He ain't heavy, he's my brother - the hollies

try a little tenderness



and walkin' on sunshine

van morrison - and it stoned me

don't know why, it's not even sad

simple man, by skynnard
patches, by clarence carter

oh man:
aint it fun - dead boys
my baby's book - real kids
can't keep a good man down - purify bros
thats how strong my love is - otis
how long - mr. airplane man
the whole break up break down lp
hard time killin floor blues - skip james
longing blues - furry lewis
the whole bluff city lp
another girl another planet
astral weeks lp

bessie smith - nobody knows you when you're down and out

she's so fucking badass

The Battle And The Long, Long Ballad Of The Red-Headed Girl - jeffrey evans

The Long, Long Ballad Of The Red-Headed Girl - jeffrey evans
oh yeah, thats a good one

the cold hard facts of life- porter wagoner

someday never comes -ccr

"souvenirs" by john prine

Unsatisfied - Replacements. That song can bring me to tears sometimes.

"All Out of Love"--Air Supply

Some of these don't even make sense. It must be the minor chords.

Feet Start Walking- Doris Duke
True Blue- Madonna
The Wagon- Dinosaur, Jr.
I Dreamed a Dream- Les Miserables Soundtrack
That one hit record by Lisa Loeb they play all the time that says "You say..." all the time
If You Can't Give Me Everything- Reigning Sound
He Stopped Loving Her Today- George Jones
Who Knows Where the Time Goes- Strawbs/Fairport Conv./Sandy Denny
Stolen Cars- Springsteen
Long, Long, Time- Linda Ronstadt

damn, you're open minded as fuck!

Try a little tenderness for sure and
Chiseled in Stone by Vern Gosdin

Dark was the night - Ry Cooder
Le Petit Nicolas - Gabriel Yared
Some of that Neutral Milk Hotel shit, even though I can't work out what he's moping about.
Take A Letter Maria - R.B. Greeves

I have a friend who can't listen to Cats In The Cradle without getting weepy.

The Long, Long Ballad Of The Red-Headed Girl - jeffrey evans
oh yeah, thats a good one

I like "Sandra Lynn's Blues," also.

He Stopped Loving Her Today- George Jones

yup.

someday never comes -ccr
total

Nebraska

cold cold heart

"Goodbye" - Reigning Sound

Statue of a Fool - David Ruffin
Juanita - Burritos
All I Wanna Do - Beach Boys
In a Misty Morning - Gene Clark
Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites
My Love Has Gone - Del Shannon
But Not For Me - Dion & the Belmonts
I Wonder - Pentagons
Sometimes You Just Can't Win - Mouse & the Traps
Since I Heard Your Name - Flamin Groovies

kathleen tv zandt
time after time she bopper
so long marianne l cohen
staags ep
on the dark end of the street mr carr
john the revelator mr house
today jeff air
country death song vi femmes
a change is gonna come mr cooke
i wish it would rain the temptin tempts
ain't nothing like the real thing tammi and marvin

today jeff air

I see your admittedly beautiful s.f. hippie ballad and raise you another:

Someday - Moby Grape

cat stevens - trouble
chris bailey - look at me

Ain't No Mountain High Enough--Gaye and Terrell
(basically anything by those two sends me into tears at some point)
Just My Imagination--Temptations
Telephone Line--ELO
Who Knows Where the Time Goes--fairport conv. (ditto)
I Only Have Eyes for You--Flamingos
Thank You Friends--Big Star/Chilton

that "Peppermint Paddy" (i don't know if that's the name) song that South Filthy does that Jeff Evans sings.
The Searchers-South Filthy ('nother Jeff Evans one)

Walk By Your House-Reigning Sound
Calvary Cross-Richard and Linda Thompson
Hear the Wind-Gene Clark

drowning-reigning sound
less than zero-danzig
i'll take the fall-elo
goddamn the sun-swans
bernadette-four tops

I Only Have Eyes for You--Flamingos

This reminded me of "Lovers Never Say Goodbye."

definitely Try a Little Tenderness. also...

