Songs that make you sad...or choke u up

[Froggy]

Now idk if this ahs been done before, but i had an idea to post songs that make you cry or get you choked up in this thread







heres MC lyte, poor georgie.......this song got me all chokeded up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edv3V5u9f7o

[howyadoin]

Alice in Chains' "Down in a Hole" is a rough one for me.

[RickThunderclees]

Tom Waits - Time

[Ontir]

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt just tears me up.

I still have trouble getting through the finales of Rent dry-eyed.

[The Grand Beef]

Pretty much anything by Stephin Merritt.

~Richie!

[Matthew E]

Jackie DeShannon's 'When You Walk In the Room'
the Go-Go's 'Vacation'
B.J. Thomas's 'Rock'n'Roll Lullaby'

[TomGun13]

This may sound lame, but its a festive choice. Anyone know that song Christmas Shoes? Its about a kid wanting to buy this pair of shoes for his mom who is dying at Christmas but can't afford them. But this stranger ends up buying them for the kid to give to her.

Sad stuff. Heard it the other day on the radio and got a couple o' tears in the eyes.

[Serik]

"The Promise" by Bruce Springsteen. Painfully depressing song.

[Pinball]

"This House", Tracie Spencer

[Valmore]

R.E.M.'s "Let Me In" gets to me.

[zombie]

I'm still an emo kid at heart, so Brand New's "The No Seatbelt Song" gets to me every time I hear it.

[RickThunderclees]

I'm still an emo kid at heart, so Brand New's "The No Seatbelt Song" gets to me every time I hear it.
I hear ya :)

Also the Quiet Things that No one Ever Knows by the same band...

[DrewTheXenocide]

If I hear "Free Bird" at a certain time, I can get a little lumpy in the throat. That is until the bitchin' guitar solo comes up.

[Cody H]

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt just tears me up.I'll second that motion. "Mad World" by Gary Jules (from Donnie Darko) get's an honorable mention, as do "Sort Of A Protest Song" by Matthew Good Band, "Brick" by Ben Folds Five, and "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. Oh, and "Try, Try, Try" by The Smashing Pumpkins has the potential to get my eyes all watery when coupled with the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOygC5KVMjE

[Albert]

"Mr. Tanner" by Harry Chapin gets me every time. I can't listen to it if I've had a few drinks or the tears threaten to spill.

[Fish Sauce]

"Dust In The Wind" by Kansas.

I agree with Wish You Were Here, too.

Oh, and "Blow Up The Pokies" and "The Curse Stops Here" by The Whitlams.

[Frodo-X]

"Into the West" by Annie Lennox.



Sometimes "My Immortal" will get me, only because it reminds me of FRIENDS.

[leonaozaki]

"Pancho and Lefty," as sung by Emmylou Harris.
"Lay Down Your Weary Tune," Bob Dylan.

rob

[Gargus]

PInk floyd - the final cut.

That one always did make me all sad. And I always loved it because I didnt know what final cut meant until the last sentence or so in the song, it all came together.

Sarah mchlachlan - Angel.
Now thats just a damn sad song if I ever heard one.

[WebSlinger]

Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Al Green - How Can You Mend This Broken Heart
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Postal Service - Nothing Better
Lamb - Gorecki

[The Foreigner]

Romulus by Sufjan Stevens.

It's always that last "I was ashamed; I was ashamed of her..." that gets to me... :(

[G. Wayne]

Rammstein - Stirb nicht vor mir (Don't die before I do)


Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt just tears me up.
...

The video multiplies the effect a good bit, too.

[Ilash]

The Beatles - For No One
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Gary Jules - Mad World
George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty

[Albert]

Others that get to me...

"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Caroll" ~ Bob Dylan
"Joey" ~ Concrete Blonde
"Who Wants To Live Forever" ~ Queen
"Keep Me in your Heart" ~ Warren Zevon

[SoulOnIce]

Mother - John Lennon

[Agent Helix]

"Styrofoam Plates" ~ Death Cab for Cutie

[Ilash]

Mother - John Lennon

One of the the rare songs that I find genuinely uncomfortable to listen too, it really is that personal and intimate. A true corker of a song.

[TheLazy]

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt just tears me up.


Ill second that:(

And I was keeping kleenex afloat onetime when I'd just broke up with this girl (woman, whatever you call them nowadays) and was listening to Boxcar Racer's There Is.

[Lubichev]

Abba's "Winner Takes It All"
Paul McCartney's "Here Today"
The traditional Irish tune "Kilkenny"

[Hippy-san]

Lynyrd Skynyrd 'The ballad of Curtis Lowe'
Oasis 'Don't look back in anger'
Turin Brakes 'Self help'

and now i'm feeling blue...

[The Punished]

To the girl that got away...

Your body is a Wonderland by John Mayer
Picture by Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow

[Aggie]

brown baby-nina simone
strange fruit-nina simone
god bless the child-billie holiday
down to the river-alison krauss
maybe-alison krauss
what's goin' on- marvin gaye
why-annie lennox
the hurting time-annie lennox