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Music to Cry For

From what i can gather (which is very likely to be incorrect lol) music with RAW emotion?
for me may favorites for songs like that are
Beartooth: sick and disgusting
Defeater: Cowardice
La Dispute: a letter
La Dispute: a Broken jar
Glassjaw: siberian kiss
Just Friends: Welcome mats
 
What the song is about the combination of Ron Carter weeping bass an the voice of Heron could/will bring me to tears. We have a long Empathic way to go. :facepalm:

 
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Don't know why I cried, but well - aren't tears subjective? For me it's probably because I learned in my school theater, while being a "fader engineer" - a guy who chooses (mostly pirated) music for the performances and then regulates it according to the scenes dynamics - that nothing ruins a sad scene more than a sad music. Our director was always against a 'melodramatic' sort of approach, and she intended for cathartic scenes to go silent, with a rare exception. That's where contrast comes in: happy music in sad times provokes our feelings, and when I listen to this, I hear exactly what I know: a short moment of happiness in a long and sad life...

If you check other performances by this obscure Baroque orchestra, you'll hear lots of false notes, and lots of unrefinement. Almost if this was intended, although I presume that it's just we (casual listeners) went more and more prejudiced and sophisticated, learning to love artificial beauty. Although I know too good that acoustics is really a personal thing, and while on this website we explore a more scientific side of it, there are little ways to predict what a certain human will like and what not.

P.S. of course one has to acknowledge an intrinsic Baroque quality, associated with the affect theory, - that this music is intended to provoke feelings in us, mostly in order to redirect them (with help of sublimation) towards a sublime in us. Bach's cantatas prove this thesis for me. Also this specific piece contains one of the few slow movements that really touch me. It's non-trivial, with its major tone and avoidance of standard cadences, known to any Baroque music lover.
 
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Have to include Alter Bridge's "Blackbird". The version from the latest live perfomance from the Royal Albert Hall.

 
My Old Man by Steve Goodman! As Harry Chapin said, all those years ago. " You're gonna need a box of tissues for this one"!
 
I think this discussion is interesting but only for information and to know good music, but the psychology for which a certain song triggers an emotion that can make you cry is linked to extremely personal factors and it is unlikely that it works the same way for different people. Almost always music makes you cry because it is associated with certain events or emotions that the music recalls.
 
 
I think Beethoven is universal, but maybe it's because I'm German.
It strikes a chord with me that makes me completely immerse myself in the music.

Beethoven - 7th Symphony - 2nd movement

 

For a Distant Princess

And before I went to sleep
There was on the radio
Some solemn music
A bit of wistfulness for the night
A bit of longing taking flight
A touch of sorrow, soft and slow

Then Lady Memory
Took me for a walk

All the way to you
And I thought, how good it was
And I thought, where would she be
Far away from here
A playful young pup you were
A lovely, crazy girl
We were still so young and never even thought
Of sleeping together
And that I still regret

Then suddenly it ended
And I died inside
You surely never knew
Now, hearing these late-night songs
The past comes back so pure and strong
I feel pity for myself

Ah, how much I loved you
That spring so long ago
It feels so near again
And that will have to do
For now comes the A.N.P.*
And The Wilhelmus too


*The A.N.P. (Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau) is the Dutch national news agency. Het Wilhelmus is the Dutch national anthem, traditionally played at the end of radio broadcasts.
 
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This makes me tear up often. And I’m Jewish
 
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