Songs That Make You Laugh; Songs That Make You Cry

BlueSkies · April 12, 2023

Perhaps because I'm a psycho but Henry Rollins Liar is one the most hilarious things I've watched in my life. So it's interesting watching other peoples takes on it!

Not gonna lie I watched both these reaction videos and were in tears laughing seeing their reactions when Henry went full out aggression mode.

BlueSkies · April 16, 2023

I always liked Vanessa Williams. I wouldn't say it made me cry but I feel this one

Cinephilia · April 20, 2023

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch, first time I saw this it was hysterical

BlueSkies · April 22, 2023

I had this CD when I was a kid. Lisa Simpson or Yeardly Smith killed it on this one. Could make one shed a tear

BlueSkies · July 30, 2023

This is funny. I still recall it back in the day

Edited July 30, 2023 by BlueSkies

One4Sorrow2TooBad · August 3, 2023

He wrote this song in 1996, has become a popular song for weddings.

BlueSkies · August 8, 2023

This makes me feel good.

His manager in the back "That's fucking beautiful bro" admittedly made me laugh.

BlueSkies · August 21, 2023

When I was a kid driving home from my grandmothers on Sunday's, it like never failed my dad put on a classic rock station and this song played

Back as a kid, well the song meant spending more time at grandmas. The drive was long as well. There was something just dreamy about Pack Your Bags and Leave Tonight.

Ditto as a grown up. For similar reasons facing another work week I'm feeling this song to the point I'm getting misty eyed.

Yeah I like the song

BlueSkies · September 2, 2023

This song is both funny and sad.

The whole video and subject matter is pretty funny. But damn this is sad because 1985 in 2004 is like what 2004 is today in 2023! 19 year difference. And I am in many ways stuck in my ways before social media!

Edited September 2, 2023 by BlueSkies

BlueSkies · September 13, 2023

There's something about this song that gets me misty eyed.

One4Sorrow2TooBad · September 14, 2023

The Jets were great, they had some good hits, singer had a beautiful voice ,they s

hould have been bigger.

KWalkerInc · September 14, 2023

I was amazed to learn from an episode of Unsung that the lead singer (Elizabeth?) was only 12 when she recorded "You Got It All." I knew she was young, but assumed she was more like 15 or 16. It is such a beautiful vocal.

BlueSkies · September 15, 2023

15 hours ago, KWalkerInc said:

I was amazed to learn from an episode of Unsung that the lead singer (Elizabeth?) was only 12 when she recorded "You Got It All." I knew she was young, but assumed she was more like 15 or 16. It is such a beautiful vocal.

agreed.

her voice makes that groups songs

BlueSkies · September 22, 2023

It's really not a funny song at all.

Just for whatever reason I associate this song with 2 nut cases I used to work with and crack up.

The former director of our building was a nice and easygoing guy. But at the same time he was pretty lazy. He'd show up at times hours late for the job if at all. He had a good personality but poor work ethic.

Enter a regional manager who used to come to our building and site visit things. He did not like the above mentioned manager and was not one to hold back his feelings at all. He was pretty much a lunatic but I had to work for him though.

Anyway the above mentioned Lights song was playing one day when the 1st director left early to go to a "meeting". Extremely frustrated the regional manager just blurted out "Yeah Meeting, He's Probably Out Having Sex with some cheap Hoe some place". I'm pretty much dying of laughter even as I type that. I really truly do work in a nut house/shit show.

But anyway I'm pretty sure this song was playing in the background. I always think of those two crazy guys when I hear it for whatever reason!

Jaded · September 25, 2023

I guess this one is kind of continuing with the sex theme...

This video always makes me laugh and just hearing the song will make me of it.

Annber03 · September 25, 2023

I love that song :D. It's so fun.

KWalkerInc · November 15, 2023

Although it's of course for a James Bond movie and not at all her saddest song (I think that is "All I Ask"), "Skyfall" by Adele always saddens me. Not long after she released it, I was listening to Soft Rock when we learned very bad and sudden medical news about my aunt (who would die a few hours later). Right after I learned this, Adele starts singing, "This is the end. Take a breath and count to ten." So I'm kind of glad it's not as big as a few of her other songs, because it always causes a pit in my stomach whenever I hear it.

