what songs make you cry (or very emotional)

in a good way, i mean.

puff the magic dragon brings me to tears. little jackie paper was an asshole!

rainbow connection (as sung by kermit the frog).

The first time ever I saw your face - Roberta Flack I think.

Every time

'Things that Make you go Hmmmmm' by the C & C Music Factory almost brought a tear to my eye the other day.

this makes me laugh and cry, makes me feel soiled and guilty

0_o wrote: this makes me laugh and cry, makes me feel soiled and guilty

sorry, mate. i couldn't sit through the whole thing!

Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera

Songs?

Been wracking my brain and can't think of ONE.

Instrumental pieces (and I supose the instrumental intros on a lot of songs), on the other hand can do terrible things to me.

When a certain well known Ron Grainer/Deliah Derbyshire piece came back to TV in 2005, I blubbed quite badly, though in fairness, that had as much to do with what the tune meant than what it was. Likewise, if in the early hours of a March Saturday in 2009, I hear the outro bassline from Fleetwood Mac's The Chain, I'll be a mess, but because of it's meaning rather than the notes.

There's a few others like that too.

Neptune from Holst's planets has an effect on me that's somewhere between the way a kitten goes when it's picked up by the neck, and getting a cricket bat accross the head. It's the "off stage choir" it's utterly other worldly and utterly, breathtakingly beautiful.

Get a grip!Only girls cry. I'm fuckin nails,me

Joy Division - Decades

Mistakes - The Tindersticks Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

'we have all the time in the world' by louis armstrong.

tugs my heartstrings something rotten. i don't blub, though. i'm british.

themes to twin peaks, brideshead, and the deer hunter too. excuse me, i seem to have something in my eye...

you don't say.

sweet caroline----- usually i'm crying into my pint

Ladytron - Beauty*2

Lush - When I die (in memory of my late cat, Mica, you were a star, mate!)

The Smiths - Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me

Wilco - Leave me (like you found me)

Blonde Redhead - Silently

etc

oooh

that song impossible germany by wilco is quite good and sad. I wouldn't say i cry but............

nearly forgot.....

Gotan Project - Criminal

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This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

Leave Me Alone - New Order

Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't give up

Cry as in being happy? Never understood why women cry when they are happy... that's what laughing is for...

Bonzette wrote: This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

Leave Me Alone - New Order

johnny wrote: Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't give up

ohhhh good choices. i can see me having a little weep-fest tonight...

Bonzette wrote: This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

One of the very few things on Earth that can render me silent for 4 minutes

Atmosphere... Both JD and Russ Abbot versions... Trembling Blue Stars - It's Easier To Smile Field Mice - And Before The First Kiss Weddos - Spangle Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream

Snorri xxx

jackie's racing-whiteout

Usually I cry when I get glum, so it's a bit more of a sad-song-type thing. Sooo...

"How" - Lisa Loeb "Don't Give Up" - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush "The Drop" and "Here Comes the Flood" - Peter Gabriel "Don't Dream It's Over" - Sixpence None the Richer "Fire and Rain" - James Taylor "Hurt" - Johnny Cash

That's all I can think of for the moment. I'm not in the mood to be glum right now.

Doctor? wrote:

Bonzette wrote: This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

One of the very few things on Earth that can render me silent for 4 minutes

Me too. A few more I can add to that...

THIS MORTAL COIL - Song To The Siren COCTEAUS - How To Bring A Blush To The Snow EDITORS - Distance DOVES - Ambition SAINT ETIENNE - Hobart Paving/No Rainbows For Me or anything by BLUE NILE

New Order - Elegia Peter Gabriel - Red Rain REM - Everybody Hurts Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings (gets me everytime)

When i was younger, most of the stuff on 'Pet Sounds'.

This is the thing that brought me closest to blubbing recently.

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass. And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flying with the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all Shining, it was Adam and maiden, The sky gathered again And the sun grew round that very day. So it must have been after the birth of the simple light In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm Out of the whinnying green stable On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways, My wishes raced through the house high hay And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs Before the children green and golden Follow him out of grace.

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

MONTY wrote:

SAINT ETIENNE - Hobart Paving

Aye .Although i don't know if i find it depressing rather than a tear jerker.I like it but it doesn't make me cry.It's kind of depressing but still likeable.Had to watch the video again on YouTube after i saw you mentioned it.And i ended up wondering where i was and what i was doing the day they shot it.Must have been , oooh , mid 90s...? .I found that more depressing, not knowing what i was doing the day they shot the video rather than the song being depressing.

Anything by the CURE makes me fucking howl

Adagio for Strings--Barber Asleep-- The Smiths 1963

Billy Joel's "Leningrad" And the fourth Track of the "( )" album by Sigur Ros makes me cry when the organ part starts - dunno why.

:D

1963---New Order Waiting for the Night---Depeche Mode Decades---Joy Division Do I have to?---Pet Shop Boys

songs that make me think and ponder emotional things:

Tank Park Salute by Billy Bragg

Save What You Can by The Triffids

Love Letter by Nick Cave

Whistle Down The Wind by Tom Waits

Dusty In Here & Dive For Your Memory by Go Betweens

Half Past France by John Cale

Fields Of Athenry

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Adagio for Strings--Barber

Isn't that by Tiesto????

NO. ITS DONE BY BARBER!

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

NO Regret wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Adagio for Strings--Barber

Isn't that by Tiesto????

NO. ITS DONE BY BARBER!

Erm...quite sure that my CD with it says Tiesto....

Must be a cover version, then; it is indeed by Barber originally. I think Ferry Corsten remixed the original a few years ago and it became quite sought-after.

Miss Disco wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

NO Regret wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Adagio for Strings--Barber

Isn't that by Tiesto????

NO. ITS DONE BY BARBER!

Erm...quite sure that my CD with it says Tiesto....

Must be a cover version, then; it is indeed by Barber originally. I think Ferry Corsten remixed the original a few years ago and it became quite sought-after.

didn't Wiliam Orbit sample it for something or am i thinking of something else?

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Miss Disco wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

NO Regret wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Adagio for Strings--Barber

Isn't that by Tiesto????

NO. ITS DONE BY BARBER!

Erm...quite sure that my CD with it says Tiesto....

Must be a cover version, then; it is indeed by Barber originally. I think Ferry Corsten remixed the original a few years ago and it became quite sought-after.

didn't Wiliam Orbit sample it for something or am i thinking of something else?

Yes, that was it! He covered it and then Ferry remixed the resulting tune. Thanks for reminding me! :)

like bonz said: this woman's work. such a beautiful song.

and imagine by john lennon. it reminds me of the beautiful and moving ending to the killing fields.

alomst forgot: a change is gonna come by sam cooke. probably the most emotional song ever written, and it fits its time period perfectly.