hauntingly beautiful music

[badger]

There are certain songs that really move you emotionally. There have been a couple in my life that I've found to be incredibly moving to me. I want to add more to my list, what are your favourite songs that move you?

Some of mine from past and present (and yes, some are corny!!), all can be found on youtube:

Carla Etude - Elton John (I used to listen to this on continuous loop for hours when in school and I wrote my best papers doing so)

Requiem - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Summer - Antonio Vivaldi

Every Day - Carly Commando

Like the Sun and Dentro Me - Ryandan

Dream - Priscilla Ahn (this makes me think of my dog and makes me cry, but it's also very beautiful to me)

[crazycanuck]

I'll have to find some of them~

There are two songs that I can't listen to nor watch the videos:

"The Dance" Garth Brooks (great song just i cry everytime i hear it, the video's cool though)

" These Are The Days of our lives" Queen (It's the last video Freddie ever made & the sight of him so frail is hard to watch)

[Biciclista]

Strauss Horn concertos

Niel Gow's laments (fiddle tunes)

Pavane for a dead princess by Ravel (I like it on french horn)

[salsabike]

Bach's cello suites

[Biciclista]

Bach's cello suites

oh yeah!

[NbyNW]

Meditation de Thais by Massenet

It was performed at a memorial service for a friend. Very moving, and I can't hear it without also thinking of him and his family.

[jobob]

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

[lph]

I second Hallelujah. I saw him sing it in concert here in Oslo this summer, and I had goosebumps and chills the entire song.

I don't know what it's called, but that song with the refrain "You lift me up, so I can climb a mountain". The lyrics are cheesy, the boy band version is awful, but I heard a professional singer sing it solo at a church wedding a few years ago and just burst into tears.

Garden of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jerusalem sung by Jessye Norman.

Nothing compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor.

[Mr. Bloom]

Haunting and beautiful: Barber's Adagio for Strings. I believe they used it as the theme for an intense war film (maybe "Full Metal Jacket"???).

I generally tend toward music that is emotionally moving in a happy way rather than a haunting one.

[uforgot]

Strauss Horn concertos

Niel Gow's laments (fiddle tunes)

Pavane for a dead princess by Ravel (I like it on french horn)

A French Horn that is played well is certainly a beautiful instrument!

[OakLeaf]

yeah, like Mr. S., "hauntingly beautiful" music isn't what really moves me emotionally. I tend to go for the big Romantic pieces - things like Liszt's Les Preludes or First Piano Concerto, any Brahms symphony, that sort of thing.

Popular songs that I can't actually listen to without crying are ones that trigger the old feelings of loss and rootlessness from my childhood - Dixie Chicks' "A Home," the video of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," ekoostik hookah's "Ohio Grown" especially when I've been away for a while (and in spite of its goofy bridge).

[KathiCville]

Meditation de Thais by Massenet and Bach's partitas for cello, both mentioned above.

Plus Arvo Part's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. The first time I heard it I was driving and had to pull over to the side of the road to listen. I wish I could find that particular recording, because the tolling bells were richer than the ones on Part's Sanctuary.

The main theme to the film Schindler's List, composed by John Williams. Always brings tears.

The boys choir Libera---"Always With You" from their album Angel Voices. Other pieces on the same CD.

Also the theme from the French film "Veronique, Veronique."

[uforgot]

I consider this beautiful, but not hauntingly so...before my math/physics teacher life I was a band director. In college we had to pick a symphony to analyze, so I picked someone I wasn't familiar with, Prokofiev. A blind date but a successful marriage since! I love his music, especially Symphony No. 1. (Classical symphony). I've also tried to talk many a bride into walking down the aisle to Mussorgsky's Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. It sends chills down my spine. I only succeeded once and it was beautiful! My niece's wedding and I arranged the piece. Started with accoustic guitar and flute for the bridesmaids (It was outdoors and I had to work with what her friends could play) and when Anna appeared, heavy organ. Brought tears to my eyes but I didn't miss a note! (I played the organ) Everyone loved it.

