What makes you cry?

Lowell George - Thirty million things.

The fact he passed away not long after recording it turns it into something very special/moving.

Indeed Mr Cat, and during a period of 50% inflation

SAT posted:

Indeed Mr Cat, and during a period of 50% inflation

LOL.

I'm losing it and I haven't even had a beer yet. I searched Youtube for thirty million, found it was twenty million, and still posted thirty million.

It was almost 20 years before I could re-listen to U2's New Years Day because of the close association with the tragic death of a close friend. Even now, I struggle to get through the tune. 

0n another emotional level, there is a Welsh hymn "o fryniau Caersalem," which is sung at the graveside (ar lan y bedd) - never have a dry eye for that one.

Quite a few songs spring to mind but mainly because of sad (or happy) memories & recollections.

Here's one I heard only recently that doesn't have associations though.

My Father  - Judy Collins

It's not just the lyrics, but also the haunting phrasing.

Onions.

Courtrooms, confessionals and urinals.

Had a couple of 'lump in the throat' moments in the car today listening to a couple of CDs - namely Van Morrison's Moondance and Ricky Lee Jones'...err...Ricky Lee Jones. I am very familiar with these albums but hadn't heard them for a while and they just got to me. Just the sheer joy these albums bring to this old fool playing way too loud in the motor.

I am sure I looked a right idiot to other drivers on the M1 imitating Van and Ricky in full flow while of course concentrating on driving!

It just shows you don't need a posh Naim system to enjoy good music - but it does help!

Old Friends.    Simon & Garfunkel.    Bookends.

Misty Blue.  Dorothy Moore.

A couple of lovely albums Mr Jug, or may I call you Toby. Another listen or two and I am sure the tears will start flowing.

Seriously these are classics in my book and thanks for pointing them out.

PS, I have listened to these with the 'benefit' of a glass of single malt and I know you last mentioned that you were 'managing' alcoholic stimulation while listening to music. How is that going and do you have any tips?

Hope.  R.E.M.     Up.

You are indeed a man of few words.

Beth Hart, Better Than Home, St. Teresa but the Acoustic Bonus Track of the Deluxe Edition of the album. Sorry to be pedantic but it matters.

Tears streaming down my face, I am such a wuss.

Toby, listen to this and I bet a tissue will be needed with or without alcohol.

When in the right mood:

• Strauss' "Im Abendrot" from the Four Last Songs
• Mahler's 9th symphony, final movement
• Brahm's 1st symphony, final movement
• Naim's annual price increase

Chris Rea , Tell Me There's a Heaven, last track on Road To Hell.

must cry while listening to these -

Wagner - Parsifal

Puccini - Madama Butterfly

Verdi - Otello

Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

Gounod - Faust

Last track on this one -  "Dear Avery" something about the combination of vocal harmonies and pedal steel - gets me every time 

'The Ice Tree' by Gravenhurst (on the Flashlight Seasons album) - it is the description of the end of my marriage three and a half years ago.

Allegri's Miserere (in Latin please) - the most angelically beautiful piece of music ever written for human voices.

'Love is a Losing Game' by Amy Winehouse - she should know.

Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto.

Almost anything sung by Elizabeth Fraser, but particularly 'Bushey' live at the Royal Festival Hall in August 2012.

I cry a lot at music...

jfritzen posted:

When in the right mood:

• Strauss' "Im Abendrot" from the Four Last Songs
• Mahler's 9th symphony, final movement
• Brahm's 1st symphony, final movement
• Naim's annual price increase

Agreed.

Adam Meredith posted:

For 'wistful'  I would recommend Sandy Denny 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes'  and  a rediscovered joy - Chicken Shack 'I'd Rather Go Blind' . Both available in many versions and one may work for you.

 

For wistful - a great adjective - I would personally recommend Sandy Denny's 'The North Star Grassman and the Ravens' - and if you can hear the version sung live at the Paris Theatre in London - its so moving and intimate - it  can bring a tear to the eye...

A fine post by Adam, and one that many of us can probably relate to.

For several years after August of 1995, I would tear up at the sound of Jerry Garcia's voice and/or guitar solos.  Having been to so many Dead shows, the loss actually felt...personal.  Probably didn't help losing both parents in the following couple of years.  

This had the unfortunate effect of putting me off music, and especially the music I grew up with, for almost a decade. But as with most clouds, there was a silver lining. When I decided it was time to once again explore the world of music, my ears were open to new sounds:  jazz, world, electronica, and more modern rock/metal.  Also opend my checkbook, started collecting vinyl again, and then these black boxes started reproducing like rabbits!  

Funny how things work out - occassionally for the worse, but mostly for the best. That's life I suppose.

Hope all my forum friends have had a great Christmas Day.  Just winding down here in the frigid northlands, and I've just tossed "From the Mars Hotel" on the turntable...

ATB.

Hook

Leona Lewis on x factor last month. Desperate. Wouldn't be looking forward to her forthcoming tour if I was her. Hope she had an excuse or throat problem . Sorry Ms Lewis.

Puccini's Turandot, Verdi's La Boheme - these guaranteed - and various sad films including a slightly off-the-wall one I watched today, Seven Pounds.

Tom Waits: Waltzin' Matilda