Songs that make you cry :(

Prezatch

The last song that caused a tear jerking moment for me was
My bloody valentine - Sometimes.

I think you really know when a song is GREAT when it can touch you so deeply like that.

goodfela

Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice gets me every time

Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt: schmaltzy but does the trick



and not a cryer but one for that break-up sex moment: One More Night by Stars

Haven't a Clue

Radiohead - Let down, did for a good while. Reminded me of something really **** happening.

Tyrrial

the reindeer section - your sweet voice*


*maybe not on the outside.. but on the inside it's a killer

Backtoblack

Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley!


That one springs to mind anyway. I'm not really a cry baby though.. can't remember the last time I cried.. oh wait I can, it was a program about Africa, was watching it just after waking up.

Backtoblack

Lol! I'm listening to random tunes/songs on Youtube at the moment, and stumbled across this one! It belongs in this thread! lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT89Cte_cg8&mode=related&search=

Roy Orbison & KD Lang - "Crying"

Peyton Manning

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Gets me every time. Honourable mentions for:

Jimmy Eat World - 23
Simple Plan - Untitled
Damien Rice - Rootless Tree (personal reasons)

SligoBrewer

Golden Touch - Razorlight

not the usual but..

Damien Rice - Blower's Daughter has gotten me a few times as well

bluto63

Archimedes wrote:

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Same here. Brilliant song and almost always brings a tear to my eye when I listen to it

Nightswimming - REM

DarkJager

Anything by Pete Doherty/Babyshambles...they're just so fvckin awful...

hunnymonster

bluto63 wrote:

Quote:Originally Posted by Archimedes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Same here. Brilliant song and almost always brings a tear to my eye when I listen to it

me too.

Kold

Weird... I don't think a song has ever actually moved me to tears. In fact I find it really quite bizarre that it's done so for you guys.

arbeitsscheuer

Kold wrote:

Weird... I don't think a song has ever actually moved me to tears. In fact I find it really quite bizarre that it's done so for you guys.

Ditto to a large extent, especially with the somewhat anodyne choices some ppl have made in this thread. Moved to tears by Razorlight? The mind boggles.) Although having said that, hymns and some classical music (e.g. a cliché, but Barber's Adagio for Strings is just so powerful it's unreal) have been known to bring a tear to my eye.

Guaranteed to get me bawling my eyes out would be a strong rendition of Sir Francis Henry Lyte's 'Abide With Me'. Unbelievably moving.

pinksockpuppet

Puff the Magic Dragon, that's one of the most heartbreaking songs ever

Mrs. MacGyver

bluto63 wrote:

Same here. Brilliant song and almost always brings a tear to my eye when I listen to it

The same. Also fake plastic trees and creep by radiohead, one by U2

Creamy Goodness

not many songs that would do this to me but anything from pinkerton would bring me seriously close to the borderline.

JC 2K3

I dunno about tears unless I was in a fragile emotional state, but emotional/sad songs...

Some stuff of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac like The Chain or Dreams can be real emotional digs/tear jerkers when you already feel like shít.

Hurt - NIN/Cash(The NIN version makes me feel depressed, the Cash version makes me feel sad)

Televators - Mars Volta. the lyrics are hard to decipher, but it has such a sad feel to it.

Tears in Heaven - Clapton. An obvious one.

John

A combination of timing, memories and mood brought tears to my eyes during Electric Picnic when New Order played "Ceremony".

Backtoblack

John wrote:

A combination of timing, memories and mood brought tears to my eyes during Electric Picnic when New Order played "Ceremony".

I think Live Music is generally more emotional anyway, for me anyway.
I remember seeing a quartet in London before busking on the street.. it was just incredible.. Or if you're fav band are in playing live in front of you, it can be pretty mindblowing!

Den_M

'The World Has Turned and Left Me Here' or 'I Do' by Weezer. Also 'Nobody's Baby Now' or '(Are You) the One I've Been Waiting For' by Nick Cave.

It's often that the way a line is sung that gets you as opposed to the whole song. Like the way the way Springsteen sings 'when she was just seventeen' in 'The River'. That gets me too.

Kold

True love waits sends shivers down my spine but it doesn't make me cry..

Andrew 83

DarkJager wrote:

Anything by Pete Doherty/Babyshambles...they're just so fvckin awful...

While his stuff's hit and miss I think he's had some great tracks. Time for Heroes with the Libertines is fantastic.

zam

"Easier To Lie" by Aqualung.

Don't ask becuase I don't know?!

Prezatch

Backtoblack wrote:

I think Live Music is generally more emotional anyway, for me anyway.

True, I remember seeing one of franz liszt's piano concerto's being performed in the national concert hall which brought a tear to my eye. Really powerful stuff like that can just trigger you to think of sad things and sad times.

cashback

A few songs that would bring me close to tears (but that's all!):

Doves - The Cedar Room
REM - Let Me In
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Husker Du - Hardly Getting Over It

Not a song but Satie's Gymnopédies is quite moving. Just a simple piano piece but has something.

lordgoat

How weird.

Let me In - REM, is for me one of the most moving songs i've heard. Saw it live a long time ago and the memory is one of the strongest from any gig i've been to.

cashback

lordgoat wrote:

How weird.

