SONGS that make you CRY

[JACOK]

(or almost make you cry?)

1.Elliott Smith - Angeles / Between the Bars

2.Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

3.Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy, pt.2 / Holland 1945 / In the Areoplane Over the Sea

4.Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

5.Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

6.Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness

7.Slowdive - Here She Comes

8.The National - Val Jester

9.My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes

10. and some more

I'm just curious

[siro]

2.Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

I definitely second that one and add Savannah Smiles, Starry Stares, Red and

Chocolate Hearts - Mt. Egypt
Redemption Song - Joe Strummer

and maybe many more

[HannahRain]

Songs: Ohia - Coxcomb Red

Songs don't really make me cry, but this one is a killer. Makes me feel like a goddamn Dali painting.

[Black Sheep Girl]

Oooooo, good topic.

Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
Emily's in Heaven - Jackie Greene
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley version of the Leonard Cohen classic
Flyin' Shoes - Townes Van Zandt
Kathleen - Townes Van Zandt
Far Behind - Candlebox

Others I am forgetting, but I distinctly remember these tracks messing me up at one point or another.

No OR song has ever made me cry.

Songs: Ohia is a good call. I am going to revisit that album tonight.

[MrWarandieBoy]

neutral milk hotel... oh, about half of 'in the aeroplane over the sea'. and 'little birds'.

elliott smith's trio of 'a fond farewell', 'kings crossing' and 'twilight'.

radiohead... hmm, 'let down', 'pyramid song', 'videotape', 'no surprises', 'motion picture soundtrack'.

godspeed you! black emperor's 'she dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field'.



a glow has brought me to tears. that guitar solo, man.

[sadistikal]

I repress my real feelings, like a real man.

[Dan]

No OR song has ever made me cry.

How? On just about any of the albums there is at least one utterly move-you-to-tears gorgeous song - I think I'd have to go with Seas Too Far To Reach as the epitome of this. Or may Listening To Otis Redding... there are too many to chose from!

[Coppelia]

I don't recall ever actually shedding tears, but I've come close many, many times. I'll second "Let Down" and third or fourth "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea".

Devotchka- "How It Ends"
Andrew Bird- "Weather Systems"
Rolling Stones- "Moonlight Mile"
Okkervil River- "The War Criminal Rises and Speaks" (first OR song I ever heard)
Bob Dylan- "Queen Jane Approximately"
The Beatles- "Julia", "For No One", and probably several others
Trinh Cong Son/Khanh Ly- "Bai Ca Cho Nhung Xac Nguoi"
Shearwater- "Hail, Mary"
Pyotr Tchaikovsky- Sugar Plum Grand Pas de Deux

[Black Sheep Girl]

No OR song has ever made me cry.

How? On just about any of the albums there is at least one utterly move-you-to-tears gorgeous song - I think I'd have to go with Seas Too Far To Reach as the epitome of this. Or may Listening To Otis Redding... there are too many to chose from!

Don't get me wrong - its not that the songs aren't beautiful, its just they have not brought me to tears. The songs that really get me are ones about death, suicide, and seriously damaged hearts. All of the songs I listed above have very specific personal stories behind them, which I won't bore you with.

I actually like OR's more upbeat songs than the mellow, sad ones. To me they are so much more creative than the poppy crap that dominates most of indie rock.

Otis Redding though...good call! "Dreams to Remember" = Gulp!

[Bless This Tiny Alley]

eesh.. where to start?

"It Ends with a Fall" by OR (it really reminds me of a past relationship that kinda changed my life)
"Two Headed Boy Part 2" by Neutral Milk Hotel (especially when it kicks in with "And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying")
"Happy" by the Wrens
"Julia" by the Beatles
"The Mistress Witch of McClure (or, the mind that knows itself)" by Sufjan Stevens
"Weather Reports" by Bright Eyes

[purplesmile]

Fantastically sad:

1. Sunken Treasure - Wilco
2. Pitseleh - Elliot Smith
3. Sunflower - Low
4. True love will find you in the end - Daniel Johnston
5. Red - Okkervil River
6. Bankrupt on selling - Modest Mouse
7. I wish I was the moon - Neko Case
8. In the dark - American Princes
9. Song for my mother - Mt. Egypt
10. Maybe not - Cat Power

[ladyday]

"what sarah said" and "i will follow you into the dark" by death cab for cutie. i'm really not a crier, so i don't know what it is about dcfc...

[nickvb]

I second bankrupt on selling and motion picture soundtrack!

I don't cry but these ones come close:

a silver mount zion - triumph of our tired eyes
animal collective - doggy
bright eyes - a celebration upon completion, amy in the white coat, the difference in the shades, poison oak,
elliott smith - everything means nothing to me
godspeed you! black emperor - monologue of static
great lake swimmers - moving pictures, silent films
iron and wine - upward over the mountain
the microphones - i felt your shape
modest mouse - Novocain stain
mogwai - cody
okkervil river - maine island lovers
promise ring - red and blue jeans
tom mcrae - mermaid blues
wilco - lonely one

[kerrie]

"Names" - Cat Power

[Fluke]

I don't think I've ever cried to a song...

Sigur Ros' "Glosoli" or "Staralfur" would probably be the songs that have affected me the most. But not to the point of openly crying...