January 14, 20241 yr Sounded too sick to go to church this morning. But this'll do for my spiritual lift. I swore I saw Nathaniel Rateliff the other day walking around town. I guess it probably was him. A tribute to John Prine. I don't know who the one emo kid is, but the rest of this ensemble absolutely nails it. If there's a heaven, John Prine is in it. And this song got me right in the feels. From his ACL Hall of Fame tribute show last week:
January 16, 20241 yr Beautiful song about an absolutely horrifying subject. Cartel killing in Mexico told from the point of view of a woman/wife/mother that's about to be killed along with the rest of her family. Jerry Joseph is one of my favorite song writers that probably only a handful of y'all have heard of. He visually transports you to that villa that day. It's something else.
January 16, 20241 yr Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. I'm not aware of a better song about dicking around until you are too old and then dead. This shit hits me to the core.
January 16, 20241 yr Author 1 hour ago, Earl Haffler said: Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. I'm not aware of a better song about dicking around until you are too old and then dead. This shit hits me to the core. Wow. I need to move quicker on my future plans. Tomorrow is not promised
February 6, 20241 yr I'm a senior in HS when this was released. Still fucking awesome today. IMO their best song.
March 27, 20241 yr Reminds me of learning to drive on my grandpas farm at a way too young age. A great man. Now teaching my son to drive. Gets me every damn time.
April 11, 20241 yr Author This one doesn't make me sad necessarily, but hits me in the feels. especially with this image. Always wanted to make it and live in California and this song and image captures the mood:
June 9, 20241 yr Man... this song. I was mesing around on the piano and this melody came back to me. I remember playing the hell out of Diva, especially this song. I can't even remember what exacly was going on in my life ( trying to finish my degree after way to much messing around).
June 9, 20241 yr She has an absolutely stunning voice. A slightly husky tone, very little vibratro, dead nuts pitch control. Amazing.
June 9, 20241 yr When we lost our daughter to stillbirth at 8 months about 6 years ago, the radio served up “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Claxton. There were also a bunch of tears in my VW Atlas.
June 10, 20241 yr Yes, it's a Disney but gets me everytime I see it. https://youtu.be/uh4dTLJ9q9o?si=L2z452nHEpG0lqwh
June 10, 20241 yr Author On 6/8/2024 at 5:50 PM, Chico_SA said: Man... this song. I was mesing around on the piano and this melody came back to me. I remember playing the hell out of Diva, especially this song. I can't even remember what exacly was going on in my life ( trying to finish my degree after way to much messing around). Wow, this hits for some reason. Well, well before my times, but when I hear these two I always feel sad but also inspried.: Edited June 10, 20241 yr by closetohumping
July 13, 20241 yr Author Maybe not the video itself but this song brings me back. Country bars played it every night Makes me miss Texas
July 13, 20241 yr SIAP but every time I hear this song I can't help but think of my dog. Edited July 13, 20241 yr by ScottS ou sucks
July 13, 20241 yr Author Tongi lost his dad when he was 18 Blunt wrote this song when his dad had cancer Edited July 13, 20241 yr by closetohumping
July 13, 20241 yr Again, SIAP, but this one reminds me of my dog I had to have put down a few years ago and still miss dearly.
January 19Jan 19 Popular Post On 1/2/2022 at 4:02 AM, Victor Lazlo said: My wife died of a rare, virulent cancer in January of 2021. It happened so fast, and I’m still a wreck. This Moody Blues song says what I feel every day - “Cause you’re not here.” I don’t know why I’m even telling this to a bunch of strangers, but, there it is. “Forever Autumn” Today is four years that she’s been gone. So tonight, as I have done each year, I’m having a few drinks, getting in my feels, and reminiscing about the finest woman I ever knew.
January 22Jan 22 On 1/18/2025 at 10:49 PM, Victor Lazlo said: Today is four years that she’s been gone. So tonight, as I have done each year, I’m having a few drinks, getting in my feels, and reminiscing about the finest woman I ever knew. Goddamn man. I am sorry to hear that. I wish I had magic words.
March 18Mar 18 Author several reasons this can hit me in the feels When this song came out, blacks were still marginalized, hell what am I saying they still are, but this song was a universal hit among all cultures. second reason. Whitney had a beautiful voice and seemed to be a great person. Like a lot of people who grew up in the 80s, drugs destroyed her. When this song came on the radio today it definitely reminded me of that time third reason. They used to play this all the time at the skating rink. My parents used to drop me and my brother off at the skating rink every Friday night. Times were simpler I guess
March 19Mar 19 Author On 1/18/2025 at 9:49 PM, Victor Lazlo said: Today is four years that she’s been gone. So tonight, as I have done each year, I’m having a few drinks, getting in my feels, and reminiscing about the finest woman I ever knew. Wow. I hope I can only imagine. If there is a God let me go first.
