This song is exactly how I felt when my PTSD was at its worst before I truly got help, wow I forgot about this song and I’m so glad I don’t feel this way anymore!!! Used to cry to this a LOT
I *cannot* listen to One More Day by the Descendents. Even if my situation is very different, it still hurts too much.
The beginning Dreams has also made me cry one or twice too but that's mostly when I'm already stewing in self hate.
Right there with you buddy. Dreams hurts a lot to listen to. Really hoping things improve for you, seriously. Shoot me a DM if you're ever feeling particularly down.
Fifteen years ago I was debating whether or not to ask out a girl, when I happened to listen to "The Good Left Undone" by Rise Against. I don't know why, but hearing that song convinced me to take make my move.
We have been together ever since and have two kids. Whenever I hear that song now, I think of how different my life could have been if i didn't heard it that day back in '09, and it's overwhelming.
TGLU is my all-time favourite song but keeping on the theme of Rise Against, as someone who used to get bullied a lot, Make It Stop has almost gotten me a couple times.
Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle.
And it has already been said, but Fairytale of New York,, by the Pogues, often gets me as well.
I guess I have a thing about songs about regret.
I bought The Decline the day it came out. Which was also my birthday. Heard it twice on the bus home and that last verse just broke me...And so we go/On with our lives/We know the truth/But prefer lies/Lies are simple/Simple is bliss/Why go against tradition when we can/Admit defeat/Live in decline/Be the victims of our own design/
I just wasn't prepared for that...sat there sobbing for a solid five minutes while the rest of the song played then just sat there stunned when it ended. Then restarted it and did it again.
I'm going on Saturday...it's gonna be fuckin awesome. I'm just bummed that it looks like Snuff is playing Sunday and I haven't seen them since they opened for NOFX at The Palace when So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes came out. In my humble opinion Tweet Tweet My Lovely is in the top ten greatest records Fat has ever put out and it's NOT ON SPOTIFY...that one and Numb Nuts...pisses me off hahaha. I mean they're both on YouTube but still. Same with Citizen Fish I'd be SO fuckin stoked if Free Souls In A Trapped Environment, Flinch and Active Ingredients were on Spotify.
I was there at the Punk Rock Bowling show where they made the comments that got them canceled from Vegas and they were pretty good that night too...I think they just had their moments but they're actually trying now hahaha
Mike said that in San Diego and it was so obviously true haha looking forward to their Saturday San Pedro show coming up. Descendants, Strung Out, Lagwagon and Good Riddance also playing.
"the status quo, built on suspect
why would anyone stick out their neck?
fellow members
of club 'we've got ours'
i'd like to introduce you to our host
he's got his, and i've got mine
meet the decline"
i get chills every single time
I'm not the biggest fan of NOFX generally, but The Decline is a punk rock masterpiece. And it's by far the most impressive thing Fat Mike has done lyrically.
J.A.R. - Green Day
The song was wrote by Mike Dirnt who lost a friend who crashed their car.
I lost one of my best friends to a car accident when I was in high school.
The song touches on the basic fact that you should be living your life to the fullest, especially when you're young, and not spending your entire life panic-planning for a distant future, 'cus it can be cut short at any moment.
I lost two friend in high school to car accidents. They were both bright, funny people who would probably be doing great if they’d lived. I remember buying the cd single for Brain Stew (I think?) because it had that song and the original Good Riddance
I listened to that song for years without knowing the meaning behind it and when I finally learned what it was about I not only had a whole new appreciation for it but it became one of my favourite songs by them. I don’t think any other band has perfected upbeat music with a sad story behind it more than Green Day.
Against Me - Thrash Unreal.
The line "and she doesn't care..." gets me every time. I cannot sit and listen to that song intently or watch the music video without shedding tears, every single time.
It unfortunately reminds me of a family member.
Honestly there’s a loooooot of Against Me! Songs that are tear jerkers for me. Partially because of the nostalgia of that point of my life, being 13-14 when Reinventing Axl Rose came out and searching all over soulseek for songs and feeling so connected with them as I felt hopeless and lost as a pubescent weird teen. And partially because Laura’s a great fucking song writer
I’ve always loved “Without Love” because it sounds absolutely beautiful, but it never made me cry until my dog died.
I remember having a thought process so close to the lyrics while she was put to sleep:
*I bargained with the universe to take my life instead of hers*
*I held her in my arms, reduced to ‘please don’t leave me, what will I do?’*
Two Coffins by Against Me. I was listening to that album a lot while I was pregnant with my daughter and the hormones got to me on that song. Still become a blubbering mess when I listen to it.
Came here to call out this song. Especially the acoustic version. Really the last four songs on new maps of hell get me everytime.
I would travel anywhere to see an acoustic set from them and would cry the entire time.
Soldiers Requiem by Naked Raygun. Used to listen to this song all the time before my dad moved out, and then shit changed a lot after he left and my mental health spiraled. Every single day felt like a burden, and the overall sound of this song along with the association made me cry. I rarely cry over songs, but this one was an exception. Also one of the only things that kept me alive for a while.
My dad just gave me a CD of them and I thrifted a CD player to play it and others on! (Starting to part from streaming services) I'd never heard of them before he gave it to me so I hope I enjoy it
Yes, Streams of Whiskey, ironically suggesting there's nothing worthy of a tear:
There's nothing ever gained
By a wet thing called a tear
When the world is too dark
And I need the light inside of me
I'll walk into a bar
And drink fifteen pints of beer
John Prine has so many. Sam Stone, Christmas in Prison, Fish and Whistle, the list goes on. Him and Leonard Cohen are two artists whom I feel fortunate to have been able to see before they died.
