Song that makes you WEEP with joy

[dolo amber]

As evidenced by the fact I am currently sitting here choking back a sob, I MUST choose Fishbone - "Sunless Saturday". The lyrics are heartbreaking, but what does it to me is that the music is crushingly hopeful. No dirge-ish mope rock for the 'bone, this song kick every CELL of ass in the entire universe!! It's the contrast of the 2 that make it so poignant. I actually DID burst into hysterics once when they played it live, Angelo's voice soaring powerfully over the din of the bass...*shudder*...the trumpet at the end nearly caused my heart to explode.

Anyhoo, I've included a link to a snippet (480k so as not to tax those of you not on the fast :)) and the lyrics so you can judge for yourselves. So what song reduces you to a blubbering mass out of pure, unadulterated joy?!




http://www.efn.org/~cschatz/fishbone/Audio/Sunless.mp3






Sunless Saturday Lyrics:

I see the pestilence outside my window
I see the dung heaps piled at least a mile high
I see the shards of shattered dreams in the street
I face the morning with my customary sigh

I hear the sounds of children laughing aloud
A stumbling wino has attracted quite a crowd
My breakfast finished now I brave the outside
But all the clouds have hidden all the warmth inside

Chase these clouds away
I hate this sunless saturday

Freedom come
For us now
Light our sky
Burn away these clouds

Perhaps the charcoal grey and brown around me
Is just the mirror image of tainted soul
I think the sun will never visit my sky
Until the truth is seen by each and every eye

I see the helpless and I see the insane
I see a pauper singing in the pouring rain
I see the means of help elude us again
I think the sun will never visit me again

[disgruntella]

1. that whole album kicks an incalculable amount of ASS

"So Many Millions" makes me shiver every time I hear it. Also "Fight The Youth." And I love the song you're quoting too.

[dolo amber]

5. Yes!!

"The Reality of My Surroundings" is arguably their best...I get the shivers from "So Many Millions" as well. And "Sunless Saturday" just tops it off to perfection. Criminally underrated, the Fishbone. ;)

[mhr]

2. Trouble and Canon in D

Song: Cat Stevens, Trouble
Music: Pachebel, Canon in D

[vi5]

3. That is a phenomenal song by an amazing band, BUT....

My vote would go to "Change" off of their Truth and Soul disc instead.

[ArkDem]

4. Happy Birthday

by anybody

[VelmaD]

6. Beethoven's 9th

The last movement makes me weep every time I hear it. Calling it the "Ode to Joy" just doesn't describe it adequately as far as I'm concerned. :-)

Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto 1st movement does the same. As does "Ain't got no..." from Hair.

Darth Velma

[Mari333]

7. Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini and

Bachs Fugue just slay me.

also...Louis Armstrong...what a wonderful world
and all of Madama Butterfly...even tho she was soooooooo Co Dependent.

[noonwitch]

16. Beethoven's Ninth is great

"Ode to Joy" is good if sung by the right choir. Gospel choirs take the tune and change the tempo a bit and it sounds great, although they use the "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" lyrics.

I love the version of "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" that Nina Simone recorded. It's truly a celebration of life.

I personally love D'Vorak's "Prague Waltzes". Very happy, upbeat, dancing music.

[Raenelle]

31. The Emperor Concerto

n/t

[bif]

8. Der Rosenkavelier

The trio near the end, especially when sung by three divas, almost takes my breath away. I got choked up when I saw it live with the Met many moons ago.

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Jimi Hendrix--One Rainy Wish

the dream sequence, before he goes incoherent. :)

Also, Castles Made of Sand and the solo from Bold As Love.

Oh, yeah, and Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky with Phyllis Hyman.

[Quahog]

10. 'Savean'

From Lisa Gerrard's "The Mirror Pool." Lyrics are in her made-up singing language, and therefore meaningless to anyone but her. Doesn't matter. When I bought this cd, I couldn't wait to get it home to play it, so I popped it in the player in the car. Halfway through track 4, I had to pull off the road, as tears were literally running down my face. Impossible to explain in words, although my girlfriend at the time came really close when she said, "It sounds like something beautiful dying, like a swan."

