Songs that always seem to play when dust gets in your eye

[magicrat]

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[Total Longo]

I really don't like Queen at all but Who Wants to Live Forever always makes me think of Heather dying in Highlander and i'm gone.  

[liverpoolsno9]

The living Years, Mike and the mechanics, my best mate died around the time it was out, always brings the memories back. As does Fairytale of New York for the same reason. Happy Xmas, John Lennon,  for the boss Xmas’s past, as a kid and, later on, boss Xmas nights out with all the lads when we didn’t have a care in the World. Quite a few Xmas songs get me. Band Aid, Jonah Luis, Johnny Mathis, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, transfers me a place where everything was just so simple and happy. Good times. 

[Tony Moanero]

Better than the original, this, in my opinion.

 

 

[Rushies tash]

This was playing in the operating theatre when my first son was born. It came on the radio this morning and I almost had to pull the car over. Emotional!

[Trumo]

21 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

If I happen to see the video for Hurt by Johnny Cash while intoxicated I risk death by dehydration.

 

First song I thought of. Not because it reminds me of any specific bad times, but because you can hear the remorse in his voice. It might be a cover rather than his original work, but the words just fit him perfectly somehow.

 

Best get yourself a (non alcoholic) drink mate.

 

 

[KMD7]

 

[KMD7]

 

[jacco maccaco]

I get a load's of dust in my eyes lately.

 

Remember watching this as a kid and not quite understanding the ending.. quite relevent now though and with Joan Baez singing...wow.

 

 

Hearing one of my sons sing this with his class when he was about 7 years old thinking "Dont Blink, Dont Blink" as my wife sobbed along with all the other mothers.

 

 

 

[polymerpunkah]

Two songs about mad Dutchmen:

 

 

"Vincent" by Don McLean and:

 

 

 

Liam Clancy's version of "The Dutchman".

[Carvalho Diablo]

 

[razor]

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great shout.  Morningtown Ride by the Seekers is another.  Grandfather's Clock another.  Songs that my nan used to sing when I was a kid.

 

Songs from films.  When Somebody Loved Me from Toy Story 2.  Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins.

 

I cry at the drop of a hat, to be fair. 

 

For more popular songs:

 

Sam Cooke - Change is Gonna Come

 

For a sad narrative, Dance Band on the Titanic by Harry Chapin, and Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry (and even more so the cover version by Sinead O Connor):

 

 

[razor]

 

 

[Aventus]

 

 

Couple of weeks ago I was driving home and this came on, it fucking broke me.

 

I have no idea why, I don't have any attachment to the lyrics or anything, wasn't really having a bad day, and I'd heard it loads of times before that, but it just seemed to hit a nerve that night. 

 

Remembered about it about a week later and thought it was weird, so I stuck the video on my phone while I was in bed and the same thing happened, proper sobbing. 

 

I've managed to hold it together since then but it still makes me feel a bit fragile. 

[KMD7]

 

 

[KMD7]

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, KMD7 said:

 

They played this at my mate's funeral last year. 

[KMD7]

28 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

They played this at my mate's funeral last year. 

That's a tough listen at the best of times mate. Sorry for your loss