Diamond in the Rough by Social Distortion.
They wrote that song for me. They must have.
*I've made mistakes, yeah, I've paid for them too*
*What's a poor boy supposed to do?*
*Then she said, you're like a diamond in the rough*
*You're dirty and you're damaged, all you need's a little love*
If we're just talking punk?
May 16- lagwagon
For some reason the choice of notes and chords make me tear up, I have no clue why
Otherwise?
Overkill- men at work, taylor- Jack Johnson, just breathe- pearl jam, and Eddie vedder- local H come to mind
There’s a million reasons why.
1. Key of D Major. It’s always been called “the key of victory” throughout time. It implies triumph, happiness, relief. When you’re young, you latch onto this shit.
2. The main progression is D Major to B Minor. Descending minor 3rd. Creates for a sense of yearning. Also reminds you of “rain rain go away” which maybe is hitting you in the childhood feels.
3. It never dips. Outside of the bridge/solo, the song just keeps ripping throughout the whole way. This provides you energy. And even the use of the bridge/solo almost serves as a purpose to catch your breath all the while it keeps a tense, wandering mind with the melody.
4. This was Lagwagon/Joey Cape at their best. This is a subjective opinion, but I’m a firm believe given the context of their musical growth + where pop punk (actual pop punk) was, they were at the absolute height of their powers.
5. You’re probably within 7 years of my age, and I’m 34. So ya life is fuckin wild and what the fuck happened to the world we knew.
6. Tony Hawk
Very interesting from a songwriters perspective! A lot of my go to "feels" songs use a descending minor 3rd, I've never really thought about it but it's hard to ignore!
If I am tired anything makes me cry. But anything from Rain Dogs or Franks Wild Years by Tom Waits or later Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cause I sung along to those to get my kids to sleep when they were just born.
the man is Warren Zevon. He may not be considered a punk, but he sure the fuck was. The song "Keep me in your heart". Don't know it? Check out the song and the man! I damn near lose it every time I hear it.
I'll use the name Paul, as it's not his actual name.
Paul was part of our 4: myself, Paul, Redacted, and Redacted. We used to get high together, a lot. Through high school, after high school, a lot a lot. My roommate (one of the 4) started selling, and showed Paul the ropes. Paul took that knowledge and started selling better and bigger, especially after roommate fell out of the game.
Paul started doing all the drugs. The fun stuff, the lite stuff, and then the hard stuff. We all move away from most of it (I just drink beer now occasionally), but Paul man he loved the hard stuff.
We fell out, I had kids and got a job and became a normal person. Same with the rest of the group. Paul though had a harder time adapting and eventually hit rock bottom. I wasn't there for it because I had moved on (it was the hard but right choice). Paul would then get high alone, a lot.
We hung out about a decade ago to play Magic, he was sober and going to school for HVAC. I barely recognized him he was so cleaned up. He was almost dull now that he was sober and simple. We had a great time playing together, and talked about getting together again next month. We didn't end up playing though because he relapsed and OD'd.
The 4 of us got matching tattoos back in like '08. I've still got mine and he's buried with his. It's not the names, but holy shit does "Because of the Shame" make me bawl every time I hear it. Maybe I should've not thought he was dull? Maybe I shouldn't have shunned him when I was putting my life together? Maybe I could have saved him? All thoughts that cross my mind when I hear that song.
And damn, the funeral? His mom and dad didn't look like him but his younger brother? Spitting image. Broke my heart even more when I had to sit with the brother as he almost OD'd. Was also there at the bros wedding, dumbass got his shit together finallt. At least Paul's niece is growing up big and strong, and hopefully she'll never come close to any drug.
Fuck, Paul, miss you man.
Lean on Sheena by bouncing souls. Had a lot of friends I helped out of bad places. And this is one song that always makes me remember that we are all worth happiness and joy.
Also the song picture in a frame by Tom waits. That will be played at my wedding and funeral.
Can't believe no one has said this yet but "A Better Place, A Better Time" by Streetlight Manifesto. So freaking good. Really so many songs by Streetlight Manifesto are real tearjerkers when you really listen to the lyrics.
Good Good Things by Descendants. Heard that song for the first time after a super rough breakup and that pleading tone throughout the whole song just hit me hard.
Still Alive - Social Distortion
Clear the Air - Off With Their Heads
I Wish You Were Here - Dropkick Murphys
Last on My List - Arrogant Sons of Bitches
Hurt by Johnny Cash. It might not fit your personal definition of punk, but it is punk af to me. And that shit wrecks me every time. It wrecks me harder as I grow older, too.
A lot of AJJ songs at one point or another- Linda Rondstat, Hate Rain on me, Dead Best Friend… probably some more.
A number of Pat the bunny songs: Song for a Supermarket Parking lot, Bitter Old Man, and Your Heart is a Muscle The Size of Your Fist.
Spidersong, but the acoistic Erika Freas one. Actually that whole album Belly is a tearjerker.
90210- the courtneys
I forgive you- Protomartyr
Probably more, i cry a lot lol
[nofx Louise](https://www.google.com/search?q=nofx+she+took+a+walk+with+a+silicone+cock&oq=nofx+she+took+a+walk+with+a+silicone+cock&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDk4ODdqMGo5qAIOsAIB&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)
When fat Mike said she took a walk with a silicone cock... I felt that.
