songs that make you cry

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.

"Letdown" by Radiohead. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. This song almost makes me wish I was a weepy, over-emotional teenager again. Fuck emo; this is where it's at.

"Waking Up Beside You" by Stabbing Westward. I will not entertain criticism here. This song is just too damn sad.

Another song I heard at the weekend which always brought a lump to my throat was Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'The Power of Love'. Gorgeous

Yaz(oo)'s "Only You" used to have that effect, but now it's just cute...

And whoever was right about Wheatus - it's..... poignant.

Joni Mitchell - Amelia
Dylan - Girl from the North Country

Big crybaby me.

but still i got a black heart

"Musette and Drums" -- Cocteau Twins. Why? It's not like the words mean anything. But when I first heard it, I was shattered. It can still do it occasionally, too.

"Good Woman" -- Cat Power. So fucking magnanimous and kind. And those kids, even Vedder. A mess, but a gorgeous one.

"The Partisan -- Leonard Cohen. So lonely (and I'm not talking about the police), so hollow and lost.

(god, look at my choices).

Some, I cry on the inside, in the same way I get inner goosebumps occasionally. Like these:

"Metal Heart" -- Cat Power
"Have You Forgotten" -- Red House Painters
"The Plan" -- Low
"Point of Disgust" -- Low
"In Metal" -- Low
"Atmosphere" -- Joy Division
"Decades" -- Joy Division
"Faith" -- The Cure (most of that album, actually)
"Sanvean" -- Lisa Gerrard
"Yele" -- Wyclef Jean (!)
"I Will" -- Radiohead
"Wolf at the Door" -- Radiohead
(plus most of Amnesiac and half of Kid A, really)
(lots of Dylan and Tom Waits)
(some Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Nina Nastasia)

This could go on for a long time, so I'll stop there.

And there's a band called Sin Ropas that I've been listening to lately, and their "Syrup Coat" reduces me to tears on a regular basis.

(Somebody stop me.)

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