UglyDog Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 We don't all wear our hearts on our sleeves, but for those of us that do there's usually one or more songs that get you feeling a bit tearful, for whatever reason. I have a couple. There's Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" -- this starts me off basically because it reminds me just how lucky I am that someone as wonderful as Mrs Dog should choose to love me. The other one is Elgar's "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations -- I have no idea why this chokes me up, but it just does. The crescendo at the end, gets me every time without fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Not an obvious one, but makes me think of my departed dog , Cleo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-FBBJRa6_k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 By Fascinating Aida..... Look Mummy, No Hands. If your kids have grown and flown.... have a hankie at the ready: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePPzKTRbcI[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Aye. Nimrod does that to me too, and so do many other songs and pieces - literally hundreds or thousands of them. "Close to the Edge" (the song) by Yes does it, for example. One that has become a near national anthem in Norway after the 2011 murders by Anders B. Breivik is "Some Die Young" by Swedish singer Laleh. IMHO a great song, and it moved me to tears already before the attack, but these days I'm sobbing. Here in its 2012 memorial version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHX2J7MANHc ...and this seems to be the original version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFH5ZjMKN08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwater Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 The flame still burns by Strange Fruit - not sure why but it does! [url="https://youtu.be/YvWC0FeuStg"]https://youtu.be/YvWC0FeuStg[/url] Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) This always gets me. The lyrics seem to be written for this man in this condition and is a brutal reminder of everybody's mortality no matter who they are or what they've done. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc[/url] Edited March 17, 2016 by Japhet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins. Edited to add But if it's just a song we're allowed, then Something Wonderful from The King and I. Edited March 17, 2016 by seashell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilp Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) I thought it was just me with The Flame Still Burns - a band I was in many years ago used to cover it! Don't Give Up kills me every time. Kate Bush's vocal is just sublime Can't Stay Away from You, Gloria Estefan. Don't laugh.... Will You, Hazel O'Connor Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt and many many more Edited March 17, 2016 by neilp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 puff the magic dragon had me in tears, but I was about 8 at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsO0Lds94yU[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) another vote for Puff the Magic Dragon (brutal lyrics - was banned from our house when we were small because of the effect it had on my elder brother). and, since the death of my father, who taught me boogie-woogie, jazz and blues piano from a very early age, Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom" from Night Train. Edited March 17, 2016 by Earbrass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowhand_mike Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 wouldnt say there are any that make me blub but one that does get me every time is Mother of Violence by Peter Gabriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 This... every time. http://youtu.be/wP8A9rtg0iI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I wouldn't say they make me cry, I'm not new man enough for that but 3 that definitely get me feeling sad are Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss The Drunken Driver - Ferlin Husky Soldier - Harvey Andrews. Especially that last one. It's a true story, about the murder of Sergeant Michael Willetts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Tank park salute by Billy Bragg. I found it sad before my dad died, I can't sing it since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgraff Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 [size=5][b]And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Boyle[/b][/size] [i]When I was a young man I carried my pack And I lived the free life of a rover From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun And they sent me away to the war And the band played Waltzing Matilda As we sailed away from the quay And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers We sailed off to Gallipoli How well I remember that terrible day How the blood stained the sand and the water And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell Nearly blew us right back to Australia But the band played Waltzing Matilda As we stopped to bury our slain We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs Then we started all over again Now those that were left, well we tried to survive In a mad world of blood, death and fire And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive But around me the corpses piled higher Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit And when I woke up in my hospital bed And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead Never knew there were worse things than dying For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda All around the green bush far and near For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs No more waltzing Matilda for me So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed And they shipped us back home to Australia The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay I looked at the place where my legs used to be And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me To grieve and to mourn and to pity And the band played Waltzing Matilda As they carried us down the gangway But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared Then turned all their faces away And now every April I sit on my porch And I watch the parade pass before me And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march Reliving old dreams of past glory And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?" And I ask myself the same question And the band plays Waltzing Matilda And the old men answer to the call But year after year their numbers get fewer Some day no one will march there at all Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda Who'll go a waltzing Matilda with me And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong Who'll go a waltzing Matilda with me?[/i] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgraff Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 [size=5][b]Every time A Church bell Rings by Carter USM[/b][/size] [i]When bonny Clive was twenty three He took a dive from the balcony Embarrassing his blushing bride Who took her red face for a ride To Blackpool and the pouring rain She went out on the evening train And came in with the morning tide As another seaside suicide It was summertime when Sally Clarke Suffered from a broken heart That left her down and out of touch The patron saint of nothing much No charity, no faith, no hope She'd seen it on her favourite soap Take fifty thousand million pills And don't forget to pay the bills Well I remember Micky Doyle He shuffled off this mortal coil With no message for "that special girl" Just thank you and goodbye cruel world Then for the sake of Auld Lang Syne He put his head on the railway line Looked up at the morning sun And waited for the train to come The TV repossessed and so I tune in to the radio Where the DJ's playing the same old songs To whistle while you're signing on Give me the beat boy and free my soul Fill my pockets up with gold I'll leave a message on the fridge And drive my car off London Bridge But London Bridge is falling down There ain't no gold in Silver town So I'm canceling my driving test And walking back to happiness Whoop bye oh yeah yeah! Everytime a churchbell rings Another angel gets its wings[/i] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzneck Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) A tune of rare beauty played impeccably with true feeling .... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drAv2FoYji8[/media] Edited March 17, 2016 by Jazzneck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Littlest Things by Lily Allen - when it came out the sentiments mirrored how I was feeling at the time so accurately it was uncanny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 'Wish You Were Here (You Ought To Be Here)' by Isaac Hayes. A simply beautiful track from one of the best IMHO. Brings back so many thoughts of so many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefbaker Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Pretty much the entire IBM suite by Johann Johannsson. Especially after my father died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Bonnie Raitt "I can't Make You Love Me"...Absolute Class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo Don't make me blub, but a very moving tune from Luther Vandross "Dance With My Father". http://youtu.be/wmDxJrggie8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 ^ Fiona Apple track above, posted by cheddatom. Oh brother, if you only knew! Lots of personal attachment to that one for me. Good call for posting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb7XM6NZorU Strangely enough, amazing as his whole performance is here, it's when the horns kick it - every damn time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) Beautiful, stunning theme from "On Golden Pond", always gets me. [media]http://youtu.be/Qml75qpmpSs[/media] Edited March 17, 2016 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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