[Closed] What songs make you cry ? Be honest !

Eva Cassidy's 'Songbird' made me cry - sung by my sister on my wedding day. She's a top-flite musician and has an astounding voice - incredible clarity.

Nimrod. Elgar.
Am in floods every time I hear it.

eva Cassidy ! yes that got played a lot after I split with my ex !
Funnily enough it was also sung at my wedding ! (5yrs this summer)

Nimrod fills me with exultation.

Music is such an emotional thing.

The Verve, Drugs Dont Work - because it was around at the time my girlfriend (now wife) went to America to work for the summer.

Pink Floyd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond - because my dad, the old sod, asked for it to be played at his funeral. All three of his sons love Floyd (like he did) so I am constantly reminded of the day.

This:

A true song about love, in sickness, and in health. Heartbreaking.

People cry to music.? Really.? A film maybe but music.!

Tell me there's a Heaven - Chris Rea.
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits.

Just memories. 😥

People cry at films? Really?

What like Police Academy and stuff?

Jonny cash - Hurt
Though Elbow - lippy kids is great esecially after hearing the reason it was written at a elbow concert.

A song played at a funeral may have a different effect. As for police academy I blarted like a school girl.

Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward.

Played at my wifes funeral.

'Through Autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way
You always loved this time of year
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
Cause you're not here'.

Ambrose, my tears are equally of sorrow and joy on hearing Nimrod. A very, very good memory.

CFH- I know what you mean.

A strangely less relevant one to me but 'Wires' by Athlete. Purely because of the subject because I have two young kids.

A year ago. not much. These days quite a few.

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Rolf, Two Little Boys.

And there's this one, Emmylou Harris, Prayer in Open D:

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People cry to music.? Really.? A film maybe but music.!

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

1916 by Motorhead - an unflinching tale of the horrors of WW1

"Cool" by Gwen Stefanani. Boarding the plane in Brisban after the hol of a lifetime. I so wanted to move to Oz but Wife wouldn't go. 🙁

God, quite a lot! I find music amazing at reaching parts of me that don't normally get reached. Or maybe that I don't allow to be reached, unless I'm on my own. I've found tears streaming down my face on many an occasion, listening to music. Not necessarily from sadness, more from poignant, reflective beauty.

And this might not be a song, but it's pretty close. This is beautiful.
I found myself getting emotional when I heard the background music being used on another film. Took me a little while to remember why.

My best friend died when we were 17. His favourite song at the time was 'you are always on my mind' by the Pet Shop Boys. If it comes on the radio while I'm in work or something, then I have to turn it off, or leave, because I know I'll glaze over, then when I listen to the lyrics I'll start sobbing pathetically

I'm sure this amuses him, no end

"We have all the time in the world" Louis Armstrong, basically a true love song

The Last Post if you need to ask why..........

The Theme from "Band of Brothers" .. .. brilliant soundtrack, brilliant TV series, true story

ANY tune featuring the massed pipes and drums of (the now) Royal Regiment of Scotland ... really raises the hairs on the back of my neck.... it's a jock thing lol

You've Got A Friend - James Taylor
And from recently, Into Your Arms by The Lemonheads
Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me used to but not anymore.
X Factor made me hate The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face until I recently listened to it after ages, sung by Roberta Flack, and fell in love with it again.
Danny Boy always makes me feel emotional.
Amhrán na bhFiann sung before a rugby international never fails to bring at least one tear.

Last song to make me cry was this. I was riding my bike at the time, so not a pleasant experience

radiohead - no surprises

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Teardrops by Massive Attack. (Appropriately)

And I don't know about tears, but anything by Johann Seastian Bach just has me standing slack-jawed in amazement. There's a story that the biologist Lewis Thomas was asked what message should e sent into space on the Voyager probe to represent all of humanity. He replied "The complete works of Bach ... But that would be boasting".

Dez, he's got a way with words...

clapton - tears in heaven
the story behind this song has me welling up just thinking about it

and this

"I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors,
Closed it down and opened the **** You, Get Over It Bed and Breakfast"

[i]Dez, he's got a way with words...[/i]

Certainly has.

[i]clapton - tears in heaven[/i]

IF I heard that I would break down. Totally. I don't like Clapton (so obviously didn't know what it was about at the time!), but an acoustic guitarist played it at my wedding. So I just know it would destroy me. 🙁

mega - I fully understand the sentiment, but that Clapton song left me utterly cold. Private grief brought into the public eye (ear) through the medium of money. Bad craic IMHO.

Pathetically, this:

I think possibly because I have a little girl too.

This is probably as close as I get

Cheers, Rich

There are a few which pop a little burly man dust in the corner of my eye in the right circumstances.

God Only Knows - Beach Boys. Brian Wilson's solo live version in particular.

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Into my Arms - Nick Cave

Desperados Under the Eaves - Warren Zevon

Fruit Tree - Nick Drake

About half of Lee Hazelwood's Cake or Death album not because of the songs but the circumstances in which it was recorded.

Coldplay also make me want to cry. But for entirely different reasons.

X Factor made me hate The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face until I recently listened to it after ages, sung by Roberta Flack, and fell in love with it again.

The only one that comes close to Roberta is Sterophonics, love Kelly's voice on this, might even prefer it to Roberta's...

Something about Richard Thompson's voice just sets me off:

Oooh, I didn't realise they'd done a cover of it. I'll have a listen to that later. Cheers mark90.

