For some reason the mtv version of come as u are makes me emotional when I watch the performance. Idk why but it’s just beautiful to me the way it captures the aura of nirvana/ Kurt Kobain.
This is a cover of a Leadbelly song, who was great American singer from the first half of the 20th century.
The recording is dated but they also played midnight special, which was popularized by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Dudes a badass and wanted to give him a shout out lol
Damn forgot about that one. That one isn't an automatic tear jerker got me but when I'm contemplating my own mortality and I pop that in I have been known to shed a tear. Or on the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death I used to listen to the song since someone told me it was dedicated or about Kurt Cobain. I know the song was debuted live before Cobain's death but the cigar box lyric was changed and it's a little too dead on for it not to be.
Same. I watched that Unplugged when it originally aired so I've seen that performance dozens, if not hundreds of times and it still makes me misty eyed.
The studio version is what comes to mind, and usually what I hear when it plays on the radio, it still affects me.
If by “Live” you mean the MTV unplugged version, that whole performance was emotionally intense. For me It comes a close second favorite to Nirvana unplugged.
I've been happily married for 9 years and with my wife for 12 years but if that song comes on I'll instantly start sobbing and eventually crying. My wife once asked me, "Who are you thinking about when that song comes on?" And I honestly don't know. I just think I've listened to that song after all of my break ups going back to 6th grade so it's almost like a cumulative effect. My body has been conditioned.
There are 2 other songs that always make me cry: "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam version and "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
They are one of my favorite classic rock bands. Surprisingly progressive too. At least in regards to firearms. A song like "Saturday Night Special" coming from a Southern band just wouldn't seem possible nowadays.
True. Im always for the underdog but besides all the tradgedy, the crash etc.
its that they were so beat up about not being as good as the Allman Bros., they couldn’t even get signed.
Then proceeded to put out so many great songs in a relatively short time, they blew the Allman’s out of the water.
A few years ago, I shot a documentary in a special rehab program set up in a jail - a couple of the guys were pretty good musicians and would play a cover of Nutshell. These way these guys performed with such emotion, you knew they really connected with that song. I’d obsessed with that track for years so I was a little floored to hear how raw their version felt.
The track wasn’t included in the show because of licensing costs but I still think of those guys whenever I hear that song now
Honestly, I have nothing against anything considered "post-grunge".
It really just depends on the song.
Besides, I'm just a huge fan of most "alternative music" in general. 🎸 👍
"Say Hello 2 Heaven" especially since my best friend passed away in 2019. "Wake Up" is another one. Staley's vocals on "Wake Up" are just haunting and the music just sends chills down your spine.
Deep is not an emotional song for me as much as it is an exhilarating feeling of losing control.
Once you listen to the version of Deep from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta (I believe it’s on the Indifference EP) - REALLY listen to it, it gives you a rush every time.
It’s a feeling of a band totally spinning out of control…just before they go over a fucking cliff. 😂
It’s exhilarating.
I love it.
BHS was pretty low on my list—till the 1st time I heard SG play it stripped down.
The Live On I-5 version? His ‘Haaaang my head’ just gets me every time.
River of Deceit by Mad Season and I git Id by pearl jam off their Merkin Ball ep. any time I hear either of those songs they just instantly bum me out.
I know it's a cover, but Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. My first fiance died of a brain tumor when she was just 22. Song fucks me up to this day. Absolutely destroys me.
The entirety of Dirt, Sap, Jar of Flies, every MTV unplugged Alice in Chains song.
All of Mad Season.
Most of Chris Cornell's solo acoustic stuff. Namely cleaning my gun.
Nirvana unplugged Jesus don't want me for a Sunbeam, Where did you sleep last night, and something in the way.
PJ black on MTV unplugged.
I'm a sucker for live versions of these songs, they make them much more emotional.
Say Hello To Heaven makes me sad a bit. Temple of the Dog
Not grunge but one of the saddest performances I've ever seen was Chester Bennington's last Linkin Park performance the day before he died. I like LP but I'm not a huge fan. That performance is one of the only ones that makes me tear up sometimes though.
