Doesn't make a tear appear in me mincers, but its certainly a heart wrencher, specially when you watch the video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0
Of course for real songs of abject misery and pain, "my dawg ran off with my mama and left me with rabies" C&W tops the bill.
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Acker Bilk's 'stranger on the shore' was an all time favourite of my late brothers, never fails.
SWM can't help with either Eva Cassidy's 'over the rainbow' or The Pretender's 'i'll stand by you'...can't say why.
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Go on with you all - men don't cry!
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Amazing Grace from the film Calendar Girls, because it was played at my MIL's funeral.
I want Somewhere by P J Proby played at my funeral tinyurl.com/64hs3rh SWMBO reckons there won't be a dry eye in the house.
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>> Somewhere by P J Proby
I fear that others as well as me fully intend to turn up at the event, if we are spared that long of course, and stand stony-faced at the back with our hands in our pockets like Chinese chaps who have wandered in out of curiosity...
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Perhaps we should set up a tontine?
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Three I can never turn off before the end -
To anyone who hasn't heard it, I commend Suzanne Vega's 'Queen and the Soldier"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0sXRBLfJM
And if that doesn't float your boat, a couple from the Donnie Darko soundtrack
Ave Maria
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMrjVH6Zeq4
Mad World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
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Might post moe tracks another day but this one hits the spot for me:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5muVg_ZWek
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The Hollies 'He Aint Heavy' virtually breaks me down every time I hear it due to my sadness of my baby brother who died whilst my mother was carrying me.
Also the extended instrumental of Claptons 'Layla' brings very poignant welling up memories of my late father who died when I was a child back in the 80s. Good memories of a motoring holiday when I was 6, playing it all the time in his Chevette.
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Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11
When this music is played as a soundtrack behind very moving pictures or video then the effect is overpowering.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g
Leonard Slatkin Conducts the BBC Orchestra on September 15 2001 in honor of those who lost their lives a few days prior. Visuals from BBC's 'Last Night of the Proms' and ABC's 'Report from ground zero'.
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Just played this and had a little cry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5W4RjTW3zQ
Played at my little Grandson's funeral........not heard it for seven years.
Ted
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How about "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Peter, Paul and Mary. You can find it on Spotify. Listen carefully to the words.
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I've never encountered that association with the Barber piece Londoner. You're right though.
The effect is similar to Gorecki 3. Although I've never heard it with video until I just looked it up on youtube, it's always associated with the holocaust and that thought plus imagination does the rest. Funny thing, music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuF7uG6wis
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g_B-iSuHJ8
Ted
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Don't quite have tearjerkers but Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold and Mike & Mechanics Living Years are very poignant for me.
Fields of Gold was used in a Cancer charity advert which killed my mum when I was 13 and the words to the Living Years reflect many of the thoughts I still have.
Think Green Fields of France as mentioned by OP very thought provoking, and on the same line, listen to the words of this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-Ks8AKJ-E&feature=fvst
First heard that when I was in my late teens running youth clubs for the mentally and physically handicapped. Very appropriate.
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Spot on, Bobby G.
A song very much about real life, beautifully done.
After your post, and Ted's and Manatee's, I feel a bit daft wittering away on a forum about motoring after listening to something like that.
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>> Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11
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>> When this music is played as a soundtrack behind very moving pictures or video then
>> the effect is overpowering.
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g
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I didn't know there was an original, this was the first I'd heard of it. Good song mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=__uVTxkbcp8&feature=related
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0
Was being played in the background whilst being being informed of a relative's death. Always reminds of that moment.
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My favourite Classical pieces seem to be moving towards the sadder ones now...wife calls me morbid.
I particularly like music when I know some of the reasons behind it's writing.
Mahler's Song of the Earth, Kindertotenlieder and.......
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJWwwwi3Nkw
( My own funeral choice...but not for at least 20 yrs, hopefully ! ) Sung by Kathleen Ferrier...a friend of my mother's.
Written at a bad time in his life after the death of young family members and his own terminal illness being diagnosed. In a couple of weeks we have the 100th anniversary of his own death.
Richard Strauss, coming to the end of his long life, after WW2, wrote the 'Four last songs.
Puccini, wringing every tear fron the audience in La Boheme as Mimi dies from TB.
All, and many more, masters of raw emotion.
Ted
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Always had a soft spot for Adiago for Strings. Very poignant with that video track.
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>> Can I dedicate this one to Zero? :-)
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFF1wJN75Z0&feature=related
SSchhhhhhhhhhhh, People will start to talk.
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>> Always had a soft spot for Adiago for Strings. Very poignant with that video track.
+1
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>> Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11
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>> When this music is played as a soundtrack behind very moving pictures or video then
>> the effect is overpowering.
Yes, this was the soundtrack to the film Platoon. Tom Berenger purposely wounds Willem Dafoe, and as the helipcopter picks up the rest of the men, Dafoe is still alive and trying reach the helipcopter. I got emotional in this scene and mentally wanted to kill Berenger but one of the soldiers did it for me later in the film :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HzIVc2vwVE
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>> Three I can never turn off before the end -
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>> To anyone who hasn't heard it, I commend Suzanne Vega's 'Queen and the Soldier"
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0sXRBLfJM
A couple more tear-jerkers with a military theme:
Dixie Chicks - Travellin' Soldier: www.we7.com/#/song/Dixie-Chicks/Travelin-Soldier
10000 Maniacs - Big Parade: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrPtv0YSSTk
www.metrolyrics.com/the-big-parade-lyrics-10000-maniacs.html
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I know I've had four goes already, but listening to the Suzanne Vega song put me in mind of the much lamented Sandy Denny. Her song 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes' must have been recorded by a hundred other artists, but Sandy's is the one for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpURBJA4uA
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I see that awful Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics has turned up in this thread.
