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Maybe you're tougher than I am, but I love a good cry at a show. If I go see a big act like Radiohead or U2 and I don't get a little weepy at some point, I feel let down (no pun intended. Also, I cried during both of these).
Sometimes it hits me when I'm not expecting. I thought I would cry during All My Friends at Bonnaroo. Instead, it was New York I Love You that brought me down (in a beautiful way). All My Friends had the lyrics to do it, but the quiet melancholy of the music in NYILU must have gotten to me after all the vibrant disco that came before.
What's a time you remember tearing up at a concert? What song was it? Why do you think it hit you so hard?
The start of Paul McCartney's set, Eight Days A Week. It had nothing to do with the song and everything to do with the pure joy I felt at being there.
Also, First Aid Kit (2014). When they started Emmylou I got super emotional thinking about my new wife and baby at home. (It was on our wedding playlist.)
And Brandi Carlile (2015). The story she told before That Year combined with her amazing performance of the song gave me all the feels.
I’ve cried at so many shows I can’t even begin to list them all. I get very emotional during shows, particularly if there’s alcohol and/or extracurriculars involved (shocker). But here are the top 3 that come to mind.
Paul McCartney - I’ve seen him 6 times and I’ve cried at every single show, usually during a different song(s) each time. At Bonnaroo (my first time seeing him) I full on SOBBED during Blackbird, Something, Hey Jude, and Carry That Weight. I also randomly cried when he played The Long and Winding Road once. No idea why. I don’t even like that song really.
The Wailers - I cried pretty hard during Three Little Birds the first time I saw them bc I was going through a rough time and it was right at sunset and everything in that moment was so perfect and it all just hit me right in the feels. No Woman No Cry got me once too.
Adele. How could you not shed a tear during Adele? This was another show I basically sobbed on and off throughout the entire thing. I straight up ugly cried for all of Don't You Remember, mostly bc it was reminds me of my uncle's death and it's hard for me to listen to it as it is, let alone live.
I have a ton but the last two good cries I had were at Mount Eerie and Julien Baker, both of which were last year, just a few days apart.
Mount Eerie destroyed me emotionally. The songs were about his wife’s passing (re: A Crow Looked At Me + Now Only). It was brutal for me to watch someone perform those songs while trying to engage a crowd from not leaving. It ranks as one of my favorite shows ever and I’m still in awe of it.
Julien Baker was more subtle about it. It took a few songs before I realized my eyes were watering up. This girl literally cut her heart up and laid it out for the world to hear. She started crying during the last song and ran off stage. You just knew it was over.
Great Idea for a thread. I’m sure I’ll update soon.
I also have a list of shows I cried after because I napped through them at the venue (see: Bikini Kill, Lungfish, Hoover, Gas).
I have a ton but the last two good cries I had were at Mount Eerie and Julien Baker, both of which were last year, just a few days apart.
Mount Eerie destroyed me emotionally. The songs were about his wife’s passing (re: A Crow Looked At Me + Now Only). It was brutal for me to watch someone perform those songs while trying to engage a crowd from not leaving. It ranks as one of my favorite shows ever and I’m still in awe of it.
Julien Baker was more subtle about it. It took a few songs before I realized my eyes were watering up. This girl literally cut her heart up and laid it out for the world to hear. She started crying during the last song and ran off stage. You just knew it was over.
Great Idea for a thread. I’m sure I’ll update soon.
I also have a list of shows I cried after because I napped through them at the venue (see: Bikini Kill, Lungfish, Hoover, Gas).
I don't think I've ever cried during a show, but I think both of those sets might get me for sure
Above & Beyond: Uh right after I got back in the crowd from pushing that button and all these people came up to me saying I did a great job etc. I'll never forget that show. Porter Robinson: His music was a huge part of my coping mechanism with bullying, I'd listen to him every single day and I just cried my heart somewhere in the grass after I'd seen 'm. Radiohead: At the end of the show, during Karma Police in Berlin, I really felt that 'for a minute there, I lost myself...'-line. The band already left but Thom kept singing with the crowd, really special moment. Amenra: One of the most intense concerts I've ever been to, cried on the way back home because it was so pure and raw, a lot of mixed emotions after that one (also because I felt a lot of anxiety going on my own to a metal concert ya know). Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Yeah, another fucking intense one. Stood second row, and got totally immersed into Cave's dark stories. Shed some tears during I need You and Distant Sky and probably some others but I remember those vividly. Was by miles my favorite show of last year.
I’ll come back with more, but the most noteworthy for me was at my first Bonnaroo. My grandma had died right before I left after battling Alzheimer’s for over a decade. When Elvis Costello started playing “Veronica”, a song about his Alzheimer’s stricken grandma, I absolutely lost it.
Above & Beyond: Uh right after I got back in the crowd from pushing that button and all these people came up to me saying I did a great job etc. I'll never forget that show.
Above & Beyond: Uh right after I got back in the crowd from pushing that button and all these people came up to me saying I did a great job etc. I'll never forget that show.
you got to push the button??? damn that is cool
It was the weirdest thing. It was the first time I ever decided to ditch my group and see some acts I really wanted to see (bc at the time they were more into dubstep and other basic EDM stuff and I was heading more into indietronica, trance and indierock). I had some things planned out (Odesza, Madeon, Above & Beyond and Porter) and it felt amazing on the first day seeing Madeon for the first time that it build up my confidence to go on my own to see Porter and A&B the day after. I even made a fucking cardboard (which I didn't bring to the show because I felt embarrased and left it in my badpack on the camping grounds) for Above & Beyond and dreamt about that day for so long that I got to see them, that you know maaybeee I could push the button? You know. So then first Porter happend and then like 1,5h after A&B happend. I had the biggest smile for one hour straight. Everything fell into place that evening.
