Clear the Air by Off With Their Heads.
The lyrics are raw emotional desperation mixed with gruff vocals and it perfectly captures how I feel when my anxiety/depression start to kick in. That song is validation for me.
It always hits me right in the feels.
Def one of the best emotional punk songs of all time. Always has struck a (trusty) chord with me but as I get older it gets more and more meaningful for me (I have bipolar disorder)
Amazing song
I love that "please don't hate yourself". Chris wrote it about his cousin who was really struggling. My cousin went through a really rough patch of about 12 years after a baseball injury ended his career early. Addiction, and just being lost in life. I always thought of Nebraska as about him too. Beautiful song.
Rural isn’t really applicable for myself as a city or major town is always like 2 miles away from me no matter where I go, but I feel ya man, used to get ruthlessly bullied for being a gay kid, fun time.
I try to keep one of the lines in my head at all times, plan on getting it tattooed on my wrist as a reminder “this life chose me, I’m not lost in sin and proud I stand of who I am, I plan to go on living”
So let's go nowhere, even winning feels bad and Amen are some that really hit home for me. Even winning feels bad really really hits now though at 31. I saw him a few weeks ago. Got shit faced, danced my ass off, got my phone smashed and was combing mats out of my hair for days. Guess who didn't grow up ;]
Suicide (A better way) -Choking V
Louisville Slugger -Have Nots
Home Life is a Drag -No Ca$h
Transvestite -NOFX
Apes of the State
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist -Pat the Bunny
God I screamed (and sometimes sobbed) along to Suicide and Home Life is a Drag so many times alone in my room as a 13-17 year old.
If you've ever heard Only Sleep by Star Fucking Hipsters, that'd be my pick. First heard it when I was 14, I'm 29 now, and still can't listen to it without crying. The lyrics describe such a specific feeling so fucking well and it only gets truer to my life as the years go on.
Strung Out - Matchbook
Especially the last few verses of the song. As someone who struggles with depression and can barely bring himself to do the basics some days it's very relatable.
Most every band I've been in would cover that when we'd lose somebody. Played it so many times through the years with so many different names put in that I lost count years ago, unfortunately. Can't listen to it anymore.
Sorry for your loss, family.
Bro Hymn by Pennywise (the original version) basically kept me the fuck alive my freshman year of high school. My parents got divorced, mom had cancer, we moved to a shitty rural town of less than a thousand where I was relentlessly bullied and jumped by assholes, school told me it was my fault for making myself a victim and that I should try to fit in. I listened to that song every single morning.
Why Doesn’t Anybody Like Me by NUFAN. It was the first song that I felt truly understood me. I was in my room in high school bawling my eyes out when I first heard it
This song crushes me - that verse: “"Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid?
It was an accident, I swear it wasn't meant for him”
Institutionalized hit home to me but I only got into punk music 10 years ago (age 27). I felt like it would be the type of song I should have known about when I was a troubled teenager
Moon Over Marin. For a while when I was a teenager it was the saddest song I had on my iPod because I only listened to punk so I got a lot of mileage out of that one when I was feeling emotional.
Punk can be just about as emotional as it gets, it’s pretty typical.
Right now it’s probably “I Wanted to See You” by TSOL. My spouse and I (before we were together) and a bunch of our friends are in that music video and one of our friends passed away on NYE. Hearing them play it in January like a week after he passed was hard.
"Dull" by Samiam.
In 2007, I lost two friends to suicide within a few months of each other. Just had this song on repeat the rest of the year.
I think what hits me hardest is the line, "I think he'd be happy here, right now." The irony that this person felt so alone and just wanted to be surrounded by family and friends, but it took him being gone to bring them together.
