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do you have a favourite song to cry it all out too? ive gotten my sadness to such a fine art that i can hold on all day with a brave face - get home to my lounge - play the right song and cry like a baby monster until its all out.

i find it an intriguing ritual and i want to know what songs do you listen to for emotional cleansing?

this clip from 90s lesbian movie All Over Me (lword fans see pink haired alice) has not only one of my fave cathartic songs..Pissing in a River - Patti Smith

but also demonstrates the act quite well...but um yeh, best to do it alone

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This song always makes me reflect and have a wee bit of a sob
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OMG Pink haired alice!!!
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youtube wouldnt let me post my other favourite..Good Things by Sleater Kinney..its like a pavlovian response, even if im happy i hear that track and its tearsville but the relief afterwards is overwhelming.

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OMG Pink haired alice!!!

yeah totally, because im cool i get to say - oh yeah i was into her years ago

you know her band sang that dust on my guitar song too right?

anyway back to the emotional cleansing...
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Perhaps a little cliche....

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Its not the whole song, but in 'Night Comes On' - Leonard Cohen, the part about playing with his kids always makes me a little teary.
I hear "my son and my daughter climbed out of the water" and I burst into tears.
I don't know why, there some much sadder parts of that song.
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Is it weird that my favourite breakup song is performed by a puppet monster?

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Is it weird that my favourite breakup song is performed by a puppet monster?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZOyQzGAC2w

er yes, it is weird..and who said anything about break ups? im talking about the ritual of cathartic crying..you may do this for a break up..but i do it more generally, and more often
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*shrugs* I still think it's one of the best breakup songs ever written, puppet or not - especially when you're at the 'let's be friends' stage. I think I annoyed the hell out of my flatmate playing it last year when I was at my lowest

Generally if I'm in a low place, I try not to feed it with anything too down, but this would probably be my next choice - Rogers & Hart interpreted by Nina Simone *sigh*

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just watch and listen to this and tell me you can stop yourself from crying

PJ Harvey - legs...but any of her songs will do

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