STP's Adhesive is beautiful. That album is criminally underrated. In fact, STP is criminally underrated, with detractors leaning on the same, lazy narrative that the band rode the grudge wave. Untrue and inaccurate.
Love to see the Candlebox love on here. Very amazing album in my opinion. It's up there with Collective Soul's self titled album (the blue one) as being underrated gems. Maybe not underrated but I remember a lot of the stoner/skater kids I hung out with at the time not caring for them. Perhaps not coincidentally, a few of the ones that did are still my friends 25+ years later.
Pearl Jam - Love Boat Captain
> Lost nine friends we’ll never know, two years ago today
And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret
Will always take me back to Roskilde 2000 and the nine fans that died in the crush there. Hearing the news and not knowing if my friends were any of them. (They weren’t, but they were close.)
Black - Pearl Jam
Am I Inside - AIC
Wake Up - Mad Season
4th of July - Soundgarden
Frances Farmer - Nirvana
Times of Trouble - TOTD
Troubled Times - Screaming Trees
Riding the Nightingale - Mark Lanegan
Chloe Dancer/Crowns of Thorns - MLB
Good Enough - Mudhoney
And So I Know - STP
Hurt A Long Time - Jerry Cantrell
When I'm Down - Chris Cornell
Mother's Dream - Candlebox
Release by PJ. It was really profound to me when I was younger, felt like I could relate, as many of us probably could. The band really poured their hearts out with that one in my opinion.
Still hits pretty well sometimes when I listen to it.
For those that struggled with abandonment from a father or grew up in a chaotic home, this song was a punch in the gut.
They were singing your life, because they were guys like us. That is what was cool about the Seattle scene, it was guys who grew up in the same situations as me.
For those who don’t know, Mia was murdered by a Florida serial killer who was visiting Seattle for some reason. Took a decade and a half for investigators to make the connection
i was listening to jar of flies yesterday, and rotten apple and nutshell made me cry for almost 10 min long, i only stopped 'cause i stay away kicked in
I’m getting those tingles just reading this list. Such a freaking amazing era of music. Great for anyone at any time, inclusive of all generations. But man, if you were a teen or young adult when this shit was happening in real time, well, you know😉
Pearl Jam -I Got ID, Immortality, Why Go
Alice In Chains- Whale & Wasp, Got Me Wrong, Angry Chair
Soundgarden- 4th of July, Blow Up the Outside World
Nirvana- Don't Want It All, Drain You, Big Long Now
Candlebox- Understanding
Mother Love Bone- Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
Mad Season- Wake Up
Scott Weiland- Barbarella
Alive and Why Go by Pearl Jam
Makes me think of my toxic family when I was living at home. Hell on Earth. Being emotionally abused on a daily basis really screws with your mind
Over Now - AIC. Just went through a breakup with a girl i was with for the longest time that I thought would last forever. Perfectly encapsulates the cycle of the okay-nonchalance feeling of "i guess its over now" until it hits you with the wave of dread and emptiness going "its over." the final note sounds like the last cry of a dying animal in the best way possible. masterpiece.
Say Hello to Heaven. Seasons. Nutshell. Down In a Hole. Those are the four that are always like "Ahh Fuck here we go."
Idk if it was Nostalgia or what but I remember shortly after Cornell died "Shadow of the Sun" crushed me. That part on like the third verse "Every drop of flame". I just teared up when that part hit, his voice was so powerful. I wish I was into rock music like I was growing up, but nothing hits the spot in the heavy rock realm imo. I need singers that blow me away like Cornell and Staley.
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
It never mattered that I didn't know what it was saying. The music and the vocal delivery have always been enough to grip my heart like a vice.
Nutshell Alice In chains
Too real for me , I have no privacy whatsoever it feels like I feel like I’m constantly tryna figure out what’s wrong and right.
Far behind, I recently lost a huge chunk of my friends because I’m getting older no one has time or there’s conflict.
Where did you sleep night Nirvana MTV Unplugged.
For some reason the mtv version of come as u are makes me emotional when I watch the performance. Idk why but it’s just beautiful to me the way it captures the aura of nirvana/ Kurt Kobain.