[Aggie_Ama]

The only one I can think of as hauntingly beautiful: Pacabel's Cannon- my Dad walked me down the aisle to it. I get goosebumps just hearing a few cords. It makes my mom cry.

Ones that hit me in a different way usually emotional response and haunting but not necessarily beautiful:

Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley or Leonard Cohen version. Both just give me chills. Actually I would say it is hauntingly beautiful.
The Dance by Garth Brooks. I cannot hear it and not see the video in my mind which makes the song even more painful.
The River by Garth Brooks. This one inspires me.
Dream Weaver- it was a friend who was murdered's favorite and it just makes me feel like he is near. The song really creeps me out, I heard it the other day and got really cold.
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics- I don't know why but this song makes me think of my mom's father who died the day after I turned one. He has always haunted me in a way because my brother idolized him and my mom swears he waited to die for my party. The first time I heard this song I was 9 or 10 and cried profusely. It was an odd reaction for a child and I still feel it when I hear.
Amazing Grace- there are certain singers that really get to me.
Angry All the Time (find Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis singing it Tim and Faith can't hold a candle to the original)- there is so much pain and honesty in the song. Bruce hit it out of the park when he wrote that one.

[Kimmyt]

Definitely Hallelujah! I really like the Rufus Wainwright (I think?) version though.

There's a song on the latest Kathleen Edwards cd, I think it's called Run. It is beautiful and haunting.

For classical music I am much more into big showy bombastic pieces (think, Stravinsky's Firebird) but Adagio for Strings is an amazingly beautiful piece of music.

I'm pretty sure our high school concert band played Pictures of an Exhibition, I'll have to dig it up and listen to it!

[beccaB]

The Nimrod variation from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations.
The music of Erik Satie.
Anything by Beethoven
Debussy
Brahms
Mahler
Faure Rquiem

Don't get me started!

[tulip]

Marche pour la érémonie des Turcs by Lully
Adagio for Strings, Barber
Miserere by Gregorio Allegri
Les Pleurs by Ste. Colombe.

I love early music--Renaissance and Baroque

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I third Barber's Adagio for Strings....absolutely heartbreaking.
Pachelbel's Canon in D also, but in a less sad way.
I find Japanese bamboo flute music in particular to be hauntingly beautiful and very spiritual.

Medieval Gregorian chants are hauntingly beautiful- especially if performed in a cathedral with the appropriate echoes. I like The Anonymous Four...a quartet of women who perform Gregorian chants.

+1 to Renaissance music as well.

[SadieKate]

I love early music--Renaissance and BaroqueMe, too! I love Byrd's Fantasias for viols. One of the rare times I miss playing.

[tulip]

Me, too! I love Byrd's Fantasias for viols. One of the rare times I miss playing.

About six years ago, I devoted a year to playing nothing but the Bach cello suites. It got me playing again, after many years. Now I need to get back to it so I've taken out my cello and like a sad puppy, it's staring at me mournfully.

[Serendipity]

Hallelujah - k d lang's version
One of my favourite running songs - won't tell you how many time it repeats on my playlists!

[SadieKate]

About six years ago, I devoted a year to playing nothing but the Bach cello suites. It got me playing again, after many years. Now I need to get back to it so I've taken out my cello and like a sad puppy, it's staring at me mournfully.I solved it by giving all my viols to my dad. :o

I just had to make choices since we don't have 40 hour days.

[Becky]

Bacchanale by Saint-Saens. I have played this in several different venues and ensembles, and each one holds so many memories for me. I love the music for what it is, but it's the memories that make it poignant.

I'm sure that there's others.....

[Biciclista]

hm, sounds like we have the makings of a TE orchestra here.

Most of the music mentioned above can be found on youtube, sometimes by long dead virtuoso musicians

[Aggie_Ama]

Wow we have some talented people on here. I am tone deaf so I just appreciate those who can play. I cannot even keep a beat but I do love music.

[OakLeaf]

Oh yeah, +1 on "The Living Years." When that song first came out I couldn't even listen to the radio while I was driving, in case it came on. And Sarah McLachlan's "Angel."

