This Woman's Work used to make me cry in my twenties, but not anymore.
Nothing does, to be totally honest. I've become hardened with age...
*grits teeth*
Also, June Tabor's rendition of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" had snot coming from my nose. Very raw.
Probably just an allergy. And try not to dab your nostrils too hard with tissues, that'd account for the rawness.
Oh, and Carlo Vives - La Tierra del Ovido - happy memories... 🙁
Drops of Jupiter - Train
An amazing feeling of having my life ripped up, making a big move across the country on impulse and strangely knowing that everything would work out...... and it did! 🙂
..... unlike my ability to link the video! 😳
and Danny Boy
This song always brings a little tear to my eye:
It's all because of the 4th verse and the line '....I've been wanting to be just like my Dad ever since I was a little boy' (approx 1:30). It was in the car as I drove up to my Sister's the day the old git popped his clogs.
i also have an acoustic version of 'Circlesquare' by The Wonderstuff that gets me most times too.
oh and The JCB song gets me too.
puff the magic dragon. not heard it since I was a kid just in case I start to blub
There goes the fear by Doves has a special meaning for me and generally brings a tear or two each time I hear it.
As others have said sometimes the most random songs creep up on me and can leave me in floods. Music has made me cry much more than films or books have.
Mine is another funeral associated one. It was played at the funeral of a close friend and colleague taken before his time a few years ago and oddly I was fine up until this came on and the memory has stuck with me ever since.
Miss you Steve.
Just remembered another one. Song that was playing when I heard John Peel died:
'With a little help from my friends' the Beatles version , played at one of my mates funerals when I was 17 .Still gets me going 25 years on ,it hit me hard as it was the first time I lost someone I really liked that wasn't an old relative.
Don't look back in anger, it was my brothers favourite song.
Bright eyes from watership down. I'm sure that film traumatised me as a child. Great but sad film.
Another funeral related one:
Days - Kirsty MacColl
This has caught me out once before.
There are a few triggers in a few songs which get me. Not tears as such, but definitely a lump in the throat to:
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars:
[i]"All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see"[/i]
Editors - The Weight Of The World:
[i]"You touch my face
God whispers in my ear
there are tears in my eyes
Love replaces fear"[/i]
Van Morrison - Got To Go Back:
[i]"Keep me away from porter or whiskey,
don't play anything sentimental
it'll make me cry"[/i]
Good shout on Guy Clark - The Cape. On his live album [i]Songs And Stories[/i] there's a track called [i]Magnolia Wind [/i]which has the line:
[i]"It's once in a lifetime
And it won't come again
It's here and it's gone
On a magnolia wind".[/i]
Always seem to get something in my eye at that point. Bit dusty in here.
Oh, and pretty-much all of [i]Ballerina[/i]
is a proper, full-on goose-bumper.
I see no mention of Martha by Tom Waits.
Pure - lightning seeds
Martha by Tom Waits great shout.
If this doesnt mmake you cry you either have no soul or no kids
Drawn from Memory, by Embrace. It was a song I listened to when I was away abroad and I got the news that my Sister had died, in 2000. I am in pieces everytime I hear it even 13 years later.
For some reason Kate Rusbys cover of Village green preservation society. No idea why. Great cover though.
Mine are quite simple.
Levi's singing Old Shep when I was eight
Kirsty and the dubliners Christmas Carolina New York the first Christmas after dad died.
Old Shep doesn't touch me now. Kirsty McColl reduces me to tears
Having said that I can't watch holly city and dying in Africa for charity adverts either. I guess I need to mtfu
Kids from my school just deciding to join in and sing 'Together' with the local choir in southern Lesotho.
Gosh- it's dusty in here...
[b]Maybe I'll Go (Lene Marlin)[/b]
[i]You think you've made it everything's going so fine
But then appears someone who wanna
Tear you down
Wanna rip you off those few nice things you've found
When and if you hit the ground.
Then it's falling kinda hard
Cause all you do is being yourself
Trying everything to succeed somehow.
But that's not the way things are right now.
Feeling kinda lost.[/i]
[b]Goodbye (Hootie and the Blowfish)[/b]
[i]Tomorrow used to be a day away
Now love is gone and you're into someone far away.
I never thought the day would come
When I would see his hand, not mine,
holding onto yours because I could not find the time.
