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.

Perfect Day is my favourite song of all time.

The clue is in the MN username

So many of them, and so very glad I spent them with the people I did.

Bird of Sorrow by Glen Hansard. Discovered it when DH and I were having problems and sobbed my heart out as it just expressed exactly how I felt. Feel choked just thinking about it now!

Johnny Cash's version of In My Life gets me every time, no idea why as The Beatles version leaves me cold.

The Damned have a song called The Limit Club which was written about the death of Malcolm Owen from the Ruts but it really reminds me of a friend who died suddenly not long after its release: The lyrics haunt me:

If fools wanna dance let the music play
So much unsung so much so say
Like velvet claws the night unfolds
Its secret bare, its story told
I had a friend, heaven and hell
His life was short he lived it well
The limits here, the time is now
I'd like to lead you better, how

Also, since seeing the terminally ill Wilko Johnson perform Johnny B Goode last month and getting the crowd waving and singing bye-bye, I doubt I will be able to listen to it again without wailing.

Also 'When you come back down' by Nickel Creek. Reminds me of when DD was a baby and the overwhelming love I felt and imagining her growing up. She's 12 now and I played it to her not long ago. We both sat there sobbing!

Lady Antebellum - Need you now. Played at my friends funeral, i cant listen to it now at all, even started crying at a meal when it came on. I have to turn it off now.

jellytots I think the record you mean is called " streets of London" and is sang by Ralph Mctell

Sorry, haven't read the whole thread but

Songbird by Eva Cassidy

and

Kissing you by Desirae

has me bawling.......!!!!!

mummylin - yes that is it!

YY to Johnny Cash's Hurt & In My Life. There are quite a few other JC ones that get me too, especially the hymns he recorded after June died.

Lots of ones that have already been mentioned, but I'd like to add:

I watched about 2 seconds of that video just to try & locate where the music started & completely freaked out when it did & had to close the window before I started bawling! I think it's about a third of the way in...! Tammy Cochran's

A lot of you have said mine..TYpu are My Sunshine and Scarlet Robbons the main ones but also try

..The Dance..Garth Brooks
And Me and The Elephant..not sure who by but it's the line " the monkey forgot ya, the zebras forgot ya, the polar bears and tigers too...but me and the elephant well never forget you" ..or something like that!

Ti sento - Ligabue
Who's gonna drive you home - The Cars
I'm not in love - 10 cc

George Michael "You have been loved" about losing a child.

George Michael "You have been loved" about losing a child.

Under The Bridge, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Sad song, anyway, and takes me right back to all my teen angst, around age 17/18.

Love it though :)

Mine's not very grown up but the theme tune from Up gets me every time

Ah, George Michael has done some good stuff (and some shit).

"Jesus to a child" is my particular fave. About the man he loved and lost, Anselmo Feleppa.

And he did a duet with her from that girl band from Sugababes which was virtually ignored but was brilliant, about when someone tries to cling onto a relationship that has died.

sorry, that girl from the band Sugababes

Haven't read whole thread but Drinking White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin gets me every time, just the thought of it - sob...

I prefer George Michael's version of Won't Let the Sun Go Down On Me to anyone else's, and I am no GM fan. But that: "took a chance, and changed your way of life" gives me the shivers. I wanted to have the guts to do that......

AGnu- I know Tom Cruise is a weirdy alien man and all, but his face when he takes Goose's bits and bobs to Meg Ryan and she hugs him is just magic.

Everlong I've "heard" you speak about your dear son before (namechange many times, me) and your love for him is raw and tangible. x

For anyone who speaks a bit of Spanish and likes a bit of cheesy Miguel Bose, Te Amare, live version destroys me. In a good way, but makes me howl nevertheless.

Everlong, when you talk of your son, I also feel a massively disproportionate pang for your loss x