[GraysonKelly]

I second Hallelujah. I saw him sing it in concert here in Oslo this summer, and I had goosebumps and chills the entire song.

I don't know what it's called, but that song with the refrain "You lift me up, so I can climb a mountain". The lyrics are cheesy, the boy band version is awful, but I heard a professional singer sing it solo at a church wedding a few years ago and just burst into tears.

Garden of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jerusalem sung by Jessye Norman.

Nothing compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor.

The song is You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban (one of my favorites)
I don't about haunting, but I do have some faves that move me to tears

With the exception of Masquerade (it's fun but it doesn't move me), anything from Phantom of the Opera (particularly Think of Me)

Love Me-Collin Raye (was on the radio the morning I found out my granddaddy died)

Amazing Grace, Victory in Jesus, On my way, on my own- Lynda Randle

It's only love, candle in the window- Linda Eder (I could listen that woman all day everyday)

And When She Danced- From "Stealing Home"

There is some classical music that I like but I don't know their names...humming them won't work I don't think.

[indigoiis]

Gary Jules - Mad World (the video is also really cool.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

(originally by Tears for Fears, but this version is good.)


Beck - Lost Cause (also a cool video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNcpuQePPA


Radiohead - High and Dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPDiEz-GcE


These songs all make me bawl like a baby.

[badger]

there are so many different versions of hallelujah out there. If you go to youtube, there's one by 4 finalists of the Norwegian Pop Idol and that one's nice, too. John Cale also did a version.

[jobob]

Interesting thread.

Although, I now have Hallelujah running on an endless loop inside my head.

Could be worse I suppose. :cool:

[Crankin]

Not only do I feel untalented, but stupid, too.
I do listen to classical music and even had a subscription to the BSO for 3 years. But, I don't know the name or composer of anything. On the other hand, I don't know the name and composer or singer of any rock music, either. Maybe a few from my teenage years. My husband puts the music on my I Pod, since I wouldn't know what to download, since I don't know who sings what...
This was a definite defect when I taught group exercise classes. People would ask me," Who's singing that?" and I would have to tell them I didn't have a clue; I bought the pre-mixed tapes from my employer and was happy to pay the $!
I never spent time obsessing over records when I was a teen and I can't study or read with music on. My kids on the other hand, well one is a musician and I really doubted his talent until more than one teacher told me he had it. Have no idea where it came from!

[Biciclista]

we're all different, Crankin. I didn't get musically educated until my kids started playing in the High school orchestra. I can turn the radio on to the classic station in my car and my son will name the composers and sometimes the soloists.

We all have our own knowledge focus.

A good percentage of the people posting on this thread are naming popular music. I don't even recognize the names of the bands, let alone the tunes.

[Aint Doody]

Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way." It's about 9/11.

"Look Over There" from La Cage Au Folles

"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables

They all make me cry.

Susan

[Mr. Bloom]

In my teens, I would play Bach's Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor over and over on the organ...much to my parents' (and neighbors') chagrin. No one argued when I gave up the organ.

I would characterize it more as "mysterious" than "haunting" though.

[Aggie_Ama]

We all have our own knowledge focus.

A good percentage of the people posting on this thread are naming popular music. I don't even recognize the names of the bands, let alone the tunes.

Yup, I cannot name many classical tunes but can name a 60's-80's song artist and title within the first verse sometimes before the words. Until country music went all pop in the late 90's I could name every song and artist. I will put you to shame on the first chords of Willie, Waylon, George (Jones and Strait), Merle, Johnny, Don Williams but can't really tell you Bach from Mozart.

[Mr. Bloom]

Hijack:

For those who like Pachelbel's Canon in D, you might like the Pachelbel Rant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM)

[badger]

I'm musically disinclined, as well. I was forced to take 3 years of piano as a youngster and begged and pleaded with my mother to quit. She told me I'd regret it one day, and I haven't! :p

I took french horn in highschool band, and while I was okay at it, I was no prodigy. Same with flute later in my 20's. I could read notes then, but it was still more a chore than a pleasure so I quit.

