i was listening to "all my friends" on the tube ride home and i was surprised to actually be moved to tears. i don't like LCD soundsystem that much but it was something i kind of related to lyrics wise and i was actually close to tears whilst listening to it.
what has been the most recent song to move you when you least expected it to?

I Was The Dancer by Parenthetical Girls
on the train to Manchester. It was really beautiful, I was pretty lost in it and was possibly thinking I might cry.
Or, in general- the Half Man Half Biscuit song 99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd is always strangely emotional because the non-sequiter lyrics are lent a genuine profoundity by the somehow transcendently sad music.
^5
I have *actually* cried to that song on a train to Manchester. What do I win?
1 less friend
:'(
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Soul-joined link coincidence points?
Good choice
The only time I've ever cried at a gig was whilst they played Stolen Children. So, so beautiful live.
^^
needs more emo
Oh god, same.
Except I wasn't on a train to Manchester, or anything.
But it made me cry.
A tube ride is a perfect setting for that tune
I haven't been moved to tears by a song in quite a while thinking about it, I'm a cold numb beast...
...I was close with Bruno Renno's Get Lost (Lounge Mix) it kinda samples that stand by me track and turns it into a big sweeping atmospheric balearic tune, its beautiful.
i've cried to too many songs.
i think the magnetic fields have such a high count on the cry tally. sniff.
aww bless ya
I will email Magnetic Fields and ask them to provide Hankeys with every CD.
I'm a bit addicted to that song
that you linked me to the lyrics of earlier. No tears as of yet though.
I read the thread title and thought of that song!
It really does pack an emotional punch. I've never cried to it though - in fact, I never really cry at anything. My girlfriend showed me The Notebook last night and I still didn't shed a tear. I think I'm broken.
well expectedly
sufjan and okkervil river have moved me to tears before
but in the 'strangely' sense of the question i have always said that slipknot - volume 3: the subliminal verses is a really emotional record... seriously!
Jane Doe by Converge
Seriously.
I used to nearly bawl every time I heard Your Hand In Mine by EITS. I'm past that now.
Dan le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Magician's Assistant
despite it being about as subtle as brick to the face.
Dan le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Magician's Assistant
despite it being as subtle as a brick to the face.
only twice though
the third time i thought it was shit
i'm going home
from the rocky horror picture show
Back in '05 sometime (I must have been 13/14)
I was really restless at about 2 in the morning, so I put on my iPod and listening to The Blue Album straight through. I had only just discovered it a few weeks prior, and as Only In Dreams closed I found tears rolling down my cheeks as I thought 'I will never ever find a better record than this, all music henceforth becomes entirely obsolete'.
Oh oh oh also, no word of a fucking lie:
'You will always be my best friend' on Pikachu's Jukebox at the end of the Pokemon episode where Ash has to let go of Butterfree.
Like the end of Hitchhikers' Guide
(the original radio series)
when What A Wonderful World comes on B)
Many other "end-of-things" songs as well...
omdz
when ash lets go of butterfree is the saddest thing i've ever seen, totally serious. that whole episode is so sad, when the girl butterfree rejects him and stuff
In my school's common room.
My friend put on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (song) on his ipod. I had one earphone in. Almost cried.
Also, listening to Chicago by Sufjan Stevens really loud in my room a few days ago affected me more than i thought it would.
Yep.
context ender by barr.
except that's not strangely emotional, or unexpectedly so.
also, holy dawns of spring by thanksgiving worked pretty well at making me want to die.
<3 <3 <3 <3
'homesick'
by The Vines came on my mp3 player as i was going to meet some mates i hadnt seen in ages, it was still on when i walked into the beer garden when i saw them all huddled round a table laughing at nothing, had to pretend it was some weird hayfever thing as my eyes got redder.
does the subway make us more emotional?
"last day of magic" by the kills put a lump in my throat the other afternoon.
also, whenever i'm out dancing, i always hear "kids" by mgmt and it nearly brings tears to my eyes. "control yourself/take only what you need from me..."
Étienne D'août
by Malajube caught me unawares on an ipod shuffle the other day. No idea what the lyrics are about but it's beautiful.
i'm taking the 'strangely' part
of the title to exclude songs that are generally accepted to be really good...
For some reason How To Save A Life by The Fray makes me feel like I'm about to cry.
I just welled up listening to Eins Zwei Drei Hasselhoff
by Meet Me In St Louis. Fuxxake. I need to MTFU these past few days.
^this
or from the same album "I've Got Knives In My Eyes, I'm Going Home Sick", also for some reaon "Vökuró" on Medulla always strikes me as being particularly beautiful despite the fact I have no idea what it's about.
clam crab cockle cowrie by joanna newsom
i put it on 5 times on a row and cried every time hahaha.
although it wasnt really unexpected, that song is saturated in sentiment.
Vaughn Williams
Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner Conductor
Hadn't heard it since 1988, bought it for my Wife last week, put it on; within 30 seconds I was so choked up I couldn't talk. I had to take it off so I could make dinner without cutting myself.
Pale green things
by the mountain goats actually brought tears to my eyes.
non-music cry moment: In Red Dwarf, when Rimmer's light bee got ejected into the dimensional rift and came out the other end to join a multitude of light bees from different universes that formed a saturn-like ring around a planet. I balled my fucking eyes out. i think I was on an unsafe amount of drugs back then and so was a little emotional.
the mess inside
or riches and wonders by Mountain Goats have brought a few tears to my eye(s). Also Have You Forgotten by the Red House Painters. Used to actually challenge myself to get through it without crying. Took at least 5 or 6 plays over a week or so I think.
Also, on the more unexpected thing After All that we've been through by Chicago (in a crowded shop!) Ditto a really cheesy instrumentally muzak cversion of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley haha. Girl troubles at the time...
incidentally
How to save a life by the fray makes me want to fucking kill myself. But it would be very much a tearless death.
I probably shouldn't admit this
but Kelly Clarkson's Because Of You mademe blub once. I'd had a bad day, in my defence.
And Elbow's Switching Off gets me every time.
'horses in the sky' by ASMZ
Mountains Made of Steam
does it for me.
Rolf Harris
Two Little Boys.
Every time. I have to actively avoid it.
I am with you on all my friends!!
There is something quite emotive about it.
A Certain Romance
by The Arctic Monkeys. I struggle not to cry every time I hear it
beirut
scenic world
gush
18
by the New Year (I'm thinking this would be a good one at my funeral - CRY MOTHERFUCKERS!) and Bright Lights by Chow Chow. Bright lights is THE more "strangely" emotional out of the two.
They always lose their impact if I play them too much though