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Zombie is a great song, so long as you ignore it being an anti-IRA anthem
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
aw frick
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.
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 β Time
- Losing You Β· Ephixa Β· 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 PodsiadΕo
- 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 (ε€γιͺ)
- 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.
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
For me Time is the emotional buildup, The Great Gig In The Sky is crying town
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
This album, A Crow Looked at Me, is raw expression of Phil Elverum's grief following the passing of his wife Genevieve. It's the most heart-wrenching album I've heard and it spirals me into depression any time I listen.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
I havent cried to these songs in a long time
King Crimson - I talk to the wind
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
La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
This one fucked me up, in that way of like, everything we do is struggle, why do we try, everything is headed towards ruin and the patterns of our lives invariable contribute to the ruination of everything we care about and all the people around us kinda way.
I was just tryna find some background music to listen to while I worked my desk job, man. π₯
Anyways I'm gonna go mow the lawn while listening to this, I'm sure that won't trigger anything dreadful in me.
Nothing does it every time, but this Unthanks song (and many more of theirs) is pretty affecting, and not only because the lyrics are directly inspired by true events. The lead vocalists are sisters and harmonize spookily.
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.
Jinjer - Home Back has been getting to me more and more ever since seeing that "8 Years Before" documentary on Donbass.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Im loving this thread and got some reslly good stuff to check out, so coming back with some heart wrenchers:
Iris Dement: Our Town
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSX9PNRyyc&up=
Johnny Cash: The Ballad or Irah Hayes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEwSwQtSmDQ&pp=
Classico but Man in Black. I dress goth cause of this more than any other song
New Jeans - Ditto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xqzxYMh_d8
When Hanni looks out at the crowd and tears up 
Hannah Diamond - Want U To Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu1wxsSFCC4
Produce 48 - Truth Untold (cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDziFxB_Eo
Miyu Takeuchi's lead at 1:46/7 followed by gyuri's backing vocals breaks me.