Music that makes me Blub

[Mighty Joe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smO4VS9134

[Gordon Neill]

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

Not the zippiest of videos, but hard to notice when your eyes are filled with tears and you're thinking of.... excuse me, I've gotta go.... I'm sorry....

PS Good choice, Mighty Joe. Respect!

[Mighty Joe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQVz6vuNq7s

[AndyM]

Salty Tears by Thelma Jones (a 1970s 'deep soul' track) - a song about crying that can make you cry - how frightfully self-referential.

Carry Me Home - Hem.

Daddy's Gone - Glasvegas.

[Malachy O'Neill]

"the sound of you love who's going away and it doesn't matter"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egg8nddUY30[/youtube]

apologies that it's incomplete - youtube is limited to 10 mins - it's not too brutal an interruption though.

joy inside the tears.

[CantSleepClownsWillGetMe]

Sinéad O'Connor - She Moved Through the Fair

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHo7syTQOo[/youtube]

[tulsehill charlie]

Buß und Reu (Penance and Remorse) - we've been here before I know but worth a repeat visit. Another antidote to the "hopelessly chirpy". I was looking for Ann-Sofie von Otter but couldn't find it. Still Julia Hamari hits the tear ducts, with some dangerous looking flautists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLkGIhDxHE

[Dayna]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbkz_3lO3c[/youtube]


Sarah McLaughlin ; In The Arms Of The Angel

This song has been used in an ad for abused animals & hearing her powerful,beautiful voice along with images of the most pathetic looking animals, is so effective, it's a very hard ad to watch. But the song just by itself is very beautiful.

[Charlie]

I wonder which songs made John Peel cry. He always claimed to cry at the slightest pretext.

I cry very easily, but can't think of a single song that had literally brought a tear to my eye, either on record or at a live gig.

[Rob Hall]

I cry very easily, but can't think of a single song that had literally brought a tear to my eye, either on record or at a live gig.

Well, of those that I mentioned, Janis Ian's "Jesse" had me blubbing - highly embarrassed - during a live performance. The singer was Barb Jungr and it was the first time I had ever heard the song. The others that I mentioned have brought tears to my eyes in private.

[Hugh Weldon]

Charlie:

I wonder which songs made John Peel cry. He always claimed to cry at the slightest pretext.

'Come Whoam to the Childer and Me', a setting of a Lancashire dialect poem by the Oldham Tinkers, was generally agreed to be his favourite weepy I think. I was looking for it on youtube when this thread first started but couldn't find it.

I also remember he had a very big soft spot for 'I'd Be a Legend in My Time' though whether it was the Orbison or the Jerry Lee Lewis version I don't recall.

On a Glastonbury show TV show some years ago he visibly wept when up close with Lonnie Donegan, not so much for the music as for the fact that he hadn't seen him live since he played with Ken Collyer's jazz band in 1961 (or was it at the Liverpool Empire in 1958? - no that was probably a Duane Eddy story).

[judith]

Hey Jamie, thanks for the great thread.

The songs posted by my fellow forum members have given sweet glimpses into that which moves them. I listened and imagined the cultural or physical landscape surrounding the person who made each of the posts - stuff like that. Nope. I didn't feel like a lurker. It was an open sharing that felt neither intrusive or inappropriately personal. Music keeps it clean and it has been a lovely way to touch down with my fellow forum members. Also, shared musical experiences are quite profound when considering the potential gulfs which should separate the listeners and realizing that something as solid as land or as disparate as belief can vanish in an instant. (You know, it still amazes me, how far the music from America has traveled and how much it is loved.)

Then today, after reading Charlie's post about not being brought to tears by a song, I thought about a few things. One being that I realized the songs which I posted did not make me cry when I first heard them. Nor did I share the experiences expressed in their lyrics. It is the experiences the songs recall that now elicit tears - my personal experiences that no one else can ever 'know' even if someone else where to also be brought to tears by the same song.

Then, I thought about how a single song can elicit these personal feelings - each feeling as unique as a fingerprint - from an untold number and variety of people and that when the song is handed on from one to the next, the song becomes a potential 'call and response', something of a telegraph system. Thus, for me, the songs posted by the forum members carry not only their emotion but also the experiences which triggered their tears even though I will not ever have the wildest notion about what those experiences might have been. Nor do I want to. But that's just it. A song can and does allow us to share that which is beyond our ken, or is too personal, or inexpressibly vague, or causes apathy, or is too horrific when said experience is spoken of or viewed. For me, in this context, music is clean because my response to a particular song can be as individualistic as the call within the song itself and because, should I choose to share my reaction to the song, my emotions will be expressed yet remain as private as I desire them to be - without being impersonal.

Following these thoughts, I did remember a song which made me cry the first time I heard it, one which still makes me cry thinking about it - Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues". Though it is almost quietly and simply put, it is a dramatic example and is, openly, a message song. The man is most definitely calling out. And obviously, I responded.

(I must here insert, after seeing the video I posted, I almost looked for another video as the pictures carry such strong effect themselves, but I decided not to because, as to me, when I first heard the song those were the images already in my head. Thereby, the video is neither in hindsight nor an overstatement and illustrates, in my mind, that a divergent peoples' experiences, however inexplicable or multitudinous they may be, can be expressed in a single song.)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDckI2P_DPA[/youtube]

[Ted]

OK. This is one of mine. But its also one of my favorite tunes to cheer me up.
Thats art for you innit? Take pain and anger and turn it into a thing of passion and beauty...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_TDoOPnIA[/youtube]

[NormanD]

But its also one of my favorite tunes to cheer me up.

I was just about to make this post, then I saw what Ted wrote.

Why has this thread (makes me sad) brought so many contributions whilst another recent thread (makes me happy) has effectively died?

I've no answer, I'm just curious.

PS Great Coltrane performance, thanks for posting it. The best 'rhythm section' any time, anywhere. I didn't even know there was a filmed performance. Is it your feelings about the events that inspired this song that bring it on for you?

[Chris P]

Why has this thread (makes me sad) brought so many contributions whilst another recent thread (makes me happy) has effectively died?

We did 3 pages on 'most life affirming singers & songs' back in 2007 :
http://www.charliegillett.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5550&view=next

back to this thread :
"No More Songs" by Phil Ochs (& several of his other later works) can make me feel choked up
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDumvI5SOoU[/youtube]

Although I think Dagmar & the Cow's version is A LOT more powerful :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBptCea3yA[/youtube]