March 30Mar 30 Didn't see this on one here. It's on my Sunday morning playlist for drinking coffee and sitting around thinking. I bought this album back when it first came out and "Alright Guy" was getting some airplay. This one probably didn't, and that's understandable, given the shock that comes at the end the first time you hear it. Hits a little harder this week because I got some insight about one of my students on Thursday from a colleague at the university -- a reminder of how difficult it is for all of us to figure stuff out in any of our relationships. Edited for a tear warning: dads and moms, this is a tough one. I hate to do that, but it feels necessary. Edited March 30Mar 30 by Hayduke
March 31Mar 31 Author This one is likely a little odd. I’m not a big SATC fan but this one kind of hit. 1 because the message. This is nyc anything can happen. No CR. You’re free. It’s ok to be gay. 2 Carrie celebrating her friend and just being in the moment. 3. The actor that played Stanford passed away. 4. Peter Cetera is underrated. Interesting voice 5. Imo a great song 6 Carrie calling drag queens and gays “normal people.”
March 31Mar 31 That song came out when I was pretty young. I had already been listening to Chicago but Cetera's increasing influence brought a different vibe to the group. "Wishing You Were Here" was a similar song from that time. I liked them both, because girls liked them and they'd slow dance at pre-teen parties if the right song came on. I was too naive to understand that Cetera was basically destroying the group. It's an old story, and it has happened to many bands over the years, certainly many of that era (Styx, REO Speedwagon, Journey, etc.). Maybe AOR bands are particularly susceptible.
March 31Mar 31 This song was released the day before my daughter was born (August of '23). Turnpike's probably my favorite active band. It's generally written towards the singer's wife, and the fans of the band, but it a lot of the sentiment can be applied to our situation. We first met with fertility doctors in July of 2017 and went through a bunch of IVF, egg retrieval, spent hundreds of thousands, and had gotten nowhere. My went down the surrogacy road and the first person who agreed to be a surrogate backed out right before implementation. It just seemed like it would never happen. And then it did. When the "with a dance or two still left in me" comes through, it makes me think of her getting married someday and it wrecks me. Edited March 31Mar 31 by Al_4_ISU
April 1Apr 1 Some good sad songs here. Especially Jason Isbell "If We Were Vampires" and TVZ "Waiting Around to Die". On the topic of past relationship songs as some have shared before:
April 1Apr 1 11 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said: This song was released the day before my daughter was born (August of '23). Turnpike's probably my favorite active band. It's generally written towards the singer's wife, and the fans of the band, but it a lot of the sentiment can be applied to our situation. We first met with fertility doctors in July of 2017 and went through a bunch of IVF, egg retrieval, spent hundreds of thousands, and had gotten nowhere. My went down the surrogacy road and the first person who agreed to be a surrogate backed out right before implementation. It just seemed like it would never happen. And then it did. When the "with a dance or two still left in me" comes through, it makes me think of her getting married someday and it wrecks me. Never heard of these guys. Listened to "Brought Me" while watching the Horns beat TCU (and Maddie Booker's dad trying to be cool watching his daughter). Now listening to the whole Cat in the Rain album and enjoying their lyrics. Love the roots rock/bluegrass/Americana instrumentation. Two great things for you, @Al_4_ISU: it's only 2025, and someday you're going to look around and realize she's brought you two or three or four more adopted daughters, and maybe more. Especially if she's playing sports, which for some reason they seem to approach quite differently. When our daughter, who's 16 now, was around your daughter's age now, I stopped thinking I needed to get a gun and started thinking, "Man, those poor boys." She was three weeks premature and of course scared us to death, so I can only imagine how you view yours after all that struggle (which my sister and her husband also went through, and they've got an in-vitro grad in her mid-20s and another adopted daughter). But girls are tough in a way that most of us dads will never be, I think. For me, it's the summer or fall of 2026 that's going to wreck me. Our son left in 2021 for boot camp and that was tough. But having her head to college, or wherever, is going to be a completely different ball game.
