The hardest thing by the Gorillaz, Irish Goodbye by Kneecap. Lost my mother a couple of years ago and both of these songs bring back memories.
Bones in the Ocean - The Longest Johns Specifically the Community Project version.
“Now that I’m staring down at the darkest abyss, I’m not sure what I want but I don’t think it’s this.”
“As the souls of the dead live for’er in my mind, as I live all the years they left me behind.”
It broke me the first time I listened to it.
Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce. It’s a song about losing the love of your life and having to keep living. The enormous loss conveyed is soul crushing.
"If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
'Til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with
If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with"
Never heard cognitohazard before, talk about a clunky neologism. By the way, have you heard of my band, Clunky Neologism? We’re not very good.
Oh hell yeah I love bands that aren’t very good. Love em so much ive even been in a few.
The SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
Yeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
I am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
Maybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
7 Years by Lucas Graham
Wonderful and Father of Mine by Everclear
Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin
I figured people might bring up specific songs in the comments. I don’t necessarily expect anyone to have the same experience with particular songs, but I personally don’t think I can ever again listen to “Flirted With You All My Life” by Vic Chesnutt without serious consequences.
The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. It’s old, but timeless. It’s not like any other Beach Boys album and probably the only Beach Boys album I have listened to repeatedly from beginning to end. Each song hits a little differently depending on where you are in life. It is the album I listen to when I’m feeling melancholy and I want to feel a little bit more okay about feeling that way by staring into the void instead of looking away. The mix of hope, joy, sadness, and existential dread are intense.
This version or Waltz #2 by Elliott Smith does kill me.
Also the piano version of Smoking Section by St Vincent. The outro of desperately repeating “it’s not the end” in an attempt to convince yourself hits me just as hard as the darker lyrics of the first half of the song.
Years ago I got really fucking affected by This Too Shall Pass by A Sound Of Thunder
Yeah. Parting Glass will ruin me for quite a while.
Hate Me by Blue October
Cannot.
