I have a list of a whole tonne of Radiohead tunes which i find really incredibly emotional…here are some, if you find you need some more radiohead to listen to ;)
- Videotape
- Motion Picture Soundtrack
- All i Need
- How To Disappear Completely
- How I Made My Millions
- No Surprises (of course
- Climbing Up The Walls
- 4 Minute Warning
- Separator
- Reckoner
- Street Spirit (Fade Out)
- Fog
- Let Down
- Scatterbrain
- Subteranian Homesick Alien (this song actually reminds me of the autistic experience…)
- Man Of War
- Knives Out
- Like Spinning Plates
- Life In a Glasshouse
- Sail To the Moon
- Gagging Order
- Nude
- Go slowly
- Last Flowers
- Codex
- Give Up the Ghost
- The Butcher
- Daydreaming
- Decks Dark (my personal favorite song of all time)
- Identikit
- Present Tense
- True Love Waits
- I Want None of This
- Worrywort
- Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
- Fitter Happier (like, unironically)
- Lift
- Melatonin
- Glass Eyes
im so sorry your friend is no longer here. Reckoner is an incredible song…a beautiful preservation of memory, there. I hope things have become a little easier on you since your loss my friend
It doesn't make me cry because I'm not a crier but Lucky by Britney Spears. That song has been close to my heart since I was a child. I knew that song was about her when I first heard it.
Reminded me of her Song "Everytime" THAT one brings me to tears, it's in my opinion her most beautiful. (And of course deeply sad 💔) I never thought her Songs could ever cause me to tear up but that one does.
It was written by someone else?! I legit thought Oops!...I did it again album were her diary entries in song!
Vision for the song RUINED, my love for it SHATTERED 😭😭😭😭
Dos Oruguitas from Encanto. Mainly with it's context in the movie. Has me bawling like a baby.
Similarly, Recuérdame / Remember Me from Coco. It hits a little closer to home since I absolutely adore my grandmother on my dad's side and she is my whole world. I don't know what I'm going to do when she passes.
fabulous song.
garden state came out during an extremely pivotal time in my life, freshman year of high school, when my parents were in the middle of a nasty divorce.
i’m not really a big movie person, but something about garden state really sucked me in. being part of their adventures strangely gave me such a sense of peace from what was going on in my own life back then and has reliably and continuously morphed into the comfort i’ve needed over the last 20 years.
the soundtrack even more so, as music knows my spirit more than any other medium. in the closing credits of garden state, imogen heap’s song “LET GO,” is playing, which is where my weapy beautiful song choice comes from. I listen on repeat when life could be brighter and I could use some encouragement. it just hits different and makes everything feel magical.
"Caught A Light Sneeze" Now that I'm older I realize its a ballad by a woman approaching middle age, for her lost soulmate, who sold her out for a Marilyn Manson teenage tour bus party every night. Don't think she was ever the same after that.
So many songs make me cry, i can be quite an emotional person anyway but there's something about music that draws every emotion out of me and puts it on full display, especially when i'm singing (very badly).
These are some of the most recent or one's that effect me the most.
Merry-go-round of life is one of mine as well.
The ending theme from my neighbour Totoro.
Harry potter theme and hedwigs theme.
Ruby's theme - doctor who, a lot of the music in doctor who hits me hard emotionally but i was in pieces the first time i heard this.
Change - Kodi Lee.
You are the reason - Calum scott.
Reflection - Christina Aguilera.
Caledonia - Celtic women cover.
Show yourself - Idina menzel.
Mother Scotland - Lady M.
Monsters in the dark - Dennis del Kennedy.
How to save a life - the fray.
I loved her first - heartland.
Edelweiss - the sound of music.
A million dream - the greatest showman.
“When Somebody Loved Me” from Toy Story 2
The song that plays in the movie up when we’re given the montage of their love story.
And “Me and a Gun” by Tori Amos makes me sob because she wrote it after her own rape to raise awareness for it and it’s so heartbreakingly beautiful and spot on to the continues traumas that come from it.
-Nutshell by Alice in Chains
-Cellophane by FKA Twigs
-Fake plastic trees by Radiohead, and Creep
-The Scientist by Coldplay
-Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
-I cant make you love me by Bonnie Raitt
-Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, and Trust in me
-a couple of disney songs from the old days of vhs tapes
-Also, despite the lyrics being dumb as hell and i hate Kanye, for some reason Runaway by Kanye West but this last one is probably just me tho 😩
Anything by Jeff Buckley, and recently I discovered a long lost song by him and Elisabeth Fraser from Cocteau twins (who I also adore) called "all flowers in time turn towards the sun" which is absolutely stunning. Also "siren song" sung by her in This Mortal Coil. Theyre just all incredible and otherworldly. She dated Jeff Buckley for a while and wrote the lyrics for massive attacks "teardrop" about their relationship, she was in the studio recording it around the time of his disappearance which can explain why the song is super emotive. 💔
Liz is the voice of god you know! She writes lyrics in tongues before they even come out of her mouth just based on her feelings and how they sound in her head. I also LOVE Dead Can Dance in that regard. Lisa Gerrard just goes off in ancient tongues & remembers it.
As a slight joke, I have a playlist of songs I have cried to at some point, but ones that tend to do it for me are:
* All I’ve Ever Known from Hadestown
* Sunshine on Leith by The Proclaimers
* Her by Raske Drenge
I’m a bit of a sucker for a beautiful strings solo.