[booksenkatz]

11. Dan Fogelberg's "Netherlands"

I want it played at my memorial service when I kick.

edited to add: just about ANYTHING Tchaikovsky ever wrote! Especially the middle section in "Waltz of the Flowers," I always cry during that part, am not sure why.

[lynndew2]

29. Netherlands...That whole album is wonderful!!

n/t

[Aristus]

12. The soprano solo from Mozart's Mass in C minor.

Also 'Suo-Gan', a Welsh lullaby, sung by a boy's choir.

[Butterflies]

13. After the Gold Rush

Neil Young

[RandomKoolzip]

14. "Ooh La La" by the Faces or "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals

A friend and I were once getting high and both burst into tears of Joy spontaneously when "Pressure Drop" came on the stereo. We couldn't explain it, but it's just such a Joyous, ALIVE song it moved us to tears.

Also, Whenever I watch the film "Rushmore" (It's my favorite movie), and at the end, when the DJ at the Dance cues up "Ooh La La", I ALWAYS start crying. Always. Is that a femmy thing for a guy to do?

Here are some other songs that have moved me to tears before:

"History Lesson, Part 2" The Minutemen
"I Found Out" John Lennon (Hell, the whole "Plastic Ono Band" album)
"Eight Miles High" Husker Du
"Change is Gonna Come" Otis Redding/ Sam Cooke (Both versions move me)
"Twin Falls" Ben Folds Five
"Race for the Prize" Flaming Lips
"Redemption Song" Bob Marley

[Iris]

15. "Where Is the Love" by The Blackeyed Peas

makes me leap with joy that there can still be protest songs found in pop culture.

[dolo amber]

17. *Kick*

:kick:

[sistersofmercy]

18. The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams

I find it extremely moving.

[Wickerman]

19. Harrison - Here Comes the Sun

and I am not really moved by too many Beatles songs, but George also has had a special place in my cold heart.

[never cry wolf]

20. Showing my age maybe but...

Two of them, Beginnings by Chicago and Everything is Coming our Way, by Santana.

Beginnings:

When I’m with you, it doesn’t matter where we are, or what we’re doing
I’m with you, that’s all that matters
Time passes much too quickly when we’re together laughing
I wish I could sing it to you, oh no
I wish I could sing it to you

Mostly I’m silent
Never think of the right words to say

When I kiss you, I feel a thousand different feelings
The color of chills all over my body
And when I feel them, I quickly try to decide which one
I should try to put into words, oh no
Try to put into words

Mostly I’m silent

Only the beginning of what I want to feel forever
Only the beginning
Only just the start
I’ve got to get you into my life mama
Got to get you next to me
Only the beginning
Only just the start

Everything is Coming Our Way:

Open your eyes,
Let it begin with me.
Brand new day,
Fresh new way to live,
The morning is calling
Walk with me into the sun.

Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way.
Everything is coming our way.

Here’s my hand
Reaching out to you
Take it, darling
And lead me on, yeah.

Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way.


Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way.

Feel it in my bones
No man stands alone.
Sister, brother,
From all the same seed

Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way
Everything is coming our way.

[Cheswick2.0]

21. short list off the top of my head.. Carosel Waltz (more ballet than song)

Make our Garden Grow .......... Candide

If We Only Have Love............. Jaques Brel

Lili's Eyes.............Secret Garden

Pearl Fishers Deut....... Pearl Fishers (Bizet)

Oh Mio Fernando.... La Favorita (Donizetti)

[Lindsay]

24. Cheswick,

I thought I was the only one who's in love with the duet from The Pearl Fishers! Gives me chills just to think about it. Glorious music.

[Cheswick2.0]

27. Hi Lindsay!! Welcome to DU

I love that duet. I used to date someone who sang the tenor and just recently the little opera company I belong to had it in one of our concerts. It is just glorious.

