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pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

(Bored) Name a weird song that makes you cry

lindsayp · Kenneth Cole

Angel by Sarah maclachlan, thanks to those damn ASPCA commercials. The BF knows to change the channel whenever they come on, or else I turn into a puddle of tears...

alb · Marc Jacobs

Pearljam's "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" from the late 90s gets me every time.

Boots · Gucci

God, I can't believe I'm admitting this. Bing Crosby singing the Christmas song "The Littlest Angel." It's about a little boy angel who gives his most treasured possession (a stone, a piece of log and his dog's leash) to the baby Jesus as a Christmas present and those items are transformed into the star of Bethlehem.

It gets me every year.

small fry · Chanel

Okay I will play, I have to admit I have more than one song but Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross gets me everytime.

Dont get me started on movies either ashamed

Suasoria · Chanel

Practically Marvin Gaye's entire album "What's Going On" - because he was 20 years ahead of his time in some of the social issues in his music, and his life was so tragically cut short.

"Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix OR Sting, both versions make me sad for an old love. So does Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You."

Grateful Dead "Uncle John's Band," because my grandfather's name was John and when I was a kid my older boy cousins would sing it to him.

I'm looking at my iTunes now, and, a lot. So I'll leave it there.

itsapinkthing · Coach

Sarah McLachlan - Adia it reminds me of my Grandma who we lost to Alzheimers. Though I do think it's a sad song anyway so maybe it doesn't qualify for this thread. I heard it in Anthro recently and it distracted me so much I just had to leave.

pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

itsapinkthing wrote:
Sarah McLachlan - Adia it reminds me of my Grandma who we lost to Alzheimers. Though I do think it's a sad song anyway so maybe it doesn't qualify for this thread. I heard it in Anthro recently and it distracted me so much I just had to leave.

True, it's a sad one. Sorry you had to leave Anthro. That makes me think about how stores and restaurants have been playing horribly sad songs for the last 2-or-so years. I don't get it. I wonder if the music architects at Muzak and other similar places deliberately put sad music into a business' rotation. And, if that is the case, why.

Thanks for playing. This has shown me that there usually is at least some reason for songs that make you cry. Sometimes it's just a coincidence that a particular song was playing at a sad time.