"Put on your stockins' 'cause the night's gettin' cold."

Those drums!

There's a scene in Grosse Point Blank where they use it when Cusack holds a baby and I swear I fall apart every time I see it. Since I had kids especially, I just lose it.

Sometimes corny pop songs are what we need. Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been" brings me goosebumps every time.

YES

Love that Big Star choice, Gwen. I would also add "Thirteen" - that one makes me practically dissolve in a pool of my own tears. It's so wistful, so beautifully delicate. Ah! God they were a great band.

I've never connected as much with Tom Joad as I have with most of the rest of Springsteen's albums, but now I want to give it another shot after your comment. And if we're talking Bruce songs that choke us up, I have several: "Brilliant Disguise," and "Atlantic City," to name only two (seriously, I could go on…

I was there! What a moment that was! It was almost a religious experience.

"2,000 Miles" by the Pretenders gets me every damn time. I know it's played a lot during the holidays, but I'm a big fan of the band so I hear it plenty during the rest of the year and it gets me right in the heart every single time. Never fail.

Yes, Alex! "Maps" always kills me too. Such a good song. I never tire of it!

Tomorrow morning when my kids are eating cheerios, I'm busting out that line. Thank you for this.

That Quine solo is fantastic.

Totally, and it also rocks pretty ferociously at times.

PREACH, friend!

This album and Live: Take No Prisoners are probably the two by Reed I play most often. For fans of Street Hassle, I highly recommend Take No Prisoners if you haven't heard it yet. It's another album that had a lousy reputation but I've always found it insanely listenable, damn near addictive, in fact. Reed is in top…

Same here, and for the same reasons. It always brings chills up my spine every time I hear it. I remember the first time I heard it, wow, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I'd never heard anything like it. I'm not sure I've heard much like it since either.

That "Sweet Jane" intro? '70s guitar ecstasy right there.

It really is an all-time great song, a masterpiece even. It has everything you want from a Lou Reed song, split into those three sections, and they all combine perfectly.

"Harrowing yet strangely beautiful" is absolutely why I love Reed's music, especially Street Hassle and his other '70s masterworks. Great article.

I don't know but I love this art from the master, Bill Sienkiewicz!
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