songs that make you cry

And I remember when you made me feel so good
Just to be near you
Oh, you've let me down so much I fear you

'Don't be Denied' has a similar plaintive whine.

Anything by This Mortal Coil would surely make even the hardest blokes sniffle.

I've been known to shed a tear whenever I hear a Starsailor record, too. Vile.

Recently: Iron & Wine, "Bird Stealing Bread"

and lots of Neil

Someone else mentioned Duranduran so I figured, hey fuck it, why not be honest for once?

Van Der Graaf Generator - "Afterwards"
The Byrds - "The Bells of Rhymney"
The Byrds - "Goin' Back"
The Byrds - "One Hundred Years From Now"
Gram Parsons - "She"
Beach Boys - listened to it drunk one night and cried at some point, can't really recall where.
Saw Blunstone and Argent last year and cried when they did "This Will Be Our Year".

(ok maybe just a little bit to Bob Dylan - Most Of The Time)

Others:
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" - Beach Boys
"This Guy's in Love With You" - Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass
"Stand By Me" - Ben E. King
"Midnight Train to Georgia" - Gladys Knight and the Pips (I can't believe no one's said this yet)
"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" - The Pogues
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" - The Beatles
"I Feel For You" - Chaka Khan (out of happiness)
"Girl from the North Country" - Bob Dylan
"Reason to Believe" - Bruce Springsteen
"Whispering Pines" - The Band
"Car / Girl Stand Still" - Catherine Wheel
"Down Colorful Hill" - Red House Painters
"Medication" - Damien Jurado
"Condor Ave." - Elliot Smith
"You Don't Know What Love Is" - Billie Holiday
"But Not For Me" - Chat Baker (again, out of happiness)

I cry a lot, I guess.

The Beatles - "For No One"

The Rolling Stones - "Mother's Little Helper"

Led Zeppelin - "That's the Way"

Radiohead - "Let Down"

Slint - "Good Morning Captain"

Spice Girls - "Viva Forever" video

REM - "Green Grow the Rushes" (though I think there were a lot of extra-
musical reasons involved in the last two cases)

Joy Division - "Insight", "New Dawn Fades"

Concrete Blonde - "Joey"

"You Are My Sunshine"

The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes" (I haven't listened to this in years largely for this reason. It might not have the same effect now.)

Morrissey - "Late Night, Maudlin Street"

Patti Smith Group - "We Three"

I have really vague general memories of weepiness during In Utero, Nirvana Unplugged, and Under the Pink but can't put my finger on any particular song or anything really at this point. I spent a good portion of that year in tears though so there was probably lots of stuff.

But what about if it's not the goal? I do not think that I would cry at something that was just plain schmaltzy. If it can make me cry, I assume there's some high level of quality involved.

Yeah that kind of stuff just gets me, regardless of their "intention".

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
First time I listened to it I was lying in bad with the flu at 3 in the morning. It's just TOO lovely, and made the feel even worse than I did at the time, which was pretty bad!

Most of Abba Gold:
Dont' ask me why, but a few years ago I wept constantly to most of Gold. I think it was a bit too joyous for my own good . . .Waterloo and Dancing Queen being the most guilty ones, but everything else effected me far too much.

It's Too Late - The Streets
Sunday morning and this went on. I hadn't really listened to the album before, but this made me weep like a baby. "Nothing has significance/ and nothing else has relevence/ 'cause all I can see is her elagence" manages to be understated AND over-the-top at the same time, and gives me shivers even now.

Shining Light- Ash
The chorus "A full on chemical rection/ like dark divine intervention/ You are a shinig light" still does it for me - shocking I know, but what am I to do, it's still as lovely as lovely can be!

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? - Fairport Convention
It's at the start of the third verse where Sandy Denny sound REALLY English ("And I am not alone/ while my love is near me") that gets me. It's the way she pronounces "alone" I think . . . how strange am I?

I think it's the presence of unadulterated lovliness that does it. Before it came on constant rotation EVERYWHERE, Natural Blues made me feel a bit weepy. And I was watching a double bill on Sky Movies yesterday of Sound of Music and My Fair Lady . . . exactly the same thing happened. I found a tear running down my cheek during Do Ri Me, Favourite Things and Wouldn't be Lovely, among others! Oh, AND 16 going on 17, AND Street where you live etc etc etc.

How right you are. I turn into such a "chick" when I hear this song.

Half Asleep by School of Seven Bells, gets me by the second line. Cannot explain it, I've never analysed the lyrics to see if *omg it me* and I have no great love for anything else by them.

Richard Dawson - Jogging. There's a precise part of that song where the song starts building and he sings 'There's no such thing as a quick fix'.
It's the double-meaning behind that line: He can't fix his personal demons just by jogging, but at the same time there's no quick fix for the problems faced in the world

why did i put 'do you remember walter' on just now ffs

oh, because it's one of the best songs ever written? sure, but

Schubert - Nacht und Traume (probably without vocals)
June Tabor - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Nick Drake - All My Trials
Daniel Johnston - I Had A Dream
Epic Soundtracks - Sad Song
Richard And Linda Thompson - For Shame Of Doing Wrong

A recent recording of Alfred Schnittke's 3rd Violin Concerto, with Vadim Gluzman, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and James Gaffigan, prompted me to revisit the piece for the first time in years. I can't bear to listen to it very often because of the excruciating affect it inflicts. The music itself is in pain, each note played a pure exposure of nerves, from the tremolo-laden violin solo that kicks off the work in medias res to the final chorale-like 'Andante', which achieves release – as always in Schnittke – through exhaustion and extinction.

This is a different recording, featuring the concerto's dedicatee, Oleg Kagan, a mere year before his death from cancer, further exacerbating the piece's obvious pathos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwItJPUz6A

So yeah, not a song, but it tears me up every time.

That Paul Buchanan song about the cars in the garden always gets to me.

Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize

The ”I miss my grandmother” part at the end of Dry Cleaning’s “Goodnight”.

Oh, and Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem

Thanks Pom, I’ve been on a big Schnittke jag the last year. I also have kind of a thing for communist era color tv footage so it scratches two itches.

My pleasure – and apologies for the risk of weeping involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1C00e__5c

St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Nikolai Korniev - аллилуйя. се жених грядет (alleluia. behold, the bridegroom) (Anon)

from
Sacred Russian Choral Music

https://img.discogs.com/vpmFoXzYFzoE4xJyVJ8o9hkhlgw=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14196628-1569681018-5180.jpeg.jpg

"Temptation" (the New Order one) pierces my armour far too often

I very rarely hear a new song that makes me cry. I think the last one might have been "Snow is Falling in Manhattan" by Purple Mountains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5V8DB_D-BU

Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus "Encuentro en Brooklyn" ^^^