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Kayleigh by Marillion, had me in bedtime tears several times as a 15yo as I had this huge crush on a girl called Hayliegh at school, yet still strikes a chord with me.
<embarrassed smiley, don’t know how>
You?
Bruce Springsteen - The river
But I can cry at adverts!! I even cried at a foo fighters gig because it was so good!!
Natalie Merchant, My Beloved Wife.
She sin<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.4px;">g</span><span style="font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.3;">s it from the pov of a man who has lost his life partner.</span>
Rarely fails to make me blubber.
The River has had me on more than one drunken evenin<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.4px;">g</span>
Sea Of Love - Cat Power
Most likely because I've watched Juno too many times.
Pogues version of Eric Bogles song Waltzing Matilda does it for me.
Something about it brings out the savage, pointless insanity of war like nothing else.
Anything by Sam Smith, make's me want to punch faces, any faces.
I cant even bring myself to type the name of the artist or song 🙁
Haven't thought of it for years, but so raw instantly!
Get a grip lads.
Mull of Kintyre. Me, 4 years old and my dad’s arms holding me. Makes me cry thinking of it.
Görecki - Lamb
Reminds me of my first love and the good times that came with her. She used to play it all the time.
I've met her recently (20 years later) and we're both very different people, not suited at all, but the song evokes a certain romance/sadness for a less complicated time.
Is this what it feels like when dove's cry?
Listen to the intro Bruce gives about him and his dad before the live version of The River.
Anything by Sam Smith, make's me want to punch faces, any faces.
Ah, Sam Smith. Doing what Tom Lehrer couldn't: Lehrer has said of his musical career, "If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while."
I think we are alone now - Tiffany ........the joy !!
Oakenfold, Southern sun.
Reminds me of driving far too quickly up the M1 on several occasions when my mum was in hospital and eventually died, somewhat ironic, as her eventual death was the result of a car crash.
Johnny Cash - Hurt. Such a powerful song.
Two songs sting a chord with me:
Jon & Vangellis - Some day I’ll find my way home
Genesis - Stay with you, stay with me
There are a few ..but I will name just one ..and as Brucie was mentioned earlier.. the saxophone break near the end of Jungleland always brings a tear to my eye ..Big Clarence at his best ..
More Brucie...If I Should Fall Behind.
The Rat by the Walkmen makes me want to murder someone from my past.
Counting Crows’ Omaha takes me back to a teenage relationship that took me through some dark times in my home life. Relationship ended pretty awfully but whenever I hear this it takes me back to a certain moment in time that was an oasis of happiness in an otherwise miserable existence.
Lippy kids by Elbow.
Brings out my inner Jessie
Any live, solo version of Thunder Road.
Actually, any version of Thunder Road.
my Aunt died of cancer a few years ago, her husband gave her eulogy, at the end Wednesday Week by the Undertones played as she was cremated (The song they had first danced to a school disco) There wasn't a dry eye in the place, I think even the vicar was dabbing her eyes.
I can't hear it now without just bursting into tears
Kate Rusby's "My Young Man". I'm from a coal mining village.
Oh and the final high note of Dawn Upshaw singing "No word from Tom" from Stravinksy's "The Rake's Progress".
My dad's favourite song. Driving home after visiting him on the night before he died, it came on in the car and I guess I knew I wouldn't see him again 🙁
"Now hush little baby, don't you cry....you know your daddy's bound to die"
And I'm off again...
Simply the Best by Tina Turner. Gives me murderous rage.
wait, so you guys literally cry at hearing certain songs?
like all out blubbing?
i have not cried since i was a child, sure ive welled up once or twice, like when the girls were born or watching Toy Story 3, but never had to properly let it all out - certainly not to a pop song.
wow that must be a fantastic release!
You can learn to do Mahalo, with a bit of practice. An ex of mine used to binge watch sad films to get the same effect, its well worth it from time to time.
I've only got to say Bananarama and the cottage cheese start's flying.
She's leaving home by the Beatles. Makes me blub. Blubbed when John Martyn died...
Father and son, cat stevens.
