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Five songs that always make you cry

post #1 of 13
1/8/13 at 9:55am
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No matter how hard l try to resist, these never fail to get to me;

Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg

Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor ("All the flowers that you planted Mama..." waaah!)

Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

Goodbye to Love by The Carpenters (all the more heartbreaking because l still remember how upset my dad was when the great Karen Carpenter died)

Read All About lt by Emeli Sande (mainly because of her powerful performance at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony)

A special mention for (don't laugh!) Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul & Mary. lt just kills me when Puff is abandoned by that little sh*t Jacky Paper. l can't even bear to think about it!

What are yours?
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post #2 of 13
1/8/13 at 3:37pm
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post #3 of 13
1/8/13 at 3:55pm
These songs always seem to stir my emotions:

The Last Song - Elton John
The Baby - Blake Shelton
Christmas Shoes - New Song
My Funny Valentine - Richard Rodgers
Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim
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post #4 of 13
1/8/13 at 5:23pm
Lick My Love Pump - Nigel Tufnel


Seriously, though:

Memories Can't Wait - Talking Heads
If There Is Something - Roxy Music
Love Song - The Cure (inextricably linked with a late, lamented kitty)
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post #5 of 13
1/8/13 at 5:26pm
From a geezer who doesn't even have an iPod:

Prelude to the opera La Traviata. I saw the Zefferelli movie when it came out in 1983. I cried for 20 or 30 minutes after leaving the theater. So, when I hear the prelude, the emotion of the whole opera sweeps me away.

Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah. People still stand up when this comes on, which may have started for a trivial reason (at the first performance, the King's leg fell asleep, so he stood up to ease it, and everyone else had to stand up, or some similar story), but the fact that it has become a tradition, the joyous lyrics and music, and the rush of standing up create a great combination. (Works best at a live performance)

Contrapunctus XIV from Art of Fugue by J.S. Bach. Just after the fugue theme based on the name BACH is introduced, the music runs out. A note on the manuscript by Bach's son says that the composer died at this point. Now there is some dispute about this, but whatever the case, Bach died too early (only 65!) so this always hits me.

Kamakani Ka'ili Aloha--this song is about communications between inter-island lovers in the old days, putting a lei inside a gourd and throwing it into the sea in the hope that it will be delivered eventually.

Teen Angel. I was a teen when this came out, and teens are sometimes very morbid.
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post #6 of 13
1/8/13 at 6:03pm
Nothing these days, too old now. Only the murder scene in Braveheart can achieve such thing lol.
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post #7 of 13
1/8/13 at 9:02pm
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Van Morrison - Beside You
Sade - By Your Side
Gary Moore - Johnny Boy
Blue (feat E. John) - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
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post #8 of 13
1/9/13 at 4:54pm
I agree with Teardrop on "Nothing Compares to You." That song always makes me cry ever since I heard it on the radio in the college cafeteria while heartbroken over a weird relationship and crying over my ice cream. Seriously. Sinead O'Connor does a sad song like nobody else. I was sad to hear that she canceled a recent tour due to a bout of depression. I would love to see her live.

Runners up:

Neil Young- Helpless
Paul Simon- Slip Slidin Away
Enigma- Return to Innocence
Eric Clapton- River of Tears
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post #9 of 13
1/19/13 at 9:35pm
Being from Alabama I feel the need to go stereotypically country with a couple...

Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carroll
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=nLh5v...%3DnLh5vbBLpxI

Letters From Home by John Michael Montgomery
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=r...&v=4lN7ox5XPZY
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post #10 of 13
1/19/13 at 9:41pm
One in particular.

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
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post #11 of 13
1/19/13 at 10:35pm
•All the Things You Are
•Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Honestly, I have to pull over if its on the radio.
•Love is a Losing Game, Amy Winehouse. Post Back to Black, simple and heartbreaking
•Puccini, Tosca, " E lucevan le stelle", the clarinet opening in particular. I played in an opera orchestra, and this got to me every time, as did
•The end of La Traviata. This is a very sad story: On my way to a student matinee of traviata, I stopped in the Cleveland Clinic to say goodbye to my 7-year old niece, who was at the end of her battle with childhood cancer. I knew I would never see her again. This was back befroe cell phones, but we had a pay phone backstage. At intermission, I called, and another sister, not Katy's mother, answered in sobs. I went back to play a third act that was all too real to me.
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post #12 of 13
2/4/13 at 4:15pm
Hero by Enrique Iglesias because I want to be my family's hero, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, both Wherever You Will Go by The Calling and I'll Be There by The Escape Club because my mom died at an early age and they really remind me of her, and the theme song to the movie Somewhere in Time because both the music and the movie are beautiful.

Yes, I am a bit of a hopeless romantic and cry when I watch chick flicks and listen to good music. My wife loves me anyway and doesn't think any less of me as a man!!!!
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post #13 of 13
3/18/13 at 11:12am
I dont cry to music.
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