What songs make you cry?
Rasselas
11-03-2006, 20:41
I'm posting this because yesterday my boyfriend was going through his record collection and found a Rolf Harris record *this is where I start hanging my head in shame*. He put it on for a laugh and when the song Two Little Boys came on I cried. I've always done this, and I can't really explain why. Needless to say he found it really funny.
So what songs make you cry? (The stupider the better...make me feel a lil better about myself :p)
Xenophobialand
11-03-2006, 20:44
Johnny Cash's Hurt and Amazing Grace.
Holy panooly
11-03-2006, 20:45
Anything that can be identified as "j-rock" or related to greenday.
Cabra West
11-03-2006, 20:45
"Schatten der Vergangenheit" by Wolfgang Kiel
No, I don't expect anyone to know it... apart from one person ;)
My Heart will go on
By she who must not sing
Corruptropolis
11-03-2006, 21:43
The Danish Anthem.
That, and Manowar - Warriors of the world (united)
Oh, and Lesley Garrett's "Dome Epais".
Neo Kervoskia
11-03-2006, 21:43
The Internationale does a pretty could job.
Ashmoria
11-03-2006, 21:44
the one where the mother is praying by the bedside of her dying child and she asks god to hold her little girls hand when she crosses the streets of heaven because she only 7 years old and cant cross by herself chokes me up just thinking about it.
Sarkhaan
11-03-2006, 21:55
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Secluded Islands
11-03-2006, 22:02
Johnny Cash's Hurt
yep.
also, juste un peu de silence - calogero/keren ann
South Illyria
11-03-2006, 22:07
Something Vague - Bright Eyes
But generally only if I'm in a crying mood to start out with. I am not typically moved to tears by music, art, movies (though there are a select few that always get me.)
Songs cause weeping do they?
The Internationale does a pretty could job.
Aw, come on, it's not that bad.:D
Neo Kervoskia
11-03-2006, 22:15
Aw, come on, it's not that bad.:D
I love that song. That's why it's in my sig.:D
Johnny Cash's Hurt
Seconded, but only if I also see the video.
Also, The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve:
All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm coming down
And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
But I know I'm on a losing streak
As I passed down my old street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead
Pompous world
11-03-2006, 22:28
Ive never cried listening to any song except beethovens moonlight sonata when I was 4. Hurt by NIN (the original and best version imo) is quite affecting but not tear inducing.
Adjacent to Belarus
11-03-2006, 23:00
There aren't any songs that make me cry no matter what, but there are a few which have caused a few tears to well up and run down my cheeks, depending on my mood/how immersed in the music I am. These songs are: Eclipse by Pink Floyd, Eternal Glory by Rhapsody, Serenade by Kamelot, and A Question of Heaven by Iced Earth. (I may be forgetting one or two) There are several more that have made me feel similarly, but I've never cried while listening to them.
Brattain
12-03-2006, 01:33
Something Vague - Bright Eyes
But generally only if I'm in a crying mood to start out with. I am not typically moved to tears by music, art, movies (though there are a select few that always get me.)
Something vague that we're not seeing! Absolute class. I also love A Celebration Upon Completion.
He's a genius.
UK
Brattain
12-03-2006, 01:34
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
That's had me in the past!
Try 'The Healing has Begun' by Van Morrison
People without names
12-03-2006, 01:55
i guess im emotionless when it comes to music, i dont think i have ever cried over a song, i cant even remember the last time i cried.
The Bruce
12-03-2006, 01:56
New Country might make me cry if I couldn’t turn it off and was forced to listen to it.
The Bruce
Peechland
12-03-2006, 02:00
Do What You Have to Do - Sarah McLachlan
Maineiacs
12-03-2006, 02:01
"Luka" by Suzanne Vega.
Rangerville
12-03-2006, 02:14
"Too Much Love Will Kill You"-Queen. It's the only song that makes me cry everytime i hear it, but there are plenty of others (too many to list) that get me, depending on my mood. Even if a song doesn't necessarily make me cry, it still might make me sad, or wistful, or something. Art strikes me deep.
Do What You Have to Do - Sarah McLachlan
Stop having things in common with me, dammit!
(I do not cry to the song, but am fond of it.)
New Genoa
12-03-2006, 04:26
I'm posting this because yesterday my boyfriend was going through his record collection and found a Rolf Harris record *this is where I start hanging my head in shame*. He put it on for a laugh and when the song Two Little Boys came on I cried. I've always done this, and I can't really explain why. Needless to say he found it really funny.