I'm not a terrible father, but makes me think of when I could be better 🙁
DrP
I keep a list of top choons and add to them as I remember their name/hear them.
This list is pretty dance music orientated with a couple of non-dance in there as well.
Acid tracks -phuture
Air - All I Need
Armand Van Helden - You Don’t Know Me
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
Australasia - Realise your purpose
Brian ENO - Deep Blu Day
CeCe Rogers - Someday
Chicane - Sal****er
DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima
Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar
Faithless - Insomnia
Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird of Prey)
Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song
Frankie Knuckles - Your love
Goldie - Inner City Life
Goldie - Timeless
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
Gouryella - Gouryella
Groove Armada - At the river
Groove Armadda - Superstylin
Howling - Howling (Ame Remix)
Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousnes
Kinobe - Slip into something more comfortable
KLF - 3 AM Eternal
K Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery
Lamb - Gorecki
Leftfield - Original
Leftfield - Leftism
Leonard Cohan - The Partisan
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Massive Attack - Angel
Massive Attack - Protection
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Messiah - Temple of dreams
Moby - Go
Moby - Porcelain
Moloko - Sing It Back
Moodswings - Spiritual High
Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke
Mr Fingers - Can you feel it
N-Joi - Anthem
NTrance - Set You Free
Olive - You’re Not Alone
Opus III - It’s A Fine Day
Orbital - Are we here?
Orbital - Belfast
Orbital - Halcyon On and On
Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky & Sand
Recondite - Placid
Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings Of Life (Piano Mix)
Robin S - Show Me Love
Rozalla - Everybody’s Free
S.O.S Band - Just Be Good To Me
The Future Sound of London - Cascade
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
The Orb - Perpetual Dawn
The Messenger - A new funky generationi
The Prodigy - Skylined
The source ft Kandi Staton - You've got the love
Transglobal Underground - Temple Head (Pacific Edit)o
Underground Sound of Lisbon - Dance With Me
Underworld - Born Slippy
US3 - Cantaloop
Utah Saints - something good
Utah Saints - what can you do for me
Way out west - The Gift
Way out west - The Fall
William Orbit - Adagio For Strings
Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds
808 State - 808 &
808 State - Pacific 202
And they all make you emosh?
A Sorta Fairytale by Tori Amos can have a bit of an effect on me because I associated it with the death and funeral of a family member.
Played Mr Tambourine Man at my mum's funeral and even thinking about the song makes me well up. I went off piste in her eulogy, started rambling/sobbing and my dad came and got me off the podium.
On a cheerier note Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi invokes complete joy 😀
Hedley :That playlist is a classic choice of my love of dance music and would certainly provoke ridiculous emotions and memories. Top marks 👍 (Although I'd probably add some stone roses and some beloved in amongst it )
Linger by the Cranberries brings me out in waves of wistful nostalgia. Not sure there's a song that actually makes me blub though (and I've been know to well up at GBBO...)
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Hedley :That playlist is a classic choice of my love of dance music and would certainly provoke ridiculous emotions and memories. Top marks(Although I’d probably add some stone roses and some beloved in amongst it )
How the hell have I missed off The Beloved - Sun Rising? Still makes the hairs on my neck go funny to this day. Got the 12" through in the lounge. Classic track first heard at a warehouse rave somewhere I think ;-). Amazing track.
And yes, Stone Roses.
and @surfer
Yes. I'm very moved by music.
Other side of the ridiculous emotions coin.
Any time I hear ABBA or Steps I get really angry.
I see a darkness, Bonnie Prince Billy
Landslide, Fleetwood Mac
For various reasons.
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Scroobius Pip - Broken Promises
Young Fathers - I Heard
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Donny Osmond - Puppy Love
'Wild Geese Descending On A Sandbank' (played solo by Wang Fei on the Guqin)
Provokes in me not so much a 'ridiculous' emotion, but a deep, soporific and comforting sense of calm no matter what. Thanks Wang Fei!
"Wires" by Athlete - this must surely pluck the heart strings of any new parent. Jesus, even thinking about it now makes me well up.