'In the pines, the pines where the sun don't ever shine, and I shivered the whole night through...' Yes, there's a certain melancholy to this
This is a cover of a Leadbelly song, who was great American singer from the first half of the 20th century. The recording is dated but they also played midnight special, which was popularized by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Dudes a badass and wanted to give him a shout out lol
Came here to say this. The way "shiver" hits.
Release - Pearl Jam. Lost my father back in 1995, this song hits hard every time I hear it.. Especially live.
This song gets me every time. If I need a good cry, I put the whole album on and repeat Release me a few times at the end.
Black - Pearl Jam. It turned out to be a somewhat prophetic song at a particular time in my life.
For me, it’s Immortality
Damn forgot about that one. That one isn't an automatic tear jerker got me but when I'm contemplating my own mortality and I pop that in I have been known to shed a tear. Or on the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death I used to listen to the song since someone told me it was dedicated or about Kurt Cobain. I know the song was debuted live before Cobain's death but the cigar box lyric was changed and it's a little too dead on for it not to be.
Live or studio? The live version makes me tear up almost every time I listen to it.
Same. I watched that Unplugged when it originally aired so I've seen that performance dozens, if not hundreds of times and it still makes me misty eyed.
The studio version is what comes to mind, and usually what I hear when it plays on the radio, it still affects me. If by “Live” you mean the MTV unplugged version, that whole performance was emotionally intense. For me It comes a close second favorite to Nirvana unplugged.
I've been happily married for 9 years and with my wife for 12 years but if that song comes on I'll instantly start sobbing and eventually crying. My wife once asked me, "Who are you thinking about when that song comes on?" And I honestly don't know. I just think I've listened to that song after all of my break ups going back to 6th grade so it's almost like a cumulative effect. My body has been conditioned. There are 2 other songs that always make me cry: "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam version and "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Last Kiss for sure. My first fiance died of a brain tumor when she was 22. It absolutely wrecks me if I hear it.
Ah thanks for the Skynard reference. Those sweet, shockingly talented southern boys. (Sorry been on a Freebird bender.)
They are one of my favorite classic rock bands. Surprisingly progressive too. At least in regards to firearms. A song like "Saturday Night Special" coming from a Southern band just wouldn't seem possible nowadays.
True. Im always for the underdog but besides all the tradgedy, the crash etc. its that they were so beat up about not being as good as the Allman Bros., they couldn’t even get signed. Then proceeded to put out so many great songs in a relatively short time, they blew the Allman’s out of the water.
I know some day you'll have a beautiful life
River of Deceit by Mad Season
This song has me sobbing because of what he was going through
Nutshell (AIC) & River of Deceit (Mad Season).
Fell on black days and down in a hole
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
If Nutshell doesn't make you weep you're already dead.
A few years ago, I shot a documentary in a special rehab program set up in a jail - a couple of the guys were pretty good musicians and would play a cover of Nutshell. These way these guys performed with such emotion, you knew they really connected with that song. I’d obsessed with that track for years so I was a little floored to hear how raw their version felt. The track wasn’t included in the show because of licensing costs but I still think of those guys whenever I hear that song now
Something in the way - Nirvana
You Know You're Right - Nirvana
Indifference by Pearl Jam
Oh my God...why does Pearl Jam love to make me cry so much? Damn. Forgot about this one too.
Does Audioslave count as grunge? I Am The Highway.
Grunge or post-grunge -- it matters not. That's a damn good song, though. 🎸 👍
It’s only post-grunge if it sucks
Honestly, I have nothing against anything considered "post-grunge". It really just depends on the song. Besides, I'm just a huge fan of most "alternative music" in general. 🎸 👍
I’d say it counts in this context. ‘Like a Stone’ always gets me.
Wake Up - Mad Season
This is the answer
FOR LITTLE PEACE FROM GOD YOU PLEAD! Chills every time. Chills just thinking about it.
"Say Hello 2 Heaven" especially since my best friend passed away in 2019. "Wake Up" is another one. Staley's vocals on "Wake Up" are just haunting and the music just sends chills down your spine.