So what songs make you cry? (The stupider the better...make me feel a lil better about myself :p)
Absolutely nothing.
A concept from fire
12-03-2006, 04:57
mine is casualty by marty casey and the lovehammers
Curious Inquiry
12-03-2006, 05:02
There are a lot of songs that make me cry, or be happy, or get pumped up. Sometimes I think of music as a form of emotional masterbation.
The Tribes Of Longton
12-03-2006, 05:24
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've cried to two songs: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (because it's such a beautiful song) and the Acoustic version of Creep by Radiohead (because it really stikes a chord with me, exactly fitting with who I am).
The Internationale does a pretty could job.
Yeah, me too, if sung well, preferably in French or Spanish.
Edit: And, to continue with the leftist music vein, Martin Whelan's Bread and Roses and Peadar Kearney's Labour's Call.
"The River", by Bruce Springsteen...
...at least it did when I was 18 years old.
Anti-Social Darwinism
12-03-2006, 06:17
"The Ballad of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
"One" by Metallica
"Ode to Joy" (Beethoven's Ninth)
"The Star-Spangled Banner" (Especially if Roseanne does it).
"Hatikvah" (No, I'm not Jewish, I just like the song and what it means)
Quaiffberg
12-03-2006, 06:41
The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy
Pink Floyd - Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
Grave_n_idle
12-03-2006, 08:12
Do What You Have to Do - Sarah McLachlan
Just gotta love Sarah McLachlan, though... :)
Grave_n_idle
12-03-2006, 08:22
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colours
Sisters of Mercy - 1959
Sisters of Mercy - Emma (cover)
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Apart
Tori Amos - Girl
Only women may cry because of a song, and then it is still annoying.
Any man who cries during a song has my immediate loathing.
In fact, any man who cries under any other circumstance besides maybe his impending death or because of great pain, has my immediate loathing.
Sarkhaan
12-03-2006, 09:01
That's had me in the past!
Try 'The Healing has Begun' by Van Morrison
Wish You Were Here just makes me think of alot of people who are gone, and more importantly, people who are still here and all that rot...
I don't always cry, but if I'm having a really bad day and just get really into it, then yeah...I'll shed a few tears...
Acoustic version of Creep by Radiohead (because it really stikes a chord with me, exactly fitting with who I am).ha...weird...I had that song on while I read your post because of a shitty night...strikes a chord here too, bud.
Kinda Sensible people
12-03-2006, 09:24
El Salvador - Peter Paul and Mary.
Well... That and any modern pop-piece, but that's for different reasons.
Give My Love to Rose. So f***ing sad...
The Black Forrest
12-03-2006, 09:56
"I love you; you love me; we are one big family....."
Purple bastard!
Crying in the Rain by A-HA tends to get the trick done.
So does Into the West from the Return of the King OST.
I have a couple of songs that I'd listen to if I wanted to cry, but I can't think of all of them right now.
Bodies Without Organs
12-03-2006, 11:28
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (because it's such a beautiful song)...
I still prefer the orignial version.
Pure Metal
12-03-2006, 11:53
Gettysburg by Iced Earth - part III (High Water Mark)
Empty Room by Crowbar has brought me to tears in the past, but no longer (now just makes me sad/brings up memories)
thats two off the top of my head. there's probably more *shrugs*
One Day by Gary Moore gets me close
Carisbrooke
12-03-2006, 18:45
Two Little Boys gets me every time, but then so many things do, I am emotional and not ashamed!
Recently I cried about the sentiment caused me by 'the JCB song'
Glitziness
12-03-2006, 18:52
In certain moods, far too many to name. In others, nothing.
Hullepupp
12-03-2006, 18:55
Das Duell - Schandmaul
Dein Anblick - Schandmaul
Weisse Weihnacht - Wolfgang Kiel
Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
Evanescence - My Immortal
Laura Pausini - Strani Amori
Infinite Revolution
12-03-2006, 22:48
no song's actually made me shed a tear but johnny cash's version of hurt gets me close everytime i hear it and joy division's love will tear us apart/the buzzcocks' teenage kicks nearly made me cry when i heard john peel died but i was feeling pretty fragile then about other things anyway.
