Spangled Banner" chokes me up every time.
every since my buddies got killed in VIetNam I get teary too. That's a lot of tears over thirty some years.
