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I was a kid when the first Gorillaz album was released, and they’ve been a thing for most of my life at this point. I want to like the recent release more but it’s just messed up that it dropped the same time my cat died.
That, and it kicks off reflecting on family that’s gone. Friends.
So much of the Mountain is about saying goodbye and coming to terms with death. If I spend any time listening I get stirred up.
Something to be said about music being so tied up with memories.
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the song Don’t Give Up by Peter Gabriel.
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I’ve ugly face cried to Ray LaMontagne’s Jolene. Heck, I named my beloved guitar Jolene because of it.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 6, Movement 4
Mahler: Symphony 3, Movement 6
Beethoven: String Quartet 15, Movement 3
Bjork’s Live Version of Undo at the Royal Opera House (particularly around the 3:35 mark)
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kinda baller if you know these sections off the top of your head!
made a note and will look these up 
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Third Side of the Moon from the new Modest Mouse album;
Written for his friend Sam Jayne from the incredible bands Lync and Love As Laughter who passed away in his car from an undiagnosed heart condition.
Poetic (RIP) verse 2 - one of his last verses and knowing it too.
Well …
The second half of “Obscured Light”, still after 7 years (it was written in 2019).
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Sorry, just for clarification, are you the composer of this piece ?
It’s a song about a minivan disguised as a song about a breakup that literally makes me cry. Some of the most clever and sad lyrics of all time and a gorgeous arrangement.
The Tchaikovsky 6th is mostly sad and hopeless (expect the 3rd movement). It was the last thing he composed before he died.
The Mahler 3rd is great from beginning to end. The 6th movment is beautiful and ends in an awe inspiring way.
This Beethoven quartet was written during his so-called “late” era. A lot of his compositions from this time are very intimate and a few of them flirt with the avant-garde (see the Grosse Fugue). Anyway, the movement I suggested was composed after he recovered from a life threatening illness, so it has a very meditative quality.
Happy listening!
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you’ve indirectly reminded me of the only classical singer who’s ever made me weep, and it’s kathleen ferrier singing mahler.
Gustav Mahler - Rückert-Lieder, Op. 44: III. Um Mitternacht [Kathleen Ferrier] [Vienna Philarmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter, 1952]
to quote the youtube blurb:
"In the spring of 1952 in Vienna, the contralto Kathleen Ferrier recorded her famous Mahler’s Das Lied Von Der Erde.
A few days later on the 20th of May, to fill the fourth side of the Das Lied recording she returned to the Grosse Musikvereinsaal, used as a recording venue with it’s splendid acoustics and sang Um Mitternacht—one of three Ruckert Songs recorded that day, and conducted by her friend and mentor Bruno Walter.
“This was a bad day and she was in great pain”. Quoted from ‘Kathleen Ferrier. Letters and Diaries’, edited by Christopher Fifield.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The following day Kathleen said Farewell to Bruno Walter a friend of the composer Gustav Mahler, and Farewell to travel abroad.
Her doctors advised her not to travel abroad for twelve months.
In the closing minutes of Um Mitternacht Kathleen Ferrier’s voice soars effortlessly towards the sky—outstanding."
for context: she was dying of cancer. she died the following october, aged 41.
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I can’t listen to this song
Happy crying: Borodin String Quartet #2, 3rd Movement - “Notturno”
Unhappy crying: “Death is Real” from “A Crow Looked at Me” by Mount Eerie
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