Music that makes you cry (or want to)

[doctorjazz]

So, I'm on a kick where I want to hear some seriously deep, beautiful, emotional music, and I'm wondering what sort of things of this kind you guys enjoy. It can be the most tearjerking, ruin-your-day depressing stuff, or just something that's so beautiful it really moves you.

A few of my favorite examples:

Barber - Adagio for Strings
Brahms - Four Serious Songs
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
Coltrane - Psalm (Last track/movement of A Love Supreme)
Beatles - In My Life (not so much the original recording, but I've heard some stunning covers that make me believe the song itself qualifies)
Mozart - Lacrimosa from the Requiem Mass

[Happynoj]

'The Kids Aren't Alright' by The Offspring really depresses me.

[JimB52]

For some reason, the guitar solo at the end of Frank Zappa's 'Muffin Man' always chokes me up.
Oh, and Kirsty MacColl's 'Walking Down Madison' is a song I love, but also makes me terribly sad, but that is largely due to the fact that it reminds me of her tragic, untimely death.

[Howlin' Hanson]

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Had To Do - Earl Thomas Conley

I don't care if you don't like country; this song can choke you up, if you understand the feelings.

[Human Bass]

Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio

[doctorjazz]

A couple more:

Coltrane - Naima
Puccini - "Un bel di" from Madame Butterfly
Puccini - "Nessun dorma" from Turandot
Clapton - Tears in Heaven (Terribly sad, given the context)

[CrispyDelicious]

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuMV...eature=related

The most haunting piece of music ever, IMO. Drips emotion. I dare anyone to sit though the entire piece and not say it was amazing.

[excane]

Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuMV...eature=related

The most haunting piece of music ever, IMO. Drips emotion. I dare anyone to sit though the entire piece and not say it was amazing.

Agreed.

Most of Rachmaninoff is in the ethereal other-worldly category.

[excane]

My contribution is "Mazzy Star"

[CrispyDelicious]

Originally Posted by excane

My contribution is "Mazzy Star"

Excane... has a.... SOFT SPOT

[Happynoj]

The third movement (Adagio) of Elgar's Cello concerto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci7rqx3OkUU


I know it's overdone, but 'Nimrod' from Elgar's Enigma Variations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE


And my final offer is 'Sentimental Sarabande', the third movement from Britten's Simple Symphony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HiwoP1ps-A

[WalterBush]

"My Soul Sings" and "Miracle Maker" by Delirious? always tear me up a bit, even while playing them.

A few Pink Floyd tunes can do it as well, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade Suite, parts of the New World Symphony.

I'm speaking about the pure beauty of the music and lyrical content, btw. I don't listen to music that just plain depresses me these days.

[popinfresh]

One of my favourites at the moment is; Strip my mind - RHCP. Yes yes, chili's aren't really one people would take seriously but they have some incredibly deep songs, and frusciante's solo on previously mentioned track is one of my favourite solo's of all time gives me goosebumps every time, plus his vocals on the track.

I'll list some more later though as i'm brain dead and about to go out.

Can't forget a lot of Mogwai for me, as well as what everyone else has said pretty much.

[elgecko]

I've never met an angel but I'm pretty sure they sound like Emmylou:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTry1yKvxZM

For the Good Times, one of my late Mom's favorite songs gets me too.
So does Expecting to Fly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpbMitv5Ypo

I actually like sad music....this thread is pretty emo

[excane]

Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

Excane... has a.... SOFT SPOT

I know, I know....hard to believe right?

[Jim Campbell]

Originally Posted by excane

My contribution is "Mazzy Star"

look on down from the bridge?.hope sandoval has the voice for it tho....

all my tears...emmylou harris/julie miller

onward christian soldiers......kris kristofferson

tecumseh valley.......townes van zandt

brothers in arms.......dire straits

sister morphiene.......rolling stones

lotsa stuff by johnny cash,merle haggard,hazel dickens

postcard from a hooker in minneapolis.....tom waits

st james infirmary.....lotsa versions

snowblind friend......steppenwolf

golden slumbers..beatles

[bassteban]

Help- The Beatles(entire album)
El Paso- Marty Robbins(also th rest of the original album)
I'm not in love- 10cc
Over the rainbow- Judy Garland version, though any version can make me well up(there was a very loose version going during a video presentation of my 3-yr-old's end-of-year preschool thingie- instant sniffles)
Most Sade
The occasional Celine Dion cut
Just about anything on the right day

[Mark Wilson]

Jonas Brothers because of how much is hurts.

[Disraeli Gears]

I don't think I've ever cried because of a song, but Wet Sand by the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come relatively close.

[Jim Campbell]

epitaph....king crimson..

dock of the bay...........otis

most of astral weeks.....van morrison..

atlanta moan.....big dave mclean