Anonymous
Post 05/23/2015 00:24     Subject: Re:Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
I'm 45. Can't get rid of my satellite radio because I need my 80s station!
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2015 00:18     Subject: Re:Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
I am 42 and about a year ago I stopped enjoying most modern music and listen to more and more from the 80s...then I realized oh my god I am becoming my parents!
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2015 00:13     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Anonymous wrote:Alphaville's "Forever Young". Even more poignant now.


Oh, YES.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 23:56     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Anonymous wrote:I'm 32 and I do this. Not really about 80s songs, but plenty of 90s and 2000s songs.

Also Bonnie Raitt "I can't make you love me"...bawl my eyes out. Every. Single. Time.


THAT is an emotional song.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 22:21     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Alphaville's "Forever Young". Even more poignant now.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 22:09     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
I'm 32 and I do this. Not really about 80s songs, but plenty of 90s and 2000s songs.

Also Bonnie Raitt "I can't make you love me"...bawl my eyes out. Every. Single. Time.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 22:07     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
You would've been a teen, so lots of hormones then. I was in my twenties, so nostalgia, but not the angst.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 22:05     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
I get it OP. I'm 47. Sometimes 70s music takes me back to childhood and that can make me melancholy too.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:35     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
OP here. Thanks, all. Good to know I'm not a total nut. My life was so carefree then and it's anything but that now. Every time I hear Pretty in Pink by Psych Furs I just about lose it.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:33     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
I'm 46 too. Some of those 80s songs completely stop me in my tracks - so I completely understand where you're coming from.

The ones that get me most were the ones I remember an old BF putting on a mixed tape, in the hope to win me back.

"I believe in miracles, since you came along, you sexy thing" by Hot Chocolate

and similar...
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:30     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Anonymous wrote:I've been listening to my 80s playlists a lot lately and they're just so evocative of that time and place in my life that I'll well up with tears. This (thank god) while I'm alone and just puttering around the house late at night or what have you. Mind you, I'm not crying to sad love ballads. "Let's Dance" by Bowie will do it. What gives? Anyone else do this? I'm 45, FWIW.



I'm 46. I created an 80s hair band playlist today. Took me back.
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:20     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:19     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Me too when they play them on radio. Love the music and the memories
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:19     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
Perimenopause
Anonymous
Post 05/22/2015 21:18     Subject: Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music
I've been listening to my 80s playlists a lot lately and they're just so evocative of that time and place in my life that I'll well up with tears. This (thank god) while I'm alone and just puttering around the house late at night or what have you. Mind you, I'm not crying to sad love ballads. "Let's Dance" by Bowie will do it. What gives? Anyone else do this? I'm 45, FWIW.