Barstool Blues - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Drowning - Reigning Sound
Bring It on Home to Me - Sam Cooke
Moonlight Mile - Rolling Stones
Sway - Rolling Stones
Messin' with the Kid - Saints (which is practically the same song as Sway)
I Don't Care Anymore - Doris Duke (total bummer)
I've Been Loving You Too Long - Ike & Tina - even the sexy parts
Cause a Scene - Goodnight Loving (!!!!I NEED THIS SONG!!!! record it already)
actually, like 20 Goodnight Loving songs

hey!!

i love that grape song; there's at least 6 thompsons that belong on my list--saispas is the BEST--but i'll see your flamingos and up it with the in the still of the night by 5 satins, and i am the cosmos instaed of of TY friends.

oh cat stevens sad lisa
thanks ottawa

AND
Thirteen
I'm in Love with a Girl
& Way Out West by Big Star.

FUCK

moonlight mile of course

and that fucking tears for fears song in DD by gary jules

CHILLING

and the Cyndi Lauper mention up there reminded me that Prince's When U Were Mine is a sad, sad song. Both his and her versions.

I'm in Love with a Girl

My wife recently heard this for the first time. Now, whenever she hears it once she's gotta hear it 5x.

Yeah, Moonlight Mile and Messin with the Kid...good ones crystal lake!

Even Purple Rain back when it wasn't played to death could send the old throat into choke mode.

i can't remember the name of the song off the top of my head, but off GNL's 1st rec, the line that does it to me every time:

so, i'll sit in my room
and let my records sing my blues
and over time
i'll get over you

and on the live WMSE version, when the back-up vocal comes in, jesus!

What the fuck is the name of this song?

Thirteen

oh yeah!!

1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson

I'll go ahead and add Beeswing to that too.

Left Your Door Unlocked - Harlan T. Bobo

1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson

I'll go ahead and add Beeswing to that too.


those are two of the six!!!

You Tore Me Down... Flamin Groovies or really when anyone does it.

I was once brought to tears by a chicago subway perfromers rendition of cat stevens wide world. It was a bad day. The person I was with was so embarrassed they hid behind a pole and pretended not to know me.

How could I forget "She's Out of My Life" by Michael Jackson. Dude couldn't even sing it without crying.

the Saints - Story of Love

and a whole bunch of cure songs

not because it's sad, but when the chorus comes in on "Mine First" by Vancougar chokes me and Andy up every time...just cos the girls' voices sound so beautiful and it's a kind of round robin type chorus..anyway...

you know how that "one" part in some songs that puts tears in your eyes..like when it kicks in on "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison!

and i remembered the name of that GNL song! Easier than it is!

ok, back toy work!

Walk Away Renee-Left Banke
Don't Make Me Go to Bed And I'll Be Good -Roy Acuff

They Don't Know-Kirsty MacColl
Backstreet Girl -Rolling Stones

Forgot. . .

Life Has Just Begun - Spirit
Ice In Heaven - Grant McLennan
Friends - Small Factory
I'm Not Ashamed - Bobby Bland
Diana - Skip Spence
Grey Skies & Work Things - Lilac Time
Soul Sister - Blue Mountain

jerry mccain - bell in my heart

Joey--Concrete Blonde
Red Rubber Ball--The Cyrkle

Red Rubber Ball--The Cyrkle


noooo! it's a "fuck off and die, bitch!" song!!!

How could I forget "She's Out of My Life" by Michael Jackson.

Totally. I used to cry to "Ben" when I was little.

Oh and the following:

Levon--Mr. Kill the Internets
Someone Saved My Life Tonight--The same

johnny cash - daddy sang bass
some songs might give me goosebumps but that's the only one that actually has made me cry a little. i get a little misty just thinking about it, dammit.

You Are My Sunshine
I Saw the Light
What a Wonderful World
Unchained Melody

'King's Road' - '68 Comeback.

