BeckyBoo Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 I forgot!! The first one I thought of when I read this thread... Your Mother and I - Loudon Wainright III BeckyBoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Palmer Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 'How Great Thou Art' was played at both my Granny and Grancha's funerals. As soon as I heard my great uncle start singing it at Grancha's funeral, I was in floods of tears. 'Homefires' by The Men They Couldn't Hang - I was working at a nursery when a parent rang up to say one of our recent leavers had died of meningitis, she was only five. I had to inform the staff and parents all day. I was ok until listening to a tape of TMTCH in the car on the way home and it got to a bit about 'season's turn, bonfires burn' and I cried all the way home. It still reminds of her, every time I play it. She would have been 12/13 now. On a lighter note, I love 'Myfanwy' - sung by any Welsh male voice choir, it's just beautiful and it always makes me cry when I hear it. We were in Kirkcudbright for the Tattoo one August. It was lunchtime and there was a choir practising in the car park, ready for the evening. I think they were European and they sang 'Myfanwy' whilst I was waiting outside the Spar for my husband. It was slightly surreal, but beautiful and it still made me cry. I was trying to wipe my eyes before the boys came out saying 'why are you crying, mum?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 East West, I think it's called by Herman's Hermits. It's the line with Mum, dad all round the fire In festive attire Keeping their day. Can't join in because I'm bawling - oh good grief my eyes are dribbling just by writing it down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 Oh my, how could I forget 'How men Are' by the amazing Roddy Frame & Aztec Camera? 'Why does it take the tears of a woman to see how men are'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 I was just this second thinking about Roddy Frame and thinking that this sounds like a Roddy Frame song for girls, and will probably muster a tear or two from some quarters. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/apr/13/tracey-thorn-love-opposite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Most of the songs mentioned, and Nothing compares to you sung by Sinead O'Connor - remember the video where she cried as she thought of her Mum while singing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 I was just this second thinking about Roddy Frame and thinking that this sounds like a Roddy Frame song for girls, and will probably muster a tear or two from some quarters. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/apr/13/tracey-thorn-love-opposite I loooooooooove Roddy frame. He jumped on my head once Literally - he staged dived onto me,& I wore the s"Ooops, word censored!"es down my face with pride for ages afterwards I love Everything but the Girl too, & their version of 'I don't want to talk about it' is another tear jerker.Love her voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Nothing campares to you, is just about my favourite song ever, so emotional Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Oh no..tears streaming down my face just reading everyone else's moving memories about their songs... How songs can take on a whole new life because they were played at a funeral..Lady in Red Chris de Burgh for example...I absolutely detest that song..but since it was played at work colleague's funeral...I can't listen to it without crying..(thankfully on two counts it isn't played that often anymore) Would like to add Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits and The Power of Love (Frankie goes to Hollywood) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Vincent/Starry Starry Night by Don Maclean Just heard him play it on Radio 4. Stunning. I bawled my eyes out. No particular reason why, no special memories but it makes me cry every time I hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 (no known bad comments to date) This is highland cathedral by massed pipe bands and it brings the hairs on the back of my neck up and my daughter came down the aisle on her dads arm to this music played by the brass band she was a member of and in the church it was just fantastic - a real tearjerker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Most of the songs mentioned, and Nothing compares to you sung by Sinead O'Connor - remember the video where she cried as she thought of her Mum while singing it? Sorry, but Sinead said about her mother that "she had her foot on my head whilst chatting to her friend on the telephone!". I don' think Sinead was that enamoured with her mother. I remember her saying that on TV, because it sounded like my mother. They buried my china Sam, to ' Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay ' by Otis Redding. Hearing that one causes a bit of welling up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Hey Jude makes me sad. It was my Dad's favourite song and it was played when we left the crematorium after his funeral service. So, if appropriate, I sing it at the top of my voice (as my Dad used to do) to make me feel happy. Hey Jude is an emotional song for me too, it was my parents "song", as it was played at the party when they got together aged 16 in 1969. It remained their song throughout their married life. My Mum passed away 10 years ago this year, aged just 46 with a serious heart problem, and this was played at her funeral. Then when my Dad died only 10 months later aged 47 we also played it at his funeral. So it is a very special song for me and my sister. However, we only think happy thoughts when we hear it, because as well as being my parents song, it is also a big song for Cardiff City Football Club that we are both long standing season ticket holders of. The first few times it was played after both funerals we cried in the stadium, but now it just makes us smile, as we remember the happy memories of the song for both our parents and our team *Sorry that turned into a bit of a heartfelt essay* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 I'm so sorry Space Chick, that must have been really hard for you and your sister. So young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Oh! such a difficult time for you and your sister Hey Jude reminds me of my final year at school, 1971, - we were allowed into town between 'O' Level exams and we used to play that all the time in the cafe we went to. That was my last really carefree time as I was unknowingly pregnant at the time and got married in the October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarlettohara Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 English Rose also for me - I would like this played at my funeral. Light the Fire to the Third Bar by Snow Patrol is the one that really gets to me atm as my husband recently left me and it sums up my feelings perfectly, You Do Something To Me as well as that was our song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Wires - Athlete - wasn't out when my YD was born prem, but makes me think of that time so much. wires for me too (I used it on my dds montage I did when she came home http://tiny.cc/b9g9d) two little boys bert jansches version of angie house of the rising sun -animlas version cwm rhondda - any welsh male voice choir I have loads I spend far too much time crying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 bert jansches version of angie One of OHs choices would be Bert Janschs 'Needle of Death' - the lyrics "troubled young mind...." remind him of his brother and it is coming up to the first anniversary of his death this week - OH has been playing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feleena4 Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Ooooh, now you've given me goose bumps I'm the sort of person who cries at the first 2 or 3 notes at the beginning of a song that takes me back....to good times or bad. When my son died aged (16months) at his funeral we played John Lennons 'Beautiful Boy' and also' Bridge Over Troubled Water' and a song called 'For Your Babies' from the' Stars' Album by Simply Red. These songs have always made me cry but now if I here them it takes me back to that cold February day Callum was buried Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Oh Faleena, now you've made me cry I'm so sorry for your loss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 I'm so sorry feleena, that is so sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 That must have been so difficult for you to write Feleena, thank you for sharing, although I can't see to write now Lovely choice of music....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Gosh, such sad stories on this thread The one song which I think is quite beautiful yet makes me sad, is Wichita Lineman. I just found a version on Youtube by I can't listen to Everybody hurts by REM as it was played at a funeral I attended, and is much too raw to ever listen to in any other context now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 When my friend died one of the songs they played was Angels by Robbie Williams, the other was The Red, Red Robin (she was a Charlton fan). I went to a wedding about a month later and they played the Angels song. I burst into tears and had to go out, but time has gone on now and I can listen to it and think of her without getting upset, thankfully there are plenty of songs that make me smile and bring back happy thoughts too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 We were playing the Damien Rice album '9' in the car today and I blubbed as always through Accidental Babies I so understand what he means in that song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
