songs that make you cry

off hand.

REM's "Nightswimming". It makes me feel like a love-struck teenager on a gorgeous summer night. It makes me feel like there's something right with the world.

Serart's "Love is the Peace". This one is really all Arto Tunc Boyaciyan. I was not expecting anything nearly this gorgeous on this album. Absurdly powerful for something so sonically subdued. It took me out of my 'self' for the duration in a way I was very surprised and moved by.

antiphon by charles atlas for a number of reasons, the first time I heard them play it live, it was so heartbreakingly pretty, and so perfectly composed (they're friends), the room fell so silent, and I felt so good for them, as thought they had written the perfect lullaby. and then they let me name it.

HAhhahahahahahaha

and, many eons ago:

Night Shift - Commodores

there's more, I think.

james- out to get you
cat power- good woman
cat power- color and the kids
portishead- roads
johnny cash f/ fiona apple- bridge over troubled water
mary timony- aging astronauts
sebadoh- willing to wait
flaming lips- waiting for a superman
low- will the night
low- point of disgust
low- two step
granddady- miner at the dial-a-view/so you reach to the skies

more i cant remember

All of Blood On The Tracks.

'Slippin' by DMX

'Toilet Tisha' by Outkast (the part where her mum starts screaming).

I'm Not Crazy - Versus

oh yes.

but i'm without this song now, as I've only ever had it on mp3 and i've switched computers. can't ever seem to find it on slsk! (and the song's just called "Crazy" btw)

Radiohead- Exit Music For A Film
REM- Perfect Circle
Cody Chesnutt- Deliberation, Enough Of Nothing
Maggie's Dream- Why Do We Sigh As We Sing
Clash- Complete Control (this 'un makes me FEEL alive)
Replacements- Unsatisfied, Answering Machine
Tito & Hector- anything by these two makes me weep for humanity

And many, many more...

"No Regrets" by Tom Rush
"Little Green" by Joni Mitchell
"Wild Billy's Circus Story" by Bruce Springsteen
"Season's in the Sun" by Terry Jacks
"Is that all there is?" by Peggy Lee

BUT THE PRIZE GOES TO

"Alone again, naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Previously in tears/close to tears, to:
Roy Harper - 'When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease' (one of my favourite songs bar none; my whole being was transfixed when I saw him play this live last month... and it was followed by 'Me and My Woman', which ain't bad either! ;-))
Tom Waits - 'Innocent When You Dream'/'I'm Still Here'
Fats Waller - 'Two Sleepy People'
Rose Royce - 'You're on my mind' (esp. in the context of the film "Car Wash")
Big Star - 'Nightime'/'Take Care'...
Gilbert O'Sullivan - 'Alone Again (Naturally)' ('the only man she had ever loved had been taken...')
The Beatles - 'Julia', 'Do You Want to Know a Secret?' 'Ask Me Why' - those "Please Please Me" songs ring a nostalgic core in me; some of the first music I get into.
Abba - 'The Day Before You Came'/'Dancing Queen' - two opposite sides of melancholy... 'Dancing Queen' is partly nostalgic for me and so tearfully joyous, and the other, well, need I explain?
Debbie Reynolds - 'Tammy'
Rolf Harris - 'Two Little Boys' - years ago you understand! Though it still can move, it really affected me more as a child.
The Wayfarers - 'Whistle Down the Wind'/R. Ronalde - 'La Monastery Creek' (a pair of instrumentals on a Hallo Children Everywhere compilation... yearning, nostalgic vibraphone on the first... a chap doing the birds on the second... very personal chord these strike)
John Fahey - much of 'Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death' album, particularly "On the Sunny Side..." and "Daisy"...
Talking of old music hall songs;
Albert Chevalier - 'The Future Mrs 'Awkins' - such a beautifully alien recording to today; made possibly 100 years ago. That odd, withered voice and long outmoded London accent; all with a wonderfully odd and moving tune.
Herb Alpert/Tijuna Brass - 'This Guy's in Love With You'
The Carpenters - 'Close to You' - in the oddest of contexts, I was reduced to watering eyes by this; it was played over the credits of an averageish student film at a student film festival last year. It had been ages since I'd heard it, but well, it hit home, esp. concerning affairs in my life at the time.
Barry White - 'Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up'
The Bonzo Dog Band - 'Ready-Mades'/'Sport'/virtually all of their last album.
The Smiths - yes, 'Asleep' and 'Please Please Please...'; the second almost more so due to that sublime wash of sound that comes in near the end. 'Asleep' has that affecting musical box at the end though as well. 'William It Was Really Nothing', as it was really the main song that got me into the Smiths, along with 'This Charming Man'. It just moves me inexplicably and crucial is that backwards guitar descending into quietitude in the fade.
Isaac Hayes - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix'
'By a Waterfall' - that whole unspeakably beautiful Busby Berkeley sequence in "Footlight Parade". Same goes for 'Over the Rainbow' and 'Singin' in the Rain'. That song that cuts through it all at the end of "Paths of Glory". The use of that wonderful ballad in "High Noon"...
Much of the 'Singing Detective' soundtrack; not just "We'll meet again" and "Lilli Marlene", but things like the deathless xylophone solo in Henry Hall's "Teddy Boys' Picnic". Potter's positioning of the music within his drama really lends incredible poignancy to them, at many points.

Whenever I hear Roy Orbison or Daniel Johnston's voices with the right songs, there's instantly pause for emotion...

Just now, felt very wistful and reflective in a sad way on hearing Jake Thackray;s "Rain on the Mountainside" - just a pastoral melancholy and his wonderfully expressive nylon-string guitar... great teary-eyed stuff.

Tim Buckley (or This Mortal Coil) - Song to the Siren
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Mojave 3 - Prayer for the Paranoid
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze
Red House Painters - (lots) Katy Song, Drop, Song for a Blue Guitar, Shadows, Mistress, Sundays & Holidays, Bubble...
Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust, But Not Tonight, Somebody
The Cure - Pictures Of You
The Smiths - Asleep, Please Please Please..., Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me
Nick Drake - Pink Moon, Fly
OMD - Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans, Was it Something I Said?
Great Lake Swimmers - Moving Pictures Silent Films
The Beatles - Yesterday
Kings of Convenience - Homesick, I Don't Know What I Can Save You From
Yazoo - Only You
Harold Budd - Balthus Bemused by Color
Palestrina Masses - (a lot of it)
Trespassers William - Vapour Trail (Ride cover)
Dead Can Dance / Lisa Gerrard - (there's a few)
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
Marc Almond - These My Dreams Are Yours
Iron & Whine - The Creek Drank the Cradle album
John Denver - Calypso, Annie's Song
Duran Duran - The Chauffer

Probably more but these come to mind first...

true love waits - radiohead
by your side - cocorosie
winner's blues - sonic youth
willing to wait - lou barlow (solo version from local band feel lp)
surgery i stole - devendra banhart
les & ray - le tigre
how to disappear completely - radiohead
music appreciation - the boogiemonsters

whoah, pretty heavy on the indie tip. i barely listen to this sort of stuff so maybe these are obvious picks.

Not crying, but just bitchmade. I'm a bitch these days, straight up bitch these days. I need a vacation.

My Morning Jacket - The Way That He Sings
Sebadoh - Soul and Fire

Talk Talk - April 5th
Mark Hollis - The Colour of Spring

and Spaceship Earht by DAMIEN davis

every fucking single time.

EVERY GD TIME