song that make you get 'something in your eye'

munckee

One last from me:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

underdog said:

But for lyrics that just tell you a story you don't want to think about, it's Eddie Vedder singing The End. One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and gets me every time I listen to it.

100% this. Gets me every time.

Another PJ one that gets me for some reason is Elderly Woman Behind the Counter.... Dunno why really, just hits me right in the feels. Was one of their opening tracks on the 2nd night at Hyde Park this summer, and I remember singing along with the tears in my eyes, feeling like right wuss! 



REM - Country Feedback as listed above - also totally in agreement. I listened to that song over and over while going through the breakdown of my marriage so really brings back some not so pleasant memories. Probably not the most sensible choice of song in hindsight!

This Tom Waits track always gets me too:

RocknRollDave

Walt Grace Submarine Test 1967 by John Mayer

ICBM

Boromedic said:

Whoa, that's pretty much me gone too, I have some personal memories of New York and a lot of them include WTC, that really hit home. Thank you for that (I mean that too, it's good to be reminded sometimes, and it's good to ache/hurt/cry too), Carpe Diem.

Yes. Although I’ve never been to New York, that song really hits home because it perfectly captures how an ordinary morning in the lives of ordinary people suddenly became something none of us who watched it unfold on our TV screens will ever forget. More than twenty years on I can still hear that sound too.

Mattharrier

Sound of Silence by Disturbed got to me and the wife last night. Big finale of a TV show, characters possibly dead and all that. Caught me off guard.

Welcome Home by Radical Face - I have no idea why. It's connected to when my nanna died, somehow, although I've never really managed to work out how. To my knowledge, she never heard the track and it has no special significance to me or my relationship with her. But every time I hear it I start to choke up.

Bring Me Sunshine - yes, the Morecambe and Wise song - it was played as we left my nanny and granddads' funeral. 

ICBM

Mattharrier said:

Welcome Home by Radical Face - I have no idea why. It's connected to when my nanna died, somehow, although I've never really managed to work out how.

It was used in a TV ad - I forget what for, which interestingly shows how useless advertising can be - presumably around the same time.

Fishboy7

Can't beat a bit Cure if your down in the dumps

Mattharrier

ICBM said:

Mattharrier said:

Welcome Home by Radical Face - I have no idea why. It's connected to when my nanna died, somehow, although I've never really managed to work out how.

It was used in a TV ad - I forget what for, which interestingly shows how useless advertising can be - presumably around the same time.

Nikon cameras - Robbie Williams taking a photo of the crowd at Knebworth was one of the bits. It's been used in numerous TV shows and movies too.

The advert was 2009 I think, a couple of years before my nanna died, so it's not even that I first heard it while I was emotional. But I was driving home from work one day, it started playing, and I started to cry. I had to pull over as I couldn't see - for whatever reason that emotional state seems to have attached itself to the song ever since.

Great song though, and I still listen to it pretty often.

Neilybob

Real blues like this

Neilybob

Also this is incredibly moving

Philly_Q

Litterick

merlin

Sorry, I've not read the thread.

Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits.
Nancy Spain - Christy Moore

DonnyMac

Sporky

merlin said:

Sorry, I've not read the thread.

Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits.
Nancy Spain - Christy Moore

No-one ever reads these threads. Post and run. 

ICBM

Heard this one again today...

Haych

Quite a few songs can make my eyes glisten a bit, this one springs to mind, although I have no idea why - the lyrics aren't sad at all (annoyingly it's a bit religious), maybe it's the performance, it does sound very melancholy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ2HEAmxpHk