Songs that make you cry
 

I don't just mean sad songs.

There are some songs that, whenever I hear them, bring a tear to my eye. I don't know why, they're not linked to any particular emotional event in my life. There's just something about them that triggers an emotional reaction.

Examples I can think of at the moment are:

Pale Blue Eyes - VU
Protection - Massive Attack
Where Do we Go Now But Nowhere - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Little Miss Divinity - FSOL

Does anyone else have this reaction?

No, but Massive Attack make me randomly fall to sleep.

loudness and grim reaper the first time i ever saw their music videos. i laughed so hard i cried and almost peed myself at the same time.

Ooo, like when I first saw the Windowlicker video.

Frittering - Mercury Rev

I'm sure there's a few more, because I'm emo like that, but I can't think of any right now.

Yo La Tengo - Tears are in Your Eyes

Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives
Chan Marshall - Faces
EITS - First Breath After Coma
Elliott Smith - tons of them

Low - Slide
Ida - Shoe-In
Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
Cat Power - Names
A Silver Mt. Zion - Mountains Made of Steam
Bat For Lashes - Sad Eyes

Beatles - Julia

Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome
Red House Painters - Katy Song

I don't actually cry, but they make me so damn sad I just don't listen to them anymore.

Katy song is quite a cool tune. It doesn't make me cry because I never cry. I have a heart made of stone.

I am still working on turning my heart to stone. Not quite there yet. It is black as night, though.

I also forgot one song that actually did make me cry when I first realized what the lyrics were saying:

George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today

I probably heard my pop play that song a billion times before I realized the poor bastard died.

big star - holocaust.

Come to think of it, I pretty much like the majority of the songs on the album that one comes from. Gosh, I haven't listened to it since the early 90's, when it first came out. Red house Painters always make me think of the newly-reformed American Music Club, another band that I used to listen to a lot.

cardigans - when you're gone

American Music Club is one of my all time favorite bands. I think sometimes I got musically stuck in the mid to late 90's. I like lots of new stuff, but the things that are dear to me are mostly 10+ years old.

good call.

I think that I'm more partial to DCD's Severance, but that may fall under the "songs that give you goosebumps" thread.

all of the songs on A Silver Mt Zion's Horses in the Sky album are so hauntingly beautiful that they have the potential for optic lubrication.

I'm going to listen to it right now, and cry, you bastard.

I ought to give those records a good dusting and a fresh listen again. American Music Club could (can?) write some pretty dark songs disguised as poor lost little lambs trying to find mummy in the bush.

beach boys-god only knows (contender for the most beutiful song, pop or otherwise, of all time)
smiths-last night i dreamt somebody loved me
the bad seeds-the weeping song

Well put, and very true. A lyrically stunning band, in my opinion. I even liked the solo Mark Eitzel stuff, but not quite as impressive as the band.