Now I can't deny
nothing lasts forever
I don't want to leave
and I see the tear drops in your eyes
I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye[/i]
Top thread - lot of stuff I hadn't heard before or forgotten. I'm putting together a spotify list for my SIL's wedding and a couple have slipped into the slow section for the drunks at the end...
I'm a cold hearted cynic but Johnny Cash Hurt gets me every time, I think it's the context, June Carter had just died and he wasn't far away, especially watching the clip. (what do young persons call films that accompany songs these days ? They are hardly videos any more !)
Also, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, which I think was written by a Scotsman and covered by The Pogues, about Aussie soldiers coming back from WWI maimed. There is a line about nobody waiting on the dock to meet him, so sad.
None make me actually cry but loads of songs make me a tad emotional:
Comfortably numb, Everlong by the Foos, a few by Mazzy Star (Into Dust especially), Hurt, Eva Cassidy's version of Fields of Gold... and 2 little boys by Rolf Harris... reminds me of childhood.
Angels by Robbie Williams used to conjure up some fairly dark emotions - played at a funeral of a baby just a few weeks old. Tiny coffin. Horrible.
And nature documentaries often give me watery eyes... especially seeing people who devote their lives to saving animals.
Bugger it's getting dusty... time for something upbeat.
[i]Angels by Robbie Williams[/i]
His last single makes me cry. Because it is SO UTTERLY TERRIBLE!
His face makes me cry. Because it is SO UTTERLY HORRIBLE!
FIFY
he has to be that ugly so that deaf people can hate him too
This is pretty sad. Also beautiful. Starts at 0:46
Used in the excellent This is England film/series
Snow Patrol -Chasing Cars
Anything Eva Cassidy.
mr potatohead - Member
he has to be that ugly so that deaf people can hate him too
Genuine LOL from me! Chapeau. 😆
Crystal by Mando Daio
Draw from memory by Embrace
Anything by ABBA, Bee Gees and Carpenter ... so sad ... no fairy tale ending for most of them. Failed marriage with members (female members particularly) ended up alone in their latter years dead young brothers, and dead sister with angelic voice.
Anything by Christy Moore brings up series of warm emotions but Natives is a crusher for me.
Plenty of other stuff, mainly folk based but other things as well. Adler when she performed at the Brits broke me big time.
I love these threads... 😀
[i]Guardian[/i] journalist Laura Barton once [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/08/nick-clegg-songs-make-writers-cry ]wrote a piece[/url] that articulates [i]exactly[/i] how I feel about Cat Power's cover of version of [i]I found a reason[/i]:
It's only two minutes long, a song boiled down to spare piano and a dusty voice, but there's something about it that makes my insides buckle. It is somehow forlorn and vulnerable and desperate and defiant all at once. In my favourite line she sounds half-bold and half-broken: "What comes is better than what came before," she sings; it always brings me to tears.
And sometimes it's just the sounds... I don't know my pubstep from my dubstep (though I did my time as a junglist youth), but there's a point in this [url= http://archive.org/details/Asc-MnmlSsgMix ]ASC mix[/url] (from about 55 mins in) where it's pretty much just a kind of mournful bass, with a few scattered vocals and synths over the top... and it does me in.
TBH, nothing really makes me cry - lump in the throat is the best I can do but here are a few
Hope I don't fall in love with you - Tom Waits
Alison - Elvis Costello
Stay Free - The Clash
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Broken Man - Paul Young
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues
Ruby, don't take your love to town - Kenny Rogers
The End - The Doors
Don't give up - Peter Gabriel
And just another mention for Hurt - Johnny Cash
And the Drugs don't Work - The Verve. TBH, i didn't esp like it until I heard Richard Ashcroft talk about how it was for his mother - who died of cancer ...
Songbird - Eva Cassidy , pah - The Fleetwood Mac version is far better ...
traumatic memories of being very young at the cinema and ghost bunnies....can still make a big scary mofo turn 5 years old again 😯
Song written by Townes about his experience of being institutionalised when he was 19.
Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
Not for the song or the lyrics but because 25 years ago I was doing a night shift and had to break some extremely bad news to one of my colleagues. Kept it together while I sorted him out and got the work done but then switched the radio on as I drove out of the car park and this was playing. Was going to an interview and cried all the way there. Liked the song and the album till then, but still all these years later find it too painful to listen to. Not unsurprisingly did not get the job. 5 years before I told the Professor who was interviewing me why I came across as not giving a toss.