Music to make you cry

Kali

i wouldnt say cry to any of these really (bar the bjork one.. that comes very close) but they are hella emotional and definitely touch a nerve somewhere.

bjork - come to me (hits a very very personal note)
flaming lips - do you realize
spacemen 3 - come down softly to my soul
pink floyd - hey you
beachboy soundtrack (its a japanese show btw) - fly like a mountain bird (easily my favourite instrumental track of all time.. and pretty moving to me)

theres probably a few more if i bothered to look at my cds.. but couldnt be arsed..

Illkillya

i'd have to agree with Playground Love. Having read a lot about Suvla Bay, the Band Played Waltzling Matilda (esp the Pogues version) is another. I know theres a few more, I'll try to think of them tonight.

Molly

All I need - Air
There's no need to argue - The Cranberries
Angels fall first - Nightwish
Estranged - Guns & Roses
Don't Speak - No Doubt

Kopf

nobody's mentioned "blue" by joni mitchell! the whole album is full of songs this thread is looking for.. also check out

simon & garfunkel - bridge over troubled water
neil young - after the gold rush
neil young - tell me why
coldplay - we never change
the strokes - hard to explain
counting crows - raining in baltimore
stevie ray vaughan - lenny
aphex twin - nannou2
boards of canada - over the horizon radar


i'd reccomend from the album blue, by joni mitchell, the songs "blue", "a case of you", "the last time i saw richard", "little green"..

btw, syd_vicious, why the fuck do you keep saying "this is syd vicious speaking"?

Syd_Vicious

This is Syd_Vicious speaking...

The reason I keep saying that is because I want to stand out from the rest of the crowd & it makes you pay attention to what I'm saying because that is the first thing you will notice

You happy

This has been Syd_Vicious speaking...

byte

Agree with Kali regarding Pink Floyd - Hey You.

Also

Peter Gabriel - I Grieve (very downbeat)

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde (on Youthanasia)

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

DerekD Goldfish

I know its over- the smiths
Last goodbye- Jeff Buckley
Looking for jude - mic christopher
Still in love with you- Thin lizzy (live version of live and dangerous)
does the fact that 3/4 mentioned are dead say anything about me I must have some morbid fasination or something. Ah well off to the cemetry I go

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by DerekD Goldfish
Still in love with you- Thin lizzy (live version of live and dangerous)

excellent song. another one for me, doesn't bring tears close to my eyes or anything but it's by the Bee Gees. i'm not sure what it's called but it has the line "i started a joke" and was done live for a HBO special

another would be the song Neil Young did for the Philadelphia film. anyone know what's that called

JessieG

elvis- dont cry daddy
bon jovi- always


and
love and hate collide-def lepard

Kolodny

Tori Amos - Doughnut Song. Reminds me of a very painful break up.

scuzzy

Songs to make you feel sad/contemplative:

Embrace - My weakness is none of your business
Embrace - Drawn from memory
REM - At My Most Beautiful
Alice In Chains - Nutshell
Frames - Red Chord

thedrowner

kali, yup come to me it one of those gorgeous songs that kind of *hugs* u with emotion, if u see what im getting at

also jeff buckley's version of kanga*roo, poarticularly the line on mystery white boy, and his accoustic version of last goodbye. for some reason also, when i see the video for lastgoodbye, it turns me to mush.

Bard

Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin ...reminds me of a breakup.

Okie

I wouldn't go so far as say as making me cry ('cos I'm a MAN Dammit! :rolleyes: )

But...

Paddy Casey - It's Over Now
David Gray - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
The Pixies - Where Is My Mind

JessieG

luke kelly song jesus whats the name you know the one about the child........."scorn not his simpicity but rather try to love him all the more"
you all know it....
also eva cassidys version of somewhere over the rainbow its used on that ad for cancer and the ppl seeing there loved one in ther mirror i remember seeing that ad three times in the space of 10 minutes and bawled my eyes out each time it was on

Kali

cos i didnt mention it in the earlier post..
neil young - only love can break your heart..

Thanx 4 The Fish

Angels - Sarah Mc lachlan

darthmise

Haven't read them all so dont know if this one has been mentioned.

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Everytime i hear the line " All the flowers that you planted Momma..."

....Lump in my throat.

Headlong - The Frames.
Adagio For Strings - Barber.

"Don't Think twice" Bob Dylan. But they're mostly, Happy, 'hignsights a wonderful thing' tears.

Morning Theft - Jeff Buckley.

plastic membrane

In the right frame of mind Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead make me go all wobbly.

Doc

That song off the cancer research add "fields of barley" always makes my flatmate cry I think it¡¯s a very beautiful song but she hates if I play it.

Pep

The songs called Fields Of Gold by Sting

Anything by a woman called stina nordenstam...especially dynamite,...she's a swedish artist with the voice of an angel... she' a complete enigma, having given eight interviews in as many years...over the course of the last 2 years i have developed an unhealthy obsession with this woman..its definately depressing, but it got to a stage where i didn't like not listening to her, just generally like...ive been trying to stop listening to her, for the good of my mental health, but im somewhat addicted...i have never heard such a beautiful voice...it can take a while to get into some of her stuff...but its worth it...just dont let it get to the stage that im at now


"It's me and you now and you're not on my side
A night for planets, planes or souls to collide
They say that light-years might go by till they do
It takes a desert to need someone like you
Cut me dead, send me out blindfolded
Watch me take up the glove
This is what I have been trained for
I think I am in love"