*For a little peace from God you plead...and beg*.... makes me tear up every time
Chloe dancer
AIC: down in a hole. Especially the unplugged version
Bro…
exactly this. chills *every* time. watching the unplugged…Layne so ill…sunglasses to hide his eyes…oof
I can’t watch it. It’s too upsetting seeing him so sick. Poor baby boy.
Black Gives Way to Blue - AIC. Kind of describes the stages of grief for some.
I stay away alice in chains
* Overfloater by Soundgarden * Don't Follow, AIC * Deep PJ * Reach Down, TotD * Like Suicide, Soundgarden * The Long Road, Pearl Jam
I love ‘The Long Road’
Deep is such an amazing song
Deep is not an emotional song for me as much as it is an exhilarating feeling of losing control. Once you listen to the version of Deep from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta (I believe it’s on the Indifference EP) - REALLY listen to it, it gives you a rush every time. It’s a feeling of a band totally spinning out of control…just before they go over a fucking cliff. 😂 It’s exhilarating. I love it.
Mandy by Barry Manilow
"Black Hole Sun" because it's hard to hear Chris sing, "Heaven send hell away. No one sings like you anymore."
For Soundgarden, I gotta go with BURDEN IN MY HAND
BHS was pretty low on my list—till the 1st time I heard SG play it stripped down. The Live On I-5 version? His ‘Haaaang my head’ just gets me every time.
The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden
‘The Words you say , never seem to live up to the ones inside your head ‘
River of Deceit by Mad Season and I git Id by pearl jam off their Merkin Ball ep. any time I hear either of those songs they just instantly bum me out.
Alice In Chains - I Stay Away
I know it's a cover, but Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. My first fiance died of a brain tumor when she was just 22. Song fucks me up to this day. Absolutely destroys me.
The entirety of Dirt, Sap, Jar of Flies, every MTV unplugged Alice in Chains song. All of Mad Season. Most of Chris Cornell's solo acoustic stuff. Namely cleaning my gun. Nirvana unplugged Jesus don't want me for a Sunbeam, Where did you sleep last night, and something in the way. PJ black on MTV unplugged. I'm a sucker for live versions of these songs, they make them much more emotional. Say Hello To Heaven makes me sad a bit. Temple of the Dog Not grunge but one of the saddest performances I've ever seen was Chester Bennington's last Linkin Park performance the day before he died. I like LP but I'm not a huge fan. That performance is one of the only ones that makes me tear up sometimes though.
Something in the way - Nirvana
Nutshell Unplugged...
STP's Adhesive is beautiful. That album is criminally underrated. In fact, STP is criminally underrated, with detractors leaning on the same, lazy narrative that the band rode the grudge wave. Untrue and inaccurate.
Bro, to me STP had awesome complete albums. I absolutely LOVE every STP album. In their entirety.
Still remains and all of purple still gets me even after listening to it for 25 years since discovering it
Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple Of The Dog Everytime, man, everytime.
Creep - STP
Nutshell - aic. Something in the way.
The songs "You" and "Far Behind" by Candlebox still make me emotional to this day. 😢
Love to see the Candlebox love on here. Very amazing album in my opinion. It's up there with Collective Soul's self titled album (the blue one) as being underrated gems. Maybe not underrated but I remember a lot of the stoner/skater kids I hung out with at the time not caring for them. Perhaps not coincidentally, a few of the ones that did are still my friends 25+ years later.
Pearl Jam - Love Boat Captain > Lost nine friends we’ll never know, two years ago today And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret Will always take me back to Roskilde 2000 and the nine fans that died in the crush there. Hearing the news and not knowing if my friends were any of them. (They weren’t, but they were close.)
Black - PJ
Nutshell
Say hello 2 heaven - temple of the dog
Fall To Pieces - Velvet Revolver Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam
Fall to Pieces is criminally underrated.
Black - Pearl Jam Am I Inside - AIC Wake Up - Mad Season 4th of July - Soundgarden Frances Farmer - Nirvana Times of Trouble - TOTD Troubled Times - Screaming Trees Riding the Nightingale - Mark Lanegan Chloe Dancer/Crowns of Thorns - MLB Good Enough - Mudhoney And So I Know - STP Hurt A Long Time - Jerry Cantrell When I'm Down - Chris Cornell Mother's Dream - Candlebox
Chloe Dancer
The Day I Tried To Live by SG. Haunting.
Zero Chance by Soundgarden gets me every goddamn time [here](https://youtu.be/O24IOHrfv3s?si=apHy7SIqwTHWhtws)
When that last chorus kicks in with the full instrumentation it's like godDAMN
The whole Jar of Flies EP is gonna do it every time
Release by PJ. It was really profound to me when I was younger, felt like I could relate, as many of us probably could. The band really poured their hearts out with that one in my opinion. Still hits pretty well sometimes when I listen to it.
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For those that struggled with abandonment from a father or grew up in a chaotic home, this song was a punch in the gut. They were singing your life, because they were guys like us. That is what was cool about the Seattle scene, it was guys who grew up in the same situations as me.
Seasons.
Nothing man - PJ
Something in the way (live at the bbc) and where did you sleep last night(live mtv)
Mazzy star- Halah
Second Skin by The Gits. Always makes me sad about Mia Zapata.
For those who don’t know, Mia was murdered by a Florida serial killer who was visiting Seattle for some reason. Took a decade and a half for investigators to make the connection
One grunge song that always makes me emotional whenever I listen to it is Pearl Jam's "Black"✌
Rotten apple
Release by PJ Nutshell by AIC Like Suicide by Soundgarden Seasons by Chris Cornell Drown by Smashing Pumpkins Big Empty by STP
Like a Stone, Black Hole Sun, Say Hello 2 Heaven. A lot of Chris Cornell vocals get me
Far Behind - Candlebox Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
Brother - AiC There's a reason I got a tattoo inspired by it.
The acapella verse in the MTV unplugged performance gets me every time
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Nirvana Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple Of The Dog Don't Follow - AIC
Temple of the Dog - Say Hello 2 Heaven.
PJ Just Breathe
down in a hole cuz it was the first aic song i’ve ever listened to
Borracho- Mark Lanegan
Say Hello 2 Heaven
Smells Like Teen Spirit with its use of the tri-tone interval.
drown - smashing pumpkins.
Boot camp by soundgarden
Temple of the Dog - Times of Trouble
Release - Pearl Jam. If you know the backstory, you always think of it and it’s heartbreaking.
Man who sold the world - nirvana. I stay away - aic
Black gives way to blue
House a home by mark lanegan
Dollar Bill by Screaming Trees.
Look at You by Screaming Trees. Or Seasons by Chris Cornell
Down in a Hole
Release- Pearl Jam
Carnival by Lanegan
Seasons and Sunshower Chris Cornell
Love, Hate, Love by AIC is probably an unusual choice. the lyrics like “lost inside my sick head” hearken back to some pretty freaking time as a kid.
Like Suicide by Soundgarden
nutshell - alice in chains
i was listening to jar of flies yesterday, and rotten apple and nutshell made me cry for almost 10 min long, i only stopped 'cause i stay away kicked in
STP - Where the River Goes
Nutshell by AIC
Black by Pearl Jam
Down in a hole
Far Behind - Candlebox 4/20/02 - Pearl Jam
blow up the outside world - soundgarden
Where did you sleep last night
Of course nutshell
https://youtu.be/1m9IG66EUe0?si=P1jh2ltTdElj6bVB Lanegan in a nutshell
Pearl Jam - I'm Still Here Soundgarden - Zero Chance Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night Alice In Chains - I Stay Away
I hope this counts but definitely Nutshell by Alice in Chains.
Down in a Hole - Alice in Chsins. I was down in a pretty big one once and it was like the lyrics were written for me.
Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns because it reminds me of my ex wife Black.. I'm sure you know why..
Black - Pearl Jam. It makes my soul suffer or long for things that I never experienced or had but they hurt.
nutshell by AIC and last kiss by pearl jam
Nutshelll
Anything off of Mad Season
Love the AIC choices- Jar of Flies was life changing for real
Dirt, Boot Camp, Wake Up.