This is a slightly less depressing story, but the song always makes me cry nonetheless. When I was in 7th grade, one of our cats went missing (which I had already been through with her brother, who never made it back a few years earlier). When the clock radio came on in the morning, "Forever" by Kenny Loggins played. Then he sang, "Once I dreamed that you were gone. I tried and tried to find you..." and I just started bawling. My mom came in like always to check that I wasn't going to oversleep and saw how upset I was. She said, "Just a minute" and came back with the cat, who had just been soundly sleeping up above in the garage and hadn't heard us call her the previous night. Even though that ended well and the cat lived many more years, I always get traumatized by that song, so I really should just skip the song when it comes up on my laptop, but I never do for some reason.

On a happier note, I don't think I've mentioned that I always laugh at Barbra Streisand's rather frantic version of "Jingle Bells." I pretend in my head that she was late for an appointment or something so she just started singing really fast, tossing each page of music aside to get to the next one so she could get through the song as quickly as possible. I just recently learned that the actual title of her version is "Jingle Bells?" so I guess she expected that type of confused reaction to the song. I didn't even know until I looked it up after it came up that way on the list of songs on the laptop, as I initially thought the question mark was just a glitch or something.

Jaded · November 25, 2023

Thought I'd add the description of the video from YT. The video was posted on the Queen YT channel in 2018. It's a song about Brian's childhood cat. It makes me tear up everytime I watch it. It's so cutely animated and sad at the same time...

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This new video was generated for the 40 year anniversary, to the original NOTW album track, sung by Brian May. The visualisation was created by Unanico Studios (Directors Jason Jameson & Robert Milne, Producer Paul Laikin), in collaboration with Brian, and stars Brian’s childhood pet cat Pixie.

BlueSkies · November 27, 2023

This one can kind of hit home for me at times

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One4Sorrow2TooBad · December 1, 2023

Jaded · December 13, 2023

My Mom's birthday was Dec. 13th and she loved Michael McDonald. VH1 and MTV were on a lot of the time when I was little so this was one of my favorite videos/song even then. Seeing it on YT since my Mom died always makes me happy and sad at the same time. I ended up becoming a fan of his too.

Edited December 13, 2023 by Jaded

One4Sorrow2TooBad · December 15, 2023

BlueSkies · December 16, 2023

kind of funny

Jaded · December 17, 2023

This has been one of my favorite music videos since I came across it on YouTube years ago. It looks even better in HD. I love how older videos can be upscaled now to where they look as good or better than when they were first introduced.

One4Sorrow2TooBad · December 20, 2023

That first guy with the moustache looked a little like Ron Jeremy at first,lol.

Anela · December 23, 2023

I can't walk past the philosophy section in the bookstore (and Aristotle's name), without smiling, thanks to The Philosopher's Song, by Monty Python.

Jaded · December 25, 2023

On 12/19/2023 at 9:46 PM, One4Sorrow2TooBad said:

That first guy with the moustache looked a little like Ron Jeremy at first,lol.

I thought he kind of looked like the guy in some of the retro Juan Valdez Colombian Coffee commercials...

Jaded · December 25, 2023

On 4/16/2023 at 4:08 PM, BlueSkies said:

I always liked Vanessa Williams. I wouldn't say it made me cry but I feel this one

I was looking back in this thread and saw this Vanessa Williams cover of this song. I first became aware of it because it was on Amy Grant's House of Love album.

One4Sorrow2TooBad · December 25, 2023

Another great one of many from Amy Grant . Beautiful,unique voice. So many singers these days sound the same, so much help from autotune studio shenanigans.

One4Sorrow2TooBad · December 25, 2023

Same song title song ,different song. This one really touches the heart.

BlueSkies · December 26, 2023

1 hour ago, One4Sorrow2TooBad said:

Another great one of many from Amy Grant . Beautiful,unique voice. So many singers these days sound the same, so much help from autotune studio shenanigans.

Yep. I am an anti social misanthrope but love listening to Amy 😁

BlueSkies · January 6

It don't make cry but it does send goosebumps throughout my body. As I get older I feel this more and more

KWalkerInc · January 9

This is kind of random, but part of Adele's song "When We Were Young" (even though it's a very somber song) makes me laugh. When she says that she thought the guy she has run into had moved overseas (because that's what he said when he left her), it makes me think of the episode of Friends where Chandler pretended he was moving to Yemen to avoid Janice.

