Just watched an old Top of the Pops of Sinead O Conner singing Nothing compares. Brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward does it too but for different reasons.
What one gets you blubbering like a baby?

rock and roll suicide. Bowie.
me and bobby mcg. janis joplin.

For reasons too long to explain here:
Spanish Sahara by Foals

Silent Lucidity – Queensrÿche
Hell and high water- Black Stone Cherry
Nimrod – Elgar

Because….reasons…

^ similarly unimportant reasons, but Ralph McTell’s Streets of London.

Obviously I don’t cry, I just leak a bit of excess man juice from the eyes.

No, wait..

New Model Army – Green & Grey. Rob Heaton, their drummer from 82-98, was a friend of mine. He wrote this song. He died in 2004 of pancreatic cancer, a particularly nasty form of cancer that has since taken my stepfather and my brother in law. Cancer sucks

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY[/video]

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boo hoo

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Sebastian teller : La Ritournelle

I originally heard it back in the mid 2000’s thanks to Gilles Peterson and his radio show, it has consistently been one of my top 5 tunes of all time 😀

Just because every element is so brilliant, Gimme Shelter. Every bit of guitar, the drums, then that backing voice.

That one with the chorus. Uplifting it is.

I can go with ‘Gimme Shelter’, but my choice is also Sinead O’Connor – ‘Drink before the War’ (from ‘The Lion and the Cobra’ – a wonderful album)

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYhIcT1nFsw[/video]

Leonard Cohen – Last Year’s Man
Sends shivers up my spine

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RsJwGjheLU[/video]

Nilson- Without you.
Come on Eileen-Dexy’s
Remind me of my mum. She died when i was 6 in 1971, still blubb when i hear them. Her name was Eileen and she was so special.

You can interpret lyrics however you want and for that reason ‘Fade to Black’ by Metallica always reminded me of my nan and her cancer. Still does but less so now.
‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd much more recently for very similar reasons but for my mum. Only just able to listen to them again and it depends how I’m feeling at the time 😥

Somafunk – I agree

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Love is blindness – U2 (on Achtung Baby)
I can’t listen to it often

[video]https://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc[/video]

Because I should have been more like Kate and then maybe he, and the band, would have survived longer…

Living Years Mike And The Mechanics and Cats In The Cradle Harry Chaplin both because you only appreciate your parents when they’re gone .
Also Changes Ozzie and Kelly , came out at a time when our daughter was just finding her feet and wanting to spread her wings , she’s getting married next month , it’s going to be our dad and daughter dance , I’m welling up already !
For years Old Shepherd by Elvis made me a wreck as well !

Depends where you mean by “there”, but Turning Japanese by the Vapors is apparently a song about getting “there” 😡

Fairytale of New York by the pogues, in particular these lines make me cry

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you

Not sure why, the sad death of Kirsty McCall I guess.

Also Pale Blue Eyes by Lou Reed. Always makes me think how desperately sad I would be without the two very precious people who mean so much to me.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-Cx9IX4So[/video]

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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PejBkU4-1fk[/video]

and this one, one of the sweetest, saddest songs about the father and son relationship and getting old I know.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPwR39VMh0[/video]

Bit mainstream for STW, but I frickin’ LOVE Mr Brightside by The Killers. Gets me on several different levels. Just a great tune, too.

Too mainstream?!
So far we’ve got
U2,Mike and the Mechanics,Coldplay,Kate Bush….it’s MOR heaven.

Ah. For me, its:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWRgHVamt7g[/video]

I’m still sorry.

Blind Melon – No Rain. Takes me straight to my happy place.

Only two songs have ever done this

‘Portrait of Jan with Moon and Stars’. By Bill Nelson. Weird, just put it on the platter for first time while bimbling about at home and it stop me in my tracks and put me on my arse blubbing. Convinced me of the weird power of music to tap into the psyche. Have listened a few times since and now it sounds to me like the ocean.

‘River Man’ – Nick Drake. Good grief it sounds sad.

*Edit – egads yes sometimes happy tunes from the past do it,but that’s more about time and place. Something caught me out last week on the radio and I got a moist eye/lumpy throat. Don’t remember the tune now though. Could be senility.

[video]https://youtu.be/J6Qb1-D6tpo[/video]

Everlong by the Foo Fighters. Used to do a cover of it in a band, we had it nailed and there’s a section where the drummer just lifted it to another level. Then one day he killed himself, and every time I hear that song it all comes back. Never choose to listen to it any more, but if it comes on I’ll stop what I’m doing and take the full hit to the feels.

Tears of happiness for the first three and a half minutes of this behbeh

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRv4Jpfh-b4[/video]

“Poles Apart” from The Division Bell but it’s probably my own fault for listening late at night. Also the other night, Heroes came on shuffle and the tears just started to roll.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ciWB7VykII[/video]

On the beach – Neil Young
Blue – Cat Power (Joni Mitchell cover)
Always coming back to you – Scott Walker
Oh my sweet Carolina -Ryan Adams
Coxcomb Red – Songs: Ohia
Sweet Surrender – Tim Buckley
The sun highlights the lack in each – Bonnie Prince Billy
Blackwaterside – Bert Jansch or Anne Briggs (either version will do)
I dont want to go downtown – Gillian Welch
So this is goodbye – Stina Nordenstam
To love somebody -Flying Burrito Brothers
We dance – Pavement
Dolphins – Tim Buckley
Bruton Town & Barbary Ellen – Meg Baird, Helena Espvall & Sharron Kraus
Darlings – Susanne Sundfor
I scare myself – Dan Hicks
Say Goodbye – Beck
Do I wait – Ryan Afams
We are family – Sister Sledge
Calvary Cross – Bonnie Prince Billy & Tortoise (Richard & Linda Thompson cover)
Casimir Polanski Day – Sufjan Stevens
Spectral Alphabet – Jason Molina
Do What you gotta do – Roberta Flack
Farewell Sorrow – Alasdair Roberts
Memory Street – Margaret Glaspy
****, pretty much most of my music collection!

Albatross Fleetwood Mac, my Dad told me on his deathbed that he wanted it at his funeral, and well that’s what he got.

Brings a weird mix of melancholy and pleasant memories of my old man

Sirens by Pearl Jam.

great musically as well as lyrically