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Edward Massengill

ONE MAN'S FAMILY

 
Updated: November 23, 2008: 5:00 pm
 
   

Emotional Pop

Sometimes I want to hear music that breaks my heart, music that takes me back to the closing credits of a TV show left me feeling hopelessly sad for a favorite character or back to long-ago days I had almost forgotten and that will never return. The tears induced by the songs helps me to mourn things forever gone.

Because listening to this music is so emotional, I really have to be in the mood for it. A bright, warm, early autumn afternoon helps to produce just the right mixture of sadness and joy. It's definitely not recommended for late at night when you're sitting there alone.

The songs on this list guarantee me a seven hour high; or should I say low.

I'm so emotionally drained after a day with this music that it may be six months before I am ready for it again.

 

 

 

Gravity

John Mayer

You're All I Need To Get By

Marvin Gaye

Hometown Glory

Adele

Early In The Morning

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Close To Me

The Cure

Waiting On The World To Change

John Mayer

You Raise Me Up

Josh Groban

Chemical Calisthenics

Blackalicious

Parameters

Ani DiFranco

 

 

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)

Whitney Houston

Across The Universe

Robby Krieger

Please Read The Letter

Robert Plant

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

Delaney & Bonnie

Didn't You Know (You'd Have To Cry Sometime)

Gladys Knight and The Pips

Bleeding Love

Leona Lewis

Billie Jean

Chris Cornell

Lost

Annie Lennox

To My Old Brown Earth

Pete Seeger

Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)

Pete Seeger

 

 

How Can I Keep From Singing

Arlo Guthrie

How Can I Keep From Singing

Judy Collins

Satellite

Dave Matthews Band

Let The Drummer Kick

Citizen Cope

Say

John Mayer

What A Wonderful World

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Bubbly

Colbie Cailat

Breathe Me

Sia

I Want To Know What Love Is

Foreigner

 

 

Apologize

Timbaland

You And Me

Lifehouse

Can't Get It Right Today (Kia commercial)

Joe Purdy

Out Of Time Man

Mano Negra

I Should Get Up

Teddy Thompson

Why

Annie Lennox

Night Moves

Bob Seger

America the Beautiful

Ray Charles

Soldier of Love

Asha

Love Street

The Doors

 

 

Golden Dreams

Syd Straw

Babylon

Don McLean

Apologize

Timbaland

Breathe Me

SiA

You And Me

Lifehouse

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

Comfortably Numb

Roger Waters

Trouble

Ray Lamontagne

In My Secret Life

Leonard Cohen

Cannonball

Damien Rice

 

 

Right In Time

Lucinda Williams

I'll Find a Way

Rachael Yamagata

Dancing On The Ceiling

Lionel Ritchie

I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Album version)

Scissor Sisters

Missing You

John Waite

God And Man

Sonny Terry

Hung My Head

Johnny Cash

You've Got The Love

Joey Daddario

Not Dark Yet

Bob Dylan

Long Way Around

Eagle-Eye Cherry

 

 

When It's Cold I'd Like To Die

Moby

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

The Shirelles

Bad Day

Daniel Powter

Home

Michael Buble

Rock And Roll Heaven

The Righteous Brothers

Old And Wise

Alan Parsons Project

Only Time

Enya

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Wham!

Levon

Elton John

Father Figure

George Michael

 

 

Wanted Dead Or Alive

Bon Jovi

Rocky Mountain High

John Denver

Silence Is Easy

Starsailor

Silence Is Golden

The Tremeloes

I Shall Be Released

Bob Dylan

Louie Louie

Richard Berry

The Logical Song

Supertramp

Shed A Little Light

James Taylor

This Is Dedicated To the One I Love

The Shirelles

Losing My Religion

R.E.M.

 

 

I Shall Be Released

The Band

Dawn (LP Version)

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Walk Like A Man (LP Version)

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Rag Doll (LP Version)

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Silence Is Golden (LP Version)

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

United We Stand

Brotherhood Of Man

You Got The Love

Candi Staton

Many Rivers To Cross

Joe Cocker

With A Little Help From My Friends (Live)

Joe Cocker

Not Dark Yet

Bob Dylan

 

 

Wishin' And Hopin'

Dusty Springfield

You Can't Always Get What You Want

The Rolling Stones

Rag Doll

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Walk Like A Man

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Working My Way Back To You

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Dawn [Go Away]

Jersey Boys

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

U2

Oh Girl

The Chi-Lites

Have You Seen Her?

The Chi-Lites

These Dreams

Heart

 

 

You're The Inspiration

Chicago

Have I Told You Lately

Rod Stewart

Hallelujah

Rufus Wainwright

You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory

Guns N' Roses

(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love And

   Understanding

Curtis Stigers

The Rescue Blues

Ryan Adams

Band Of Gold

Freda Payne

River Deep, Mountain High

Tina Turner

Old Time Rock And Roll

Phil Driscoll

You Can't Always Get What You Want

The Rolling Stones

 

 

In The Midnight Hour

The Rascals

I Will Remember You

Sarah McLachlan

The Beast In Me

Nick Lowe

I Don't Like Mondays

Tori Amos

I Don't Like Mondays

Bon Jovi

I'll Find a Way

Rachael Yamagata

I Saved The World Today

Eurythmics

I Got You Babe

Sonny and Cher

Let It Be Me

Sonny and Cher

Then He Kissed Me

Sonny and Cher

 

 

Somebody to Love

Queen

People Ain't No Good

Lloyd Cole

Kiss And Say Goodbye

The Manhattans

Somewhere Out There

James Ingram