April 1Apr 1 12 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said: This one is likely a little odd. I’m not a big SATC fan but this one kind of hit. 1 because the message. This is nyc anything can happen. No CR. You’re free. It’s ok to be gay. 2 Carrie celebrating her friend and just being in the moment. 3. The actor that played Stanford passed away. 4. Peter Cetera is underrated. Interesting voice 5. Imo a great song 6 Carrie calling drag queens and gays “normal people.” That was great. Sometimes I think all takes to be a screenwriter is to get a good soundtrack so all you have to do is let somebody else's words do all the work. Of course, it's a little more difficult than that, but you get the right song and you're a good way down the path. 12 hours ago, jimmyjazz said: That song came out when I was pretty young. I had already been listening to Chicago but Cetera's increasing influence brought a different vibe to the group. "Wishing You Were Here" was a similar song from that time. I liked them both, because girls liked them and they'd slow dance at pre-teen parties if the right song came on. Pre-teen girls? Geez, I wish. I was an angsty soon-to-be Longhorn by then. Edited April 1Apr 1 by Hayduke
April 1Apr 1 Author 15 minutes ago, Hayduke said: Never heard of these guys. Listened to "Brought Me" while watching the Horns beat TCU (and Maddie Booker's dad trying to be cool watching his daughter). Now listening to the whole Cat in the Rain album and enjoying their lyrics. Love the roots rock/bluegrass/Americana instrumentation. Two great things for you, @Al_4_ISU: it's only 2025, and someday you're going to look around and realize she's brought you two or three or four more adopted daughters, and maybe more. Especially if she's playing sports, which for some reason they seem to approach quite differently. When our daughter, who's 16 now, was around your daughter's age now, I stopped thinking I needed to get a gun and started thinking, "Man, those poor boys." She was three weeks premature and of course scared us to death, so I can only imagine how you view yours after all that struggle (which my sister and her husband also went through, and they've got an in-vitro grad in her mid-20s and another adopted daughter). But girls are tough in a way that most of us dads will never be, I think. For me, it's the summer or fall of 2026 that's going to wreck me. Our son left in 2021 for boot camp and that was tough. But having her head to college, or wherever, is going to be a completely different ball game. I think I saw Jermaine O’Neal ugly cry when we won the volleyball championship
April 1Apr 1 My father died just over two months ago. Maybe two weeks after, I was running some Saturday errands, driving around town. I decided to pull up the 70s Country Essentials playlist (or some similar list) on Apple Music.70s country was the soundtrack of my childhood. Lots of LONG family road trips, visiting grandparents in the valley, then Sonora, then Midland, and of course my other grandparents all the way into Mexico. Summer “vacations” were often tagging along on dad’s work road trips to Louisiana and New Mexico. But there was that one trip in June of ‘79, we went all the way to Colorado and Utah. It was a pretty big chapter in our family’s life. And all along the way, we’d tune in to whatever station we could get that was playing Crystal Gayle, Don Williams, Dolly…all of it.So I’ve got the playlist going. Lovin Her Was Easier by the Glaser Brothers. Charley Pride. Linda Rondstadt. The feels were bubbling up. And then John Denver’s Annie’s Song came on. Sounded like Colorado. Sounded like the summer of 79 on the road in my dad’s new Mercury Marquis that ended up begin my first car. And it washed over me to drown me. I just fucking broke. I wept. I don’t know how I finished the drive home, I don’t know the last time I cried like that.I walked in the door, and my wife immediately sees my face and asks “are you ok?” I shook my head, and the tears and sobs came all over again.At that moment, on a Saturday afternoon, in the shadow - or light, I’m not sure - cast by my dead father, the music got me.
April 1Apr 1 A few months ago I got on a Waxahatchee kick. I was in a pretty down place when I first heard this song. Made me cry. Good tears, though. I had no idea it was a Dolly song.
April 1Apr 1 4 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said: I think I saw Jermaine O’Neal ugly cry when we won the volleyball championship I remember that too; that was cool. Women's sports are really fun when it gets to that stage and it's your team. It's just a different kind of emotion, and dads are just big old bags of wimpiness. The reactions of Rori Harmon and Vic Schaefer tonight, when they knew they were going back to the Final Four and there were still a few seconds left in the game, were just a blast. Don't know if you saw it, but Harmon was holding the ball and bent over toward the floor like she was going to lose it; Schaefer was squatting with his head down and looked like he was going to bawl.
April 1Apr 1 Author 10 minutes ago, Hayduke said: I remember that too; that was cool. Women's sports are really fun when it gets to that stage and it's your team. It's just a different kind of emotion, and dads are just big old bags of wimpiness. The reactions of Rori Harmon and Vic Schaefer tonight, when they knew they were going back to the Final Four and there were still a few seconds left in the game, were just a blast. Don't know if you saw it, but Harmon was holding the ball and bent over toward the floor like she was going to lose it; Schaefer was squatting with his head down and looked like he was going to bawl. Saw it. Yep. It was touching.
