What songs make you sad or cry?

[DeathQuaker]

No spoilers, but I didn't cry at all (many have and will). But for me... well, it's not like it was Mary Poppins or anything.

Best to you and your wife, Pan.

[DeathQuaker]

I just saw "Come from Away" and you can add most of that musical to the list, especially "Prayer."

[Cole Deschain]

DeathQuaker wrote:

I just saw "Come from Away" and you can add most of that musical to the list, especially "Prayer."

A lady I went to school with does a lot of the onstage fiddle work for that show! As a result, I get pumped every time someone mentions it...

[DeathQuaker]

Cool! Definitely not an easy fiddle part by a long shot. The music is just incredible, and the band is crucial.

[Cole Deschain]

DeathQuaker wrote:

Cool! Definitely not an easy fiddle part by a long shot. The music is just incredible, and the band is crucial.

Yep... and in Broadway's culture, getting them to admit that is a pain.

I had to check with her to make sure she was on the soundtrack before I bought it, 'cause it... doesn't say.

[DeathQuaker]

In the version I saw (which is the Broadway tour), instead of an encore, the cast moved away and waved to the band to come forward, and the band played the encore piece (with each musician getting a notable solo, including the badass fiddler in this production). I thought that was an awesome way to both acknowledge them and give them an extra spotlight and help the audience appreciate their hard work.

Now, that may be typical to productions of the musical, but I thought it was cool.

Your friend should absolutely be credited on the album (or whoever the fiddler was). That's just wrong.

[Cole Deschain]

Pretty sure a physical disc would have it in the liner notes at least, but apparently they had to lobby to be named on the opening night flyers.

[Raylyeh]

Just for crying outright let’s see...
Guns n Roses: Estranged
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Led Zeppelin: the last 3 minutes of Stairway to Heaven
Buckethead: the last 3 minutes of Soothsayer
Metallica: Nothing Else Matters (it’s my daughter’s song)
Garth Brooks: The Dance
Fleetwood Mac: Landslide
VNV Nation: Holding On
Crackin Craic: Far Away (the song I want played at my funeral)

Those are most of the ones that get me crying every time but I’m pretty emotional and there are plenty of others out there that will do it under the right circumstances.

For sad or depressed, more than I can think of offhand. Easily in the hundreds.

[Raylyeh]

Honorable mentions. These didn’t quite make S class but are definitely on the high end of the situational category.
VNV Nation: Illusion
Aerosmith: Dream On
Black Label Society: In this River
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Meatloaf: For Crying Out Loud
Angus: Just a Boy
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Tuesday’s Gone
Guns n Roses: November Rain
Blink 182: Adam’s Song
a-ha: Take On Me (acoustic)
Flogging Molly: Whistles the Wind
Stone Sour: Bother
Led Zeppelin: Over the Hills and Far Away
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Run River North: Mr. Brightside (cover)
Neil Young, Crazy Horse: My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)
Seether, Amy Lee: Broken
Zella Day: Seven Nation Army (cover)
Various Artists: Amazing Grace (not sure which is my favorite but when done well it is very moving)

I’m going to stop myself there. I could talk about music all day. It is my truest passion.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Raylyeh wrote:

I’m going to stop myself there. I could talk about music all day. It is my truest passion.

Likewise.

[The NPC]

I don't cry.

But there are some songs music that stir some emotions.

Leaving Earth from Mass Effect 3
Into the West

[Woran]

Tori Amos - Winter

Ever since its just my dad and me, it makes me cry.

[Java Man]

Vienna Teng: Passage

Gets me everytime, the mundane melancholy of it all, the soft little hopelessness.

[Raylyeh]

I started listening to a blue grass band last week that I really like: The Dead South. All of their stuff is pretty solid and while most of their stuff isn’t particularly sad 1 really stands out to me and I have to add it to the list.

Ballad for Janoski.

I really like their cellist and he stands out a lot in it.

[DungeonmasterCal]

A cellist in a bluegrass band? That's not proper!