Ruby Tuesday always gets me. and Hurt by Johnny Cash. Im boring but comfortable with it. Oh and Angels Want to Wear my Red Shoes but for personal reasons

Help Me Make it Through the Night and I'd Have To be Crazy - Willie Nelson
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Nothing Can Change the Love I Have For You - S Cooke (my ultimate lovesick ballad since I first needed a lovesick ballad)
Drown Yourself - Staple Singers
Little Boy Blue - Bobby Bland (but I also smile cuz he sound so damn pitiful)

Johnnie Ray - Broken Hearted (he's got a few that do it to me)
Grateful Dead - Black Peter (from Bear's Choice)
Chris Montez - Nature Boy (I'm pretty sure it's his version that particularly gets me.)
Neil Young - Old Country Waltz

"the greatest", cat power
"bottle and hotel room", harlan t. bobo
"woody", hayden
"lilac wine", nina simone
"cowboy song", thin lizzy
"please be patient with me", wilco
"last goodbye", jeff buckley

...and "i'll cry", reigning sound (ahem)

the irony doesnt make it any less true.
the sentiment involved is heavy.

Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes has done it for me too, but damn near anything offa My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces or even Get Happy might make me cry like a baby when combined with other factors...

The Saints are Coming - U2 & Green Day!!!!

Unchained Melody

Who's version? I'm partial to the Silver Fox, Charlie Rich's.

Oh god, and "A Song For You" - Willie, but props to Leon russell too, for writing it.

If I Ruled the World - James Brown (when he launches into it on that '68 live Dallas recording, it gets me every time!)

American Trilogy- Elvis

p.s.



I Believe (When I Fall In Love), Stevie Wonder

William Bell made me cry at the stomp last year singing you don't miss your water. Good morning heartache makes me cry too. I forgot those.

You people are fucking pussies, and I hate all of you.

OV Wright - Everybody Knows

I hate all of you, but The Driver.

And Goner Rhea is pretty o.k., too.

Matthew, via John Denver. But only when Dad sings it. Which he does.

I will go back & read all these posts later, but I've started a series of my own personal compilation CDs based upon the song "Time And Again" by Cheater Slicks.

Who's version? I'm partial to the Silver Fox, Charlie Rich's.

Just the righteous brothers. My dad danced me around on his shoes to that song for a long time.

Wire...that is exactly what happens when my mom sings You Are My Sunshine. Awww...the second verse (which I think is the first verse, trad.) is what really gets the waterworks going for me.

The Battle And The Long, Long Ballad Of The Red-Headed Girl - jeffrey evans

if you can hate me for this one then i don't want to be right

Oh, and Wire and Mullett and bruce are decent. I've never met a Razor A Go Go.

This is the one that did it tonight:
"There's a House in Harlem for Sale" by Ray Condo and the Ricochets

I'm one depressed motherfucker.

Just had another one hit me...
Belles Combo - Show Me the Way

"I'm a stranger. Can you show me the way?
Show me the way lord"

I think out of all Elvis Costello songs, Lipstick Vogue gets me the most.

Who's Gonna Drive You Home-Cars

Dressy-Reigning Sound

YYY-Modern Romance

wait....

Modern Romance-YYY

the river

joni mitchell

You people are fucking pussies, and I hate all of you.

pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

You can pretend, but I know you have a soft spot in there somewhere JackStands

I hate all of you

Fuck you ya stupid pussy. Why don't you start a thread about it? You haven't started one so far. Back to the subject matter.

"Time is Tight"-- Booker T and the MG's

Well it's not some pussy ballad, but the musicianship is so beautiful that the tears well up in my eyes because I'm a really intelligent human being and it's such a wonderful brilliantly executed song.

You can pretend, but I know you have a soft spot in there somewhere JackStands

Robin confessed to me in a personal e-mail that Time after Time from Cyndi Lauper makes him teary eyed every time. He also said he cries whenever he hears Winds of Change from the Scorpions.

