Tracks that make you cry

[Dave]

Half kidding, half serious… man, I am capable of fucking bawling once in a blue moon from a song though. Sometimes , it’s because it hits a sentimental nerve, others it’s the overwhelming prettiness of the melody, other times yet I’m all liquored up and it’s hitting me like a ton of bricks… I’m too shy to go first.

What say others?

[s_mcsleazy]

so i got 2 that always hit me hard.

1. below the salt - unwound. i don't really wanna get into why but it's weirdly one of those songs i have trouble listening to be love when i feel i can.
2. untitled w/drums - shipping news.

[Embenny]

Off-Street Parking by Bob Forrest might be the most heartbreaking song I've heard in a long time. It was first released on the superlative 1999 Bicycle Thief album, but he revisited it recently and gave it a slower, more country feel that is just perfect for it.

It's a breakup song done as well as any I've ever heard.

A house is not a home
Even with a view and hardwood floors
And all that talking
And that not-talking

Yeah, a house is not a home
When two aren't two, they're one and one
One and one is nothing.
One and one means nothing.

....

Years from now, maybe outside a movie
You'll be with somebody new
I'll be with somebody, too
And we'll just say hello.

Man, it gets me every time. That "one and one is nothing...one and one means nothing" is such a killer line.

[s_mcsleazy]

oh i forgot to add one.

true trans soul rebel - against me!

[jthomas]

"Forever Young"

Stupid song makes me want to be able to protect my children (now adult children) forever... which of course in not remotely possible.

[andy_tchp]

Tim Minchin - I'll Take Lonely Tonight.

[noisepunk]

i couldn't pick one from the whole, but this whole album is devastating:

Mount Eerie–A Crow Looked at Me

i love The Microphones (his first project), so i stuck this on one day on a whim and wound up showing up to picking my wife up from work absolutely sobbing.

[soggy mittens]

Sparta - The Most Vicious Crime

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Strangely, songs only make me cry when I sing them.

Do You Realise by The Flaming Lips is a pretty good example. These days I have to take deep breaths when it comes to certain lines.

[JSett]

Not many song's have ever made me cry unless they're one's I may have written myself as some form of catharsis, but there was one a few years back and the feelings I was feeling when I heard it the first time still come back when I hear it just enough to choke me up. I was borderline alcoholic, deeply in debt, miserable, truly depressed and secretly quite suicidal and it just struck a chord. I actually see it as a bit of a realisation tipping-point in my recent years to re-evaluate and reset my life - which I duly did and I am much better these days. I walked away from that moment in my life with a decision in my head. I think the fact it was live and extremely loud helped drive it home. Loud is always better.

It's not even a metaphorical song, it's about a guy he knew that drank too much and committed suicide, so it cut close to the bone.

Ducking Punches - Six Years

I'd actually met and got drunk with the singer a year previous to that day and we got on very well, and have spoken on many occasions since (not about this). He's a good dude.

[DrQuasar]

"We Know the Way" from Moana. I have ancestors that were voyagers sort of like that and this song gets me every single time. I tear up just thinking about it.

[mediocreplayer]

"Forever Young"

Stupid song makes me want to be able to protect my children (now adult children) forever... which of course in not remotely possible.

Dylan or Alphaville? The latter's usually has the effect you describe on me.

[SignoftheDragon]

Live Mariachi almost always makes me tear up- it's so filled with sorrow, joy, and history that it just kills me.

"Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me" by the Smiths usually pulls a tear or two out when the vocals hit.

About a third of the Cocteau Twins' library.

Several tracks from Dead Can Dance.

Jeez- I could go on, but I feel a bit soul-bare already.

[LVC]

Leonard Cohen - Famous blue raincoat
Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's alright
The Cure - Apart
John Cameron Mitchell - The origin of love from the Hedwig & the angry inch OST
M Ward's cover of Bowie's Let's dance

[jthomas]

"Forever Young"

Stupid song makes me want to be able to protect my children (now adult children) forever... which of course in not remotely possible.

Dylan or Alphaville? The latter's usually has the effect you describe on me.

I didn't know about Alphaville till your post and a Google search. I was in grad school when the Alphaville version was released and had a forced break (partially anyway) from popular culture. So it must be Dylan... although I have a memory of someone other than Dylan singing it when the emotion hit me... I dk.