Zombie is a great song, so long as you ignore it being an anti-IRA anthem
aw frick
I just re-watched it and you’re right. All these years of hearing it and I thought it was just anti-war but I never payed attention to the video until now.
It’s still a banger though lol
Linger is the one that would make me more likely to cry though, Zombie has more of a dance energy
I’ve never heard Time in a Bottle. That was a really good tune. Ive heard the other two and they also get me going a bit.
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Enjoy the Silence, specifically the Tori Amos cover.
Kalimankou Denkou by the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir
Ive never heard Tori Amos, she sounds amazing and so does her band. I couldn’t get sad cause I was i was busy being really impressed. I’ll have to let that settle first for this, but I think ill check out more of her stuff. I am an encyclopedia of punk in all its diy obscure forms and aldo became a bit of a general rock history nerd. RnB related genres are something I should check lore into cause I do love what ive heard. Im too busy being impressed to get sad. But when thst passes I bet it is a huge bummer.
The second link had me weeping on the second note and I dont speak the language. That is a fucking beautiful piece of music. I wish I could get that emotionality out of instruments and voice. Damn. Edit: im getting further in, this fucking rules, thanks so much for the link. Im gonna sample so much of it for my next industrial noise tape. I fucking love this song. Like a lot. I am going to be taking a shitload of inspiration from it in my own music, thank you so much for that link.
Im gonna sample so much of it for my next industrial noise tape.
Al Jourgensen thought it works as an industrial sample too.
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From a young age I thought about going to war and what that would be like. My father was quite nationalistic and even asked me once (when I was like 10 or 12 or 13) if I would enlist in a defensive war against the USA, if I was 18. When I said yes he was as proud as I’d ever seen him. I watched band of brothers with him and my brother quite often, also from a young age, I spent a lot of time trying to get inside the minds of the soldiers there, so as to understand if I could perform in that kind of environment, and what it would take to do so.
When I hear, Green Fields of France, John McDermott, it reminds me of the fear I had as a kid watching those movies/shows, wondering if one of those soldiers might be me. Through the tragedy I saw on screen I learned to steel my heart, and this song returns me to what I encased within, the innocence I buried because that’s what I thought being a man was. I’ve been a woman my whole life, but I didn’t know then. What I did know was that manhood was something I had to perform. On some level I knew being a man wasn’t inherent to me, so I constructed one inside of me.
The first time I heard this song I was riding in my Dad’s car, younger than the above, and so hearing the song connects me to that time, and how scary it was when I first started to reckon with the idea of whether I’d go to war in the future.
Good choice! I already know this one and have had an entire ww1 themed punk album using with the lyrics comprised of quotes and poetry from the time. I remember when the Iraq war was declared and I basically lost my fucking mind about it. I was a kid and figured if saddam had wmd a ear would be the time to use em. Got told on the drive up to my grandparent’s house that they don’t hsve em and it was sll bullshit and then spent the test of the night sitting in my grsndparents living room watching the bombing raids on CNN. I felt the fear I had about being bombed in retaliation shown live on tv and I knew there were kids my age living their just as scared as I just was seeing thst fear realized. That moment made me who I am.
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I LOVED THAT SONG! It resonated emotionally but also like…that is a damn well written song which incorporates a lot of weird shit. I gotta check out more of their stuff, cause that was sick
Edit: I listened to it twice. The amount if a music nerd/elitist i am probably isnt coming g across well enough cause I like this a lot. Ive badically heard it all, this slaps hard.
Yeah, The Beths fuck. Check out “Future Me Hates Me” and “Happy Unhappy”, too. I’ve listened to them through two breakups and a lot of their songs get the tears going.
I am deeply punk and had to deal with all the kids i turned onto cool music in jr high joining up with band geeks to make shitty folk punk and indie rock cause millennial. If it came out like this I would have booked shows for em and played with them. This is a fantastic version of a genre I have a really high bar to clear. I’m a pedal dork who does noise music and can say what they are doing with effects is fucking brilliant and not easy as well. I’m finding a lot of really sick bands in this thread.
AFAIK they’re all music school jazz graduates so this is what happens when kiwi jazz nerds do indie rock, I guess.
I can tell, but theyre doing good with it instead of the proto everything millennial are made fun of musically that I had to deal with in its creation. I deeply regret showing punk music to band geeks
That was a fantastic track, thank you
You are very welcome! I’m always hoping the music comm gets a little more action
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Trying to give every reply an honest listen. We have different tastes.
