Music to Cry For

[JSmith]

Guitar solos can really get me-Rush 2112

JSmith

 

[Rottmannash]

JSmith

Good one.

 

[JSmith]

Good one.

Good ol' cracking Slash solo.

This often brings a little tear to the eye on occasion too;

... the words are beautiful and very meaningful, makes me think of my first ever love.

She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stare too long, I'd probably break down and cry

JSmith

 

[daniii88]

 

[dtaylo1066]

He cries, you cry. The power and emotion of music.

 

[dpturner]

just about anything from Blood on the Tracks

 

[Anthony101]

 

[mhardy6647]

These, e.g., usually get me to snifflin'...

 

[Boris Badinov]

I first heard this in the movie "Galipoli" and thought at the time it was the saddest piece of music I had ever heard. I still to this day love this piece

 

[dualazmak]

I have so many... Among these, how about this?
I mean the 2nd movement "Andante", Piano Concerto No.2 in F Major, Op. 102, Dmitorii Shostakovich;

I highly recommend to get the really wonderful recording played by Martin Helmchen (LPO-0053 LONDON London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski and Martin Helmchen) which is not fully available on YouTube;

The music was used in one short scene in the movie "Bridge of spies"...

 

[dualazmak]

Leopold Silvius Weiss lute music
....

You are quite welcome to visit my thread here on lute music...

 

[dualazmak]

Among the lute music,,,

 

[fluufy]

Jeff Buckley album Grace, remains the only album that made me cry in a record store when I first listened to it.

 

[q3cpma]

"Crying" is not something I associate with music, but some stuff that have always brought me emotion:
* The string intro from the famous Walkürenritt piece of Die Walküre
* Some stuff from Strauss (Also sprach Zarathustra, Eine Alpensinfonie)
* And Sibelius (Finlandia, Cassazione)
* The brass section from Grieg's Sørgemarsj over Rikard Nordraak
* The legendary Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kachtcheï from Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de feu (aka "the part where you understand what dynamic range means")

I find it rarer to get genuinely, spontaneously and unconditionally (due to the sole content, and not the relation between my state of mind/environment or even season with it) emotional with popular music, but I still got these:
* Bethlehem - everything up to Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung
* Blut Aus Nord - first two Memoria Vetusta and Ultima Thulée
* Cocteau Twin - Head over Heels
* Comus - First Utterance
* Danzig - first three albums
* David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
* Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Reqvires, Circvmspice
* diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral
* Uli Jon Roth - Earthquake
* Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain and Dopesick
* Godflesh - Streetcleaner
* Graveland - from In the Glare of Burning Churches to Carpathian Wolves
* Hirilorn - Legends of Evil and Eternal Death and A Hymn to the Ancient Souls / Umr at tawil split with Nasav
* Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
* Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
* Joyless - everything
* Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
* Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
* Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
* Lux Occulta - Forever Alone, Immortal
* Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
* Manes - Under ein blodraud maane
* Melvins - Bullhead
* My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
* Mütiilation - Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul
* Sleep - Volume One
* Spirogyra - St. Radigunds
* Swans - from Filth to Children of God
* The Sisters of Mercy - everything before Floodland
* Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
* Vlad Tepes / Belkètre - March to the Black Holocaust
* Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Rising Force (the horrible drum sound can be quite distracting, sadly)

but like I said, a lot of it depends on external stuff. For example, you don't listen to Kyuss or Eyehategod in winter nor Katatonia or Mütiilation while swimming in happiness.

 

[LightninBoy]

I dunno. Something about a sad bluegrass song that really hits me. Here's an example, ironically about the spanish flu outbreak in early 1900s.

 

[Rottmannash]

Most anything by Alison Krauss.

 

[eriksson]

Being a Viking, it's probably Justin Bieber for me. The feeling is somewhere along the lines:

 

[Brianc]

Radiohead "Let Down"
Sharon Van Etten "We Are Fine" (used perfectly at the end of the first episode of the fantastic tv series, Rectify, where it first made me cry).

 

[LTig]

The best proposal I've seen so far ... (sorry, German language only, but the translated subtitles are very good):

 

[LTig]

Mozart's Ave verum - do not play it at a funeral: