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.

blurredlines I was going to post the same! especially knowing it was about his little boy who died
also dance with my father again

I dreamed a dream from les miserables
also the one where fantine dies and Jean Val Jean dies, and empty chairs at empty tables. Okay maybe the whole film there is a reason it's called les mis I suppose!

ghost - wail! That's really set me off now.

Thousands are Sailing by the Pogues - "Did you work upon the railroad/ Did you rid the streets of crime/ Did you buy a shot at happiness from the five and dime?" It's one that I am really hoping that nobody ever covers - it wouldn't be as sad without Shane's rasp.

Song for Athene by John Tavener. I said the In Paradisium over my mum as she died, and the music encapsulates it perfectly. "May flights of angels send thee to thy rest.."

Moonlight Sonata
YY to Wires by Athlete
Dream Letter by Tim Buckley

Hymn-wise, I watch the sunrise gets me every time.

yes in the ghetto is a heartbreaking song

when i was a chil like a bridge over troubled water used to make me cry I have no idea why

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I dreamed a dream from les miserables
also the one where fantine dies and Jean Val Jean dies, and empty chairs at empty tables. Okay maybe the whole filmgrin there is a reason it's called les mis I suppose!

i do housework to the les mis album hoovering with tears running down your face really perks you up I get a lump at on my own, Bring him Home nope not a thing my friend says im heartless

Dance with my father and Mamas Arms

Military Wives - Wherever You Are.
My Army DS was in Afghanistan at the time, I could hardly listen to it.

Wonderful World - was played at a friends funeral

If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time - discovered on the iPod of a soldier killed in Afghanistan

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVRMP2BQ00&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DufVRMP2BQ00

First heard the above on House how to fight lonliness by Wilco.

www.muzu.tv/willy-mason/we-can-be-strong-kt-tunstall-version-music-video/157499/

We can be strong Willy Mason I heard this on Fresh Meat bought a lump to my throat.

Someone upthread mentioned the Goodnight song from CBeebies, for the same reason i well up at the tune to In the night garden. I told DH and he had tears in his eyes too!!

Fairytale of New York
Chasing Cars and Run both by Snow Patrol
(All three above also remind me of my late BFF)

Someone mentioned the Last Post - i am welling up now as it makes me think of Grandad. It wasnt played at his funeral but it should have been

Sod it - i am now weeping at this thread!

Third post - but remembered the song which has the lines "let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London". Makes me well up just thinking about it.

Modern music rarely makes me cry unless it has particular resonance for a situation I'm in or something, so Flaming Lips Do You Realise when my uncle was dying for example. Also Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven because the associations with it are so sad.

I'm not a classical music fan but it is classical music that makes me cry. two I can think of off the top of my head are

O Mio Babbino Caro by Puccino
Nessun Dorma (more Puccini)
The Pearl Fishermen - another classic, someone mentioned it upthread, it's Bizet.

I'm a big electric music fan btw, daft punk, kraftwerk, basement jaxx, digitalism, all would have been more my thing than classical music. I just don't cry to it!

Classical music seems to be more emotional to me than modern music.

Mike and The Mechanics song The Living Years - it was playing on the radio the day my Dad died and it's all about the singers dad dying

I should really have learned by now not to read these threads at work!

For me, the one guarateed to get me howling is 'The Dark Isle' played on bagpipes. We piped my Dad to his grave at the funeral to that. The other one that gets me is 'Danced With My Father' but I can't remember who sings it. I was driving the first time I heard that and I nearly crashed the damn car because I could barely see through the tears

Yes yes to Breathe Me by Sia.

Also Youth by Daughter. So beautiful.

Lost & Found by Lianne Las Havas.

Jealous and I by Torres.

(Yes I am going through a break-up!)

Honor Him from the Hans Zimmer Gladiator soundtrack.

Gnossienne (sp?) by Erik Satie

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber

Love is Blindness by U2

Music to Watership down....can't even watch the film.

Lots of these on here. Like a pp, it would probably be quicker to name the songs which don't make me cry.

Chasing cars reminds me of being in hospital with DS1 as a baby (came on the hospital radio as we lay there).

'Parigi, O Cara' from La Traviata.

Pity the Child and Anthem from Chess

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Leona Lewis' cover of Run. Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez.

from Brassed Off. Quite possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever written, and perfect for a brass band.

Annies song by John Denver.

Loved it since a very little girl, My Dad used to whistle the tune to me all the time, then when I got married I persuaded H to have it as our first dance... it was one of the most memorable parts of the day and I ended up in floods of happy tears.

Fast forward, and H turned out to be a lying, cheating, scum bag twunt, and now whenever I hear this song I am FURIOUS that I now intrinsically associate something which I love so very much, with him. I love the words, they are so simple and so much about being in love, which he absolutely trampled on. I am so sad I can't listen to it in the same way ever again, when it is my favourite song of all time. Emotionally it surpasses the first dance I subsequently have had with my absolutely wonderful now DH which also makes me cross!

Plus, it seems to be having a resurgence, so I can't avoid it. It was used on an advert recently and last night it was on the one show. I simply can't listen to it without it changing my whole mood. Plus of course John Denver went on to die tragically and relatively young, so that makes me bawl too........

There is a Delta Goodrem song called "Be Strong" which I listened to a lot when we lost our little boy in 2005. Even thinking of the lyrics of that song now makes me come over in goosebumps and well up with tears. It is a very good song - the lyrics are very soothing and empowering.

in fact I'm going to share them......

Are you swimming upstream in oceans of blue?
Do you feel like your sinking?
Are you sick of the rain after all you've been through?
Well I know what you're thinking
When you can't take it
You can make it
Sometime soon I know you'll see

'cause when your in you're darkest hour
And all of the light just fades away
When you're like a single flower whose colours have turned to shades of grey
Well hang on and be strong

Where taking each step one day at a time
You can't loose your spirit
Let live and let live forget and forgive
It's all how you see it
And just remember keep it together
Don't you know you're never alone

'cause when you're in your darkest hour
And all of the light just fades away
When you're like a single flower whose colours have turned to shades of grey
Well hang on, and be strong

No you're not defeated
And soon you'll be smiling once again
Then you won't have to feel it
Let it go with the wind
Time passes us by
And know that you're aloud to cry

'cause when you're in your darkest hour
And all of the light just fades away
When you're like a single flower whose colours have turned to shades of grey
Well hang on and be strong

Most of my favourite songs are the saddest ones I know. Off the top of my head, my list is:

Hurt, Johnny Cash
Exit Music (for a film), Radiohead
Perfect Day, Lou Reed
Fix You, Coldplay
Playground Love, Air
Wise Up, Aimee Mann

And right now, Real Love by The Beatles, because I sing it to my 8 month old DD and I love her more than I could ever have imagined.

Catch The Wind by Donovan.

My friend and I used to listen to this as teenagers and sigh over the boys we liked who didn't like us back. She was killed when she was 27 and if it ever comes on the radio now, it stops me in my tracks. Funnily enough, it makes me smile too because it brings back some wonderful memories.

The theme tune to Birds of a feather, which is annoying as it seems to be played a lot at the minute.

It's just so depressing and reminds me of Sunday nights before school when I was younger