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Songs that make you cry (like, actually shed tears)

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by Rose-Kitten

"La Ritournelle", Sebastien Tellier... It would have to be in my top five tracks ever... If not at number one...

What songs make you cry?

Rose-Kitten | 30 Jun '07, 23:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

This is slightly shameful...

Fields of Gold by Sting. Oh dear.


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Do you mean why is it shameful or why does the song make me cry?

I genuinely love the song so I'm not really ashamed that it makes me cry.

And the lyrics are sad and poetic.


Sorry...

I hope my reply didn't sound blunt! I'm just struggling to express myself properly - I'm tired and I should go to bed.


never apologies on an internet forum.

I just wanted an explanation. That is all.


I once cried

to that! Just a really tiny bit.


Intervention by Arcade Fire.

1000 Seconds by Secret Machines.


Why does 1000 Seconds make you cry?

I've heard that song loads of times, where exactly is the heartache/heartbreak?


I don't know.

But it has done. Twice. I just love the atmosphere.


1000 seconds is a cracking tune...

However it's nowhere near as sad as 'Let me in' by REM.

*sniffle*


agreed

:'(


Fake Plastic Trees & Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead

Perfect Day & The Kids - Lou Reed

But loads depending on what mood/level of sobriety I'm at.


Lover you should have come over

Jeff Buckley, Two headed boy pt. 2-NMH,
I love Creedence-Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, 5 Verses-Jeremy Warmsley, & Falling slowly-The Frames all come to mind.


Add 'Two Headed Boy pt. 2'

to my list.


yeah, Jeff moves me too...

how could I forget Jeff (curses self)?


Heroes

literally made me cry when I was kicking dope... but then again so did tampon television commercial. (I mean, the poor woman couldn't control her flow... it was terrible!)


Mew - Comforting Sounds

Has this ability


The only one that comes to mind

is Star Alfur by Sigur Ros


Put a Penny in the slot- Fionn Regan

5 verses- jeremy warmsley
sufjan stevens-casimir pulaski day

I am such a lame ass emo.


i had this song playing at my wedding

when my wife came up the aisle. so yeah it sometimes makes me a bit weepy!


Gheyest thread ever?

Everyone needs to man up!


Man up?

And you were calling the thread ghey?


"Hurt" by Johnny Cash

"Sawdust & Diamonds" by Joan Newsome
"Hives Hives" by Xiu Xiu
"Aurora" by Bjork


I second Hurt.

Also:
'River' and 'The Last Time I Saw Richard' by Joni Mitchell.


pretty much the whole of jon brion's eternal sunshine soundtrack

i cried when i saw Mogwai played Tracy.
This Gentle Heart's Like Shot Birds Fallen by A Silver Mt. Zion makes me cry nearly every time i hear it :(


:'(


Arab strap - new birds

lots of mogwai
imogen heap - hide & seek


helicon by mogwai is a sad sad song

but in terms of weepy post rock
Your Hand In Mine by EITS is haunting.


Radiohead - No Suprises

brings up some pretty bad memories, that & its a beautiful song


ah YES!

so good.
i first saw it on the outro to a skate video. it was such a good 'outro' song. it was all arty, in black and white. and the video was a landmark of british skateboarding.
momentus indeed.


Camera Obscura - The False Contender

"I hope and I pray that he'll leave me some day"
Brings up too many bad memories of trying to escape an abusive relationship. Compounded by who it's written by.


Every time i hear it....

Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens

:-(


ah yes, add that to my list

brilliant.


Take Me Back by Babybird.

But I don't really cry. I'm a man and men don't cry.


Tunnels

by Arcade Fire.


^ this

i think. but i need way more crying music, i love crying and barely ever get the chance to. wont somebody please make me cry!!!


Alone Jealous And Stoned by Secret Machines used to do it

As did Hurt by Cash.

I don't know now, but the recluse by cursive is slightly tearjerking.


cry ?!

because of a song?!

i don't do shit like that! i'm a MAN goddammit!!!

jeff buckley. pretty much the whole of the grace album. good album for when you get dumped.

i can still be manly...

right?


Phillip Glass - Pruit Igoe

Probably just because of its epicness. It's amazing.


Aeroplane Over the Sea-NMH

Do You Realise?-Flaming Lips
Mr. Tambourine Man-Dylan

meh, i was never manly anyway.


oh and bowl of oranges

by bright eyes.
The "everytime you're crying I'll try and make you laugh".
I fucking <3 conor oberst.


..

tv on the radio - dreams
flaming lips - do you realise?
scott walker - best of both worlds


lately it's been

Okkervil River - For Real and Elliott Smith - Twilight


In The Back Seat - Arcade Fire

When the she all but screams near the end...get goose bumps everytime.


I have literally shed tears to the following

"Avant La Haine" by Romain Duris and Joana Preis
"What's Happenin' Brother" by Marvin Gaye
"Motion Pucture Soundtrack" by Radiohead
"Svo Hljótt" by Sigur Rós


Also

"Waltz #1" by Elliott Smith


...

Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky


I have never cried over a song

becaus im oh so manly


^ neither have I

but I don't want tobe manly, I'm a girl :(


My Baby - Janid Joplin

Brought a tear to my eye, when chorus kicks in, and another cover of Little Girl blue live on Pearl cd, again, just beautiful


Mine would have to be

Either 'I Know It's Over' by The Smiths, or 'On The Bus Mall' by The Decemberists


oh and...

Sodom South Georgia by Iron and Wine.
Beautiful lyrics...achingly good.


well..

Untitled 4 by Sigur Ros off of ()

Switching Off by Elbow, but only when its perfomed live


None!

I don't cry, I sneeze.

No songs make me sneeze though.

Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is pretty sad though, right?


Untitled 1

^^


I understand..

how Fields of Gold could make you cry, but I find the Eva Cassidy version more moving.
Oh, and I cried watching Katie Melua sing Songbird with Eva Cassidy on that BBC programme where artists sang with their heroes.
Or something.. =]


patches- clarence carter

New disaster- elliott smith
italy- fuck


......oh and

hero by mairia carie


boys don't cry

so nothing for me !


I find lots of music moving

but No surprises by Radiohead brings me closest to tears.


I don't think

I've ever cried to music, but on a rainy night on a bus, listening to Great Expectations by Elbow, I came pretty close.

See also Wish You Were Here and Wishful Thinking by Wilco.


same here

last night, pissing down with rain, empty bus, The Cinematic Orchestra, To Build A Home


This morning i almost cried

when listening to One More Cup Of Coffee followed by Oh, Sister. I was walking to work though, which is an immensely sad time of the day


Ave Maria

played at my nan's funeral. That's all, I think.


completely agree

La Ritournelle is a really beautiful piece of music. Shame the radio edit robbed it of some of the best bits.


Hearing it live was one of my lifetime 'moments'.

Fucking incredible... standing 2m away from him and his piano weaving those notes so beautifully....

(sighs thinking about it)


editors

everytime i hear one of their songs i weep with boredom.

and how my tears do tumble.


as for others

Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
Last Days of April - At Your Most Beautiful
onelinedrawing - Yr Letter
Kristofer Astrom - How Come Your Arms Are Not Around Me?
Goldie - Sea of Tears
Eels - 3 Speed
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life

not all have actually brought tears but they've probably got pretty close over the years.


...

this mortal coil - you and your sister


Here Comes A Regular

the most devastaingly sad song I've ever heard


.

breathless- nick cave

morphine - souvenir

alice in chains- would? (with this one im not sure if its the song or teenage memories)


Cat Power

Naked If I Want and Wild Is The Wind


also

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Emily by Joanna Newsom, Piazza New York Catcher by Belle & Sebastian


oh

and after watching boys on the side i take a little gulp when i hear roy orbison's 'you got it'


tell u me you have dry eyes

after this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4WRf5f2JVM

god i love when 90s sentimental films actually hit a nerve..

sniff'


oh you

heartless bastards!


only ever really live

but Mogwai Fear Satan always gets me. Always. Not actual tears, I suppose but it makes me all [WELLING UP] [SHAKES HANDS]

I did cry at it at Leeds Festival a few years back when they presceded it with Sine Wave but that was more an accumulation of drink, poppers and extreme tiredness.


Okay

Folding Stars by you-know-which-currently-controversial-band is very sad. Sad songs are either about;

a) failed relationships or
b) death

An example of each;

Hardly Getting Over It by Husker Du is a relationship drink-drive carcrash scene of a song.

I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab is eye-wateringly, voice-tremblingly sad, especially with the animated film.


Hardly Getting Over It

reminds me of an ex really losing it after her grampa staggered into her room having a heart attack and she froze in shock and he died and some of the family blamed her for not getting help sooner. I was listening to Candy Apple Grey a lot at the time and that song always associates me with that


Cripes that

is sad. Fuck. Especially the consequence. Like bearing in mind the song's lyrics. Grandma She Got Sick and stuff. Fuck.


.

tortoise & bonnie prince billy - daniel
arvo pärt - speigel im speigel


Tiny Tears - Tindersticks

For a while it was Tonight Will Be Fine by Leonard Cohen. And on one memorable occasion My Favourite Dress by The Wedding Present. That bit at the end.

No wait I TAKE IT ALL BACK IT NEVER HAPPENED.


i'm pretty pathetic

you only live once- the strokes
jeff buckley - most songs, 'calling you'
laura marling oddly enough, i don't know why.


-

Georgia by Elliott Smith, White Daisy Passing by Rocky Votolato.


i have been known to feel all thoughtful

about

BPB - I see a darkness

the moldy peaches - nothing came out

REM - leave (the alternate version from life less ordinary)

Otis redding - a change is gonna come

Tom waits - a little rain