Songs that bring a tear...

[Keef]

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 - Hurt

Others 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!

[mockney piers]

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

[Annasfield]

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......)

[Brendan]

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.

[Keef]

Oh Anna, bless your cottons! :))

[citizenED]

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"

[SeanMacGabhann]

Good thread and good choices

Do 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 meself

The 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

[Keef]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Someone is BOUND to mention Hallelujah by Buckley

> but I prefer John Cale's take meself

Weirdo!!!!

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.

[SeanMacGabhann]

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 ;-)

[Brendan]

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!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

"Margarita" by Harvey Andrews but I'm rubbish at doing a link so if anyone could oblige I will weep buckets.

[Keef]

This is the closest I could find, but I think it's some dodgy looking bloke doing a cover.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

thanks - I'll have to wait until I get home - such links are blocked at work.

[mockney piers]

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 sublime

http://lablogo.free.fr/sidiali/ThunderRoad.mp3

This 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

[barrymarshall]

Brendan Wrote:

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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

[Alan Dale]

Mike and the Mechanics -Living years

Streets - 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...

[hoipolloi]

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.

[Alan Dale]

Good one.

[ben]

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 open

The Beatles

this one as well

Tim Hardin

[citizenED]

Hoipolloi, great choice - I had a friend in a very similar situation when his little girl was born.

Wires - Athlete

[Domitianus]

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.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Mario Lanza singing Schubert's Ave Maria sends shivers down my spine each time I hear it. [and I'm a good Protestant girl!]

[mightyroar]

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

[giddygecko]

Piers ~ Do You Realise.... Yes definitely a tissue moment but also "Everybody hurts" REM

Giddy Gecko

[giddygecko]

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