Let me In - REM, is for me one of the most moving songs i've heard. Saw it live a long time ago and the memory is one of the strongest from any gig i've been to.

Have only been to one of their gigs but they didn't play it.
It's meant to be about Kurt Cobain and his guitar was used to perform it at a gig of theirs once.
I don't listen to it enough because Monster is not one of my favourite REM albums.

punchdrunk

thom yorke videotape,tis beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0MI3gtaqfY

ILikeHobgoblin

This is a weird one but Everlong by the foo fighters gets me sometimes.
Makes me think of the good auld days in college.

lordgoat

cashback wrote:

Have only been to one of their gigs but they didn't play it.
It's meant to be about Kurt Cobain and his guitar was used to perform it at a gig of theirs once.
I don't listen to it enough because Monster is not one of my favourite REM albums.

Ya it's about Kurt Cobain alright but that aside it's a wonderful song. Monster is an awesome album, my favourite by a long way. It's got a much longer lifespan than automatic/green/ out of time in my opinion.

I saw them play Let me In in 95, and i've seen them a good bit since but no Let Me In... Some day.

Miguel_Sanchez

lordgoat wrote:

I saw them play Let me In in 95, and i've seen them a good bit since but no Let Me In... Some day.

I remember that gig. The whole crowd seemed to spontaneously start throwing papercups in the air during Let Me In. Stipe cited it as one of his favourite moments of the whole tour.

pig on the wing

JoeyD wrote:

The last song that caused a tear jerking moment for me was
My bloody valentine - Sometimes.

I think you really know when a song is GREAT when it can touch you so deeply like that.

i'm glad someone else has heard of mbv. best thing to come out of ireland in the past 40 years. you know, because u2 suck.

anyways, dunno about crying, but this (particular version of the song) gives me shivers:
http://www.youtube.com/v/8SuZ083hmFo

Miguel_Sanchez

pig on the wing wrote:

i'm glad someone else has heard of mbv. best thing to come out of ireland in the past 40 years. you know, because u2 suck.

Get over yourself. Loads of people have heard of My Bloody Valentine.

tywy

Damien Rice - Accidental Babies. Everytime.

lordgoat

tywy wrote:

Damien Rice - Accidental Babies. Everytime.

Is the name of that song Accidental Babies Everytime? He's quite prolific if it is...

Ya Mr. Lebowski (or is it the dude) that was pretty special alright, still makes me smile when i think back in it. Stipe as mentioned it a few times as well. Would love to hear it live again.

Call Me Jimmy

funkadelic's song maggot brain will make you come and cry at the same time

watsgone

Suzanne Vega - Queen and the soldier

:|

Kings of leon-fans

makes me think of my childhood, growing up down south......Oh wait no

fourmations

heres mine


related to loss of someone close:
bedshaped: keane
blank page: pumpkins
satisfied mind: jeff b

sad lyrics:
the wrong child: REM

unexplainable:
i am the walrus - beatles
(this came from nowhere! i was walking down the street with a walkman!!)

i have many goosebumpers:
carolyns fingers: cocteau twins
inner self: sepultura (really!)
vapour trail: ride
kool thing: sonic youth (the out of tune, instrumental bit at the end)

i thought the one video (with the naratives)
by metallica was incredibly sad

ciao4now

Backtoblack

JoeyD wrote:

True, I remember seeing one of franz liszt's piano concerto's being performed in the national concert hall which brought a tear to my eye. Really powerful stuff like that can just trigger you to think of sad things and sad times.

Sometimes its not sad though.. I personally find music very emotional anyway but live can be just overwhelming, or awing.. I dunno, hard to explain really! Not always sad anyway is my point I suppose.

tywy

lordgoat wrote:

Is the name of that song Accidental Babies Everytime? He's quite prolific if it is...

Ya Mr. Lebowski (or is it the dude) that was pretty special alright, still makes me smile when i think back in it. Stipe as mentioned it a few times as well. Would love to hear it live again.

lol

I used a full stop I think :P maybe I should have used an ellipses or a comma...everytime :P

bowsie casey

Don't think a song has ever physically made me cry, but Dirty Three's "I knew it would come to this..." on Horse Stories puts a lump in my throat every time....

Prezatch

bowsie casey wrote:

Don't think a song has ever physically made me cry, but Dirty Three's "I knew it would come to this..." on Horse Stories puts a lump in my throat every time....

Yea that's a pretty heart wrenching song alright, good choice

nettranny

coil- going up.
some Antony & the Johnson's songs.
Zbigniew preisner's stuff

cerebis

jealous guy - John Lennon got me once

Stargal

Uh, James Taylor - Fire and Rain.

I don't know why, but for some reason the line, "...But I always thought that I'd see you again" has really gotten to me on a couple of times when I was pretty blue.

yevveh

Its rare a song makes me actually cry, but 'Lux Aeterna' by Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet (off the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack) usually gets the aul emotions working.

smackbunnybaby

right where it belongs by nine inch nails on with teeth (both versions) make me very reflective and sad when i listen to it.

SligoBrewer

yesterday by the beatles got me a couple of weeks ago

megs_88

cat power - good woman