There are a few songs which make both 'best' and 'worst' lists.
One of the reasons is it's not so much the song, but the circumstances in which the listener hears it, which forms the opinion.
If Living Years was played as they read out my winning lottery numbers, I'd be tempted to tear up the ticket.
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If we're moving to cringeworthy, how about one for dog lovers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKuiS3J52pw
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>> If Living Years was played as they read out my winning lottery numbers, I'd be
>> tempted to tear up the ticket.
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Please don't do that.
Ask the Mods for my Email addy, then Ill let you know my address so you could post it to me!
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My pal, a senior copper, was killed in a car crash at work and there was a jazz band at his funeral. I can't listen to 'On The Sunny Side of the Street' any more.
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Going back many years I dumped a girl in a rather cruel and heartless fashion, leading her to having a breakdown and making a suicide attempt. The day I learnt of it I heard this song played for the very first time -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExw77xJsBQ
The gender roles are reversed, but I still find it difficult to listen to right the way through.
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Originally a song by Industrial Rock group Nine Inch nails, but taken to a higher level by Johnny Cash who was soon to lose his wife and then his own life to illness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
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Get the tissues out, Pat.......Here comes Red Sovine !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bi_kRv0dOk
Ted
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The Last Post and Reveille played at a serviceman/woman's funeral - guaranteed to pipe the eye.
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>> The Last Post and Reveille played at a serviceman/woman's funeral - guaranteed to pipe the
>> eye.
This one at the remembrance day service.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6q6Z_FonF0&feature=related
And the verse from O God our Help in Ages Past that includes the line Time Like an Ever Rolling Stream Bears all Her Sons Away.
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Last Post at Menin Gate
"Every night at 8pm, the people of Ypres, Belgium, stop to honour those who fell in WWI."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYIktnk35O4
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>> still find it difficult to listen to right the way through
My lump-in-the-throat songs aren't particularly melancholy, but the remind me vividly of particular times and people, almost always in a sad way. Physical loss in some cases, emotional loss in others:
Adamski - Space Jungle
Heavy D and the Boyz - Now That We Found Love
Brian Adams ft Mel C - When You're Gone
Le-Ann Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
I used to have a CD with those tracks on, and others, for those long-journey need-to-get-it-out-of-my-system moments.
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I think Hurt by Johnny Cash has to be the saddest song, you can almost feel the fact he is dying as he sings it. I also like his version far more than the Nine Inch Nails original but then I never really got the industrial rock genre.
True Love Ways by Buddy Holly always makes me sad for some reason.
I know its Over by the Smiths also makes me very sad. Although it was Marr that left the Smiths, you can tell in the lyrics that the relationship between the band members is very strained at that point.
Another Smiths song "Cemetery Gates" I also find quite sad because it is written about Southern Cemetery in Chorlton, Manchester and I have a lot of family burred or cremated there. The song always reminds me of my Grandads funeral just because of that connection.
I find Annie's Song by John Denver and Father and Son by Cat Stevens very sad because it was played at my grand mothers funeral, not been able to listen to either of them songs since.
A lot of people find Joy Division songs quite sad and depressing but I find them very upbeat and uplifting. Probably because I associate them with brilliant nights out and in Manchester it is one band which always gets people on the dance floor as the scouse band the Wombats wrote about.
No doubt my funeral will contain a lot of Smiths and Joy Division songs though, I am thinking This Charming Man and Ceromny would do the trick :)
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How about 'Tears in heaven' by Clapton? Don't know how he manages to get through it. (Just in case you don't know it's about his son who fell off an apartment balcony and died, aged 4.)
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Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father
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>> The worlds most fabulous man
I didn't get where I am today without spotting the blindingly obvious...
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Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun.
John Denver - Eclipse. Actually, just about anything by John Denver.
Shed Seven - Out by my Side.
Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem was sung at my son's wedding a couple of years ago. A few people said 'bit of an odd choice?' but I pointed out that as the wedding took place at Pilton, near Glastonbury, if you couldn't sing it there, where could you? Most of them didn't even know what I was talking about.
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There was a Paternoster in Latin that used to be sung at my last school. Everyone liked it and so it was belted out with gusto. The school was known for it indeed. A curious, forceful, moving piece of music it was too. A bit like the Internationale, or the Horst Wessel song without the tearful and misleading delicacy.
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Any old onion, any old onion
Any any any old onion ...........
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Put this in You Tube. Close your eyes and picture those glorious planes swooping over green fields and defending the skies from the tyranny that was...
Enjoy.
William Walton's Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Edit. My brother copied a version of this and overdubbed the sound of a Spitfire doing a low fly-past with its Merlin throbbing and supercharger whining. Unfortunately you'll just have to use your imagination on that part...Absolutely awesome
Last edited by: TheManWithNoName on Tue 17 May 11 at 13:42
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'Stumble on' by Richard Thompson.
Although they don't make me cry, the overtures to Richard Wagner's operas are very powerful. Parsifal, for example.
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Songs That Bring A Tear To Your Eye - Zero
