Songs That Made You Cry The First Time You Heard Them

[Dr Rock]

Thao Nguyen - Temple (acoustic)

https://youtu.be/2ooC7TOr5m0

[shagatha crustie]

Randy Newman - Dixie Flyer

[pigamus]

John and the Weirdest - Can't Get Over These Memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLPDbgAZAc&ab_channel=bricomaligno

[bgmnts]

Bright Eyes because i'm a basic bitch.

[lazyhour]

"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro, but my excuse is that my cat Honey had just died, and that I was six.

[bakabaka]

Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcmFH5OvdtA

About the sisters who Ran the Weezer Fan Club, used to feed and bands who were starting up somewhere to sleep when they were in town. They died in a car crash on the way back for a gig. The song was originally titled "Please Pick Up The Phone".

See also Weezer - Mykel and Carli, but doesn't tug the heartstrings in nearly the same way as it was written before the accident. Until you find out that the uploader committed suicide a year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nEOY4iELvo

https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Mykel_and_Carli_Allan

[ImmaculateClump]

This gets me every time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfdK_d7IPjM

[Egyptian Feast]

Ten Cookies by Cookie Monster.

[studpuppet]

I'd never heard this before Joe Brown closed the Concert For George with it, and considering some of the songs they could have finished on, this was so much more perfect. So I cried when I saw this, but later on discovered that he closes all his concerts with it nowadays.

Joe Brown & The Bruvvers were the only group my mum went to see multiple times from the sixties through to the last decade. She passed away in March, so now it's inextricably linked to her for me, and I blub every time now.

I'll See You In My Dreams

[non capisco]

Do have a lazy repost from a year ago....

'Just Make It Stop' by Low. On the face of it a simple, pretty melody from their most commercial and musically conservative album 'The Invisible Way', produced by Ian Wilco out of Wilco and seemingly sonically designed to appeal to Uncut and Q readers. I love Low but that's one of their few albums I don't really care for, it's a bit too 'Later...with Jools Holland' for me, a bit of water treading in-between the go for broke lush anthemics of 'C'mon' and the necessary process of distortion and mutation that led to the album that for now stands as their bold and gripping masterpiece, 'Double Negative'.

I don't really care for 'The Invisible Way' too much apart from 'Just Make It Stop', which lyrically sums up and calls out the dickhead that's been squatting in my psyche since about age 14. You know the one, the one that's continually needling me and casting doubt on everything I do, say and think and then laughing and gleefully saying 'I told you so' when everything I want to happen doesn't happen or if it does then it inevitably fucks right up. That cunt. He's the 'it' that Mimi is singing about so beautifully.

Quote

    If I could just make it stop
    I could tell the whole world
    To get out of the way
    If I could just make it stop


Oh, the things you could have seen, the person you could have been, non capisco, if you could have just made it stop. Self disgust is self obsession, honey, etc.

I burst into tears when I first heard this album track, nestled amidst a load of disappointing Mojo friendly mediocrity. Oh fuckin hell where did that come from? They've nailed it. They get me and all the other thwarted fuckers like me. Buried in the middle of one of their worst albums.

[pupshaw]

I'd never heard this before Joe Brown closed the Concert For George with it, and considering some of the songs they could have finished on, this was so much more perfect. So I cried when I saw this, but later on discovered that he closes all his concerts with it nowadays.

Joe Brown & The Bruvvers were the only group my mum went to see multiple times from the sixties through to the last decade. She passed away in March, so now it's inextricably linked to her for me, and I blub every time now.

I'll See You In My Dreams

Try this link instead, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xi2mr1

[SteveDave]

"You're Not Alone" by Cathal Smyth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhx2fo2Vr0

I was unprepared for it.

[studpuppet]

Try this link instead, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xi2mr1

Cheers pupshaw - bloody Dailymotion...

[Brundle-Fly]

Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Gavin Bryers

Floods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lnSi7QWY8

[The Mollusk]

Do have a lazy repost from a year ago....

'Just Make It Stop' by Low. On the face of it a simple, pretty melody from their most commercial and musically conservative album 'The Invisible Way', produced by Ian Wilco out of Wilco and seemingly sonically designed to appeal to Uncut and Q readers. I love Low but that's one of their few albums I don't really care for, it's a bit too 'Later...with Jools Holland' for me, a bit of water treading in-between the go for broke lush anthemics of 'C'mon' and the necessary process of distortion and mutation that led to the album that for now stands as their bold and gripping masterpiece, 'Double Negative'.

I don't really care for 'The Invisible Way' too much apart from 'Just Make It Stop', which lyrically sums up and calls out the dickhead that's been squatting in my psyche since about age 14. You know the one, the one that's continually needling me and casting doubt on everything I do, say and think and then laughing and gleefully saying 'I told you so' when everything I want to happen doesn't happen or if it does then it inevitably fucks right up. That cunt. He's the 'it' that Mimi is singing about so beautifully.

Quote

    If I could just make it stop
    I could tell the whole world
    To get out of the way
    If I could just make it stop


Oh, the things you could have seen, the person you could have been, non capisco, if you could have just made it stop. Self disgust is self obsession, honey, etc.

I burst into tears when I first heard this album track, nestled amidst a load of disappointing Mojo friendly mediocrity. Oh fuckin hell where did that come from? They've nailed it. They get me and all the other thwarted fuckers like me. Buried in the middle of one of their worst albums.

