Songs that have you near/in tears

[munchingfoo]

Billy Connolly - The Evil Scotsman

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[HookerBot]

Mary-Scissor Sisters (XL Junkie remix). Sounds so cold, yet sad.

[scotlandposse2010]

Pssshht, all this pop music people keep talking about...come on, how about some truly great music!

Jersualem (Charles H.H. Parry)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (R. Vaughan Williams)
Adagio for Strings (well duh)
Fantasy for violin & orchestra (Nigel Havers)
Ave Maria
St Matthew Passion (Bach)
Shostakovich's 5th Symphony
New World Symphony (Dvorak)

And a couple of very inspiring jazz songs:
Contracts (Archie Shepp)
Autumn Leaves (Miles Davis)
My Favourite Things (John Coltrane)
Round Midnight (any version...)

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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

[munchingfoo]

To dismiss all pop music as "[non great]" due to the fact that it is not classical is as ignorant as dismissing classical simply because it is not pop music.

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Maximum The Hormone - Buiiki Kaesu

[HookerBot]

There's also a few anime soundtracks that have sad songs to them e.g. part of Wolf's Rain.

Some others are sad, but not tear-inducing.

[Power Metal Dom]

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.14 (Moonlight Sonata)

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[Duggeh]

Quoting Batman from 22:56, 10th Jun 2008

Quoting sweet from 17:04, 10th Jun 2008

Quoting Duggeh from 16:34, 10th Jun 2008
[quote]Quoting Batman from 00:06, 10th Jun 2008

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
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Have you ever danced with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight!

WTF?

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Duggeh: Master Of Ceremonies

? that's a great album. Maybe they meant the track "Brain Damage" which's not a bad choice.

Well you can't really think of Dark Side of the moon as several tracks, I tend to think of it as one and that it takes you on an Amazing Journey. Hence Why I put down the album name

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Have you ever danced with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight![/quote]

Really though, it makes you cry? DSOTM puts you in tears? A brilliant piece of soundscaping it may be but tear inducing it is not.

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Duggeh: Master Of Ceremonies

[Duggeh]

double post.

[TCT]

Quoting Duggeh from 13:21, 13th Jun 2008

Quoting Batman from 22:56, 10th Jun 2008

Quoting sweet from 17:04, 10th Jun 2008
[quote]Quoting Duggeh from 16:34, 10th Jun 2008
[quote]Quoting Batman from 00:06, 10th Jun 2008

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
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Have you ever danced with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight!

WTF?

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Duggeh: Master Of Ceremonies

? that's a great album. Maybe they meant the track "Brain Damage" which's not a bad choice.

Well you can't really think of Dark Side of the moon as several tracks, I tend to think of it as one and that it takes you on an Amazing Journey. Hence Why I put down the album name

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Have you ever danced with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight![/quote]

Really though, it makes you cry? DSOTM puts you in tears? A brilliant piece of soundscaping it may be but tear inducing it is not.

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Duggeh: Master Of Ceremonies[/quote]


Us and Them always brings me close to tears.

Likewise, Wish You Were Here (the track) and Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

My graphics design company had the privilege of helping Roger Waters to re-do his video for the DSOTM concerts he did recently, and I can tell you that a couple of colleagues working on the project said they'd cried when they first heard the alum.

[scotlandposse2010]

Quoting munchingfoo from 01:55, 13th Jun 2008
To dismiss all pop music as "[non great]" due to the fact that it is not classical is as ignorant as dismissing classical simply because it is not pop music.

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Umm, so you're saying that easy-listening popular music can be compared to the troubling complexities of classical music?

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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

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Bjork - "New World"

[Raindog]

Your Mum has me in tears and everything she does is fucking magic

[bdw]

Not sure about blubbing (need a separate thread for films to prove real sappiness) but in terms of shivers down the spine:

Danny Boy - Frank Patterson
This one's from the heart - Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle
God moving across the face of the waters - Moby
You can't always get what you want - Stones
Loveless - My bloody valentine (especially live, along with the bleeding eardrums)
Bumpin' - Wes Montgomery

[LonelyPilgrim]

Quoting exnihilo from 19:09, 9th Jun 2008

Quoting LonelyPilgrim from 07:03, 8th Jun 2008
If you aren't American, you've probably never heard it, but I strongly recommend it. It is, in my opinion, the most bittersweet music. Ever.

Tsk. The series has run on BBC2 on at least two occasions, it is, unquestionably, the finest historical documentary ever made - and I love Ashokan Farewell, though I am far more used to hearing it on violin and guitar, or two violins than on violin and harp. The version with Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife, is impossible not to be moved by.

Quite. Forgive my ignorance, I'm quite surprised that the documentary ran over there. Still, it is a shockingly moving piece of music for its humble origins: written to commemorate the retirement of a violin conservatory teacher, as I recall. It's use as the main theme of the PBS Civil War series has lent it a false perception of antiquity that it does not possess.

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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. --Giacomo Casanova

[munchingfoo]

Quoting scotlandposse2010 from 19:34, 13th Jun 2008

Quoting munchingfoo from 01:55, 13th Jun 2008
To dismiss all pop music as "[non great]" due to the fact that it is not classical is as ignorant as dismissing classical simply because it is not pop music.

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Umm, so you're saying that easy-listening popular music can be compared to the troubling complexities of classical music?

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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

No, thats not what I said. You quoted what I said. Nice try though.

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[Legion]

Quoting scotlandposse2010 from 19:34, 13th Jun 2008

Umm, so you're saying that easy-listening popular music can be compared to the troubling complexities of classical music?

I'd say that. Although I'd prefer the question to be a little less weighted.

[Power Metal Dom]

Quoting bdw from 13:36, 15th Jun 2008
Danny Boy - Frank Patterson

Seconded.

Frank Sinatra - My Way


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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[groovy]

Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easterhay
Johnny Cash - I Hung my Head
Led Zeppelin - Going to California
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

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Remember now, there's a big difference between kneeling down and BENDING OVER!

[David Bean]

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (frequently, particularly at the end of Love, Actually)

At My Most Beautiful - REM (particularly after I split up with my ex-girlfriend, to whom I would occasionally sing it softly before we went to sleep. ...The break up was for other reasons.)

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