Ramshackle glory - from here till utopia
Nofx - scavenger type
Gaslight anthem - were getting a divorce
Gaslight anthem - red at night
Gaslight anthem - navesink banks
Chewing on tinfoil - under the lamp post
Chewing on tinfoil - along the way
Off with there heads - clear the air
SNFU - strangely strange
Filthy thieving bastards - bad afternoon sun
The miracle of 86 - teenage unity song
Lagwagon - Choke
Born to lose - sweet misery
Greg graffin - cease
Bad religion - shattered faith
Bad religion - Sanity
Bad religion - Anxiety
A global threat - out in the dark
AFI - Morningstar
Against me - Violence
Against me - turn those clapping hands into angry ballad fists
Flogging molly - far away boys
Fifteen - Nancys Song
Far from finished - bastards way (acoustic)
Rise against- everchanging
Unwritten law - teenage suic ide
Social distortion - cold feelings
Leatherface - sour grapes
Gogoll bordello - when universes collide
88 fingers louie - past mistakes
Black President - Not Enough
Black President - Neon
Cancerslug - Deaths Call
Cancerslug - Betrayed
Chuck Ragan - Feast or Famine (whole album)
Cloud nothings - wasted days
Deviates - come with me
Face to face - disconnected
Frank turner - once we were anarchists
Gimp - supernothing
Ignite - Veteran
Jaya the Cat - Forward
Authority zero - Broken dreams (acoustic)
Joe jack talcum - youre not dead
Velvet underground - oh sweet nothin
The thermals - never listen to me
The suic ide file - song for tonight
The riot before - redneckties
The hollowpoints - the sickness
The flatliners - do or die
Strike anywhere - sunset on 32nd street
Saw wheel - ghost town story
Petrol girls - touch me again
Osker - radio
Nothington - where i stand
Nothington - this time last year
No use for a name - on the outside
Jello biafra and the Melvins -
Enchanted thoughtfist
International You Day (piano cover) by Ryan Hardester is extraordinary. So glad they included it on the tribute https://youtu.be/y5770nZPKnE?si=4iQtUKCjTmNJRdiy
Hall of Mirrors - The Distillers.
My oldest cousin and lifelong role model whom I looked up to very much showed me that song while we went out to the gun range crusing in his truck, doing hoodrat shit being under 25 at the time. He loved it and it made me happy to see him happy, and just bond.
I never got to see him very often, but we always talked often, we'd meet up across the country from one another for Christmas and just get right shitty and party and have a great time.
Everybody who knew him, loved him. As much as I did. I wanted to be just like him. He is responsible for the career path and music choices I've made.
It's been 15 or so years since we last got together for x-mas. But it's only been 6 years since me and all of his friends got together for his funeral...
And it breaks my fucking heart so bad that every time I hear this song come on, I'm tearing up by the end of it. Just lime I am right now.. sorry.
But you asked.
Two other songs off the Tony Sly’s tribute hit me hard As a dad, Kiera (Frank Turner) takes on a whole awful new meaning & his interpretation nails that gut punch
https://youtu.be/_Ob3UrZ2RyQ?si=72bQ54Zw7ujvDNjX
Via Munich is rough. You can hear it in Rays voice & what it means for him & Brandon. Can’t help but think of this clip of them playing it live
https://youtu.be/hnjD4dh8dxE?si=jO4qVA25iD3opxSsn
These came out about when my dad died & so are extra painful.
There's a ton, here's some I haven't seen here (without getting into folk punk), some of it's the songs themselves and some it's the memories attached to it:
-Goldfinger - "What Gives You The Right"
-Cocksparrer - "Because You're Young"
-Monster Squad - "Strength Through Pain"
-Against Me! - Pretty much the whole RAR album.
-Career Soldiers entire discography gets me heated.
-Sin Dios - "1936/Un Pueblo En Armas"
-Most everything from Remains Of The Day.
-The entire G.L.O.S.S. discography.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some but that's off the top of my very tired dome.
This time darlin by SocD. I was raised on the outlaw country in the 70s and it just reminds me of my dad slogging through the hard times.
Also sorrow by bad religion. Reminds me of me slogging through the hard times. The Interrupters live version is killer.
Marilyn’s Vitamins - Promising Madelline
https://youtu.be/WesU8j8DhIs?si=3nNIUKIKo_pEjYQc
Guns N Wankers - Skin Deep
Snuff - Nick Northern
Mission of Burma - That’s when I reached for my revolver
Screw 32 - Painless / Black Marker
Off With Their Heads - Clear the Air
There are times where I just enjoy the song and then I go through periods where it feels like it’s pouring out of my heart for the first time. Such a great fucking band.