Some people just don't have it, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy it when a good piece comes on!

[Serendipity]

Badger - I'm with you there.
As the saying goes, I can't carry a tune to save my life (funny saying, actually) but that doesn't stop me from enjoying and envying the talent of others and just about any kind of music.

Also doesn't stop me from singing along but only when no one else is within earshot.

[Crankin]

I enjoy it, but sort of in a background way. I can't sing and never had a desire to play an instrument.My older son was in the band (trombone) and plays the guitar and bass quite well. He can sing, but his voice is undeveloped. He had a band (duo really)that was performing in clubs until recently when his real job just got too busy. I liked going to the band concerts when he was in high school, like you Mimi, but it was so competitive at their school, with all of the kids being required to take private lessons and half of them going into Boston to take lessons from various "maestros." It was nice that the music kids had as much status as the sports, but I stayed uninvolved in that i never was a "band parent." My younger son, while he never played an instrument, knows the name of every song and artist from the 80's until now. We bonded over cycling, which was more in my sphere!
I don't know the name or artists of the popular songs either, although I recognize the songs themselves from the radio. I never buy CDs and don't know how to download music. Someone once asked me if I thought my education had been lacking because I couldn't play an instrument; I was like "what?" No one in my family did!

[beccaB]

Local community colleges probably teach music appreciation classes. It would be worthwhile and very enriching. I would really like to teach a music appreciation class for adults in a community school setting. I just happened to grow up in a classical music home, and started taking flute lessons when I was 9. I have a music performance degree I'm not really using, other than I play in everything as a volunteer! I also like some really head bangin' rock an roll too.

[GraysonKelly]

I second Hallelujah. I saw him sing it in concert here in Oslo this summer, and I had goosebumps and chills the entire song.

I don't know what it's called, but that song with the refrain "You lift me up, so I can climb a mountain". The lyrics are cheesy, the boy band version is awful, but I heard a professional singer sing it solo at a church wedding a few years ago and just burst into tears.

Garden of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jerusalem sung by Jessye Norman.

Nothing compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor.


Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way." It's about 9/11.

"Look Over There" from La Cage Au Folles

"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables

They all make me cry.

Susan

Thank you so much for mentioning the Linda Eder song. It definitely qualifies as hauntingly beautiful. I can't stop crying now. Thank you. For what it's worth, if any of the rest of you haven't heard it I recommend that you do. It's on YouTube

[shootingstar]

Pachbel's Canon is an oldie for me. The building of the music is like walking towards a magnificent mountain.

Gabriel's Oboe from the Movie, "The Mission". I am not religious but the music is moving --wistful, haunting.

If you know the movie about Jesuit priests who live among a particular tribe in the Amazon in 1500's or 1600's (I can't remember.).. Indians plus priests get slaughtered at the end.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GFRC&q=movie,+the+mission+and+soundtrack&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=7&ct=title#

Secular images here, not religious. (yeh, the advertising spoils..)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GFRC&q=movie,+the+mission+and+soundtrack&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=7&ct=title#

[lph]

Hijack:

For those who like Pachelbel's Canon in D, you might like the Pachelbel Rant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM)

This was hilarious :p

I'm one of the ones who likes classical music, grew up in a house full of it and can identify at least a handful of composers by their music - but I couldn't name a piece to save my life. They're all called symphony this or quartet that, and they don't have any catchy lyrics to stick in my mind ;)

[uforgot]

Hijack:

For those who like Pachelbel's Canon in D, you might like the Pachelbel Rant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM)

Thanks. Loved that clip.

[badger]

Becca, I took music appreciation as an "easy" credit in university. They knew we would take it as a fluffy course, so they made it so esoteric and hard. I barely passed it. I didn't appreciate the music they threw at us, either. Too bad!

[Biciclista]

badger I LOVE your avatar

[Pedal Wench]

Lakme's Flower Duet. Easily one of the prettiest duets ever, although overused. Puccini's Humming Song a close second.
I play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata -- that one always gets me.

