http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/05/19/406500138/the-songs-that-make-us-cry

 

Coldplay's Fix You is on the list, what songs make you cry?

 

[h=1]The Songs That Make Us Cry[/h]

What song makes you cry? It could be "Adagio for Strings," but it could also be "Highway to Hell." As you'll learn on this week's All Songs Considered, the music that gets us weeping can have as much, or more, to do with association than with composition.

Last week we sent out a request for songs that make our listeners cry. After reading (and sniffling) through more than 7,000 responses, we've pulled ourselves together and are ready to share a few. As if that weren't enough crumpled tissues, we also asked musician Christopher Paul Stelling to jump into the studio moments after performing a Tiny Desk Concert to talk to us about his pick. The anecdotes we share range from humorous to heartbreaking: You'll hear about magic mushrooms, a funeral dead-set on not being typical, a sequel to one of the songs featured on our first show on this theme, back in 2011 and a pact between brothers and their best friend that gets devastatingly tested, and then, sooner than anyone could imagine, tested again.

Reading and listening to your stories, we learned that what makes us all cry is sometimes in the DNA of a song. Some music is clearly written as an avenue for expressing overwhelming emotion. But other picks surprised us — AC/DC? Really? — until we heard how they fit in the contexts of listeners' lives. Our biggest takeaway was this: Part of the magic of art is that we stitch meaning into everything we see and hear, whether artists leave us a needle and thread or not.

We could only pick a few of the stories we heard, of course. Check back on the ASC blog and our social media over the next week to hear more.

 

 

 

[h=4]Fix You[/h]

• Artist: Coldplay
  
• From: X&Y
  

We got two very different stories about Coldplay's massive hit "Fix You." The first came from Evan:

"I heard it for the first time when I tried magic mushrooms at age 19. It came on while I was sitting in the car with a friend in his driveway, and I remember just feeling how powerful it was. I could feel it and see it even. So I put the song on replay on the way to breakup with my boyfriend at the time so I would look sadder than I was. It worked."

We also got this powerful explanation from Holly:

"I have two sons who have been diagnosed with severe autism, and are both non-verbal. That was not always the case, they both suffered a major regression and lost their speech among numerous other skills. It was devastating to watch my children regress right before my eyes, and there was nothing I could do to stop it from happening. [This song] reminds me of how hard I have tried to help my children over come their diagnoses of "autism of the regress kind" I know my children are in there, and I will never give up helping them find their voice."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Suburbs, God I love this album

 

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I try not to cry when I hear a song or watch a movie that is sad or very moving. But Miracles came in a moment when I decided to "believe in miracles" so I can't help thinking about it and tears appear.

Apart from that the X&Y album describes my life at the moment and "tears stream down my face"

depends on my mood. In the last few days it was also Miracles ( Coldplay )....Photograph ( Ed Sheeran ) and Wait ( M83)...memories, future thoughts came within the music and the lyrics...I remember a day 2 years ago when I couldn:t sleep at night because of strong heartsickness ..I put my mp3 player into bed and listened to FIX YOU ...and I cried and screamed.

and O ( Live 2014 Version )..Jonnys part...

Coldplay's Fix You on NPR's list of "Songs that Make Us Cry"

 

depends on my mood. In the last few days it was also Miracles ( Coldplay )....Photograph ( Ed Sheeran ) and Wait ( M83)...memories, future thoughts came within the music and the lyrics...I remember a day 2 years ago when I couldn:t sleep at night because of strong heartsickness ..I put my mp3 player into bed and listened to FIX YOU ...and I cried and screamed.

 

Wow, can't believe you mentioned Wait by M83. Even though it has few words it still manages to be hauntingly beautiful.

 

By far and away my favorite on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.

 

 

[smoke is rising from the houses]

I always get teary eyed when I listen to really traditionally and primal choirs and music, say, this for example:

 

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And this one, especially from 5:20 onwards:

 

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You might hate this kind of genre, but the singers are pretty impressive you gotta admit.

 

There's something about human voices by itself that is very, I don't know, moving to me. It's so pristine.

 

 

What I wouldn't give for Coldplay so make such an epic Acapella °___° Just imagine singing as powerful as during the Viva chorus, but for an ENTIRE song.

I fear I'd never stop crying then ahaha

Wow, can't believe you mentioned Wait by M83. Even though it has few words it still manages to be hauntingly beautiful.

 

By far and away my favorite on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.

 

 

 

[smoke is rising from the houses]

 

 

it is undescribably beautiful and spherical in the end..I heard the song for the first time about a year ago in the movie " The Fault in Our Stars".

this gets me every time :cry:

 

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Definitely this from Rush of Blood to the Head.

 

Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn

And do back the things it did to you in return