Songs that bring a tear...

[Jah Lush]

I remember when Barry McGuigan won the world title against Eusebio Pedroza, the build up, his father singing Danny Boy in the ring before the fight, the fight itself, what a night. It's a beautiful song and I well up whenever I hear it.

[Jah Lush]

A beautiful song and a real tearjerker.

BLUE SIDE OF LONESOME

(Leon Payne)

Jim Reeves - 1962

I'm calling to tell you it's over

Yes, darling you're now free to go

You're saying you're sorry you hurt me

But you've hurt me much more than you know

You're asking' me where this call comes from

Oh, I hope that you won't end up here

If you're new romance turns out a failure

Here's where to find me my dear

I'm just on the blue side of lonesome

Right next to the Heartbreak Hotel

In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops

On a bar stool, not doing' so well

The floor has a carpet of sorrow

But no one can weep in the aisle

And they say someone broke the bar mirror

With only the ghost of a smile

The hands on the clock never alter

For things never change in this place

There's no present, no past, no future

We're the ones who have lost in love's race

I'm just on the blue side of lonesome

Right next to the Heartbreak Hotel

In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops

On a bar stool, not doing' so well.

[ratty]

Anyone with a dead dad cannot avoid bawling at In the Living Years..... sadly my dad is dead and this song reduces me to a wailing wreck.

[Jah Lush]

Ratty my Dad passed away this time last year. I'm an orphan now...blub blub .Who is the In The Living Years By then?

Just looked it up, Mike and his boring Mechanics. Ugh! Everyone to there own I suppose.

Try listening to the Ronnie Lane song Debris on Nods As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse album by The Faces if you want to hear a really good father/son type of song.

[Keef]

Never been a big U2 fan, but "Sometimes you can't make it on your own" which Bono wrote for his dad, is a very moving song with a very heartfely vocal.

I used to know someone who would always cry to With or without you, but she was a tw@t.

[ratty]

Damn sorry to hear that Jah Lush. In the Living Years is for me a real tear jerker, especially as the lyrics speak of having your first kiddy and them reminding you of ya dad! It happened to me 4 weeks ago as my first one popped out looking just like the old man! :*( - Lump in throat as typing this....

[Jah Lush]

Congratulations Ratty on your first born. Life goes on.

[david_carnell]

For me Will Oldham has that sort of haunting voice that makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck.

The late, great Johnny Cash did a cover which is perhaps instilled with more gravitas, but if we have to admit crying to a song, then I'll go for the original. I suspect many of these choices hold personal meaning, however, and don't often resonate with many others.

Bonny Prince Bill (aka WIll Oldham) - I See A Darkness

[SeanMacGabhann]

great song David - and I love both versions. Oldham's voice in the background of the Cash version I find particularly poignant

[Keef]

Speaking of Johnny Cash, I listened a few times to his version of Hurt this weekend. It is good, but not a patch on the Live piano only version that Nine Inch Nails did at Reading.

[Jah Lush]

Did you see the accompanying video that Johnny Cash did for Hurt? First time I saw it I was literally weeping with tears.

[Keef]

It was because of that video that his version was so well known, it won all sorts of prizes. It really was a goodbye.

Here it is.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm with Keef on this one - I know Reznor has said Cash made it his own but for me NIN shade it

I forgot completely how this song makes me both goosepimply and tearful

It sounds like the end... of something

Hetahen (The Rays) - Bowie

[Incitatus]

Which reminds me

[Jah Lush]

What! That makes you shed a tear? Or does it make you cower with fear? Poor Johnny.

[Incitatus]

No tears, i was just joining the Bowie NIN musical dots.

[Keef]

This is probably one of the newer songs on this thread, but My Immortal by Evanescence is quite moving I think. I love Amy Lee's voice (and fancy the pants off her for the record).

[PeckhamRose]

A Soldier's Poem. Muse.

Sniff...

[SeanMacGabhann]

Think you're right Jah - I'm afraid of Americans is one for music room

But seeing it live I thought it was going to smite the building in 2 such was the ferocity

[blinder999]

The genius that was Elliott Smith:

Angeles

[mockney piers]

Was? He deed? Sh!t, didn't realise.

[blinder999]

Look it up - it's grim.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Seriously didn't know MP??

Flaming Lips made a big deal at a few gigs I went to - much missed and a great choice by blinder

[blinder999]

Saw him play live twice - solo at ULU was my best ever gig by some considerable distance. He never showed for the RFH gig I had tickets for, and was gone a few months later, very sad.

[mockney piers]

Oh no, it's Adrienne Shelley all over again. *wipes dust from eye*