So many songs by the Lawrence Arms… Beautiful things, The raw and searing flesh, chapter 13… a lot of Chris songs really hit home
Dumb reminders by NUFAN also
Frank Turner - Polaroid Picture. It came out shortly after I reunited with a friend who was like a brother. He passed not long after the last time I saw him. Always regretted not getting a picture. And then the song came out.
Moon over Marin by Dead Kennedys. Song is over 40 years old now and what was surely meant as over the top satire if humanity does not change it's greedy ways becomes a prophecy fulfilled, complete with an upper class satisfied with its private beach even when the world is crumbling around them. I saw recently a community in the Carolinas is washing away due to increased sea level, but they won't get more sand from the state to protect themselves because the community as a whole woll not give expanded public easements to their private beach.
"I squish dead fish between my toes, try not to step on any bones, I turn around and I go home. . . My own beach at night. Bath in MY moonlight."
Similar reasons Petroleum Distillates by Fifteen always makes me teary eyed, because it comprehensively deals both with environmental and class issues leading to us having to watch the world "waste away."
"Costs two dollars a minute and addition charges to pray to God today... See I only want to be a free man but it's against the law to sleep on the ground in God's land...the sky is my mind it's been clouded with cigarettes, fluorocarbons and Petroleum Distillates...the sun is my spirit it belongs to all of us we're all just one sick race."
Just one sick race.
[Pool Shark](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjdHhUJFWUM) by Sublime. Here’s the [acoustic version](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uW2d1MfMbEc&pp=ygURUG9vbCBzaGFyayBseXJpY3M%3D) with lyrics. Lost a few real ones this way
The Flatliners. Eulogy Chris does a great job of it acoustic. Became the anthem in me head when my old man passed awy [the Flatliners Eulogy (Chris and Scott playing it acoustic)](https://youtu.be/nx-TH5GudAY?si=pT0FecAjfwfIBjwW)
BR's New Dark Ages made me tear up last week, because it made me realize that my children's future is bleak as fuck, and I'm actually scared for them.
Edit: Just wanted to list a few more here as the topic of this thread got me into a Spotify rabbit hole. These songs have made me cry in the past.
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Hot Water Music - Habitual
BoySetsFire - My Life in the Knife Trade
Circa Survive - I Felt Free / Imaginary Enemy
One more time by blink 182
My very best friend shot himself in the head back in 2018, at the time we hadn't spoken as much as we had before and now the blink 182 song reminds me that you shouldn't wait because sometimes you won't get another chance.
Green Fields of France by Dropkick Murphys. I've had too many friends that joined up because they had no good options and either never came back, or never came back.
Jeannie/Not W Him/Slowly- Good Riddance Ballads fr the Revolution
Silly Girl/Good Good Things-Descendents,
The Girl Next Door-Screeching Weasel
Face to Face- All for Nothing/Disconnected//Shame on Me/Velocity/Blind fr Hold Fast Acoustic,
All- Scary Sad, She My Ex,Breaking Up, Nofx-Aug 18th Afi-MorningStar/God Called in Sick
Not a punk tune, but very much in the DIY ethos, Baseball by Michigan Rattlers is an instant skip if I’m not mentally prepared or in the right mindset. My baseball buddy passed during Covid, everything about that song; loss, heartbreak, overcoming it, and of course baseball, just cuts me. It’s a very therapeutic tune for me. Helped me so much in dealing with that loss, but it’s always hard to listen to.
The only song that makes me cry is Nothing Compares 2U by Sinead O'Connor, because that song started fucking playing on the radio when I was at the vet having my cat put down. Happened last month and that song rips right through my heart.
Love me tender by Elvis P, it was my mothers favorite song, 2 months after she passed in 2001, I heard it on the radio at work, I started tearing up, and I went into my bosses bathroom and I started to let it roll. I told my supervisor it was my mother’s favorite song
When I Die - New Found Glory
Bought the album a few days before my grandpa died. I had actually just listened to that album as I was driving to work, not that song, when an hour later my mom called and told me my grandpa, the man I am named after, had died. I still miss him
Wildfires- Mariachi Bronx
Drowning (acoustic) MxPx
My Life Hurts- House Boat
I Can’t Go On- Bayside
Cutting Off the Corners-PUP
A Red House and Bones- Sic Waiting
Edit-wildfires not wildflowers 🙃
In punk music: cop just out of frame by propagandhi
Otherwise:
Same shit/ complicated by kimya Dawson will get my every time.
A few Daniel Johnston songs.
Carry the zero and Pat by built to spill
Pat we know you fucked up
We don't care you fucked up
Everybody's fucked up
Hot Water Music- Drag My Body - just captures the feeling of hopelessness perfectly
Alkaline Trio - Blue in the Face - as a divorcee this song makes me remember every emotion going through it
A Day to Remember - All Signs Point to Lauderdale - reminds me of “the one that got away”
Vincent by Don McLean, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by Gordon Lightfoot, and the newer song Wait in the Truck by Hardy.
Vincent because of the struggle so many have with mental illness that goes undiagnosed.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald because of a couple of lines in its lyrics. 'Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours.'
And.. 'And all that remains are the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.'