It was in the charts when my missus was pregnant with our first child, and I found myself trying to sing along whilst commuting down the M4 with floods of tears coming down my face and my voice wavering all over the place. "I see it in your eyes, you'll be alright"
Bugger me, its dusty just typing it!
Two little boys by Rolf Harris, controversial perhaps, before the poo hit the fan about his kiddy fiddling past he did that who do you think you are, turns out his dad and uncle were in WW1 together and his uncle didn’t make it back and their story echoed the song. Very poignant and the bloody nonce goes and ruins it all!!
Fairytale of New York
Can't Stand Me Now (don't ask..)
Joe Cocker singing A Little Help From My Friends, specifically his performance at Woodstock and more specifically the bit where more emotion is poured into one wailroarscream than any human should be capable of holding at one moment - it's literally overwhelming (for me anyway).
Joe Cocker singing A Little Help From My Friends
You should enjoy it while you still can. He won't be with us forever.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd.
Because my dad - the old sod - asked for it to be played at his funeral. We never had the chance to see Floyd with him but we went (dad, my two brothers and me) several times to see Aussie Pink Floyd. We were/are all big Floyd fans so I still listen to them loads now. Every time it comes on I stop and think about him.
Suzanne Vega's 'World Before Columbus' and Natalie Merchant's 'My Skin'. Linked with an old relationship, the beginning and the end of it respectively, both still affect me a little these days.
Urban Species' 'Blanket' is the one song that can get me back to level no matter how stressed I am. Imogen Heap's vocal is superb.
All of them hedley? Are you a girl?
An interesting tidbit. I lost my virginity to a girl called Kayleigh, named after the Marilion song.
For me,
All My Best Friends Are Metalheads - Less Than Jake. I can't help but jump around when I hear it.
Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain, Carolina in My Mind, Bar Tender's Blues - James Taylor. All make me open a bottle of red, drink it and get all sombre and awake late at night [s]and feel like taking up smoking again[/s].
Jolene - Dolly Parton. Probably the greatest song ever written. I've never been cheated on or jealous in a relationship but the lyrics get to me.
You Don't Know What Love Is - White Stripes. I don't know exactly what's good about this, I just listen in silence. There's something magical.
White Moon - White Stripes. I've never seen emotion from a singer in the same way. I don't know what emotion it raises but it gets me. I don't have a better word than 'shocked' every time I listen to it.
Green Spandex by Xavier Rudd.
Ohh and Happy by Pharell Williams – I was at Glastonbury in 2015 and my then 6 year old girls loved the song so told me I had to go and watch him (so they could see me in the crowd) even though he really wasn't my thing. By then I had been away from them for 4 days so I was missing them terribly. When he started singing that song I almost cried with the wish to be hugging my girls and dancing along to it with them.
And I have to say I was very impressed by him – possibly the highlight of the weekend for me, along with Sleaford Mods and Florence + The Machine.
The Blue Nile-Lets go out tonight,for every relationship that went tits up.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in Space.
Otis Reading - (Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay.
Longpigs - Lost Myself
All carry a huge wave of emotion, for very different reasons.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Green Spandex by Xavier Rudd.</span>
Reminds me of my brother and can't listen to it, but it's a phenomenal song. Love comes and goes by him is a truly sad song too.
Indifference by Pearl Jam, Honey by Bobby Goldsboro, There's a Reward for me by Joe Biggs <span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">and Call Me A Dog (acoustic from Songbook) by Chris Cornell always get me too.</span>
White Moon – White Stripes. I’ve never seen emotion from a singer in the same way. I don’t know what emotion it raises but it gets me. I don’t have a better word than ‘shocked’ every time I listen to it.
It is such a beautiful ending to that film. Wonderful stuff.
Mine would be:
Sirens - Pearl Jam
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
About Today - The National
Edit: @funkmasterp we must have a similar taste with Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog. Don’t think I have ever heard anyone else mention them!
Cheesy I know but this in a teenage misery remembered way:
And pretty much anything by Air off Moon Safari, but in a happy/sad way
and this in an I don’t understand the world way:
Martha - tom waits
To love is to bury - Natalie merchant
It's all over - dan skinner
Changes - Charles Bradley ( black sabbath cover)
Wrecked - turnpike troubadours
Pretenders "Hymn to Her". I remember listening to it just after my Mum had died, it still makes me emotional.