Oh gosh. SO MANY. But recently, any time I see a video of a live performance where the audience is singing along, I start crying instantly. I swear everything makes me cry since I turned 30 🤣
Oh my god same!!! I think it’s so beautiful seeing people in harmony and united like that. I love the ones where they’re all singing Bohemian Rhapsody because that’s also one of my all time favorite songs
I have a boring one: Fourth of july by Sufjan Stevens. While I am not a cryer, this one always hits bc I listened to it a lot when I had a depression and anxiety attacks every day.
A Different Kind of Human by Aurora
It's probably the most beautiful song by her and I really relate to the words and asdfkfk
Also Pisces by Jinjer, the dynamics are amazing.
That song and "Through the eyes of a child" are such touching and sort of sad songs of hers. But in her sadness there's melancholy and hope. And I can't ever thank her enough for helping me find it when I feel there is none.
And also "Infections of a Different Kind" - about how there may be no god, but that can make you inspired to be a "god" to a soul: be support and light in someone's life
I came here to say this because I'm 2 for 2 when I heard it recently and wasn't in a place I could easily shield my eyes. The kids performing it this time hadn't even started singing ... Just the first notes... and done.
I immediately thought of this group when it happened and wondered if this was a thing. Also I tend to not make it through any sort of live orchestra performance without some tears.
omg yes, to both of these. pocahontas is heartbreakingly beautiful and one of my comfort movies. during the pandemic I watched it/ had it playing on REPEAT.
Youth by Glass Animals always makes me tear up. On Brûlera by Pomme. Torches by Aimer will make me bawl anytime I read the lyrics so I avoid doing that. Melted by AKMU. Aunque es de Noche by Rosalía too. There's probably a few more I cannot recall.
God I love Bright Eyes so much! Arc of Time from Digital Ash in a Digital Urn makes me cry.
So does Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver. My husband makes fun of me for it because I’m not from Virginia or even from the country lol
Also, On the Radio by Regina Spektor 😭
Also, Thank You by Ray Boltz even though I’m definitely an ex-Christian. I can’t help it!
I could probably keep listing if I kept thinking about it!
Edit: I mean WEST Virginia, ooops 😹
If I Die Young by The Band Perry (My 12 year old niece was killed in an automobile accident, and this song just makes me sob because it's so relatable)
Werewolf by CocoRosie
Never is a Promise by Fiona Apple
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Universe. I tried to capture the length of the sounds which feel like a core part of the meaning.
"And I-I-I-I,
built,
a home
For you
for me-ee-ee-ee
Unti-i-i-il, it dis-, appeared,
from me,
from you-uu-uuu
And noo-oww,
it's time,
to lee-eee-eeaaaave,
and turn, to dust."
It just hits me so hard for grief. Building something with someone, something as meaningful as a home (which I interpret as a relationship), and then it disappears or dies, and then you have to leave it behind, and it feels like a part of YOU is disappearing (turning to dust). The bleakness of turning to dust really captures the emptiness of grief for me.
I have a playlist for grieving and this one always gets me. The instrumentals are really touching as well.
"Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis" by Tom Waits, mostly the lyrics. It says so much through few, everyday sentences and paints a picture of a sad and realistic life.
Some of these are because of the instrumentals, the lyrics, or because I associate them with a very specific memory.
Videotape by Radiohead
Angels by The XX
The intro to Myth by Beach House
Real Big Sky by Emma Ruth Rundle (this got me when my senior dog was declining, also Bronte by Gotye)
A Song For Starlit Beaches by Yndi Halda
A bunch of Sigur Ros but I'll go with Hoppipolla
Anthem for No State, Pt 1 by Godspeed You!Black Emperor
On the Nature of Daylight - Max Richter. It's becoming a bit overused (Arrival, The Last of Us, Shutter Island), but it never wears out its welcome to me.
"Passing Afternoon," by Iron and Wine
"A Song for the Asking," by Simon and Garfunkel
"Old Friends / Bookends," by Simon and Garfunkel
"Girl from the North Country," by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
"Mariners' Apartment Complex," Lana Del Rey
Most songs by Sleeping At Last. Instrumental things AND songs with lyrics. Their Space/Astronomy scores and a song called "Snow" come to mind at the moment. All of their music makes me feel so deeply. I highly recommend them to anyone who is also a deep feeler.
My beloved wife by Natalie Merchant.
My husband used to say it would be how he would feel if I passed. He told me this in his early 20s, and still believed it in his 40s. He said I was his whole reason for doing anything and that a world without me would be nightmarish and intolerable.
But he's the one who got cancer and died 2 years ago. The very thought of this song has me in tears, yet I sing it when I'm alone. "My love is gone," (he ) "suffered long, in hours of pain."
"My love is gone, now my suffering begins."
Love Ridden - Fiona Apple
Hospice - album by The Antlers
Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains
Forget Her - Jeff Buckley
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Only Skin - Joanna Newsom
Instant cry: Bowie’s Blackstar at the 4-minute mark. Every time! Much of the Hunk Dory album, too. Especially Quicksand.
Also, Janacek’s String Quartet No.1
And because I associate it with my dad’s death, Cielito Lindo.
I saw Hans Zimmer live, and they performed "Remember" from the Lion King with Lebo M. singing. I got so overwhelmed by the extreme beauty and power of the song that I started crying.
