Nows not the time to be all manly and I don’t cry stuff…We all do from time time…

What songs fill you with complete happiness/sadness that you can’t help but cry ?

I have loads of music I could choose lots has happened in my life and I use music as an inner therapy for myself bringing on happiness/sadness sometimes you gotta take a reality check !

This evening I listen to David Bowies new song Where are we now and just listening to the words just filled me with tears…they somehow made sense !

And no I won’t MTFU !

1.The Circle game – Joni Mitchell
2. A lot of music by Neil Young !

Lets hear yours

Eva Cassidy’s ‘Songbird’ made me cry – sung by my sister on my wedding day. She’s a top-flite musician and has an astounding voice – incredible clarity.

Nimrod. Elgar.
Am in floods every time I hear it.

eva Cassidy ! yes that got played a lot after I split with my ex !
Funnily enough it was also sung at my wedding ! (5yrs this summer)

Nimrod fills me with exultation.

Music is such an emotional thing.

The Verve, Drugs Dont Work – because it was around at the time my girlfriend (now wife) went to America to work for the summer.

Pink Floyd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond – because my dad, the old sod, asked for it to be played at his funeral. All three of his sons love Floyd (like he did) so I am constantly reminded of the day.

This: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY&sns=em[/video]
A true song about love, in sickness, and in health. Heartbreaking.

People cry to music.? Really.? A film maybe but music.!

Tell me there’s a Heaven – Chris Rea.
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits.

Just memories. 😥

People cry at films? Really?

What like Police Academy and stuff?

Jonny cash – Hurt
Though Elbow – lippy kids is great esecially after hearing the reason it was written at a elbow concert.

A song played at a funeral may have a different effect. As for police academy I blarted like a school girl.

Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward.

Played at my wifes funeral.

‘Through Autumn’s golden gown we used to kick our way
You always loved this time of year
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
Cause you’re not here’.

Ambrose, my tears are equally of sorrow and joy on hearing Nimrod. A very, very good memory.

CFH- I know what you mean.

A strangely less relevant one to me but ‘Wires’ by Athlete. Purely because of the subject because I have two young kids.

A year ago. not much. These days quite a few.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqgkkuR8Nvg[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuVudn1-RE[/video]

The Fureys The green fields of France

The Dubliners The last of the great Whales

Rolf, Two Little Boys.

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

And there’s this one, Emmylou Harris, Prayer in Open D:[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfN0MnhVfkY&sns=em[/video]

neilsonwheels – Member
People cry to music.? Really.? A film maybe but music.!

How empty your life must be. Truly, you have no soul.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeuLTL8pQRQ[/video]

1916 by Motorhead – an unflinching tale of the horrors of WW1

“Cool” by Gwen Stefanani. Boarding the plane in Brisban after the hol of a lifetime. I so wanted to move to Oz but Wife wouldn’t go. 🙁

God, quite a lot! I find music amazing at reaching parts of me that don’t normally get reached. Or maybe that I don’t allow to be reached, unless I’m on my own. I’ve found tears streaming down my face on many an occasion, listening to music. Not necessarily from sadness, more from poignant, reflective beauty.

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

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwqbi7mlYOg[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytKmI-gLdM[/video]

And this might not be a song, but it’s pretty close. This is beautiful.
I found myself getting emotional when I heard the background music being used on another film. Took me a little while to remember why.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swPZzxv0tI[/video]

My best friend died when we were 17. His favourite song at the time was ‘you are always on my mind’ by the Pet Shop Boys. If it comes on the radio while I’m in work or something, then I have to turn it off, or leave, because I know I’ll glaze over, then when I listen to the lyrics I’ll start sobbing pathetically

I’m sure this amuses him, no end

“We have all the time in the world” Louis Armstrong, basically a true love song

The Last Post if you need to ask why……….

The Theme from “Band of Brothers” .. .. brilliant soundtrack, brilliant TV series, true story

ANY tune featuring the massed pipes and drums of (the now) Royal Regiment of Scotland … really raises the hairs on the back of my neck…. it’s a jock thing lol

You’ve Got A Friend – James Taylor
And from recently, Into Your Arms by The Lemonheads
Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me used to but not anymore.
X Factor made me hate The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face until I recently listened to it after ages, sung by Roberta Flack, and fell in love with it again.
Danny Boy always makes me feel emotional.
Amhrán na bhFiann sung before a rugby international never fails to bring at least one tear.

Last song to make me cry was this. I was riding my bike at the time, so not a pleasant experience

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT8ybSpWUPo[/video]

radiohead – no surprises

Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.

Teardrops by Massive Attack. (Appropriately)

And I don’t know about tears, but anything by Johann Seastian Bach just has me standing slack-jawed in amazement. There’s a story that the biologist Lewis Thomas was asked what message should e sent into space on the Voyager probe to represent all of humanity. He replied “The complete works of Bach … But that would be boasting”.

Dez, he’s got a way with words…

clapton – tears in heaven
the story behind this song has me welling up just thinking about it

and this
http://youtu.be/MV4ytI0ZgHc

“I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors,
Closed it down and opened the **** You, Get Over It Bed and Breakfast”

Dez, he’s got a way with words…

Certainly has.

clapton – tears in heaven

IF I heard that I would break down. Totally. I don’t like Clapton (so obviously didn’t know what it was about at the time!), but an acoustic guitarist played it at my wedding. So I just know it would destroy me. 🙁

mega – I fully understand the sentiment, but that Clapton song left me utterly cold. Private grief brought into the public eye (ear) through the medium of money. Bad craic IMHO.

Pathetically, this:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q[/video]

I think possibly because I have a little girl too.

This is probably as close as I get

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

Cheers, Rich

There are a few which pop a little burly man dust in the corner of my eye in the right circumstances.

God Only Knows – Beach Boys. Brian Wilson’s solo live version in particular.

Hurt – Johnny Cash

Into my Arms – Nick Cave

Desperados Under the Eaves – Warren Zevon

Fruit Tree – Nick Drake

About half of Lee Hazelwood’s Cake or Death album not because of the songs but the circumstances in which it was recorded.

Coldplay also make me want to cry. But for entirely different reasons.