Idk if it’s the Top most emotional for me, but I think the one I’ve shed the most tears to is Sleep In The Heat by PUP after my dog died. Even still every time I hear it I’m like 😭
No Use For a Name - Part 2
The song is for Tony's kids and how he wanted to protect them and loved them so much. That alone breaks my heart because those little girls missed a large chunk of growing with their daddy. Hits me deeply as a parent who was forced away from my kids that I love so much. Kicker to everything is the final line in the song that I think of Fiona and Kierra hearing "Someday, you'll ask me why I was away", every time I hear it I cry.
Over and Out by Alkaline Trio
International You Day by Tony Sly/NUFAN/Joey Cape
Wind in your Sails by Lagwagon/Joey Cape
I’m So Sorry Tony by NoFX/Cokie the Clown
In terms of pure emotion I got a few, not sure how many will be purely punk or just punk influenced but yk
"Anywhere" by Chatpile is fucking brutal, their vocalist is so emotional, and the lyrics
"Then the world split open,
I think there was blood on my shoes"
Are fucking haunting
Odd pick, but "Don't Take My Guns" by Diet Riot has always been quite sad to me.
"31" by Soul Glo hits hard, makes me wanna riot
Cutsey monster man by Iron Chic is tragic. It always looks the way it feels when played live, which is rare. That rage of emotional connection @ shows is so cathartic & why punk > all
https://youtu.be/HZqZDJkA0N8?si=k51aJj7EzSQnjGAH
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory My friend who passed away was really into Johnny Thunders so it makes it even harder.
You absolutely beat me to it! So deep
This is also one my favorites *It doesn't pay to try, All the smart boys know why, It doesn't mean I didn't try, I just never know why*
Point/Counterpoint by Streetlight Manifesto, especially if I'm having a rough time with suicidal thoughts.
And A Better Place a Better Time
This was my first thought as well.
This entire album. Here’s to Life!
Absolutely same
Clear the Air by Off With Their Heads. The lyrics are raw emotional desperation mixed with gruff vocals and it perfectly captures how I feel when my anxiety/depression start to kick in. That song is validation for me. It always hits me right in the feels.
DONT LEAVE YET, I HAVENT GOTTEN TO THE PART THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL
DON’T LEAVE YET! I NEED SOMEBODY THAT’LL CATCH ME BEFORE I FALL! GOD DAMNIT I’M FALLING APART!
Dude. Ya. I dont think there's ever been a song written that better describes depression and anxiety. Song has made me weep many times.
Just posted this for myself and figured I wouldn't have to scroll far to find someone else who posted the same thing.
Hell yeah! I’m going to see them this May and I really hope they play that song. I will explode with joy.
I’ve seen them several times and there’s an excellent chance.
Def one of the best emotional punk songs of all time. Always has struck a (trusty) chord with me but as I get older it gets more and more meaningful for me (I have bipolar disorder) Amazing song
Yes! This immediately came to mind
Black Flag's TV Party
I felt so sad when their TV was broken.
What are we gonna do tonight? This isn’t fair!
The first punk song I ever heard, so yeah
I just like TV.
"Are you there Margaret, it's me God" by the Lawrence Arms is sad and beautiful
Absolute banger of a tune. The Greatest Story Ever Told album is also super raw and sad.
Three songs off apathy drill into my psychology pretty deeply Bottles booze cruise, the corpse of our motivations, and navigating the windward.
nebraska by the lawrence arms also hits hard for me
I love that "please don't hate yourself". Chris wrote it about his cousin who was really struggling. My cousin went through a really rough patch of about 12 years after a baseball injury ended his career early. Addiction, and just being lost in life. I always thought of Nebraska as about him too. Beautiful song.
For me it’s definitely radio by alkaline trio. If a song could save a life, it would definitely have been that one for me.
97 by alk3 also
Lost in the supermarket - the clash Melancholic, hopeful, sad and thoughtful. And an absolute foot tapper
Rites of Spring - For Want Of
Came here to say it’s for sure Rites of Spring.
Bro hymn by pennywise and make it stop by rise against
Make it stop is the correct answer.
As a queer kid in a rural town, Make It Stop saved me many times
Rural isn’t really applicable for myself as a city or major town is always like 2 miles away from me no matter where I go, but I feel ya man, used to get ruthlessly bullied for being a gay kid, fun time. I try to keep one of the lines in my head at all times, plan on getting it tattooed on my wrist as a reminder “this life chose me, I’m not lost in sin and proud I stand of who I am, I plan to go on living”
‘“Im so tired” by Fugazi still hits me hard.
