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gotmeamovie
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158 Posts |
 Posted - 10/27/2009 : 01:46:27
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I cried when I heard sing for joy
really reminded me of the break up of my fmaily and my parents
and the lonely childhood I had in my family
i think it is one of his most affecting live songs
really sings it like it happend to him, which it did
"If all you've seen, is violence!" |
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1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 02:47:16
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Atom In My Heart. once... or twice...
I have the key to #902 |
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Sam
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
514 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 03:31:12
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| Didnt actually shed a tear but felt pretty blue after i will run after you. Great song. |
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Nate in the PDX
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USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 18:53:11
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There's something about "She's My Way"... well, everything after the regrettable "Hey, hoochie mama"... that chorus just kills me.
Once upon a time, I had an episode whilst playing "Fields of Marigold" on repeat -- suffice to say that recreational chemicals may have been involved -- when I came up with and then couldn't shake the notion that FB was saying goodbye to us with that song, that it was his valedictory address, that the moment had come, that he was hanging it up.
But when it comes to actual honest-to-goodness shedding of tears, I'm pretty sure it's "Sing for Joy" alone. Most recently tears flowed when he played it at the Aladdin, having dedicated the song to Duane Jarvis, told us that was the last song he played with Duane in the hospital, and asked for a spotlight on stage left, where Duane would have been. I'm crying now as I write this, just savoring that memory. |
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
2792 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 20:21:20
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I'd have to say that no song has ever made me cry. If and when I do weep while listening to a tune it's really just me asking for it, the melancholy that is, the song itself keeping me company as well as setting a time limit for such things.
"cause you know that I'm not a crier"
See! Frank won't admit it either.
I will type that "Pan American Highway" has come dangerously close
And Kathryn, I hear ya on the Honeycomb |
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gotmeamovie
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Posted - 10/27/2009 : 20:42:51
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hey
yes , honeycomb is such a compforting album but is also one of devestation
"If all you've seen, is violence!" |
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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1758 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 05:01:21
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if i did cry, and i don't think i actually have wept, it would have been during she's my way, pan american highway, and don't cry that way. and echoing Nate, the same jarvis/sing for joy story pulled my heart strings and had themselves a strum.
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 05:11:22
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Once, whilst quite drunk, i wept quietly during "Dog in the Sand" - mainly because i love that song so much, and i was drunk, and the music was at that perfect volume and i was home alone and it just hit me. Then my iTunes shuffled over to a Weird Al song and the moment was gone.
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 05:23:26
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"iTunes shuffled over to a Weird Al song and the moment was gone"
Hilarious. That's what you get for shuffling.
I don't think Frank has ever taken me to tears (goosebumps, yes) but Kristin Hersh has several times. |
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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1758 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 06:02:50
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quote:
Originally posted by Broken Face
Then my iTunes shuffled over to a Weird Al song and the moment was gone.
- Brian
if it went to "biggest ball of twine in minnesota" then i would have probably burst into sobs.
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 06:34:03
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I cry every time I hear Lyle's solos because I know I'll never play guitar as good as him.
 "Join the Cult of Quincy M.E. and enter the most fascinating sphere of police work" |
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LonesomeFetter
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 10:13:07
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Like Dan, I have come close with "Pan American Highway". Some of his finest work, I must say.
And say "everybody...
you're not just a duck...
You are HUMAN! Go forth and THRASH!" - Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 10:50:54
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St Francis Dam Disaster makes me well up. Charles' humanism really comes through in it and its unwillingness to go sentimental but stay essentially a journalistic piece makes it all the more emotionally powerful.
The line 'How many? No one really knows' is deeply affecting, gets me every time. But then so too is the last line recognising the water's longing for freedom. Genius writing and the noblest of hearts. Of course tears come.
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
2002 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 13:58:44
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"Can't feel nooooooo stairs..." from MAN OF STEEL gets me very sad...and Lyle's ghostly guitar wisping through that song like a devastated vapor...
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His name is Dalton. He's got a degree in philosophy.