Robin confessed to me in a personal e-mail that Time after Time from Cyndi Lauper makes him teary eyed every time.


he would have said it here like this:

"I agree with that dick head fag baker about time after time but i'd rather say: eat a bag of dick"

Robin Pack For President of Tennessee

blue moon- big star
ain't it fun- rocket from the tombs(hearing laughner sing the thing blows the dead boys version out of the water in my opinion)
answering machine, unsatisfied, rock n roll ghost- replacements
pale blue eyes- velvet underground
which will- nick drake
cinderella backstreet- peter laughner
all of astral weeks
you don't want me, trouble, two thieves- compulsive gamblers

Puttin' People on the Moon drive by truckers
my name is andrew david ackles

pale blue eyes- velvet underground
which will- nick drake
cinderella backstreet- peter laughner



i was in a neighbor's basement when i saw laughner do an impromptu pale blue eyes, a la syd barrett. i was 16/17. it seems like yesterday.

Get It While You Can - Howard Tate
Big White Cloud - John Cale
Motion Pictures - Neil Young
Thirteen - Big Star

to name a few - I'm a sensitive motherfucker...

Caetano Veloso's cover of the Beatles' "For No One" is pretty great too...

If I Ruled the World

OK, sappy Mrs. Young gets choked up at the Nas and Lauryn Hill song by this name; not so much crying, but feeling DEEP.

I Dream a Highway- Gillian Welch
The Butcher- Leonard Cohen
Two Thieves- Compulsive Gamblers
Edit the Sad Parts- Modest Mouse
While My Guitar Gently Weeps- The Beatles
Reckless Life- GnR
Little Triggers- Elvis Costello
Heart of Chrome- Reatards
Black Sheep Boy-Okkervil River
and a whole host of other shit that i could go on about but then i might start to cry

"Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World" by Iz, everytime I listen to it, except when I hear it in commercials.

i was in a neighbor's basement when i saw laughner do an impromptu pale blue eyes, a la syd barrett. i was 16/17. it seems like yesterday.

christ, that would've made my life.

he and Charlotte were tight with the neighbors--it was the akron band tin huey--and we'd all go the the flats and watch pere ubu play on thursdays for 20 people. chrissie and jarmusch and lux were gone but west akron was still home to devo , chi pig, bizarros, rubber city rebels, butler from waitresses, and in a few years human switchboard was running a record store in kent. peter loved william carlos williams more than lou reed, if that is even imaginable.

damn, peter is the only other one that gets tears out of me. i'm not talking about choking up bit tears, laughner and evans

Shit I don't know - some Jenny Jeans song Windy gets flustered over. Scott??

Trust me. I'm a fag.

American Trilogy- Elvis

this was recently performed in its entirety at the stork club in oakland by an assembled band of bay area folks from harold ray, comets on fire, red meat killer;s kiss and drunk horse.

PINK FLOYD--Wish You Were Here
BILLY JOEL--Goodnight Saigon
GLEN CAMPBELL--Wichita Lineman & By The Time I Get To Phoenix

-Ryan

four green fields

the Troubles!

reconsider me - warren zevon

Weary Blues From Waitin'-Hank Williams

BILLY JOEL--Goodnight Saigon
definately!

but You are my sunshine makes me want to rage.

Caetano Veloso's cover of the Beatles' "For No One" is pretty great too...


i'd love to hear this. i got a version of "tomorrow never knows" by morgana king. niiiiice...

At My Window Sad and Lonely -- Woody Guthrie/Wilco
California Stars -- same (probably more 'cause it elicits that "feeling" Stephanie refers to above)

Actually, since I'm listening to the Mermaid Avenue sessions right now for the first time in a long time, I'm reminded that it's a pretty flawless and reverent collection all around.

Television Personalities - pretty much everything? I don't know, I'm new to this stuff (started with "My Dark Places) but the records I've spent time with are deep and soulful, and yes, do indeed choke me up.

i'd love to hear this. i got a version of "tomorrow never knows" by morgana king. niiiiice...


it's on his "Qualquer Coisa" lp from 1975....an awesome record!

