Songs That Bring A Tear To Your Eye

ryanverbena · May 9

Ara Batur - Sigur Ròs

Holocene - Bon Iver

RandallFlagg · May 10

George Michael - Let Her Down Easy (Live at the Palais Garnier Opera House, Paris, 2011)

Better than Terence Trent D'Arby's original

https://youtu.be/xJ8DeurBHwo?si=EypP6uWjr6tCjro6

RandallFlagg · May 10

Stump - Buffalo

CMW335 · May 10

Champagne Supernova. Used to sing this into my little brothers ear to get him to nod off to sleep when he was 4/5 years old.

Played at his funeral when we lost him aged 28 so more a personal thing than the song itself being sad but in that context ‘Someday you will find me’ hits hard.

RocknRollDave · May 10

https://youtu.be/aXtYBS2saAQ?si=EhKNU-7qfv-TIKMf

Big Country - Come Back To Me

Told from the perspective of a woman who’s watching men from the town return home victorious after a war…but her man hasn’t survived to come home. A powerful lyric, I say.

(If the music itself is a bit of a dirge, bear in mind this is a partner piece to the anthemic Where The Rose Is Sown, which immediately precedes it on the album; the downbeat feel of this song a deliberate contrast to its jauntier companion song.)

mojofilters · May 10

Lots of Smiths songs, but Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me from their last album is the most emotive for me, has been since the Smiths further opened my musical eyes around age 12. Stuff like Asleep, Back To the Old House and Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want is just all so perfectly positioned.

Reading Mike Joyce's recent excellently written account has really opened my eyes far wider to just how much those four young lads quickly became a force of nature, once they'd found significant sucess with the first album. His descriptions of how Johnny Marr finessed his riffs around the rhythm, then let Andy Rourke just rip on bass doesn't seem like a very conventional approach but sounds fascinating.

Lots of tracks from Thunder and Consolation by New Model Army, but especially Vagabonds as I played that in my first "proper" electric violin band with considerable success. Also, Valleys of Green and Grey really chokes me up, especially live if Justin Sullivan dedicates it to "all the people from surrounding places with a long journey home" type thing.

I love his lyrics, including the epic Ballad posted above. The lyrics to Green and Grey always make me think fondly of all the bus journeys I had to take to get to/from gigs, nights out etc as a youngster. Also had friends and girlfriends who lived miles out from civilisation, so loads of fond memories of the exact kind of journey he starts the song with.

It seems kinda mad now how we'd happily take long trips just to visit each other. No phones or wifi, a walkman or magazine if you're lucky. Then the sheer joy of recalling how when you're young and with your mates, the journey can be as much fun as the destination. It reminds me of the paltry provisions Paul Simon and Kathy picked up during their trip in his song America!

digitalkettle · May 10

I couldn't follow @CMW335 ;

but now we've moved on a post or two...

Marillion...live at Royal Albert Hall...White Paper:

wesker123 · May 10

Red House Painters - song for the blue guitar.

joeyowen · May 10

If you're feeling brave, watch this, I just can't anymore

scrumhalf · May 10

Almost anything by The Ronettes.

SRich · May 10

Open_G said:

Never any good by Martin Simpson.
I can listen to it now without blubbing, but it used to really tug at the emotions.

The chorus lyrics just hit home. At times it’s like looking in a mirror- an alt universe mirror maybe but the ethos feels so strong.

“You were never any good with money,
you couldn’t even hold a job,
not steady enough for the office,
not hard enough for the hod.
You’d rather be riding your Norton,
or fishing with your split cane rod,
you were never any good with money,
you couldn’t even hold a job.”

Can relate. Lost count of the times MS starts that song in concert and many men (myself very much included) develop the tissue twitch…….unless it’s very dusty in the venues Martin plays in.

Jfingers · May 10

Guaranteed well up for me, not for any specific reason, it just always gets me.

horse · May 10

wesker123 said:

Red House Painters - song for the blue guitar.

Have you forgotten is a good 'un on that album too.

I think the saddest song I ever heard is I See A Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy. Probably said on here before, but when I first heard that track I felt my throat tighten.

digitalkettle · May 10

Jfingers said:

Guaranteed well up for me, not for any specific reason, it just always gets me.
...

That's positively upbeat for an AMC tune

thecolourbox · May 10

I forgot to include Linkin Park's One More Light in my previous reply

CKsam · May 10

blobb said:

Robert Wyatt - Sea Song, The opener from Rock Bottom, which as you all know, was written by Robert BEFORE he got drunk and fell out of window breaking his back. The album reflects the helplessness and despair of his situation and his rescue from oblivion by his wife Alfie. I'm not your larder.

The key change at the end of sea song sends me over the edge. Ready for what's to come..... Harrowing, yet beautiful. Partly fish, Partly Porpoise, Partly baby sperm whale. Am i yours? Are you mine, to play with? your lunacy fits nicely with my own. With my own.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Co0_BZiLdg&list=RD8Co0_BZiLdg&start_radio=1

Great choice!

flying_pie · May 10

Pretty much anything on St Anger

merlin · May 11

Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MmM7B-M3LVg&ra=m

idiotwind · May 11

Sam Stone by John Prine. "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes"

Woodandwires · May 11

A tank park salute - Billy Bragg, always gets me.
She’s gone - Hall and Oates.

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