Anyway welcome, occasionally you will even find Opera and classical music threads. :7

[EFF BrandyWine]

30. Agree wholeheartedly...

also Pacabel's Canon and another piece called "Frater" that I heard long ago and still haunts me.

[david_vincent]

22. The Happy Prince album by the La-de-das...

They simply took the Oscar Wilde children's story and set it to music. It was doomed to be forgotten by the sheer obscurity of the band (any Kiwis here?), but it's a masterpiece, pure and simple. The song "Covered in Gold", especially, can make me cry.

[populistmom]

23. Wonder by Natalie Merchant

I don't know what it is, but it brings out lots of positive energy when I hear it.

[Lady President]

25. Aaron Copeland

Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring (Gift to Be Simple) makes me cry and smile every time I hear it.

The lyrics:
'Tis the gift to be simple,
'Tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
It will be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained,
to bow and to bend, we will not be ashamed
To turn, turn, will be our delight,
'Til by turning, turning, we come round right.

[bbernardini]

26. Anything by Kevin Gilbert, but particularly this one:

Every time I listen to Kev's "Shaming Of The True" album, I want to weep with joy at the beauty, and weep with sadness at the fact that he went too soon. This is the one that gets me every time:

A Long Day's Life

When I was a boy I would sit by the sea
And ambitions Sirens would sing to me
Songs of a future both noble and grand
Now here I stand with my back to the wall
Errant in some ways and tired in all
Life is what happens while your making plans
At the end of a long day’s life
.
Oh no, I’m lost and all alone
Battered and broken and scarred to the bone
Oh love, you’ve never been a friend
But if you’re still listening I’m here at the end
Of a long day’s life
.
Love came to my house and knocked on the door
I answered and said “What are you here for?
Go away. ‘Cause I’m busy looking for truth.”
At the end of a long day’s life
.
Oh no, I’m lost and all alone
Battered and broken and scarred to the bone
Oh love, you’ve never been a friend
But if you’re still listening I’m here at the end
Of a long day’s life
.
Dream #1
.
Two nights now I’ve had this dream
Where I’m swimming three miles from shore and I sink down
Breathe water in
Unafraid
It’s peaceful here don’t rescue me
.
Dream #2
.
For three nights running now, I’ve had the most unusual and disturbing dream
where I’m a nineteenth century French painter with a palette and paintbrush
and beret and an ill fitting black suit and I’m painting perfectly rectangular white lines on an endless snaking desert highway and people are yelling at me:
“You missed a spot.”
.
I’m looking for a new love to show me the way
To laugh at tomorrow and live today
to guide me through these strange and uncertain times
At the end of a long day’s life
.
Oh no, I’m lost and all alone
Battered and broken and scarred to the bone
Oh love, you’ve never been a friend
But if you’re still listening I’m here at the end
Help me, I’ve lost my way again
Wandering blindly I wait at the end of a long day’s life

[Habibi]

28. "Baby Bitch" by Ween

strangely enough. There are others, but that's the one that comes immediately to mind, perhaps because I've been listening to it a lot lately.

[Section_43]

32. "Love" by John Lennon

eom

[Forkboy]

33. For the last month it's been this tune

As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
by Nick Cave



As I sat sadly by her side
At the window, through the glass
She stroked a kitten in her lap
And we watched the world as it fell past
Softly she spoke these words to me
And with brand new eyes, open wide
We pressed our faces to the glass
As I sat sadly by her side

She said, "Father, mother, sister, brother,
Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece,
Soldier, sailor, physician, labourer,
Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest
Earth and moon and sun and stars
Planets and comets with tails blazing
All are there forever falling
Falling lovely and amazing"

Then she smiled and turned to me
And waited for me to reply
Her hair was falling down her shoulders
As I sat sadly by her side

As I sat sadly by her side
The kitten she did gently pass
Over to me and again we pressed
Our different faces to the glass
"That may be very well", I said
"But watch the one falling in the street
See him gesture to his neighbours
See him trampled beneath their feet
All outward motion connects to nothing
For each is concerned with their immediate need
Witness the man reaching up from the gutter
See the other one stumbling on who can not see"

