songs i have cried my
silly little heart out to

Youth immemorial

• why me? linda martin
• the voice 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.

The tens

• me the 1975
• you the 1975 (excluding the hidden track, which isn’t their best and might even be plagiarised from m83)
• i always wanna die (sometimes) the 1975 Fairly sure this song might have actually saved my life.
  your death, it won’t happen to you; it happens to your family and your friends — i refuse
• sleepyhead passion pit
• motion picture soundtrack radiohead This is the only song on this list that can 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 early piano demo.
• paracetamol declan mckenna
• girls like you the naked and famous
• sweden c418
• équinoxe c418 “hey man, do you wanna come on the server and build a rollercoaster?”
  [last online 3 years ago]

The pandemic

• lostmyhead 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.
• true love waits radiohead
• codex radiohead
• don’t worry the 1975 & tim healy
• mirror porter robinson and it’s not the voice of all the others — you’ve only said it to yourself
• dawn chorus thom yorke i think i miss something — but i don’t know what
• 13 angels standing guard round the side of your bed a sweet mt zion
• white woman’s instagram bo burnham I realise that this is an inherently ridiculous song. Nevertheless…
• the last man on earth wolf alice
• hoppípolla sigur rós
• this must be the place (naïve melody) talking heads
• the chicken bo burnham
• triple dog dare lucy dacus

The latter twenties

• untitled (samskeyti) sigur rós, live at the bbc
• we zijn zo jong gorki in de show van je leven is er een zee van tijd
• sleep godspeed you! black emperor things changed, you see. they don’t sleep anymore on the beach.
• nearer, my god, to thee sarah f. adams my heart will go on 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 Titanic.
  “And so they lived, happily together, for 300 years, in the land of Tír na nÓg — land of eternal youth and beauty…” 😭
• let down radiohead one day, i am gonna grow wings — a chemical reaction