Songs that make you cry

[Jools4001]

Music is all about emotion as far as I'm concerned, so if a piece of music has the power to move people to tears of sadness or joy then the songwriter has done a great job. Loads of music makes me cry but mostly because it reminds me of people or events in my own life. The list is too long but selected highlights are:

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset - I had an inseperable childhood friend and we both reckoned it was the perfect pop song. He died about 10 years back and this song gets me everytime.

Peter Gabriel - In your eyes - It just speaks volumes to me

Meditation from Thais by Massenet - My son used to play this on violin and I used to come home from work to hear this drifting from the house when he was practising it, it just makes me realise how proud I am of him

Paul Simon - Father and Daughter - Pure sentiment, but if you've got a daughter you'll understand

Bach - Sheep may safely graze - It was the music I walked my daughter up the aisle to at her wedding, and by pure coincidence the music that the organist was playing as I walked behind my fathers coffin at his funeral just 4 months after that wedding. The juxtaposition of the same piece of music capturing tears of joy and of deep sorrow, and knowing that at least my dad got to see his only grand daughter get married is just too much

 

[Grayson C.]

10,000 Days (Wings for Marie pt 2) by Tool.

I've NEVER heard anything so emotional and moving.

 

[Fassa Albrecht]

Kouyate- Level 42. It's such an amazing song and I heard it at a time when a lot of bad things were happening and it somehow made me happy and sad at the same time.

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. Anyone who doesn't get moved by this has no heart.

 

[Pedulla?]

Like a Star- Corrine Bailey Rae

Soil, Soil- Tegan and Sara

Fighting for Nothing- Meg and Dia

Prelude to a Kiss- Alicia Keys

 

[David Jayne]

Oh great, just woke up and I'm already crying.
Tears in Heaven - Eric Claptop
My father had alzheimers really bad, didn't know anybody, couldn't talk to us.
He had an accident in the care unit that he was staying in. Got caught up in the divider curtain and hung by his neck. We had tears in heaven played at his funeral by a solo guitarist.

Dude. So sorry. We lost my stepdad to Alzheimers, I understand.

 

[mlwarriner]

Hero of War by Rise Against

Just too close to home for me. How's the phrase go? "Been there, done that"...

 

[Big John66]

The Dance- Garth Brooks
Little Wing- Hendrix
I Am A Lighthouse- Nickle Creek
That's it for now.

 

[David Jayne]

'Christmas Time is Here,' Vince Guaraldi Trio. Such a beautiful song, makes me well up, and I'm man enough to admit it.

 

[b4nny]

Boards of Canada - Sunshine Recorder
Four Tet - And Then Patterns
Soundgarden - 4th of July
Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun
and stuff

 

[KBarker]

Anything by Billy Ray Cyrus....is "revulsion" an emotion?

 

[Robus]

This one. I'm a sentimental sap.

 

[Scooberto]

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton and Go Rest High On The Mountain by Vince Gill. I had heard Vince Gill wrote it for his brother. It's just amazing and the soulful guitar solo is perfect. Floods by Pantera. Not the words, but the music. When it kicks into the solo I just love it and the walking bass line under it couldn't be better.

Alright, that's enough of that for me! Lol

 

[I Need a six...]

The thin ice by Floyd
I saw waters in Detroit, and I cried during this song, the guys next to me said "this song is lame" and i was not having it.

 

[Scooberto]

'Stealing Cinderella' - Chuck Wicks

if you have a young daughter, you will cry...

Holy crap! I just listened to this and cried like a little girl with a skinned knee. What's funny is that this post was made the night before my daughter was born.

 

[1stnamebassist]

This one. I'm a sentimental sap.

Thats a great song! Forgot about that one! How about Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.
Shelter from the storm by Dylan.
Highwayman by the Highwaymen(Willy, Waylon,Kris and Johnny).

 

[DreadyDiggs]

The first time I watched this performance it touched me very deeply. It still does, but of course nothing like that first time. The bass is just right, very melancholy. The emotion in it moved me so much the first time I believe I did shed a tear, a first.

There are many versions of this song by him and others, but this performance...

 

[cheapbasslovin]

I Bombed Korea by Cake
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter by Pearl Jam
Me and a Gun by Tori Amos (there's a lot by Tori Amos that kicks up dust)

These are but a few of many. I Bombed Korea is really tough for me. Nothing about it sounds that sad, but the matter of fact telling of such horrible things rips me up.

 

[Carl Hillman]

There are a lot of wussies here....
Just kiding.
Add "A remark you made" by weather report

"Havona" used to not get to me...until I saw this video.

 

[jerry]

I Keep Forgettin' by Michael McDonald - If you are going through a painful break-up, this is a song that you REALLY want to stay away from.

That whole album has a ton of breakup weepers. One that always gets me is Purple Rain, I've heard it so many times but it still just slays me.

 

[Alkali Ike]

If we're talking about performances that make us cry (laugh), this makes me slightly tear up with joy. It's a working-in-the-shadows bassist's secret dream to get to do something like this, even if it's not a bass performance per se. Every musician involved is clearly very sincere in their performance. Sometimes I can't stop playing it. I may have a problem. Lol.