Songs that make you blub

[4-string-thing]

And of course, this one

http://youtu.be/fanHzHJin8E

[arthurhenry]

The Ballad of Bill Hubbard/Amused to Death by Roger Waters. Fusilier Alfred Razzell's account of having to leave his dying friend in no man's land opens the album. He returns at the end to describe how, decades later he sees Hubbard's name on a war memorial and realises his body was found and recovered - that's when it gets me.

[tazza1]

Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
Crazy Baby - Joan Osborne

Reach Out was one of a set of songs I put on a tape & sent to someone. It led to a tumultuous period in my life.
Crazy Baby I discovered when I was at my lowest after everything then fell apart.
I can't listen to either song now.

I agree with Johnny Cash's version of Hurt too.

[bubinga5]

the saddest piece of music i have ever heard. if you have ever lost someone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5vnE3zD-DU

[Old Man Riva]

Life on Mars - Bowie

The Downtown Lights - The Blue Nile

Flamenco Sketches - Miles Davis

Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Roberta Flack


That said, the older I get I find I blub at pretty much anything..

[NickD]

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Meet on the ledge Fairport convention.
[/quote]

I'm not a blubber, but this always brings a lump to the throat, as does Who Knows Where the Time Goes. Pink Floyd's When the Tigers Broke Free is a choker too.

[spectoremg]

Goodbye to Love, The Carpenters (the verses), then back in the world with that soaring guitar break at the play out.

[lee650]

Stevie Wonders "Lately" always brings a tear!! As does Eric Claptons "Tears in Heaven"

😢

[Old Man Riva]

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1458455456' post='3007671']
Goodbye to Love, The Carpenters (the verses), then back in the world with that soaring guitar break at the play out.
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The opening line is enough..

[dieseldalziel]

Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins has always been really powerful but the cover by The Civil Wars adds another level..

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWqoHZmUd0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=zWWqoHZmUd0[/url]

also, Day Is Gone by Noah Gundersen is heartbreakingly sad...

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQuuoD13Llw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=MQuuoD13Llw[/url]

Edited March 20, 2016 by dieseldalziel

[JapanAxe]

This one actually[i] did[/i] make me cry, but it was the beauty of the performance (with Rodney Crowell at Bristol Colston Hall):

http://youtu.be/l3LQeRqTBK4

And this one did when I played it to Mrs Axe - something about sharing it with another person:

http://youtu.be/Xad0Qyu__cE

[DorsetBlue]

I discovered Alter Bridge (via Slash) when my wife was in the hospice. I have lyrics from this song in the tattoo tribute to my wife on my arm:

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af_mwfnc51s"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af_mwfnc51s[/url]

[Huge Hands]

I can remember "Grandma's Hands" by Bill Withers shuffling on in the car a few days after I lost my Grandmother.

It always gets me on the end lines:

"...but I don't have Grandma anymore
If I get to Heaven I'll look for Grandma's hands"

[Rich]

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I`ll add Take Thats `Rule the World` it was out when my last dog passed and we had a star named after her (probably not really but I have a certificate) and the lyrics get me thinking about her everytime I hear it cos Im such a softy!
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This song gets to me too -- at around about the time it came out, my mum was in the protracted process of closing her eyes and fading away, so for me the first verse is forever associated with that. It's a good song but no, I just can't listen to it.

[BrunoBass]

I find Baz Lurhmann's 'Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)' especially poignant. It always makes me think of my two older children who are now all grown up and making their own way in the world. They were both little when it came out and I could imagine me passing on similar advice to them, not to make the same mistakes I made. Now they're old enough to not need me and I always get this strange tightening in my throat when I hear it.

[spectoremg]

Alone Again, Gilbert O'Sullivan.

[BrunoBass]

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1458394609' post='3007230']
Wires by Althlete

Came out a few years after my son spent a month in ICU, 7 days of those ventilated and sedated
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Great song, one of my favourite bands.

[karlfer]

Lump to throat for me,
Whitney's I will always love you
Bangles Eternal flame

[Dropzone]

Time to day goodbye by Catherine Jenkins will make me cry like a child. Also Constellations by Enter Shikari makes my skin stand on end everytime.

[Japhet]

Eric Clapton - Circus left Town

How on earth he ever managed to perform the song given the circumstances in which it was written is utterly beyond me.

[toneknob]

Not because it's sad, but because of the joy flowing from the stage when this closed the set at Hyde Park in 2010 (here from the day after at Glastonbury)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5RyztEXco

[bassbiscuits]

There's a singer called Karine Polwart, who has a number of songs which make me cry, because they are just a really moving combination of music, melody and words.

Follow the Heron, and Waterlily, for example.

Also Adam Cohen's So Much To Learn is proper lump in throat stuff.