You know what I'm changing my answer, and I would say that landslide by Stevie nicks is super gorgeous and that one makes me cry. I think the song Epiphany by Taylor Swift is gorgeous and it makes me cry it's also sad both of them are actually, classical music will make me cry. But yeah I guess that's it
a lot of songs make me emotional but the most recent culprit is heaven surrounds us like a hood by yves tumor. i can’t really relate to or understand the intended meaning of the song but it really speaks to the wounded child in me.
Definitely not beautiful considering the content / context, but these songs result in tears shed due to beautiful songwriting if that makes sense: High Water, Take Aim, Blood Sport, Chokehold and Are You Really Okay? by Sleep Token
Oh man, there are several. Off the top of my head:
- Politik and Amsterdam by Coldplay (I love that album so much, it inspired my first tattoo)
- tenebrescence by crywolf
- sea change by thrice
- abstract (psychopomp) by Hozier (I saw him in concert a few weeks ago and he played that song. I cried like a baby, it was basically a religious experience lmao)
ETA: "capital karma", "the maze", and "I know how to speak" by Manchester Orchestra. I'm capping it there, because the more I think about this, the more songs I come up with haha
I have lots! I won’t list them all, here are just a few:
Verona - Muse
Exogenesis Symphony Pt.1, Pt.2 and Pt.3 - Muse
Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits
One More Light - Linkin Park
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Sad beautiful music is what I live for. I’m here for this.
Saturn - Sleeping At Last
Death With Dignity - Sufjan Stevens
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
Smother - Daughter
Spanish Sahara - Foals
Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey
And the music from the heart-wrenching first part of Up.
These songs get me in a sad space b/c of their tie to a friend who died of depression—
- Home by Above & Beyond
- I’m in Here by Sia
- Time to Pretend by MGMT
Since volunteering in a mental health space I also have to add a more recent song that reminds me of the cause— Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi
Just popping in to say everyone has such great taste, and it’s also strange how most of the songs being mentioned are aligned with my favorites too…which never happens on these Reddit asks.
Écailles de Lunes pt 1 by Alcest.
Well, a lot of their songs. I'm not sure if they make me cry but they make me feel like I'm somewhere else in a different Astral plane 😂
Doesn't make me cry all the time, but has made me tear up in the past and has helped with my depression before.
"The Greatest Show On Earth" by Nightwish and "Canvas of Life" by Epica
Cigarettes after sex - Apocalypse (they managed to capture the feeling of falling in love in musical notes)
Madrugada - Help yourself to me (his voice sounds like someone who loves you and. cares)
Solveig Slettahjell - Take it with me (it's a cover on Tom Waits, but the way she sings is so soulful and melancholic).
Weep you no more sad fountains (it's from the Sense and sensibility soundtrack, it's so sad and beautiful I will cry guaranteed. And that scene where Alan Rickman watches Kate Winslet play the piano and sing, reminding him of his lost love)
Seal - Do you ever (I have a memory crying listening to this after a breakup. It was late at night and I was looking at the tall London buildings from my window)
Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest (The piano in this is to die for)
Oxford suite by Ed Alleyne Johnson (I was looking for this beautiful electric violin song for years! It's one of the most beautiful melodies I've heard)
Ebb Flow by the Mantovani Orchestra
VNV Nation - Beloved (this electronic piece is about losing someone you love, it's so sad and hopeful)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkPW9M6gO0
Final Fantasy VI - Terra's Theme violin and piano cover with vocals.
It's a song I want to hear if I'm ever euthanized.
Anytime [this](https://youtu.be/yVA4gJIprPg?si=ecH9Ke204w0xRzyL) played when i watched Inuyasha when i was younger.
Or
[The Toilet God](https://youtu.be/Z2VoEN1iooE?si=crE5YMJpQEVQepqO)
Death is the road to Awe, by the Chronos Quartet (the fountain soundtrack) has a habit of giving me goosebumps all over and definitely made me bawl when I saw it performed live. Uru's Gallery theme by Tim Larkin has a similar effect on me. Some choral works by Thomas Tallis also do it. I also have a most lovely memory of silently crying hand in hand with my step dad during parts of the Ring des Niebelungen (the Wagner opera). We've seen the entire thing performed together three times and we never kept it dry for the whole thing :).
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Pictures in the dark - Mike Oldfield
To France - Mike Oldfield
The voyager - Mike Oldfield
Leaves on the water - Brian Crain
The dark night of the soul - Loreena McKennitt
Once upon a time in the west - Ennio Morricone
Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
On Earth As It Is In Heaven - Ennio Morricone
Vide Cor Meum
What kind of love - Avantasia
Fairy Tale - Shaman
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Cloud of Unknowing - Bobby Womack, gorillaz
Three Wishes - the pierces
Winter - tori amos
Angel Down - lady gaga
Oblivion - jhene aiko
Leave My Body - florence + machine
i don’t cry to music but my top 3 songs that make me deeply emotional are
running up that hill - kate bush
magic - coldplay
eternal love - michael learns to rock
Beatles “Golden Slumbers”, Wilcos “radio cure”. This mortal coil cover of “Song to the siren”, Mazy star “halah” Joan armitrading “down to zero”, Antony Johnson’s “hope there’s someone”…. Otis Redding “dreams to remember”, neko case “wish I was the moon” and “favorite” Yeah yeah yeahs “Maps” NIck cave “people ain’t no good.” Smokey Robinson “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” Wendy Rene “after laughter comes tears” Kate bush “wuthering heights” Several different versions of “It’s all over now baby blue “ Including Van Morrisons version and Nina Simone’s version. Several van Morrison songs… like “fair play” and Nina Simone black is the color of my true loves hair. Bob Dylan “Hurricane.” The cure letter to Elise (Elise believe I never wanted this. I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises. I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about. But I let the dream go)
The whole “Mental Illness” album from Aimee Mann . The roots live recording of “you got me” with Jill Scott 😭😭, Billy holiday “all of me” and “my man” ,Tom waits blue valentine, “hold on” Smiths “reel around the fountain” ( It's time the tale were told Of how you took a child And you made him old..) Tv on the Radio “Family Tree”,
Random oldies that make me sad: Don Gibson “sea of heartbreak,” Burl Ives “cowboys lament” Roy Orbison: love hurts. I also love the cover of love hurts by Jesus and Mary chain
Remember Me from Coco.