[Raylyeh]

Well I wouldn’t call them a proper bluegrass band but that’s the genre they are closest to without stringing too many words together.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Fair enough. ;)

[TriOmegaZero]

Question from Assassination Classroom, both in Japanese and English covers.

[Haladir]

I was listening to a folk music show on the local college radio station a month or so ago (just before the COVID-19 quarantines), and I completely teared up when they played "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver.

I used to sing that as a lullaby to my daughter when she was a baby through when she was in kindergarten. She's now a junior in college.

At the time, she was still away at school, and I just really, really missed her.

[abrahamdavid]

The song which makes me sad is Lucid Dreams by Juice Wrld. He was a great singer, when this song was released I wore his 999 hoodie as I was so much excited as a fan. Unfortunately, he left us so early but made his name in such a short span of time. This is the main reason because he was too young and going to conquer the rap world.

[Theconiel]

"Celluloid Heroes" by the Kinks chokes me up.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Like I've said before, very few songs make me sad, but many will move me so deeply that they'll bring tears for various reasons. I had never heard of this song until last month, and the first time I heard it I was simply overwhelmed by its epic sound and feel. I read that in a survey some years ago this was voted by Canadians as their second, though unofficial, national anthem. I know I'd vote for it.

Unleash the Archers - "Northwest Passage".

[DungeonmasterCal]

And when I heard this song, holy cow. I was so swept up by my emotions I just about burst.

The HU - "Wolf Totem"

In our campaign setting, Hobgoblins replace Humans as the dominant race in the area that corresponds to China and much of the rest of Asia in our world. I can hear warriors sing this song before going into battle.

[Mark Hoover 330]

This whole thread is mean, in a good way.

I've said on other threads I've always been the "sensitive" boy in my groups of friends. Music burrows into the feels centers of me and lives there as much as certain aromas do. So certain songs carry me back to a moment, I relive it, then the blubbery begins.

My list for this thread would be... too long. Also likely irrelevant to most folks reading my reply. There's nothing particularly gut wrenching about Billy Joel's Vienna Waits for You, but the album it's on, The Stranger, was worn out by my ma when she and my dad first divorced.

I was the youngest of our brood, so I was home w/my ma a lot in those days. I heard The Stranger over and over as a little kid. When that song comes on I just remember her and cry.

I lost my brother and best friend to cancer when I was a 18 and he was 20. The last thing he was listening to was a Peter Gabriel compilation, just before his lung collapsed and we had to rush him to the hospital the last time. To this day when Gabriel's The Flood plays my mouth shudders and tears flow.

More recently there was the show Steven Universe, particularly the song It's Over Isn't It. It relates to my divorce from a woman I GENUINELY loved and devoted myself to since I was a kid, only to have her cheat on me and leave me. The breakup started in 2015 and finalized in Feb 2016; right after I discovered this silly cartoon about a boy an his gem friends.

So yeah, I'll cry at lots of different songs. From renditions of Danny Boy or Amazing Grace to covers of Cohen's Hallelujah, to something as silly as songs from a cartoon. Thing is, I've always been like this.

My ma called me an "old soul." I don't know if that's true or not, but I've never felt like I'm the right age. As a kid, likely because of multiple traumas, I felt like a grownup. As an adult I watch cartoons and think I'm younger than my 46 years.

I'm a puzzle piece that doesn't quite fit anywhere. The world just kind of gets to me sometimes, often through songs.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Your final sentence in your post can pretty much describe me most of the time. I heard a song last night (well, at 1:30 this morning because I awoke with it in my head then had to find it on Spotify and play it) that I sort of broke down over because it reminded me of when I was in my early teens and the friends I had then.

As much as I try to shut out the world sometimes, some songs will pierce that veil and makes me react to it in some way. "Danny Boy" and "Hallelujah" will rip my heart right out, and if you've not heard "Hallelujah" by a singer called Puddles the Pity Party Clown, I urge you to go to Youtube and find it (but when you're alone, of course. That song will just get right inside you). He is an amazing singer and does some truly outstanding covers of both old and new songs.