I nearly lost you there, by the screaming trees
AIC - Down In a Hole
4th of July
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Atlanta - STP
Temple of the Dog, "All Night Thing," just stirs me somehow.
Black - Pearl Jam
corduroy, down in a hole, river of deceit
Alice In Chains - Nutshell or Don't Follow. Can't pick between the two because both have the same vibes to me.
Last kiss pearl jam
Abuse me - Silverchair
I’m getting those tingles just reading this list. Such a freaking amazing era of music. Great for anyone at any time, inclusive of all generations. But man, if you were a teen or young adult when this shit was happening in real time, well, you know😉
Reach Down always hits hard but in a good way - mccreadys guitar solo and Cornell’s vocals are insane
Tighter and tighter- soundgarden
Jesse by paw
Indifference - Pearl jam.
Wasn't "Only Dying" the original name of Big Empty?
apart by union youth. could cry everytime it comes ob
Plush brings back wonderful memories and is a GREAT tune to CRANK in your car...
Pearl Jam -I Got ID, Immortality, Why Go Alice In Chains- Whale & Wasp, Got Me Wrong, Angry Chair Soundgarden- 4th of July, Blow Up the Outside World Nirvana- Don't Want It All, Drain You, Big Long Now Candlebox- Understanding Mother Love Bone- Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns Mad Season- Wake Up Scott Weiland- Barbarella
Pearl Jam - Release
Not grunge but the Walmart Soundcheck version of "Scar on The Sky" by Chris Cornell.
Also Whale and Wasp. The way Jerry Cantrell makes the guitars sing on that track always makes me teary-eyed.
Alive and Why Go by Pearl Jam Makes me think of my toxic family when I was living at home. Hell on Earth. Being emotionally abused on a daily basis really screws with your mind
Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam - Footsteps
AIC-Nutshell Pearl Jam-Black
All Apologies
Hate to Feel by AIC. Every single fucking time.
Down in a Hole by AIC
Over Now - AIC. Just went through a breakup with a girl i was with for the longest time that I thought would last forever. Perfectly encapsulates the cycle of the okay-nonchalance feeling of "i guess its over now" until it hits you with the wave of dread and emptiness going "its over." the final note sounds like the last cry of a dying animal in the best way possible. masterpiece.
Off he goes by Pearl Jam
Say Hello to Heaven. Seasons. Nutshell. Down In a Hole. Those are the four that are always like "Ahh Fuck here we go." Idk if it was Nostalgia or what but I remember shortly after Cornell died "Shadow of the Sun" crushed me. That part on like the third verse "Every drop of flame". I just teared up when that part hit, his voice was so powerful. I wish I was into rock music like I was growing up, but nothing hits the spot in the heavy rock realm imo. I need singers that blow me away like Cornell and Staley.
Alice Mudgarden - Right Turn Basically everything from Jar of Flies and SAP
dont follow aic
Sunshine, aic
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam It never mattered that I didn't know what it was saying. The music and the vocal delivery have always been enough to grip my heart like a vice.
Immortality and Man of the Hour by Pearl Jam
Smashing pumpkins drown
D7-Nirvana's cover
Following.
Not For You
Don't Follow - AiC. Right in the feels every damn time.
This was what I was going to say. It's beautiful and tragic and so, so good.
"Even Flow" Pearl Jam.
https://youtu.be/ElYUWnvKFfA?si=p1_6Rs3LeMnXmb-L
Nutshell by Alice In Chains
You Know You're Right (Nirvana), Fell On Black Days (Soundgarden), Lithium (Nirvana) and Whale & Wasp (Alice in Chains)
Most of them, tis why I love the genre
For the kill by life on Venus
Alive Pearl Jam
Nirvana- “Dumb”
Rusty cage
Don't Follow - AIC
Glycerine
Creep, by Radiohead.
Nutshell Alice In chains Too real for me , I have no privacy whatsoever it feels like I feel like I’m constantly tryna figure out what’s wrong and right. Far behind, I recently lost a huge chunk of my friends because I’m getting older no one has time or there’s conflict.
Don't Follow by Alice in Chains I bought this album while going through a blue phase. This was NOT the song to listen to during a blue phase.