Albums or songs that cause tears to well up in your eyes?

musicismylife78

Ever listen to a song or an album for the first time, or for the 60th time, and get tears in your eyes, and a lump in your throat?

What albums have had this sort of an impact on you?

BrinkofForever

Sigur Ros - ()
....or "kissing sausages"
...actually I find any of their CDs emotionally moving...

Keane - Hopes and Fears

Pilot Speed - Caught By the Window

Songs...

Inside Job - PJ
China - Tori Amos
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Mad World - Gary Jules
Stand Inside Your Love - Smashing Pumpkins
Heard Em' Say - Kanye West (something about this song...)

LONGRD

Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up from the album Heartbreaker, well the entire album is a tearjerker. :?

South of Seattle

Elliott Smith - Either/Or (whole album)

Elliott Smith - Twilight

Ben Harper - Give a Man a Home

pretext

patty griffin - goodbye, top of the world
the nields - all my pretty horses
pj - i am a patriot (cleveland, 4-25-2003)

Thorns2010

ChasingDogma wrote:

Mad World - Gary Jules

But what about the original by Tears For Fears??

Jimmydean55

Your Long Journey - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Makes me think of my mom...

pretext

Thorns2010 wrote:

ChasingDogma wrote:

Mad World - Gary Jules

But what about the original by Tears For Fears??

The cover is fairly haunting. It doesn't last for me, but I can understand it.

mfc2006

South of Seattle wrote:

Elliott Smith - Either/Or (whole album)

Elliott Smith - Twilight

Ben Harper - Give a Man a Home

all excellent songs & i agree with all of these. here are a few others...

Elliott Smith--King's Crossing
Ben Harper--Beloved One
Pearl Jam--Release, Man of the Hour

QuarterToTen

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Long Road with Neil Young on the Tribute to Heroes

Nine Inch Nails - Non Entity

The Star Spangled Banner

LONGRD

mfc2006 wrote:

South of Seattle wrote:

Elliott Smith - Either/Or (whole album)

Elliott Smith - Twilight

Ben Harper - Give a Man a Home

all excellent songs & i agree with all of these. here are a few others...

Elliott Smith--King's Crossing
Ben Harper--Beloved One
Pearl Jam--Release, Man of the Hour

Where should I start with Elliott?

It's time for me to into his music!

South of Seattle

LongRd. wrote:

mfc2006 wrote:

South of Seattle wrote:

Elliott Smith - Either/Or (whole album)

Elliott Smith - Twilight

Ben Harper - Give a Man a Home

all excellent songs & i agree with all of these. here are a few others...

Elliott Smith--King's Crossing
Ben Harper--Beloved One
Pearl Jam--Release, Man of the Hour

Where should I start with Elliott?

It's time for me to into his music!

Start with:

Heatmiser - Mic City Sons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_UR61itZxo

Elliott Smith : Either/Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cJv6s_ ... re=related
- XO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8iWDrln8AY
- S/T http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4UL7fXS ... B&index=20
- Roman Candle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcK0DsFw-RA
- Figure 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5rshvC ... re=related
- New Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpgjAMah ... re=related
- From A Basement on the Hill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJthA4l8 ... re=related

LONGRD

South of Seattle wrote:

LongRd. wrote:

Where should I start with Elliott?

It's time for me to into his music!

Start with:

Heatmiser - Mic City Sons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_UR61itZxo

Elliott Smith : Either/Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cJv6s_ ... re=related
- XO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8iWDrln8AY
- S/T http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4UL7fXS ... B&index=20
- Roman Candle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcK0DsFw-RA
- Figure 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5rshvC ... re=related
- New Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpgjAMah ... re=related
- From A Basement on the Hill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJthA4l8 ... re=related

Thanks. That looks like his entire discography.

I'll just have to grab 'em at once.

South of Seattle

LongRd. wrote:

South of Seattle wrote:

LongRd. wrote:

Where should I start with Elliott?

It's time for me to into his music!

Start with:

Heatmiser - Mic City Sons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_UR61itZxo

Elliott Smith : Either/Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cJv6s_ ... re=related
- XO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8iWDrln8AY
- S/T http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4UL7fXS ... B&index=20
- Roman Candle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcK0DsFw-RA
- Figure 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5rshvC ... re=related
- New Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpgjAMah ... re=related
- From A Basement on the Hill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJthA4l8 ... re=related

Thanks. That looks like his entire discography.

I'll just have to grab 'em at once.

Pretty close

Just start at the top and go down. I put the Posthumous stuff last.

PatrickBateman

man. of.the.hour.

BrinkofForever

Thorns2010 wrote:

ChasingDogma wrote:

Mad World - Gary Jules

But what about the original by Tears For Fears??

Good but not even close. And I love Tears for Fears.

Thorns2010

ChasingDogma wrote:

Thorns2010 wrote:

ChasingDogma wrote:

Mad World - Gary Jules

But what about the original by Tears For Fears??

Good but not even close. And I love Tears for Fears.

I listened to the original today actually. Dear lord its bad!

FinsburyParkCarrots

There are loads of songs that have this effect on me, but none more so than the title track from Ask Me No Questions by Bridget St. John, released on John Peel's Dandelion Label and featuring John Martyn on guitar. Live/later versions don't have the effect on me that this original version has.

mookeywrench

Chris Cornell's new album

iamsam_pj

"i will follow you into the dark" - death cab for cutie

i've always thought of my grandparents when i would hear this song...especially when they were alive. the fact that they both just passed a week apart from each other makes it almost unbearable to even think of the song. i cried when i heard the song live a couple years ago...and i cried hysterically when i heard it on scrubs the other night. i'm crossing my fingers that they won't play it when i see them live again in a couple months...i may have to leave the show :(

South of Seattle

iamsam_pj wrote:

"i will follow you into the dark" - death cab for cutie

i've always thought of my grandparents when i would hear this song...especially when they were alive. the fact that they both just passed a week apart from each other makes it almost unbearable to even think of the song. i cried when i heard the song live a couple years ago...and i cried hysterically when i heard it on scrubs the other night. i'm crossing my fingers that they won't play it when i see them live again in a couple months...i may have to leave the show :(