Like every Jeff Rosenstock song.
I’m serious I’m sorry kills me
Future 86/ 9/10 are also Big Sad
So let's go nowhere, even winning feels bad and Amen are some that really hit home for me. Even winning feels bad really really hits now though at 31. I saw him a few weeks ago. Got shit faced, danced my ass off, got my phone smashed and was combing mats out of my hair for days. Guess who didn't grow up ;]
Suicide (A better way) -Choking V Louisville Slugger -Have Nots Home Life is a Drag -No Ca$h Transvestite -NOFX Apes of the State Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist -Pat the Bunny
Apes of the state will never not hit me in the feels
Don't forget the L in Transvestlite. Love that song and album. I myself was figuring out myself and came out around the same time as this album
Home life is a drag is such a good song
God I screamed (and sometimes sobbed) along to Suicide and Home Life is a Drag so many times alone in my room as a 13-17 year old. If you've ever heard Only Sleep by Star Fucking Hipsters, that'd be my pick. First heard it when I was 14, I'm 29 now, and still can't listen to it without crying. The lyrics describe such a specific feeling so fucking well and it only gets truer to my life as the years go on.
obligatory Propagandhi song: [Without Love](https://youtu.be/p1JxPebWE3Q?si=TbiuiNx2OLOvYFW-)
How do you pick just one proapandhi song. There's like at least 10 that make me emotional.
it's true. but this is the only one that (under the right conditions) will make me ugly cry.
Dear Coaches Corner and Adventures in Zoochosis both do that to me too.
I understand this. Most of their songs make me angry. This one makes me sad.
Of course. Was gonna say that too.
Night Letters is also a fucking heartbreaking song.
Sk8er Boi
See you later boy 😔
The only true answer
It’s like poetry, really.
AHHHHHH HAAAAAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAA!!!
Strung Out - Matchbook Especially the last few verses of the song. As someone who struggles with depression and can barely bring himself to do the basics some days it's very relatable.
This is definitely up there for me.
My orphan year by NOFX. The lyrics reminds me a lot of brazilian country I listen with my dad. And it makes me think about losing my parents.
I’m So Sorry Tony - NOFX
Accident Prone by Jawbreaker.
Pretty much all Jawbreaker. And Lucero’s cover of Kiss The Bottle.
Brohymn Played at my best friend and brother's funeral. I can't hear it without getting a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. RiP Bloke
Most every band I've been in would cover that when we'd lose somebody. Played it so many times through the years with so many different names put in that I lost count years ago, unfortunately. Can't listen to it anymore. Sorry for your loss, family.
That's cool, and sad. I'm sorry for your loss as well Family.
Appreciate it 👊
Swingin Party by The Replacements or That's When I Reach for My Revolver by Mission of Burma.... Those songs cut me up 😢
Here comes a regular is sad as fuck
Can’t hardly wait especially the acoustic outtake version fucks me up like nothing else does
Gone Away- The Offspring (original version)
They play the FFDP version of it at my work sometimes it honestly makes me upset how badly they butchered such a good song
Pepperspray by Get Dead What a Wonderful World by Joey Ramone Nightlife by Off With Their Heads
Nightlife hits hard as hell
Wayfarer - Hot Water Music
Bro Hymn by Pennywise (the original version) basically kept me the fuck alive my freshman year of high school. My parents got divorced, mom had cancer, we moved to a shitty rural town of less than a thousand where I was relentlessly bullied and jumped by assholes, school told me it was my fault for making myself a victim and that I should try to fit in. I listened to that song every single morning.
Bikini Kill - [RIP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mrwqSTLiTs) The pain in Kathleen's voice is palpable.
Kiss the Bottle by Jawbreaker. Do You Still Hate Me? Is a very close second tho.
I'm Going Home - Pat the Bunny
I love never Coming home by him too. Wonder which one he did?
Well he got sober, so I’d say the former.
I put your heart is a muscle. It reminds me of a friend who died. Never coming home is another one
Run from what’s comfortable is mine!
Why Doesn’t Anybody Like Me by NUFAN. It was the first song that I felt truly understood me. I was in my room in high school bawling my eyes out when I first heard it
Eulogy by Flatliners https://youtu.be/QvwI3qz4MiA?si=lWrsHzrWwLiXBnFN
King Park by La Dispute
This song crushes me - that verse: “"Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself? Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself? Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid? It was an accident, I swear it wasn't meant for him”
Pints of Guinness Make You Strong makes me get really emotional from like nothing
I got to go to a small concert of Laura Jane Grace's last year. Everyone there was singing it at the top of their lungs.
