Tug at the heart strings. Whatever the reason. Let’s have them.

No distance left to run

[video]http://youtu.be/dgA_DlR8WsM[/video]

Eva Cassidy. Rainbow. I hate what it does to me.

[video]http://youtu.be/r-wUeDnJXEQ[/video]

or

[video]http://youtu.be/z-t_CKb8SUI[/video]

I’m not gay or owt but, despite the Liberace style presentation of this (it’s different in my head) this is one of the truely difficult, heart tugging type songs, that I like to wallow in occasionally.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBPpG5Rymd8[/video]

And like DezB

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N0KLu4vfkE[/video]

Sorry, on the iPad and the connection is sloooooow tonight. So no links.

DezB, I had this in mind before seeing yours: Scott Walker – Always Coming Back to You. It just kills me…

Cat Power – Blue (the Joni Mitchell song)

Superwolf (Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney) – Blood Embrace

PJ Harvey – Silence

Van Morrison – Almost Independence Day

Ryan Adams – Do I Want

Neil Young – Don’t Cry

Bonnie Prince Billy & Tortoise – Calvary Cross (the Richard & Linda Thompson song)

Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside (or the Anne Briggs version)

Roberta Flack – Do What You Gotta Do

Alasdair Roberts – Farewell Sorrow

Meg Baird – Dear Companion

Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Polanski Day.

I could go on…………

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8Ckamh8Gw[/video]
the antlers, putting the dog to sleep.

Ok, another Scott seeing as metalheart can’t post the vid

[video]http://youtu.be/cmnxtBAVLF8[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho[/video]

This trumps all others

Cheers DezB, it comes up as not valid for your platform on the iPad…. So thanks 🙂

Man, what a voice, that Scott.

Anyway, this still gets me after the death of JP, first song I heard when it was announced.
[video]http://youtu.be/1EdUjlawLJM[/video]

Evernescence My Immortal

Time to camp it up (got to love Swayze)…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gbz-Lau5tc[/video]

and a close second…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKT1PScntxU[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fL3E8FRxiw&sns=em[/video]
The Unthanks King Of Rome

So many wonderful songs here – particularly nice to see mentions for Sedaka and the Unthanks

I think this one pulls at some emotions many of us can understand:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRY3aKx8bKg[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVz84dxpI48[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/crblDrrcunQ[/video]

Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle : does it for me.

Oh nothing’s going to change my love for you
I wanna spend my life with you
So we make love on the grass under the moon
No one call tell, damned if I do
Forever journey on golden avenues
I drift in your eyes since I love you
I got that beat in my veins for only rule
Love is to share, mine is for you?

I had the pleasure of hearing him do it live in Deia (mallorca) at a very private wedding party at a hilltop villa a few years ago with full orchestral backing – as long as i live i will never ever forget that performance – absolutely stunning.

There´s some horrible noise on this list (ninfan, sry mate), here are mine.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cIWsQuYVeg[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3FznotHuJA[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsnizjlOPIk[/video]

Talk Talk – good choice and a vastly under appreciated band.

A Mark Hollis quote that’s always stuck with me :

Before you play two notes learn how to play one note – and don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.”

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yppksBz-JuI[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jw8C1k_agY[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtm1eznrtU[/video] 🙁

a couple more

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqXy64-hTw[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMJ_-gmnF8g[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-FmsKz-fU[/video]

Dire Straits – Wild Theme

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a502RejLz8s[/video]

Bright Eyes – Garfunkel

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDxJrggie8[/video]

Bit of Vandross to finish off – Dance with my Father

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFbSpKRatA[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznHTBZIa8E[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOm8uv22e2U[/video]

This thread has depressed me.

DezB – Member
This thread has depressed me.

Sorry…… feel free to post some songs that lifts your spirit.

It’s the poor quality that has depressed me rather than the songs 😆 (not all of it of course!).
This is stuck in my head. Kind of sad, kind of uplifting, kind of … marmite?
[video]http://youtu.be/DqDxycoY2qY[/video]

This thread has depressed me.

This won’t help;

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZ0KgLifjI[/video]

This won’t help

On the contrary… (See my previous post)

we crossed posts.

heartstrings are funny things, we all seem to be tuned to a different setting.

This one

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Najnq_FD9yU[/video]

means nothing to anyone but me and my wife I suspect.

My wife will tell i am far from romantic, but both these songs do it for me:

[video]http://youtu.be/LnHoqHscTKE[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/Id_UYLPSn6U[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVHk4dc7yaE[/video]

City and Colour

or

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsESk0GESxk[/video]

Mazzy star.

Lots of classics here!

Heres mine:

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk

I still think of my Grandad when I listen to it.

VNV Nation – Left behind.

the images used in this slideshow I don’t think work, but the song is the important thing.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93Vcoroe80[/video]