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Prof. ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2008 Location: Canada, Eh Status: Offline Points: 183 |
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So I just wanted to pose a question to you all, what was the first song(any genre) that made you cry?
I dont mean what song was playing when your girl friend broke up with you, or when you heard Firefly was being canceled. I want to know the first song that made you cry.
For me it was Layla by Derek & The Dominoes.
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Peter ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
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I don't remember -- I don't recall....
![]() MANY songs have made me cry over the years (hey, I'm a sensitive, new-agey kinda guy), but I can't recall what the first one was. (But then, I can't remember my old girlfriend's names, where I put my hat, or even what I had for supper last night -- welcome to middle age....)
I do recall, however, a dark day in 1970, when, at the tender age of ten, I heard that The Beatles had broken up. I think that was the first time that "music" made me cry.
![]() Music is tied to the emotions, and melody, especially when coupled with moving or personally evocative lyrics, can affect me tremendously.
That's a good thing, and one of the wonders of good art!
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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jimmy_row ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: July 11 2007 Location: Hibernation Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
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The first I can remember was in the sixth grade; I was laying in bed at night with the radio on, couldn't sleep because I had some troubling things on my mind. Wish You Were Here came one and I lost it, and I still remember that. Didn't know who the artist was, but I'd heard that one before and thought the intro spoke to me in some unexplainable way. When a song like that mixes with the situation you can feel some powerful emotions as a result.
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Queen By-Tor ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 13 2006 Location: Xanadu Status: Offline Points: 16111 |
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For songs that are attached to an emotional memory Wish you Were Here did me in too. That whole album took on a whole new meaning after a couple of years ago. But as for songs that just do it for no reason at all there's been one or two... but DAMN I can't think of who or what it was at time time! I think Silently Falling by Chris Squire hit me hard once like that. Oh, and listening to '39 after seeing Queen live brought a tear of joy. |
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Peter ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
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^ Yeah KBT -- it's not always tears of sorrow, sympathy, or even "association."
Seeing Genesis live (albeit, sans Gabriel) got me all misty-eyed when they did the grand old stuff, as did seeing Yes do And You and I and Heart of the Sunrise.
I'm a sentimental, sensitive sod, I admit it.
![]() And don't get me started on Bambi's poor mother....
![]() Waaaaaaahhhh!!!!
![]() Books routinely make me cry, too -- the most recent one was Dickens' Dombey and Son. Both the tragic, touching death of a child in it, and the happy, ultra-sentimental ending. I think life in general, and its attendant mortality, is inherently somewhat sad. (It's happy too -- don't get me wrong). Art can offer healthful, healing catharsis, to help us cope, and to let us know we're not alone with our various sorrows in this "vale of tears."
(Art can also enable us to impose order upon what is essentially chaotic and random -- to re-write reality, and give it justice and happy endings. We humans like order, meaning, and "morals" -- just as we instinctively like melody and rhyme.) Edited by Peter - May 21 2008 at 22:09 |
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Prof. ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2008 Location: Canada, Eh Status: Offline Points: 183 |
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Lets see, the other song that has got me is Can't Find My Way Home. Either the original by Blind Faith, or Eric Claptons live version on the 461 Ocean Boulevard bonus disc.
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Queen By-Tor ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 13 2006 Location: Xanadu Status: Offline Points: 16111 |
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I think when I see Rush next week from the second row on the floor I won't be able to contain myself
![]() was bad enough last time I saw them from the nose-bleeds. For books, I think I was starting to get emotional near the end of 1984 (I hate that ending...(in a good way)!! but I love the book ![]() once or twice. Big Fish comes to mind.
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BroSpence ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 05 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2614 |
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The Eagles make me cry because they are so bad, yet some how were able to gross so much money.
The new Tom Waits covers by Scarlet Johanson are pretty tear worthy too. YUCK! In relation to the actual topic though I can't remember what song or songs have been able to tear jerk me. I'm sure there are a couple, but its been a damn long while. |
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WalterDigsTunes ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: September 11 2007 Location: SanDiegoTijuana Status: Offline Points: 4373 |
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Ironically, Godley and Creme's "Cry".
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Petrovsk Mizinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
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I don't recall exactly what song, but I do know in 2005, that was the year I finally came to appreciate music to a great extent. I began listening to virtuoso guitarists that year, and I always remember the song The Forgotten (Part 2), by Joe Satriani, with a guitar solo that moved me so much, I just felt the notes, the phrasing and the melody and starting crying. So I guess that was likely the first song that had that effect on me. Now that I appreciate music even more so since then, music can seem to affect my emotions enormously. Edited by HughesJB4 - May 22 2008 at 01:14 |
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jimmy_row ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: July 11 2007 Location: Hibernation Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
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Simon & Garfunkel - Voices of Old People/Old Friends/Bookends Theme
being that I'm a young fella', my veiw toward the latter years is filled with an illusive melancholy that makes life seem cruel and rewarding, sometimes at once.
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mithrandir ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 25 2006 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 933 |
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Indian Summer - Aren't You Angel
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"Wings for Marie" by Tool, when I saw them live.
It was just incredible to see my favorite band live for the first time. |
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Petrovsk Mizinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
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^Wings for Marie is an incredible song dude. Intension is seriously beautiful as well
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Blacksword ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
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If I remember rightly, it was Bohemian Rhapsody. I was about 15, and I remember sitting with my friend - a real Queen fanatic - after a party, where both of us had failed miserably to attract the attention of our dream women. For some reason, the line about not wanting to have been born at all, struck a chord! Bloody teenagers!
![]() I seem to remember shedding a quiet private tear, the day after Phil Lynott died, while listening to 'The Sun goes Down' from the 'Thunder and Lightening' album. Edited by Blacksword - May 22 2008 at 04:02 |
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Mikerinos ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Planet Gong Status: Offline Points: 8890 |
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I believe it was listening to Close to the Edge on vinyl for the first time in a few months. My mood at the time plus the beauty of that album plus transcendance plus realizing how this album is part of me plus love plus organ solo plus emotion overdose resulted in tears of joy. Music often puts me on the threshold of crying, but I only have surpassed that line a few times, it's beautiful though
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Philéas ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: June 14 2006 Status: Offline Points: 6419 |
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!!! You listen to Indian Summer? Really, really, really good band. - I don't cry. I implode. Edited by Philéas - May 24 2008 at 06:08 |
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Dick Heath ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12805 |
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Cry?? Can't think. However, I can tell you the song that stopped the tears following a bad romantic break-up: Frank Zappa's Broken Hearts Is For Arseholes - too right Frankie!!!
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fishsquire ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 6 |
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Y'know, I have no idea.
I can tell you that the last song that did was How It Ends by DeVotchKa |
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Statutory-Mike ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 15 2008 Location: Long Island Status: Offline Points: 3737 |
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"Octavarium" has made me cry, as well as "Trial of Tears", "In the Name of God", and "In the Presence of Enemies"
the first was probably "Octavarium" though.
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