The Unfailing Tearjerker. We all have one.

[Miek]

This one also gets me, every time, and I don't know why:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxjCle8ofg

I'm one of those die hard metal til I die kind of guys, but my top 3 favorite songs don't even come close to metal.

[Philly Q]

Kiichi, seriously if all those things make you cry... I think you may be clinically depressed.  :?

Well 4 of those are tears of joy and another 4 mixed^^

And yeah, that looks bad. I guess I am just a person that usually is very calm and relaxed. I most of the time do not really carry my emotions outward, so when I do they are more intense.
Should I make a list of songs movies / songs that make me euphoric / insanely happy / wanne dance around and actually do that most of the time?
Cause I think that would more than put things in perspective....it would be several times the amount of what I just posted.
So no need to worry about me I think.

Now I think you're bipolar.   :?


(I know, I know, shouldn't joke about mental health issues, just in  case Big Brother is reading....  :roll: )

[Loomer]

Another song that gets to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOp-p_mlKH4

Converge - "First Light/Last Light".

There's just something heartfelt and beautiful about it. An acknowledgement that life is hard and fate is cruel, but still a hopeful and optimistic plea for the listener to stay strong. There is a sort of desperate defiance in it. A stubborn refusal to back down and give up, no matter what sort of adversity life can throw at you. The way Jacob sings "This is for the hearts still beating", like he's close to tears the whole song through. Phwoar...

Their song "Dark Horse" does a bit of the same, although it has more of that uplifting rallying cry/call to arms sort of thing and a lot less melancholy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV4x5DsES9w&feature=related

[Madsakre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eif0AY_8Weg

[horsehead]

for a geek like me the death scene of the 10th doctor get's me everytime..."I don't want to go..." sob

[Ian Price]

Oh, and by the way... If you don't have at least one Tom Waits song that gets to you in some way, you have no soul.

Time

For me this would have to be Georgia Lee. Especially the "why wasn't god there for Georgia Lee?" part.

[ToneMonkey]

When the wife pus on Despirate Housewives I want to kill myself. Does that count?

[MDV]

When the wife pus on Despirate Housewives I want to kill myself. Does that count?

Most certainly

[BigB]

books : "La vie devant soi" (sorry, don't know the englisg title) from Emile Ajar (aka Romain Gary).

movies : Roberto Benigni's "vita e bella"

songs : well, quite a few but the obvious winner is "Army dreamer" by Kate Bush.

Oh and FWIW : I never pretented to be anything like a "big, burly, hairy-chested macho" - only hairy-chested ;)

[Philly Q]

movies : Roberto Benigni's "vita e bella"

Yeah, that comes close.... but if I remember right, I felt the film was a little manipulative.

I'm sure I cried at a film last year, but can't for the life of me remember what it was.  :roll:

(Not counting the tears of frustration I cry at the sheer stupidity and "lowest-common-denominator-ness" of a typical Hollywood blockbuster)

[Mr. Air]

One song that always makes me cry is Give My Love to Rose by Johnny Cash. Another candidate is Playboy Mommy by Tori Amos.

When it comes to films the ending of Dead Man Walking does it a plenty for me.

[Afghan Dave]

I forgot "Slipped her the big one" by Danger Danger... 

A lot of the girls I've known choke up on that one...:?

http://youtu.be/WlE0bX5qB5Y

[Matt77]

Wish I could Cry like you bunch of wet lettuces  :D
This gets me and it's the only thing that gets me close to tears. I can't even cry at funerals.
It's about a british commando from world war 2, you have to watch the whole programme for it to really rip your heart out as it gives details building up to the event and the poor guy's graphic account of the war.
Surrounded by German forces he took refuge in a house in Norway and stole food and a trinket containing words from the bible. Over 50 years later he returns and meets the occupants of the house again and reveals his guilt for stealing.
http://wn.com/commando_britain's_elite_soldiers_of_ww2_2/
i can recommend the whole programme, but you can see what I'm waffling on about if you skip to the last bit (part 12) and watch the first 1 minute and ten seconds and then go to 8:48 to see him return to the house years later.

[HTH AMPS]

Every time I look at my bank balance I sob uncontrollably, but as far as music goes, this Richard Thompson track gets me every time (Dimming Of The Day/Dargai), the hairs are standing up on edge even as I type this and listen to it, beautiful song...

http://youtu.be/qzqjD-_OMHk

[Philly Q]

Every time I look at my bank balance I sob uncontrollably, but as far as music goes, this Richard Thompson track gets me every time (Dimming Of The Day/Dargai), the hairs are standing up on edge even as I type this and listen to it, beautiful song...

http://youtu.be/qzqjD-_OMHk

Oh yes, that's a good one.

Which - for some reason - reminds me, there are a couple of Thea Gilmore songs which tug at the ol' heart strings.  Don't think I've ever actually blubbed though.