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title: Songs i have cried my silly little heart out to
pageCreated: "2021-01-23"
pageUpdated: "2026-01-11"
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h1 songs i have cried my #[br] silly little heart out to
span.centre (In approximately chronological order)
span.centre Or, “Xanthe gets outed as a zoomer”
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h2 Youth immemorial
ul
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTPtDFxQgn4")
b why me?
|
i linda martin
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/TpdRtIM45ts")
b the voice
|
i eimear quinn
| I don’t know what it is about ’90s-era Irish Eurovision winners that made seven-year-old me burst into tears. They still make me tear up a bit… simpler times.
h2 The tens
ul
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/Hu0xlyLwK7Q")
b me
|
i the 1975
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/KsGp64w3XsA")
b you
|
i the 1975
| (Excluding the hidden track, which isn’t their best and might even be plagiarised from #[+sc('M83')])
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/k0Z6IxOeuMk")
b i always wanna die (sometimes)
|
i the 1975
| Fairly sure this song might have actually saved my life as a struggling teenager.
br
q Your death, it won’t happen to you; it happens to your family and your friends — #[b i refuse]
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/5bfseWNmlds")
b sleepyhead
|
i passion pit
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/EcSvMFm2ABE")
b motion picture soundtrack
|
i radiohead
| This is the only song on this list that can #[em consistently] drive me to tears. Doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter when. I listen to this and i collapse. Bonus points if it’s the #[a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE1V6a8NMKs") early piano demo].
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/6SMjUB9LSuw")
b paracetamol
|
i declan m#[small c]kenna
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/WUIm01odei0")
b girls like you
|
i the naked and famous
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/_3ngiSxVCBs")
b sweden
|
i c418
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/j4EeT-jzo3c")
b équinoxe
|
i c418
| “Hey man, do you wanna come on the server and build a rollercoaster?”
br
| [Last online 3 years ago]
h2 The pandemic
ul
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/Oyhxw8cFt0U")
b lostmyhead
|
i the 1975
| This isn’t really about the song. I went to their concert early in 2020, before the world shut down, and if i just shut my eyes, turned off the lights, and played this — i could pretend to be back there, just for a moment.
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/WSnc_6Z7HqQ")
b true love waits
|
i radiohead
q I’m not living — i’m just killing time
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/T7t38uDUg5E")
b codex
|
i radiohead
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/YN19SG0EojQ")
b don’t worry
|
i the 1975 & tim healy
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/l0Jo-9aqhYc")
b mirror
|
i porter robinson
q And it’s not the voice of all the others — you’ve only said it to yourself
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/F1TiN-dBSxY")
b dawn chorus
|
i thom yorke
q I think i miss something — but i don’t know what
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/hQZfGa5t4e8")
b 13 angels standing guard round the side of your bed
|
i a sweet mt zion
li
a.big-link(href="https://youtu.be/xHotXbGZiFY")
b white woman’s instagram
|
i bo burnham
| I realise that this is an inherently ridiculous song, but the pandemic did strange things to people’s brains.
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzH6toY_EPw")
b the last man on earth
|
i wolf alice
li
a.big-link(lang="is" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnAwPeqrdAk")
b hoppípolla
|
i sigur rós
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoiX8ncN8-k")
b this must be the place (naïve melody)
|
i talking heads
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeOhV4zOxJ4")
b the chicken
|
i bo burnham
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GVnrnqoZ7o")
b triple dog dare
|
i lucy dacus
h2 The mid-twenties
ul
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAqRsV0Mv8")
b untitled (samskeyti)
|
i sigur rós, live at the bbc
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jry1OuZJNL8")
b(lang="nl" title="We are so young") we zijn zo jong
|
i gorki
q(lang="nl" title="There is still a sea of time in the show that is your life") In de show van je leven is er een zee van tijd
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGTD7azzWk")
b sleep
|
i godspeed you! black emperor
q Things changed, you see. They don’t sleep anymore on the beach.
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjAJcOipNpY")
b nearer, my god, to thee
|
i sarah f. adams
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2RnxZnubCM")
b my heart will go on
|
i celine dion
| I always feel conned when a big studio film makes me cry. I know the tricks! I know what they’re doing! And then somehow i still cried three times at #[i Titanic].
br
a(href="https://youtu.be/5hXG1tBFIi8?t=27")
i “And so they lived, happily together, for 300 years, in the land of #[span(lang="ga") Tír na nÓg] — land of eternal youth and beauty…”
| 😭
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_NvVMUcG8")
b let down
|
i radiohead
q One day, i am gonna grow wings — a chemical reaction
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4")
b a change is gonna come
|
i sam cooke
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5gksq_OEI")
b venus, bringer of peace
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i gustav holst
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zccutrnwZn4")
b transgender dysphoria blues
|
i against me
q And you know it’s obvious, but we can’t choose how we’re made
h2 The latter twenties
ul
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9FeF_4Bhw")
b i could have done more
|
i john williams and itzhak perlman
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAKj4F49jw")
b ok
|
i jon brion
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=649wWWkW_1o")
b strange fruit
|
i billie holiday
q Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh — then the sudden smell of burning flesh
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOhduGOqdw")
b lippy kids
|
i elbow
| Elbow are my mam’s favourite band, so there’s a lot of childhood memories wrapped up in there just waiting for the right moment to break the dam and release the floodgates…
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVktrPv5zW4")
b thoughts of you
|
i dennis wilson
q The sunshine blinded me this morning
br
| The way the song crescendos and then crashes so painfully back down to earth… i mean, Jesus.
li
a.big-link(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45yDddYePg")
b the downward spiral
|
i nine inch nails
q A lifetime of fucking things up, fixed — in one determined flash