songs that made u burst in2 tears the 1st time u heard them

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(+ not necessarilly cool ones either)

for me - 'to the end' - blur 'trouble' - coldplay 'condition of the heart' - prince + the revolution 'race for the prize ' - flaming lips (at a listening post in hmv, the shame!) 'black or blue' - suede 'the greek song' - rufus wainwright

― piscesboy, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

prince, what are u posting here 4? don't u have an album 2 finish?

― fritz, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

theres a beautiful south song that made me cry once, about a poor little girl whos parents died and she froze to death or something. can't really remember, it must've made me cry once then i didn't care and thought it was crap i imagine. it all depends on yr mood i guess. pj harvey makes me cry if i'm sad already...

― fran, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Divine Comedy - "Sunrise"

― Tim DiGravina, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Two-Headed Boy" by Neutral Milk Hotel; The 2nd song on Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"...something so honest about a man who comes home from Vietnam and asks simple, naive questions about his friends and neighborhood.

I lucked out by both of these being 'cool'.

I'm more embarrassed about how when I went to a Gershwin symphonic performance that the almost cartoonish arrangements validated me so much that I had to hide the tears. Maybe that's not so cool.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one about the little orphan girl freezing to death sounds like 'Artificial Flowers' by Bobby Darin, a song that makes me laugh every time I hear it. (That up-tempo, big-band arrangement seems somehow inappropriate, given the subject matter.)

― clotion, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

neutral milk hotel are not cool. they're not even 'cool'.

― ethan, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cat power's cover of i found a reason

― sage, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the last verse of "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson. So this pretty much ruins my rep as an unsentimental robot with a heart of stone unbeating beneath his icy cold exterior.
Same is true for "This Womans Work" by Kate Bush. Especially after seeing the video.

― Lord Custos, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As much as I'm loathe to admit it, "Missing" by Everything But the Girl really put the hook in me from the first moment I heard it -- if only because it mirrored some personal circumstances at the time. :::::Sigh::::

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

None.

― Joe, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Dismemberment Plan song that I haven't identified yet (this happened during a concert).

― j.lu, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

slightly difft but related thread

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Band, "Lonesome Susie"
Penguin Cafe Orchestra, "Air a Danser"
Sam Cooke, "A Change is Gonna Come"
unknown, "Baby Mine" during the scene where Dumbo visits his mother
when I was a little kid, Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" would inexplicably make me burst into tears--it scared the living shit out of me--maybe the baby crying, or the harmonica that sounds like one? that song creeped me out for some reason. doesn't now, though

― M. Matos, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"these days" by nico. only for the last 2 lines ("please don't confront me...")

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re: nico - these days; there's like like eight songs from royal tenenbaums that made me cry too when i saw it but i don't think that counts!

― ethan, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe not CRY, but moving all the same... colors and the kids- cat power laugh - low at last I am free - robert wyatt a sailor's life - fairport convention into dust - mazzy star

― Ron Hudson, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The collective works of Rage Against the Machine, Sugar Ray, the Dave Matthews Band and many more make me cry. Indeed, they make me wail and weep vociferously.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2 years ago the day antidepressants happened to kick-in for the first time, I was arriving at home and turned the radio on. A girl was singing a cover version of _Drive_ by the Cars that was very touching. Je me suis étendu sur mon lit; I couldn't cry! I was smiling over the emotion. like, it was the opposite of the video that was happening; an intricate narrative in theory but for real it's freaky isn'it?. I remember at one point, eyes still dry, making a whisper imitation of Alex's yell in _clockwork orange_ when he gets reformed by force, to distanciate myself from all this with a bit of humour. I'm off this stuff now, it's too disagreeable. But thinking about this now brings back the emotion... ;) anyone knows about this song? It was heard in a britpop show.

― the Hegemon, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sam Cooke's voice

― A Nairn, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea almost did it. But 13 by Big Star, oh man, that one made me cry. Nickelback made me cry as well but with laughter.

― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got 'Electric Cafe' by Kraftwerk the other day, and I was a little worried because I'd heard from several sources that it was subpar and fairly uninteresting ("History has finally caught up to the futuristic German robots!" blah blah blah). As you probably already know, Kraftwerk are pretty much gods to me--probably my favorite group ever--so I was worried about having my opinion of them tarnished. Anyway, I was digging it quite well through the first couple of songs--not transcendental or anything, but good, solid, luxuriously produced electro workouts, unmistakably Kraftwerk. Then "The Telephone Call" started: slightly cheesy intro, a build-up of sorts, but then *WHAM*--a beautiful Kraftwerky progression, Ralf singing his plaintive silly lyrics over top, the unbelievably tender bittersweetness, not unlike "Computer Love" in that regard... that was enough. I felt a little tear well up, and it trickled down my face. Not weeping and wailing, just happily misty-eyed at those crazy motherfuckers. How do they do it, anyway?

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clarke B. - that's actually Karl Bartos singing lead on The Telephone Call.I cried when I first heard Somehow,Someday by Ryan Adams,not because it's painfully beautiful,but one day I had it playing in the background when suddenly a couple of lines hit home.The first time I heard Free As A Bird by the Beatles I got pretty choked up too,because as a young 'un I'd always dreamed that the Beatles would reform,even with Lennon long dead.