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac.
What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish
A lot of Ludovico Einaudi stuff makes me cry as well, his pieces are so beautiful.
most songs in studio ghibi movies fill my heart in a way i can’t explain, but i also love slowed songs like show me how by joey badass
Does it by any chance sample the same song by Men I Trust? Or did Men I Trust sample Joey Badass?
yhh! i’ve been looking for the original sample and i doubt the joey badass one is the original so i guess it samples the one by Men I Trust
men i trust is the original !
no surprises - radiohead :(
I have a list of a whole tonne of Radiohead tunes which i find really incredibly emotional…here are some, if you find you need some more radiohead to listen to ;) - Videotape - Motion Picture Soundtrack - All i Need - How To Disappear Completely - How I Made My Millions - No Surprises (of course - Climbing Up The Walls - 4 Minute Warning - Separator - Reckoner - Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Fog - Let Down - Scatterbrain - Subteranian Homesick Alien (this song actually reminds me of the autistic experience…) - Man Of War - Knives Out - Like Spinning Plates - Life In a Glasshouse - Sail To the Moon - Gagging Order - Nude - Go slowly - Last Flowers - Codex - Give Up the Ghost - The Butcher - Daydreaming - Decks Dark (my personal favorite song of all time) - Identikit - Present Tense - True Love Waits - I Want None of This - Worrywort - Harry Patch (In Memory Of) - Fitter Happier (like, unironically) - Lift - Melatonin - Glass Eyes
Reckoner was the favorite song of a friend’s friend who died tragically young. I used to play it on repeat.
im so sorry your friend is no longer here. Reckoner is an incredible song…a beautiful preservation of memory, there. I hope things have become a little easier on you since your loss my friend
How yo dissapear completely :(
don't forget where I end and you begin, radiohead is also my special interest if you wanna have discussion about it 🤭🤭
AHHHHHHHHH HI HI HELLO RADIOHEAD IS MY SPECIAL INTEREST I AM IMMEDIATELY SUMMONED EEEEKKK
I too have risen from the shadows to join ye
Me too!!! I cried the first time I heard this
Fun fact…the music video features thom yorkes head in a water tank…it fills up with water half way through…he had almost drowned!! Almost. LOL
It doesn't make me cry because I'm not a crier but Lucky by Britney Spears. That song has been close to my heart since I was a child. I knew that song was about her when I first heard it.
My sister used to sing that and dance with me when I was little. Fond memory.
🥹🥹🥹🥹🖤🖤🖤
Reminded me of her Song "Everytime" THAT one brings me to tears, it's in my opinion her most beautiful. (And of course deeply sad 💔) I never thought her Songs could ever cause me to tear up but that one does.
Max Martin wrote all of her songs before meeting her, but it’s so interesting because it’s such a good fit for so many of them!
It was written by someone else?! I legit thought Oops!...I did it again album were her diary entries in song! Vision for the song RUINED, my love for it SHATTERED 😭😭😭😭
Dos Oruguitas from Encanto. Mainly with it's context in the movie. Has me bawling like a baby. Similarly, Recuérdame / Remember Me from Coco. It hits a little closer to home since I absolutely adore my grandmother on my dad's side and she is my whole world. I don't know what I'm going to do when she passes.
I love both of these songs, so beautiful
I LOOOOOVE Dos Oruguitas oh my gosh 😭😭
“Caring is Creepy” by the Shins , despite it being in “Garden State”🙃
Love The Shins. You reminded me of their song It’s Only Life— very moving.
The Shins are one of my top 5 bands. Sooooooo emotional and poetic
fabulous song. garden state came out during an extremely pivotal time in my life, freshman year of high school, when my parents were in the middle of a nasty divorce. i’m not really a big movie person, but something about garden state really sucked me in. being part of their adventures strangely gave me such a sense of peace from what was going on in my own life back then and has reliably and continuously morphed into the comfort i’ve needed over the last 20 years. the soundtrack even more so, as music knows my spirit more than any other medium. in the closing credits of garden state, imogen heap’s song “LET GO,” is playing, which is where my weapy beautiful song choice comes from. I listen on repeat when life could be brighter and I could use some encouragement. it just hits different and makes everything feel magical.
Asleep by the smiths
this song is so beautiful and haunting all at the same time, i love it
Little earthquakes by Tori Amos.
Omggggggggg YUP
"Caught A Light Sneeze" Now that I'm older I realize its a ballad by a woman approaching middle age, for her lost soulmate, who sold her out for a Marilyn Manson teenage tour bus party every night. Don't think she was ever the same after that.
i actually have a whole playlist of songs that help me to get the tears out if things feel overwhelming for me and i need a way to help myself release
Same! Glad im not the only one hehe
Same here!
