Songs that REALLY make you cry

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  • lambertlambert 1,166 Posts
    What?
    Hallelujah?
    Just curious.

  • Ave Maria - most early versions
    Peter Moon Band - E Pili Mai (see translation)

  • asprinasprin 1,765 Posts
    First time I heard one of the Tizeta's on the Ethiopiques Mulatu CD, I felt super emo.

    Tizeta will do that to you holmes.

  • asprinasprin 1,765 Posts


    Jealous Guy, Hathaway version.



    Haven't heard the Lenon version but I'm sure it's just as

  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts


    Jealous Guy, Hathaway version.



    Haven't heard the Lenon version but I'm sure it's just as

    Shit is crazy. It's the OG. Dude is incredibly tender and heartfelt when he sung it. I believe written to Yoko after John's "lost weekend" in LA in the 70s.

  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    Speaking of Lennon, "Beautiful Boy" had me all fetalized when my first son was born.



  • agree on
    northern sky
    sam & otis
    martha
    astral weeks
    also
    n cave into my arms. this one really gets me .
    several nina simone
    soul fire l perry

  • LamontLamont 1,089 Posts
    Georges Delerue 'Theme De Camille' (Casino OST)


  • Korgis -Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

    Wow! I dodn't know anyone else remembered this song. I think someone covered it recently on a soundtrack (Beck maybe??)

    Otis Redding - Live version of 'I've Been Loving You Too Long'
    Diamond Joe - 'Fair Play' (New Orleans ballad raer)


  • "evil" by stevie wonder

    YES!!!!! also,

    Neil Young- Birds

    and cosine on the Gil Scott Heron, Carole King

    there's a lot of stuff really, but i don't know ya'll that well.

    What about songs that make you cry from happiness?

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson - Rivers of my fathers

    Gil Scott Heron - PIECES OF A MAN

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Aretha's All the King's Men gets me almost every time

  • Timi Yuro - It will never be over for me
    Johnny Cash - Hurt

  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    The Band- Tears of Rage
    Cat Stevens- Trouble
    Nina Simone- I Loves You Porgy
    Coltrane- Equinox


  • fiona apple - never is a promise

    OH HELLS YEAH!

    also

    mazzy star's "into dust"
    brian knight's "one last cry"
    archie shepp's "balm in gilead"

    to name a few. but i pretty much agree with everything on here...that i know of.


  • One I forgot, Brenda Lee's version of 'The Crying Game' (the best version IMO)...

  • The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
    Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
    Oscar Brown Jr. - Dat Dere (actually a happy song but it chokes me up)


  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    The Band- Tears of Rage
    Cat Stevens- Trouble
    Nina Simone- I Loves You Porgy
    Coltrane- Equinox

    the Band-It Makes No Difference

  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts
    hard to say goodbye - boyz to men
    It's all about the instrumental. J/K

    A lot of songs HAVE made me cry, but these consistently never fail:

    Charmels- Never Grow Old
    Billy Cobham- Heather
    Air- Mr. Man

  • Air- Jail Cell[/b]

  • Soul One's -This is My Prayer

  • the frickin' FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE
    roberta flack
    OR
    johnny cash

    also, darling be home soon by the lovin spoonful, because i'll never forget how it made it a girlfriend of mine cry once when it came up on a mixtape we were listening to on a driving trip.

    oh, once upon a time, otis redding's version of merry christmas baby made me cry.


  • mandrewmandrew 2,720 Posts
    ov wright "everybody knows the river song"
    fleetwood mac "prove your love"

  • knewjakknewjak 1,231 Posts
    the frickin' FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE

    johnny cash

    Totally.




    But what gets me though is Tom Petty (old or new). Every song of his seems to be about ditching your life and driving accoss country aimlessly never to return home again.

    Man, that shit gets me everytime.


  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    These two Christy Mcvie Fleetwood Mac tunes KILL me:





    Plus this :




  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    Can't forget some Isleys


  • parallaxparallax no-style-having mf'er 1,266 Posts
    Jazzanova - Little Bird ft. Jose James

    Pretz - Chapel Stile (you'll find it on YouTube)

    The Jazzanova track in particular reduces me to tears. If you can listen to it all the way through and feel nothing, you're definitely a replicant.

    The Pretz track puts a lump in my throat.



  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Whoever bumped this thread, hatechoo

  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    100+ song playlist of songs featured in this thread:


  • RishanRishan 454 Posts
    one that gets me every time is Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers. something about the piano on that just makes me flat out bawl. crazy

    Isleys - Highways of my life

    Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway - the closer I get to you (a lot of Donny actually, after knowing how the guy suffered)
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