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"Stand By Me"... can't listen to it at all since it was played at my dad's funeral.
It's such a terrible, sappy, bullshit song, but I cannot hear "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlyle without breaking down. It actually didn't even come out until almost two years after my dad died, but just thinking about that song brings the whole thing up for me again.
This song makes me think of some very close friends I've lost touch with. The line "Now the cities we live in could be distant stars, and I search for you in every passing car" always gets me cause I constantly find myself doing that.
This songs always reminds me of when I was a kid, watching my dad cry when his dad has just passed away.
Oh man, I can't believe I'm just now seeing this thread. I'm such an emotional person there are seriously more songs than I care to admit/list that make me cry. Different kinds of cry too. But off the top of my head here we go:
The Allman Brothers Band - Soulshine
January 28, 2012 I had a friend who was like my little sister to me pass away from a heroin overdose. This song makes me think of her. I distinctly remember about 3 weeks after her funeral I was on my way to work and Soulshine came on and I was alone in my car and I began just sobbing thinking about her. The opening verse is what I think really sets it off, then after that it is just emotions all over the place. It is a song about such helplessness and emptiness and how you just have to prevail through it and be positive and how you're not alone and everything will pass. It is a message I wish I could've said to her. Something I wish she could've heard. Something I think she didn't hear enough and something I think she needed to hear. I miss her.
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
This one just gets me for some reason. The first time I cried during it was when I saw The Wailers do it live at a small festival. It was a really stressful week financially leading up to the festival and we almost didn't go. My boyfriend at the time, my best friend, and I were laying on a hill at sunset watching them play this song and I just burst into tears. Life stuff always builds up, gets in the way, stresses you out, but in the end it's okay. Then it came on after the first time that boyfriend and I broke up and I burst into tears again. There has been a few other times it has made me cry for various reasons, but always in times of stress and turmoil and just the message, "don't worry about a thing, because every little thing is gonna be alright" just gets me.
The Beatles - Yesterday
Another one that makes me think about Marin, and really anyone who has ever passed away in my life. I've had a lot of friends die... Actually, I had at least one friend die every year since 2004. That pattern ended in 2012 with Marin. Lots of unsaid things, regret, questions.. etc. I'm surprised no one has posted this actually. It's cliche, but it's very memory provoking.
Shinedown - Burning Bright
Just listen to the lyrics. I was very depressed in a self loathing way for a long time, this song really spoke to that.
Finch - Three Simple Words
I was an emotional teenager, but even today I will turn this song when I'm angry-sad at someone. This is a go to for me when I'm pissed off and need a good cry. It has a great part at the middle-end of the song that is basically just screaming, which is nice to sing along to when you're pissed off. More than once I've driven country roads chain smoking and crying when I was upset. (Letters to You (Acoustic) by Finch is another go-to cry song for me too.)
**And ones that have already been mentioned but are also my list are Stand By Me & Adam's Song. The latter of which is my all time favorite song, by my favorite band and I have a picture I did in 11th grade photography with the lyrics incorporated into it framed on my wall in my bedroom.
So we can add Adele "Dont You Remember" to my list. Listened to it the night my uncle died on repeat and bawled hysterically. Surprise, apparently just hearing it now makes me cry my eyes out. Not good when driving. Had to pull over.
A few that come to mind, but there are a lot for me haha:
Ugh okay it is being weird and double-posting some videos when I try to put in the links for others.... the ones I was attempting to post were:
Poison and Wine - Civil Wars Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan The Only Thing - Sufjan Blood Bank - Bon Iver Ice Is Getting Thinner - Death Cab Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Elton John - American Triangle Bruce Springstein - Streets of Philadelphia Jason Isbell - Elephant Ryan Adams - Avalanche Sufjan Stevens - The Only Thing Ben Folds - Late Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares to U Patty Griffin - Forgiveness Johnny Cash - Hurt
Too lazy to post videos. I cry at a lot of things.
Janelle Monae - Cold War* Billy Joel - Piano Man ("They're sharing a drink they call loneliness...") This one doesn't get to me as much anymore since it entered the rotation on the radio at work. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Walk the Moon - Iscariot* The Avett Brothers - The Ballad of Love and Hate - tied with "Hallelujah" as the most beautiful song I know. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You* Regina Spektor - Samson* Daniel Lanois - Fire Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said* Gary Jules - Mad World Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek John Butler - Ocean Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2* Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July* Sufjan Stevens - Death with Dignity
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Too lazy to post videos. I cry at a lot of things.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah The Avett Brothers - The Ballad of Love and Hate - tied with "Hallelujah" as the most beautiful song I know. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You* Regina Spektor - Samson* Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said* Gary Jules - Mad World Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2* Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July* Sufjan Stevens - Death with Dignity
*tears guaranteed
Wow these are all ones for me too - I mean about a dozen of Sufjan's songs are major tearjerkers for me. A good number of Death Cab tracks have that potential too.
From Regina the one that really gets me is Braille.