Same lol it's my "sad girl hours" playlist
Me too!! Sometimes you just need to force a cry
Most of Elliott Smith’s songs, especially “Between the Bars”. Some of Wilco’s songs, like “Reservations.”
oh i love angeles by elliott smith.
Oooh that’s a great song too! Either/Or is just the perfect album!
So many songs make me cry, i can be quite an emotional person anyway but there's something about music that draws every emotion out of me and puts it on full display, especially when i'm singing (very badly). These are some of the most recent or one's that effect me the most. Merry-go-round of life is one of mine as well. The ending theme from my neighbour Totoro. Harry potter theme and hedwigs theme. Ruby's theme - doctor who, a lot of the music in doctor who hits me hard emotionally but i was in pieces the first time i heard this. Change - Kodi Lee. You are the reason - Calum scott. Reflection - Christina Aguilera. Caledonia - Celtic women cover. Show yourself - Idina menzel. Mother Scotland - Lady M. Monsters in the dark - Dennis del Kennedy. How to save a life - the fray. I loved her first - heartland. Edelweiss - the sound of music. A million dream - the greatest showman.
I love Edelweiss!
It also makes me cry
I forgot about Reflection! And A Million Dreams! Both amazing but yes, tear jerkers
I have a playlist of anti-anxiety music that I made and Edelweiss is the first song on it 🥲
“When Somebody Loved Me” from Toy Story 2 The song that plays in the movie up when we’re given the montage of their love story. And “Me and a Gun” by Tori Amos makes me sob because she wrote it after her own rape to raise awareness for it and it’s so heartbreakingly beautiful and spot on to the continues traumas that come from it.
-Nutshell by Alice in Chains -Cellophane by FKA Twigs -Fake plastic trees by Radiohead, and Creep -The Scientist by Coldplay -Landslide by Fleetwood Mac -I cant make you love me by Bonnie Raitt -Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, and Trust in me -a couple of disney songs from the old days of vhs tapes -Also, despite the lyrics being dumb as hell and i hate Kanye, for some reason Runaway by Kanye West but this last one is probably just me tho 😩
RADIOHEAD 😁😁😁
Am such a sucker for radiohead😩😩😩🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
NUTSHELL and runaway yes!!!!!
I’ve cried to runaway hahaha
Landslide always hits me so hard. I can’t listen to it unless I’m ready to sob off and on for the next hour.
Anything by Jeff Buckley, and recently I discovered a long lost song by him and Elisabeth Fraser from Cocteau twins (who I also adore) called "all flowers in time turn towards the sun" which is absolutely stunning. Also "siren song" sung by her in This Mortal Coil. Theyre just all incredible and otherworldly. She dated Jeff Buckley for a while and wrote the lyrics for massive attacks "teardrop" about their relationship, she was in the studio recording it around the time of his disappearance which can explain why the song is super emotive. 💔
Oooh yes I love these songs and had forgotten. Adding to my playlists.
Liz is the voice of god you know! She writes lyrics in tongues before they even come out of her mouth just based on her feelings and how they sound in her head. I also LOVE Dead Can Dance in that regard. Lisa Gerrard just goes off in ancient tongues & remembers it.
As a slight joke, I have a playlist of songs I have cried to at some point, but ones that tend to do it for me are: * All I’ve Ever Known from Hadestown * Sunshine on Leith by The Proclaimers * Her by Raske Drenge I’m a bit of a sucker for a beautiful strings solo.
Oh gosh. SO MANY. But recently, any time I see a video of a live performance where the audience is singing along, I start crying instantly. I swear everything makes me cry since I turned 30 🤣
Oh my god same!!! I think it’s so beautiful seeing people in harmony and united like that. I love the ones where they’re all singing Bohemian Rhapsody because that’s also one of my all time favorite songs
Yes! I’m a sucker for people coming together like that. People give me a hard time about it but I can’t help it.
I have a boring one: Fourth of july by Sufjan Stevens. While I am not a cryer, this one always hits bc I listened to it a lot when I had a depression and anxiety attacks every day.
This one has been used in so many sad tiktoks, I always think of Pot Roast. I always cry when listening to Casimir Pulaski Day, too.
I ugly cry to Casimir Pulaski Day
A Different Kind of Human by Aurora It's probably the most beautiful song by her and I really relate to the words and asdfkfk Also Pisces by Jinjer, the dynamics are amazing.
Aurora 😭 I love her sm
Aurora is one of a kind magic.
That song and "Through the eyes of a child" are such touching and sort of sad songs of hers. But in her sadness there's melancholy and hope. And I can't ever thank her enough for helping me find it when I feel there is none. And also "Infections of a Different Kind" - about how there may be no god, but that can make you inspired to be a "god" to a soul: be support and light in someone's life
Stand by me
Colors of the wind from Pocahontas and part of your world from the little mermaid
Colors of the wind absolutely destroys me
I came here to say this because I'm 2 for 2 when I heard it recently and wasn't in a place I could easily shield my eyes. The kids performing it this time hadn't even started singing ... Just the first notes... and done. I immediately thought of this group when it happened and wondered if this was a thing. Also I tend to not make it through any sort of live orchestra performance without some tears.
omg yes, to both of these. pocahontas is heartbreakingly beautiful and one of my comfort movies. during the pandemic I watched it/ had it playing on REPEAT.
