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Given Hethrir's comment in the Classical music thread.. what music brings tears to your eyes?

For myself, "Dante's Prayer" by Loreena McKennitt, "Deliver Me" by Sarah Brightman, and "Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden.

Some of the more patriotic sounding stuff can move me if I'm feeling tired, I tend to be more emotional when I'm knackered for some reason, but the thing that moved me more than anything I've seen recently was watching the FA Cup final yesterday, theres something about 70000 people, united by a single passion, singing 'Abide with me' and the national anthem (crap though it may be), I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye, very moving...

You've never heard the song (I promise), but I absolutely LOVE Great Big Sea's Boston to St. John. Go download it now.

Avoiding all jokes about limp bizcut...

Joe Satriani - Rubina. His love for his wife must be great. :')

Hethrir wrote:Avoiding all jokes about limp bizcut...

Joe Satriani - Rubina. His love for his wife must be great. :')

In that same vein, Tears in Heaven is a FANTASTIC fucking song. It always sounds like Eric Clapton is going to bust out crying during it.

And... um... well... I always get a little bit teary when I hear Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson. But that's for personal reasons.

Queeb Salaron wrote:And... um... well... I always get a little bit teary when I hear Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson. But that's for personal reasons.

As for personal reasons, that is why "Dante's Prayer" hits me so hard.. also, Louis Armostrong's "What a Wonderful World." Both of them are because I've been promised to play them at two of my closest friend's funerals. And they're both only 20. [sighs] I'm only 18. I should not be having to be promised these things, but I have been.. And I will uphold them.

The Departure from Gattaca by Michael Nyman.

Damn I need that film on DVD.

Blue from Cowboy Bebop by Yoko Kanno, Elysium from Gladiator by Hans Zimmer and Aeris' theme from FFVII by Nobuo Uematsu are also brilliant at getting emotions going.

Notable mention goes to Sting's "Shape of my Heart".

Well for me, the mixture of Resurrection and Timelessness, and A Therapy For Pain by fear factory are hella emotional.

William Orbit's Barber's adagio for strings is always emotional because it's used in everything when a scene of devastation is shown...like "everyone was dead" sort of scenes..there'd be a guy in a load of smoke...barber's adagio for strings in the background, every time.

In a landscape by william orbit is far too weird...freaks me out, very depressing, dunno why, like "mommy" by mushroomhead.

One by metallica is pretty gutting too, especially with the video.

On a side note, at my funeral, i want "i will survive" to be played, because i've quite clearly not. that'll make me laugh from beyond the grave that will. ahhhh, irony.

Rye wrote: William Orbit's Barber's adagio for strings

Is this some sort of special arrangement by Orbit? Barber wrote the adagio alone, I assure you.

"Before the Dawn" by Evanescence... just because. I am listening to it, now, and not only do the lyrics mean a lot to me, the music itself is just touching.

U2's With Or Without You. When i was in my 1st enagement this was our song. I had to delete it off my computer because i can't listen to it anymore.

Jimi Hendrix - Live versions of "Machine Gun", "Red House", "Hear My Train a comin'". Hendrix playing the blues is incredibly touching and powerful.

Tori Amos - "Winter". The story of my life in a way, it connects with me on some deep level and 1st time I heard it at a concert I got all teary eyed.

Sarah McLachlan - "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy", "Good Enough". It's just something about her voice and the songs

Metallica - "To Live is to Die"

Baron Scarpia wrote:

Rye wrote: William Orbit's Barber's adagio for strings

Is this some sort of special arrangement by Orbit? Barber wrote the adagio alone, I assure you.

He mixes it with dance music.

verilon wrote:what music brings tears to your eyes?

No such music exists.

Beethoven's Opus 131 Suite C. Especially when I saw the four German violon player in Band of BRothers start playing in the middle of the rubble. Thats it.

Anything and everything by Britney Spears... I have a pretty high pain threshold, but listening to Britney... <shudders in horror> ...oh the AGONY!!!

That and this.

The Lavos theme from Chrono Trigger. Specifically, the soft piano bit a little ways in. It just sounds so desperate and lonely...especially when the voices come in...

Eric Clapton!! Tears in Heaven and Wonderful Tonight. Sure, his voice ain't the great, and are simple tunes.. but awesome stuff. Very meaningful and heartfelt especially when you hear the story behind the former.

This isn't what we meant from Savatage, Send me an angel from Scorpions, Angel from Sarah McLachlan which holds special meaning to me as well as Komm Susser Tod from End of Eva

No suprises - radiohead, and fake plastic trees - radiohead

Music that makes me think about my partner will make me tear up every time.

Currently, Enrique Iglesias' Hero will do it every time.

BrYaN19kc wrote:Music that makes me think about my partner will make me tear up every time.

Currently, Enrique Iglesias' Hero will do it every time.

A good one, indeed.. It gives me goosebumps. I gave it (in a sense) to Rob as part of a CD I'd give to him. I could list all the songs on it, but that's for another thread, maybe later today.

I don't listen to music to cry. That's the last thing I need when I'm depressed. When you're feeling down, you need goofy music. Not good, just stupid. Anything but love songs.

Barber's Adagio
Franke's Sleeping in the Light, B5 final ending theme, especially the crecendo as Babylon 5 is scrapped.

Well, of course there's Blue from Cowboy Bebop - it's gotten to the point where I can't even think about it without getting teary-eyed. Then there's Aaron Neville's cover of Ave Maria, #41 by the Dave Matthews Band, the main theme from FFVII, and No Reply, a tear-jerker unused in the movie but found in the Bebop Movie OST.