songs that make you cry

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" ^^^