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Post by monkybunney on Jun 28, 2015 14:59:00 GMT -5
This is the theme song to the end of a 10 year relationship, a home, what I thought would be the rest of my life. It really perfectly convey's that feeling of completely disappearing. That emptiness & feeling like I was just a ghost now, like just an imprint of something that used to be real haunting some old ruined place. "I'm not here, this isn't happening" Listening to this song is like staring back into an abyss that I managed to cross out of and looking back I can almost feel myself turning to salt. Kinda depressing. Sorry to sound so emo!
So in the opposite direction - Friday night after the supreme court decision friends of mine, a gay couple, invited me to come celebrate with them at a gay bar. At first I wasn't sure if it was appropriate for a heterosexual male to be there on this historic evening. I was worried about looking like some jackass that just came to gawk at all the gays going crazy. I was told to "STFU and get in the car!" A drag show was starting when we arrived, the place was electric and the first Queen came out and did Katy Perry - Roar. I don't like Katy Perry...at all. But watching that performance and how joyous the celebration was I broke! I was just so fucking happy for these people! I still can't think of that song without feeling just a little teary.
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Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros: This is the song to which my wife walked down the aisle on our wedding day. 9 times out of 10 it's dusty in the room when I listen to it now.
Release by Pearl Jam: The line "Oh, dear Dad. Can you see this now? I am myself, like you somehow" gets me every time. But 2 stories with this one. First is that my dad and I went to Bonnaroo together in 2008 when PJ played this the night before Father's Day. Up until that weekend, we had a good relationship, but it was definitely father/son. After, we became friends and have been going to concerts together ever since. Second, my wife and I saw them in the clip above in St Paul last fall. It happened to be a week after we found out she was pregnant with our first child, so the "Oh dear Dad" line took on new meaning. And the song is just so powerful anyway, that it's hard for me to not tear up when hearing it, especially the live versions.
Post by Fozzie Bear on Nov 15, 2015 2:15:44 GMT -5
All of Carrie & Lowell, but especially "Death with Dignity" and "Fourth of July."
It's the album I needed when my mother died while I was in high school. She was a stand-up woman who sacrificed her happiness for my brother and I. My dad was abusive, and she wanted to make sure we had a roof over our heads. Her vertebrae broke and she got addicted to oxycodone and likely heroin. There were drug dealers and junkies coming to my house on the daily, and I had no idea.
She went to the hospital twice, and later I learned she was addicted. I hated her so much. When she got back from her second visit,she cried and asked why I hated her. I was a clueless brat. The last words she likely heard from me were angry words,as she was nodding off and walking around while my little brothers friend was over. Later that night she slipped into a coma and died. I miss her so much, and Sufjan Stevens has been the only artist to give me those mixed emotions of death for a person you harbored ill will toward.
Mom, I miss you. I don't why I posted this to inforoo, but there you go.
Never noticed this thread before, but it is appropriate for me right now. Last Friday I was watching a piece on TV about George Martin (the "fifth Beatle"), who had just passed on. At one point they played In My Life and it really hit me hard. My dad quoted that song in a letter he wrote me before going into heart surgery, and ultimately never regaining consciousness. And as I was watching that I realized it was eleven years to the day since we'd lost my dad. Weird coincidence, and really choked me up, as that song always does, more than any other.
Post by Farrisbueller on Mar 21, 2016 11:39:58 GMT -5
Well what a coincidence... Just this morning I found myself profoundly moved by a song I've listened to on numerous occasions.
Emancipator Ensemble - Anthem (live)
This song has incredible depth, ripe with emotion and a sense of journey. The complexity builds slowing, weaving small electronic elements that culminate into a fantastical blend of old school instruments and new school electronic sound. This is the type of song that grabs at your heart strings from start to finish without a single lyric, truly moving.
Well what a coincidence... Just this morning I found myself profoundly moved by a song I've listened to on numerous occasions.
Emancipator Ensemble - Anthem (live)
This song has incredible depth, ripe with emotion and a sense of journey. The complexity builds slowing, weaving small electronic elements that culminate into a fantastical blend of old school instruments and new school electronic sound. This is the type of song that grabs at your heart strings from start to finish without a single lyric, truly moving.
Well what a coincidence... Just this morning I found myself profoundly moved by a song I've listened to on numerous occasions.
Emancipator Ensemble - Anthem (live)
This song has incredible depth, ripe with emotion and a sense of journey. The complexity builds slowing, weaving small electronic elements that culminate into a fantastical blend of old school instruments and new school electronic sound. This is the type of song that grabs at your heart strings from start to finish without a single lyric, truly moving.
No waterworks yet, but New South Wales and Relatively Easy get me on the Southeastern album. Really, that whole record can work up a bevy of emotions in me. Isbell has always done that to me though.
My boyfriend died in May last year. That was life shattering enough. Had people I thought loved me blaming me for his death. Even now, almost a year later. I'm slowly climbing out of the back hole I have been in. I am beginning to actually want to live again. These songs always bring me to tears. Come Back-captures the longing to be able to wish hard enough and he'll be back. Man of the Hour-just makes me miss him. Thumbing My Way-my journey back to living again.
And one of the last thing my dad did. He made sure that this song was performed for us at his memorial. He insisted that my cousin (who did the music) say that he meant this as a last message to his kids.