I'm posting this thread to find out what music pulls on people's heart stings so much they can't hold back the tears....

………I find it funny in the fact that I could be happy as 'Larry' one minute, then reduced to a Big Ball of mess, by only listening to one song from my certain sad list…..

I’ve Checked past threads and they only thing I came close to finding was best film scores…..

So please Post I’m very fascinated in Music that make’s you really cry even the hardest of men too……..through shear intensity of the score or personal connection…..

My top 5 list would be in no particular order;

1. Adagio For Strings – Barber
2. Schindler's List
3. Casper's Lullaby
4. Braveheart - End Credits
5. Black Hawk Down - Minstrel Boy

The American National Anthem
"America, the Beautiful"

Baron Max

"Dueling Banjos" Deliverance Soundtrack

Greenbird by yoko kanno.

I've never cried for the music I'm listening to but have done so with the movie along with the music.Here's a few of those movies and its their main theme that is what gets to me along with the visuals.

Somewhere In Time

Dr. Zchivago

Bambi

Banjo music makes my eyes smart.

If that counts..

"American Pie" by Don McLean is a sad song, though I personally have never cried to it.

Stairway to Heaven - The solo makes me want to cry.

An die Schoner Blau Donau. The whole thing of it is most excellent.
Basically, any classical music.
And "Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden"

Ministry: Piss

*sob sob*


Dimvert? How 'bout some Bach?
I would prefer that with a Jack Nicholson analogy.

Beatles: Let it Be

Dimvert? How 'bout some Bach?

Ah. Bach. Lovely.
Contrapunctus, of course. Or the Goldberg Variations.

I would prefer that with a Jack Nicholson analogy.

"Here's Johnny!!"

Good enough for you?
Nah. I didn't even try, did I? Hmm. Jack Nicholson. Jack Nicholson. I've already done Five Easy Pieces... What else might fit the bill?
Sorry. I'm short on Nicholson parables at the moment.

How about Clint Eastwood?

"Left turn, Clyde."

Nah. That doesn't work either...
Hmm.


Oh. And as to Ministry. I like So What better. Or Just One Fix.

All the music written by Howard Shore in the Lord of the Rings movies. Very moving stuff when combined with the awesome visuals.

King of the heart sting pullers would have to be "Hans Zimmer"

Usually anything done by people who don't have a clue about how music is made yet still get to the top of charts makes my heart cry. Humanity ain't what it used to be.

Greenbird by yoko kanno.

I know exactly what you mean...
Most of CBB's music is amazing.

Kom Susser Todd?

Mosr to the main topic though, is you are looking for depressing as hell, how about some amiee mann, or long december by the counting crows.

I love the score in "American Beauty". It stayed with me ever since I saw the film ... long ago.

'Somewhere My Love', from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivargo.

There are so many songs that make me cry that it would be difficult to list them. They're all songs of lost or unrequited love. I'll mention two by artists who are not best-sellers so you've probably never heard them, in case you want to look them up: Only Once, by Maria McKee; Walk Away, by Marti Jones.

Then, as a singer, there are the songs that make me cry when I sing them. There are a couple that I have difficulty even doing because my voice breaks and ruins the singing: Me and Bobby McGee, by Kris Kristofferson; Long Long Time, by Linda Ronstadt. They bring back memories of particular eras and particular lost loves that touched me more deeply than most.

Hallelujah by the late Jeff Buckley is a song I find very emotional.

music shouldn´t make one cry ... but well , of course many people love that feeling !
i don´t love it , so i don´t listen to something that is only made so that i feel the pain of others ( assuming the artist is so honest - and if he isn´t , it´s not even worth to talk about )

Everything By YANNI

Black By Pearl Jam i suppose is OK. but i was mesmerized by O Fortuna the first time i heard it.Then there is song called Fear by sarah mc...umm...High hopes by Pink Floyd, Paul Okenfold stuff (some of the songs are that way).

Ode to Joy...when you actually hear someone sing the words...it's fuckin' awesome, especially if you KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN...which I do. I know it by heart in German, and a loose translation in English.

I'm posting this thread to find out what music pulls on people's heart stings so much they can't hold back the tears....

@hapsburg .... ode to joy !?
if you can´t hold back tears , then you must be doing something wrong :p

Then there is song called Fear by sarah mc...umm...That whole album "Fumbling towards Ecstasy" by Sara McLachlan is a real tear-jerker. The title song is great and also "Hold On," plus of course the two mixes of her big hit "Possession." Those Canadian chanteuses have had the gold medals in that kind of song ever since the days of Joni Mitchell. Have you heard Jann Arden? ("Insensitive," "Kitchen Window," "Living under June")

Anything by Iron and Wine is pretty emotional for me. Especially the song Fever Dream.

Mosr to the main topic though, is you are looking for depressing as hell

Does only sadness prompt tears?

Contrapunctus isn't sad at all.

The Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha, and Blank Page.
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film), and How to Dissapear Completely
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Hayden - Dynamite Walls
The Cure - Lullaby, Homesick
Explosions in the Sky - Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
Sigur Ros - Violar Vel Till Loftarassa
also, Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (shoreline) for making me feel so happy!

@hapsburg .... ode to joy !?
if you can´t hold back tears , then you must be doing something wrong :p
Tears?
Nah, I just think it's sentiment kicks ass.
I don't cry during songs, that's effeminite.

I admit my lack of refinement. I like Mama I'm Comin' Home by Ozzy Osbourne.

silence

Amazing Grace by Judy Collins

I admit my lack of refinement. I like Mama I'm Comin' Home by Ozzy Osbourne.That's a really nice song. So is "Revelation Mother Earth." Have you discovered the wonderful stuff off of his last three albums with Black Sabbath, the ones that the hard-core metalheads sneer at? "Gypsy," "Junior's Eyes," "Rock and Roll Doctor," "You Won't Change," "All Moving Parts," "Dirty Women," "The Thrill of It All," "Megalomania"...

Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays

Gerry Rafferty. "Baker Street".

Great Stuff Fraggle Rocker. Looking beyond his antics, there is much sincerity to be found in his music.