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 17:09:27
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| I don't know what it is about California Bound but it touches my heart just like people mentioned Sing for Joy. |
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ClassicalRey
- FB Fan -
USA
56 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2009 : 19:30:06
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A couple days after hearing Frank play That Burnt Out Rock n' Roll, I tried playing it on my guitar, and I got way dooowwwn.
It felt most strongly in my shoulders and chest.
I couldn't listen to that song anymore for a couple months.
I couldn't listen to Frank Black for a couple weeks. |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 00:08:24
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quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
I don't know what it is about California Bound but it touches my heart just like people mentioned Sing for Joy.
Me too Daisy. California Bound really is a lesson in humility for me. Charles even manages to summon up compassion for a religious fanatic, something I ordinarily find almost impossible to do.
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 02:45:12
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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1758 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 08:19:40
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come to think of it, i did get pretty choked up at the last solo show in milwaukee when he played Song of the Shrimp. sounds silly, but take away the novelty factor and all the other aspects just broke my heart.
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 09:18:44
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The most emotional songs for me are My Life Is In Storage, I'll Be Blue, and Fitzgerald. The first two because he exposes himself so nakedly and the latter because he paints such a fine picture of a good but broken man.
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 13:03:39
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| Yeah, Jose, Song of the Shrimp gets me too. Coastline, My Life is In Storage also gets me as well. |
Edited by - Daisy Girl on 10/29/2009 13:04:04 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 07:20:36
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| i cried the first time i listened to Honeycomb all the way through |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 08:59:26
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Robert Onion makes me cry
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 09:26:35
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
2792 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 11:23:35
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quote:
Originally posted by floop
i cried the first time i listened to Honeycomb all the way through
great! now you've made Jon Tiven cry |
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ruzom
= Cult of Ray =
France
267 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 16:34:49
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Very recently for the first time since ages, She's My Way. Every time I listened to the song. Currently I'm thinking it's probably my favorite for some weird reason, it might stop later... In the past, maybe once or twice at worst Chip Away Boy too.
There might be other ones but I can't remember precisely now... anyway I think She's My Way really has something, maybe the strings, just the singing... everything, probably. |
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gyaneshwar
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194 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 08:39:02
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| I don't believe I've cried listening to FBF, but Calistan gets to me for some reason. Somewhere around the "I saw the old man / he was doing OK" part. |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1594 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 09:51:41
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Don't Cry That Way is the type of song that
would get to me. Unhappy and dead children,
like The Cat's in the Cradle or Letter to Heaven.
The absurd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX8NDBxvq_k |
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gotmeamovie
- FB Fan -
158 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2009 : 15:20:18
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Dont know how you went so far &
I will run after you
bld is a great album
"If all you've seen, is violence!" |
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houstonguthrie
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187 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 06:33:07
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| I started to well up a little the first time I heard his quasi rap on "Seuss" - |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6214 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 11:36:34
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Fitzgerald and Announcement for me.
And don't even know if I like Fitzgerald as a song, but the way he says 'Ohh Fitzy' seems so honest. Just that line shows what kind of real songwriter he is.
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freedom rocker
- FB Fan -
USA
88 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 14:06:52
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I think it's all agreed that "sing for joy" stands out among the catalogue as being special. Frank is not one for the melowdrama, so the fact that this song affects the way it does is odd.
the blues isn't an art-form, it's a product-- not unlike computer chips and tampons.
--dead milkmen |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1594 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 22:58:53
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| Very appropriate signature! |
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langdonboom
= Cult of Ray =
USA
260 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2009 : 11:26:52
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I'll add that many of these mentioned, in the right mood, have made me cry.
Specifically Man of Steel, California Bound, and Sing For Joy. So beautiful. Though tons of his other songs have that welling-up feeling in them either from joy, or sadness, or even the joy of sadness in a clean way.... great thread, thanks. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2009 : 13:14:26
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| It hasn't make me literally cry, but Don't Cry That Way is quite a moving song. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2009 : 13:32:23
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Has a frank song ever made you cry?