Post by Launchpad McQuack on Jun 14, 2018 8:33:18 GMT -5
Jay Z performing Young Forever at Roo 2010 Paul McCartney at Roo 13 (various points) Flaming Lips performing Do You Realize in Central Park Radiohead performing Daily Mail at Roo 2012 LCD Soundsystem performing Someone Great at Webster Hall 2016
I cry on the reg at shows. Just going to focus on the times Phish got me teary-eyed. By no means exhaustive, but these are the moments I remember the most vividly:
Phish 3/6/2009 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton VA - Phish's comeback show after being broken up for five years. Opened with "Fluffhead", a major moment in the Phish canon that I won't get into here, but it was a big deal. However I didn't cry during "Fluffhead", it was the next song, those opening notes to "Divided Sky", that got me.
Phish 10/31/2009 Empire Polo Club, Indio CA - Again 2009 was Phish's comeback year, and I saw them 10 times that year. There was the Hampton reunion shows, summer tour, and then they doubled down on Phish tradition by throwing their first festival since the comeback AND they put it on Halloween. The "musical costume" set was the Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street". Most of those songs were FTP, but "Loving Cup" had been a Phish staple for a long time. A great song, but considered overplayed. But in the context of the musical costume set it was a different animal. I hate to admit glowsticks made me cry, but right when the peak lyric "what a beautiful buzz" was sang, an explosion of glowsticks in the first hundred rows or so show straight into the air. I wasn't ready for it and it was surprisingly beautiful. The bigness of the whole reunion year washed over me at that point, and for the first time I really accepted that this was real and Phish was back. It was a remarkably instantaneous transition from fear that I was going to lose this band and this community again to joy that we weren't going anywhere for a long time.
Phish 1/3/2015 American Airlines Arena, Miami FL - Transition from Maze > Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley. This was less of an emotional cry and more of a manic my whole body was shaking cry. It was just such a stunning and smooth transition that it shocked my whole body, my skin flushed and goosebumps went up everywhere and tears lept into my eyes.
Phish 8/21/2015 Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen NY - Day one of the Magnaball festival. Opening notes to "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" slayed me. I was with my #1 Phish buddy, and we hadn't gotten a TMWSIY since our first show together six years earlier.
Phish 9/4/2016 Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City CO - Towards the end of an absolutely relentless jam filled "fan" set, they came out of a calm and spacey "Light" jam and started playing "The Lizards". The crowd went insane, I was on the floor close to the stage and ended up hugging some stranger standing next to me and we both cried.
Phish 8/6/2017 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - Last night of the 13 night Baker's Dozen run. Encore was "On The Road Again" > "Lawn Boy Reprise" > "Tweezer Reprise". Cried during "On The Road Again", laughed during "Lawn Boy Reprise", cried again during "Tweezer Reprise"
The Avett Brothers' "I & Love & You" and "The Ballad of Love and Hate" have consistently made me cry. Doesn't even need to be live. I also sobbed through Adele's "Someone Like You". It was a beautiful four minutes of catharsis. Multiple times when I've seen Neutral Milk Hotel. I might have cried at LCD but I can't remember for sure. Elton John and Billy Joel when they closed out Roo. Sufjan Stevens
There are tons more that I can't remember at the moment; I'm moved easily so it's not uncommon for me to tear up at shows. If I think of more I'll edit this.
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Post by Fozzie Bear on Jun 14, 2018 11:12:54 GMT -5
Hans Zimmer, Coachella: Hearing songs from The Lion King, The Dark Knight and Inception hit me right in the nostalgia. This whole set was a mixture of me sobbing and laughing in utter glee. Hearing "Why So Serious" in particular destroyed me, in the best way. I listened to The Dark Knight soundtrack a lot when I was in high school during a pretty rough point in my life.
D'Angelo & The Vanguard, Bonnaroo: The guitar solos during "The Charade" touched me to the point of tears. The original song is rather short, but the live rendition blew me away.
Broken Social Scene, Pitchfork 2016: BSS is my favorite band. I saw them the night before at the Metro, but the sound kinda impaired my enjoyment of that set. But, the Pitchfork set had PERFECT sound. So, when the horns kicked in during "Pacific Theme," I lost my shit. BSS was a band I listened to obsessively during my rough years, and seeing them here was a dream come true.
Testpilot, Holy Ship, second set: The reoccurring them here is seeing artists who I listened to a lot during my rough years. Deadmau5 was another one, and even though I had seen him three times up to this point, for some reason this set touched me. The way he mixed tracks to sound like one, long song was excellent. I had fallen out of love deadmau5 in the recent years, but this set reignited my love for him.
Porter Robinson, Orlando for the Worlds Tour: Something about those anime visuals brought me right back to my rough years when I watched a lot of anime.
Madeon, EDC Orlando 2013: I loved Madeon's early songs, so finally seeing him live was a treat. Hearing him play Audien's earlier, great songs drove me to shed a few years.