Songs you can't listen to because they are too emotional for you

DareGod · 17-12-2015 02:05AM #1

2005 was probably one of the most emotional years for myself, personally (due to death and losses.) One of the biggest songs in my world that year was Coldplay's "Fix You." It's an emotional song already, without the added emotion of ones own situation. Anyway, any time I hear that song now, it's like being punched in the stomach, because it brings me right back to the situation I was in that year, and I cannot listen to it.

Are there any songs that do that to you? And why?

Gaygooner · 17-12-2015 02:06AM

No matter what- played at my 14 year old cousins funeral after she was killed in an RTA

DareGod · 17-12-2015 02:06AM

Gaygooner wrote: »

No matter what- played at my 14 year old cousins funeral after she was killed in an RTA

Jesus, that's rough

ArtSmart · 17-12-2015 02:08AM

The Chicken Song

Gaygooner · 17-12-2015 02:08AM

DareGod wrote: »

Jesus, that's rough

Hit an run in effect - upstanding member of the community - prick

The Backwards Man · 17-12-2015 02:09AM

Cherish by Madonna

Playing in the background when I got the call my Ma died suddenly and then again when I got the call a good friend had committed suicide.

I can still listen to the song though, and I think it's pretty apt in fairness, just well up when I hear it.

Gaygooner · 17-12-2015 02:09AM

She died in December too. She's now longer dead than she was alive. Still heartbreaking

ArtSmart · 17-12-2015 02:10AM

Where do you go to my lovely.

Makes me wanna hit everyone and everything around me.

Fooking dreadful song.

Potential-Monke · 17-12-2015 02:10AM

I find when i'm in the need of a good cry, i throw on Young@Heart's cover of Fix You:

The story behind it is necessary to get the full effect: the man singing used to do that song with his best friend for donkeys years, and he died shortly before this performance. Truly emotional stuff.

ArtSmart · 17-12-2015 02:11AM

Wait -

My mellow is getting harshed here...

Colser · 17-12-2015 02:11AM

Sam Smiths song Im not the only one,love it but cannot listen to it.:(

One eyed Jack · 17-12-2015 02:22AM

Funeral song of a close friend. Still gets to me even listening to it now.

Diamond Doll · 17-12-2015 02:26AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4

Me and my fiance used to listen to this and dream about the house and life and family we were going to build together.

Needless to say, it didn't work out!

It was a very happy carefree time, and it's hard to listen to the song now.

NachoBusiness · 17-12-2015 02:28AM

Luther Vandross, Dance With My Father.

me_irl · 17-12-2015 02:29AM

Opening this thread like....

...and leaving like.

The Backwards Man · 17-12-2015 02:30AM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Luther Vandross, Dance With My Father.

That'll be one for me some day too.

mckar · 17-12-2015 02:31AM

In the arms of an angel - Sarah mclachlan

the evasion_kid · 17-12-2015 02:37AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGKSjiw0HQ

Mesrine65 · 17-12-2015 02:40AM

Cliché, but it is what it is...

PARlance · 17-12-2015 02:41AM

Thread should have been saved until Christmas Day for maximum depression.

Mesrine65 · 17-12-2015 02:42AM

PARlance wrote: »

Thread should have been saved until Christmas Day for maximum depression.

:pac::pac::pac:

Bongalongherb · 17-12-2015 02:43AM

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MyStubbleItches · 17-12-2015 02:43AM

Two for me, first one was played at my younger brother's funeral at age 15. Losing My Favourite Game - The Cardigans. As someone else above said its like a punch in the stomach when I unexpectedly hear it.

Second one, Burn by Ray LaMontagne. My mother was diagnosed with cancer at 58 and died within 5 weeks and I used to play this driving home from the hospital. Never hear it on radio but it's in my music library and I haven't been able to play it since.

inthepit · 17-12-2015 02:44AM

"July" Was on radio in borrowed AlphaRomeo as I went to nephews funeral,bright sunny song,bright sunny evening,dark dark day.
Lakes of Ponchatrain,always reminds me of a mate that passed away far too young.
Always a tear in my eye.

The Backwards Man · 17-12-2015 02:47AM

Cheers OP, you have us all crying like onion peelers at a redundancy announcement.

inthepit · 17-12-2015 02:47AM

"July" Was on radio in borrowed AlphaRomeo as I went to nephews funeral,bright sunny song,bright sunny evening,dark dark day.
Lakes of Ponchatrain,always reminds me of a mate that passed away far too young.He sang it so beatifully
Always a tear in my eye.

NachoBusiness · 17-12-2015 02:55AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

That'll be one for me some day too.

Funnily enough, I used to think (as a teenager / early twenties lout) that way whenever I heard the Mike & The Mechanics song, The Living Years when my Dad was still alive. That line, 'I wasn't there that morning, when my father passed away, I didn't get to tell him, all the things I had to say..' used to make me think, 'Jesus, one day I might hear that song and relate to it' and then I'd be extra nice to him.. for a half an hour or so :P

Azalea · 17-12-2015 03:08AM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Cliché, but it is what it is...

Ah jeez, yep - those are heartbreaking, especially if they have personal resonance... :-/

I think most people know Tears In Heaven is about Eric Clapton's little boy dying due to a fall from a high-rise building

but I only found out quite recently that Jesus To A Child is about George's partner dying of a brain haemorrhage a few years beforehand.

endacl · 17-12-2015 03:12AM

Opened thread in anticipation of leaving a silly light-hearted response. Read posts.

Didn't.

The Backwards Man · 17-12-2015 03:13AM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Funnily enough, I used to think (as a teenager / early twenties lout) that way whenever I heard the Mike & The Mechanics song, The Living Years when my Dad was still alive. That line, 'I wasn't there that morning, when my father passed away, I didn't get to tell him, all the things I had to say..' used to make me think, 'Jesus, one day I might hear that song and relate to it' and then I'd be extra nice to him.. for a half an hour or so :P

Suppose this is the place to put this, my oul lad says to me recently that when he kicks out he wants to be cremated and his ashes scattered at sea, I says to him Jesus, you better put that in writing, because this is Donegal and people will say I'm just too mean to bury you, and he says, ah it'll be grand, you'll sort it out.

So anything by The Stranglers makes me misty at the minute:pac:

Azalea · 17-12-2015 03:13AM

Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. Simply can't. It doesn't thankfully mean anything significant in my life but it's just such a heartbreakingly sad song IMO...

Songs you can't listen to because they are too emotional for you

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