Songs you can't listen to because of painful memories ?

Paud..... · 21-03-2012 02:40AM

Coldplay - Fix You

Coldplay - The Scientist

JupiterKid · 21-03-2012 02:48AM

Travis - As You Are. Reminds me of my last big relationship break up.
Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes. Makes me all teary eyed. Would melt a heart of stone.
Stina Nordenstam - Little Star - Reminds me of my first serious love and heartbreak.
Led Zeppelin - That's The Way. Another tear jerker ballad.
Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely. Their most depressing, melancholy song.
Belinda Carlisle - Leave a Light On. This might sound like an odd one out of the other 5
but it's on the list because it was playing all over the radio when my mum died.:(

Stina Nordenstam - Little Star (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIowXjGGMI

MidnightQueen · 21-03-2012 02:58AM

Eric Clapton - tears in heaven.

endabob1 · 21-03-2012 03:01AM

http://www.lyricsmania.com/feel_to_believe_lyrics_beth_orton.html

I seen her sing it live and couldn't hold back the tears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiHuVzhjdqI

john2984 · 21-03-2012 03:15AM

I Got a Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Paris in November when 09 when we played France in the World Cup play-off. After our best peformance in years (where we should have qualified in normal time) the game goes into extra time. Penalties will do at this stage even though we should be winning. Then comes the infamous handball from Henry. The sense of dejection in the Irish end was palpable. Then, as everyone stares into space or holds their head, the music followed by the words of "I Got a Feelin, Tonight's gona be a good night". Absolute horrible song. I had to walk out of nightclubs when it came on for 6 months afterwards. I'm a Dublin fan too and couldn't even sing it in Croker after we won the All-Ireland this year. Still don't like hearing it but it's not as painful before. Hopefully we can knock France out of the quarter-finals of the Euro's to banish the memory for good!

Zelkova · 21-03-2012 03:16AM

Any song off the Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.
Reminds me of when I was sixteen, and probably over playing it, had to take to bed after smoking too many Hungarian cigarettes a school friend had shared out.
My guts will churn if I listen to it now, just as it did then.
Loved that album, still do just can't stomach it
California, über alles

Irish Guitarist · 21-03-2012 03:31AM

Not any specific song but anything by Luke Kelly. I knew my father liked him so I bought him a best of tape for Christmas 1999. My father then got terribly sick a couple of days before Christmas. When we were all handing presents around my father was sitting around being miserable. What I didn't realise was that he was dying.

He listened to the tape a few days later lying in bed but was too sick to enjoy it so asked my mother to turn it off. He died a few days after that.

I kind of like Luke Kelly myself and have considered playing the tape a few times (I think it's still around somewhere). I don't think I could bring myself to listen to it though.

Princess Peach · 21-03-2012 03:36AM

Greenday Time of your Life cause it was the song at a friends funeral a long time ago.

MidnightQueen · 21-03-2012 05:20AM

Think this song has been forgotten about. An oldie but it always brings a tear to my eye too. Nat King Cole - Smile.

Chuck Stone · 21-03-2012 05:22AM

Not telling. Must suppress emotions.

beltzar · 21-03-2012 06:06AM

Black Velvet band - someone very close to me passed away with this playing quietly in the background.
Paddys day was difficult as it was being played everywhere and it was tough with all the lager louts singing/shouting it - I wanted to glass every one of them. :mad:

Sindri · 21-03-2012 06:31AM

This here is a haunting rendition of a Beatles song by an extremely talented chanteuse. There's a real feeling of disconsolation from it but also it's really beautiful.

Pdfile · 21-03-2012 06:43AM

MidnightQueen wrote: »

Think this song has been forgotten about. An oldie but it always brings a tear to my eye too. Nat King Cole - Smile.

very classy, my friends always slag me for my love of the oldies ( deano, bing frankie & such ) but lets me honest, if it ain't broken ye can't fix it...

almost all of their assorted hits draw back memorys like a flood for me...

also ben folds - brick, ironic that when in hospital years ago for the birth of my brother, that song was playing and its about teenages getting an abortion at christmas time; he sells his christmas gifts to pay for it.... now if that doesn't break yer little fragile heart nothin will !

geeman · 21-03-2012 06:55AM

F.u.ck all you bitchez - chris de burgh
bitchez and hoes - dod
cherry poppin - dod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmq7JoSjF8

Optimalprimerib · 21-03-2012 07:02AM

I used to love "it's a rainy day" until I realised that the song is "it's raining men".

merlie · 21-03-2012 07:26AM

That would be:
A Thousand Miles -Vanessa Carlton
Father Figure -George Michael
I don't feel like dancing - Scissor Sisters
Groove is in the heart - Dee Lite
Groovy KInd of Love - Phil Collins
Say You Say Me - Lionel Ritchie
Yellow - Coldplay
Superstar - Jamelia
Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire
Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
Leave a tender moment alone & She's got a way &Tell her about it - Billy Joel
Sunshine on the Leith - The Proclaimers
Loving you -Minnie Ripperton
Ma Cherie Amour and For Once in my Life - Stevie Wonder

The above I cannot bear to listen too as they bring back memories of being with my ex bf whom I loved very much

Faolchu · 21-03-2012 10:06AM

Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event
More Than a Memory by Garth Brooks

both remind me of someone i loved very much

hondasam · 21-03-2012 10:25AM

Forever young - Bob Dylan
The river - Gareth Brooks.