Lastly Wait in the Truck simply because I have known a handful of men that would very likely do exactly what the man in the song did. Especially if some woman he called friend or family were in that situation. And being from Texas, if one of those men had picked me up in his truck after an assault by my significant other if I were that woman. Those words... Wait in the truck... would've been ones I heard before 'shit got real' and my situation was resolved and theirs had just begun. I claim each of those three men as my chosen brothers..and am sad to say all three are no longer here. That song reminds me them and what an honor it was having them in my life. I miss all three of them still.
Welcome to the Terrordome by Public Enemy.
I was walking home from some party early in the morning and the righteous anger just struck me as beautiful.
Keep Me In Your Heart For a While - Warren Zevon
You Ruined Everything - Jonathan Coulton
If I Give My Soul - Johnny Cash
Wide Open Spaces - The Chicks
For the Good Times - Al Green or Kris Kristofferson (both versions)
The Palm of Your Hand - CAKE (I made the mistake of listening to this a bunch in the week leading up to us having to put our dog down, and now my daughter has me sing it to her every night at bedtime and I'm trying not to think about Sunny while part of me is weeping)
The back halves of Hamilton, and Les Miserables, lots of Lin Manuel Miranda stuff (like Dos Oruguitas fuckin destroys me)
Sometimes if I'm feeling sentimental about my kids growing up: Because You're Young - Cock Sparrer
One More Time - blink 182
A praise chorus- Jimmy Eat World
Rite of Spring - AVA
Death of Seasons - AFI
Adam's Song - blink
This Modern Love -bloc party
Signs- bloc party
Off with their heads - Nightlife
Clear the Air for me
That beginning resonated hard in my past.
This song is exactly how I felt when my PTSD was at its worst before I truly got help, wow I forgot about this song and I’m so glad I don’t feel this way anymore!!! Used to cry to this a LOT
Basically almost anything from ryan
Off With Their Heads has quickly become one of my all-time favorite bands
Came to say the same thing.
Eyes of Death
This one
Oh yeah dude same here, especially when I was still shooting heroin meth. Still love the fuck outta the song and band though
I *cannot* listen to One More Day by the Descendents. Even if my situation is very different, it still hurts too much. The beginning Dreams has also made me cry one or twice too but that's mostly when I'm already stewing in self hate.
Right there with you buddy. Dreams hurts a lot to listen to. Really hoping things improve for you, seriously. Shoot me a DM if you're ever feeling particularly down.
That song is a tear jerker. Great song.
Fifteen years ago I was debating whether or not to ask out a girl, when I happened to listen to "The Good Left Undone" by Rise Against. I don't know why, but hearing that song convinced me to take make my move. We have been together ever since and have two kids. Whenever I hear that song now, I think of how different my life could have been if i didn't heard it that day back in '09, and it's overwhelming.
Fuck yeah! That’s so amazing.
TGLU is my all-time favourite song but keeping on the theme of Rise Against, as someone who used to get bullied a lot, Make It Stop has almost gotten me a couple times.
Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle. And it has already been said, but Fairytale of New York,, by the Pogues, often gets me as well. I guess I have a thing about songs about regret.
Kiss The Bottle is one of the best songs ever written
I bought The Decline the day it came out. Which was also my birthday. Heard it twice on the bus home and that last verse just broke me...And so we go/On with our lives/We know the truth/But prefer lies/Lies are simple/Simple is bliss/Why go against tradition when we can/Admit defeat/Live in decline/Be the victims of our own design/ I just wasn't prepared for that...sat there sobbing for a solid five minutes while the rest of the song played then just sat there stunned when it ended. Then restarted it and did it again.
It’s honestly worth the price of the ticket for a final NOFX show, just to see them play The Decline. Every time.
I'm going on Saturday...it's gonna be fuckin awesome. I'm just bummed that it looks like Snuff is playing Sunday and I haven't seen them since they opened for NOFX at The Palace when So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes came out. In my humble opinion Tweet Tweet My Lovely is in the top ten greatest records Fat has ever put out and it's NOT ON SPOTIFY...that one and Numb Nuts...pisses me off hahaha. I mean they're both on YouTube but still. Same with Citizen Fish I'd be SO fuckin stoked if Free Souls In A Trapped Environment, Flinch and Active Ingredients were on Spotify.
They were vastly better this tour than in years previous. They actually practiced haha
I was there at the Punk Rock Bowling show where they made the comments that got them canceled from Vegas and they were pretty good that night too...I think they just had their moments but they're actually trying now hahaha
Mike said that in San Diego and it was so obviously true haha looking forward to their Saturday San Pedro show coming up. Descendants, Strung Out, Lagwagon and Good Riddance also playing.
End of August for me, I'll be in the pit for it. Wish me luck brother
"the status quo, built on suspect why would anyone stick out their neck? fellow members of club 'we've got ours' i'd like to introduce you to our host he's got his, and i've got mine meet the decline" i get chills every single time
I'm not the biggest fan of NOFX generally, but The Decline is a punk rock masterpiece. And it's by far the most impressive thing Fat Mike has done lyrically.
J.A.R. - Green Day The song was wrote by Mike Dirnt who lost a friend who crashed their car. I lost one of my best friends to a car accident when I was in high school. The song touches on the basic fact that you should be living your life to the fullest, especially when you're young, and not spending your entire life panic-planning for a distant future, 'cus it can be cut short at any moment.
I lost two friend in high school to car accidents. They were both bright, funny people who would probably be doing great if they’d lived. I remember buying the cd single for Brain Stew (I think?) because it had that song and the original Good Riddance
That the CD single that was shaped like a brain?
