Songs that make you feel, a lot - maybe even cry

someone like you

i know it's so cheesy but it gets me

and, this one is sadly indicative of my age group, Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, which I probably listened to in the triple digits one night back in the day.

i know there are those songs that seize days

sound emotionally intense

they kind of have that drowned in emotions sound

Sandy Denny makes me FEEL the most, though.

Also, the following:

Concierto de Aranjuez (adagio) - Miles Davis w/Gil Evans Orchestra
Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground
Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
Blood Red Bird - Smog
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Sam Cooke
the entirety of Astral Weeks

Angel Interceptor: Laugh all you will, but it's all about the hushed little middle 8 that falls into a big happy joyful solo, and I end up blubbing in happiness.

Tiny Dancer: Start of the first chorus, every time.

Fairytale In new York: But honestly, if you want to see me balling my eyes out, this is the one. If it isn't the chorus ("The boys from the NYPD choir are singing Gallway Bay" is made by angels) then it's the end of the middle 8 that does me in.

that song really is beautiful actually

Tom Waits "Anywhere I Lay My Head" always kills me.

- Kate Bush- This Woman's Work (FUCKING HELL THIS SONG IS SOOOO PAINFULLY GOOD)
- Neil Young- After the Gold Rush (something about his voice on this track)
- Talk Talk- Eden (no explanation needed)

once in a while (this is more teardrop house):
- 'Dexter'
- 'I Owe You' (every version/remix)

these last two are more because they hit all the pleasure points using such sad sad chords that it becomes overwhelming, especially when played really loud.

Beautiful South -- Prettiest Eyes

John Lennon -- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

Tracy Chapman Fast Car

um, Belly "The Bees"

-- Ramzi Awn (rra12...), December 29th, 2006.

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"wrapped round my shoulder"

really taps a sense of love, and how love makes the world smaller, in a car.

Orbital - Out There Somewhere (Part Two) (last 4:50 of) is, by far, the winner. And it's instrumental! Who needs words to jerk your tears when you've got the most beautiful music man has yet created...

The Teardrop Explodes - And The Fighting Takes Over/The Great Dominions. Don't believe what the tracklist tells you. This is one (absolutely brilliant) 8 1/2 minute song, and boy is it desolate.

Squeeze - Goodbye Girl is another heartbreaker.

Talk Talk - Wealth is obv, as is Mercury Rev - Frittering, as is The Flaming Lips - Suddenly Everything Has Changed, as is Yes - And You And I

The Beta Band - Space Beatle has a totally weepy moment when the sprightly, hopeful, gentle chorus suddenly breaks down amidst broken machine joises and the slow, melancholy verse fades back in

Mogwai - Kids Will be Skeletons and Ride - Howard Hughes wrap up the list (for now).

The Little Drummer Boy live album is really fucking good.

um i just found out that nico didn't write "fairest of the seasons" or "these days"

sad that she didn't tho

with that voice, it seems like she should be the full package, not just a note plucker

Just kidding. That'd be scary.

1. Xiu Xiu

other tearjerkers in my collection:

Tom Waits: San Diego Serenade

Nico: Afraid (also her cover of My Funny Valentine does it for me as well)

Kitchens Of Distinction: Mad As Snow

Springfields: Are We Gonna Be Alright

Carpenters: Goodbye to Love

“Suddenly Everything Has Changed” and “Cat’s in the Cradle” OTM, and a few others on this thread.

I think I posted this somewhere on old ILM, but The Slim Shady LP jerks my strings when I hear it because at one point it was one of the few things that was keeping me alive, literally – the quick wit and the black humor and the out-and-out nihilism were both a distraction from reality and a great help in making me realize that, really, my problems could have been much, much worse.

What else?

- Toad the Wet Sprocket “Walk on the Ocean” – the last few lyrics especially hit me hard.
- too many Elton John songs to name, the man owns this thread.
- The Amps’ Pacer in its entirety.
- Suzanne Vega’s “In Liverpool”
- Liz Phair’s “Freak of Nature”
- Smashing Pumpkins “Here’s to the Atom Bomb” (Machina II version)
- Nirvana covering “The Man Who Sold The World,” oh my God.
- Selected songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Pearl Jam “Elderly Woman, etc.” – yes, as a youth it was fun to goof on this, but it grows more poignant with every passing year.

THE AMPS PACER, you are a God for bringing that up. pls respond so i know you're not a freak of nature one hit poster.

ANd IN LIVERPOOL is breathtaking - i love that whole album actually.

gosh you just got me really excited.

- The Langley Schools Music Project. "Desperado" is the obvious tearjerker, but "Calling Occupants" is the one that really hits me hard. That "we are your friends" closing sounds like an epitaph recited by a chorus of elementary-school-aged ghosts.
- The Beach Boys: "In My Room" and "'Til I Die"
- Vince Gueraldi: "Christmastime Is Here" and about half of the _Charlie Brown Christmas_ soundtrack
- _Automatic For The People_ used to do it for me, but I think I've ruined that effect through overexposure

Watch the whole thing.