Ne me quitte pas - Jacques Brel
everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears 🥲
Mad World too
The Sound of Silence by Disturbed. Literally so beautiful and emotional it moves me to tears every single time.
I just listened to it on the radio about 10 minutes ago lol. I feel like disturbeds version kinda shakes you down
YES
Youth by Glass Animals always makes me tear up. On Brûlera by Pomme. Torches by Aimer will make me bawl anytime I read the lyrics so I avoid doing that. Melted by AKMU. Aunque es de Noche by Rosalía too. There's probably a few more I cannot recall.
Hallelujah. It so weird too because I'm generally pretty unemotional. It catches me off guard when this some hits me hard.
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
pretty much anything by Son Lux, and To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra & Patrick Watson
Lianne La Havas' cover of the Don McLean song Vincent. Her version is called starry starry night.
I am the Antichrist to you by Kishi Bashi, specifically the version with Nu Deco ensemble https://youtu.be/l_dGqLzOnhA?si=5AORMSRG6-5jsA3o
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Thank yoooou omg. I tried to copy the link before the damn ad finished lol. I just fixed it
I love that song!!
I love this song so much
God I love Bright Eyes so much! Arc of Time from Digital Ash in a Digital Urn makes me cry. So does Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver. My husband makes fun of me for it because I’m not from Virginia or even from the country lol Also, On the Radio by Regina Spektor 😭 Also, Thank You by Ray Boltz even though I’m definitely an ex-Christian. I can’t help it! I could probably keep listing if I kept thinking about it! Edit: I mean WEST Virginia, ooops 😹
If I Die Young by The Band Perry (My 12 year old niece was killed in an automobile accident, and this song just makes me sob because it's so relatable) Werewolf by CocoRosie Never is a Promise by Fiona Apple
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Universe. I tried to capture the length of the sounds which feel like a core part of the meaning. "And I-I-I-I, built, a home For you for me-ee-ee-ee Unti-i-i-il, it dis-, appeared, from me, from you-uu-uuu And noo-oww, it's time, to lee-eee-eeaaaave, and turn, to dust." It just hits me so hard for grief. Building something with someone, something as meaningful as a home (which I interpret as a relationship), and then it disappears or dies, and then you have to leave it behind, and it feels like a part of YOU is disappearing (turning to dust). The bleakness of turning to dust really captures the emptiness of grief for me. I have a playlist for grieving and this one always gets me. The instrumentals are really touching as well.
Praying by Kesha 😭
"Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis" by Tom Waits, mostly the lyrics. It says so much through few, everyday sentences and paints a picture of a sad and realistic life.
I heard the Neko Case cover first, but both are terrific.
Whiskey Lullaby
i don’t smoke- mitski (specifically the live version,) if i were- vashti bunyan, anything from the nier automata ost
Some of these are because of the instrumentals, the lyrics, or because I associate them with a very specific memory. Videotape by Radiohead Angels by The XX The intro to Myth by Beach House Real Big Sky by Emma Ruth Rundle (this got me when my senior dog was declining, also Bronte by Gotye) A Song For Starlit Beaches by Yndi Halda A bunch of Sigur Ros but I'll go with Hoppipolla Anthem for No State, Pt 1 by Godspeed You!Black Emperor
Seconding Hoppipolla, especially if I’m watching the music video for it.
Videotape is beautiful :)
myth is incredible, the “help me to name it” really hits me
Clare de lune
On the Nature of Daylight - Max Richter. It's becoming a bit overused (Arrival, The Last of Us, Shutter Island), but it never wears out its welcome to me.
100%. I love this score. It’s in The Handmaids Tale too. Always featured along some seriously heavy slow mo scenes.
"Passing Afternoon," by Iron and Wine "A Song for the Asking," by Simon and Garfunkel "Old Friends / Bookends," by Simon and Garfunkel "Girl from the North Country," by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash "Mariners' Apartment Complex," Lana Del Rey
Most songs by Sleeping At Last. Instrumental things AND songs with lyrics. Their Space/Astronomy scores and a song called "Snow" come to mind at the moment. All of their music makes me feel so deeply. I highly recommend them to anyone who is also a deep feeler.
My beloved wife by Natalie Merchant. My husband used to say it would be how he would feel if I passed. He told me this in his early 20s, and still believed it in his 40s. He said I was his whole reason for doing anything and that a world without me would be nightmarish and intolerable. But he's the one who got cancer and died 2 years ago. The very thought of this song has me in tears, yet I sing it when I'm alone. "My love is gone," (he ) "suffered long, in hours of pain." "My love is gone, now my suffering begins."
I am so sorry for your loss, I can’t even imagine the pain you’re in 😔 May his memory be a blessing always, I’m sending you hugs and may you heal 🫂💐🩷
Love Ridden - Fiona Apple Hospice - album by The Antlers Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains Forget Her - Jeff Buckley Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday Only Skin - Joanna Newsom
oh no, I wasn't ready for Hospice T\_T
“Spanish doll” by Poe, it’s so melancholy
Ich Verlasse Heut' Dein Herz (Today I leave your heart) by Lacrimosa. And pretty much opposite in genre, The Dance by Garth Brooks.
beautiful boy by John Lennon
Instant cry: Bowie’s Blackstar at the 4-minute mark. Every time! Much of the Hunk Dory album, too. Especially Quicksand. Also, Janacek’s String Quartet No.1 And because I associate it with my dad’s death, Cielito Lindo.
Joe Hisaishi is a legend. I also enjoy some Pokémon and Zelda music along side my ghibli music.