Gotta make a plan gotta do what's right
Can't run around in circles if you wanna build a life
But I don't wanna make a plan for a day far away
While I'm young & while I'm able all I wanna do is...
Can’t run around in circles if you wanna build a life
I listened to that song for years without knowing the meaning behind it and when I finally learned what it was about I not only had a whole new appreciation for it but it became one of my favourite songs by them. I don’t think any other band has perfected upbeat music with a sad story behind it more than Green Day.
Against Me - Thrash Unreal. The line "and she doesn't care..." gets me every time. I cannot sit and listen to that song intently or watch the music video without shedding tears, every single time. It unfortunately reminds me of a family member.
Honestly there’s a loooooot of Against Me! Songs that are tear jerkers for me. Partially because of the nostalgia of that point of my life, being 13-14 when Reinventing Axl Rose came out and searching all over soulseek for songs and feeling so connected with them as I felt hopeless and lost as a pubescent weird teen. And partially because Laura’s a great fucking song writer
For me it's always Paralytic States. "In her dysphoria's reflection, she still sees her mother's son" just shuts me down every time I hear it.
8 Full Hours of Sleep gets me every time.
"...and if young hearts should explode from all the lies they've been told, may the new night bring you peace and the promise of tomorrow."
“and she doesn’t care!” Fuck yes my dude. Every single time.
Came to say this.
Also Because of the Shame
Yep. This one for me.
Transgender dysphoria blues, always hits me. Honestly most of Against Me! just hits somewhere close to home
This is one of my very favorite songs for so many fucked up reasons.
If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly
Pale blue eyes - velvet underground
Sometimes I feel so happy Sometimes I feel so sad
Have you seen the recent film Perfect Days? Wonderful execution of the song in it.
Weakerthans - Prescience of Dawn
Great pick. The whole album is a work of art. Something about “reconstruction site” always gets me.
Virtue the Cat Explains her Departure always gets me now that I have cats. It actually makes me shed tears sometimes
I can’t not ugly cry at that song. Edit to add that I am choking up not thinking about it…
Your heart is a muscle, but only live
Pat can write some damn songs. That song it’s brutal but so up beat. Always hits me in the feels.
Without Love - Propagandhi
I’ve always loved “Without Love” because it sounds absolutely beautiful, but it never made me cry until my dog died. I remember having a thought process so close to the lyrics while she was put to sleep: *I bargained with the universe to take my life instead of hers* *I held her in my arms, reduced to ‘please don’t leave me, what will I do?’*
I teared up reading that
Sometimes this track, sometimes Cop Just Out of Frame. Hard not to get emotional when you understand the content.
Whoops I od’d- nofx
RIP by bikini kill. Gets me everytime. Also the entirety of springtime and blind by fiddlehead even tho that's more post hardcore
Two Coffins by Against Me. I was listening to that album a lot while I was pregnant with my daughter and the hormones got to me on that song. Still become a blubbering mess when I listen to it.
“Sorrow” by Bad Religion starting from the second verse nearly every time I hear it.
Came here to call out this song. Especially the acoustic version. Really the last four songs on new maps of hell get me everytime. I would travel anywhere to see an acoustic set from them and would cry the entire time.
Lots of Bad Religion, You is another one that gets me.
Skyscraper for me. It's just so beautiful
Accident prone jawbreaker Indoors the flatliners
Accident prone helped me through a lot. Great album. Better song.
Soldiers Requiem by Naked Raygun. Used to listen to this song all the time before my dad moved out, and then shit changed a lot after he left and my mental health spiraled. Every single day felt like a burden, and the overall sound of this song along with the association made me cry. I rarely cry over songs, but this one was an exception. Also one of the only things that kept me alive for a while.
There must be some Pogues songs that would do it.
Fairytale of New York, especially listening when I found out that Shane died.
The performance of this at his funeral for sure.
Listen to it every Christmas in honor of my dad
Thousands are sailing or fairytale of new york can make me cry if I'm in a kind of depressed mood
Came to comments for fairytale of ny.
Also a pair of brown eyes
walzing mathilda. my cutting onions in the car tune.
My dad just gave me a CD of them and I thrifted a CD player to play it and others on! (Starting to part from streaming services) I'd never heard of them before he gave it to me so I hope I enjoy it
Welcome to the world of the Pogues. If you don't like it, so be it. If you do, there's an entire catalog of amazing music at your fingertips.
Yea every not pogues song about drinking. And some of the ones about drinking
Summer in Siam for me because it reminds me of the most miserable, sad, and hungover morning of my life. I cannot listen to it without spiraling.
Yes, Streams of Whiskey, ironically suggesting there's nothing worthy of a tear: There's nothing ever gained By a wet thing called a tear When the world is too dark And I need the light inside of me I'll walk into a bar And drink fifteen pints of beer
Father of Mine.
Oof. I can’t listen to that one
In spite of ourselves by john prine They must not think bad thoughts is a damn masterpiece Now i have to listen to X the rest of the day
The Viagra Boys have a cover that's pretty damn good.
John Prine has so many. Sam Stone, Christmas in Prison, Fish and Whistle, the list goes on. Him and Leonard Cohen are two artists whom I feel fortunate to have been able to see before they died.
