There's a handful of songs that I can think of, but these are always the first two that come to mind when asked this question:




Also the entire album of Godflesh's Songs of Love and Hate:

Disney ruined the **** outta this song for me. Only makes me laugh now. I think if I had gone on without knowing that it mutilated by the mouse I might have been it up there with something like Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang.

Luther Vandross -Dance With My Father

Amusing as it may be, the only song I can think of where the lyrical content was primarily what moved me to tears is Green River by CCR. Shortly after high school I moved away to the city for university. I lived there for 2 years and, perhaps in an effort to make my mind feel more in sync with the environment, I immersed myself almost exclusively in cold, experimental electronic music for the entire time that I lived there. Once I had completed my schooling and locked in a career I was free to move back to my hometown. On the day of the move I stuffed everything into the back of my truck, unearthed my old Chronicle Vol. 1 tape, loaded it into the cassette player, and hit the road. Just as I rolled past Abbotsford and into the valley, surrounded by open fields and mountains at all sides, Green River comes on and I'm overwhelmed by the feeling of being home. The combination of the homely lyrics, the view, and the jarring sensation of hearing that kind of music for the first time in years was the perfect recipe to trigger the waterworks.

Every other time that a song has moved me to tears it's the music itself, a particular section paired with a particular setting.

The solo sections of Driftin' & Driftin' (3:07) and In My Own Dream (3:13) get me almost every single time I hear them:





Certain crescendo sections of Epitaph by King Crimson get me tearing up frequently as well but I can't find the original recording anywhere on YouTube anymore, they've all been replaced with some milk toast non-mellotron version.

Good choice, but I think if we're talking emotionally-charged Rush songs, this is one of my favorites:

Ian Bairnson who played guitar for Pilot also was a studio musician for Alan Parsons Project and KATE BUSH!!!

Death and understanding are two important considerations of my life.

OH SHIIIIIIIIII

*rewatches every Kate Bush music video*

Steven Wilson songs have been known to make me find dust in the back of my eyes....Drive Home, The Raven That Refused To Sing, and Routine in particular.

You can't always get what you want is pretty sad at least the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38SGOee5Bbs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTaqMLQSrAM

Had Starless cranked on the way to work this morning and 8:49 onward had me tearing up. It just hits so hard after such a long, tense, and dissonant middle section.

I don’t know if a song has ever just made me cry. I do cry at certain songs because they have a sad memory attached to it but don’t think I have ever just cried at a piece of music.

Most of Like Clockwork by Qotsa....that album is such a master piece

Yeah same for me Fetcher. There are a couple that make me emotional because the are reasons behind the song, but not because the song is so good.

Don't ask me why, I don't know either

Well two that come close are...Neither One Of Us...The Beginning Of My End.

Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6en1BTlY0Kw

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXaKRb8hSvE

Tori Amos - The Weatherman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pBysg3SZg8

Tori Amos - Reindeer King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub0yooZAGOA

Kate Bush - Mother Stands for Comfort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_hpZSkQ30Y

... That's only 5. I could go on all evening. I'm a sensitive guy when it comes to music.

Patti Smith - Mother Rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZMv92ZHxo

case/lang/veirs - "Atomic Number"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-81jnVsCQw

Joanna Newsom - Divers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48xlgXqQKLA

Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AHPFPpHIM

Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhwu9yvL_1U

I'm such a sissy.

May seem strange for Savatage of all bands to bring some of the most emotional responses out of me, but somehow these songs have.

I cry to Hammerfall so you're good.

I have yet to experience other emotions that "lol hell yeah" when listening to Hammerfall.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/03f8...temid=12147819

Music has never made me cry. And if there was a song that was capable of this I wouldn't want to hear it.

I hope you two destroy eachother in an autism supernova.

Some of the music I find and get on records,8 tracks that sounds so beautiful makes me cry..... (early 70s and before music mostly)

What happend to the world in the mid 70s?? -- It went to complete crap!!!

Music That Has Actually Made You Cry
 

I've never cried to Oasis but I ain't no hater. "Rock N Roll Star" is one of God's bangaerz.

Music That Has Actually Made You Cry
 

I cry every time when i listen to "The book of love".

last time i cried listening to music was a long time ago, probably while listening to Pink moon by Nick Drake. Perfect album.

This would bring tears to anyones eyes....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QFzJkUKzSA

You need Laibach in your life.

Rammstein with trumpets....and why not!

I decided to listen to Pet Sounds today because I hadn't done that for a while. I thought I was so used to the album that I wouldn't cry this time, boy was I wrong.