Keef Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Didn't want the music room to get too depressing, so thought I'd start this in a new thread. Don't have to literally make you cry, but songs you find really moving.Already mentioned Nine Inch Nails - HurtOthers include Counting Crows - Colorblind (Have no sound at work so I hope this is the right song with this weird vid).Julie Cruise - Questions in a world of blue This is a scene from Twin Peaks "Fire Walk With Me. Please excuse the rednecks trying to score with Laura Palmer during the sax solo... Bloody inconsiderate! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 It's kind of happy and sad all at once really, but certainly does something in a lumpy throat sort of way.Flaming Lips - Do You Realize Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annasfield Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 YNWA :)-D Not only as it's a particular anthem, but I love the words. Sends a shiver down my spine when the Kop are in full voice.(Sorry......) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 This one has been known to make me come over all dorothy. The Pogues ? Waltzing Matilda But only when I get home late at night from the pub after having drunk lots and lots like a Real Man mind. Hope that link works I?m in the office so can?t test it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 Oh Anna, bless your cottons! :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Found it difficult to find this... not because I'm cr*p at looking things up (though I am), but because I couldn't see the keyboard for the tears...PJ Harvey "You Said Something" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Good thread and good choicesDo You Realize? has aaaaalmost become overplayed for me but that last guitar riff in the quieter second half still works - oh hang on I'm off again!Someone is BOUND to mention Hallelujah by Buckley but I prefer John Cale's take meselfThe Streets - Empty Cans. After the rewind and the single piano note pings in, that's me in trouble. By the time he finds his bleedin thousand quid I'm in buckets Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 SeanMacGabhann Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Someone is BOUND to mention Hallelujah by Buckley> but I prefer John Cale's take meselfWeirdo!!!!That said, I found a live recording of Jeff Buckley doing it, and found it painful. He had a good voice, but not so sure he was good live... He could play the guitar though! I think it sums it up for me that the only tune I actually listen to on "Grace" is in fact Hallelujah, and that's a cover... Just don't much like the Cale version, it's too happy somehow. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 weelllll it's a little bit faster but I would never call anything Cale does "happy" even adding an "er"None of us going for the original Cohen then ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 I know what you mean about the Streets Sean. That song is the culmination of the entire album. Clever album actually. Not that it makes me cry though. I only cry at songs about men being shot to bits in wars. Like a Real ManTM . GRRR! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 "Margarita" by Harvey Andrews but I'm rubbish at doing a link so if anyone could oblige I will weep buckets. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 This is the closest I could find, but I think it's some dodgy looking bloke doing a cover. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 thanks - I'll have to wait until I get home - such links are blocked at work. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 I wasn't a fan of the Bruce Springsteen classic Thunder Road, then I heard the Tortoise and Will Oldham cover, and I finally got it.Maybe it misses the point of Bruce Springsteen's blue collar rock, but this version is absolutely sublimehttp://lablogo.free.fr/sidiali/ThunderRoad.mp3This may sound a bit odd, but this can do it to me quite badly, particularly if I stumble home steaming in a weird mood and whack it on loudly (not popular with the neighbours).Sadly I couldn't find the studio version, and this doesn't quite do it, but anyway Animal Collective - Banshee Beat Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrymarshall Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Brendan Wrote:------------------------------------------------------- I only cry at> songs about men being shot to bits in wars. Like a> Real ManTM . GRRR!this song, covered by Billy Bragg but written by someone else (I believe) is one such song:"Everywhere" (lyrics)http://www.lyricstime.com/billy-bragg-everywhere-lyrics.html Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dale Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Mike and the Mechanics -Living yearsStreets - agree with you Sean but also the one about not going to church and having a dead dad from the crap album. Theme developing here.Rolf Harris - two little boys. No mention of dead dads in that.My Dad's fine by the way, as far as I know that is, he's currently en route to Galapagos so he's not completely out of the woods... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoipolloi Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Wires by Athelete. It was on the radio all the time when the nippers had just been born and were in the neonatal intensive care unit. They are now nearly three and fit as a butcher's dog but as soon as I hear that song I'm in floods. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dale Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Good one. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 These don't really bring a tear to the eye but they have a certain fragility about them that under certain circumstances may cause the ducts to openThe Beatlesthis one as wellTim Hardin Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Hoipolloi, great choice - I had a friend in a very similar situation when his little girl was born. Wires - Athlete Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domitianus Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda (should appeal to the men being shot to s**t brigade), Thousands Are Sailing and Lullaby of London - all by the Pogues. Perfect Day by Lou Reed. Spancil Hill (Irish traditional). Orangefield by Van the Man, also his In the Garden, When Will I Learn to Live in God and The Mystery. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Mario Lanza singing Schubert's Ave Maria sends shivers down my spine each time I hear it. [and I'm a good Protestant girl!] Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightyroar Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Totally agree about Wires.It's when he says you got wires... coming out of your skin... makes me well up straight away.And Hurt I agree with- but when Johnny Cash sings it Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddygecko Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Piers ~ Do You Realise.... Yes definitely a tissue moment but also "Everybody hurts" REMGiddy Gecko Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddygecko Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Oooooooh no the ultimate tear jerker for me right now is "Other side of the World" by KT Tunstall, I go all goosepinply first, then bite my bottom lip to shreds before cascading into floods of tears... Great thread GG Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1731-songs-that-bring-a-tear/#findComment-48317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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