What music brings tears to your eyes?

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Something In The Way - Nirvana

REM - Boy In The Well

James Blunt - Cry

Stonesour - ZZYZX Road

Led Zeppilin - Stairway To Heaven

Photograph by Ringo Starr, because it's a song about divorces.

Vaughan Williams -- The Lark Ascending
If I could play this piece on the violin the way it should be played, I'd never leave the house.
Copland -- Symphony No 3
It's so majestic and "American" -- fanfaring for the common man -- that I get all idealistic and hopeful.
Soundtrack to "Braveheart" -- the memory of the movie in the midst of all those modal melodies? Forget it.
Death Cab for Cutie -- Title and Registration
I love the idea of a random search for a mundane object can produce all the pain of a failed relationship.
Radiohead -- High and Dry
If I hear this song once, I must listen to it over and over for the rest of the day.
PJ Harvey -- The Desperate Kingdom of Love
Simple, beautiful, direct with a theme like a Donne Holy Sonnet.
Peter Gabriel -- Here Comes the Flood
This song got to me before Katrina. Now I have even more reason.
Bob Dylan -- Ballad in Plain D
After a few drinks, I sing this one like it happened to me. The last verse is Dylan at his best:

Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me,
"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"
And I answer them most mysteriously,
"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

I also second the notion of Soundgarden's "Like Suicide" and The Smiths "Please Please" but include "Unloveable." Heck, I'd probably include half The Smiths catalog.

I'm not the kind of listener who consistently has the same chill or teary-eyed reaction to his favorite songs every single time he listens to them, but here are some songs that I've had some STRONG reactions to, sometimes lasting for two days...


If I imagine a story to it, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A minor ( chills + tears)
Ridicuiod- Cannibal Ox feat El-P (intense chills, possibly tears)
Lune TNS (song no. 7 on Company Flow's Funcrusher Plus)- Bigg Jus (chills + tears, depending on what I imagine listening to it)
Taco Day-Mr.Len and Jean Grae (chills)
Many works by Satie and Ravel and Chopin (chills)
Beach Boys-I just wasn't made for these times (chills)
Count Bass D-Katrina and Rita (strong chills)
"Love" from the Disney Animated Movie Robin Hood (chills + tears)
RPM per Minute-Slug and El-P (chills)
Lost and Found-Atmosphere (chills, sing along with it occasionally)
RJD2-I really like your Def Jux baby tee (if I imagine a story to it)(chills)
The Dirty Projectors-My Offwhyte Flag (chills)
Clouddead- Jimmybreeze 2 (Chills)
Sage Francis-Broken Wings, Message Sent (Chills)
De La Souls 3 feet High and Rising can put me in a good mood like that

The song Take Me Home, Country Roads sometimes through my mind when being driven home from somewhere a long way from home when I've had a stressful time. When that happens I find that surprisingly moving. I even sing it.

Anyone who likes Ben Folds should also check out David Ford. He should have a new album out this year and having heard some of the songs at his gigs I think it's going to be stunning.

There's a song called "Burn the Remains" by Cerulean (the album is called Brighter Still, available from the excellent CD Baby website) which is all about destroying old photographs...

"This one's of me and you
staring into the sun
As if we both knew
We would be over by now...

This one's brighter still,
with hands that hide our eyes
And say we'd grow far away
but I never noticed til now...

So go, where you know
it's softer and safer than I will ever know
Share the blame
as I burn the remains of this old flame

*CHORUS*
And I was so afraid, of the slow life
where everything is wonderful
Don't let me leave my blue-eyed world
behind."


That isn't the entire song but you get the idea. It reminds me so much of one particular ex-girlfriend that I can't listen to it any more. An amazing song, but I can't handle it.

Sorry everyone, just realised I've said all this before. And with much better formatting last time, too...

It's sounds cliche, but Elliott Smith, "waltz #2"

Streets of London - by Cat Stevens

If I were to actually cry over a piece of music it would have to be:

'War On Drugs' by BNL

'Hello' by Evanescence

or 'False Echos' by Jimmy Buffet

Sinead O'Conner - "Love Hurts"
Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb"

Someone saves my life tonite- elton john
Goodbye my lover- james blunt
most stuff by Five for fighting& the bealtles& rolling stone. I don't know it just makes me think all sorts of great ideas, and ideas really move me for some reason.

various classical music. I was at this concert by these friends of a friend. They are three young women who sing in a sort of Fiona Apple-ish style. They could do it.

This song always does it for me. I think it's because of the guitar solo.

When I first heard this remake of this song by The pillows, my eyes started watering. SO~ pretty ^^

http://www.buckandping.com/music/remixes/chicken.mp3

here's the lyrics.

http://www.pirouzu.net/lyrics/busters/hybrid.html

Mozart's "Symphony 40", his "Symphonia for Violin/Viola/Cello", and perhaps the most beautiful song ever written his "Rondo Alla Turca".

Gorgeous, Herr Mozart, gorgeous. I weep at the swelling viola/violin parts in "Symphonia" every time.


Also, Bach's organ/harpsichord (klavier) rendition of his original "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring".