Weepie songs (Anne Stuart)
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Monday, September 25, 2006
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So, as promised, a list of songs to wallow in pain with. Of course, it all depends on what your particular pain is. A broken heart is different from career pain which is different from my teenagers are going to kill me pain etc.
Sometimes things get sort of stuck inside, all that sorrow and anguish, and the best thing you can do for yourself is give in to a nice big crying jag. It's best to do it in the car so no one can hear you, so burn yourself a CD with these songs on it.
Everybody Hurts by REM. Love Hurts sung by Gram Parsons and Emmy Lou Harris. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses by U2. Fallen by Sarah Maclachlan. Held by ... I forget her name. Natalie Grant. It's Christian pop but you can just substitute the Higher Power of your choice.
Send in the Clowns by anyone. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. Hurts so Bad by Little Anthony and the Imperials (or Lynda Ronstadt if you can't find the original).
Anyone got more suggestions? For me a good weeper connects with something I'm feeling at the moment -- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses makes me weep because I first heard it at the time my brother died. Fallen works when I feel guilty.
Fortunately next week we'll come up with happy songs to knock you out of your anger or depression, and there are a million of them.
Sometimes things get sort of stuck inside, all that sorrow and anguish, and the best thing you can do for yourself is give in to a nice big crying jag. It's best to do it in the car so no one can hear you, so burn yourself a CD with these songs on it.
Everybody Hurts by REM. Love Hurts sung by Gram Parsons and Emmy Lou Harris. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses by U2. Fallen by Sarah Maclachlan. Held by ... I forget her name. Natalie Grant. It's Christian pop but you can just substitute the Higher Power of your choice.
Send in the Clowns by anyone. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. Hurts so Bad by Little Anthony and the Imperials (or Lynda Ronstadt if you can't find the original).
Anyone got more suggestions? For me a good weeper connects with something I'm feeling at the moment -- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses makes me weep because I first heard it at the time my brother died. Fallen works when I feel guilty.
Fortunately next week we'll come up with happy songs to knock you out of your anger or depression, and there are a million of them.
Patricia Potter
Tara Taylor Quinn
Maggie Shayne
Anne Stuart
Suzanne Forster
Lynn Kerstan
5 Comments :
A song that reduces me to tears every time I hear it is Kathy Mattea's "Where Have You Been?" This one really resonates as my loved ones--and I--get older...
If you want to get into things like hymns, I can't listen to "On Eagle's Wings" without breaking down, because it was sung at my son's funeral.
Damn. Suddenly I'm all weepy.
Lynda
Harry Nilsson's "Without You", sung by Harry Nilsson. It's a classic.
Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid
Well, when things get rough for me, I turn to Loretta Lynn!! I've cried a many a tear listening to her songs!! Also, any of the old hymms such as THE OLD RUGGED CROSS, PEACE IN THE VALLEY, I'LL FLY AWAY and some more modern inspirational songs GO REST HIGH ON THAT MOUNTAIN by Vince Gill, THE DANCE by Garth Brooks, and THERE'S HOLES IN THE FLOOR OF HEAVEN (I've forgotten the singer--but he's country!) always bring tears to my eyes!! I can't sing--not that I can sing--those beautiful old Hymms with out chocking up!!
Mary
Mary, I beleive Steve Warniner did Holes in the Floor of Heaven, and yes, that'd be on my list. When I first started reading this, I immediately thought of Kathy Mattea's "Where've you Been?" I will always remember the first time I heard that song, driving someone else's new pickup in a snow storm, and me bawling my eyes out. On a really good day I can get through that song without crying, but not usually.
Ty Herndon's Heather's Wall always makes me cry, as does Michael Martin Murphy's Wildfire. So does One Tin Soldier by I can't remember who. And then let's not forget "Teddy Bear" by Red Solvine. And there was a country song out a few years ago about a guy telling his buddies not to forget to feed his dog after he dies. But then country songs are just so wonderful for making you cry.
Jordanne
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