One4Sorrow2TooBad · January 13

Same song title, different song. Still packs a bittersweet punch.

BlueSkies · January 13

A Rocky fan and this song always touches me at the end credits

One4Sorrow2TooBad · January 14

Sylvester Stallone will go down in Hollywood history as the actor who gave it 110% and sacrificed his body in the roles he took on.

BlueSkies · January 24

When I was in middle school me and a friend used to jokingly call LL Cool J LL Uncool L. I think we used to just think he tried to hard back in the day.....

But there's some songs of his I like Around The Way Girl being one of them. This video can get me misty eyed but probably not for the reason's you'd expect. It really really is a nostalgic piece to me: the old NYC in the late 80's/and early 90s. Plus I still remember my dad had a video camera like LL did on the video. And it showed the date the recording was in it. My Dad used to video tape some family events or vacations or even me from back in the day. It's sad a lot of people in my family since died in those videos😥. I think he might still have them somewhere

Edited January 24 by BlueSkies

Mountainair · January 24

54 minutes ago, BlueSkies said:

When I was in middle school me and a friend used to jokingly call LL Cool J LL Uncool L. I think we used to just think he tried to hard back in the day.....

I was in middle school in the 90’s and as a white girl growing up in a predominantly African American neighborhood and school system rap was my music of choice. I had the biggest crush on LL Cool J. This was about the time Doin’ It came out and through MTV was able to catch some of his “older” hits. I still love LL. My husband thinks he looks like he should play a Ninja Turtle though.

BlueSkies · January 24

1 hour ago, Mountainair said:

I was in middle school in the 90’s and as a white girl growing up in a predominantly African American neighborhood and school system rap was my music of choice. I had the biggest crush on LL Cool J. This was about the time Doin’ It came out and through MTV was able to catch some of his “older” hits. I still love LL. My husband thinks he looks like he should play a Ninja Turtle though.

We are around the same age then. I was in middle school when that song came out as well..... and it went way over my head at the time 😁.

I kind of remember I think he did GAP commercials back in the day.

Edited January 24 by BlueSkies

aghst · February 9

On 8/7/2014 at 3:29 AM, ExplainItAgain said:

Well, of course, thanks to the commercial, Angel by Sarah McLachlan makes me tear up. Fast Car from Tracy Chapman too. And The Last Song by Elton John.

Like a G6 makes me laugh. It's so dumb and so catchy.

On 12/25/2014 at 4:43 AM, Frisson said:

I agree that"Fast Car" is a sad song, but I thinkTracy Chapman's "Behind the Wall" is so hopeless that it's the one that really gets me.

Aimee Mann's "Give Up" is not a song I can hear if I'm already sad. It will push you over the edge.

I was really surprised by the audience reaction at the Grammies to a now gray-haired Tracy Chapman performing Fast Car with Luke Combs.

I got the CD, liked it enough at the time, though I chose it as one of many free CDs for joining Columbia House.

Tracy was one of many new “alternative” artists who hit big at the time. There were some cynical takes that she got a contract because she had an alternative look but not too alternative. Dreads weren’t as common back then and hers were short.

Song got a lot of airplay and the video too on MTV and VH1 — remember when they played music videos?

It didn’t resonate deeply with me, just mostly liked the tune and her vaguely plaintive vocals. Never thought much about the lyrics but now see this as yearning, to change her relationship, her life, a fast car being a metaphor for making this change.

Or the singer wishing just to get on a car and start again, reset.

The reaction in the audience and online was surprising. It was a big hit so maybe some nostalgia?

The other part of it is that Combs cover alienated people, a white male country singer expropriating?

So Tracy singing with him on stage was suppose to be a kumbaya moment? Country music hasn’t been particularly friendly to women or people of color in recent years so Combs covering this song from a black woman, who hasn’t discussed her sexual orientation but Alice walker said they were in a relationship in the 1990s. So the politics of alternative and country artists would seem to be diametrically opposite each other.

Or she didn’t mind the cover because it probably brought her a lot in royalties? So she was happy to perform with him, giving her blessing to the cover, which could make it more popular and bring more royalties?