Magpie0001

Ok, I know its a tad wimpy, But Im curious so bear with me.
Theres a couple of songs that I find so powerfull that I have actually shed tears on occasion. Im not an over emotional person by any means but something in these songs hits me hard.

The only ones I can think of right now are:

Bjork - Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet version)
The muppets - Halfway down the stairs

Got any?

h2ogo69

john frusciante - going inside
red hot chili peppers - gong li
red hto chili peppers - tearjerker

fuelmyfire

I have too many to list, however i will list a song that i can't even LISTEN to because, not only will i cry, but also emotionally self-destruct

Lisa Gerrard- Sanvean

bullgoose

CSN&Y- "Ohio"; I remember that all too vividly.

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Kadath

Nat King Cole's "O Holy Night."
So beautiful it brings me to tears every time.

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Glory's Sun

anything by Avril Lavigne.. her music makes me cry with fear.. fear that her music may actually stay around.

Spungfoo

Pretty much anything off Antimatter's "Saviour". I swear, whenever I put on that album the sky darkens and it starts to rain outside...

MahlerIsGod

Radiohead - True Love Waits
Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind
God Said No - Dan Bern
Jane Siberry - The Vigil
Garbage - Cup Of Coffee
V.A.S.T. - Flames

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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies

The Call of Ktulu - Metallica

The Little Girl(?) - John Michael Montgomery

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Blinded By Rainbows (WTC remix) - The Rolling Stones

Wildfire - America

and probably more

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alterEGO

Pink Floyd - wish you where here , high hopes
Alice in Chains - am i inside , frogs
Nirvana - sappy , something in the way
Iron Maiden - blood brothers

fuelmyfire

yeah, i'll agree to that.

Derwood

Most songs by Ralph Covert. He's a local songwriter in Chicago who now makes pretty great music for kids. But his acoustic stuff is so sad. www.ralphcovert.com

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MahlerIsGod

Here's the weird thing........I was getting on the forum specifically to thank you Most profoundly and profusely for the Lisa Gerrard song "Sanvean." My God........Its music you want to curl up with your favorite razorblade but I can't stop playing it. Its beauty is hypnotizing. Thanks again.

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Leander

The Swans' version of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
Half of Beth Orton's entire catalogue

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fuelmyfire

MahlerIsGod, you're welcome =)

CRASH

Anything by The Jackson Five, or The Osmonds, or The Partridge Family

Double D

Since Dec, 1980, Imagine by John Lennon.

Conclamo Ludus

Lou Reed - Heroin

R.L. Burnside - R.L.'s Story

Miles Davis - the entire Sketches of Spain album

Louis Armstrong - Black and Blue

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

David Bowie - Rock & Roll Suicide

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Mr.Deflok

Fear Factory's 'Ressurection' and 'A Therapy for Pain'

Type-O Negative's Paranoid

BulletBob

Pearl Jam - Footsteps
NOFX - Whoops, I OD'd
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Leadbelly Cover)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android

And the spoken word intro to Deep Kick by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is just fucking beautiful.

bullgoose

Agreed; I tear up every time I hear it.

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riptide4070

jewel- "abscence of fear" This is one of my favorite songs of all time. unwritten law-"seeing red" is my other favorite but it doesn't make me cry.

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qpid

The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"

soo beautiful and so sad

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Necrophilia - The irresistible urge to crack open a cold one

WhoaitsZ

i'm way too touchy feely for a dude. i like these kind of threads. off the top of my head:

Dancing in the Moonlight - Smashing Pumpkins cover Thin Lizzy. it is so gorgeous and it hurts cuz i think of the age of 14-15 again

Beck's last lp. jesus h. its good but my god, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LISTEN TO THIS CD IF YOU HAVE ANY HARMFUL ANYTHINGS. 'baby, i'm a lost cause', 'its nothing i haven't seen before but it still kills me like it did before' and so on

Mazzy Star makes me think of the same thing that DitM does

there's a lot of music but my mind is blank. enjoy

OHHHhhhhhh what teenager during the 70s (okay i wasn't alive yet but i still loved it) didn't get depressed by Nazereth's Love Hurts??? we all laugh about it, but the back oh my mind i think 'oh shit that song IS sad'

vermin

Greensleeves played by Jeff Beck

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Conclamo Ludus

I haven't heard it, but Coltrane's version gets me!

