I'm listening to the soundtrack for Miss Saigon, and I keep making it halfway through one song before I just half to skip it and go to the next. It's the song where our lovers are separated, and they are searching for each other. You can the panic and the longing and the desperation in their voices, the chaos is heightening, if they could just talk they'll talk they'll be okay, and they never find each other. Everything else that happens happens because of this failure of a day. I just can't handle it. I make it partway, and then the GI shouts "That's my WIFE out there!", and I have to hit skip.
I love this show. *sniff*
[ February 24, 2005, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: Lady Jane ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
"Butterfly Kisses" Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I agree Icarus. I think "Butterfly Kisses" is the worst song of the 20th century. <insert gagging smiley>
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I agree that it's awful.
But that doesn't stop me from being affected by it.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I don't think I've ever listened to the whole thing.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
"The Sun is Burning", as performed by Kate Wolf on Gold in California. Oh, man. When I was a child, I would run out of the room and cover my head with a pillow because I couldn't deal with it. It's intensely powerful.
Okay, I'm crying now, remembering it.
[ February 24, 2005, 03:02 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Do you mean if we can't bear them because they're bad, or because we're so touched that we cry? Because there are a few songs that make me cry... and I always listen to them. "Moon River"... "All I Ask of You"... those are two examples. I listen to them a ton, but they always have me weeping.
Songs I don't like... well, there are many. Mainly newer pop music stuff. I don't know titles, because I never listen to them long enough to find out.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
B-52’s Love Shack. One of the most annoying songs ever. Most B-52’s songs are, but this one is the worst. How people who sing so bad get a top hit is beyond me.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
WAHHHH! Tears in Heaven ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS makes me cry. Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
There are many songs that make me cry (I cry at Mall Openings too ), but none are coming to mind right now.
I hate it too, because I'll be driving along, feeling fine, minding my own business and all of a sudden I'll be blubbering like a baby. Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
But "Butterfly Kisses" doesn't make me cry, it makes me RETCH!
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
I would have to agree with "Achy Breaky Heart"...then add "The Macarana" and also, "My Heart will go on"...or whatever that Celine Dion song was from Titanic.
Posted by MichelleEly (Member # 6737) on :
I used to work at a store that sold only music boxes. It killed any possible affection that I could ever have for Wing Beneath My WingS, Memory (From Cats), You've Got a Friend, and That's What Friends are For.
Where The Green Grass Grows and a song that's about the small town in MN where I want to live always make me cry. Michelle
[ February 24, 2005, 04:42 PM: Message edited by: MichelleEly ]
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
You mean "Wind beneath my Wings"...right?
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
Asleep by the Smiths. It gives me the creeps. It's so depressing, I can't even listen to it.
~Jane~
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
No, just the one wing.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I dislike that Don't Worry, Be Happy song. It drives me nuts! And there aren't any instruments! Posted by MichelleEly (Member # 6737) on :
Yes, typo ... trust me, if there is one song title I know, it's that unfortunate mess. Michelle
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Well, maui babe, you aren't the father of little girls, now are you?
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
It reminded me far too much of someone I will never see again. Even now when I read the lyrics my heart beats faster and I am inundated with meloncholy.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats. This song grates on me in so many ways. Guaranteed to make me turn off the power.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I hate the B-52s. When I heard that song as a kid, I thought, gee, they must have had friends in high places. I can't stand listening to most Celine Dion songs except for two songs. Her voice is just GRATING. Tori Amos' Me and a Gun hurts too much to listen to. Plus she's singing without a piano. Painful. Some songs by Dir en grey hurt too much to listen to. Amazing Grace also hurts too. There are many others. Coldplay, I hate that guy's high pitched whiny sounding voice. I want to gag him. Lionel Richie. He sucks. Backstreet Boys, Britney, all of those people are lame. Most of the stuff they play at the stupormarket drives me insane.
Posted by MichelleEly (Member # 6737) on :
So what ARE the 2 tolerable Celine Dion songs? Michelle
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I like sappy songs so many of the songs you guys say are grating I like.
