Songs That Choke You Up

[BiItalianBro]

Nessun Dorma

YouTube - Pavarotti "nessun dorma"

 

[B_crackoff]

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

Especially in the context of the musical.

The first song that comes to mind is Fairytale of New York. It's that line, "I've built my dreams around you." It gets me every time.

It's an absolute corker of a line.

Danny Boy always chokes me up, especially when sung unaccompanied - but here's Elvis.

YouTube - Danny Boy - Elvis Presley

Of course, the Smiths & Morrissey were very good at mournful songs, e.g

YouTube - The Smiths - Asleep

When I've had a particularly emotional relationship break up, however, I've found new meaning in just about every song. Weep!:frown1:

 

[Industrialsize]

"Senza Mamma" from Giacomo Pucinni's opera, Suor Angelica leaves me in a puddle of tears:
YouTube - Renata Scotto "Senza mamma" Suor Angelica

 

[MNGuy]

YouTube - Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Once)

Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

 

[nicenycdick]

"A Song for You" by Leon Russell

"At Seventeen" by Janis Ian

 

[Mr. Snakey]

This is a excerpt from Dvoraks New World Symphony. It chokes me up in a good way. Tears of joy. Its so beautiful.

YouTube - Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" - II (part 1)

 

[B_RoysToy]

Beatiful, one to listen to over and over again!

I'll have to say my favorite is one I heard soon after first meeting an ex lover, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" written by Ewain MacColl for his future wife Peggy Seager and sang by Roberta Flack in the 1980's. The words to this spoke to me.

 

[B_Hickboy]

Ah, I am easily moved by music. I always cry at the big climax of Copland's Appalachian Spring. This one gets me every time I listen to it, too: YouTube - Queen - 'Love Of My Life'

Freddie was, and is, my hero.

 

[thirteenbyseven]

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)

If the above gets women to choke up than Vissi d' arte from the second act of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca should get them to take-out the entire box of Kleenex. You will too when you discover that front row tickets to the opera cost the equivalent of good NFL tickets. I don't know anything about opera but it must be sad because it's written in a minor key. Here is Renee Fleming looking fabulous in 2006: YouTube - Renée Fleming: "Vissi D'Arte" Nobel Peace Price Concert 2006

 

[wallaboi]

Josh Groban and Vusi Mahalasala weeping. The beautiful melody and humanity chokes me up every time I hear this song. Sad and uplifting at the same time.

 

[wallaboi]

This is a great thread. Loving all the the songs that move you emotionally.

 

[Bbucko]

Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven

YouTube - Eric Clapton/Tears in heaven

Carlos Varela Una Palabra

Before I moved permanently to SoFla, my then-partner and I would spend at least a week every year in South Beach and rent a car for day trips, etc. One such trip I put on a CD that he'd bought just before we left. When River of Tears came on, it hit me like a freight train; I sat on the passenger side and wept uncontrollably (and involuntarily).

 

[eddie63]

Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion - They played this at one of my cousins funeral, who passed away several years ago. I get tears because it reminds me of her.

 

[CrookedHalo]

Somewhere Over The Rainbow as sung by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (Bruddah Iz) gets this angel choked up every time

YouTube - OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo

 

[SilverTrain]

Ooh, you reminded me. I do get overly emotional watching or listening to Judy Garland sing Over The Rainbow. I conflate my own childhood pains, Judy's childhood and adult pains, and the hope inherent in the lyrics.

Moist eyes everytime.

 

[D_Kitten_Kaboodle]

"Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle - every time,.... if you have a daughter and ever heard the song, you know what I mean.

Also

"My Wish" by Rascal Flatts

(I typically get emotional, or heart-tugs over songs about growing up......what does that mean?)

 

[D_Kitten_Kaboodle]

That was by Dolly Parton :tongue: :biggrin1: oke: lol

For some reason "Amazing Grace" will reduce me to tears everytime.

There are also a couple of songs that deal with child abuse such as

Alyssa Lies
(*warning* if you haven't heard it, don't listen to it with others around)




Countryguy63..... YES, YES, and YES.... Alyssa Lies is a heartbreaking song. I sang Amazing Grace to my daugter when she was a baby, it was here 'sleepy time' song. Now whenI hear it, I think of holding her in my arms.....But is has always moved me.

 

[SprinkleMe69]

Tapped Out by Rena. She's not mainstream but has indy stuff on her Myspace page. Song reminds me of the ex and the fact that I was just tapped out by him and everything else regarding him including the fact that he was really gay. Another song is For The Love of You by The Isley Brothers. A friend who was interested in me and I never game him a chance, sang that song to me and a year later he died. Today is the 13th anniversary of his death.

 

[Mr. Snakey]

A song from the last David Bowie album Reality. A haunting and chilling story of a man on his computer contemplating suicide.

YouTube - A Reality Tour - David Bowie - The Loneliest Guy

 

[willow78]

Madonna - "This Used To Be My Playground"

Kate Bush:
"And Dream Of Sheep"
"All The Love"
"Don't Give Up" (with Peter Gabriel)
"Love and Anger"*

*I wont re-print ALL the lyrics, just the ones that get to me the most:

It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to
Tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know if I'm ready yet.

If you can't tell your sister,
If you can't tell a priest,
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart
To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?