songs that make you cry

If only I were joking.

Badly Drawn Boy - "You Were Right, Parts 1 & 2"
Sarah McLachlan - "Adia" (yes, really)
Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've Come Over"
Beach Boys - "'Til I Die", and any number of songs from Pet Sounds
REM - "Country Feedback", and any number of songs from Automatic For The People
Stevie Wonder - "Isn't She Lovely?", and several other Songs from ...The Key Of Life
The Softies - "Hello, Rain" (playing right into Rose Melberg's emo-drenched hands)

Also: I blubbered mightily, and continued with multiple replays, to Kanye West's "Celebration" the other day, upon graduating from college after eleven years of false starts and fucking around. So that was probably entirely situational.

Yes!

While we're at it, Anthony Phillips (their first guitarist) also has a score of lump-in-the-throat tunes in his solo work. Seek out: "Seven Long Years", "God If I Saw Her Now", "Collections", "Unheard Cry"...

I'm gonna have to check to see if the points when I feel myself welling up correspond to a falsetto jump. Also, boys' vs. girls' emotional response?

Something Corporate - 'Konstantine'
Iron & Wine - 'The Trapeze Swinger'
Bayside - 'Winter' (About their drummer who recently passed away)
Something Corporate - 'Globes And Maps' and 'Walking By'
Five For Fighting - 'Superman'
Coldplay - 'The Scientist' (I know for a fact that this was just because of something that happened to me personally, although the video is really sad, and it is generally a sad song)
Goo Goo Dolls - 'Iris'
Death Cab For Cutie - 'I Will Follow You Into The Dark' and 'What Sarah Said' (Especially when he sings "Love is watching someone die... So who's gonna watch you die?")
Colin Hay - 'I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You'

Kate Bush - "This Women's Work". High on the weep-o-meter - especially if you hear it while watching "She's Having a Baby".

Jane Olivor - "Song for my Father". Sweet Lord, please make it stop! :-)

Jane Siberry - "Calling All Angels". Mainly the chorus.

Sara Groves - "Fly" or "You Cannot Love Your Love", take your pick.

Yep, they all have a similar feel to them - guess they all hit the same buttons...

Dylan - You Belong to me (On Natural Born Killers soundtrack, and I'm not sure where else)
Also, Bob Dylan's Dream (On Freewheelin) is the saddest song about growing up I've ever heard

Elliot Smith - Somebody That I Used to Know

Smashing Pumpkins - Glynis (Anybody else?? From 'No Alternative' Comp)

Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel ("I can't keep track of each fallen rock..."). Also: Democracy from "The Future" (Sail on, sail on, Oh mighty ship of steel). Even if the lyrics are cynical, the melody makes me swell with some vague hope for, well, the future i guess, and whatever vestiges of purity are left of the *idea* of america.

Dinosaur Jr - Seemed like the thing to do (maybe not CRYING here, but still...)

I'll Second:
Thrasher - Neil Young
Time - Tom Waits

http://www.minorlooneytunes.com/pictures/marc021.jpg

This may be the first time anyone has ever described the Softies as "emo". But yeah, they are probably the band that most readily evokes tears from me. (For Maximum Weeping Efficiency, though, I will usually go with the title track from Winter Pageant.)

On a more bizarre note, I also have a hard time not crying when I hear Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl". And I have no idea why. It's not the band -- nothing else by them does it. It's not any association I have with the song -- I don't have any. I don't find the song sad. But there I sit, crying semi-uncontrollably. Fortunately, I do not listen to Bikini Kill on any kind of regular basis.

cover of Suede's "Trash" by Mt Goats

for some reason i can't put my finger on, "therese" by the bodines

I have cried at three different songs today....I think I just needed to cry.

Can't listen to Gavin Bryar's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me anymore for this reason. If I get to the Tom Waits bit I'm okay though.

Colony by Joy Division, particularly the line "the sons of broken homes who always meet here"

"A Lady of a Certain Age" / The Divine Comedy

"The Flesh Failures - Let the Sun Shine" in from Hair

Georgia Lee - Tom Waits
Many a Fine Lady - Townes van Zandt

• dennis wilson, carry me home and it's not too late
• iron & wine, bird stealing bread and weary memory
• richard hawley, the ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5srnNrICJo

Taylor Swift, "The Best Day." Twice in the past 18 months; no other song has done it even once. (Being a parent has a lot to do with it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVdVTVR-j0Q

Somewhat obscure I know, but this one I can never get through with my eyes still dry - and I'm a guy....

"Long Nights" - Crack the Sky

Saddest. Song. Ever.

Especially since it's told from through the eyes of someone trying to cheer up his friend, who may or may not realize that given the situation it just can't be done.

"Cry" by The Sundays.
"Half Asleep" by the School of Seven Bells has been setting me off recently.

Okay so I'm watching the Arthur Russell documentary 'Wild Combination' and it's just come to the part where his parents and his partner are talking about AR on his deathbed. It then cuts to a tracking shot of some cornfields with Mimi Goese from Hugo Largo singing a cover of a song by Arthur called 'Time To Go Home Now', and I was *gone*. Talk about pushing buttons, but damn!

John Lennon - "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)," so long as I don't think of Mr. Holland's Opus

Joy Division - Atmosphere
Elliot Murphy - How's the Family
Patti Smith - The Jackson Song
Bruce Springsteen - The Last Carnival, Gypsy Biker, You're Missing [almost guaranteed every time!], Land of Hope & Dream

Godley and Creme's "Cry" was the last song that did this to me, stupid as it sounds.

Talk Talk- Time It's Time
Current 93- The Frolic
Robyn Hitchcock- Autumn Is Your Last Chance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5chQcTBZfw