Saturday, October 27, 2007

Songs That Make Men Cry
by James Hurley, MSN Music Editor


In the words of the song, big boys don't cry. Nonsense. Of course they do. They just don't want anyone to know about it, particularly when it's at something as ridiculous as a song.

Having said that, when I polled a group of my friends about which tunes had made them blub, one sent me an impressive selection and then insisted none of them had actually moved him to tears.

"What's the point of sending them then?", I asked, to which he replied, "But I'm not normal. I'd probably have cried to all of these if I were. I can sort of get hot and choked and walk faster or something. It's a physiological reaction." So there you go.

Anyway, I have quoted directly from those men brave enough to have admitted crying in the gallery below - but I haven't named them. Let's just say no male pride was hurt in the making of this article.


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24/10/07 08:00 PM Where streets have no name - U2. Cannot tell you why, its the amazing guitar line at the end that makes the hair on my neck stand up on end and blur my eyes.


24/10/07 08:03 PM Musical Blood Brother song "tell me it's not true" , how can you not cry..........


24/10/07 08:15 PM spinning by zero 7- I think music can evoke a range of powerful emotions within us, the woman singing on this track has such a beautiful voice it moves me to tears of utter joy.

24/10/07 08:17 PM "Atmosphere" - Joy Division. No coincidence that Anton Corbijn decided to end the recent Ian Curtis biopic Control with this tearjerker. Also, "Glósóli" by Sigur Rós; an incredible building, soaring track that had its impact heightened by an emotion-raising video.

24/10/07 08:21 PM The living years mike and the mecanics sit,listen,understand

24/10/07 08:23 PM Hurt by Johnny Cash.

It is such a powerful song, lyrically beautiful and you can hear the emotion in Cash's voice. The video is also fabulous. The only song that can make me cry .

24/10/07 08:23 PM Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

24/10/07 08:24 PM 'Shannon,' by Henry Gross in 1976. I mean, c'mon...it's about a dog that loves his family so much that he effectively commits suicide by 'drifting out to sea' after the family (dad's died) falls on hard times and can't afford to take care of it. Whole song is about how the kids are going to tell their mom. I get teary writing about it.

24/10/07 08:27 PM Sorry but no song has every made me cry, but believe me some singing has, in fact it has made me want to die!!!!!

24/10/07 08:28 PM For me, it's got to be Cara Dillon's 'There Were Roses'. It's a poignant and chilling melody about the troubles in Northern Ireland and how it can tear a friendship apart.

Cara's soft voice coupled with the powerful lyrics is a real tear-jerker.

24/10/07 08:29 PM there's a few that bring me close to tears,

Origin of species by U2, happy ending by Mika, and the irish national anthem, being sung at Croke park... its just amazing to experience to view

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written by jia.

  ..so lately i have been in this stay-up-till 7am, ungrammatical, nostalgic, talk to myself. paranoid, insomniac, wide eyed, and a little intense. okie maybe little is an understatement. wish i knew if i wanted stability more than the complete range of emotions and melodrama. if only life could be summarized in one simple word...good or bad. -im too young to be stuck somewhere in the middle, sitting on a fence and whining about it. no, i cant write an intro for myself, hence i ask you to read the damn blog. maybe.. you'll find out more through my posts. n in the meanwhile take a panadol handy.. .

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dynasty -

One crow sorrow
Two crows mirth
Three crows a joining
Four crows a birth
Five crows lucky
Six crows cold
Seven crows a secret
Never to be told

mantra -
 

- Lately...

 When I was a child
a story was told
about the devil
and a girl so bold.
He offered her riches,
a fortune of gold,
and lovers abound.
But she lifted her soul,
she lifted her soul clean.
Like the story was told
on a dark country road
the same man appeared to me...

But I reached, I reached
through the rain to the Devil's feet.

Now twenty years later
to the place I return where I scorned the angels
for a passion that burned.
There set in a tree
a knot twisted and turned,
the face of a creature Hell bound.
So long ago
could my mind've played jokes on me?
As darkness sets in,
unavoidable sin,
the truth I try not to believe....

That I reached, I reached
through the rain to the Devil's feet.

-by Azure Ray

 

ode to meaning..

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One Tree Hill - New Zealand.
Dedicated to Xulfee Bhai, who chose to die in the Summer of 2003 Oct 7.

calm before the storm

_________________

Numb by Linkin Park

And i know
I may end up failing too
But i know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you..
I've become so Numb...I can't feel you there.

moon phase
 

calculated distractions

broken promises ..

said he: tum jaisay doosron say bhaagti ho aur chupati ho .. wohi mere saath bhi kiya....  "  

~*~  current mood ...

                 

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