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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 like both versions, but when I watch the video of the JC version, I think that's the closest I've ever been to tears while listening to anything.

However, I don't tend to cry when listening to music, however many of my aemotions a piece may prod. Maybe I'm a cold person.

Max Richters' Embers - gets me every time.

Forgot to tell about this one )
Ending of Terminator 2 -

The Pray For Rain bits on the Sid and Nancy soundtrack do it for me. Particularly Taxi To Heaven and Off The Boat.



Looks like they work for someone else, too!

The Telepathic Kid wrote:but I understand where Rodheh is probably coming from.

Here's where I'm coming from.


That track is the culmination of a concept album that touches on some pretty deep depths. It's a tearjerker, an angerjerker, a lovejerker and a whole lot more. If you've heard it several times as the one piece of music it essentially is when put together as a whole, you'll probably find something in the story you can relate to. I can relate to almost all of it, and it describes elaborately a few emotions that apply in very specific manners throughout its whole story, meaning certain contexts need to be maintained to in turn maintain the message.


Hurt, specifically, comes in after an apparent destruction of any form that the album had left and starts up from a sea of industrial ambience. It's not melodically sound because it isn't supposed to be. It's not vibrant and filled with imagery like the cover because it's not supposed to be. It's a void. Nothing. The point is that it was the subtle post-analysis of the protagonist's irrational behavior after he kills himself and after self-destruction ends...and like the entire sequence started, it ends with harsh guitars, harsh synths and white noise devoid of any life. In terms of the album it resides upon, it has a pretty serious effect at the end of the road.


Now, some years later, an older, more traditional country singer comes along and covers it. He removes the ambience. He removes the instability. He changes the instrumentation to be stable and melodic and then performs it in a different style. As is common with covers.

I have no problem with this. I'm not anti-cover whatsoever and I support freedom of expression.

What I have a problem with is really simple and it boils down to two things, both personal, subjective feelings of mine that may not bother others:

1. His video and in turn interpretation of the song included a bunch of Christian references. The song is used in a Christian tone, by a Christian. The word "shit" is also changed to "crown". This, in my opinion, is horseshit. The album the original version is on directly condemns Christianity and organized religion SEVERAL times. This is one of the things that makes me feel as though it's not really a cover and kind of its own song. It's so different in message.

2. Many people do not know of the original and often attribute the song to Cash. Fine. However, when informed they act defensive and say things like "FUCK YOU IT'S CASH THE CASH VERSION IS THE BEST WHY DO YOU LISTEN TO THE NINE etc." which is a very arrogant mood to take. There are also people who take the same attitude against the Cash version in support of the NIN version - I do not support behavior like this in EITHER case, period.


So that's about it. This song is a greater example I think of any cover where people act like that. It's so prominent over the internet and it's really stupid.


Now personally, my feelings are that I don't really like the Cash version very much in terms of musical taste. I find his voice to be whiny and annoying in that particular song and I don't like the instrumentation. However, this is just me. I by no means am going to tell someone who prefers the Cash version that they're wrong and they can't have that opinion, provided they are aware of the original context the song was written in and respectfully acknowledge the importance of both the original and the cover.

Oh man, I forgot Aquarium by Nosaj Thing

Pure bliss, pure beauty.


Brings tears to my eyes almost every time I listen to it.

2020k wrote:Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Yeah glad to see I'm not the only one.. this song does it to me consistently and its the only one.

that and sometimes music by Thomas Newman but no singing...

Some other songs that I come close to crying on are those off of "Immolate Yourself" by Telefon Tel Aviv, specifically "Helen of Troy". Not sad to begin with but if you think of it in the context of Charlie Cooper (one of the guys in that duo) dying, which happened less than a month after that album was released, it lyrically seems like it was almost written afterwards.

Plus, that album has what may be the most awesome and tragic sounding intro to a song I've ever heard.

Casino Versus Japan - Where to? / What for? -
Kerrier District - Yesco -

From the Magnolia soundtrack



When watching this movie, it brought me to tears.

Apologies for digging up an old thread, I'm new here, thought it was better than starting a new one.

Spiritualized - Spread Your Wings
Talk Talk - New Grass
Antony and the Johnsons - The Lake
The Waterboys - The Stolen Child

Portishead - Rhodes is up there for me. Beth's voice, oh man.

WeHadNormality wrote:Portishead - Rhodes is up there for me. Beth's voice, oh man.

I think this could be one of her best -

jcnporter wrote:

WeHadNormality wrote:Portishead - Rhodes is up there for me. Beth's voice, oh man.

I think this could be one of her best -

Yes, that's a truly beautiful piece of music.

I think the thing with Rhodes for is is how intimate it sounds. The part when the drums drop out at the end, you can hear every breath of Beth's voice, it really does strange things to me. And those strings, it's just mesmerizing.

Mexicola wrote: I should probably add 'Hoppipola' by Sigur Ros too, given that my wife walked down the aisle to it.

Snap! Then 'An Ending (Ascent)' played while we signed the register, we walked down the aisle to 'God Only Knows'. And if I could have got Stars of the Lid in there somewhere, I would have....

WeHadNormality wrote: I think the thing with Rhodes for is is how intimate it sounds. The part when the drums drop out at the end, you can hear every breath of Beth's voice, it really does strange things to me. And those strings, it's just mesmerizing.

It's definitely my favourite song from Dummy. I can still recall the feeling of how fresh, different and yet instantly classic that album felt at the time.

by boards of canada it's echus, amo bishop roden, corsair, from one source all things depend, olson, tftce, and powerline misfortune.

but mogwai, sve, the national and sometimes afx have that effect.

There's a lot of boc songs that make me cry sometimes, but the only one that always gets me is Whitewater. It definitely brings out the sad me.

Also Pyramid Song by radiohead and Woodstock by Joni Mitchell. They bring out that really deep meloncholy you can feel when you recall a really beautiful time in your past.