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undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 8:30 AM

so last night i downloaded this joanna newsom live recording from a couple years back and listening to it really brought on the waterworks, so i wanted to see what else touched folks tender hearts.


burning_monk
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March 16th, 2008 - 8:40 AM

i am all man and don't even know what a tender heart is


BUT if i were to have a tender heart then Cat Power's Good Woman would churn up some heartache like whoa

and reading certain pablo neruda poems would also fuck up that tender heart real good

if i had one i mean


undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 8:45 AM

burning_monk Said:
and reading certain pablo neruda poems would also fuck up that tender heart real good

if i had one i mean


poetry doesn't really make me emotional. fiction will, though. fitzgerald, richard yates, and philip k dick all do a good job at the right moment of weakness.


robotsonbabylon
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March 16th, 2008 - 9:21 AM

nina nastasia is pretty good in that area


gravytrain009
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March 16th, 2008 - 9:33 AM

If I am in one of those rare moods, it can be pretty much anything but the Stooges. I could listen to Raw Power in the middle of an emotional apocalypse and it would bring back all the steely reserve and such.

There's plenty of music that has questionable memories attached for me (Belle & Sebastian's entire catalog is a source of melancholy both by nature of the music and by association with certain people), but I also have some serious wtf moments with songs out of nowhere. I can't even remember what was going on at the time, but about a week ago, "Outdoor Miner" by Wire set me off with a vengeance.


undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 9:37 AM

gravytrain009 Said:
I can't even remember what was going on at the time, but about a week ago, "Outdoor Miner" by Wire set me off with a vengeance.


wow, wire? that's crazy. with me it's always pretty typical stuff, like joni mitchell or something.


symphony
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March 16th, 2008 - 9:41 AM

sometimes i feel like i need to cry and the tears don't come
listening to trespassers william usually helps


gravytrain009
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March 16th, 2008 - 10:03 AM

My usual sulk music is high school throwbacks like the Smiths and Radiohead, but sometimes I pull stuff out of left field. I had this failure of a job-hunting day a few weeks ago where I ended up wandering around lost in this really pretentious mall listening to the first three albums by the Clash and having an implosive emotional meltdown.


ghostandshadows
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March 16th, 2008 - 10:11 AM

i like music that makes me happy
not into angsty stuff


undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 10:22 AM

ghostandshadows Said:
i like music that makes me happy
not into angsty stuff


hmm well i guess i missed the memo on squelching emotions.

gravytrain009 Said:
My usual sulk music is high school throwbacks like the Smiths and Radiohead, but sometimes I pull stuff out of left field. I had this failure of a job-hunting day a few weeks ago where I ended up wandering around lost in this really pretentious mall listening to the first three albums by the Clash and having an implosive emotional meltdown.


that is out of left field but i understand it. usually it's just shit i haven't heard in ages that when you hear it all of a sudden it just hits you in the gut. i was really into the weakerthans when i was sixteen, so a few months ago i randomly put on their record and felt the weird upsurge of teenageryness all over again.


Shame

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March 16th, 2008 - 10:28 AM

cat power can do it for me, so does joanna newsom... but all time, no matter where i am - gonna get weepy is landslide - fleetwood mac. i feel like such an asshole for saying that...


Shame

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March 16th, 2008 - 10:30 AM

teenageryness - thats one for webster


ghostsandvodka
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March 16th, 2008 - 10:33 AM

two headed boy pt. 2 by neutral milk hotel gets me a bit misty eyed


undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 10:49 AM

Shame Said:
cat power can do it for me, so does joanna newsom... but all time, no matter where i am - gonna get weepy is landslide - fleetwood mac. i feel like such an asshole for saying that...


fleetwood mac can be really really amazing, once you get past feeling like you're in you're forties for enjoying them.


burning_monk
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March 16th, 2008 - 11:13 AM

undeniably Said:
Shame Said:
cat power can do it for me, so does joanna newsom... but all time, no matter where i am - gonna get weepy is landslide - fleetwood mac. i feel like such an asshole for saying that...


fleetwood mac can be really really amazing, once you get past feeling like you're in you're forties for enjoying them.



holy shit i heard fleetwood mac at the gym and was like "oooooh yeah the rumors album can get me good sometimes. i need to post that."

lol

also, re:pablo neruda, there are like 4 of his poems that currently get me down.


Shame

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March 16th, 2008 - 11:21 AM

burning_monk Said:
undeniably Said:
Shame Said:
cat power can do it for me, so does joanna newsom... but all time, no matter where i am - gonna get weepy is landslide - fleetwood mac. i feel like such an asshole for saying that...


fleetwood mac can be really really amazing, once you get past feeling like you're in you're forties for enjoying them.



holy shit i heard fleetwood mac at the gym and was like "oooooh yeah the rumors album can get me good sometimes. i need to post that."

lol

also, re:pablo neruda, there are like 4 of his poems that currently get me down.
due

dude yes. how serendipitous... bukowski gets me down in a "gonna drink too much, wish i could fuck girls like a man does, maybe spend money on drugs that i will never touch" kinda way. a bad way you could say....


elizaelectric
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March 16th, 2008 - 11:32 AM

Neutral Milk Hotel's cover of Phil Spector's "I love how you love me"

and for poetry, "Song of the Wandering Angus" by William Butler Yeats is very touching


undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 11:37 AM

elizaelectric Said:
Neutral Milk Hotel's cover of Phil Spector's "I love how you love me"

and for poetry, "Song of the Wandering Angus" by William Butler Yeats is very touching


yes, that's quite nice. from the live at jittery joes disc? i'm a big fan of yeats, too, though i don't know if i remember that one. "when you are old" is quite lovely, too.


Shame

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March 16th, 2008 - 11:38 AM

ok "one" covered by Johnny Cash breaks my heart... i love how this turned into poetry too.


gravytrain009
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March 16th, 2008 - 11:44 AM

I put on Suede just now and "Animal Nitrate" is killing the afterglow of last night. I can be really good at picking just the right downer for any given situation of positive potential.


elizaelectric
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March 16th, 2008 - 11:59 AM

undeniably Said:
elizaelectric Said:
Neutral Milk Hotel's cover of Phil Spector's "I love how you love me"

and for poetry, "Song of the Wandering Angus" by William Butler Yeats is very touching


yes, that's quite nice. from the live at jittery joes disc? i'm a big fan of yeats, too, though i don't know if i remember that one. "when you are old" is quite lovely, too.

yeah, live from jittery joes.
it has some personal reference but even before that it broke my heart.

Song of the Wandering Angus


elizaelectric
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:03 PM

I know this is very stereotypical but listening to Elliott Smith's "Coming up Roses" makes me wistful.


symphony
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:07 PM




symphony
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:09 PM

also his album "i see a darkness"


robotsonbabylon
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:13 PM

holy shit, will oldham is so good and so depressing. i have i see a darkness on vinyl. and yes on neutral milk hotel as well.


robotsonbabylon
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:21 PM

and this is what i am talking about ... i think jim white a brilliant drummer


crumbs
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March 16th, 2008 - 12:50 PM

i approve of nearly all of the responses in this thread and would like to add, a few otis redding tracks, i will be there when you die by my morning jacket, 12/26 by kimya dawson, and for poetry some rumi does the trick.


burning_monk Said:
also, re:pablo neruda, there are like 4 of his poems that currently get me down.

YES =(


undeniably
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March 16th, 2008 - 3:40 PM

elizaelectric Said:
I know this is very stereotypical but listening to Elliott Smith's "Coming up Roses" makes me wistful.


almost all of elliott smith, if the timing's right-- though i don't know if it makes me weepy. just sad and detached.


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