songs that make you shiver/cry

[Yeps]

This performance sent shivers down my spine by how great it was.
[video=youtube;TptdkJxR5FU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TptdkJxR5FU&feature=related[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

There are few songs that get to me as much as this one.

[video=youtube;5gRplQQV3H4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRplQQV3H4[/video]

 

[Mr. Hallack]

Lisa Gerrard- Sacrifice. Don't even know how to describe how I feel hearing this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6DZsEQ82lE

 

[Miss sofia]

Maria Callas singing Puccini usually gets me sobbing. 'O mio babbino caro' is one guaranteed to open the floodgates.

Gracie Fields - Sally. Reminds me of my Grandma.

Nat King Cole - Stardust.

Patsy Cline - Crazy

Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine.

I have been known to bawl listening to Otis Redding and Tom Waits.

I will also own up to crying unashamedly at Danny boy, (and i wasn't even three sheets to the wind), but i have never claimed to be anything but a bit of a sap.

 

[Bernie Zack]

One More Day - Diamond Rio, and You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Gladys Knight.

Gets me thinking about my wonderful mother every time. Here's to you, mom!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

RTE Concert Orchestra -- Songe D'Automne
(conducted by Andrew Penny)

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

 

[Darkangel]

Chet Baker's "My Funny Valentine" gets me every time too.

Adele "Someone Like You" is one of my current favourites. She gave an amazing performance on the Brit Awards

[video=youtube;ZkOvkhdGkF8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOvkhdGkF8[/video]

 

[I Adore Film Noir]

The Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Vera Lynn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4JQ_lMSEvE

Riding With Private Malone - David Ball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh1m0eC1004&feature=related

 

[The Good]

Amazing Grace has long been my favorite gospel song, and it is actually a very moving piece in many renditions of it. However, my favorite version of Amazing Grace is the one sung by Elvis Presley:

[video=youtube;B3XdXEJEI4E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3XdXEJEI4E[/video]

My heart swells with feelings of both joy, and sadness... that I could not have been a better man under circumstances that I now regret. However, listening to this song encompasses feelings of peace and victory, in my mind. It soothes the soul, so to speak.

I will admit, when I first encountered this version of the song, I was misty eyed and passionately immersed by it. There is something to the way he sings it, that draws me in. This may just be my favorite Elvis Presley song, and here is a man mostly known for rock and roll.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

On your Elvis note. Terribly sad song.
[video=youtube;w8YHBvX4QtM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8YHBvX4QtM[/video]

 

[Effingham]

Tom Smith's memorial to Jim Henson, "A Boy and His Frog," always makes me cry.


If we can suggest showtunes that make me bawl like a schoolgirl, I'd also offer "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from "Les Miz."

I dare you to listen -- TO LISTEN -- to the lyrics of "I Dreamed a Dream" and not find your eyes misting up. Heck, most of "Les Miz" is designed to make you consider slitting your wrist. Hell, "Fantine's Death" and Eponine's dying "Little Fall of Rain" -- can kill lesser men.

Dammit, I'm blurbing now. DAMMIT. I'm not kidding. Snot and everything.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Clair de Lune by Debussy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI - what heaven sounds like.
Air on the G String by Bach - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBGnpInQWQ
Shine Acoustic by Muse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgQY_5YsVxA - this song is so sad - just the way he sings the final line - perfect.
Goin' Back by Dusty Springfield - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJknm_MQ2s0&feature=related
Ofra Haza - Im Nin Alu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5px-ppcQDps - her voice - incredible - just gives me the shivers.....
Curve - Horrorhead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xMR7mYPWU - ethereal sounds from one of the best bands in the 90's with the most visually compelling singer I think I have ever seen.

 

[Blooze]

Bettye Lavette's remake of Talking Old Soldiers--if you ever get to see her Austin City Limits performance of this song....WOW!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp8_JyRTsWM&playnext=1&list=PL201B6E422AF59AF8


Stevie Ray Vaughan's Life Without You--when he hits the guitar solo it just has that note that he holds that sends shivers up my spine everytime I hear it, and I've listened to that song 1000's of times. There are only a couple of songs that have the magical note that does it for me.

 

[Puzzicato]

What a great thread! I am very emotional about music - I well up constantly. Some that have already been mentioned:

Any bugler playng "The Last Post"

Haversack

Definitely. I've been crying through ANZAC Day services since I was 7 (first time I heard the Last Post played live)

'And the band played Waltzing Matilda' esp the June Tabor version.

It's the Eric Bogle version for me.

Any piper playing Amazing Grace

Absolutely. It was played at a family wedding a couple of years ago and we were all awash, because the last time that family member (the piper) had played it had been at the funeral of someone taken way too soon.

Also: "Don't give up" - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush, and "Galloping Home" (the theme from Black Beauty *blush*)

 

[Miss Golightly]

"Galloping Home" (the theme from Black Beauty *blush*)

Ha - me too!

 

[Puzzicato]

Ha - me too!

I think we are probably about the same age. Poor Beauty.

 

[Tatum]

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday always gets me. Even if you don't listen to the words, the melody is haunting.

I had been reading this thread, but hadn't anything to add. Until yesterday, when my iPod called that up!

 

[Mario]

Oh my...

Tom Waits' 'The Briar And The Rose' from the unofficial 'Black Rider Outtakes' demo recording really gets me going every time (I absolutely prefer the raw demo to the studio version; it's an entirely different song). I'm teeribly sorry to say so but there is no decent version of the song to be found on YouTube.

The Briar And The Rose​

Oh blood and bone, and clocks and trains
My coat will keep you from the rain
Alas our love is all in vain
The briar and the rose​

I will not wait, I cannot thread
The tenor of the things you said
My love is true and we must wed
The briar and the rose​

I don't know how, I don't know why
I never meant to make you cry
My love is blind and so I chose
The briar and the rose​

Out in the meadow, ablaze with green
Our love was meant to be
Oh tell me have you ever seen
A briar without the rose​

Our love will tear us both apart
I'll never change my father’s heart
And I will cry and you must go
The briar and the rose​

And when I'm buried in my grave
And November's wind will blow
Your tears will fall
To make them grow
The briar and the rose​

And when I'm buried in my grave
November's wind will blow
And your tears will fall
To make them grow
The briar and the rose​

Your tears will fall
To make them grow
The briar and the rose

​

Then there is another song from the same recording called 'November'. The lyrics really catch the mood of a bleak and barren November day. As soon as the cold and dark season comes up and I need to fight back my own gloomy moods in earnest I always have to think of these incredible lines:​

November's cold chain made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens on chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November​

 

[Mario]

Come to think of it, there is another piece of music (well, actually there are several) that has the power to drive tears to my eyes - but this time tears of sheer joy.

It's a russian Klezmer dance (a sher) played by the band Polish band Kroke. It has me up and dancing every time:

[video=youtube;zUlt33GEwjo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUlt33GEwjo[/video]​

 

[Yeps]

I didn't even think about film music, which is odd, because I am ridiculously into film music.

This one takes the cake for tearjerkers for me.
[video=youtube;19bBGxf5k6k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19bBGxf5k6k[/video]

And this one comes close.
[video=youtube;jmax47l2hLU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU[/video]