Joan Armatrading "The weakness in me" has a very personal meaning for my wife and me.
Cat Stevens "Father and Son" reminds me of my Dad.
Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now". One of those songs that you appreciate more the more life you've lived. amazing that she was in her early 20's when she wrote it.
Fade to Black by Metallica
Hollow by Pantera
Mad World by Tears For Fears
Barbers Adagio for Strings, which always reminds me of that tragic final scene from Platoon.
Pretty much any track on Welcome to the cruel world by ben harper life was very different in 1993 or whenever it was!!
Tunnel of Love from the recent Grand Rapids live release had me blubbing hopelessly. The Springsteen fans above will understand.......
Wish you were hear
Do you realize
Russ Abbot- Atmosphere
Concierto d'Aranjuez (Brassed Off version)
Heather- wedding present
Well, most songs on George Best. Angry emotional break up songs.
Or, if I need lifting, Sounds of Blackness: Everything' Gonna Be Alright (Foundation Mix)
just listened to that again. Got meConcierto d’Aranjuez (Brassed Off version)
And as a counterpoint to my 1993 self this is pretty much me now
"A lover of women he can't hardly stand
He trembles he's bent and he's broken
I've fallen it's true but I say unto you
Hold your tongues until after I've spoken"
The Smiths - Back to the Old House
This was on my playlist as I left University after the best 3 years of my life
I have been back, many times but i still miss those days so achingly badly, and I'd do almost anything to have one or two of them again.
Same with several Wedding Present songs, but in the same vein......
"If I could live one day again, that day would be the one"
Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash. Reminds me of my grandparents.
Amazing Grace - Glen Campbell. Bagpipes, just move me. Strange, I know.
Trains, Boats and Planes - Billy J. Kramer & The Dakota’s. When I was younger my dad would go abroad to see his family for 6 weeks or so and this was one of his favourites that seemed so apt whilst he was away.
Sound of Silence. Dads favourite, played as we went into his funeral service. Enough said really.
Ginny Come Lately. Brian Hyland. Another track played a lot during my childhood. Cheesy as hell but...
Forever Young - Bob Dylan. Just feels like it is about our children.
Audioslave - like a stone.
That Genesis track gets me as well.
Always coming back to you - Scott Walker. Sums up a period in my life perfectly, my first hearing it was contemporaneous to it and listening to it transports me every damn time.
death to everyone - Bonnie Prince Billy. The day my mum died, I’d ferried my dad to and from the hospital, the morgue and generally had a shit day (unsurprisingly). I got in the car to go home and switched back on the CD player. This is what come on minutes later. I had to stop at the side of the road....
Epitaph...King Crimson
The Great Gates of Kiev, Pictures At An Exhibition, Emerson , Lake & Palmer.
I always loved Greg Lakes vocal ..and these two tracks were sang with passion ..
I wasn't there that night at Newcastle City Hall when ' Pictures ' was recorded ( probably the first ELP fan ever to admit that ! ) ..wished I had been ..but saw them on the Tarkus tour soon after ..
The fact that Carl Palmer is the only surviving member is truly sad ..these were my heroes as a schoolboy ..
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There’s a few that can give me hot eyes and that hard to swallow sensation without actually bursting into tears, and one’s been mentioned, Kate Rusby ‘My Young Man’: it’s the colliery brass band and knowing it’s about Kate’s gran.
Nancy Griffith ‘If Wishes Were Changes’: influenced by Wim Wenders ‘Wings Of Desire’, it was written at the same time that I made a stupid mistake and broke up with someone I cared deeply about, the lyrics have an uncanny resonance about them.
The Unthanks ‘The King Of Rome’: again, colliery brass band, and a very emotional story.
Emmylou Harris ‘Prayer In Open ‘D’: this I’d like played at my funeral.
I might think of more later, but these three are songs that have a real emotional impact for me.
Johnny Cash – Hurt. Such a powerful song"
NIN - Hurt (far better)
Most of the NIN stuff reminds me of my youth