Has any song ever reduced you to tears?

[Sootysoots]

In the early hours of this morning, after consuming a ridiculous amount of booze, I listened to Everlong by the Foo Fighters. I have listened to this song a million times thinking it was pretty nifty and had thought nothing more of it. Furthermore, I never show or feel serious emotions and haven't cried for dog knows how long.

But then, my girlfriend (who's on holiday for the week) came into my head whilst I was listening to the song and I broke down. My face was literally drenched in tears and I was a blubbering mess. In hindsight, it reminds me of that scene in Fight Club where 'Jack' cries into Bob's bitchtits. It was like a cleansing for my soul and I'm trying hard not to be melodramatic. I daren't listen to it again for a while lest my penis drops off completely. I wonder if there's a subliminal message in Everlong.

But yeah, has a song ever made you cry?

 

[Isambard]

Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan.

Twenty years later, a little sniffle is still guaranteed.

 

[danny la rouge]

Anything by Bruce Springsteen. Even typing his name caused mild nausea.

 

[killer b]

loads, but particularly go now by bessie banks...

 

[weltweit]

Eric Clapton, tears in Heaven, as heard when I was on the way to the hospital in which my mother had been admitted in a coma after a heart attack. I kind of knew it was the end for her, and I had to stop the car I was crying so much.

 

[purplex]

yes lots of them but id rather not say which ones, i often cry at the wrong things see.

 

[electrogirl]

Oh god, quite a few embarassing ones post-break up.

Cry singing.

Cringing and cranking. The 2 features of breakups.

 

[chico enrico]

a performance of mahler's 5th, 4th adagio.

when i saw larry heard play live and he did 'can you feel it' , singing the robert owens vocal.

think that's about the only times i've ever felt a welling up in my eye.

 

[Looby]

Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan.

Twenty years later, a little sniffle is still guaranteed.

Oh my god, I love that song and I love Johnny Logan.

Loads of songs reduce me to tears, but I am a cryer.

I burst out crying in the car last year listening to young hearts run free, like proper sobbing. I think it was partly because candi staton was so amazing at glastonbury.

 

[Fedayn]

Resurrection - Stone Roses.

Carried my mates coffin into the chapel accompanied by this and timed it that we opened the door and walked into the chapel just as the line "I am the resurrection...."
Laughter and tears all in one go...

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Dido reduces me to tears often, but not in a good way

 

[ericjarvis]

Hell yeah!

I'm proud to say I've even managed to do it to myself. One song I couldn't play without cracking up for several years after I wrote it. I guess the serial offenders are Aztec Camera, Otis Redding, Echobelly, St Etienne, and Wilco. Oddly enough it's never really depressing songs that set the tear glands off.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Some of my favourite songs have made me cry when I have felt heartbroken. They are still powerful now, but don't make me cry anymore.
This list could be long so will just give the top three!
With you - The subways
Porcelain - Yeah yeah yeahs
When your mind's made up - Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Hell yeah!

thats what i was gonna say.

man, i cant psot every song thats made me cry in my life 1. theres too many and 2. id get the piss ripped outta me (i dont care but i just aint ....)

 

[purplex]

I burst out crying in the car last year listening to young hearts run free, like proper sobbing. I think it was partly because candi staton was so amazing at glastonbury.

Makes perfect sense. Its a sad song.

 

[wiskey]

yes.

certain songs are linked to certain people.

other songs are linked to moments.

ETA: Norah Jones Nightingale and Gutter Brothers Everlasting Shining Piece of Mind are two that get me.

 

[berniedicters]

Dates me, but if am at all emotionally vulnerable, then the Big Sax Solo in the middle of "Will You" (Hazel O'Connor, "Breaking Glass", 1980) will get a little twitch going in the corner of the eye and require frantic grit-removal activity...

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Dates me, but if am at all emotionally vulnerable, then the Big Sax Solo in the middle of "Will You" (Hazel O'Connor, "Breaking Glass", 1980) will get a little twitch going in the corner of the eye and require frantic grit-removal activity...

...politely says good night....

 

[JTG]

Irene on multiple occasions

 

[Roadkill]

I don't cry easily. Some songs mean a lot, but I don't think any's ever reduced me to tears.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Mainly due to the ending of Six Feet Under, which I found disturbingly harrowing (seriously, a sobbing mess for about 30 mins, more upset than I've ever been about anything, ever... I suspect I'd transferred a lot of other things into the upset), but I struggle to listen to Breathe Me by S.I.A. without getting wet eye.

Sad story behind the song as well, which doesn't help.

 

[bosco]

Watching Bonnie Prince Billie perform I See A Darkness, I looked around me and noticed that many in the audience were crying. I was nearly in tears myself.... but only nearly. Cos I'm a hard bastard like.


(hello JTG)

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

coldplay make me cry tears of pure rage

 

[wiskey]

music really gets to me.

I are not a hard bastard. I are all soft and squishy in the middle.

 

[JTG]

I suspect Abide With Me will get me going on May 30th

 

[scifisam]

It's a conventional answer, but Johnny Cash's version of Hurt really did make me weep buckets.

Other songs have made me cry too because of personal associations (like the Cranberries' 'Linger,') but that's the only one I can think of that made me cry without such associations.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Sunflower by Low.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

I do love a good cry at a song and it happens quite often. The first time I can remember crying to a song was when I saw Dusty Springfield singing 'You don't have to say you love me' on Top of the pops when I was about 10. I thought it was the saddest song I'd ever heard and that she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. I wanted to marry her.



sob sob...

 

[Jazzz]

Dreamy by Errol Garner.

A solo piano version recorded for 'Jazz 625', a BBC programme. No vocals. A while back it would always produce uncontrolled blubbering, it's so beautiful. I would watch it whenever I felt down. I know some jazz purists consider Errol to be easy listening, well they can hurt their ears. 'Misty' is majestic and deservedly Garner's most famous work but 'Dreamy' is the one that made me cry.

 

[Meltingpot]

Abba's "I Have a Dream" once reduced me to tears (Abba was my late father's favourite group).