Guest SP-1 Report post Posted March 2, 2003 What songs really just inspire you? Whatever genre, doesn't matter. What songs can actually elicit a straight up markout from you? Make you cry? Anything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest treble charged Report post Posted March 2, 2003 I personally have never been brought to tears by a song, but hearing a treble charger song on the radio always causes me to raise the volume. Even tonight, when before the Leafs game one of their songs was playing in the arena (which, to me, guaranteed their victory) I turned to volume up on the TV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CoreyLazarus416 Report post Posted March 2, 2003 Only four songs have ever induced tears, but they were more due to the situation than the actual song. And those songs are: Shadows Fall - "To Ashes" (helped me get over both Jeff and Timmay dying) Insane Clown Posse - "Pass Me By" (same) Gary Jules - "Mad World" (I first heard this song at the end of Donnie Darko, which was a movie I watched the day I heard that Jeff died) Marilyn Manson - "Coma White" (Timmay died of an OD) Fuck, I'm tearing up just remembering lines from the songs... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Eyeball Kid Report post Posted March 2, 2003 Aimee Mann's "Save Me," for both its use in the film Magnolia and for personal reasons, always gets to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Edwin MacPhisto Report post Posted March 2, 2003 U2's "All I Want Is You" always gets me, mostly because I associate it with an old flame. Sarah McLachlan's "Full Of Grace," shloppy as it may be, always hits me because of that Buffy episode it concludes. "Golden Slumbers" by the Beatles always gives me that chill up the spine too, as does almost anything off of Tool's Lateralus. Especially the transition from "Parabol" to "Parabola," though. Best live show moment ever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest cartman Report post Posted March 2, 2003 The more you talk about ur musical taste, Corey, the more I like you. That Gary Jules song from Darko is really good. Shadows Fall...I admit, has grown on me greatly. I would just LOVE to hear them cover a couple of old Metallica songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Metal Maniac Report post Posted March 2, 2003 There was a time when I literally couldn't listen to Metallica's "The Outlaw Torn", for personal reasons. Well, I suppose I could've, but I didn't wanna... A few Iron Maiden songs (Alexander the Great and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son come to mind) have been known to literally send chills down my spine. Not that I feel any personal attachment to the lyrics or anything...it's just that they're such great songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted March 3, 2003 I've never teared up over a song, but I get inspiration to play music, do stuff, whatever from a few bands. Namely Black Sabbath, Clutch, Acid Bath, Cryptopsy, and Slayer. Mix those five bands together, and that's the sound I shoot for when writing music. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest notJames Report post Posted March 3, 2003 Any kind of hardcore punk rallying cry song like: "New Direction" - Gorilla Biscuits "Badge of Pride" - Pennywise "The Gauntlet" - Dropkick Murphys On the softer side, I'm a big pussy when it comes to old-timey romantic songs, from Cole Porter to Frank Sinatra to Johnny Mathis. And I'm a sucker for soulful female singers like Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan. For pure drama from bell to bell, just put in any Tool album. I can totally lose myself just listening to them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Youth N Asia Report post Posted March 3, 2003 "Baba O'Riley" by The Who Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zorin Industries 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2003 Love will tear us apart by Joy Divison gets me every time. Into my arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as well, theres times I can hardly bear to listen to this song cause I know i'll tear up Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted March 4, 2003 i second 'golden slumbers'. that melody is so gorgeous, & the lyrics are so sad, it just washes over me. ditto for 'carry that weight', when the melody of 'you never give me your money' is repeated and everything starts to come together. it has this amazing emotional punch that the finale of 'the end' just doesn't have. i wouldn't exactly call 'pagan poetry' by bjork a "dramatic" song, but the fluidity in the rhythm & in the way the song builds have an incredible effect on me. maybe not a huge emotional effect, but a big aesthetic one. tori amos is big on melodrama & being all operatic and stuff, and 'hey anastasia' is the most extreme example of that (and probably the most ambitious thing she's ever done). she strings together all these elements that make no sense at all into a little symphony until tori's all like "we'll seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and you're all like "holy shit i can't move cause the power of this music has reduced me to a puddle in my chair" and tori's all like "we'll see how brave you are" and you can't breathe & shit. sarah mclachlan's got 2 big songs that get me every time. 'hold on', for the lyrics and subject matter (and the PERFECT delivery), used to bring me to tears every single time i listened to it. no other song ever did that. 