[Orthos]

Puddles is heartwrenching in all the right ways.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Orthos wrote:

Puddles is heartwrenching in all the right ways.

Absolutely! For most of my life, I was moderately coulrophobic. Believe it or not, Puddles actually cured me of that!

[Cole Deschain]

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

Unleash the Archers - "Northwest Passage".

This is substantially more metal than the classic version (of course). I definitely like it more.

[Aaron Bitman]

I refer you to the following thread:

What Songs Make You Cry?

[Mark Hoover 330]

Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit

No One Ever is to Blame - Howard Jones

Nearly everything lyrically from Jeremy Messersmith

[Phillip Gastone]

Breathe Me Sia

[Dire Elf]

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

As much as I try to shut out the world sometimes, some songs will pierce that veil and makes me react to it in some way. "Danny Boy" and "Hallelujah" will rip my heart right out, and if you've not heard "Hallelujah" by a singer called Puddles the Pity Party Clown, I urge you to go to Youtube and find it (but when you're alone, of course. That song will just get right inside you). He is an amazing singer and does some truly outstanding covers of both old and new songs.

Puddles is amazing. His has an incredible voice. I’ve seen him live twice and hugged him once. He’s also physically impressive - nearly 7 ft tall. He auditioned on one of the singing shows, whichever one Simon Cowell is on, but he didn’t make it. I think the clown schtick was too unusual for them. He does some fantastic pantomime comedy in his live shows too.

On the topic of songs that make me cry, I’d have to choose Souvenirs, or Hello In There, by John Prine.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Oh yeah, those are good songs. Puddles was going to be performing in a city not from me this summer but COVID stopped any plans of attending. I discovered him completely by accident about four years ago while looking for something else on Youtube.

And as weird as it sounds, for years I dealt with coulrophobia to one degree or another. I wasn't terrified of clowns, but they really gave me the creeps and made me highly anxious at times. I swear, the first time I heard him sing "Hallelujah" on Youtube all that apprehension completely disappeared forever.

[Haladir]

Phillip Gastone wrote:

Breathe Me Sia

Ever since they used that song in the closing montage of the final episode of "Six Feet Under"... me too, Philip. Me too.

[TomParker]

The Gunner's Dream from Pink Floyd's The Final Cut is also pretty heartwrenching. And the song The Final Cut is also a little rough.

[diazalvaro]

The song which makes me sad is Self Care by Mac Miller. He was a great singer, when this song was released I wore his self care jacket as I was so much excited as a fan. Unfortunately, he left us so early but made his name in such a short span of time.

[ksafimova]

Probably Lil Peep's songs.

[DlagudShide]

Dancing on my own by Calum Scott always makes me teary eyed.

[Mark Hoover 330]

What is it about Regina Spektor's songs that make me cry? Is it the nostalgic piano, or her desperately beautiful voice, or her choice to always remain in a kind of mournful pitch, even when lyrically singing about good things? I don't know.

I just listened to her cover of Real Love by John Lennon and my bottom lip was shaking.

[DungeonmasterCal]

I was listening to SiriusXM satellite radio while out running errands and heard this:

"The Rainbow Connection", the original one from "The Muppet Movie". I literally had to pull over into a parking lot because something in it hit me so powerfully that I just began sobbing. I guess that to me it's such a hopeful song and good Lord we could use some hope right now.

[Mark Hoover 330]

I Am Gonna Make It Through This Year by the Mountain Goats. We're going to get through this Cal, all of it...

[doyle22]

The song that always made me cry is how could leave us by NF. The lyric of the song depicts that how a child goes through things without a mother and it's the real-life tragedy of NF. I wore his real music shirt when he released his song to show my love for him. I became his fan through his music art.

[Mark Hoover 330]

Go Tomorrow, the piano motif from Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House. Some video about the show got suggested to me on YouTube late last night, and that led me to watch some highlights which, of course, just made me cry really hard. And through it all those little notes, sprinkled in the background, like confetti...