Was driving to work today
and they played Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Unfortunately, since hearing that song at my uncle's funeral, every time since it's made me blubber like Kate Winslett in an awards factory.

What songs get to you?
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Sun 10 May 2009, 7:12, 25 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Good question
St Swithin's Day, the Dubstar version rather than the original Bragg version. "The Polaroids that keep us together will surely fade away, like the love we spoke of forever, on St Swithin's Day".

sob...
(Apathyman Prepare to be underwhelmed..., Sun 10 May 2009, 7:21, Reply)

Oh God
now I've got that in my head.

It is a lovely version though...
( I_Was_Mordred, Sun 10 May 2009, 10:17, Reply)

Sympathy
Goo Goo Dolls.

Strikes too many chords in me. I can't listen to this with mascara on if I'm feeling the slightest bit emotional otherwise I start bawling.

Also
Annie's Song.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 10 May 2009, 7:27, Reply)

Three I can think of.
Cut Here by the Cure. That's a bad one. Also, Time of your life, as it was played at a mate's funeral. The other one is probably Joey by Concrete Blonde. Some of these songs I can only just listen to.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 May 2009, 9:09, Reply)

fuck how did I forget Time of Your Life...?
/sobs.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 10 May 2009, 9:22, Reply)

Ahhh god.
Just listened to it for the first time in a long while. Eh, still gets me. :( Also - Both sides now by Joni Mitchell. Well, now everyone is thoroughly depressed, maybe we should have a post of happy songs?
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 May 2009, 9:37, Reply)

christ
your ipod and mine have the same playlist then. I had mine on shuffle and Both Sides Now came up.

/puts on Missy Higgins instead.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 10 May 2009, 9:50, Reply)

Heh. I have no Ipod
Most of my music is stored on my computer, and yes. Both sides now popped up after Time of your life on random. I think maybe the shuffle function should take into account that after a gloomy song you might want a cheerful song!. Missy Higgins?
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 May 2009, 9:55, Reply)

she's jazzy and edgy
and I loves her. Lotses.

If she asked me to lick a toilet I would*

May be an exaggeration*
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 10 May 2009, 10:33, Reply)

Hmmm. She sounds interesting!
I may get some of her stuff. Reccomended album? I doubt she could convince me to lick a toilet though. Even a clean one
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 May 2009, 10:47, Reply)

hmmm buy an earlier one if you can
one of her EP's or The Sound of White.
She's a got a lot of raw edges in it.

Also - I warn you now - she is australian and she SOUNDS australian. Very muchly so.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 10 May 2009, 11:06, Reply)

Yeah, I noticed that
I can't see it taking too much getting used to. Its also rather refreshing to hear someone sing in their own accent, as opposed to trying to sound as american as possible.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:10, Reply)

I've been told I sound like her.
And I was a wee bit offended - considering I'm classically trained and not contemporary trained!
Then I realised what a big compliment it was and shut the hell up.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 10 May 2009, 11:23, Reply)

"Summertime"
not the Jazzy Jeff version, the one out of Porgy and Bess.

It was my grandmother's favourite song, and at her funeral my uncle played it on guitar whilst he and my father sang it.

Since then, I seem to hear it too often...the best rendition being by a steel band on the beach in St Lucia. I bought them all a beer...once I'd stopped crying.

I miss her still.
( I_Was_Mordred, Sun 10 May 2009, 10:18, Reply)

Three of mine
1) AC/DC - Ride on
2) Flogging Molly - The Son Never Shines On Closed Doors
3) Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

They don't make me blub as such, more that they really strike a chord when I listen to them.
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Sun 10 May 2009, 10:52, Reply)

The sun never shines....
What a song to end an album on! I love that song.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:18, Reply)

Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary-Lou
Shortly before my mum went into care with Alzheimers I was watching her for the afternoon to give her husband some time off. Mostly she was unresponsive but I put on a CD of 50's hits and she suddenly started singing along to the chorus. 9 months later we played it at her funeral.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 10 May 2009, 10:56, Reply)

While it's not a song
Barber's Adagio for Strings get me going every time. It's an very powerful, moving piece of music.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:01, Reply)

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
In fact 'most anything by him. Just his voice.


Shame. :(
(TheColonel, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:44, Reply)

Lots of classical or choral music
makes me suddenly cry with no warning.

But there are also some songs that are have powerful associations... The Drugs Don't Work (friend's funeral), It's A Wonderful World (ex's Dad's funeral), and Nothing's Gonna Change My World by the Beatles.
I didn't know about that one until I watched Pleasantville, having not heard it since I was little and forgotten all about it. When I heard it I started crying and just couldn't stop... I used to listen to it at night every night when I was going to sleep, all safe and secure in my little childhood world... it was when my Dad still lived with us and everything was happy and normal, before his affair with my mum's best friend broke up the family and all hell broke loose, with smashed windows and toys and shouting, and my mum and me and my little brothers had to leave our home, and my dad moved her and their new baby in instead of us. Christ, I'm off now...
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:51, Reply)

Oh God yeah.
Across the Universe is an amazing song. Beautiful.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Sun 10 May 2009, 12:05, Reply)

That's the one
Just made myself listen to it... had to stop halfway through.

God, I'm a big girly wuss!
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:26, Reply)

Falling Slowly
From the Once soundtrack

And 'Push You Head Towards the Air' by Editors. I happened to be listening to that when I found out my friend had killed himself last year.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:12, Reply)

Good question!
Bridge over troubled water still gets me, my immortal still sometimes bothers me.

One rendition of 'you'll never walk alone' still makes me cry. It was the 1989 reason, and in italy there was a match being played. After 6 minutes they stopped the game for a minutes silence, and after about 5 seconds, thousands of fans started singing it. Still an incredible tribute.

Also, 'a little fall of rain' from Les Miserables is incredible.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:43, Reply)

Hmm, when I've got a major case of the emos, these songs can do that sort of thing.
Starfadu: Let It Out
All American Rejects: Sunshine (Bonus Track)
Lisa Miskovsky: Still Alive
Will Young*: Love the one you're with

There is probably quite a few more, but that'll do for now.

* Quite a lot of Will Young stuff because of what I was doing while listening to it, rather than the song itself. Not sure if that counts.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 10 May 2009, 17:03, Reply)