― Damian, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'I'm Under Your Spell' by Tara in the Buffy Musical! A-a-and: 'London in Reverse' by The Pinefox!

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Was a Friend" by Robert Wyatt, from the Shleep album. The words, incredibly moving as they are, didn't do it -- it's that last trumpet note, and the fact that he hits it at all. Man. I was approaching Union Station in Washington DC on foot, and just started sobbing.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just remembered another one, and weirdly enough, no words here either -- the duet between Charlie Haden and Scott LaFaro on Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz". At home alone this time.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Without You" by Nilsson. "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)" by Benny Hill. "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle of the Road.

At least two of the above still have this effect, 30 years later.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'this woman's work' !! can't believe that, me too. but not the first time, just every time since, - written for 'she's having a baby' starring kevin bacon, and used for the bit at the end where the baby/wife's lives both hang in the balance. instant blub factor 10.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now, you have to go find Rumour and Sigh and hear the (equally sappy?) "1952 Vincent Black Lightning".

"....and he gave her his Vincent to ride"
BWAAAAAAAAH!

― Lord Custos, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Everly Brothers' version of "I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail." I was writing about the Bros. at the time and had their boxed set in the car with me on a long drive. That one came on somewhere along I-40 without warning and, well, it's just so godamned SAD. Major welling in the fast lane.

― lee g, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some great choices from Colin. Charlie Haden soloing in any circumstances = v. moving; his solo on Song For Che off Liberation Music Orchestra would finish anyone off.

And to link the two, Wyatt's version of Song For Che off Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard. What does it for me here is Laurie Allan's free drumming, hammering away in arrythmic grief behind the deadpan saxes.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bubba Sparxx whole album made me cry. Only cos I bought it and then got dumped.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ceremony by new order and most of the smog back catalogue.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Telephone Call, same! It is sad because Kraftwerk mimic mild depression so well all the time, don't you think? And that goes to show mild depression is not something to run away screaming affirmations from - maybe? I have no idea whether that's true ... but also, New Jack City by Ice T. Sorry!

― maryann, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh and also Cher's version of "I go to sleep" by Ray Davies, and "Love Hurts" by the Everly Brothers, and by Nazareth. That song is really sad, and it doesn't wear off!

― maryann, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

for whoever was asking about the cover of "Drive" - it's by Melbourne band the Paradise Motel from the "Flight Paths" LP. A fantastic live band with really dull recorded work.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love sad songs and depressing music in general. But if you mean songs that LITERALLY wrung the tears out of me, I can only think of Grandaddy's "Under The Weeping Willow," and two Collective Soul songs "Goodnight Good Guy," and "Sister Don't Cry." I only cried once, but the Grandaddy song still almost stops my heart every time I hear it. The Collective Soul songs aren't that sad in and of themselves, but they so remind me of a certain time and place that it's nearly impossible to listen to them without tears of nostalgia and regret.

― Squirlplise, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a few grandaddy songs as well and some from the microphones..

― kevin enas, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Downtown Lights" by the Blue Nile, partly due to relief that they had come back and made a record that managed even to surpass what they'd done six years before, and also just because it's the best ever song about yearning to find some meaning in the midst of the city.

"Closer To You" by Momus, because it's the sexiest song I've ever heard, because the first line is so evocative and elusive ("And maybe you're the Circle Line girl...") and because of the way it snakes up and down to a blissfully subtle climax.

― Darren, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Yesterday, on the radio: "Wayfaring Stranger" sung by Charlie Haden. It finished me off. CH would be the first to admit that as a singer, he's a great bassist; but to hell with technique - if a voice this vulnerable, yet approachable, scared but resolute, can come straight out and PIERCE the listener (and that's exactly what a "punctum" is supposed to do), then that's my definition of a great singer. Even if he only ever sings the one song in his entire life.

(upon hearing it I went straight out and bought a copy of the album - it's one of his Quartet West ones, with orchestra).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"here come the warm jets"

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Something about Almeda Riddle's voice makes me cry.
Songs can be sampled here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066701/qid=1116843763/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/002-2161372-4353609

― Pat Moozy, Monday, 23 May 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ohh the shame! i'd forgotten this thread!

― piscesboy, Monday, 23 May 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" - U2. Please don't laugh.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(hahahaha I was going to make almost the exact same post Fritz made 3 years ago)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dusty Springfield. "No Easy Way Down." Tearjerker every time I hear it.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

GODDAMN BLAST FROM MY PAST!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Less than a week ago: James and Martha Carson's "I'll Fly Away."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

All great songs. But seriously: burst into tears?? The very first time you heard them?? Uh, that'd be nothing.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

R.A. The Rugged Man - Smithhaven Mall
Tori Amos - Winter

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice Cooper "Dead Babies"
Hey, I was young!

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Orbital - Belfast...E's are good, Ya!

― Hiz, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Well Well (Home Is Where The Heatbreak Is) - Mary's Danish
Nothing Compares 2 U - Prince's version, usually makesme tear up a bit when he tearsit up in concert
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

some great tales on here. more please!

was there ever a newer version of this thread or a thread with the same sort of question?
i'm suprised if not.

― piscesx, Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

there's also Has music ever REALLY made you cry?

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:33 (sixteen years ago)

how appropriate...I came here to post "none of 'em", and my old thread gets linked!...still the heartless bastard, am I...

― henry s, Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:49 (sixteen years ago)

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