"Me and a Gun" is NOT sappy and yes it's hard to listen to.. even though I like a capella
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Falling into You and With this Tear which was written by Prince. Those are the only songs by Celine that don'tsuck and drive me up a tree.
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
Classic songs which have been sped up and set to a modern, hip-hop or dance beat are the SPAWN OF SATAN.
A recent example of this Satanic phenomenon is the bastardized version of "If I Were a Rich Man" which is currently polluting our airwaves. Come ON, people, this is a song meant to be sung by an aging Russian Jew struggling to provide for his wife and three daughters, not a coked-up anorexic "dancer" who dresses like a whore.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Rico Suave by Gerardo. worst. Song. ever.
Posted by HesterGray (Member # 7384) on :
Ditto "Butterfly Kisses." I hate that one. And that Christmas one about the shoes. Do they think that if they just put enough sap into a song that everyone will cry and love it? Maybe I have no heart.
Also, anyone who knows me well knows that all they have to do to get me to leave a room (or run around yelling "NOOOO!!!" with my hands over my ears) is sing the Oompa Loompa song. Ah! Even just typing this is already getting it stuck in my head! I can't stand it!
Posted by MichelleEly (Member # 6737) on :
Rico Suave IS a bad song but I don't think it gets much radio play. Nah, the dangerous songs are the ones that never go away.
You know what was one really crappy song? That one post 9/11 with the woman that Could Not Sing about not realizing she was kissing an angel goodbye. The one that starts with her packing his socks. It still get plays on a local station here. Michelle
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I don't know that I can't listen to them, but I find techno remixes of Enya tunes to be pretty darned funny.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I cannot stand listening to Jimi Hendrix. I know, sacriledge, but there you have it.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
If you want a song to just tear the heart right out of you, I recommend Kilkelly, Ireland. It's so amazingly touching and sad.
[ February 25, 2005, 12:05 AM: Message edited by: MrSquicky ]
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
The theme to Unsolved Mysteries. It makes me irrationally afraid of being abducted by aliens.
Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
In a "good" way,I can't listen to "Daughters" by John Mayer. I love it, but I end up looking at my 4 month old little girl & wondering how bad I can possibly screw her up unintentionally. Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
That is pretty heinous Elizabeth. I come close with my hatred of Roxanne (by the Police). I really like Sting, but that song just sounds to me like someone is slowing squishing his man parts with a vise. Not at all an appealing sound to me....
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: If you want a song to just tear the heart right out of you, I recommend Kilkelly, Ireland. It's so amazingly touching and sad.
I love that song! It makes me cry every time, especially when you hear about how it was written (based on real letters the guy found in an attic, IIRC).
But I listen to it anyway, so it's not one I "can't bear".
[ February 25, 2005, 01:43 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
I LOVE the Moulin Rouge version of Roxanne.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I just dug out the CD with "Kilkelly" on it. His voice is so sorrowful and sweet and tender all at once. I'm not even at the cry-ey part yet, and I'm starting to tear up. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Another tear-jerker I love: "Heart of the Home", by Andy M. Stewart.
[ February 25, 2005, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: Amazing Grace also hurts too.
Syn, why is this? While there are some very painful memories attatched to it for me, I love it.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I actually really like John Mayer's "Daughters". I have 5 daughters myself, but I don't get weepy during that one...
My favorite lines:
Ooh, you see that skin It's the same she's been standing in Since the day she saw him walking away Now she's left cleaning up the mess he made
Usually songs that hit me so personally make me cry, but this one doesn't. I'm not sure why.
[ February 25, 2005, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: maui babe ]
Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
Oh, don't get me wrong. I love it, too. I think I do take it personally though because my father did "walk away" so to speak. I want my baby to grow up with a dad there for her. I think that's why the song hits me so hard. I want everything for her I didn't get. I think I found her the right daddy. Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
Exactly... my both my father and my daughters' father also left...
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
OK, I usually am not a skimmer-poster, but I posted Jimi Hendrix as excruciating to me, not hard to listen to emotionally, which is more what Kat was going for.
