songs that make you cry

Fuck no. I never cry.

Alt ans: "Visions of Johanna"

many more, I'm sure.

Note: these songs never really made me cry but sure have a good potential of being able to do so!

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?

Mine would be "Dirty Boulevard" by Lou Reed and "The Dutchman" by Michael Smith.

Shipbuilding is pretty gut-wrenching

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01r0g4h

Just realized there's at least one other song on my list: Neko Case's "Thrice All American," the last verse in particular. There are much sadder songs that don't make me cry, but this one just hits the right mental nerve somehow.

Well I don't make it home much, I sadly neglect you
But that's how you like it, away from the world.
God bless California, make way for the Wal-Mart
I hope they don't find you, Tacoma.

O Superman, so totally OTM

Kinks, "Some Mother's Son" made me well up yesterday.

The Unthanks' "Fareweel Regality" gets me every fucking time.

Fairytale of New York. Especially if I'm whiskey'd up.

Once, driving home from a get-together with friends, "Brandy" came on the radio. Pushed some buttons and I got really worked up, blinky-eyed and biting my lip. I can't say what it was exactly and while I still like the song it has never moved me that much again.

But Fairytale of New York gets to me on the regular. The bit where they say "you took my dreams from me...." So busted, so sad, so good.

i went to see an interview with julie gold at the library, and geez, the story she told about writing "from a distance," then her performance, made me well up. it would make anybody well up. maybe start at around 24 minutes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBDsu1BAzc

Still hasn't put this on an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrodis8sX-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tLbSIwPqu0

The only piece of music that makes me choke up without fail is Movement V of 'Quartet for the End of Time' by Messiaen.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, March 12, 2014

OTM. This was the first thing that came to my mind. And I'm nodding furiously at "Goin' Back", "This Guy's In Love With You" and "Landslide" etc, too. (Pretty much any recordings.) I feel like I could list a zillion things -- music with at least some potential to make me weep is the only music I can be bothered with a lot of the time!

[XP: oh god, that entire album!]

I know I have posted it on a similar thread, but my God, "Alicia Ross" by Kathleen Edwards...

The Unthanks' "Fareweel Regality" gets me every fucking time.

Fareweel Regality destroys me but the live version of King of Rome is somehow even more moving.

Here's The Tender Coming too, oh my stars...

'Gan To The Kye' always gets me

And of course, 'Mount The Air' ;_;

"The Court of the Crimson King" smashes me every time I hear it. The grandiosity of the theme always makes my eyes wet...

"Across the Universe" is another one. Despite its prevalence.

Actually 'Awaken' by Yes makes me well up, the 'workings of man' section, the second time around especially after which the choirs kick in and it all gets very rapturous.

Ironically, the best version is not by Yes but by Todmobile with Anderson on vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGieKxqGSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8USe97jWW4
Or even this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns69UOy7eJs

The Todmorden/Anderson performance of Awaken is like the pinnacle of prog or something, yeah

'Together We Are Beautiful' gives me the pinpricks. It's supposed to be this super-romantic song but there's an ever-so-slightly minor twinge in it that sets me off, as though Fern Kinney is 'protesting too much' about how perfectly in love they are. It brings the bittersweet notion that while everything smells like roses on the surface, the possibility of things falling apart at some future point is very real and the singer is naively in denial about it..

xxxp yeah everyone hates on Across The Universe but it fills me with melancholy

Not a song and a complete cliché, to boot, but the fourth and final movement of Mahler's 9th Symphony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkChdHBuoiQ&t=3237s

YT time stamps are not ILX-friendly, alas:

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

(It starts around 53:57.)

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" ^^^