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I wouldn't mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold.
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nefarious

i've not really cried .. but these are a few songs that could make me if i let myself:

Dont Speak - No Doubt
Promise - Horie Yui
Moonchild - Cibbo Matto
Eyes on me - Faye Wong
Parade - Garbage

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Maxarian

Sarah McLachlan's "Possession" is just freakin haunting. I just love the part where she says "I'll take your breath away."

"My Immortal" by Evanescence is very moving and emotional.
Amy Lee's voice is beautiful.

"Hush Hush Hush" by Paula Cole is one that almost sounds as if she is crying the song, rather than singing it. Simply awesome.

itchy92

Oh, man; I live for this stuff.

Let's see, just going through my "depresso" playlist, I see:

A Day at the Fair - Most of their songs
Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day, Forever
Bush - Inflatable
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Dashboard Confessional - Most of his songs (I know, it's sold out pop-emo, but he still delivers it pretty sincerely)
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Mae - Giving it Away
Name Taken - Feeling Sorry
Plain White T's - A Lonely September, Radios in Heaven
Slow Coming Day - Most of their Songs
Something Corporate - Ben Franklin's Kite (again, sold out pop-emo, but still sad)
Stereophonics - Is Yesterday Tomorrow, Today?
The Ataris - Between You and Me
The Cranberries - I Still Do (a very haunting song to me)
The Damnwells - For My Own Good, Sleepsinging
The Get Up Kids - Long Goodnight, New Found Mass (2000)
The Juliana Theory - Don't Push Love Away, Into the Dark, Is Patience Still Waiting?, This Is Your Life
The New Amsterdams - Idaho, Lonely Hearts (this is probably my favorite sad song)

I've also found a few good songs going through this thread, too, so thanks to all who replied.

Itchy92

madsenj37

These songs make me want to cry.

Ben Harper - Alone, Please Bleed, Ill Rise
VAST - Touched
Led Zeppelin - (name anything)
Berlin - Take my breath away
Ks Choice - Not an addict
Bush - letting the cables sleep
Aimmee Man - One (cover)
Apollo Four Forty - Feel you(cover)
Dirty Vegas - Days go by (acoustic)
Guns 'N Roses - November rain
Pennywise - Bro hymn Tribute
Skynard - Free bird, simple man, tuesdays gone

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KWSN

There's already a "Most Depressing Song" thread... I don't know how different this is but I think the other one has it covered... I dunno though...

For me, it's

Thom Parrott - Pinkville Helicopter

Thom Parrott - Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy

Thom Parrott - Hole in the Ground

Listen to any of those songs, I promise you you will be at least a little depressed afterwards

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warrrreagl

"Shannon" - that goofy song about the dog who drifted out to sea. It kills me.

"Alone Again, Naturally" - Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Here Today" - Paul McCartney

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OMFUG

Oh man, Jeff Buckley's "Grace" amd "Last Goodbye" destroy me. Everytime I hear either one I think about the ex-fiance even tho I'm now happioly married.

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Colliebird

Thank you for posting songs that make you weep. These are some tunes that do it for me:

Radiohead - House of Cards;
Scala and Kolacny Brothers - Yellow (coldplay cover), Creep (radiohead cover), The Blower's Daughter (someone's cover).
Dido - See you when you're forty

Ave Maria - any live performance
Chamber music, any kind, live performance
Itzhak Perlman - anything at all

Strange Famous

Its hard to imagine anyone being more depressing than Joy Division themselves.

I couldnt say that it makes me cry, but "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths always makes me feel pretty miserable... sort of connects with certain nights of my own youth

"There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home
And you cry and you want to die..."

lunxpress

Waltzing Matilda,-several artist recorded it
Butterfly Kisses- Bob Carlisle
That’s My Job - Conway Twitty
The Way You Look Tonight- Frank Sinatra
Wasted Time- The Eagles
Winter- Tori Amos
Return to Pooh Corner
Ave Maria

thesurgeon

John Martyn "Angeline"

Cocteau Twins "Pearly Dew Drops Drops"

blub, blub, blub.

EventHorizon

Mad World - Gary Jules

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