Knowing that, one of the most brutal, yet hauntingly beautiful songs I know is "Baltimore Oriole" by Crow Greenspun, about a car accident where he is driving, and his dad dies. The part that gets me the most is when the doctor comes in to tell him and his brother, and starts to cry. Oh, boy.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I don't like "Daughters." For one, it's horribly overplayed. For another, I don't like the double standard it promotes:
quote: Boys, you can break You'll find out how much they can take Boys will be strong And boys soldier on
[And no, before you say it, the next line does not redeerm it for me: apparently, as long as a oy has a lovig mother around, his father can treat him like crap and it's okay. Boys aren't fragile like girls are.]
And there's this little piece:
quote: On behalf of every man Looking out for every girl
I've never liked how we refer to adult males as men and adult females as girls. And no, I don't think he's singing about a child. He seems to me to be singing about a woman still haunted by mistreatment she received as a child.
-o-
I dunno, that song really rubs me wrong.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I love that song, Icky. Seriously, I do.
I had a hard time with Don't take the Girl , because when it came out I had just watched some friends die on the highway, including a cute girl who was the sister of a friend, about 6 years younger than me. She had just asked me to her prom, and I declined because I was in the Army and had no leave left, and no idea where I would end up being stationed.
I was the first person at the scene...it happened right in front of me as I was driving back to the Army. I was an EMT so I stopped...then I saw who it was, and lost it.
That song came out shortly after, and I couldn't listen to it for years without crying.
Also, on a much happier note, True Companion was my wedding song, and I still get a bit misty when I hear it sometimes....I just hide it well. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Amazing Grace is excruciatingly painful.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"I've never liked how we refer to adult males as men and adult females as girls."
I knew I liked you for something other than the other ten thousand things I like you for, Icarus.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I played Amazing Grace for my Granma's funeral, and my mom can't listen to it anymore.
Also, there is a song named Scorn Not His Simplisity by Ronan Tynan that is great, and makes me a bit weak at times...I have worked with special ed kids when I was in school, and my cousin is autistic, so that one means a lot to me.
Posted by MichelleEly (Member # 6737) on :
I feel like a girl. I like girly things. I've got girly looking daisy and kittens stickers all over my laptop.
I am Girl, Hear me Purr! Michelle
[ February 26, 2005, 04:34 AM: Message edited by: MichelleEly ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Bad Little Kitty!!!
Posted by MichelleEly (Member # 6737) on :
I try! Michelle
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: Amazing Grace is excruciatingly painful.
Musically, lyrically, or emotionally?
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
A song that's almost in the same vein as "Daughters", but from a first-person perspective rather than a third-person perspective, is "Father of Mine" by Everclear. I like that one better. It's more heartbreaking and truthful to me.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
All three. Plus I caught it off a friend of mine.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hmmm. I think it's beautiful, especially the lyrics. Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
"I can't fight this feeling any morrrrrrrrrrrrre. I've forgotten what I started fighting forrrrrrrrrr."
I hate that song.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Um, I like Butterfly Kisses and The Christmas Shoes. Yes, I am the sap that they makes those sappy songs for . . .
They're far from the only songs that make me cry. Actually, I've discovered in the past few months something very useful. That it's possible to see (and thus drive) just fine with tears streaming down my face.
quote: A recent example of this Satanic phenomenon is the bastardized version of "If I Were a Rich Man" which is currently polluting our airwaves. Come ON, people, this is a song meant to be sung by an aging Russian Jew struggling to provide for his wife and three daughters, not a coked-up anorexic "dancer" who dresses like a whore.
I so agree. The first time I heard this I listened in horrified fascination. Now I change stations as soon as it starts. It's just SO awful!
quote: I LOVE the Moulin Rouge version of Roxanne.
*nod* Although the Police version not so much.
Don't Take the Girl is another one that makes me cry every time. So is Me and Emily. Actually, country music in general has a high percentage of weepers (hence my recent discovery of my ability to DWC ).
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