Dusty Groove had it last time I was there (on CD)...

Actually, since I'm listening to the Mermaid Avenue sessions right now for the first time in a long time, I'm reminded that it's a pretty flawless and reverent collection all around.

yeah. it makes me despise jeff tweedy less, too

yeah. it makes me despise jeff tweedy less, too




not me.

yeah. it makes me despise jeff tweedy less, too

Always thought dude sounded like Jerry Garcia, vocally. FWIW.

Thirteen - Big Star

Yup. Every. Single. Time.

That, and God Only Knows - Beach Boys

God Only Knows - Beach Boys


and caroline, no

and yoakum's version of witchita lineman

yeah. it makes me despise jeff tweedy less, too




not me.

i'm not saying i like him! i'm just saying that the hate meter is like at 99.99% rather than 100% ONLY because he may have introduced woody guthrie to people who may not have bothered to listen to anything beyond "this land is your land."

let's get drunk bill and i'll tell you TONS more about why *i* hate tweedy.

yeah. it makes me despise jeff tweedy less, too




not me.

i'm not saying i like him!

zuh! i saw him in january at germantown performing arts for a solo show. it was pretty good/fun.

...although, i was in good company who drank a lot of wine that nite.

a lot of the above...
Did anyone mention San Francisco Mabel Joy?

In Spite of Me - Morphine

And y'all are all entitled to your opinions re: Jeff Tweedy/Wilco. I can take it! I'm gonna go ahead and add them in either the thread about bands "only you like" or bands "other Goners would make fun of you for."

California Stars -- same (probably more 'cause it elicits that "feeling" Stephanie refers to above)

i love this song. :)

Thirteen - Big Star

yup.

also:

al green - for the good times
elliott smith - needle in the hay

there are more i'm sure and i am too tired to think.

Oh, yeah, a fiend for Morphine here.
Last night I told a stranger all about you
Loving Candy and Hanging on a Curtain, too.

Oh, yeah, a fiend for Morphine here.
Last night I told a stranger all about you

... They smiled patiently with disbelief
So fucking beautifully sad on many levels.

Take #52- John Doe

True love will find you in the end, Daniel Johnston.

The King Brothers vesion of "Suspicious Minds" on that Bulb single

yeah. it makes me despise jeff tweedy less, too

he's ok if you're down with all the pills and retardation, and the cheating on his wife and buying his girlfriends apartments in TX.

he's ok if you're down with all the pills and retardation, and the cheating on his wife and buying his girlfriends apartments in TX.


well, that part about texas really riles me up

anyways--i love uncle tupelo's first 4 lps and although i think farrar's stuff on no depression is the winner much much cred goes to tweedy

it only took 4 friggin posts for someone to mention "patches".

but it's the jerry reed version that gets me.

*sniff*

Thirteen-Big Star

God Only Knows - Beach Boys

yeah! and I'm not much of a Brian Wilson fan.

avoiding blues and soul 45s...

Keith Richards' version of Donnie Fritts' "We Had It All"
Tony Joe White's "Rainy Night in Georgia"
Elvis Presley "Cold Kentucky Rain"
Townes Van Zandt "Flying Shoes"
Television "Adventure" (a writer friend of mine turned me on to this previously unreleased song...the coda gets me time)

and I'm not much of a Brian Wilson fan.

yeah, but Carl sings it!

some more:
I'll Know-Fiona Apple
Fistful of Love-Antony and the Johnsons
Twice as Deep-Greg Oblivian & the Tip-Tops

and second Windy's call on Don't Miss Your Water by William Bell (but i wasn't foruntate enough to see it live!!)

yeah, but Carl sings it!

there ya go, what do I know!

13th Floor Elevators cover of "Baby Blue"....SO awesome...I like it better than the original...

And y'all are all entitled to your opinions re: Jeff Tweedy/Wilco. I can take it! I'm gonna go ahead and add them in either the thread about bands "only you like" or bands "other Goners would make fun of you for."

I live in Chicago, where Jeff Tweedy could fart into a mic for 45 minutes & critics/fans here would cream their pants over it...I'm done with this guy...

13th Floor Elevators cover of "Baby Blue"....SO awesome...I like it better than the original...

I agree.

Did anyone mention San Francisco Mabel Joy?

Is that Mickey Newbury? damn, I think I have that somewhere around here.

Waltz across Texas-Ernest Tubbs version
I'm with you on the elevators cover of Baby blue.
I learned how to play the long ballad of the red headed girl when we had the cc riders and it chokes me up just sitting down and pickin it! The song that is...

Did anyone mention San Francisco Mabel Joy?

Is that Mickey Newbury? damn, I think I have that somewhere around here.

Why yes, Driver. Should have known you'd know it.
I saw Mickey Newbury at the P&H in 2001, not too long before he died. It was one of the most memorable music nights I ever had. It was surreal as all hell. He was down and out, and incredibly awesome.

Here's a good bio:
http://www.mickeynewbury.com/bio.htm

I've been wanting to respond properly to this thread, but you guys have a LOT of the ones on my (long) list. Plus, it may be hormonal, but lots of songs choke me up. I mean, LOTS. But, my list has tons of repeats from above.

try a little tenderness
van morrison - and it stoned me
patches, by clarence carter
"souvenirs" by john prine
Long, Long, Time- Linda Ronstadt
Take A Letter Maria - R.B. Greeves
that State Trooper song by Springsteen -
on the dark end of the street
i wish it would rain the temptin tempts
ain't nothing like the real thing
cat stevens - trouble
And other songs on Mona Bone Jakon
Amoreena - Elton John
oh cat stevens sad lisa
Nothing Compares to U - Sinead O'Connor via Prince
Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes has done it for me too, but damn near anything offa My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces or even Get Happy might make me cry like a baby when combined with other factors...
Most especially, Allison
the river
joni mitchell
Also, Played Real Good for Free
Elvis - Kentucky Rain, In the Ghetto, I Was the One (my favorite Elvis song)
Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan or Dan Bern
Chelsea Hotel - Dan Bern
One More Light - Dan Bern
Anchorage - Michelle Shocked
A Murder of One - Counting Crows
the aforementioned San Francisco Mabel Joy
ABC - Jackson 5 (for personal reasons, not content)
Any Other Way - Johnny Singer
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen


I know, I'm a pop music fag.

The Night Watch by King Crimson

take a letter maria????

i know! what?

here's some:

GEE BEES Yeah I Wanna Know (wes rules! trombone destroys!)
DAN JOHNSTON True Love Will Find You In the End (not a gay anthem!)
FREDA PAYNE Band Of Gold (is this clarence reid? i forget! awesome!)
BUTTHOLE SURFERS Graveyard (beautiful)
RAMONES Locket Love (hang on, a little bit longer...)
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS intro to Jane Scott & version of "Ain't It Fun" from Jack Slack bootleg... (chills!)
BOYS NEXT DOOR Shivers

and some from some friends...
REIGNING SOUND Drowning
TEARJERKERS Flashcube
JAY REATARD Fading All Away
SHELBY BRYANT Wedding (D Johnston again!)

I'll give it up to Elvis for Kentucky Rain when it hits right, too. whoah.

Time has Told Me, particularly the song, but generally the whole album

Tearjerkers, for various reasons...

"All the Wrong People Are Dying" - The Styrenes (w/ Mike Hudson)
"Angela" - The Pagans
"Late Night" - Syd Barrett
"Weighted Down" - Skip Spence
"T.O.M. (The Old Man) - Lee Hazlewood
"My Autumn's Done Come" - Lee Hazlewood
-actually pretty much anything by Lee Hazlewood this past week, what with him dying and all!
"Man in Black" - Johnny Cash
"Death is Hanging Over Me" - Nikki Sudden
"Winona" - Pink Reason
"Splash I" - 13th Floor Elevators
"Starry Eyes" - Roky Erickson
"Mongoloid" - Devo
"So Happy Together" - The Turtles
"Boris the Spider" - The Who (one of my late father's favorite songs...)

lots more... I'm an emotional guy...