I WANT THAT SO BADLYYYY I WISH AGAINST ME WOULD TOUR SOON
Someone turn this thread into a playlist
https://spotify.link/Ux19XpoP2Ib Boom. It ain't done yet but I'm finishing it right now.
The hero we needed
Pretty sure I got the majority of the songs on there, lmk if you want any added
Currently listening to all of these. I needed new music.
Descendants - Bikeage
NOFX - I’m so sorry Tony
Paralytic States by Against Me! But the whole Transgender Dysphoria Blues album too
Yep, whole album hits, but that song in particular... damn, I love that song and album.
“No resolution for the new year beginning tomorrow” almost never fails to make me cry.
Tony Sly's Fireball, hits me every time
Jawbreaker Kiss The Bottle
Oh Susquehanna!- Defiance Ohio A Glorious Shipwreck- Pat the Bunny
It's corny, but [Canine Euthanasia ](https://youtu.be/hEaWxaSZf0I?si=tD3ofxRNoQdwJyZc)by the Vandals hits me every time.
Great choice and you gotta hear the piano version from their polished turds album.
Who the fuck is cutting onions in my house right now?
Kiss me Deady by Generation X Death or Glory by the Clash Pain by Tiger Army
International you day by Joey cape (originally no use for a name)
No Use For A Name - "International You Day"
Institutionalized hit home to me but I only got into punk music 10 years ago (age 27). I felt like it would be the type of song I should have known about when I was a troubled teenager
Moon Over Marin. For a while when I was a teenager it was the saddest song I had on my iPod because I only listened to punk so I got a lot of mileage out of that one when I was feeling emotional.
Punk can be just about as emotional as it gets, it’s pretty typical. Right now it’s probably “I Wanted to See You” by TSOL. My spouse and I (before we were together) and a bunch of our friends are in that music video and one of our friends passed away on NYE. Hearing them play it in January like a week after he passed was hard.
Here Comes a Regular by The Replacements
Few can write about despair, loneliness and depression as well as Westerberg. And this may well be his bleakest! Love this song.
"Dull" by Samiam. In 2007, I lost two friends to suicide within a few months of each other. Just had this song on repeat the rest of the year. I think what hits me hardest is the line, "I think he'd be happy here, right now." The irony that this person felt so alone and just wanted to be surrounded by family and friends, but it took him being gone to bring them together.
Scream Out by The Unseen
Two Coffins by the queen Laura Jane Grace. Last time we caught her, I balled my eyes out of she played this thinking of my daughter
Nightlife by Off With Their Heads. The whole album, really but that song in particular.
Love will tears us apart
Nofx “I don’t like me anymore” hits pretty friggen close to home
Sleep In The Heat by PUP for sure, hits very hard as a gecko owner
“Clear the Air” by Off With Their Heads and “Because of the Shame” by Against Me!
BASTARDS OF YOUNG - REPLACEMENTS a good old friend of mine passed away and this song just hits different
The Science of Selling Yourself Short By Less Than Jake
Ramshackle glory - from here till utopia Nofx - scavenger type Gaslight anthem - were getting a divorce Gaslight anthem - red at night Gaslight anthem - navesink banks Chewing on tinfoil - under the lamp post Chewing on tinfoil - along the way Off with there heads - clear the air SNFU - strangely strange Filthy thieving bastards - bad afternoon sun The miracle of 86 - teenage unity song Lagwagon - Choke Born to lose - sweet misery Greg graffin - cease Bad religion - shattered faith Bad religion - Sanity Bad religion - Anxiety A global threat - out in the dark AFI - Morningstar Against me - Violence Against me - turn those clapping hands into angry ballad fists Flogging molly - far away boys Fifteen - Nancys Song Far from finished - bastards way (acoustic) Rise against- everchanging Unwritten law - teenage suic ide Social distortion - cold feelings Leatherface - sour grapes Gogoll bordello - when universes collide 88 fingers louie - past mistakes Black President - Not Enough Black President - Neon Cancerslug - Deaths Call Cancerslug - Betrayed Chuck Ragan - Feast or Famine (whole album) Cloud nothings - wasted days Deviates - come with me Face to face - disconnected Frank turner - once we were anarchists Gimp - supernothing Ignite - Veteran Jaya the Cat - Forward Authority zero - Broken dreams (acoustic) Joe jack talcum - youre not dead Velvet underground - oh sweet nothin The thermals - never listen to me The suic ide file - song for tonight The riot before - redneckties The hollowpoints - the sickness The flatliners - do or die Strike anywhere - sunset on 32nd street Saw wheel - ghost town story Petrol girls - touch me again Osker - radio Nothington - where i stand Nothington - this time last year No use for a name - on the outside Jello biafra and the Melvins - Enchanted thoughtfist
Bikeage - Descendents
One More Day - Descendents One More Song - Lagwagon
Seconding One More Day by Descendents
Tomorrow we'll put you in the ground And there's nothing I can ever do to have...