That’s fair
Song reminds me of someone very dear who i lost a long time ago
I’ve been mulling on this since the thread went up. I’ve never been moved to tears by music alone. I put it down to trauma or my brand of neurodivergence
most of these are melancholic or moody electronic tracks so not totally what you asked for but it’s a good exercise to think of these tunes anyway
Porter Robinson & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Unfold
Allister Brimble - RoboCop (feat. Jonathan Dunn)
Henrik B - Elektronik Kry (second half of the track in particular)
Hermann & Kleine - Leaving You Behind Without Knowing Where To Go
I make and like atmospheric stuff. Its songs that make you cry, im not trying to set any other rules
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I would say most of radiohead but ever since Thom outed himself as a zionist pig I haven’t been able to listen since. For old times sake though:
- Exit Music (For A Film)
- No Surprises
Exit music resonates largely because I would daydream about running away from my shitass parents and actually did it one day which follows into no surprises and my constant battle against depression and suicidal ideation.
Then we have:
- Tame Impala - Let It Happen
- Pink Floyd – Time
- Losing You · Ephixa · Laura Brehm
- All the Light We Don’t See that leads into Lily & the Moon - Thornhill The Dark Pool. The entire album is a full piece though so the whole thing needs listening
- Lorn - ‘Weigh Me Down’
- Let You Down by Dawid Podsiadło
- Bastion - Setting Sail, Coming Home
- Death Stranding 2: Are You There, Lou?
- The entire Nier replicant soundtrack and game but Snow in Summer hits different (夏ノ雪)
- Failure - Stuck on You
- Into Dust, Mazzy Star, also fade into you, look down from the bridge
- Mirror’s Edge Theme Song - Still Alive
- BLACK HOLE SUN, WONT YOU COME, AND WASH AWAY THE RAIN
- TOOL - Sober
- Sleep Party People - I’m Not Human At All
- The final performance in Your Lie in April (spoilers if you intend on watching the anime which you should)
- Chroma key - Colorblind (because chroma key dropped some serious bangers then just vanished)
I could go on and on and on for this one because sad music is like a good 70% of my music as sad is about 70% of my life. I won’t go through all of them but general themes of struggling with addiction, depression, loss, parental abuse, low self esteem etc etc.
For me Time is the emotional buildup, The Great Gig In The Sky is crying town
I only know some of this stuff, but based on what I am familiar with, do you know much goth music? Cause I bet youd love some sisters of mercy etc
I am a listener of everything, I have a playlist I’ve been building for about 16 years and its 8 days long and covers more or less every genre that can be covered.
I’ll give a listen
That is some media storage consistency right there. I bet youd dig some tru goff tho.
Indeed
That isnt tru goff!
Damn genre purists, the first two bands on my mp3 player was The Cure and Type O Negative from my dads goth brainwashing so its all the same to me sweaty
I didnt actually know what it meant i have to look up these genre definitions
The 90s were weird for goth. It became more an aesthetic thing than a music style. Type O Negative were for sure influenced by goth, but theyre an alternative rock band imo. And then industrial became a thing and I love industrial, but while there is a lot of cultural crossover with goth, the music ain’t goth, its industrial. It’s not really splitting hairs when Siouxsie and the Banshees as well as Marilyn Manson are counted as the same music genre. It was the beginning of goth being commodified fucking hard and applied to anything with dark aesthetics, in the 2000s the term emo replaced it for a while, suddenly the dude with the black leather trench coat who loves Marilyn Manson is an emo and not a goth. Both terms were use pejorative and usually they’d just lump it all under the term F-slur, all of this leading to the Goth Girl fetish crap we see now. Goth is part of punk and punk belongs to the punks, not the business men. I feel strongly about subculture not being generalized and watered down to appease casual interest. There needs to be some gates kept or it all goes to shit fast. Especially when its the same people that called it all f-slur music or emo for 15 years decides that they like nu metal and goth girls make their pee pee hard now. The people within these subcultures make these distinctions because when you listen to a lot of music its nice to have distinctions that properly describe the music.
The Kingston Trio version of Where Have All the Flowers Gone always hits hard. It’s a Pete Seeger song originally but I believe it was the Kingston Trio that tacked on the extra final verse, and I think it adds a lot
I know that one already and agree. I’ve been listening to a whole thread of downer tunes. Glad i dont need to check one out this time
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Memories of you P3 cover by Sapphire
Literally can’t listen to this without crying because it was playing while my dog was dying as I rushed him to the vet and coincidentally right after I put my dog down and had to immediately go to work right after. I can listen to the original version of the song, any other kind of cover or remix, but this specific song is tightly associated to that trauma.
I havent heard the song before and now its about that for me. That makes it hit for me.
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A gentle tune about how cool nature is and how far we’ve become separated from it, and what we’ve lost in the process.
Jinjer - Home Back has been getting to me more and more ever since seeing that “8 Years Before” documentary on Donbass.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Need You
Martha Wainwright - Bloody Motherfucking Asshole
last one is maybe more in the angry song genre but it’s sad and makes me cry anyway
These are all great songs!
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I got you
Killswitch Engage - Rose of Sharyn 20 year old music video hell yea
Downtown Binary & The Present Sound - Polaris
Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On
Dead Sky - Severed Steel Soundtrack
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Until Next Life (no spoilers)
That is like well after I stopped paying attention to Killswitch. Im old.
Julie Cruise is an always cry.
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