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Crying
Rock · 1962 · 9 tracks

Crying

Roy Orbison

1962 · Classic Records

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Crying is the definitive document of the Big O at his most emotionally resonant.

It is an album that feels like a velvet curtain closing on the rowdy rockabilly of the 1950s and opening on a new, more sophisticated era of pop drama.

The sound is defined by a deep, cavernous reverb that makes every guitar pluck and vocal sigh feel like it is echoing through an empty ballroom. It is music for the solitary, for those who find a strange kind of comfort in the grandiosity of their own sorrow.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks
02
The Great Pretender
3:00
04
She Wears My Ring
2:28
05
Wedding Day
2:07
06
Summer Song
2:43
07
Dance
2:52
08
Lana
2:16
09
Loneliness
2:25
10
Let’s Make a Memory
2:16
11
Nite Life
2:31
Moments Worth Listening For
The title track's transition from a rhythmic, steady pulse into that soaring, desperate high note that defines the era.
The gentle, almost ghostly backing choir on The Great Pretender that cushions Roy's isolated lead vocal.
The way the drums on Running Scared maintain a bolero-like tension that never breaks until the final vocal peak.
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