While they bring back sad memories they also bring happy memories. Listening to them can be tearful with a bit of laughter.

garysully1986 · 21-03-2012 10:44AM

Ordinary people - John Legend

I always zone out when I hear this song!

21-03-2012 10:44AM

You are my sunshine - by I've no idea who.
My Mam used to sing it to my kids all the time, pretty much every day. It's now inscribed on their bench in the cemetary. My daughter sometimes sings it and it makes my heart cry.

Jesus I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes now, feck ya anyway Midnight Queen, the smile song reminded me of it :pac:

charlietheminxx · 21-03-2012 10:59AM

Deleted User wrote: »

You are my sunshine - by I've no idea who.
My Mam used to sing it to my kids all the time, pretty much every day. It's now inscribed on their bench in the cemetary. My daughter sometimes sings it and it makes me my heart cry.

Jesus I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes now, feck ya anyway Midnight Queen, the smile song reminded me of it :pac:

I didn't think I had one of these until I saw this.... My nana used to sing it to me when I was little. It always makes me think of her - makes me sad, but happy at the same time. Kind of bittersweet, you know?

foxyboxer · 21-03-2012 11:11AM

Drinkin in LA - Bran Van 3000.

Was all over the radio during a death in the family.

kfallon · 21-03-2012 11:14AM

Faolchu wrote: »

Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event

I actually love that song but at the same time it makes me sad cos the person who introduced me to it, I no longer speak to!

Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water is one I can't listen to without feeling very sad!

Ian Brown's F.E.A.R. is another that I just can't let play

Faolchu · 21-03-2012 11:19AM

kfallon wrote: »

I actually love that song but at the same time it makes me sad cos the person who introduced me to it, I no longer speak to!

love it too, there's times where I'll play it 10 times back to back, its a brilliant piece of work and it more or less tells the story of me and the person it reminds me of.

Micky Dolenz · 21-03-2012 11:27AM

Bette Davis eyes.

CathyMoran · 21-03-2012 11:32AM

Leaving New York by REM as my husband and I were in Lisbon having earlier found out that I was pregnant and I found out that I had miscarried.
Any of the songs played at one of my friend's funeral.
Wake me up when September ends by Green Day as my mother got ill in the middle of September and some other reasons too.

Captain Graphite · 21-03-2012 11:33AM

Lykke Li's Sadness is a Blessing is the only song that has ever made me cry. I listened to it on a bus from Dublin to Cork when I was in a really depressed state of mind and the lyrics in the verses set me off. I had to try and cover my face so people wouldn't notice me crying. I do still listen to it (because it's too great a song to stop listening to altogether) but it always makes me feel a little uneasy now.

Elton John's Your Song was 'the greatest love song ever written' according to my ex. I never liked Elton John anyway but now I can't hear that song without starting to feel really lonely.

On the subject of funeral songs, my Nan always wanted My Forever Friend by Charlie Landsborough. And she got it. I know a few people in my family can't bear to ever hear it again 'cause it makes them miss her so much.

cloptrop · 21-03-2012 11:58AM

Your the best around -Joe esponita.
Reminds me of a time in my youth some old chinese man called mr miagi made me paint his fence and clean his house. He then made me fight these guys I was really scared of. I broke my leg at one stage and he tricked me into thinking it was fixed by his special powers and made me fight on.
Lets just say I needed a few metal plates after that episode .

kfallon · 21-03-2012 12:23PM

Faolchu wrote: »

love it too, there's times where I'll play it 10 times back to back, its a brilliant piece of work and it more or less tells the story of me and the person it reminds me of.

I have often done the same, it's the tune rather than the words tbh, it starts off kinda slow but the tempo builds up and up!

It's actually a song I listen to quite a bit for inspiration, before playing football etc to get pumped up! But I can't listen to it without thinking of a very special person who I believe could have been one of my best friends for life if things turned out differently!

Lady Chatterton · 21-03-2012 12:54PM

"You'll Never Walk Alone".

It has been played at a number of funerals of male friends. All of whom died way before their time

:(:(

Songs you can't listen to because of painful memories ?

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