Songs that make you cry

[boyse7en]

I seem to have a (fortunately) short list of songs that seem to somehow hit a subconscious part of my brain and make me go a bit teary-eyed for what appears to be no reason at all.
I can't see a common link between the music, lyrics or tone or anything, and wondered what it might be.

Some examples:

Kate Bush - This Womans Work
Tori Amos - Silent all these years
Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never have
Katy Perry - Firework (WTF!)
Polarkreis 18 - Allein, Allein


Anyone else get an irrational emotional response from particular songs they like?

[boyse7en]

mybrainhurts said:

Pull yourself together, man, and give yourself a bloody good hiding. We didn't win wars by being a bunch of weapons grade ninnies.

Bless

[boyse7en]

crazy about cars said:

Don't mean to be rude but from what I've gathered most posters here have been dumped their girlfriends?

Not since I was a teenager

My initial list was tracks that make me misty-eyed for no good reason... No particular personal experience attached to them, no memories or breakups.

Some tracks make me emotional because they remind me of a time or person that has slipped away into the past. The Eurythmics 'I need you' is this. I used to listen to the album on my Walkman on the bus to college, and it reminds me of an emotionally complicated period of my life.

Luther Vandross "Dance with my father" is an odd one as my father isn't dead yet, and I can't stand most of Vandross' music, but it makes me think of how I will have to deal with my parents (and ultimately my) mortality.

[boyse7en]

WannaNiceCar said:

For me, it's the last track on Rendez-Vous (Ron's Piece) - It always causes the dust in the room to rise when I think about how it was supposed to include a saxaphone section by Ron McNair while onboard the Challenger which would have been the first piece of music recorded in outer space, but ended up being recorded on Earth and being dedicated to Ron and the rest of the crew of Challenger instead.

Good shout. I'd forgotten that one. Might have to dig out my old JMJ cassette...

Just realised I've got nothing to play it on now though