songs that make you shiver/cry

[Mike in Seattle]

We'll Meet Again (Don't know where, don't know when...) - played at Dad's funeral and then my brother's funeral three years later which was an odd choice for Mom to make since Dad & Scott never got along, but it's been subsequently latched onto for other relatives & family friends' funerals, so in my mind, it's now indelibly linked to death and thinking about who's no longer here.

Amazing Grace - sort of Mom's theme song & nickname so another that puts a lump in my throat since her death.

And interesting bit of trivia - the melody was stolen the Cherokee Morning Song, but the words & melody of Amazing Grace and Gilligan's Island can be used interchangeably. For Mom's memorial, the choir wanted to sing the lyrics to Gilligan because she'd appreciate the humor and it was one way, they felt, they could use the song without my losing it.

 

[C.K.Farnsworth]

Che gelida manina... Rodolfo and Mimi's duet

from the most melancholy of all operas la Boheme. It brings the water works everytime. (not easy for a strong silent type to admit)

 

[Alon]

Richard Strauss' Zueignung ("Dedication" in German) sung by Jessye Norman:

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Franz Schubert's Doppelganger sung by Alexander Kipnis (my favourite opera singer):

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[Alon]

Read the poetry of Doppelganger:

The quiet night broods over roof-tree and steeple;
Within this house dwelt my treasure rare.
'Tis long since I left the town and its people,
But the house stands still on the self-same square.

Here stands, too, a man; toward heaven he gazes,
And he wrings his hands with a wild despair.
I shudder with awe when his face he raises,
For the moonlight shows mine own self there.

Oh, pale sad creature! my ghost, my double,
Why dost thou ape my passion and tears,
That haunted me here with such cruel trouble,
So many a night in the olden years.


Perhaps Schubert's best, if not most powerful, lied.

 

[lizylou]

The song I get shivers over is 'Im through with love' Some Like It Hot Marilyn Monroe Too watch her sing it made me think I bet thats how she really felt.

 

[JessiLynn]

Peter Murphy's "Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem" gets me. Also the Arcade Fire's "Cold Wind" for some reason.

 

[Lulu-in-Ny]

Peter Murphy's "Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem" gets me. Also the Arcade Fire's "Cold Wind" for some reason.

For me, Murphy's All Night Long is the killer...

 

[JessiLynn]

For me, Murphy's All Night Long is the killer...

Oh, I definitely get that. Amazing song, as well.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I don't think any songs make me cry. There are certain songs that take me back to certain times and I get all nostalgic/melancholy, but I never cry. It's a little sad, but also sort of a good feeling -- hard to explain.

 

[rikrdo]

All these affect me at different levels

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUCPKdGcrk


Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman
They Dont Understand by Sawyer Brown
East To West by Casting Crowns

 

[Ada Veen]

"Frisco Town" by Memphis Minnie. Just the line where she says

"I woke up this morning about half past five,
I woke up this morning at half past five
my baby turned over cried just like a child
I'm on my way
to that Frisco town."

I don't know why, but it really touches me. It's the way she sings it.

 

[lizylou]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUCPKdGcrk


Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman
They Dont Understand by Sawyer Brown
East To West by Casting Crowns

I love caught in the Middle by C.C. They are an awesome group!
Many of their songs have keep me going strong!

 

[TheDutchess]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUCPKdGcrk


Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman
They Dont Understand by Sawyer Brown
East To West by Casting Crowns

Oh dern! I should have had a warning to what that youtube link was. Played it and shed a tear lol That song gets me every single time.

 

[millbrookmusic]

Between the Bars by Elliott Smith
The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve
The Show Must Go On by Queen (can you believe that was the last song on the last album made while he was still alive?)
Cathedrals by Jump Little Children

~ Daniel

 

[dollydaydream]

Jackie - Scott Walker, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end the first time I really heard it you know? One of my all time favourite songs & a song I intend to cover...one day

I also like the original, but I love Scott Walkers voice.

 

[Kitty_Sheridan]

Ooh...lots...

Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy. They used at my partners mums funeral a few weeks ago and everyone broke down. Her song 'I know you by heart' can make me sob too.

'You made me love you' by Harry James-it's the opening bars...ah unrequited love stinks does it not?

'Happy Ending ' by mika. See above.

'Somewhere in France with you'

And Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) I had to sing this at a funeral. Not sure how I managed.

And too many others I'm too ashamed to print!

 

[Pip]

'Happy Ending ' by mika. See above.

Ooh crikey, yes. Although I reallyyyy like the song, I can't help being

Others include:
With or without you - U2
Father and Son - Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
Svita - 1930's Czech song, no idea who'm its by though
Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton
What can I do - The Corrs (awful awful song lol )
One - U2
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Brothers in arms - Dire Straits
Angels - Within Temptation
The Angels Of St John - Meet on the Ledge version.

 

[Smithy]

Tracy Chapman - The Promise
The Smiths - Back to the Old House
The Cure - This Twilight Garden

...for starters...

 

[dahliaoleander]

Indian Love Call - MacEddy Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4GIaMtIcV4

Lover Come Back To Me - Jeanette MacDonald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec5ABoEE7BA

Nightmare - Artie Shaw
*Otherwise I don't really like him*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W59FzOwYIs

 

[Lulu-in-Ny]

Nightmare - Artie Shaw
*Otherwise I don't really like him*

Really?? I love him- makes me weak in the knees...