Songs that make you cry

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There are a lot of epic tunes out there that can bring me close (Tool, Radiohead, Muse, Alice In Chains, Steve Wilson, Archive, Massive attack all have their specific songs and moments), though they typically only get me if I'm throwing myself at it or in the right state of mind.

This one's different though - as in its gotten me much more intensely and more often than anything else I can think of. Can't explain why, perhaps take a listen for yourself and see if you conceptually get from it what I do:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoNT0U184vU&feature=related[/youtube]

I think it's the indoor-swimming-pool reverb that gets me.

I also like how it sounds when you hear some epic film score music playing from somewhere through the pipes in the wall. The way the higher notes all bleed together and sound kind of dissonant and faint, yet, as a whole, the slow swelling and surging melodic undertone remains.

No, that's a pretty good analysis. I think mine's a bit more abstractly visual but you do nail it with precision there.

This one's great as well, I think its the 'wishing on a star' type moodiness that it has - all its missing is the piano roll:

Mako and Andyskopes - In The Raw (D Bridge remix)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lasFXy5gxRw[/youtube]

"Dreaming of You" by Selena
"Toy Soldiers" by Martika
"These Dreams" by Heart

"Abraham, and Martin, and John". By Dion

"Color Him Father". By the Winstons

"Hold On" by B.B. King

"Turn Around", by Malveena Reynolds

Bizarrely, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in Bm made me cry once, completely involuntary, I was suprised because I hadn't cried in years

Mostly only instrumentals can make me want to cry or inspire heavy emotion. Like the Official soundtrack for Jade Empire can move me in many ways. Aside from instrumentals though...

Fade to Black by Metallica can move me to wield a razor blade and want to go to town on my wrist... but I don't know anymore necessarily. I've purposely avoided that song for 10 years for that sole purpose.

Oh yeah and "Hollow" by Godsmack can bring a bit of sorrow.

I'm broken though... I can't cry for some reason.

Diana Ross - 'If We Hold On Together'
Reminds me of the saddest film I have ever seen, The Land Before Time (1988). Broke my heart many times during my childhood...but still kept going back for more! And I downloaded this song when I was 17...what a wuss
Also Queen's 'These Were The Days Of Our Lives' makes me sad, because Freddie Mercury was such a huge loss to the music industry and he was so ill when he sang it. To know he was gone just a few months later is heartbreaking. And the lyrics are absolutely right, makes me miss childhood and the fact that from now on it will get harder, no more fun and games the way it was when we were children.

I've found that I can't watch childrens movies without being a wreck. Any type of action or horror, sure, even stuff loaded with very slow and steady vitriol - fine. Children's movies; I think the problem is that they hit on emotions that we all really want to feel but as adults society's blowtorched these realities out of us, seeing them again is like being haunted by a lost loved one.

I don't think I've ever cried just from listening to a song, but Space Bound by Eminem brought me quite close when I first heard it.

De Mysteriis Dom Satahnnas by Mayhem. It brings back horrible memories and the tone of it is very depressing.

Horowitz playing Scriabin Etude Op. 8 No.12 in 1986, so much emotion in that piece its unbelievable!

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads. Makes me all warm and nostalgic for childhood and love and all good simple things.

It's Not Easy - Pete's Dragon Soundtrack. It's about close friendship. Sometimes I wish I had a friend like the kind described in the song.

You're My Woman - Van Morrison. The singer's woman is the most important thing in his life, and she's just given birth to their baby. No further explanation needed.

Fix You by Coldplay
Run by Snow Patrol
Delicate by Damian Rice
Cycling Trivialities by Jose Gonzalez
Flightless Bird/American Mouth by Iron & Wine

I don't really cry properly over music but just at the moment I can think of a couple of Levellers numbers that choke me a little,

Battle of the Beanfield [at the line '..where my friend died two years ago...']

Julie

Something else, I have one or two of my own tunes that get me. Can your own music get you? Yes. I made this back in 2005, right when I was just starting to get back into producing. The name is The White Rabbit, and you can kind of tell what sort of emotional experience its about - probably not something I'd talk about outside the mature forum . Very intense mood though, I've come close on some other tracks but I don't think I've quite nailed it this well since:

http://www.last.fm/music/5PRYME/_/The+White+Rabbit