Songs that make you cry

Ambushed by unexpected emotion

As I mentioned on that thread, I lost it in August 1998 while merely *thinking* about Lou Reed's "The Kids" (I had heard it either earlier that day or the day before.

That was it for crying until August 2001, when I completely and unexpectedly fell apart listening to Travis' "Driftwood".

Then in April 2003, I blubbed to Drugstore's "I Don't Wanna Be Here Without You", although in truth I think I would have cried anyway, but I wanted to do it to that song (and it was certainly the catalyst).

And that's about it.

coldcut "doctorin' the house" (esp. the big ben chimes near the end)
oddfellows casino "oddfellows shanty"
ultrasound "best wishes"
ooberman "shorley wall"
eric matthews "faith to clay"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_NxYbfNYZU

I've only heard the Mott version.

"Dreaming With a Broken Heart"--John Mayer. just captures the exact feeling you have when someone you loved is gone and you are still in the stage where you can't get her out of your mind, so it's just torture to go to sleep, but too painful to stay awake.

This one also hits me for other reasons...namely:

*There was a devastatingly beautiful and sad routine choreographed to it on So You Think You Can Dance
*John Mayer's Continuum was one of the first things my g/f and I bonded over. When we split briefly the first time, I thanked God I didn't hear that song or I woulda lost it.

"sensitive"
"straight"

"clever"

"upstanding"
"dutiful"

stfu

• Dennis Wilson, It's Not Too Late
• Iron & Wine, Bird Stealing Bread
• Bruce Springsteen, One Step Up
• The Clientele, Losing Haringey
• John Coltrane, Blue Train
• Grant Hart, You Don't Have To Tell Me Now

No Matter What - TI :`[

Billie Holiday's recording of I Thought About You

I was embarrassed to say "Rainbow Connection" but then I saw it upthread - OTM. Such a corny song but it freaking destroys me. I'm sure it's partially a sentimental attachment - songs you sang in elementary school chorus can do weird things to you. If you get misty-eyed at the Kermit version check out the reprise at the end - "The lovers, the dreamers, and YOUUUUUUU!" Oh my god...

Under the right circumstances, most of the acoustic side of "Rust Never Sleeps" could do the trick - especially "Thrasher" ("they were waiting...waiting.") "There Goes The Sun" by the Pernice Brothers. "Da Art of Storytellin' Pt. 1" (Andre's verse). "Return of the Grievous Angel." "Here Comes A Regular."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAM8Hc4qUG8

some of the right answers in this thread: Up On the Roof, Andre's Da Art of Storytellin' verse, Oh No Not My Baby and Pearl of the Quarter.

a couple of my favorite Public Enemy and James Brown songs do this with intensity alone.

I discounting stuff from early age to mid teens because emotional music seemed more of a shock at that age and it wasnt difficult for any very sad song to make me cry.
But none of these songs make me cry every time, but they are the ones most likely to...

Beach Boys - "Baby Blue" ((A Dennis Wilson song from the late 70s; I was really pissed off when there was a big Dennis hype back a few years ago and nobody talked about this song despite it being one of the most powerful things they ever did))

Red House Painters - "Katy Song"
Red House Painters - "Down Colorful Hill"
Neil Young - "Philadelpia"

I sometimes cry when I get really excited, in that case...

Yes - "Gates Of Delirium"
Rush - "Cygnus Hemispheres"
Renaissance - "Scheherazade"
Frost - "Milliontown"

I might have cried from some early Emperor too.

bill withers - my imagination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3g2QJNBtQ
the rhodes, harp and guitar are enough to get me but then you add withers and my eyes dont stand a chance to stay dry

I’m sitting in a brewery having a beer and “Ready or Not” by Jackson Browne comes on the house music and I immediately get the goosebumps and teary eyes. Other JB songs including “Before the Deluge” do this too. I’m not a mega fan or anything but some of his songs just hit me that way.

echo and the bunnymen - nothing lasts forever

"Vieilles courroies" by Harmonium.

Time to pretend by MGMT got me real emotional driving to a med school test the other day. Hit me straight in the stomach. Hopeful I'm not pretending

nizlopi jcb song

Unexpectedly, "Grounded" by Pavement got to me a couple weeks ago. I guess age & nostalgia put it over the top because I've always loved the pathos of it, it's been one of my favorite songs for decades now, but it never made me cry before. Suddenly, it was like I was seeing it from the old doctor's perspective and all the boys he'd seen dying on these streets throughout his career & malkmus just driving the chorus right into my chest.

I guess I'm not the only person this happens to. I guess maybe I'm getting more emotional as I get older. Its weird because sometimes I get a little teary-eyed about a song that is not even such a sad song. Other songs that are much sadder have no effect. It seems kind of random, but particular singers seem to have the effect more than others.

billie eilish’s ‘what was i made for?’ does this on the reg for me recently

This is kind of embarrassing but sometimes it feels more like tears of gratitude than tears of grief. Like I'm crying that such a beautiful song exists or something. I don't know. Guess I should see a therapist.

suede - “sleeping pills”

give me the time they kill

i've had the stones exile on main street on repeat in my car cd player for literally months and almost every time i get to 'shine a light' i cry. 'make every song you sing your favorite tune'

crying because a song is beautiful is one of life's greatest pleasures. i think most people could probably do with some therapy, but not for that reason.

Aside from the songs of my youth and a brief dalliance with poptimism in the 00s, I'm not really into pop. We play some around the house for our kids but shake it off was literally the only taylor swift song I knew. So I put on 1989 in the house a couple of times and got into it a little bit, then yesterday decided to put it on when I went for a run. When the chorus of out of the woods came on I started welling up, wtf! I think it was 10% crying @ beauty, 10% feeling simpatico with the lyrics, and 80% welling up at completely random things now I'm a dad.

I pity people who don't tear up from the beauty of music

Sorry, I'm a crying elitist

The bit in What a Wonderful World when he says 'they'll learn much more than I'll ever know' always tips me over the edge.

Bonnie Raitt “Nick Of Time”

The 6ths - Just Like a Movie Star

Pet Shop Boys, Being Boring

By the time we get to the third verse, I’m a weeping mess (I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be, but I thought, in spite of dreams, you'd be sitting somewhere here with me)