Which great music has made you cry? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Apart from quite a few of the classical music world, there are also others, some of them I can remember now:

Puccini - Nessun Dorma (vincerò) da Turandot, by the way what a song! Just couldn't see my mother crying when hearing it hahahahah

Emma Shapplin - Cuor senza sangue (and one or two others I don't recall the names right now)

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB

about 5 years ago I was at a local multicultural fair where they had a pipe and drum competition.

I thought it would be fun to shoot (I gave my photos to the organizer and they ended up using some to advertise the next years fair with)

At the end of the day every single pipe and drum band assembled together - it was a parking lot with 4 columns .. they all streamed in - in order - filling up the 4 columns.

I was alone in the middle on the grass separator shooting them as they came in. once they got there I was trapped - there were about 500 of them.

at the beginning of each of the 4 columns, a piper stepped out ahead of the others, and on command those 4 started playing Amazing Grace.

and at the chorus - the entire mass of pipers kicked in making this thunderous amazing music, and without warning I started uncontrollably crying like a baby.

I've never experienced anything like it before or since ...

I came close at a Goblin concert not long ago - where they were playing exclusively movie themes. I talked to at least 5 people later who admitted they had tears .. it wasn't like the pipe and drum experience - that was sheer power and emotion ... the Goblin thing was a bunch of hard core horror fans experiencing music live they thought they'd only ever hear in old 70's films.

"I know one thing: that I know nothing"

- SpongeBob Socrates

Off the top of my head, I can recall tears welling up in my eyes when listening to certain songs by Fleetwood Mac as well as side 3 of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". I don't actually break down and sob, though sometimes I wish I could.

edit: oh yeah, also one time I was in a grocery store, and what music should come across the soundsystem but "Time" by Pink Floyd. It was relatively late at night and I was in a fragile state, and when the guitar solo came in I nearly lost it.

Edited by HolyMoly - March 11 2015 at 12:44

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Stool Man wrote:

Barbu wrote:

Real men don't cry.

Real men? There's no such thing except in fiction Wink

HolyMoly wrote:

Barbu wrote:

Just listened to 'Pro Patria Suite' by the Strawbs, came pretty close.

What a song.

Come on, let it out, let it out. It's healthy, man.

At work!! Come on, man!

^Fallen Angel has gotten me. Also A Whiter Shade Of Pale and All Of My Love. I feel really weird now knowing that most people don't do this on a regular basis. Oh well Ermm

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