Potarius
12-03-2006, 22:51
no song's actually made me shed a tear but johnny cash's version of hurt gets me close everytime i hear it and joy division's love will tear us apart/the buzzcocks' teenage kicks nearly made me cry when i heard john peel died but i was feeling pretty fragile then about other things anyway.
Actually, the Buzzcocks did "Ever Fallen In Love". The Undertones did the brilliant "Teenage Kicks".
The Undertones... The best Irish Pop-Punk ever.
Infinite Revolution
14-03-2006, 16:01
Actually, the Buzzcocks did "Ever Fallen In Love". The Undertones did the brilliant "Teenage Kicks".
The Undertones... The best Irish Pop-Punk ever.
yeh, i always get those mixed up dont know why - well it was ever fallen in love that i meant anyway.
Lunatic Goofballs
14-03-2006, 16:07
Pat Boone's rendition of Enter Sandman. If you aren't weeping for the death of a song, it's becase your brainhas already gooified from the horridness of the tune. :p
Carnivorous Lickers
14-03-2006, 17:03
Someone said "Ode to Joy" earlier- that brought a tear to my eye when my son played it on the piano. As does "Fur Elise".
"Ave Maria" sung by a woman.
And, a line from Pearl Jam has gotten me choked up in the past-
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be the sun,
in somebody else's sky
Why, why cant it be
cant it be mine? "
It had such impact when it came out, on a current situation at the time, its a mix of bitter desperation that I cant still taste when I hear it.
Grave_n_idle
15-03-2006, 15:24
And, a line from Pearl Jam has gotten me choked up in the past-
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be the sun,
in somebody else's sky
Why, why cant it be
cant it be mine? "
How ironic.
It was the entire content of an (unrequited, unfortunately) Valentine's card I sent...
Get out of my head. ;)
Pure Metal
15-03-2006, 15:29
you are my sunshine,
my only sunshine,
you make me happy
when skies are grey,
you'll never know, dear,
how much i love you.
please don't take
my sunshine away.
my mum used to sing that to me in the car every morning before school when things were tough :(
Valdania
15-03-2006, 15:32
I'll be missing you - Puff Daddy
R.I.P. B.I.G.
Carnivorous Lickers
15-03-2006, 15:36
How ironic.
It was the entire content of an (unrequited, unfortunately) Valentine's card I sent...
Get out of my head. ;)
*L* some people believe they have a doppleganger.
Anyhow- one day, I really heard the words to that song and happened to be living out the situation. It still hurts.
I havent heard it since i was a child, but i recall that Burton Cummings song "break it to them gently" got me choked up.
Artist: Burton Cummings
Song: Break It To Them Gently
Album: Collection
Break it to them gently when you tell my Mom and Dad
When you see my baby sister be as kind as you can
And break it to my Grandma, who said "That boy's wild and bad"
Break it to them gently when you tell them that I won't be coming home again
Cause I'm running with a gun and it isn't any fun as a fugitive
Fightin for my life and I don't know if I'll make it alone
Running with a gun and it isn't any fun as a fugitive
God I wanna go home
Lord I wish I was home
When you see my lady with the twinkle in her eyes
Tell it to her softly and hold her if she cries
Tell her that I love her and I will til the day I die
Break it to her gently when you tell her that I won't be coming home again
I got in too deep with strangers
Thinking they could help me find my way
But nobody warned me of the dangers
And it's always the young and foolish that have to pay
So break it to them gently when you tell my Mom and Dad
Thank them for the good years and all the lovin that I had
And break it to my Grandma, who said "the boy is wild and bad"
Break it to them gently when you tell 'em that I won't be comin home again
I got in too deep with strangers
Thinking they could help me find my way
But nobody warned me of the dangers
And it's always the young and foolish that have to pay)
You gotta break it to them gently
Gotta really try to roll 'em
Gotta break it to them gently
Gotta really try to soothe them
Gotta really try to roll 'em
You gotta roll it to my Mother
Gotta roll it to my Grandma
Gotta roll the old lady
Roll it to my Grandma, she's damn near eighty
Roll the old lady
Grave_n_idle
15-03-2006, 15:47
*L* some people believe they have a doppleganger.
Anyhow- one day, I really heard the words to that song and happened to be living out the situation. It still hurts.
(Yeah, my situation was pretty much like that... the card was a 'swansong'.)
Von Witzleben
15-03-2006, 15:49
My heart will go on by Celine Dion. I'm allergic to that song. Ever since that shit movie Titanic.:mad: :upyours: