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Songs that make you cry
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Stoner Hill-Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band
Life By The Drop-Stevie Ray Vaughn
Amerika-Jaco Pastorius
Life By The Drop-Stevie Ray Vaughn
Amerika-Jaco Pastorius
"In The Living Years"- Mike and The Mechanics. Gets me every time.
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow"- Eva Cassidy. I was reading her story online, and clicked a link to one of her last performances on video.
Cried like a baby, and not ashamed to admit it.
A couple months ago, hit the same link, and it happened again.
So be warned- if you're going to turn someone on to the great talent that was Eva, have a box of tissues handy. They'll need it.
Also, "For Lauren" and "Promise of a Fisherman" by Adrian Garcia. While they are both uplifting as well, I can't help but get something in my eye when I listen to them. I miss you Adrian, my friend!
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow"- Eva Cassidy. I was reading her story online, and clicked a link to one of her last performances on video.
Cried like a baby, and not ashamed to admit it. A couple months ago, hit the same link, and it happened again.
So be warned- if you're going to turn someone on to the great talent that was Eva, have a box of tissues handy. They'll need it.
Also, "For Lauren" and "Promise of a Fisherman" by Adrian Garcia. While they are both uplifting as well, I can't help but get something in my eye when I listen to them. I miss you Adrian, my friend!
Theme to Ol' Yellar,.......best dog-gone dog in the weeeeeeesssssssstttttttt,.....I gotta go,....I need a tissue......
September When It Comes - Roseanne and Johnny Cash. Made a short time before Johnny passed away. A real tear jerker given the pending death of Johnny.
Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson. I'm a Vietnam vet and that scene in Platoon with the guys singing that in their bunker - well I lost it...
Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson. I'm a Vietnam vet and that scene in Platoon with the guys singing that in their bunker - well I lost it...
Oh christ..... every few years my family gets together in Wisconsin for a family jam, hanging out.... my older brother does that one at least once over the course of the week, and he just sings the hell out of it. Rips me up every time, without fail... to make matters worse, he always seems to want me to solo (on DB) at some point, which I generally barely get through because I'm choked up. What a song.
"Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross.
"Another Auld Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg.
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill.
"Another Auld Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg.
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill.
"Tell her you saw me" by Pat Metheny.
Listen to this song and think about the title. Guaranteed you start tearing up.
Listen to this song and think about the title. Guaranteed you start tearing up.
"Hosanna" as sung by Hillsong United
and (here goes my integrity on TB.com lol) "Paint Pastel Princess" by Silverchair
and (here goes my integrity on TB.com lol) "Paint Pastel Princess" by Silverchair
all my tears emmylou harris/julie miller
onward christian soldier ,the pilgrim, 33 billy dee kris kristofferson
sister morpheine stones
postcard from a hooker in minneapolis tom waits
midnight special creedence
most of the time dylan
slippin into darkness war
brothers in arms dire straits
onward christian soldier ,the pilgrim, 33 billy dee kris kristofferson
sister morpheine stones
postcard from a hooker in minneapolis tom waits
midnight special creedence
most of the time dylan
slippin into darkness war
brothers in arms dire straits
Axis, Bold As Love, Nothing Compares 2U (Sinead version), Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Kol Nidrel Variations by Bruch, The Elgar Cello Concerto.
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There are a few pieces that every time I hear them I think should make me cry:
Samuel Barber's "Adagio For Strings"
Yes' "Onward" (the original 1978 recording, from Tormato)
Michael Jackson's "She's Out Of My Life"
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "That's All I Ask Of You"
but to date the only piece of music that's ever literally brought me to tears was a performance (by a student ensemble at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1994) of Elliott Carter's "Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord".
Samuel Barber's "Adagio For Strings"
Yes' "Onward" (the original 1978 recording, from Tormato)
Michael Jackson's "She's Out Of My Life"
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "That's All I Ask Of You"
but to date the only piece of music that's ever literally brought me to tears was a performance (by a student ensemble at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1994) of Elliott Carter's "Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord".
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"Winter"-Bayside
It's about their old drummer (a very good friend of mine) who was killed when their tour van crashed. I had just seen him 2 days before. Truely awful.
It's about their old drummer (a very good friend of mine) who was killed when their tour van crashed. I had just seen him 2 days before. Truely awful.
Most of Neil Young's After The Gold Rush and some of Harvest. Mostly I Believe In You, Birds and the title track of the former. It usually has to be timed very well though.
And once Muse's Blackout. While I was driving, I almost had to pull over. Again, it was very well times.
And once Muse's Blackout. While I was driving, I almost had to pull over. Again, it was very well times.
Alright here are a few.
Wash Away Those Years by Creed. What the songs about is what gets to me.
Last Kiss, Pearl Jams version.
This one doesn't make me cry but it gets me close is Man of the Hour by Pearl Jam.
Wash Away Those Years by Creed. What the songs about is what gets to me.
Last Kiss, Pearl Jams version.
This one doesn't make me cry but it gets me close is Man of the Hour by Pearl Jam.
I watched a dvd of the music from the movie O' Brother Where art Thou, called Down from the Mountain. The concert was hosted by a man named John Hartford. When i saw the dvd, he had allready passed away from cancer. But in the dvd he perfomed an instrumental version of the popular song from that movie "Man of Constant Sorrow"....He wrote and performed this mournful interpretaion of the tune on his fiddle. The whole time you're watching him on the dvd, it's like he is staring death in the face.....I cried my eyes out!
OK, I'll turn in my Man Card...
Pink Floyd - When the Tigers Broke Free
If you can get through the last line "And that's how the High Command took my daddy from me" without choking up, you are a cruel and heartless bastard. Bonus points if you can watch the version of it in movie of The Wall without crying - especially the 2nd verse where the "Pink" character finds and tries on his dead father's army uniform...Good Lord...
The Dublin City Ramblers - Dublin in My Tears
There are probably other versions out there, but this is my favorite. I don't drink, but after hearing this the first time, I felt the need to drown my sorrows.
Ringo Starr - Photograph
Never did anything for me until I saw the Concert for George DVD - before playing the song, Ringo talks about how he and George Harrison wrote it together, and now it's taken on a new meaning. It turns it from an average "Can't get over an ex" song to a moving "I miss my dead friend" song. And the tears rain down.
There's probably more I'll remember later...
Pink Floyd - When the Tigers Broke Free
If you can get through the last line "And that's how the High Command took my daddy from me" without choking up, you are a cruel and heartless bastard. Bonus points if you can watch the version of it in movie of The Wall without crying - especially the 2nd verse where the "Pink" character finds and tries on his dead father's army uniform...Good Lord...
The Dublin City Ramblers - Dublin in My Tears
There are probably other versions out there, but this is my favorite. I don't drink, but after hearing this the first time, I felt the need to drown my sorrows.
Ringo Starr - Photograph
Never did anything for me until I saw the Concert for George DVD - before playing the song, Ringo talks about how he and George Harrison wrote it together, and now it's taken on a new meaning. It turns it from an average "Can't get over an ex" song to a moving "I miss my dead friend" song. And the tears rain down.
There's probably more I'll remember later...
