Embarassing admissions - What songs make you choke up?

[slobake]

"When The Lights Go Down in The City" by Journey. I don't even like Journey but that one gets to me every time. Especially if I am away from home.

[bass12]

"Your Song" by Elton John
"You've Got A Friend" by Carole King/James Taylor
"Hyperballad" by Bjork

Oh, and anything with a rap by Pitbull in it (though not for the same reason as the aforementioned songs).

[Clark Dark]

I'll add Wicked Games by Chris Isaak

[thorski]

Roscoe East. Guess we have two things in common.
Squire's onward in an epic short tune

And I love Barbers' Adagio as well - I just prefer it at the closing credits of the Elephant Man

[Portphilia]

Anything by Debussy! I don't know what it is about that man's piano compositions... but they're all magic. Especially Reverie, Claire de Lune and Arabesque.

[VeganThump]

Im sure someone has already said it, but it is literally impossible for me not to cry when I hear "Cat's in the Cradle". Also, the end of John Lennon's "Mother" gets me real choked up, when he's screaming at the end, "momma don't go, daddy come home!"

[Alembic83]

Ok, "If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot...or Johnny Cash's version!

[Steamtronic]

Found another one......Albinoni's Adagio in G minor. It's used with great effect in the movie Gallipoli. Very sad and very beautiful.

I find it fascinating there are quite a few posts in this thread where just the emotion in the arrangement is enough to move people - no lyrics to place you in an emotional state, just the pure emotion of the melody or arrangement.

If emotions are what make us truly human, and certain pieces of music can trigger very real emotions without any external reference, then music is powerful stuff indeed.

[tdave]

Warren Zevon, "Keep Me In Your Heart For A While". The
last song on his last record, made knowing that his cancer
is terminal and he has little time left:

Sometimes when you're doing simple things around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile
You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for awhile
Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
And when the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you
Engine driver's headed North to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for awhile
These wheels keep turning but they're running out of steam
Keep me in your heart for awhile

[N.F.A.]

Originally Posted by JimB52

I sometimes tear up a little at the end of Zappa's live version of "Muffin Man" in Austin TX.
Something poigniant about the way he introduces the band at the end, especially Captain Beefheart.

I'd sure love to hear the part of that jam that gets faded out at the end of the Bongo Fury. I bet he rips it up for another minute or two. Is the whole song around anywhere you know of?

[N.F.A.]

Originally Posted by ThudThudThud

+1

"I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome swooping down from heaven to carry me home..and he gave her one last kiss and died...and he gave her his Vincent to ride..."


RT is an absolute genius.

I agree! Check out Dick Gaughan's version of this. I heard his version before RT and I like it better. Bonus Dick Gaughan tear jerker... try his version of Farewell to Sicily....

[eddiemac]

"Harry Hippie" by Bobby Womack; "Drown In My own Tears" by Ray Charles; "A World I Never Made" by Johnny Adams (actually a Dr. John, Doc Pomus song); "I'd Rather Go Blind" by Etta James; "Nothing Takes the Place of You" by Toussaint McCall; "It Makes No Difference" by the Band; "Every Grain of Sand" by Bob Dylan.

[4dog]

Forgot one Brothers in Arms- Dire Straits,, gets me everytime

[tmdazed]

as a father and as a son , In the living years by Mike and the Mechanics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k

and Three Angels by The Headstones, Reminds me of my Grandfather, 96 , has had hodgekins for the last 16 years and lonely as hell since my grandmother passed 5 years ago, I am actually recording a version of it to play at his funeral when time comes. to me the three angels represent my grandma, my Urgroßmutter and Urgroßvater (great grandfather and great grandmother, I always from the time i was little ,called them this or Oma und Opa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UJhjP-44P4

[FilterFunk]

George Benson's live version of "The Greatest Love Of All"
George Benson's version of "Unchained Melody"
Andy Williams version of "Some Children See Him"
"Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away" - Stevie Wonder

[Moogerbass]

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okeb-OOIT9c

I remember when my brother was trying to make it as a musician and singing and playing this song on his acoustic guitar on national radio in 1999. I was there as his driver.

Nervous as hell, he broke out this guitar and KILLED leaving the DJs absolutely speechless.

A couple of years later this song landed on the multi platinum debut album of the boy-and-girl group my brother was in was in at the time, being re-arranged in the version above.

But the 1999 version gets me every time.

[Downlowd]

The Baby - Blake Shelton

Thats My Job - Conway Twitty
Its about a son and dads relationship. I could never get through it live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGstAcxrl7I

Remember When - Alan Jackson

[jongor]

I'm not embarassed to admit that Midnight in Harlem by Tedeschi Trucks Band. gets me.

To me Derek's solo is one, if not the, most beautiful electric guitar solo ever recorded. And some of the live versions are just as good.

[Zoomie]

This song just crushes me. I hadn't heard it in over a year and was driving down the road with my wife when it came on. I felt pretty stupid being a 49 year old grown man driving down the road with my wife beside me as tears rolled down my face.

Brilliant song writing. Talk about painting a picture and telling a story with so few words. I wish I could write like this.

Black Crows - She Talks to Angels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPq8ELsvUJs

[Steamtronic]

"Message To My Girl" by Neil Finn of Split Enz/Crowded House.

The thinking person's love song.