With trembling hand I turned toward her
And pushed the hair out of her eyes
The kitten jumped back to her lap
As I sat sadly by her side

Then she drew the curtains down
And said, "When will you ever learn
That what happens there beyond the glass
Is simply none of your concern?
God has given you but one heart
You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers

And God does not care for your benevolence
Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
Nor does he care for you to sit
At windows in judgement of the world He created
While sorrows pile up around you
Ugly, useless and over-inflated"

At which she turned her head away
Great tears leaping from her eyes
I could not wipe the smile from my face
As I sat sadly by her side

[Philostopher]

34. Most of Todd Rundgren's

A Wizard, A True Star album has this effect on me, but only if I wait until I haven't heard it for a while. It only works if I have this sudden urge to play the album. Any time I've seen him live, 'Victory' is a real tear-jerker -- in a good way.

There are several Fishbone songs -- 'Sunless Saturday' is great, I agree. So is 'Everyday Sunshine.' I also like 'Change,' and 'Ghetto Soundwave' from Truth and Soul.

I'm also quite fond of Eric Johnson's 'Cliffs Of Dover' and several Dixie Dregs/Dregs/Steve Morse songs, the titles of which are kind of irrelevant because I can't usually associate them with the songs (mostly instrumental).

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[BurtWorm]

35. Guantanamera

by Celia Cruz.

[grasswire]

38. weepers - for sheer evoked sentiment

American Beauty Rag - Joseph Lamb
All Alone - Irving Berlin
Wall Street Rag - Joplin
Slow Drag from Tremonisha - Joplin
Memphis Blues - W.C. Handy
Grace and Beauty - James Scott
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong
Heliotrope Bouquet - Joplin
Solace - Joplin
Nightingale Rag - James Scott
....and several Ellington, Gershwin, Berlin, Cole Porter tunes.

[George_Bonanza]

36. Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff

Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no. 2, 3rd mvt.

[Duncan Grant]

37. Indigo Girls - "virginia wolfe"

"it's alright...each life has its place...

and you say...each life has its place..."

And it's from a great album, too.

[chiburb]

39. Read these lyrics please!!!!

If I put the title in the subject line, no one would look because they haven't heard of the song. So PLEASE keep reading...

EARLY MORNING HOURS

In the early morning hours,
when the dew is on the flowers
I can see
the day is near


And I can hear the church bells ringing
I can hear the birds are singing
Yes I hear
and it is real


And the splendor of the mountains
through the glittering, splashing fountains
are the things that stop my breath
and make me weep


And the times that I spent roaming
were a bright and shining omen
o'er the sea
oh freedom be


And here I am still smiling
in the intricate asylum of society
well I got to be


And the effluvium of excess
it is hidden at the behest of mentality
of a low degree


And though it seems unstoppable
it is not yet improbable
that the man can have his cake and eat it too
And the times that he spent roaming
were a bright and shining omen
o'er the sea
oh freedom be


And I have fended off the dangers
from the friends and from the strangers
and the force is still inside me
and you know it only serves to guide me
let me be
only a day goes by you're free
listen to me my friend you'll see
listen to me
listen to me my friend you'll see
listen to me


And when the light it comes to guide me
I will not bow down and hide me no siree, respectfully
and it is better to be humble
then pontificate and bumble
through the spree
of the people tree


And like the Martlett of the legend
I am on my way to heaven
if I do not touch the ground
I'll make it home
and the times that we'll be roaming
are a bright and shining omen
o'er the sea, Oh Lord Lord freedom be


And I have fended off the dangers
from the friends and from the strangers
and the force is still inside me
and you know it only serves to guide me
let me be
listen to me my friend you're free
listen to me my friend you'll see
listen to me


By Shawn Phillips

Thank you...

[SiobhanClancy]

40. Donde lieta usci /La Boheme

also Mozart's Requeim