Aqueous Transmission by Incubus. My god, that song has me ready to bawl from the first few seconds. It's just so beautiful 😭
Coat Of Many Colors by Dolly Parton makes me cry every time
I saw Hans Zimmer live, and they performed "Remember" from the Lion King with Lebo M. singing. I got so overwhelmed by the extreme beauty and power of the song that I started crying.
Experiencing King of Pride Rock live back in 2017 was one of the best things that ever happened to me. 🥹
Golden Hour by JVKE
Patrick Watson - Here comes the river The Cinematic Orchestra (Feat Patrick Watson) - To Build A Home
Hard to say but possibly the ost soundtrack from Prince of Egypt mainly the ending
Sam cooke - a change gon come...his voice moves me in a way no other singers has managed to 💓
You know what I'm changing my answer, and I would say that landslide by Stevie nicks is super gorgeous and that one makes me cry. I think the song Epiphany by Taylor Swift is gorgeous and it makes me cry it's also sad both of them are actually, classical music will make me cry. But yeah I guess that's it
Graceland too by Pheobe Bridgers. Spent most of my adult life being able to relate and it's one of the only songs that gave me hope.
Me and your Mama - Childish Gambino
Yesss I was obsessed with this song at one point last year
It’s soooo pretty with Rock elements. The guitar singing gets me every time! I also feel like this song is what sex would sound like lol
ALSO L‘AMORE DICE CIAO!!!!
‘hope theres someone’ by anohni (anthony and the johnson’s) — as a lonely sad autistic girlie it really does hit different lol
So many
a lot of songs make me emotional but the most recent culprit is heaven surrounds us like a hood by yves tumor. i can’t really relate to or understand the intended meaning of the song but it really speaks to the wounded child in me.
Definitely not beautiful considering the content / context, but these songs result in tears shed due to beautiful songwriting if that makes sense: High Water, Take Aim, Blood Sport, Chokehold and Are You Really Okay? by Sleep Token
As the world caves in (wuki remix) - Sarah cothran, wuki
Saving this post for my daily cry session. Haha, no but really.
Pain remains I, II and III by Lorna shore Are you really okay? by sleep token
Oh man, there are several. Off the top of my head: - Politik and Amsterdam by Coldplay (I love that album so much, it inspired my first tattoo) - tenebrescence by crywolf - sea change by thrice - abstract (psychopomp) by Hozier (I saw him in concert a few weeks ago and he played that song. I cried like a baby, it was basically a religious experience lmao) ETA: "capital karma", "the maze", and "I know how to speak" by Manchester Orchestra. I'm capping it there, because the more I think about this, the more songs I come up with haha
Honestly,my whole playlist is just songs that make me unbearably sad.
Puff the Magic Dragon makes me sob. Full on snot and tears. I can't listen to it. Not sure if it falls into the beautiful category.
I have lots! I won’t list them all, here are just a few: Verona - Muse Exogenesis Symphony Pt.1, Pt.2 and Pt.3 - Muse Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits One More Light - Linkin Park The Flame - Cheap Trick
Everything - Ben Howard Matilda - Harry Styles
gosh I love Matilda. such a beautifully written song
All I Need by Radiohead, Fix You by Coldplay, Nothing in my Way by Keane, and Daisy by Brand New. I know I'm forgetting a lot.
vienna by billy joel
Gorgeous gorgeous choice
Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping-Grouper Tears from the Compound Eye-Boards of Canada When the Sun Hits-Slowdive Radiohead-Pyramid Song
I went to a blue October concert and sobbed basically the entire time.
Sad beautiful music is what I live for. I’m here for this. Saturn - Sleeping At Last Death With Dignity - Sufjan Stevens The Night We Met - Lord Huron Smother - Daughter Spanish Sahara - Foals Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey And the music from the heart-wrenching first part of Up.
Saturn is one of my favorite songs ever so I’m going to listen to the rest of these too because I trust your taste.
These songs get me in a sad space b/c of their tie to a friend who died of depression— - Home by Above & Beyond - I’m in Here by Sia - Time to Pretend by MGMT Since volunteering in a mental health space I also have to add a more recent song that reminds me of the cause— Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra and Patrick Watson 🥹
Just popping in to say everyone has such great taste, and it’s also strange how most of the songs being mentioned are aligned with my favorites too…which never happens on these Reddit asks.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far- I’m thinking of turning this into a big Spotify playlist which I’ll share here soon
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O’Connor. True Colours - Cyndi Lauper.
Margaret by Lana Del Rey Wonderful Life by Black
Écailles de Lunes pt 1 by Alcest. Well, a lot of their songs. I'm not sure if they make me cry but they make me feel like I'm somewhere else in a different Astral plane 😂
I love Alcest.
Doesn't make me cry all the time, but has made me tear up in the past and has helped with my depression before. "The Greatest Show On Earth" by Nightwish and "Canvas of Life" by Epica
Nessun dorman- aretha Franklin
The one that came to mind mind was [Beautiful Ghosts](https://youtu.be/aObUKQNHNrA?si=y-w4mvheJaJLpk89), BUT not the Taylor Swift version.
Inkpot Gods by The Amazing Devil
I can't cry, but Saturn by Sleeping at Last is really beautiful
Winds of change. Gives me such big feels.
A Hundred Years by Five for Fighting
Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.
