Songs that make you cry that aren't intended to necessarily be sad.

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  1. Price.pittsburgh

    Price.pittsburgh Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Music means different things to different people.
    There are songs that take on totally different meanings to me than to others.

    Sweet Virginia by the Rolling Stones as always had the ability to bring tears.
    It's genuine support and empathy for a loved one who is struggling with addiction makes me think of my own loved ones who have struggled.
     
  2. Myke

    Myke Trying Not To Spook The Horse

    Time for another crying thread already ? Time flies !
     
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  3. daveidmarx

    daveidmarx Forem Residunt

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    Time cries!
     
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  4. dude

    dude Senior Member

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    These days, just about everything that I ever liked a lot, if I hit it at the right moment!
    (Of course this wouldn't have anything thing to do with the quality of music over the last 30 years).
     
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  5. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Burlington, ON
    The Toys, Lovers' Concerto
     
  6. Chuckee

    Chuckee Forum Resident

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    Downtown - Petula Clark
     
  7. Galley

    Galley Forum Resident

    Meat Loaf - I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back
     
  8. Jim N

    Jim N Forum Resident

    Stones - No Expectations
     
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  9. B. Bu Po

    B. Bu Po Senior Member

    "Thank You For The Music".
     
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  10. ibekeen

    ibekeen Forum Resident

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    "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder always gets me. Beautiful simple song about the joy children bring to the world. I love too how he includes God without hitting you over the head with it. The defiant little girl (his daughter) refusing to get out of the bathtub is classic. I saw her as an adult introduce her father in concert and the crowd roared. ......And then there's that harmonica that only Stevie Wonder can play like that.
     
  11. Holy Diver

    Holy Diver Senior Member

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    Elton John - Your Song.
     
  12. nosticker

    nosticker Forum Guy

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    The Zephyr Song - RHCP.



    Dan
     
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  13. Denim Chicken

    Denim Chicken Dayman, fighter of the Nightman

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    I was feeling depressed yesterday at work. On my way home I decided I needed to hear my favorite album Trick of the Tail. I had been taking a long Genesis break but yesterday felt right. I put on the title track and within a minute I'm in tears. Tears of joy. Music is awesome.
     
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  14. ShawnX

    ShawnX Forum Resident

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    Downtown (Petula Clark song). Very interesting that anyone else should pick this. It will always remind me of my sister. Passed when I was a little boy. I remember her singing this song while listening to the radio in the car. I can still see her face and her hair.
     
  15. CorporalClegg

    CorporalClegg Forum Resident

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    Pink Floyd - Echoes
     
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  16. Dodoz

    Dodoz Forum Resident

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    O-o-h Child - The Five Stairsteps - this song gets to me every time......

    Meguela - Pierre Didy Tchakounté



    Wings - Goodnight Tonight, it reminds me of someone who's no longer here. So it's unexpected but "don't say it, don't say goodnight tonight" has a different meaning to me, somewhat, now. Very strange.
     
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  17. Folknik

    Folknik Forum Resident

    "I Know I'll Never Find Another You" by the Seekers. It's not about lost love, but about thinking of what would happen IF that love were lost.
     
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  18. Folknik

    Folknik Forum Resident

    There's something tear-inducing about the chord progression that goes from a major tonic chord to a minor mediant, an example being a C-major triad going to an e-minor triad. A I - ii progression like C-major to D-minor can also have that effect on me. A minor 6th to a minor 3rd often accentuates it even more.
    Examples:
    Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles
    Canon in D - Pachelbel
    Minuet in G - J.S. Bach (The melodic basis for the Toys' "A Lover's Concerto")
     
  19. Wugged

    Wugged Forum Resident

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    Enough to make anyone weep.............. :yikes:
     
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  20. klaatuhf

    klaatuhf Forum Resident

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    Anything by Coldplay or Radiohead :)
     
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  21. I swear, at least 2/3 of pop ballads make use of the Pachebel's Canon chord progression - it's kind of a lazy way to get a surefire sad/melancholic mood going. It also adds such a tone in upbeat numbers where I'm not sure it was intended - like in "Go West" by the Village People.
     
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  22. I don't know what Mr. Springsteen's intention was, but Racing In The Street is one of the saddest songs I ever heard, especially the long instrumental coda.
     
  23. Opeth

    Opeth Forum Resident

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    Anything by kid rock or 5FDP or disturbed or RHCP or A7F lol
     
  24. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    I know I've told this story many times in this forum.... but, since you asked!!!
    Let me tell you why this song makes the tears comes down my face...

    Seems like a basic 'pinky-new-wave' song, right?
    After a few years of listening to this song, I actually started HEARING what the woman was saying..
    Now, as I 'mouth-to-myself' what she says, I start crying for her situation, AND, the fact that I let those years go by, thinking her voice was just some nonsense to put behind the song!
     
  25. The Revealer

    The Revealer Forum Status: Paused Indefinitely

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    First that comes to mind is It's Just Another Morning Here, by Nanci Griffith. Her loneliness placed in an upbeat tempo. Meant to be sad? It relates sadness. But I feel the joy of having been with my wife, who introduced me to this music, for the last 24 years!
     
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