Your personal top list of songs which makes you cry

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:48 pm

saturdayindex wrote:
Rodheh wrote:Also, this.

It is, and probably will be for at the least a long, long time, my favorite ambient composition ever. Boards, Aphex Twin, TTA, even Eno and all that...as elaborate as they get they have never come close enough for me.

If any song gets me closest to crying when I hear it, it's that one.
Beautiful! Who is this?

NIN - A Warm Place, from the album The Downward Spiral, which is probably my favorite album of all time so far.

Shabutie · Post by **Shabutie** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:01 am

Oddly enough, there's only one song that's ever made me cry, that that's Elf Tower New Mexico by Coheed and Cambria.

noshferatu · Post by **noshferatu** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:48 pm

antony and the johnsons - hope there's someone

Xtal · Post by **Xtal** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:17 pm

zoetrope
nannou 2

w31rd numb3r · Post by **w31rd numb3r** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:36 am

Radiohead:
*Fake Plastic Trees
*No Surprises
*Give up the Ghost

Coldplay:
*Yellow
*In My Place
*Fix You
*Swallowed in the Sea
*Violet Hill (not that much...)

Boards of Canada:
*Olson
*You Could Feel the Sky
*Macquarie Ridge

Autechre - Altibzz
Biosphere - The Things I Tell You
Thomas Newman - 2815 A.D.

fitterhappier · Post by **fitterhappier** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:43 am

Radiohead: Nude, The Daily Mail

A_Northern_Soul · Post by **A_Northern_Soul** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:35 pm

Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt (I've never heard the original and don't need to)

Dennis Wilson - River Song

Flaming Lips - much of The Soft Bulletin

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

The Beatles - In My Life & Yesterday

Spacemen 3 - May The Circle Be Unbroken (I could also go for the Staples Singers original).

A_Northern_Soul · Post by **A_Northern_Soul** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:36 pm

Oh and virtually any Christmas carol - without fail.

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:31 pm

A_Northern_Soul wrote:Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt (I've never heard the original and don't need to)

Cool story bro.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:03 pm

actually found one that still moves me immensely.

this shit is banananananas.

portiss · Post by **portiss** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:37 pm

Aphex Twin - Lichen
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Brian Eno - An Ending
Boards of Canada - The smallest weird number
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Brasstronaut - Old world lies
Radiohead - Reckoner
The Cinematic Orchestra - To build a home
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

The Cranberries - Ode to my family (girlfriend I was really, really keen on broke up with me while this song was playing)

They don't always make me cry, but I've had my moments of crying with these songs.
Guess I have this the strongest with To build a home by The Cinematic Orchestra .

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:14 pm

A_Northern_Soul wrote:Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt (I've never heard the original and don't need to)

The NIN original is fine actually, although I prefer the Johnny Cash version. Mind you, if Johnny Cash had sung the phone book I'd have loved that too

portiss · Post by **portiss** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:16 pm

Mexicola wrote:
A_Northern_Soul wrote:Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt (I've never heard the original and don't need to)
The NIN original is fine actually, although I prefer the Johnny Cash version. Mind you, if Johnny Cash had sung the phone book I'd have loved that too

In my opinion the Johnny Cash version is waaaay better. Gotta love Johnny Cash!

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:22 pm

Mexicola wrote:
A_Northern_Soul wrote:Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt (I've never heard the original and don't need to)
The NIN original is fine actually, although I prefer the Johnny Cash version. Mind you, if Johnny Cash had sung the phone book I'd have loved that too

I have no problem with anyone who likes/prefers the Cash version. I have a problem with the "I've never heard the original and I don't need too" attitude.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:59 am

I dunno bro, I mean not everyone's a fan of NIN.
What do you say to the people who refuse to listen to the Johnny Cash version?

I mean I've heard and tried to get into NIN, trust me. My friends were into him big time for a bit so I had to kind of attempt to like him.

I haven't heard the original, but I'm not exactly in the position where I really want to either.

But I do like covers that differ from the original so I might still give it a check.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:49 am

The Cash version is indeed a tearjerker. The NIN version is as well, just in a darker way.

What I don't like is people who are uneducated and don't know who wrote it first. I hear it a lot.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:24 am

but I understand where Rodheh is probably coming from.

when people diss the Knife's Heartbeats and say that bore Jose Gonzales did it better, that annoys me.
The cover takes all that was good about the original and makes it so bland and boring.

portiss · Post by **portiss** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:32 am

I actually love the Jose Gonzalez version, it's 1 of my most listened to songs. And yes, I have heard the original but I prefer the Jose version.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:11 pm

he sounds like he recorded it when he was either half asleep or extremely bored imo. :\

portiss · Post by **portiss** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:22 pm

I can understand why you think of it that way, I just love the vibe his version has. So nice and relaxing, yummmm.