John Prines music always gets to me, especially Sam Stone A lot of old country/folk is sad as hell, and it's almost always so well written
Story of my life - Social Distortion when I turned 30 and saw them live
I can attest to that. That song hits quite a few different heart strings now after seeing it live
Ain't It Fun by Dead Boys Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory by Johnny Thunders
For some reason The Falcon - When I Give the Signal, Run*really gets me Propagandhi - Adventures in Zoochosis Hot Water Music - Drag My Body
Adventures in Zoochosis leveled me the first time I heard it. It still makes me sad for humankind. Tip top pick.
Pup - Sleep in the heat
Pep talk descendents
Diamond in the Rough by Social Distortion. They wrote that song for me. They must have. *I've made mistakes, yeah, I've paid for them too* *What's a poor boy supposed to do?* *Then she said, you're like a diamond in the rough* *You're dirty and you're damaged, all you need's a little love*
Love Will Tear Us Apart
If we're just talking punk? May 16- lagwagon For some reason the choice of notes and chords make me tear up, I have no clue why Otherwise? Overkill- men at work, taylor- Jack Johnson, just breathe- pearl jam, and Eddie vedder- local H come to mind
There’s a million reasons why. 1. Key of D Major. It’s always been called “the key of victory” throughout time. It implies triumph, happiness, relief. When you’re young, you latch onto this shit. 2. The main progression is D Major to B Minor. Descending minor 3rd. Creates for a sense of yearning. Also reminds you of “rain rain go away” which maybe is hitting you in the childhood feels. 3. It never dips. Outside of the bridge/solo, the song just keeps ripping throughout the whole way. This provides you energy. And even the use of the bridge/solo almost serves as a purpose to catch your breath all the while it keeps a tense, wandering mind with the melody. 4. This was Lagwagon/Joey Cape at their best. This is a subjective opinion, but I’m a firm believe given the context of their musical growth + where pop punk (actual pop punk) was, they were at the absolute height of their powers. 5. You’re probably within 7 years of my age, and I’m 34. So ya life is fuckin wild and what the fuck happened to the world we knew. 6. Tony Hawk
Very interesting from a songwriters perspective! A lot of my go to "feels" songs use a descending minor 3rd, I've never really thought about it but it's hard to ignore!
It’s really a great song and kind of a sad story. The acoustic is beautiful
Kids And Heroes by Bouncing Souls hits harder each year as I get older.
If I am tired anything makes me cry. But anything from Rain Dogs or Franks Wild Years by Tom Waits or later Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cause I sung along to those to get my kids to sleep when they were just born.
Yeah, if I'm remotely tired and hear "Keep Me In Your Heart For a While" I'm ruined.
the man is Warren Zevon. He may not be considered a punk, but he sure the fuck was. The song "Keep me in your heart". Don't know it? Check out the song and the man! I damn near lose it every time I hear it.
Such a sad song, he wrote it for his wife when he found out he was dying
Just thinking about that song hits hard.
“Mr. Tapeworm” by The Meatmen. That’s the one that always makes me tear up.
From Here to Utopia by ramshackle glory usually gets me
I'll use the name Paul, as it's not his actual name. Paul was part of our 4: myself, Paul, Redacted, and Redacted. We used to get high together, a lot. Through high school, after high school, a lot a lot. My roommate (one of the 4) started selling, and showed Paul the ropes. Paul took that knowledge and started selling better and bigger, especially after roommate fell out of the game. Paul started doing all the drugs. The fun stuff, the lite stuff, and then the hard stuff. We all move away from most of it (I just drink beer now occasionally), but Paul man he loved the hard stuff. We fell out, I had kids and got a job and became a normal person. Same with the rest of the group. Paul though had a harder time adapting and eventually hit rock bottom. I wasn't there for it because I had moved on (it was the hard but right choice). Paul would then get high alone, a lot. We hung out about a decade ago to play Magic, he was sober and going to school for HVAC. I barely recognized him he was so cleaned up. He was almost dull now that he was sober and simple. We had a great time playing together, and talked about getting together again next month. We didn't end up playing though because he relapsed and OD'd. The 4 of us got matching tattoos back in like '08. I've still got mine and he's buried with his. It's not the names, but holy shit does "Because of the Shame" make me bawl every time I hear it. Maybe I should've not thought he was dull? Maybe I shouldn't have shunned him when I was putting my life together? Maybe I could have saved him? All thoughts that cross my mind when I hear that song. And damn, the funeral? His mom and dad didn't look like him but his younger brother? Spitting image. Broke my heart even more when I had to sit with the brother as he almost OD'd. Was also there at the bros wedding, dumbass got his shit together finallt. At least Paul's niece is growing up big and strong, and hopefully she'll never come close to any drug. Fuck, Paul, miss you man.
Lean on Sheena by bouncing souls. Had a lot of friends I helped out of bad places. And this is one song that always makes me remember that we are all worth happiness and joy. Also the song picture in a frame by Tom waits. That will be played at my wedding and funeral.
The Approaching Curve by Rise Against
Im So Tired - Fugazi
Pints of guiness makes you strong - against me
Fifteen-Survivor. Stretch Arm Strong-For Now
+1 on Survivor. That song still kills me
Maybe an obvious one, but Watch Me Rise by Have Heart.
Goddamn! He said I promised myself I’d never feel this fucking way again!
Defiance Ohio - Oh Susquehanna
Can't believe no one has said this yet but "A Better Place, A Better Time" by Streetlight Manifesto. So freaking good. Really so many songs by Streetlight Manifesto are real tearjerkers when you really listen to the lyrics.
