Cat Power - Good Woman (she sounds so sad! I just want to go give her a giant teddy bear hug, or some chocolate ...)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (I'm in a long distance relationship, so this one's a killer)
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl (I cry when songs are stupefyingly awesome, and I cry when I hear a song whose stupefying awesomeness I could never hope to duplicate. It's so simple, but it's easily one of the best songs I've heard. And the banjo!!)
Radiohead - any one of High and Dry, The Bends, Bulletproof, Let Down, True Love Waits, How to Disappear Completely ...

"Don't Talk Put Your Head on My Shoulder" The Beach Boys

"The First Time Ever I saw Your Face" Roberta Flack

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Originally posted by mark f:
Hey, remember, this thread is about "music". I fully understand that modern "pop songs" are what's up, but you can always include classical or a film song or score. Come on, you can give it up. I bet we'll think better of you rather than worse.

You're on.

Britten- Hymn to St. Cecilia (last section)

J. Adams- Harmonium - 2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Dallapiccola- Il Prigionero

If any of you have heard this one, you deserve a medal:

Albright- Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano

I can only put down those that "made me feel like crying." I am afflicted with the male disease of stuffing emotion away until it kills me.
Eric Clapton "If I Saw You in Heaven"
Lennon/McCartney "In My Life"
John Lennon's Imagine
Green Day's "When September Ends"
Frank Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" (Okay, I'm a sap)

Oh man, I just heard one I haven't in a while and I really got a little choked up. "The Freshmen" by the Verve Pipe.

"Engine Driver" by The Decemberists for some reason gets my emotions going. Its a great tale of longing for love and not taking it for granted. Its just an amazing song.

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Oh man, I just heard one I haven't in a while and I really got a little choked up. "The Freshmen" by the Verve Pipe.

Good call. That song is still one of my all-time favorites.

"Idiot Wind" makes me cry sometimes. Usually not out of sadness, either, although I think the song itself is quite paralyzing: Dylan's vocals are so understated in so much of his catalogue that when he finally cuts loose and sings a line like "your corrupt ways have finally made you blind" or "I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me," exciting his voice like boiling water as he crashes through the phrases, the form of the music just breaks down for me and all I can hear are the vocals. It's just so good that I can't help but shed a tear or two sometimes. Dylan has this effect on me quite often, actually. "The Man in Me" from New Morning is another one of my favorites.

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All Right! Now we're gettin' somewhere, in our Fight Club-help-group-sorta way.
Testicular cancer ....no, no, no.

Neutral Milk Hotel- "Two Headed Boy, pt.2"
Mountain Goats- "The Mess Inside"
Bob Dylan- "If You See Her, Say Hello", "Forever Young" (My dad always talks about this being the first song that he played for my brothers and I when we were born. I continued the tradition for my son and daughter.)
Pixies- "Bone Machine" (But only at Coachella 2004, as I saw something I never thought I'd see actually happen.)

Alright. I feel much better now...

And hold_it_steady, not tears, but goosebumps every time I hear the ending, ("whoo-ohh-ooh") part of "Neighborhood #1". Good call.

"Cripple and the Starfish" Antony and the Johnsons

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Originally posted by headinsand:
Elliott Smith.

'nuff said.

and I feel much better afterwards.

I agree! I've shed many a tear listening to Elliott Smith. This man can bring out the emotions in me like no other songwriter, and I will love (and miss) him forever for that.

I also get choked up when listening to:
Beck, "Guess I'm Doing Fine"
The Cure, "The Same Deep Water as You"
Queen, "We Are the Champions"
Radiohead, "Bullet Proof . . . I Wish I Was"

There's a song called "Forever Young" (I don't know the name of the artist/band) . . . but just thinking of it makes me want to cry!

And please don't hate/judge me for this one. I think I shed a tear when I first heard that the singer for Creed wrote "With Arms Wide Open" when he learned that his girlfriend was pregnant. I cannot stand this band, but the song really touched me emotionally.

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There's a song called "Forever Young" (I don't know the name of the artist/band) . . . but just thinking of it makes me want to cry!


"Forever Young" is by Alphaville, a German band from Berlin.

Thanks smilani. I want to buy "Forever Young" so that I will have it to play when I feel old and nostalgic. Alphaville . . . I will look for them the next time I go to the music store.

"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" -- Sandy Denny

"Tupelo Honey" -- Van Morrison

"Cool River" -- Kate & Anna McGarrigle

"A Case of You" -- Joni Mitchell

"You Are My Sister" -- Antony & the Johnsons

"John Wayne Gacy, Jr." -- Sufjan Stevens

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Originally posted by Karen:
Thanks smilani. I want to buy "Forever Young" so that I will have it to play when I feel old and nostalgic. Alphaville . . . I will look for them the next time I go to the music store.

They have a "best of" collection which is probably your best bet.

Perfect Day - Lou Reed

Album: Sea Change: Beck

Album: Unplugged: Alice In Chains (If death has a sound, it's laynes voice. Tired, withdrawn, Defeated. Breaks my heart.)

Hurt: The Man in Black

Anyway you want it: Journey (Just kidding)

Poolshark (acoustic) Sublime

Bon Jovi - Always.

but only when i watch the video!! its so sad!!

Tsss...only womens cry!

Seriously:

Coldplay - In my place
Godspeed you black emperor - motherfucker = redeemer
Wilco - She's a jar, Hell is chrome
Air - Cherry Blossom girl, Run
Radiohead - Motion picture soundtrack, idioteque, sit down,stand up
And many Dumas songs, he's a french canadian...and a genius.

johnny cash - hurt
okkervil river - black
radiohead - karma police