Songs That Choke You Up

[Novaboy]

"I will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston

This one only makes me tear up if the bile burns the back of my throat enough to make my eyes water.:biggrin1:

 

[Novaboy]

Like An Angel Passing Through My Room - ABBA This version is by Norwegion Soprano Sissel. It's absolutely beautiful.

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[arthurdent]

That just reminded me that I went to see the musical Mamma Mia when it first opened in London in 1999. My favourite ABBA songs are The Winner Takes It All and One Of Us. The latter comes in the show first and that made my eyes a little moist. Then there are a few more songs and then a song called Slipping Through My Fingers, which I didn't know at the time but it touched me and I was trying very hard not to well up. This was then followed by The Winner Takes It All and that was when the tears started rolling down my cheeks and my eyes were blinking rapidly and I was sniffling. It was very difficult trying to keep my composure. I really wanted to have a good cry but I didn't. The lady sitting on my right gave me her handkerchief to wipe my eyes. How embarrassing! Actually, just typing this has made me relive the moment; I'm going to have to blow my nose and splash my face with cold water now.

Also, rather embarrassingly, whenever I hear Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris, the line "Did you think I would leave you dying, when there's room on my horse for two?" gets me everytime and has done since I first heard it when I was 9.

Ditto, This Woman's Work by Kate Bush, which I simply adore.

 

[ManofThunder]

I'm so manly, I don't cry or feel any emotion! :tongue: I'd say 'Moments of Pleasure' by Kate Bush - I'm not sure why, but it teases my soul.

 

[BoxersguyNJ]

there is one song that always brings a tear in my eyes is YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE this song is very emotional

 

[GayFrog]

There are three songs that choke me up every time I hear them. One in particular starts the tears flowing.

It Keeps Right On A Hurt'n by Johnny Tillotson

I Won't Mention It Again by Ray Price

Mama Sang A Song by Bill Anderson

 

[Bbucko]

Emiliana Torrini - If You Go Away

cuz Jacques Brel is ultra-keen. the music box accompaniment adds more bruise to the hurt.

I wish Brel's transcendent magic translated better, but it really doesn't, really. This page gives the lyrics in French and a fairly good transliteration into English (which robs it of its poetry but endows the words with greater actual meaning than the standard English version).

Other great Brel classics include La Chanson Des Vieux Amants, which despite the extra-schmaltzy strings and piano is a brilliant song: the video has English subtitles below the French in excellent transliteration. There's also his song Quand On N'A Que L'Amour, with transliteration here.

Back directly to the OP (though the Brel songs above can get me misty, too) is Bjork's All Is Full Of Love, which I can't believe I forgot the first time out.

 

[Enid]

currently

YouTube - Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man (Original Stereo)

 

[NIVLAC87B]

" i can't make you love me" by bonnie rait...i cry every time i hear it....even once in waiting room at dr's office...embarrasing..lol

 

[secondbest69]

love with out end amen gets me everytime

 

[IntoxicatingToxin]

This song, without a doubt. Hell, half this womans music does it for me. If I were gay, I'd soooo want her. :x

YouTube - Alison Moyet - Wishing You Were Here

 

[NIVLAC87B]

Wow...almost forgot.."the christmas shoes" ..gets me every year...lol

 

[Intrigue]

Joe Cocker "You are so beautiful". Every single time...

 

[unzipped]

I've been known to put a huge lump in many a girls throat.. (winks)

 

[DavidXL]

Kiri te Kanawa singing Puccini's O mio babbino caro YouTube - Kiri te Kanawa - O mio babbino caro - Puccini (I have no idea what she's singing, it's just so beautiful to me)

KD Lang singing Hallelujah YouTube - K.D. Lang Hymns of the 49th Parallel Hallelujah

 

[willow78]

Alison Moyet - "This House"
(ditto "Wishing You Were Here")

Kirsty MacColl:
"Tomorrow Never Comes"
"Don't Go Home"
"You And Me Baby"
"Mother's Ruin"

Kate Bush:
"Never Be Mine"
"You're The One"
(ditto "Moments Of Pleasure")

Shirley Bassey - "Ballad Of The Sad Young Men"

 

[willow78]

Kate Bush - "The Kick Inside"

Dusty Springfield - "Broken Blossoms"

Peter Allen - "Tenterfield Saddler"

 

[nudeyorker]

This song reminds me of a few people... YouTube - Dusty Springfield - BUT IT'S A NICE DREAM

 

[willow78]

Madonna - "Live To Tell"

Marcia Hines - "Shining"

Marcia Hines - "She's Leaving Home"

Billy Bragg - "She's Leaving Home"

Rod Stewart - "The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II)"

 

[MsThang]

Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven

YouTube - Eric Clapton/Tears in heaven

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