Recordings That Made You Cry

[AJ Brown]

I know I'm not the only one who has heard a song so great, a performance so incredible that it made me cry. So what songs or performances, live or studio, have made you shed a tear because they were so damn good?

Now that Thanksgiving is over with, my wife broke out the Christmas DVDs. She wanted to watch "The Ghost of Christmas Eve" that has the Trans Siberian Orchestra and other artists on it. Michael Crawford's "O Holy Night" gets me every time. So does Michael Manrings "Sung to Sleep" from Winter Solstice II. There are others that I can't think of at the moment.

So what gets your water works started?

[colcifer]

When I was little, Golden Slumbers would do it for me every time.

[Big_Daddy]

When I played Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater for the first time...

[burk48237]

Anything in Dm, because it's the sadist key. I learnt that a long time ago from Nigel Teufel.

[PhiDeck]

Strange Fruit, by Billie Holiday.

[Epitaph04]

To Live is to Die - Metallica

[Joe Gress]

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

It was for the longest time my favorite tune, but my grandmother and dogs deaths hit me hard when I heard the song. Listening to it on its own (within the album context its fine) my eyes water up every time.

[SMILEYSIXX]

Angel's Son by Sevendust. It's a very powerful song and seeing them play it live is amazing. Lajon Witherspoon is the only metal singer in the world who cries on stage. I try to be as close to the stage as possible whenever I see them and you can feel the emotion coming from them.

And Shinedown's cover of Simple Man when it's done live. It's so indescribable how emotional you'll get when you hear them do it live. I swear, I was crying like a baby.

[Johnny Crab]

Butterfly Kisses works a lot, special song with Dad's my age with daughters.
We played a wedding 2 years ago and they iPod'ed that song for the father-bride dance. All in the band have daughters and all of us got wet eyes before that song was done.

Trace Adkins "You're Gonna Miss This".
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/additem/812288785
It came out when my youngest son was leaving to go to college and my youngest daughter was in her senior year in high school. It gets ALL of us here at home.


There are others that are songs my children have shared with me that are/were special to them at a particular time in their life(music is a big part of children here). I try to collect these. When I listen to them alone, it brings me back to when they brought them to me and I remember them at that age.
Yeah, time flies folks.

[kreider204]

Eb minor is the saddest of all keys ...

[christoph h.]

Originally Posted by burk48237

Anything in Dm, because it's the {b]sadist[/b] key.

Tool, the band of sadists.

[Yvon]

A remark you made

[Kink Rimson]

This just reduces me to a wreck every time. Particulalry this live performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJ8iqS-Kio