Music that makes you cry when you just think about it, let alone listen to it?

[Mintyy]

Mine is the theme tune to the 70s tv series Black Beauty. The closing credits with the black horse galloping through the wheat field.

Sheesh, I am getting all silly just typing that.

I would definitely cry if I were to see/hear it.

Nimrod (Elgar). It never fails to move me when it's played every Remembrance Sunday.

Bee Gees- our love (don't throw it all away)
George Michael - waiting for that day
Sound of music- Edelweiss
Glenn Miller-string of pearls
Everley Brothers- walk right back
The Carpenters- Superstar
Charles Aznavour- Dance in the old fashioned way
Gwen Stefani- Cool

Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli was played as we walked out of my granddad's funeral in October. I chose the songs for the service and picked that one as Andrea Bocelli is completely blind, and my granddad always told me "he was completely blind and made a name for himself. You might be visually impaired but you can do anything you want. Don't let your impairment define who you are."

Also "Time of your Life" by Green Day. We had Nathan Carter's cover version as people were coming in for my granddad's funeral. It was on the last CD I ever bought him, and I had a great time explaining that a song he really liked, was a cover of a rock song. He was very set in his ways with music and didn't like rock :)

I miss him :(

Luther Vandross - Dance with my father

everlong I'm so sorry you lost your DS.

Mine is Scattered Black and Whites by Elbow. It's beautiful. I think the song is about visiting your grandparents. I love mine more than life irsrlf and the line "And he talks of people ten years gone like I've known them all my life, my scattered black and whites" makes me well up.

I think it's because it resonates with me and all the people my nan and grandad have told me about. I never knew my great grandparents but I feel like I do.

Itself. Bloody phone.

Shower The People by James Taylor. My mum chose that for her funeral. We saw him play live at Edinburgh Castle 2 days before her diagnosis.

You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn't written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
If it feels nice, don't think twice

Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

Somewhere Out There by Linda Ronstadt, You'll Never Walk Alone and Fix You by Coldplay. We played these at our son's funeral.

A few have already been mentiined.
Yes definitely Philadelphia by Neil Young (can't think of the film without welling up!)

Everybody Hurts - saw REM un concert a week after the London Bombings and they dedicated the song to the victims. Don't think there was a dry eye in the house.

Also..Danny Boy. All versions but the Johnny Cash one is probably the worst for making me teary!

Oh and These were the days by Queen. Sob.

Autumnstar yes completely agree re. Scattered Bla c k and Whites. Really beautiful and yes all those memories of childhood.

Agree with Everybody Hurts too mewkins. We obviously have impeccable taste .

Leona Lewis Better in time always reminds me of a very sad time in my life when I got home to find my then H of 14 years had left me whilst I was at work. Things did get better but even now 4 years later this song can transport me back and make me cry

Such sad songs and stories on this thread.

I have an, ahem, electic mix!! Elgar Cello Concerto. Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel. White wine in the sun by Tim Minchin. The Coventry Carol and most carols sung by children.

But the one that gives me a physical ache in my chest is the Postman pat theme on a CD the kids like!! I remember putting it on for DS2 as it seemed to soothe him as a baby. I used to take him upstairs for his nap, put the CD on, feed him and rock him to this PP theme tune. By the end of the song he would be fast asleep and I'd gently place him in his cot. We had it down to the second. Remember thinking at the time that this moment would be fleeting and, by god, I was right. He is now 4 and those baby days are long gone....

Stevie Nicks. "Desert Angel" For our soldiers away from home and their families.

I'm sorry for some of your stories, this thread is making me feel really sad.

Another song that makes me weep is 'She' by Elvis Costello, it's beautiful but if I hear it, I'm in floods in seconds thinking of my DD.

Randomly, another one is 'A whole new world' by Peabo Bryson and someone else? I adore it and often think of having 'Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling, through an endless diamond sky' on my gravestone when I die

Palmtree did you know Seasons in the sun is a version of a French song by Jacques Brel? m.youtube.com/watch?v=h02pNUKInBo

The mood of the French version is very different, much more "rage, rage against the dying of the light".

jesus, remember me
footprints in the sand

waaaaaa

Now we are free - by hans zimmer from gladiator
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Circle of life - from the lion king
Exitlude - the killers
Leona lewis - run - it should be cheesy but it just isn't!
Tha recent song by rudimental and emilie sande I think it's called 'I am free', I have been crying hearing it on the way to work!
She moved through the fair - sinead o'connor from the Michael Collins film
Black is the colour - Christy moore
The town I loved so well - the dubliners

Reading these with tears rolling down my face.

Adding Mozart Clarinet Concerto Adagio and Somewhere Over The Rainbow (the Hawaiian version - it's beautiful).

In Metal - Low
Amazing Grace
Walking in a Winter Wonderland (WTF?)
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley version, all the others can do one
Anything by a brass band/Salvation Army band/Welsh male voice choir has me in bits

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
And yy to loads of Johnny Cash songs - something about his voice lends extra gravitas, and sadness, to almost everything he sings.

Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House. I saw a proper shite version of it on Glee the other day and it still made me well up.

Just when I needed you most - Van Warmer
Undone - Alice Temple
The Swan - Cello
My smile is just a frown turned upside down - Carole Crawford
Silent all these years - Tori Amos
One 9f us - Abba
Bring him home - Les Miserables
Crazy in love - Antony and the johnsons
The water song - kate winslet - romance and cigarettes
Amy Winehouse - Love is A Losing Game
Hedonism - Skunk Anansie
In the wee small hours - Frank Sinatra
Katie Perry - The one that got away
Seventeen - Janis

too many others

Wires by athlete
First baby bit tiny, not in special care but did give me wobbly bottom lip every time I heard it at the time she was born

vonherr we had that too for ds. Absolutely beautiful and still gets me too.