Cash - Hurt

And having a young son now, this one creeps up on me occasionally:

Amie by Danien Rice has me in pieces (it's embarrassing and I don't know why it does it)

This and Tim Minchin above for my daughter and her problems.

This for my mum, who died too young

Please can I join in even if I'm not manly?!
Fix You by Cold Play makes me cry, and two songs by the Union: Cut the line and Fading out of Love.

Sandwich - your one reminded me of this one. Don't know whether it's my powerful memory of the film, but it has me filling up in the right circumstances. Beautiful song.

What songs? Too many to mention. The curse of being an old romantic with an over active imagination. I get ambushed by tunes all the time,sometimes I think it's worse because I listen through headphones a lot, little details that can spring hair trigger memories. A recent one was Etta James - At last

Good shout by the OP on the Bowie track - very moving.

I'd add:

Elbow - One Day Like This
Tindersticks - Tiny Tears

Me and MrsLugz had the acoustic version of foo fighters everlong played as our first dance.

I cried when we saw them live performing it.

And Cars - Drive. It was used as one of the 'feed the world' songs and although it doesnt bring tears, I always see the same image of a starving child whenever I hear it.

If this voice doesn't move you...

Just had to stop the Tim Minchin song playing in my headphones at work as it has made me start welling up.

I think I'm turning into a girl!

Cats in Cradle by Harry Chapin

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Buddy Holly - True Love Ways. Played at my Dad's funeral. Cant listen to that one without the room turning dusty.

Happy songs include - i giorni by Ludovico Einaudi, played at my wedding, and bizzarely, Someone Great by LCD soundsystem - dont know why but it got me through some rough patches.

This one gives me goose bumps whenever I hear it - choked me up the first time, something about losing my Dad early means a lot of Roger Waters' lyrics get to me.

I watched him on telly talking about songwriting the other day, and when he said that he's just trying to keep doing work that his Dad would be proud of, that got to me too.

Just beautiful....

Both make me go all weepy for different reasons, from different points in my life. One reminds me of being 17 and full of optimism. The other that maybe I still should be

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And the songs you give wings to
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my melancholy moments have all been fueled by John grant recently the big lovely beardy guy.

Asleep - Smiths
Elbow - Newborn

Puff the Magic Dragon (ahem!)

mostly its live music that does it for me, i don't even have to know the song, saw o'hooley and tidow recently and they did one about a small bay who died young that just destroyed me...also our singer in A Rookery wrote one about spending new years eve alone, always gets me, can't wait to record that one

Great thread.

For me it's JCB by Nizlopi.
Accidentally listened to it just after my dad died, it could have been written about him and me.

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Edit2: cheers unklehomered

Not a cheerful song at the best of times but I was listening to it when my sister came to the house and told me that one of our friends had gone swimming in a local pool, dived in and not come up again....

take the url out of the brackets and you should be away. 🙂

Ahh Thea Gilmore Brilliant 🙂
Songs not mentioned already would be

Green and Grey & Marrakesh - New Model Army

Music is my therapy, so:

Lambchop - My Blue Wave
Bonnie Riatt - I can't make you love me
David Sylvian - Fire on the Forest

"Shipbuilding" for me too. I like the Hue and Cry version

Good call on the John Grant unklehomered - it tends to have the same effect on me too

mickyfinn - That vid is from the first time I went to see her at Bury Met. I didn't know her stuff that well. The better half got us tickets for my birthday. I sat there listening to that with ... ahem.... something in my eye. We've seen her a good few times since and, for some reason it always seems to be dusty

This thread is the best on here for yonks.

*sniffle*

"Shipbuilding" for me too. I like the Hue and Cry version

Costello is 'the' version for me, but a great song.

The opening of this get's me everytime.

Think this just has the edge in the weepy stakes compared to Neil Youngs version.

Also saw Richard Hawley last week and it might have been a bit dusty.

I've got to be in the mood for music to set me off with full-on "dusty eyes", but those that come closest:

Main theme from ET - for 30 years this has had me in shivers
Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home (needs accompanying video for full effect)
Coldplay - A Warning Sign

Could probably think of dozens more but these are up there near the top.

Great thread!

Many of mine have been mentioned - it wasn't until I read this that I realised what a wuss I was. I blame it on having kids.

I'd add:

Cannonball - Damien Rice
If I can't change you mind - Sugar (although I think I'm over this one now)
Wonderful - Everclear

doesn't make me cry exactly but gets me close - Playing with Fire - Plan B

Surprised no-one has said Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye

Jeff Buckley's version of hallelujah was played at my old ladies funeral, I never liked the song and because of that I find it hard to cry, instead I smile!

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is a tear jerker, particularly the video but I think this song has more to it, remorse is Johnny's thing!

Wednesday week by the undertones. Was played at my auntie's funeral. Watching my uncle bens shoulders shaking in the front row just set us all off I think, can't hear it now without blubbering

When I was having gf issues, said the people by dinosaur jr was getting a hammering LOL

Queen - These are the days of our lives. And definitely Hurt as many mention above. I think its the fact that both Freddie and Johnny didn't have long to go when they recorded the videos that creates the emotional connection, for me anyway

Prince - Sometimes it snows in April

shiver me timbers by tom waits

'Man on the Moon' and 'The Great Beyond' by REM which were played at my brothers funeral in 2004. They were from his favorite film @Man on the Moon' about Andy Kaufman. Two awesome songs but i still to this day cant listen to them without blubbing.