Amie by Danien Rice has me in pieces (it's embarrassing and I don't know why it does it)
This and Tim Minchin above for my daughter and her problems.
This for my mum, who died too young
Please can I join in even if I'm not manly?!
Fix You by Cold Play makes me cry, and two songs by the Union: Cut the line and Fading out of Love.
Sandwich - your one reminded me of this one. Don't know whether it's my powerful memory of the film, but it has me filling up in the right circumstances. Beautiful song.
What songs? Too many to mention. The curse of being an old romantic with an over active imagination. I get ambushed by tunes all the time,sometimes I think it's worse because I listen through headphones a lot, little details that can spring hair trigger memories. A recent one was Etta James - At last
Good shout by the OP on the Bowie track - very moving.
I'd add:
Elbow - One Day Like This
Tindersticks - Tiny Tears
Me and MrsLugz had the acoustic version of foo fighters everlong played as our first dance.
I cried when we saw them live performing it.
And Cars - Drive. It was used as one of the 'feed the world' songs and although it doesnt bring tears, I always see the same image of a starving child whenever I hear it.
If this voice doesn't move you...
Just had to stop the Tim Minchin song playing in my headphones at work as it has made me start welling up.
I think I'm turning into a girl!
Cats in Cradle by Harry Chapin
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Buddy Holly - True Love Ways. Played at my Dad's funeral. Cant listen to that one without the room turning dusty.
Happy songs include - i giorni by Ludovico Einaudi, played at my wedding, and bizzarely, Someone Great by LCD soundsystem - dont know why but it got me through some rough patches.
This one gives me goose bumps whenever I hear it - choked me up the first time, something about losing my Dad early means a lot of Roger Waters' lyrics get to me.
I watched him on telly talking about songwriting the other day, and when he said that he's just trying to keep doing work that his Dad would be proud of, that got to me too.
Just beautiful....
Both make me go all weepy for different reasons, from different points in my life. One reminds me of being 17 and full of optimism. The other that maybe I still should be
[i]Think of the colours of your children
And the songs you give wings to
The springs arrived and there's the sky
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my melancholy moments have all been fueled by John grant recently the big lovely beardy guy.
Asleep - Smiths
Elbow - Newborn
Puff the Magic Dragon (ahem!)
mostly its live music that does it for me, i don't even have to know the song, saw o'hooley and tidow recently and they did one about a small bay who died young that just destroyed me...also our singer in A Rookery wrote one about spending new years eve alone, always gets me, can't wait to record that one
Great thread.
For me it's JCB by Nizlopi.
Accidentally listened to it just after my dad died, it could have been written about him and me.
Edit: sorry, I can't get the video to work.
Edit2: cheers unklehomered
Not a cheerful song at the best of times but I was listening to it when my sister came to the house and told me that one of our friends had gone swimming in a local pool, dived in and not come up again....
take the url out of the brackets and you should be away. 🙂
Ahh Thea Gilmore Brilliant 🙂
Songs not mentioned already would be
Green and Grey & Marrakesh - New Model Army
Music is my therapy, so:
Lambchop - My Blue Wave
Bonnie Riatt - I can't make you love me
David Sylvian - Fire on the Forest
"Shipbuilding" for me too. I like the Hue and Cry version
Good call on the John Grant unklehomered - it tends to have the same effect on me too
mickyfinn - That vid is from the first time I went to see her at Bury Met. I didn't know her stuff that well. The better half got us tickets for my birthday. I sat there listening to that with ... ahem.... something in my eye. We've seen her a good few times since and, for some reason it always seems to be dusty
This thread is the best on here for yonks.
*sniffle*
"Shipbuilding" for me too. I like the Hue and Cry version
Costello is 'the' version for me, but a great song.
The opening of this get's me everytime.
Think this just has the edge in the weepy stakes compared to Neil Youngs version.
Also saw Richard Hawley last week and it might have been a bit dusty.
I've got to be in the mood for music to set me off with full-on "dusty eyes", but those that come closest:
Main theme from ET - for 30 years this has had me in shivers
Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home (needs accompanying video for full effect)
Coldplay - A Warning Sign
Could probably think of dozens more but these are up there near the top.
Great thread!
Many of mine have been mentioned - it wasn't until I read this that I realised what a wuss I was. I blame it on having kids.
I'd add:
Cannonball - Damien Rice
If I can't change you mind - Sugar (although I think I'm over this one now)
Wonderful - Everclear
doesn't make me cry exactly but gets me close - Playing with Fire - Plan B
Surprised no-one has said Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye
Jeff Buckley's version of hallelujah was played at my old ladies funeral, I never liked the song and because of that I find it hard to cry, instead I smile!
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is a tear jerker, particularly the video but I think this song has more to it, remorse is Johnny's thing!
Wednesday week by the undertones. Was played at my auntie's funeral. Watching my uncle bens shoulders shaking in the front row just set us all off I think, can't hear it now without blubbering
When I was having gf issues, said the people by dinosaur jr was getting a hammering LOL
Queen - These are the days of our lives. And definitely Hurt as many mention above. I think its the fact that both Freddie and Johnny didn't have long to go when they recorded the videos that creates the emotional connection, for me anyway
Prince - Sometimes it snows in April
shiver me timbers by tom waits
'Man on the Moon' and 'The Great Beyond' by REM which were played at my brothers funeral in 2004. They were from his favorite film @Man on the Moon' about Andy Kaufman. Two awesome songs but i still to this day cant listen to them without blubbing.
flippin' loads.. I'm a bit over emotional if I hear a moving piece of music..
It's very rare that a sad song gets me though..
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video camera, front room, glass of wine and guitar and she sings like that, superbly wonderful.
This springs to mind
For me its:
"This Mortal Coil" and their cover of "Song to the Siren".
and
"Bonny" by "Prefab Sprout".
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That's a good one! That moment when it starts in the film "The Lovely Bones".. blub!
"The wind blows chilly and little Willie needs new shoes", gets me every time.
Strangely "Love Like Blood" by Killing Joke makes me go all "hayfevery". Just a couple of lines tweak something in me.
There once was a man who just couldn't cry
He hadn't cried for years & for years
Napalmed babies & the movie 'Love Story',
For instance could not produce tears
As a child he had cried as all children will
But at some point the tear ducts ran dry
He grew to be a man & the feces hit the fan
Things got bad but he couldn't cry
His dog got run over, his wife up & left him
After that he got sacked from his job
Lost an arm in the war, was laughed at by a whore
But still not a sniffle & sob
Well his novel was refused & his movie was banned
And his biog Broadway show was a flop
He was sent off to jail, you guessed it, no bail
But still not a dribble or drop
In jail he was beaten, bullied & buggered
And made to make licence plates
Water & bread was all he was fed
But not once did a tear stain his face
Doctors were called in, scientists too,
Theologians were last & practically least
They all agreed sure enough
He was no cream puff
But in fact an insensitive beast
He was removed from jail & placed in a place
For the insensitive & the insane
He played lots of chess & he made lots of friends
And he wept every time it would train
Once it rained 40 days & it rained 40 nights
And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried
On the 41st day he just passed away
He just dehydrated & died
He went up to heaven located his dog
Not only that but he rejoined his arm
Down below all the critics, they took it all back
Cancer robbed the whore of her charm
His ex-wife died of stretch marks, his ex-employer went broke
The theologians were finally found out
Right down to the ground, the prison burned down
The earth suffered perpetual drought
Mary Coughlan singing "Sunday Mornings" on her album "Love Me or Leave Me" had us both blubbing like babies at the breakfast table one Sunday morning.
Also, June Tabor's rendition of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" had snot coming from my nose. Very raw.