What music brings tears to your eyes?

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well...whenever that sternstunden volkmuzik commercial is on tv and i cant find my remote, tears start flying around, along with anything i can find, and hairs.

"loud, loud, loud" by aphrodites child. from the album 666.

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Does anyone know the name of the music played at Princess Diana's funeral, I think it was Taverner but can't remember the name of the piece. That always brings a tear to the eye

Also Allegri's Miserere. Wish I could sing like that.

Reger - Tone Poem I
Ravel - Le Jardin Feerique

Love the Barber too, and enjoy Copland. G.P. da Palestrina also a firm favourite. I've had an obsession too, with a piece or two by C.M. Widor - they're awesome.

I detest Yodelling also, for the record. Have sung Allegri's Miserere Mei - I enjoyed that but no way can I sing that high now

Iris, by the Goo Goo Dolls is special, and Genesis' Fading Lights also excellent. Keen on most trance, electronic, new age.

well i wouldnt say many songs make me 'cry' but a few songs that have touched me deeply (soz for soppiness) are iris by the goo goo dolls, slide (also googoo), DJ scott brown - angel eyes, moya luna + rat atka (only u) by DJ yan and a really awesome progressive hardNRG/trancesong which i dont know the actual name of, its a 7 min long trak by scott brown called 'NIK FISH' or sumthin

I have a curious reaction to the sound of music sung in unison... I mean, I don't weep every time I hear music done in synchronization, but when I hear music in which the timing is very well done and really give throught to that fact, it can move me to tears. I once had the opportunity to sing among the many altos in the chorus of Beethoven's Ode to Joy for a performance in the park in L.A. and due to that I cannot hear that piece without this strange reaction, an almost nervous quality laughing/crying response. I enjoy it so much. I have reacted this way to band performances (good ones), The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky, the song He Mele No Lilo from Lilo and Stitch (I learn the lyrics phonetically so that I can sing along and react more strongly when I sing along).

I tear up in a more normal fashion when listening to Into the West and other music from the Lord of the Rings. The composer was simply brilliant. Christmas songs like O Come All Ye Faithful can get me verklempt as well.

Yeh there is a lot of tripe out right now, but also so much amazing music has come out in most recent times... heres a brief list of some artists that changed my life in one way or another:


aphex twin
bjork
thom yorke
devin townsend
tool
mike patton
ulver


check out any of these if you don't know them and you won't be disappointed!

xtc - wrapped in grey


it's such an amazingly beautiful song.

Music doesn't usually make me cry, but I guess these come the closest to doing so:

"Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish
"Eccentric" by After Forever
"Run For A Fall" by Epica

this will probably seem really lame but 'Hero' by Mariah Carey makes me teary-eyed

lame yes, but brave.. definately!

There are a few songs that get me all teary eyed.

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
Just a Word Away by Chris De Burgh, this one has a special place in my heart because it was played at my baby brother and sisters' funeral.
Everybody Hurts by REM
I Grieve by Peter Gabriel

and I'm sure there are some others that I can't think of right now.

Straw - Kill Your Boyfriend. A song about failure and idle dreams of revenge.
I woke up to howling sunlight / prayed for the morning silence to end / Based on my favourite pastime / I'm gonna kill your boyfriend / I will wait, until summer's over / I will waste away..

Cerulean - Burn the Remains. Destroying the photographs you can't look at any more. This song reminds me so much of my last long-term girlfriend, Katie, that I can't play it without bursting into tears. Yeah, I'm soft... I know.
This one's of me and you, shining into the sun / As if we knew, we would be over by now / This one's brighter still, with hands that hide our eyes / and say we'd grow far away / but I never noticed 'til now / So go where you know, it's softer and safer than I will ever know / And share the blame / As I burn the remains of this old flame..

Soundgarden - Love Like Suicide. About obsession, I guess.
With eyes of blood, and bitter blue / How I feel for you... I feel for you..

It Bites - Kiss Like Judas. Unrequited love.
So glad you could make it / Bring the slaughter to the lamb / I may look life some animal / but I am who I am, a man / And I love you, and I'm hoping you feel as I do / I cover my face, in terrible shame / And open my heart up for you..

Chemical Brothers feat. Beth Orton - Alive Alone. Desolation.
I'm alive, and I'm alone / and I never really wanted to be either of those..

Compulsion - Yancy Dangerfield's Delusions. Loneliness, confusion and panic.
I need some ice, need some calmer dreams / Need some help, need some sympathy..

Something Corporate - Down. Feeling small and needing friends.
Let's get drunk / You can drive us to the harbour / Wish upon a star / But do you know that stars are / balls of fire / burning up the black space / falling from the landscape / exploding in the face of... God.

The Beta Band - Simple.. Trying to do the right thing.
It's a Tuesday night and I can't be / with the people that I love tonight / They left me all alone and I can't forgive them / I guess I'll be on my own / I tried to see it their way / I tried to be alone / I tried to do my own thing, but the trouble with your own thing is... you end up on your own..