Excellently put.

I am still yet to properly get into Low and so for some reason or another I stumbled upon that track in isolation of the rest of that album and just jumped into it totally blind. It got me as well, stopped me dead in my tracks of fannying about on the internet and had me staring blankly at the floor and sobbing. I played it about three times in a row and kept crying, I was bowled over by how in its simplicity it managed to so brilliantly summarise the endlessly fatiguing struggle of depression and self-loathing. Incredible song.

[lankyguy95]

Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Gavin Bryers

Floods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lnSi7QWY8

Oh goodness, yes. I haven't listened to the one with Tom Waits because I can't imagine his voice adding anything to the humble stoicism of the old man.

So beautiful.

[lazyhour]

Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
See also Weezer - Mykel and Carli, but doesn't tug the heartstrings in nearly the same way as it was written before the accident. Until you find out that the uploader committed suicide a year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nEOY4iELvo

https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Mykel_and_Carli_Allan

What the fuck?? Weezer wrote that song BEFORE they died? That's insane. I've always loved and been moved by that song because I understood it to be a tribute to them after the accident. The lyrics are eerily prescient.

My hat has never been more fucked.

[JaDanketies]

I've cried at a few concerts, including Explosions in the Sky and Oathbreaker. I'd love to say that I cried the first time I heard any song because it was so immediately powerful but I don't think it's ever happened.

So the closest answer for me is Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens. The YouTube algorithm introduced me to him through his Carrie and Lowell album at around the same time as my dad carked it. If you're not familiar with the album, it's about Sufjan's loss and grief at the death of his estranged mum, and Fourth of July comes somewhat in the middle, and acts as one of the peaks of the album. It's like you listen to the album and get all stirred up about your own grief, and then this track is like a catharsis moment. Very minimalist album, lots of poetry.

So when I was listening to it _{on acid for the first time}  after my dad died, I was sobbing like a mfer. I know it's weird to say that an album could help you process your grief from the loss of a parent, but Carrie and Lowell did exactly that, for me. Hard to really thank Sufjan enough tbh. I've just put the album on again and I can feel my eyes doing a welling-up thing.

Special mention goes to the album Hospice by The Antlers.

Oh shit last time I was on acid I cried to a fuckin electro-swing song of all genres to get upset at -  Inexplicable by The Correspondents.  There's a verse when he talks about how his friend died when he was 19, and the other half of The Correspondents died in 2020, and the rapping fella has written and released a lot of things about how big a loss this was to him, so it just hit me.

[jobotic]

Oh goodness, yes. I haven't listened to the one with Tom Waits because I can't imagine his voice adding anything to the humble stoicism of the old man.

So beautiful.

Never listen to the Tom Waits one

[mrClaypole]

"You're Not Alone" by Cathal Smyth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhx2fo2Vr0

I was unprepared for it.

I concur.  The video is especially emotive.
This also brought a tear to my eye.  The bit about being "late December when I walked to the end "
It sounds like suicidal intent but just redeems himself and drags back from the abyss.

Cathal Smyth: the wrens burial

https://youtu.be/Ia1w8Qm4bFQ

[Brundle-Fly]

Happy -Pharrell Williams   Sorry. Obvious.

Still, a brilliant number, but my brother's and certain friends' lives were totally cunted that year. From the off, I always burst into tears hearing it.

[Tony Tony Tony]

Grandma We Love You by St Winnifreds School Choir.

Although only because I really did love my Grandma.

[Brundle-Fly]

Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) (Anne Sofie Von Otter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLZ8bboTLo

[Brundle-Fly]

Heck, it's late!

Tracey Hyde (hide) - The Wondermints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8arOESWag

[Brundle-Fly]

Go to bed, you total fucking soppy cunts!

Acid Brass - Pacific State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmDkmhvkAU

[jobotic]

All Over The World by Francois Hardy

An Ending (Ascent) by Eno has obviously been played to death everywhere now, but when i first bought Apollo as a teenager it had quite the effect and when I played it to my girlfriend she got a bit weepy*


*at the song, not at having a boyfriend who played records at her.

[phantom_power]

I am not sure I have cried the first time I heard a song but if anything came close it would be By This River by Brian Eno. Beautiful, haunting, melancholy perfection

[Twit 2]

Radka Toneff - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

https://youtu.be/XtgIxU8TCyY

Joan as Police Woman - Real Life

https://youtu.be/a8ubt_ASqm8

Patty Griffin - Burgundy Shoes

https://youtu.be/4neqL2svVMw

Joni Mitchell - Hejira

https://youtu.be/5AfPR_B8s-A

KD Lang - Love is Everything

https://youtu.be/ztPwMFiT7t4

[Dr Rock]

Thao Nguyen - Temple (acoustic)

https://youtu.be/2ooC7TOr5m0

I want to sell this a bit more in case people haven't clicked the link. Thao Nguyen is the daughter of a Vietnamese mother who escaped the Vietnam war and relocated in the US. The song is from her point of view, as US helicopter attacks destroy her city, and she barely makes it out alive. The song is full of stark imagery, sadness and survival. The lyrics are poetry. Give it a listen.

[Dusty Substance]

Johnny Cash's rendition of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. I was walking to work circa 2005/6 when it came on shuffle and once I started crying I couldn't stop. There was other shit going on in my life at the time and that song was the catalyst for the tears. Still get a Proustian rush of emotion when I go past the spot where I first heard it.