Solo~ Prince ... it just came on as I was reading this thread...

Madonna~ The Power of Goodbye, Frozen, I'll Remember

Sia~ Breathe Me
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shanti0608 said:

Now that u mention it, Solo does change my mood a bit. It makes me think about things going on the world and how some people are NOT in good situations.

2Jay said:

I agree!

Prince - Comeback
Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game
Carole King - So Far Away
Carole King - Home Again
Carole King - You've Got A Friend
Carole King - (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
Alicia Keys - No One

I Wish I Wasn't (in love with you) by Heather Headley is incredibly sad.

...Others that get me are... Bitter by MeShell Ndegeocello, and Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me.

Prince - Comeback, for obvious reasons...

Des'ree - Kissing You, only when I sing along. There's something about sustaining those notes on those words, it's just really touching...

Dianne Reeves - Better Days, obvious...

Nina Simone - Be My Husband, no tears but I feel really emotional when I hear it. Like I'm "watching" someone tear open their flesh & plead, it's very raw & exposed. & the recording of it makes you feel like she's sitting right next to you singing it, you hear every breath/gasp/fleck of saliva in her throat. It's just raw as hell...

bobsteezy said:

Good one, but I like George Michael's version better.

"grow old with me" - john lennon

this was the very last song he recorded in his life, the song is in mono but is beautifully done...though people dont like yoko ono he must of really loved her and the fact of the title of the song never came to happen because he was murdered make even more sadder. my eyes tear up everytime i hear it....

Cinnamon234 said:

100% agree with those. Crossroads video makes me cry every time.

I will add....

Bother---Stone Sour. The video is just altering.



Strange Fruit---Lady Day (her voice is chilling and you can hear the sadness oozing out of her soul)



One---Three Dog Night

Wildflower--Skylark (I absolutely adore this song) It was remade, but this is a rare original video.




The Long and Winding Road---Beatles

The Beautiful Ones---Prince

Love Don't Live Here Anymore--either Rose Royce or Madonna...both make me cry

Careless Whisper---George Michael/Wham (don't shoot me, I was going through a break-up)

Good Morning Heartache---Lady Day

Your Song--Elton John (it was the favorite song of my best friend, Walter, who died of AIDS) I cry every time I hear it.


Lisa Stansfield---All Woman...so sad and true in so many relationships. And a wonderful video. Guess embedding is disabled
http://www.youtube.com/wa...EgMP4AWIWE


Maxwell---This Woman's Work
LIVE MAXWELL


And this song from one of the best movies ever made and one of the best soundtracks...Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis.

Clannad...I Will Find You



And thanks, Graycap. I am crying like a baby now.

There's more, but this is what I can think of now. Thank goodness, now that I'm all depressed.
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memories....

Zoom...
I'd like
to fly far away from here....

noimageatall said:

Zoom, baby, I'd like to flyyyy awayyyyy

Incredible song

Reflection ~Prince
November Rain ~Guns n Roses (for the guitar solo)
I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing ~Aerosmith
I Don't Wanna Fight ~Tina Turner
If I Could ~Regina Belle
Through The Fire ~Chaka Khan

and my ultimate tear jerker: Dream On ~Aerosmith

im a big softie

FuNkeNsteiN said:

So many times I wanted to do just that.

Dewrede said:

I'd also like to add Lenny Kravitz - "Thinking Of You." As much flack as I give Lenny for copying other people, this is one of the most original and honest songs I've EVER heard. It gives me chills.

LittleAmy said:

I prefer Billy Ocean's Suddenly.

But the song that really get's me going is; Someday We'll All Be Free by Donny Hathaway.

Saving All My Love For You - Shitney Houston

Every time I hear it, I remember the beginning of the end of good music.

shanti0608 said:

hey you

vainandy said:

Lol.....u might be right.

U2's "One"

Even though it's been SO overplayed,overhyped, and ruined by MJB, the original remains one of the most perfect pictures of a relationship falling apart.

Almost every lyric in the song is raw as hell:

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

And then you add the subtext of AIDS (and imagery of the buffalos dying in the video) and it just takes it all over the top...

REM - Nightswimming: Youth fading, and finding out that you lost touch with loved ones

September's coming soon/I'm pining for the moon...You, I thought I knew you/You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me/This one laughing quietly underneath my breath/Nightswimming

Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring: Again, getting older...losing friends to death (AIDS?)

Now I sit with different faces/In rented rooms and foreign places/All the people I was kissing/Some are here and some are missing/In the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be/The creature that I always meant to be
But I thought in spite of dreams/Youd be sitting somewhere here with me

Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town: Being left behind...

Its hard when youre stuck upon the shelf/I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps thats what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello.../My God its been so long, never dreamed you'd return...Hearts and thoughts, they fade away

The Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (or the Eddie Vedder version)

How can I even try/I can never win/Hearing them, seeing them/In the state I'm in/How could she say to me "love will find a way"?/Gather 'round, all you clowns/let me hear you say...

Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding ... the futility of war

Within weeks theyll be re-opening the shipyards/And notifying the next of kin
Once again/Its all were skilled in/We will be shipbuilding
With all the will in the world/Diving for dear life/When we could be diving for pearls

Sinead o'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds A mother's love for her child, and her fear for his future

England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds
And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
I don't want him to be aware that there's any such thing as grieving

Breathe Me - Sia

Hey Mama - Kanye West

Storm - Lifehouse

No One - Alicia Keys

I'm Ok - Christina Aguilera

namepeace said:

i liked this album..it shows how beck keeps growing and yep that's one 4 me 2.

Tamera1 said:

Yeah, as you can see from earlier posts, opinions are really split on this one, but even if it's not Beck's best effort (and I happen to think it's a great album), these songs can really get to you, especially if, like me, they caught you at just that right (or wrong) time in your life.
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namepeace said:

It might be that time right now for me. I don't know, maybe I should give the album another try .