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Songs that make you shed MAN TEARS?!

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WyrmDL

Feb 15, 2008
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#1
Hey TB,

I love listening to a really nice song that just makes me feel hollow for that moment. Just the feel and mood of it that allows me to drop all thoughts and emotions, and just breathe.

Any songs that make you just want to shed a man tear, or just give you that feeling?

One of my favorites is Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.



Thanks in advance!

-Don
 
#5
I think of "Always With Me, Always With You" From Joe Satriani. My Stepfather had the "Surfing With the Alien cassette about 13 years ago. For some reason, this was the one instrumental that I heard that I actually felt like there was something else coming from the song. I liken it to when my middle school music teacher explained how in classical music they try to tell a story with only the music. I just got that feeling, and I've been totally into music since.
 
#6
im going to interpret "tears" as that weird, roller-coaster feeling in your stomach. if so, i get it on these two "between the buried and me" tracks:

mordecai
selkies

"infected mushroom" tracks:

becoming insane
artillery

"avenged sevenfold" tracks:

darkness surrounding
anything off of any of thier later albums

"tool" tracks:

ticks and leaches
46 and 2
jimmy
third eye

"our lady peace" tracks:

one man army

im sure there are more, but those are the ones that come to mind. i cant listen to those, not once, not twice, not any number of times in a row without raising some hairs...

those are the rock ones... i got more in mind for rock, and even more in other genres. aphex twin makes me crap my pants again and again.
 
#7
Say goodnight - Bullet for my valentine
Fade to black - Metallica

The one that actually brings tears o my eyes is when im next to my mom and Every Breath you take by The Police starts playing, basically because i took my first steps as a baby with that song playing in the background, so it has a really special meaning for her, and looking at hear with tears in her eyes give sme watery eyes. =)

What is really funny is that those first steps where directing me to a beer can that my uncle was holding lololol, not much has changed since=)
 
#10
My Never & 18th Floor Balcony by Blue October
Wasted Years (Piano verson)-Cold
Tiny Vessels-Death Cab For Cuite
Only The Strong (Piano verson)-Flaw
In This River-Black Label Society Specifically the video for this. If you don't at least get choked up (even if you forget that it's based off of Zakk and Dimebag's friendship) you have no heart.
Thank You-Hellyeah
Hurt-Johnny Cash Another video that got me to shed a tear
Zzyzx Rd-Stone Sour
This Is A Call-Thousand Foot Krutch
 
#12
Thanks for the responses! I'll definitely look into these. Another one that I like a lot is Buckethead - Watching the Boats with my Dad. A lot of people know him for his shredding, but this is just another side of his playing, and one that I rather like a lot.

 
#13
There are a few.

When my 19 year old son was 1~2, he had a "crying spell" and would not stop. After 30 minutes of my wife carrying him around trying everything, I took him into my study(spare bedroom of an old farmhouse out here lined with bookshelves and music gear) and put Houston's classical station KUHF on. At that moment, Ralph Vaughan Williams "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" came on. He IMMEDIATELY stopped crying and listened intently.

Almost since then, he can play any instrument he picks up. Everytime I hear it, I think of those moments and his life...

Our band played a wedding and we all knew the Dad and the bride. We played up until the "dances" part and then put on their I-Pod. When the Dad and daughter/bride danced, 4 band members had tears in their eyes as Butterfly Kisses played(we all have daughters).

In May of my son's senior year in HS, his sister(my daughter) made a video using pictures of him and her and both of them at various stages in growing up set over the song "In My Arms" by Plumb . That song still makes me, my wife, and my daughter get "teary" but grateful for the time we have had.

There are others but those stick out in my mind.
 

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