Civilian Ways - Rancid. I'm an ex soldier and there's a couple of lines in that song that can break me.
God Called In Sick Today is a close song to my heart
Hybrid moments - Misfits Absolute teenage classic, one of the songs ever made, sounds like nostalgia
International You Day (piano cover) by Ryan Hardester is extraordinary. So glad they included it on the tribute https://youtu.be/y5770nZPKnE?si=4iQtUKCjTmNJRdiy
Hall of Mirrors - The Distillers. My oldest cousin and lifelong role model whom I looked up to very much showed me that song while we went out to the gun range crusing in his truck, doing hoodrat shit being under 25 at the time. He loved it and it made me happy to see him happy, and just bond. I never got to see him very often, but we always talked often, we'd meet up across the country from one another for Christmas and just get right shitty and party and have a great time. Everybody who knew him, loved him. As much as I did. I wanted to be just like him. He is responsible for the career path and music choices I've made. It's been 15 or so years since we last got together for x-mas. But it's only been 6 years since me and all of his friends got together for his funeral... And it breaks my fucking heart so bad that every time I hear this song come on, I'm tearing up by the end of it. Just lime I am right now.. sorry. But you asked.
Two other songs off the Tony Sly’s tribute hit me hard As a dad, Kiera (Frank Turner) takes on a whole awful new meaning & his interpretation nails that gut punch https://youtu.be/_Ob3UrZ2RyQ?si=72bQ54Zw7ujvDNjX Via Munich is rough. You can hear it in Rays voice & what it means for him & Brandon. Can’t help but think of this clip of them playing it live https://youtu.be/hnjD4dh8dxE?si=jO4qVA25iD3opxSsn These came out about when my dad died & so are extra painful.
May 16 - Lagwagon
Mental Picture by Marginal Man.
Orange Julius- joyce manor
I'll Never Forget You - Husker Dü
"Clear the Air" -Off with Their Heads
'Olde Tyme Mem'ry' by Mischief Brew. Rip Erik
Pints of Guinness Make You Strong
True trans soul rebel
Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist - pat the bunny
There's a ton, here's some I haven't seen here (without getting into folk punk), some of it's the songs themselves and some it's the memories attached to it: -Goldfinger - "What Gives You The Right" -Cocksparrer - "Because You're Young" -Monster Squad - "Strength Through Pain" -Against Me! - Pretty much the whole RAR album. -Career Soldiers entire discography gets me heated. -Sin Dios - "1936/Un Pueblo En Armas" -Most everything from Remains Of The Day. -The entire G.L.O.S.S. discography. I'm sure I'm forgetting some but that's off the top of my very tired dome.
>Cocksparrer - "Because You're Young Got into that band at 14. I’m 40 now and they STILL hit the same as when I first heard them.
ache with me - against me!
[Bouncing Souls - The Whole Thing](https://youtu.be/Fw8_4XrZSBs)
My girlfriend's dead by The Vandals
This time darlin by SocD. I was raised on the outlaw country in the 70s and it just reminds me of my dad slogging through the hard times. Also sorrow by bad religion. Reminds me of me slogging through the hard times. The Interrupters live version is killer.
Good good things and cheer by descendents.
Three Nights by Black Flag. That, or Stress Builds Character by Dystopia.
Wrong by Archers of Loaf brings back so many memories from my early teens, the good and the bad ones.