[oxysback]

A couple of my favorites...

Green The Whole Year Round by Celtic Women (Lisa Kelly is the singer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIoayxhfRs

A Little Fall of Rain from the Les Miserables 10th anniversary concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4

Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd. I love the juxtaposition that this beautiful song is sung by two villains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4

Green Finch and Linnet Bird, also from Sweeney Todd. I like the movie version of this song much better than the play. Or maybe it's the singer that I like better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1RmifLpQeI&feature=related

[badger]

badger I LOVE your avatar

I know, I love him, too! I've had him as my wallpaper on my computer for about 4 years now. I don't know who he is, but a friend forwarded it to me and I just fell in love :)

[Aggie_Ama]

Becca, I took music appreciation as an "easy" credit in university. They knew we would take it as a fluffy course, so they made it so esoteric and hard. I barely passed it. I didn't appreciate the music they threw at us, either. Too bad!


I took music in film and the professor was the same way. I worked hard and had a 97 going into his multiple choice final. He made me come back 100 miles from my grandfather's funeral to take the final or else he would give me a F. My mother asked if he could have me go to a local community college where she knew a professor and have him proctor the exam, the professor said no because he needed me to take his final in his presence. I missed one question.

[Aint Doody]

Grayson--All I have to do is think Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way" to tear up.

If you're interested it's on her Gold album, which has some other beautiful songs, too.

[GraysonKelly]

Grayson--All I have to do is think Linda Eder's "If I Had My Way" to tear up.

If you're interested it's on her Gold album, which has some other beautiful songs, too.

That was actually going to be my next question. Thanks again. Beautiful! I love that woman!

[tc1]

Hmm. You did say 'moved by', not "obsessed by" So, in more or less chronological order
The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia
One Piece at a Time by Johnny Cash-first single I ever bought, started the rockabilly thing for me that continues to this day
Tommy The whole frickin' double sided album by the Who
I'm a Boy by the Who
Behind Blue Eyes by the Who
The Seeker by the Who
Nostradamus by Al Stewart
Please Don't Judas Me by Nazareth
Riverside by the Beat Farmers
Iron Man with Sir Mixalot and Metal Church nothin' rocks harder
Tennessee Waltz
My Baby's Moved by the Hillbilly Hellcats
All Apologies by Nirvana this will be played at my funeral
The River by Bruce Springsteen still makes me cry every time I hear it

[crazycanuck]

TC-that's a cool list ya got dere ;)

Umm..does anyone know a pied piper by chance? You're needed in Hamelin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7737604.stm

[shootingstar]

Thx for the Pachebel's Rant...it will be a link sent my partner's brother, a piano shop owner/manager ..it's his birthday tomorrow. And he does have music in his blood....he had better he has spoken with the brilliant but eccentric pianist, Glenn Gould who lived in Toronto...about what else pianoes.

I also love Vivaldi's, Gloria in excelsis Deo..more celebatory invigorating music (to me). Another baroque hit from long ago.

Just haven't taken time to know of enough contemporary hits/favs.

My music appreciation is amateurish..based on listening and reading ages ago on baroque era. I had a good friend who became a Mozart freak..she saw Requiem over 10 times. She got me started on baroque.. (I realize Mozart isn't exactly baroque.)

[Pedal Wench]

Local community colleges probably teach music appreciation classes. It would be worthwhile and very enriching. I would really like to teach a music appreciation class for adults in a community school setting. I just happened to grow up in a classical music home, and started taking flute lessons when I was 9. I have a music performance degree I'm not really using, other than I play in everything as a volunteer! I also like some really head bangin' rock an roll too.

My degree was in music, but music engineering, and I'm still working as an audio engineer, so it's all neatly tied together. I grew up in a 'classical home' too - my parents still go to the NY Philharmonic, some 40 years later!

[Zen]

I can't believe no one mentioned "Ashokan Farewell"

[Meaux]

Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" makes me bawl. We played it as the recessional at our wedding and I always thing of it and cry. There's a Bach piano concerto that also makes me cry because it makes me think of my dad. There are actually a lot of music pieces that make me cry, it's funny, I'll just get in the car and something will come on and I'll get all teary eyed.