'fumbling towards ecstasy' is kind of its opposite, soothing and reassuring and so ethereal you could float away on it. that song is complete and total serenity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Spicy McHaggis Report post Posted March 4, 2003 More DMB... For just plain inspiration: "#41" For good ol' anger: "Halloween" The cover of "All Along The Watchtower" is always dramatic as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Spicy McHaggis Report post Posted March 4, 2003 "The Gauntlet" - Dropkick Murphys This song kicks major ass... the whole album brings the badassitude. Of course its best song has to be "The Spicy McHaggis Jig". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Michael Joel Benoit Report post Posted March 5, 2003 "Get What You Give" by the New Radicals always makes me teary eye because I always associate it with the best year of my life, 1999. It was all around a great time and I haven't reached that happiness I felt back than since. Other songs that remind me of 1999 include Robbie Williams "Milleuimium", Will Smith "Miami" and "Just The Two Of Us", and Smashmouth "All-Star". I also get nostalgic when I heard "In Tha Wind" by Trick Daddy and "Tell Me" because it reminds me of my incredible trip to Florida last year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kinetic Report post Posted March 5, 2003 The only songs that have ever made me cry are "Oh Yoko" by John Lennon and, of course, "Charlie Brown Christmas." The crying had something to do with the visual stimulus from the respective Wes Anderson films the songs are featured in, but I seriously get choked up any time I hear "Charlie Brown Christmas" these days. It's a repressed childhood memory thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest whatitistoburn Report post Posted March 6, 2003 Songs that get me close to tears: From Autumn To Ashes "Short Stories with Tragic Endings" - Just an amazing peice of work. Glassjaw "Siberian Kiss" - Reminds me of my exgirlfriend. ICP "Pass Me By" - I can't really explain why, it just registers with me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Crux Report post Posted March 7, 2003 GNR's "November Rain" always strikes an emotional cord with me... and "Beauty Fiend" by My Ruin never fails to make me psycho. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest snuffbox Report post Posted March 7, 2003 Our Lady Peace - Life Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday, Freebird Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light Counting Crows - Long December Phish -Farmhouse Sublime - Many many songs Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight AiC - No Excuses Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moral suasion 0 Report post Posted March 7, 2003 Gotta agree and say "Baba O'Riely" by The Who Also "The Decline" by NOFX "Christmas in Sarevejo" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest saturnmark4life Report post Posted March 7, 2003 A fucking SHITLOAD of smiths songs, duh. 'I Get Wet' comes close to making me cry, especially the title track and 'Got to do it'. 'country feedback' by REM hits me as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Stennick Report post Posted March 7, 2003 I keep hearing about songs that made people cry and I have one myself, but what about anger, guilt what about those emotions? Sadness isn't the only emotion that songs evoke, infact its probablly the emotion that the least amount of songs hit. I'm not that big of a fan of country music but there is this song by Blake Shelton called "baby" its about a mother who always looks at her youngest son as her baby througout his whole life, until he gets a call that she wants him at her bedside because she's passing away, he realizes that the woman who always though of him has her "little boy" is gone. My grandma just passed away and it was the EXACT same way for me and her so I can't listen to the song without crying. She's been gone since November and I'm still not over her death. Anyway what about other e motions? Anger, Hate, guilt, etc. Lata All, Stennick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Banky Report post Posted March 7, 2003 Sublime - Pool Shark Johnny Cash - Hurt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CanadianChick Report post Posted March 7, 2003 I'll Be Missing You-Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans Adams Song-Blink 182 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Austin3164life Report post Posted March 7, 2003 The Wall by Pink Floyd. Really hits a nerve speaking about educational rebellion. Great music, great lyrics. The End by The Doors. Morrison's Oedipal Epic. I can always listen to it and understand where he is coming from. Watching them play it live is even something else on tape. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bob_barron Report post Posted March 7, 2003 U2's 'Walk On' and 'New York' sometimes get my emotions running. One time I was writing about leaving New York and moving to Toronto and I was listening to 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' and almost started to cry Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lord of The Curry Report post Posted March 7, 2003 - There is a light that never goes out by The Smiths - Me and a gun by Tori Amos - One by U2 - Annas Song by Silverchair Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SP-1 Report post Posted March 7, 2003 From Autumn To Ashes "Short Stories with Tragic Endings" - Just an amazing peice of work. I cannot agree more. It's my entrance theme in the OAOAST as a matter of fact. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest welshjerichomark Report post Posted March 7, 2003 pathetic as it is, i've been driven to tears by: westlife - fool again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Superstar Report post Posted March 8, 2003 From Autumn To Ashes "Short Stories with Tragic Endings" - Just an amazing peice of work. That's the first song that came to mind when I read this thread. It is amazing. "Dream On" by Aerosmith is up there too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