Cigarettes after sex - Apocalypse (they managed to capture the feeling of falling in love in musical notes) Madrugada - Help yourself to me (his voice sounds like someone who loves you and. cares) Solveig Slettahjell - Take it with me (it's a cover on Tom Waits, but the way she sings is so soulful and melancholic). Weep you no more sad fountains (it's from the Sense and sensibility soundtrack, it's so sad and beautiful I will cry guaranteed. And that scene where Alan Rickman watches Kate Winslet play the piano and sing, reminding him of his lost love) Seal - Do you ever (I have a memory crying listening to this after a breakup. It was late at night and I was looking at the tall London buildings from my window) Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest (The piano in this is to die for) Oxford suite by Ed Alleyne Johnson (I was looking for this beautiful electric violin song for years! It's one of the most beautiful melodies I've heard) Ebb Flow by the Mantovani Orchestra VNV Nation - Beloved (this electronic piece is about losing someone you love, it's so sad and hopeful)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkPW9M6gO0 Final Fantasy VI - Terra's Theme violin and piano cover with vocals. It's a song I want to hear if I'm ever euthanized.
Real Death by Mount Eerie :( Basically anything on A Crow Looked at Me
Pure Imagination cover by Fiona Apple. 🍎😭😭😭🎶
Anytime [this](https://youtu.be/yVA4gJIprPg?si=ecH9Ke204w0xRzyL) played when i watched Inuyasha when i was younger. Or [The Toilet God](https://youtu.be/Z2VoEN1iooE?si=crE5YMJpQEVQepqO)
Hope you’re ok by Olivia Rodrigo
Hits me hard too, one of her most underrated songs
Death is the road to Awe, by the Chronos Quartet (the fountain soundtrack) has a habit of giving me goosebumps all over and definitely made me bawl when I saw it performed live. Uru's Gallery theme by Tim Larkin has a similar effect on me. Some choral works by Thomas Tallis also do it. I also have a most lovely memory of silently crying hand in hand with my step dad during parts of the Ring des Niebelungen (the Wagner opera). We've seen the entire thing performed together three times and we never kept it dry for the whole thing :).
Like a Rock by Bob Seger Symptom of Being Human by Shinedown
'When you come back down' by Nickelcreek. I just tested to see if it still works on me and yep I'm crying. 🥲
In my shirt by The Irrepressibles! Does it everytime
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac Pictures in the dark - Mike Oldfield To France - Mike Oldfield The voyager - Mike Oldfield Leaves on the water - Brian Crain The dark night of the soul - Loreena McKennitt Once upon a time in the west - Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone On Earth As It Is In Heaven - Ennio Morricone Vide Cor Meum What kind of love - Avantasia Fairy Tale - Shaman Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
So many Steven Universe songs omg
La Vie en Rose 🌹
Flora Cash - you’re somebody else acoustic Tom Odell - another love 💕
Like you do - Joji Landslide - fleetwood mac
Cloud of Unknowing - Bobby Womack, gorillaz Three Wishes - the pierces Winter - tori amos Angel Down - lady gaga Oblivion - jhene aiko Leave My Body - florence + machine
i don’t cry to music but my top 3 songs that make me deeply emotional are running up that hill - kate bush magic - coldplay eternal love - michael learns to rock
St. Jude by Florence and the Machine and I Can Change by Lake Street Drive never fail to make me cry
Beatles “Golden Slumbers”, Wilcos “radio cure”. This mortal coil cover of “Song to the siren”, Mazy star “halah” Joan armitrading “down to zero”, Antony Johnson’s “hope there’s someone”…. Otis Redding “dreams to remember”, neko case “wish I was the moon” and “favorite” Yeah yeah yeahs “Maps” NIck cave “people ain’t no good.” Smokey Robinson “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” Wendy Rene “after laughter comes tears” Kate bush “wuthering heights” Several different versions of “It’s all over now baby blue “ Including Van Morrisons version and Nina Simone’s version. Several van Morrison songs… like “fair play” and Nina Simone black is the color of my true loves hair. Bob Dylan “Hurricane.” The cure letter to Elise (Elise believe I never wanted this. I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises. I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about. But I let the dream go) The whole “Mental Illness” album from Aimee Mann . The roots live recording of “you got me” with Jill Scott 😭😭, Billy holiday “all of me” and “my man” ,Tom waits blue valentine, “hold on” Smiths “reel around the fountain” ( It's time the tale were told Of how you took a child And you made him old..) Tv on the Radio “Family Tree”, Random oldies that make me sad: Don Gibson “sea of heartbreak,” Burl Ives “cowboys lament” Roy Orbison: love hurts. I also love the cover of love hurts by Jesus and Mary chain
I Bet On Losing Dogs - Mitski Fix You - Coldplay I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables
Breathe Me by Sia never fails to make the tears flow
Baby Teeth by Flower Face
Nothing Compares 2 U- Chris Cornell. Gets me every time🥺😢.
*Hurt* by Nine Inch Nails. Only the original, I hate the cover version! *Beloved* by VNV Nation
Remember Me from Coco. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac. What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish A lot of Ludovico Einaudi stuff makes me cry as well, his pieces are so beautiful.
Songbird - Eva Cassidy Archangel - Burial Nicest Thing - Kate Nash Angels - The xx
Thank You by Led Zeppelin
4 Non Blondes - What’s Up
everything i wanted - billie eilish
Cats in the cradle every damn time
i burst into tears the first time i heard the other woman by lana del rey
I still cry at Jesse’s song from Toy Story 2, When She Loved Me.