Songs that REALLY make you cry
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I can't listen to Archie Whitewater's Cross Country without being very very close to crying no matter how I felt before. Most definitely the best song I know. I listened to it this morning. I love every single note of it. It touches my soul. Really!What's your favorite sentimentalizing song? There's gotta be at least one song that makes you feel melancholic.
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Joe Bataan's Ordinary Guy
"Mama's Dead" from the Black Ceasar soundtrack.
That's one song that I hope I'll never have to be comforted by.
There are a few songs that bagpipe and drum bands play that knock me out too, like Amazing Grace, Danny Boy, and one other one that I forget the name.
so hard to say goodbye to yesterday - boyz to men (played at my friend's funeral...vox are crazy on that track)
It's funny, people don't even realize what a damn depressing song that is - they think "oh, cheezy 70's AM radio hit" and hum along to the melody, but that last verse is some devastating shit, really raw and sad as hell.
This might get me laughed at, but the songs that get to me the most tend to be old standards, stuff like:
"Why Try To Change Me Now" by Frank Sinatra
"A Ghost of a Chance" by Chet Baker
"If You Could See Me Now" by Billy Eckstine
"Lush Life" by Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane
and so on and so on, when I wanna wallow in my sorrows, I bust out the old
Jazz vocal records and pour some scotch...
Tommy Dorsey f/ Frankie- I'll Never Smile Again
Ella- Dream A Little Dream
Tom Waits- Heart Of Saturday Night
I think the brilliance of this song, it that the lyrics are on some slit your wrist vibes while the piano/melody is sooooo happy sounding, it phucks up your head on some left brain vs right brain tip....i almost wish the lyrics were different so i could listen to it more often without feeling like wearing a trenchcoat and painting my nails black
also a song that makes me feel sad is
jeff buckleys last goodbye...more eerie since he died after that album that track was on...and another tune on that album "halleliah", is it a leonard cohen cover? anyhow his vocals with his guitar is just....
Clifford Coulter - Before the Morning Comes
what a track!
Follow - Ritchie Havens
No really, if I've been drinking, with cause, Edith Frost's "Calling Over Time" will usually do it for me.
No, seriously???
Marvin Gaye - "Flying High (In The Friendly Sky)". That song can make me cry over some of the stupid shit I saw people do to themselves, and it always kept me in check when I was starting to go too far into something I knew was strictly downhill. The ultimate addiction song in my book. That line about "I know I???m hooked my friend -To the boy who makes slaves out of men" is so on point. I had the lyrics hanging on the wall for a long time, as a reminder. In fact, a lot of Marvin's stuff can be tearjerking.
Co-sign.
Wholy Holy touches me.
Yess...
and I'll add
"It's so hard to say goodbye" by Boyz II Men
"what a wonderful world" by Sachmo
"Summertime" by Al Green
Plus a lotta the other ones you sensitive muhfuckas have listed.
i love you pops despite everything.
When I was in high school it was Mobb Deep's " Drink Away the Pain"
"At the time, singing the anthem was for the most part a straightforward job -- shoulders square, sing it straight like the hymn that it is. But for this game, Gaye took the anthem to a new level.
Lon Rosen remembers it well -- he was the director of promotions for the Los Angeles Lakers, the team hosting the All-Star game that year. He says Gaye's one rehersal was bumpy. By this point in his life, Gaye was battling a serious drug addiction. And on game day, the singer was running perilously late. But then the lights dimmed, and Gaye made history.
One year later, Marvin Gaye was dead, shot by his own father."
How about Aretha's fill-in for Pavarotti at the Grammys a few years back? 8 minutes of prep time, and she sang Nessu dorma, a big Puccini piece. It was insane and really emotional.
I'd go with this also or probablly "A Change Is Gonna Come."
Way to hard to pick just one by Otis...there are tons.
That's a good one.
Also "Theme From Spartacus", and yes, Kanyeezy's "Hey Mama". It came on in the car the other day and I had to shut it off cause it hit a little too close to home.
You work late nights just to keep on the lights
...
Seven years old, caught you with tears in your eyes
Cuz a nigga cheatin, telling you lies, then I started to cry
As we knelt on the kitchen floor
I said mommy Imma love you till you don't hurt no more