About 75% of the George Jones catalog

Little Green Apples- Roger Miller
La Resa Dei Conti- Ennio Morricone
Baby Blue- Badfinger
April -The Hentchmen
Playing on my Heart Strings- Jim Lauderdale
What a wonderful World- Joey Ramone version
Sleepwalk- Santo and Johnny
Your Husband, My Wife- Bobby Bare and Skeeter Davis
If that aint country- David Allen Coe
The way I feel Inside- The Zombies

The way I feel Inside- The Zombies

oh, that's a good one.

I realized yesterday that "I Wish I Was Your Mother" by Mott the Hoople belongs on this list bigtime.

"I Wish I Was Your Mother" by Mott the Hoople

That song always makes me think of Kate Hudson in Almost Famous and then I barf.

RAMONES Locket Love (hang on, a little bit longer...)

Bonzo goes to Bitburg does it to me every time!! My brain is hanging upside down...whoaah...

"I Had to tell you"-13th Floor Elevators

That song always makes me think of Kate Hudson in Almost Famous and then I barf.

Wait, maybe I'm thinking of "Alice".

"Whipping Post" live has that one Duane solo, gets real slow in the middle, that just
tears
me
up

Sonic's "Goin' Bye" does it, which is probably why Mrs. Smith nicked the riff, which she then had the audacity to call "Frederick"

Elvis for Kentucky Rain when it hits
that too, strangely NOT "Don't Cry Daddy" or "You Gave Me a Mountain". E.'s version of "Goodtime Charlie..." can do it tho.


Also, "Africa Remembers" by Youssou N'dour is pretty powerful stuff, once you've read the translated lyrics

RAMONES Locket Love (hang on, a little bit longer...)

hang on, you're a... wait a minute!

YEAH I WANNA KNOW worked on me again!

then we put on some killa grindcore and wiped out the entire block.

HOLY SHIT


the constipation blues!!!!!!

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?! (WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO! WHO!)
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?! (WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO! WHO!)

let me explain how the Baha Men's "who let the dogs out" chokes me up. sometimes, when my lady is wearing a leather dominatrix outfit and walking me with a leash and chain, she'll sing the "who let the dogs out" part and I'll respond with the barking chorus, but then she'll yank my choke chain and I'll get all choked up.

p.s. I'm going back to the bar.

more bar! all the time!

Raise the bar.

no.no.no lower the bar

too old for you - jack obliv
in love with a girl - big star
kassie jones - furry lewis
since i've laid my burden down - john hurt
waiting for the day - beach boys

sry about my interminable addendum to this topic but i have seen satch without a shirt and i have been blubbering ever since--i have been in a fragile state for 25 years as it is

i just heard abraham martin and john by dion and smokey's version chokes me, and then i thought of phil ochs and his stuff from the harbor days chokes me, and then i thought about tim harden and that baltimore song kills me. someone mentioned visions of johanna: yesh:that will do it for me as well

congrats to millionaires

13th Floor Elevators cover of "Baby Blue"....SO awesome...I like it better than the original...

i'd argue the Chocolate Watchband version is even better!!

DARK GLOBE-SYD BARRETT
Pretty much the whole Mad Cap Laughs album is really somber, but this one track in particular he just sounds totally exposed. Listening to this song, and realizing how fragile he was when he wrote it...it just makes me so sad.

Beach Boys-"Please Let Me Wonder"
OUCH.

Remember by Harry Nilsson....gets me everytime

that one by ian mackaye about how he died

STARRY EYES is right!

ROKY!

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Partin

grown on me - mr. airplane man

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?! (WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO! WHO!)