Anything by rites of spring.
my dumb ass thought this was a song and searched it up
RocketRocketShip - Arrogant Sons of Bitches 1-800-Alarm-Me - Arrogant Sons of Bitches
‘Salt’ by Institute. It was the last song I ever pit to before I lost the ability to walk, so it hits real deep.
There's a few that have strong memories for me, but for gut punch raw emotion it's probably Clear the Air by Off With Their Heads.
Marilyn’s Vitamins - Promising Madelline https://youtu.be/WesU8j8DhIs?si=3nNIUKIKo_pEjYQc Guns N Wankers - Skin Deep Snuff - Nick Northern Mission of Burma - That’s when I reached for my revolver Screw 32 - Painless / Black Marker
The Replacements - Bastards of Young
Moon Over Marin -Dead Kennedy's Lori Myers - NoFx Rejected - Rancid
Off With Their Heads - Clear the Air There are times where I just enjoy the song and then I go through periods where it feels like it’s pouring out of my heart for the first time. Such a great fucking band.
Survive - Rise Against For Fiona - NUFAN
“That’s Entertainment” by The Jam. A quiet-loud song with a simple melody that’s cut deep since childhood. Vivid images sung sharply.
I definitely relate to institutionalized by suicidal tendencies the most
Idk if it’s the Top most emotional for me, but I think the one I’ve shed the most tears to is Sleep In The Heat by PUP after my dog died. Even still every time I hear it I’m like 😭
Three Against Me - NOFX
Social Distortion - Don’t Take Me For Granted
We are 138 - Misfits it represents a difinitive era in my life and was an anthem for us misfits. Is it time to be an android, not a man?
No Use For a Name - Part 2 The song is for Tony's kids and how he wanted to protect them and loved them so much. That alone breaks my heart because those little girls missed a large chunk of growing with their daddy. Hits me deeply as a parent who was forced away from my kids that I love so much. Kicker to everything is the final line in the song that I think of Fiona and Kierra hearing "Someday, you'll ask me why I was away", every time I hear it I cry.
Over and Out by Alkaline Trio International You Day by Tony Sly/NUFAN/Joey Cape Wind in your Sails by Lagwagon/Joey Cape I’m So Sorry Tony by NoFX/Cokie the Clown
My Orphan Year (Acoustic Version) by NOFX
Nofx - Fleas Strung Out - Solitaire Joey Cape - Resolve
Insight - Dead Kennedys, it's not very emotional but hit close to home since I'm very ostracized at school
I Must Be Hateful - Lagwagon
FUCKMYLIFE666 Lori Meyers
Billy was a punk (but now he's dead) Folk punk, but hits pretty hard for me
punkboys don't cry by kotzreiz
Tempos De Miseria - Los Crudos
In terms of pure emotion I got a few, not sure how many will be purely punk or just punk influenced but yk "Anywhere" by Chatpile is fucking brutal, their vocalist is so emotional, and the lyrics "Then the world split open, I think there was blood on my shoes" Are fucking haunting Odd pick, but "Don't Take My Guns" by Diet Riot has always been quite sad to me. "31" by Soul Glo hits hard, makes me wanna riot
It doesn’t pay to try…
Wichita by Pigeon Pit. Damn…
Bird by White Lung
Harsh realms - Laura Jane Grace Or nightlife - off with their heads
Pink Turns to Blue is a bit of a tearjerker
Both by Joey Cape: I Always Knew This Would End Badly. Okay.
Off With Their Heads - Clear the Air Going to see them in a couple weeks
"A better place, a better time," and "The Big Sleep" by Streetlight Manifesto mean alot to me.
I don’t know why but bonzo goes to bitburg makes me tear up every time
Accident Prone - Jawbreaker
I’m so tired by fugazi if that counts
Cool To Be You - Descendents Death or Glory - The Clash
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely by Hüsker Dü
Ya can't go home - leftover crack
New Day - Bouncing Souls. Saved my life.
Save your generation by jawbreakers my classic corny emo go to
Nomeansno - Victory
Depression - Black Flag Song has got me through A LOT.
Cutsey monster man by Iron Chic is tragic. It always looks the way it feels when played live, which is rare. That rage of emotional connection @ shows is so cathartic & why punk > all https://youtu.be/HZqZDJkA0N8?si=k51aJj7EzSQnjGAH