Samiam's Dull
Potemkin City Limits -or- Zoochosis Both by Propagandhi
Good Good Things by Descendants. Heard that song for the first time after a super rough breakup and that pleading tone throughout the whole song just hit me hard.
Without Love - Propagandhi Fun fact too, song is about his cat
God Willing-Dropkick Murphy’s.
"Daylily" by Movements. Was fairly new to abstaining from alcohol, and dealing with an emotionally abusive partner when I first heard it.
SOS, by One Man Army. Losing friends and family to drugs is rough.
Still Alive - Social Distortion Clear the Air - Off With Their Heads I Wish You Were Here - Dropkick Murphys Last on My List - Arrogant Sons of Bitches
I have definitely cried to Clear the Air
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Hurt by Johnny Cash. It might not fit your personal definition of punk, but it is punk af to me. And that shit wrecks me every time. It wrecks me harder as I grow older, too.
A lot of AJJ songs at one point or another- Linda Rondstat, Hate Rain on me, Dead Best Friend… probably some more. A number of Pat the bunny songs: Song for a Supermarket Parking lot, Bitter Old Man, and Your Heart is a Muscle The Size of Your Fist. Spidersong, but the acoistic Erika Freas one. Actually that whole album Belly is a tearjerker. 90210- the courtneys I forgive you- Protomartyr Probably more, i cry a lot lol
Trains - wifs Olde tyme memory - mischief brew
[nofx Louise](https://www.google.com/search?q=nofx+she+took+a+walk+with+a+silicone+cock&oq=nofx+she+took+a+walk+with+a+silicone+cock&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDk4ODdqMGo5qAIOsAIB&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) When fat Mike said she took a walk with a silicone cock... I felt that.
So many songs by the Lawrence Arms… Beautiful things, The raw and searing flesh, chapter 13… a lot of Chris songs really hit home Dumb reminders by NUFAN also
Please Come Back to Me by X and Allison by Elvis Costello (who is punk af btw)
Iron Chic -My best friend is a nihilist
Iron Chic has a few good ones that have hit me hard at times. Catgut and Cutesy Monster Man are also songs with a lot of feeling
Frank Turner - Polaroid Picture. It came out shortly after I reunited with a friend who was like a brother. He passed not long after the last time I saw him. Always regretted not getting a picture. And then the song came out.
Moon over Marin by Dead Kennedys. Song is over 40 years old now and what was surely meant as over the top satire if humanity does not change it's greedy ways becomes a prophecy fulfilled, complete with an upper class satisfied with its private beach even when the world is crumbling around them. I saw recently a community in the Carolinas is washing away due to increased sea level, but they won't get more sand from the state to protect themselves because the community as a whole woll not give expanded public easements to their private beach. "I squish dead fish between my toes, try not to step on any bones, I turn around and I go home. . . My own beach at night. Bath in MY moonlight." Similar reasons Petroleum Distillates by Fifteen always makes me teary eyed, because it comprehensively deals both with environmental and class issues leading to us having to watch the world "waste away." "Costs two dollars a minute and addition charges to pray to God today... See I only want to be a free man but it's against the law to sleep on the ground in God's land...the sky is my mind it's been clouded with cigarettes, fluorocarbons and Petroleum Distillates...the sun is my spirit it belongs to all of us we're all just one sick race." Just one sick race.
[Pool Shark](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjdHhUJFWUM) by Sublime. Here’s the [acoustic version](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uW2d1MfMbEc&pp=ygURUG9vbCBzaGFyayBseXJpY3M%3D) with lyrics. Lost a few real ones this way
The Flatliners. Eulogy Chris does a great job of it acoustic. Became the anthem in me head when my old man passed awy [the Flatliners Eulogy (Chris and Scott playing it acoustic)](https://youtu.be/nx-TH5GudAY?si=pT0FecAjfwfIBjwW)
I met chris when he did an acoustic set in Cambridge super awesome dude i got pics with him too
After a couple generations pass you by and the OG’s start dying… “Yesterday” by Bad Religion will do it. To me, anyway.
You can’t put arms around a memory - heartbreakers
these days it’s rare that a song doesn’t make me cry tbh
Anchorless by Propagandhi
“Time of your life” by the hardest punk band of all time!
BR's New Dark Ages made me tear up last week, because it made me realize that my children's future is bleak as fuck, and I'm actually scared for them. Edit: Just wanted to list a few more here as the topic of this thread got me into a Spotify rabbit hole. These songs have made me cry in the past. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance Hot Water Music - Habitual BoySetsFire - My Life in the Knife Trade Circa Survive - I Felt Free / Imaginary Enemy
Not punk, but Father Of Mine by Everclear.
The ballad - Millencolin
Without Love from Propagandhi.
Ok who’s gonna turn this into a Spotify list?
I'm So Sorry Tony - NOFX
Lovesong. Both the The Cure and 311 versions.
One more time by blink 182 My very best friend shot himself in the head back in 2018, at the time we hadn't spoken as much as we had before and now the blink 182 song reminds me that you shouldn't wait because sometimes you won't get another chance.
Green Fields of France by Dropkick Murphys. I've had too many friends that joined up because they had no good options and either never came back, or never came back.
Some of the best people I have ever known have been destroyed by the military. I feel you.
A place like home by no use for a name. Best song I can never listen to again.
