Music that makes me Blub

by **Jamie Renton** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:36 pm

Me? cry at music? no ... I'm far too tough minded & sophisticated to ever do that! it's just that when I hear these songs I always happen, by complete chance, to get something in my eye, that's all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdZ7RSux9Os

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTvDQnCqrg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGbjx-KIb0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7obQ7XNt4

I'd also choose Angola's Kafala Brothers & "Heaven" by The Klezmatics, but can't find YouTube clips for either.

Does anyone else want to 'fess up to music that makes them blub or are you all just going to stand around pointing, laughing, jeering & damning me for a soppy great wussypants?

by **Des** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:52 pm

I cry at music all the time, me.

While at work I can't post Youtube clips, but the one song that guarantees I blub every time is Joni Mitchell's 'The Last Time I saw Richard'.

I also blub at the most unlikely numbers, including Glen Campbell's 'Galveston' when he sings the line 'I am so afraid of dying' - gets me every time!

by **NormanD** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:44 pm

Joni Mitchell again. What a tear jerker she is.

"I Don't Know Where I Stand" by Fairport Convention, is the version that always gets me. But here is the heartbreaking writer herself.

sorry, I have to go, something in my eye, you know....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatqCiiXGEw[/youtube]

by **Neil Foxlee** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:33 pm

"As I suspected, you're a rank sentimentalist." (Captain Louis Renault)

Hank Williams, passim, though not outright blubbing, just the beginnings of moist eyes.

There's a Dorothy Moore track, I think her version of Bobby Goldsboro's With Pen in Hand, with a child of separating parents speaking at the end... Not on YouTube. Sorry, I just need to blow my nose...

by **Neil Foxlee** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:42 pm

Correction:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB3XYw5F6yI&feature=related[/youtube]

Got to go...

by **Rob Hall** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:25 pm

I have been known to cry watching Coronation Street, so I'm a real sucker for this kind of thing. Here's a few that I've blubbed along to -

Janis Ian: Jesse
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZMFZDDGnU&feature=related[/youtube]

June Tabor: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAl0FRjEzCA[/youtube]

Loudon Wainwright: Your Mother And I (Beware: crimes against fashion alert! The song starts at 39s)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2P4hw1kos8[/youtube]

by **john poole** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:22 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYy_8u4blk&feature=related[/youtube]

by **uiwangmike** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:27 pm

One of Rob's choices reminded me of another great Eric Bogle tearjerker, A Reason For It All. There is a live version on Youtube from Eric's farewell tour last summer:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgjhhUEdozg&NR=1[/youtube]

But this has better sound:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HGuqz_lUow&feature=related[/youtube]

by **Charlie** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:03 pm

Jamie Renton wrote:(Sorry, I don't know how to do that clever thing where you embed the YouTube clip)

Not hard, Jamie

at the front, you just put:
[youtube]followed by the entire link and the, with no gaps, you close with[/youtube]

by **kas** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:37 pm

Well, the Cowboy Junkies song I posted a moment ago made me leave the room for a second...

And there are several songs on those Dave Godin's Deep Soul compilations (ACE/Kent) that do the job if I let them.
Maybe I will get back on this later... I still need to keep myself collected to get some work done.

Then there's this of course:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUYbCksbjk&feature=related[/youtube]

by **Jamie Renton** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:11 am

Charlie wrote:
Jamie Renton wrote:(Sorry, I don't know how to do that clever thing where you embed the YouTube clip)

Not hard, Jamie

at the front, you just put:
[youtube]followed by the entire link and the, with no gaps, you close with[/youtube]

Thanks Charlie, that does sound easy!

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions

... & a lachrymose time was had by all.

by **Hugh Weldon** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:46 am

Not enough country. None actually. So let's make up for it:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWJCu3d6EX0&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAzhVHQQRs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr2IY8q687I[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzVqzBwXJAo[/youtube]

by **Neil Foxlee** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:54 am

Hugh Weldon wrote:Not enough country. None actually.

Did I or did I not mention Hank Williams?

by **Hugh Weldon** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:40 am

Neil

Did I or did I not mention Hank Williams?

Sorry, I will stay behind and write out 100 times 'I must read every post before putting my two pennorth in'.

Not sure if this one's the song or the nostalgia...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_5-oVJAdHA[/youtube]

by **judith** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:44 am

There's all kinds of tears, aren't there. And then, moods change, versions change. Here are 3 with the singers being the versions I like, though if I were to sing each one to myself, I would get teary.

An American folk song my grandfather used to sing that made me teary then and still does now when I hear it sung the way he sang it which is almost never. I almost gave up finding a YouTube clip that was anything nearly like it till I found this. It's perfect in sound for if I close my eyes, it can almost be my grandfather singing. Films have memorialized so many songs.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHyznIf0XLc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQgzEQhtTm4&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY0IXwsCxZI[/youtube]

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