Tracks that make you cry...

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...when you least expect them to?

Background is that me and my significant other were driving and I had The Cuban Boys John Peel tribute track and she was in floods of tears and then so was I. And I didn't when I heard the news of his death. So a year later was it just delayed reaction?

Are there any records that just get you "right there"?

Ned "there's a tear in my beer" Trifle

― Ned T.Rifle, Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I know we've done this before. Alex and something about XTC's "Across the Antheap," right?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Sinead O'Connor - Chiquitita

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Glenn Branca's "The Ascension." Weird, I know.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Here's come of them:

songs that make you cry

Which pop ballad makes you cry?

Songs that make you cry

Aint there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

(the c makes an s sound)

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Philip Aaberg - Every Deep Dream

― bahtology, Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I know we've done this before. Alex and something about XTC's "Across the Antheap," right?

Wow....great memory, Jazzbo!

More than that, though: "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush (absolutely every time, regardless of what I'm doing. I could be mowing my non-existant lawn with it on my headphones, and I'd still weep like an octagenarian grandmother. If you don't well-up when you hear this, you're a fucking Skeksis).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Hey thanks for pointing me in the directions of those other threads. Some amazing choices.

― Ned T.Rifle, Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

crying is lame!

― petesmith drunk (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Even Maxwell's cover of "This Woman's Work"?

― the, Friday, 21 October 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

michael jackson - one day in your life
angry anderson - suddenly

― retroman, Friday, 21 October 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Even Maxwell's cover of "This Woman's Work"?

Yes. I don't wish to again. I hope he gets a groin infection for that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

michael jackson's "she's out of my life" made HIM cry!

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Okay, this is lame, but I have to confess. Once, and only once, Dire Straits' "Romeo an Juliet" had me welling up at the "Juliet when we made love you used to cry; You said I love you like the stars above I’ll love you till I die" part.

― richat, Friday, 21 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

anything by billy joel makes me want to vomit!
Dunno bout crying?

― bollockboy, Saturday, 22 October 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

vashti bunyan - glow worms.
destroyer - goddess of drought.

only from shocked experience, the former high the latter drunk.

― rockaction (rockaction), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I was walking up Broadway on my way to work last night listening to, aply enough, "Nights on Broadway," and it's gorgeous enough to make me want to cry. No lie.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Kate Rusby - My young man
I was at one of her gigs when I discovered this...

― Niall, Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

"Joga" and "Bachelorette" by Bjork come damn close as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

All the songs I write make me cry. Especially the ones about Gywenny. I can't help being so sensitive.

― Chris "Chris" Martin, Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

"Lucy" - Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds.
"Baby Mine" - Dumbo (Bonnie Raitt does a great version too)
"Coat of Many Colours" - Dolly Parton.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 October 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

"Baby Mine" - Dumbo (Bonnie Raitt does a great version too)

OOooooOOoohhh...good one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

It's scary how effective it is. I just have to hear the first few bars and I'm reaching for the Kleenex.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

considering the 'when you least expect them to' qualifier, the real relevant thread here is Ambushed by unexpected emotion

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Emmylou Harris - "Till I Gain Control Again"

*sniff*

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

As I just noted on another thread, The Communards' "For a Friend" is probably the song that most reliably brings me to tears. (But therefore it doesn't fit the "when you least expect them to" part.)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Cat Stevens - "Peace Train"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

black eyed peas - my lumps

― edr98r589we9e54854, Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

The Apartments - Mr. Somehwere (but not the This Mortal Coil version).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Cat Stevens - "Father & Son" is another that will bring me to tears.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

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