April 1Apr 1 15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: My father died just over two months ago. Maybe two weeks after, I was running some Saturday errands, driving around town. I decided to pull up the 70s Country Essentials playlist (or some similar list) on Apple Music. 70s country was the soundtrack of my childhood. Lots of LONG family road trips, visiting grandparents in the valley, then Sonora, then Midland, and of course my other grandparents all the way into Mexico. Summer “vacations” were often tagging along on dad’s work road trips to Louisiana and New Mexico. But there was that one trip in June of ‘79, we went all the way to Colorado and Utah. It was a pretty big chapter in our family’s life. And all along the way, we’d tune in to whatever station we could get that was playing Crystal Gayle, Don Williams, Dolly…all of it. So I’ve got the playlist going. Lovin Her Was Easier by the Glaser Brothers. Charley Pride. Linda Rondstadt. The feels were bubbling up. And then John Denver’s Annie’s Song came on. Sounded like Colorado. Sounded like the summer of 79 on the road in my dad’s new Mercury Marquis that ended up begin my first car. And it washed over me to drown me. I just fucking broke. I wept. I don’t know how I finished the drive home, I don’t know the last time I cried like that. I walked in the door, and my wife immediately sees my face and asks “are you ok?” I shook my head, and the tears and sobs came all over again. At that moment, on a Saturday afternoon, in the shadow - or light, I’m not sure - cast by my dead father, the music got me. Took our daughter to a running camp in Colorado a couple of years ago and got some much-needed alone time with my wife. Spent a little time with some of her family as well and got together with an old friend. The kind of vacation that everybody needs, and it made me start putting together a playlist that also includes some John Denver. Not many mean "Colorado" like he does. I'm sorry about your father. Sounds like you had some great memories with him, and not everybody gets those.
April 1Apr 1 Author 25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: My father died just over two months ago. Maybe two weeks after, I was running some Saturday errands, driving around town. I decided to pull up the 70s Country Essentials playlist (or some similar list) on Apple Music. 70s country was the soundtrack of my childhood. Lots of LONG family road trips, visiting grandparents in the valley, then Sonora, then Midland, and of course my other grandparents all the way into Mexico. Summer “vacations” were often tagging along on dad’s work road trips to Louisiana and New Mexico. But there was that one trip in June of ‘79, we went all the way to Colorado and Utah. It was a pretty big chapter in our family’s life. And all along the way, we’d tune in to whatever station we could get that was playing Crystal Gayle, Don Williams, Dolly…all of it. So I’ve got the playlist going. Lovin Her Was Easier by the Glaser Brothers. Charley Pride. Linda Rondstadt. The feels were bubbling up. And then John Denver’s Annie’s Song came on. Sounded like Colorado. Sounded like the summer of 79 on the road in my dad’s new Mercury Marquis that ended up begin my first car. And it washed over me to drown me. I just fucking broke. I wept. I don’t know how I finished the drive home, I don’t know the last time I cried like that. I walked in the door, and my wife immediately sees my face and asks “are you ok?” I shook my head, and the tears and sobs came all over again. At that moment, on a Saturday afternoon, in the shadow - or light, I’m not sure - cast by my dead father, the music got me. Right on. You’re quite a storyteller. I grew up poor. Parents still managed to find a way to take us on a few vacations. Thinking of my young children parents barely a lick of English. So much racism back then but they didn’t seem to care. They also sent money back to the homeland. Yea we were poor poor. Trip to Houston was considered vacation ———————————————— I was in Austin for the Clemson game. Maybe first time in five years. Peeps I hadn’t seen in ten years. Lots of tight embraces. We’re all on the wrong side of 40. I live I. California and have no intention of moving back to Texas for a few reasons. So how often will k get to see these guys. anyways I did an Instagram lip and played this song : this world is changing fast and we can’t stop it Edited April 1Apr 1 by Im_smarter_then_you
April 1Apr 1 1 hour ago, ABZ said: Some good sad songs here. Especially Jason Isbell "If We Were Vampires" and TVZ "Waiting Around to Die". On the topic of past relationship songs as some have shared before: Watched all three of those you shared and liked them all, but I think I'm too simple to be affected in the same way that perhaps you were because of the tempo of the Arctic Monkeys and the imagery in the Death Cab for Cutie video. Old 97's had more of the combo of tempo, lyrics and overall feel to bring the sentiment. But I certainly appreciate a good relationship song that doesn't make me feel like jumping off my porch. And now I'm done with this stuff for the night or I'll never get caught up.
April 7Apr 7 Author I've posted enough around these parts for everyone to know my politics. Raise your hand if you're a minority with a trans child? I don't know George's politics, I don't know how manufactured this song is, but this just hits. I'm Texan. George is the king of Texas, the bridge between real country. He and Alan Jackson may have been the end. IDK where Garth fits. This was a horrible movie, but I dated quite a few country girls.
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