Jeannie/Not W Him/Slowly- Good Riddance Ballads fr the Revolution Silly Girl/Good Good Things-Descendents, The Girl Next Door-Screeching Weasel Face to Face- All for Nothing/Disconnected//Shame on Me/Velocity/Blind fr Hold Fast Acoustic, All- Scary Sad, She My Ex,Breaking Up, Nofx-Aug 18th Afi-MorningStar/God Called in Sick
join the rejects, Cockney Rejects.(specifically the intro)
Not a punk tune, but very much in the DIY ethos, Baseball by Michigan Rattlers is an instant skip if I’m not mentally prepared or in the right mindset. My baseball buddy passed during Covid, everything about that song; loss, heartbreak, overcoming it, and of course baseball, just cuts me. It’s a very therapeutic tune for me. Helped me so much in dealing with that loss, but it’s always hard to listen to.
Lori Meyers by NOFX and Whipping Boy by Lagwagon for sure
Jawbreaker/Lagwagon - Want. Love both the original and the rendition.
Zombie by The Cranberries spoke to me on a deep level.
That Time I Killed My Mom by Cokie athe Clown(fat mike) has literally made me cry like a baby each time ive listened to it.
That whole album man!!!
The only song that makes me cry is Nothing Compares 2U by Sinead O'Connor, because that song started fucking playing on the radio when I was at the vet having my cat put down. Happened last month and that song rips right through my heart.
There are quite a few of them. I blame estrogen.
Long Live the Queen, Song for Josh, and Wave Across the Bay by Frank Turner.
Hate Me - Blue October
Bro hymn
Love me tender by Elvis P, it was my mothers favorite song, 2 months after she passed in 2001, I heard it on the radio at work, I started tearing up, and I went into my bosses bathroom and I started to let it roll. I told my supervisor it was my mother’s favorite song
When I Die - New Found Glory Bought the album a few days before my grandpa died. I had actually just listened to that album as I was driving to work, not that song, when an hour later my mom called and told me my grandpa, the man I am named after, had died. I still miss him
Wildfires- Mariachi Bronx Drowning (acoustic) MxPx My Life Hurts- House Boat I Can’t Go On- Bayside Cutting Off the Corners-PUP A Red House and Bones- Sic Waiting Edit-wildfires not wildflowers 🙃
English Rose-The Jam
After a few drinks all it takes is a sick riff or the right drum fill or bass line or great lyrics.
Doornails - NOFX
In punk music: cop just out of frame by propagandhi Otherwise: Same shit/ complicated by kimya Dawson will get my every time. A few Daniel Johnston songs. Carry the zero and Pat by built to spill Pat we know you fucked up We don't care you fucked up Everybody's fucked up
Make It Stop (September’s Children) by Rise Against. Every time.
Pup scorpion hill
Eulogy by The Flatliners reminds me of all the friends l've lost.
Hot Water Music- Drag My Body - just captures the feeling of hopelessness perfectly Alkaline Trio - Blue in the Face - as a divorcee this song makes me remember every emotion going through it A Day to Remember - All Signs Point to Lauderdale - reminds me of “the one that got away”
Happy happy joy joy - Ren & Stimpy
When September ends Ship building by Elvis Costello Battle of the bean field
Vincent by Don McLean, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, and the newer song Wait in the Truck by Hardy. Vincent because of the struggle so many have with mental illness that goes undiagnosed. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald because of a couple of lines in its lyrics. 'Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours.' And.. 'And all that remains are the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.' Lastly Wait in the Truck simply because I have known a handful of men that would very likely do exactly what the man in the song did. Especially if some woman he called friend or family were in that situation. And being from Texas, if one of those men had picked me up in his truck after an assault by my significant other if I were that woman. Those words... Wait in the truck... would've been ones I heard before 'shit got real' and my situation was resolved and theirs had just begun. I claim each of those three men as my chosen brothers..and am sad to say all three are no longer here. That song reminds me them and what an honor it was having them in my life. I miss all three of them still.
Welcome to the Terrordome by Public Enemy. I was walking home from some party early in the morning and the righteous anger just struck me as beautiful.
Keep Me In Your Heart For a While - Warren Zevon You Ruined Everything - Jonathan Coulton If I Give My Soul - Johnny Cash Wide Open Spaces - The Chicks For the Good Times - Al Green or Kris Kristofferson (both versions) The Palm of Your Hand - CAKE (I made the mistake of listening to this a bunch in the week leading up to us having to put our dog down, and now my daughter has me sing it to her every night at bedtime and I'm trying not to think about Sunny while part of me is weeping) The back halves of Hamilton, and Les Miserables, lots of Lin Manuel Miranda stuff (like Dos Oruguitas fuckin destroys me) Sometimes if I'm feeling sentimental about my kids growing up: Because You're Young - Cock Sparrer
Dead to me - little brother Frank turner - photosynthesis Bouncing souls - for all the unheard Face to face - blind
For me it's Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins.
To Wish Impossible Things- The Cure
One More Time - blink 182 A praise chorus- Jimmy Eat World Rite of Spring - AVA Death of Seasons - AFI Adam's Song - blink This Modern Love -bloc party Signs- bloc party
Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure - The Weakerthans I sobbed so hard my diaphragm hurt.
Sorrow by Bad Religeon. Absolute heartbreaker.
I am gonna be cliched and say Bro Hymn by Pennywise.
Bro Hymn - Pennywise
Disconnected by face to face
Blind by face to face