[bikerz]

Great thread! I'm late to the game...

Beautiful and haunting music for me is mostly classical.

- Faure's Requiem, absolutely (although I have heard it at so many memorial services recently that it is almost unbearably sad for me now)
- Bach's Cantata 82 (Ich habe genug) sung by the late, extraordinary, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
- The duet 'Au fond du temple sant' from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet - I know it's sentimental, but gets me every time
- Mozart Piano Concert #23 - I find the Adagio achingly beautiful
- Bach's Solo cello suites - so mesmerizing
- Bach's St Matthew Passion and the B Minor Mass - all the way through and at a decently loud volume - wow.
- Beethoven's 5th - Andante - I've loved it since I was a (geeky) kid.

Sometimes it's only a few measures that really hit me, other times the whole piece in different ways.

[Meaux]

I've also tried to talk many a bride into walking down the aisle to Mussorgsky's Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. It sends chills down my spine.

That was my processional at MY wedding! How cool is that? We had a trumpet trio play it. My mom always liked the idea of it too, and I love Mussorgsky, so I went along with it. Both my husband and I are SERIOUS music-philes and wanted to have very untraditional music at our wedding. That's so cool that someone else liked that piece for the same purpose!

[Aggie_Ama]

Annie Lennox. She was performing last night at the AMA's ("why") and her voice has a haunting way about it. My friend I mentioned that was murdered got me into her about the time she released Medusa. Her voice is so amazing, I really love her and she is an inspiring woman all around.

[jesvetmed]

There are some really good songs on these lists... and many I've not heard of. I'll take the time to look them up. There are a lot of classical songs that are truly amazing -- many I don't know the names for!, but appreciate all the same.

Here's some of my favorite more contemporary that bring chills and tears for me:

Bruce Spingsteen's "City of Ruins / Rise Up" about 9/11. Here is a live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ne3rc3iqc) version that is so amazing -- Springsteen at his best here.

Also from the same cd: You're Missing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2PznOk8c5w)... between the words and the haunting violin, it gets me every time.

Angel by Sara McLaughlin: Chokes me up every time I hear that commercial with the very sad dog and cat faces attached to that haunting song.... I can't take it. I'm practically sobbing if I watch it.

I know there are many others, but none I can come up with right this second.

[bmccasland]

Don't ask me why, but the song "Shenandoah" chokes me up.
"Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you. Away, you rolling river.."

some of my others have been previously mentioned .... and my mind has just gone blank...

[VeloVT]

Lakme's Flower Duet. Easily one of the prettiest duets ever, although overused.

I'm not sure this strikes me as haunting, but whenever it comes on (our local public radio station has an all-classical channel that I listen to sometimes) I just want to stop everything and listen.



I play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata -- that one always gets me.

Two items perpetually on my Christmas list:
-box set of Beethoven sonatas
-box set of Beethoven symphonies
Unfortunately it's intimidating to research which ones to get.

Maybe this is weird, but Louis Armstrong singing "what a wonderful world" makes me cry. I guess I can't really explain why, but it always does.

Also, totally dating myself and this is a little embarrassing, but "more than words" by Extreme gives me goosebumps. Doesn't make me cry, but definitely tugs at some strange emotional strings.

[OakLeaf]

Angel by Sara McLaughlin: Chokes me up every time I hear that commercial with the very sad dog and cat faces attached to that haunting song.... I can't take it. I'm practically sobbing if I watch it.

Oh boy, you and me both.

[Zen]

Oh boy, you and me both.

I can't even watch that commercial anymore :o

[badger]

Also, totally dating myself and this is a little embarrassing, but "more than words" by Extreme gives me goosebumps. Doesn't make me cry, but definitely tugs at some strange emotional strings.

I do too!!

I also love "It's a Wonderful World" by Israel Kamakawawio'ole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM

Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold" is beautiful, too. Made even more so by the fact she died so young. (not her video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc