I know, and I still like Jules' better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasZzenuYxI&feature=related

This I really like.

When used properly, I find lo-fi to be especially moving regardless of genre. Like the artist's playing straight to your soul, not to a recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kh09MuIfIUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kh09MuIfIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYsGWh_vpE

http://youtu.be/OrLl5wkpnAY

Wax and Wire by Loch Lomond. Amazing song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHAvjaHtlMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWO84GUIg8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ptSZeoO21s&feature=related

Let's just say Hans Zimmer moves me

Congrats. This has been making me sad since first hearing (and watching) it about twelve years ago (if I'm right and it was released in 2000) and now it hasn't missed its impact once again. I recall they used a lot of grey and other sombre colours in that movie and that made it even more depressing.

It's a fine statement. He's very talented.


Agreed. It's a timeless movie and sountrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2gG6Vo_e_E

This band man, this [censored] band.

There's more but I've been pretty obsessed with this band lately.

Any song by Enya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X6tHmyLvUQ

Letters to God - Box Car Racer (can't link to this and the next three due to a couple of words)
Ghosts on the Dance Floor - Blink 182
Natives - Blink 182
Here's Your Letter - Blink 182 (lol, again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaTqrdZ_cgQ

I find most orchestral music quite moving, not just the music itself but the talent of everyone involved to bring it all together into something so amazing. The soundtrack CD that came with my copy of skyward sword is amazing.

I used to like that song too, but then I listened really close and discovered that they jarated on a civilian. Never listened to that song again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz1MpftJIQ0&list=PLC862C7D7086E0480&index=2&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw_GhedOX70&feature=BFa&list=PLFBE83287A0C0EBB1&lf=plpp_video --- This one has about the most beautiful intro I've heard in any track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNykA5jrLcE&feature=BFa&list=PLFBE83287A0C0EBB1&lf=plpp_video

This is the one song that has gotten me out of this thread.

Louse posted a link to a Joanna Newsom song in the OP...

Her song "Peach Plum Pear" actually brought me to tears at a very low point in life a while back...so yeah.
Maybe the line "You've changed so"...it was deeply troubling to me at the time. I personalized it.

Then months later....four of us drove 125 miles or 200 kilometers to see her live...
All criticism concerning her voice aside, I think she's tremendously talented...especially with songwriting and lyrics.

One song can't do justice to anyone, but if I had to pick a song that describes a large chunk of my life, "Peach Plum Pear" would be a good fit. That might sound more tragic than it should.

She's quite a talented lyricist.

Something very raw and unpretentious about her...especially her earlier works.

Frank Turner > All the bull [censored] Enya in the world! Best talent out there. His lyrics are pure poetry.

http://youtu.be/QBHeDIH0V98

http://youtu.be/S0sYJSibVZ8

These days music doesn't make me cry (or even very sad) unless I have an emotional association that goes with it (like a sad movie). I guess I haven't built up very many sad musical moments to my life these days. I tend to listen to stuff I find uplifting or "goosebump/shivers in a good way" instead - usually non-vocal stuff.

Jules isn't a pet hate for me (his version is ... tolerable ....) but I totally agree on the latter part. I must have played Tears For Fears The Hurting album 500 times during my "anguished teen" years.

Nowadays I'm a real svcker for all those "best of the '80s" compilations. Wow, nostalgia!

I'm a child of the 90's, but Kenny Loggins is a big part of my life.

Tear up? Well we'll go with that feeling at least, if not the act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSjrr0XQNw, less for the intrinsic song itself and more for the memories it invokes of that horrible, horrible, soul rending experience that was Clannad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtx3vQI1Rk4&feature=related, from Shawshank Redemption.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qBqP2I4p8, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKAeG8fy1fg, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V-WGwJJj58 from Cowboy Bebop. All are quite powerful pieces I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go, by Johnny Cash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp3sxC7oVhk, from the Halo 2 soundtrack. One of my favorite "put on repeat forever" melancholy songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSH8b33wZcw, from The Lord of the Rings musical. Don't knock it, it's good music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_73Cc2typk, by Stan Rogers; and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBnrGHeBOY, by Loudon Wainwright. Both are better when you pay attention to the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jP4Osvgvos, from the Ice Age soundtrack. Another "put on repeat forever" song I like.

http://soundcloud.com/piercingsight/solitary-sonata-tiara#play and http://soundcloud.com/piercingsight/stairway-to-madness-diane, by Steven Mortensen. Hell most of his http://soundcloud.com/piercingsight/dont-look-discord.

Edit: Oh and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgxLsb-Lztc, by Hevein.

Edit2: One more thing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Vg2YS-sFE, by The National.