What music brings tears to your eyes?

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Classical is my musical roots so there it would have to be Mozart, Vivaldi and Holst.

Appart from that there are a few modern songs that do it too...

Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
Def Leppard - Long Long Way to Go
Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
Aerosmith - Angel

I thought of some more...
Elton John - Candle in the Wind
Elton John - Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
The Beatles - Let it Be

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Brian Adams- Everything i do
P. Diddy- I'll be missing you
Enya- May it be (from Lord of the rings)
Oasis- Don't look back in anger
DJ Sammy- Heaven
Scooter- Nessaja

are a few

I think I heard this on the public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keiler.
I was transfixed. And I never caught the name of the singer.
..
After a little research, I think this was actually the wailin Jennys.
An awesome song though.



I played this song repeatedly when I was in college.

Gary Jules- Mad World
Sade- Pearls
Sarah McLachlan- Full of Grace

With Arms Wide Open: Creed (Ok, Creed is certified solid gold crap, I admit it.)
Unravel: Bjork (Once again I sing her praises)
Joga: Bjork (ditto)
See The Sun: Dido.
Mockingbird: Eminem (More golden poo...)
Imaginary: Evanescence.
Hello: Evanescence.
Release: george (Aussie alt band.)
Prayer: Hayley Westenra
Tears & Rain: James Blunt
Cry: James Blunt
Bittersweet Symphony: The Verve
I'm With You: Avril Lavigne
Clubbed To Death: Rob Dougan
Eden: Sarah Brightman.
Zachem Ya: t.A.T.u. (More golden poo I know...)
You Made Me Find Myself: Tina Arena
With Or Without You: U2

theres only 2 pieces of music that have ever made me cry, and these have both had an image or reason to go with them

the first is featured on the film TITANIC. it is a minor version of my heart goes on, and it performed whilst the rowing boat is searching for survivors

the second im not sure what the music is called but the lyrics go
'... ' born free....... as free as the wind blows.... etc etc
this piece of music was played at my grandfathers funeral, as the coffin was carried into the chapel.

Recently it has been "my hero" by The Foo Fighters, because of kurdt. Still makes me sad thinking about it.

Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train". Especially the video for it with all those pictures of missing children. I've always wondered just how many people it helped. Their guardian angels must've been very happy with them for doing this video.

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony has made me cry from its sheer beauty. Um, Mahler 1, Sibelius 3 and 5, Dvorak 8 and 9, Schumann 4, Brahms 2 ... the list is endless of pieces I find overwhelmingly beautiful, that they will often make me cry.

Schindler's List also gets me every time, and 'Don't stop me now' I first heard performed at school at a time when I was very low, so now it always takes me back and makes me cry.

Usually I cry at music because it brings back memories of whatever was happening at the time I first got to know the piece, or to when I played it - but often, expecially with symphonies, it's also because it's just so beautiful.

Also Mozart oboe concerto (currently the only Mozart I actually *like*) and Bach's oboe / oboe d'amore concerti. Yay.

Savage garden-moon&back.... (;_;)

U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Garbage - Cup Of Coffee
The Cure - A Thousand Hours,Same Deep Water As You,Apart,Bloodflowers
The Cars - Drive
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Wallflowers - I Wish I Felt Nothing
Audioslave - Like A Stone

Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt.. not so much for the song, more what I associate it with. It is so easily associated with 2 major events which were very painful and so I simply cannot listen to the song at all - I pretend it doesn't exist. Except a day or so ago I was forced to hear it as I was somewhere where the choice of music was out of my control. Gosh that was hell!

Very deep song. Watching the video for this song, I noticed the open reel tape deck they were recording onto. I recorded this song onto a piece of tape on my deck. Watching the tape deck and listening as the song plays, I feel as though my life is a short as the tape running through the deck. The reels spinning rapidly on the decks fastest speed, the tape starts off thick on the reel when the song begins, and then shrinks down as the song plays until it ends and the end of the tape comes off the empty reel and quietly slips through and the deck shuts off.

I watched the movie "Cars" tonight, and while it was a light hearted movie, the song "Our town" James taylor wrote for it was very sad and I had to hold back the tears in the theater!

Oh, that's funny. You reminded me, there was a song in the original "Toy Story" about the kid growing up or something.

Speaking of wich... "Peter Pan" by Patty Griffin

Angel by Sarah McLachlan, He Walked On Water by Randy Travis, Honey by Bobby Goldsboro, and Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven, can make me cry for days, so I avoid listening to them if I possibly can.