COTTON CANDY SWEET AS GOLD
LET ME SEE THAT TOOTSIE ROLL




LET ME RIDE THAT DUNKY DUNKY
LET ME RIDE THAT DUNKY DUNKY

"The Great Compromise" - John Prine

jerry mccain - bell in my heart

Best answer!

astral weeks has been doin it for me lately
death of a clown- kinks
so long old friend - red rockets

Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross

It doesn't choke me up, but I've been mesmerized by "I Only Have Eyes For You" by the Flamingos for most of the day.

Hall of Mirrors-Kraftwerk...gets me every time.

zombies, when i loved her

Cottons Mama~Newcastle Blues! gets me everytime..

13th Floor Elevators cover of "Baby Blue"....SO awesome...I like it better than the original...

i'd argue the Chocolate Watchband version is even better!!


I gotta go with the Van Morrison version.
and while we're on it, have listened to "Veedon Fleece" lp 3 times in a row lately and gotten choked up every time

Here Comes the Regular - Replacements
Indiana Girls - Eric & the Happy Thoughts
Common At Noon - Real Kids
Holocaust - Big Star
Red Headed Stranger LP - Willie Nelson
Here Comes the Night - Them
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

Shit I don't know - some Jenny Jeans song Windy gets flustered over. Scott??

I didn't know there was a Jenny Jeans song she got flustered over. The Reason? Windy??

You can pretend, but I know you have a soft spot in there somewhere JackStands

It's on top of his head.

It was a brand new love affairs song

Most romantic tune: "When You Smile" by Dream Syndicate

Heartbreaking LP: Lee Hazlewood's Love and Other Crimes, which doesn't make much sense because in some ways it's far less personal than his other recs. I dunno. Reasonable answer is likely Requiem for an Almost Lady but it's too heavy-handed or something. Anyway, I always think of Leo Cohen as a pretender to this kinda throne, and any time I'm tempted to listen to him, which is almost never, I throw on Lee instead.

Skip Spence. And yeah, Syd.

I really like Modern English's After the Snow. LP and song. Yep.

JAMC lyrically and musically. Of course. Lots of other twee shit. Chills' "Pink Frost." And Gordons' "Coalminer's Song." Guitar is tantamount to a shaking death rattle on that one. Sounds like a close relative kicking the bucket.

I always go back to the same sadsack songs!

Forgot Byrds' "Here Without You." Haunting harmonies, killer arrangement, total package.

The New Haunted George brought a tear to my eye 2day!

It was a brand new love affairs song

How'd it go?

13th Floor Elevators cover of "Baby Blue"....SO awesome...I like it better than the original...

i'd argue the Chocolate Watchband version is even better!!

I gotta go with the Van Morrison version.
Hmmm, the 13th Floor Elevator's version reminds me of Michio Kadotani.
This version is nice
Though my favourite version is by Bob Dylan and also the rendition that Damon & Naomi & Batoh & Kurihara did.

red rockets
you can't pick your own band. that is cheating.

Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks for me

How'd it go?

I can't remember the words. It was one I had only heard acoustic before BNLA played it.

Careless Love - Snooks Eaglin

...try not to slit your wrists.

I don't get choked up by nothing but I was in Stop and Shop yesterday and they were playing some sad song by Green Day about waking him up after September ends or something. It sounded like 16 Blue by The Replacements only sung by some guy who looks like Eric Pastlame.

Eleanore Rigby-The Beatles
A Change is Gonna Come- Sam Cook
Samson-Regina SpektoThe Greatest Thing-Roy Berry
How to Disappear Completely & True Love Waits-Radiohead
These Days-Nico
Gut Feeling-Devo
I hate myself for loving you-Joan Jett
Glorybox-Portihead

Oops!
That's supposed to be...
Samson-Regina Spektor
The Greatest Thing-Roy Berry

"she once lived here"

Gram Parsons & the Flying Burrito Bros.


or George Jones are both great

I Love You - Climax Blues Band