'Streets of Philapdelphia' is the Springsteen song. Neil Young also performed a song for the soundtrack, just called 'Philadelphia' - it's really poignant, moreso than the Bruce song IMO.
Yes... but for me, Eva Cassidy's arrangement and performance is the definitive version... better than the original by Sting himself I think. Wonderful.
Oh, here's an even sadder one... Dido's Lament from the Purcell Opera Dido and Aeneas. It is about Queen Dido, who cannot face life without the love of her life and finally, she dies (kills herself) of a broken heart.. I like the words she sings as she is about to die... they are simple but compelling; guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes if you play it late at night sat on your own. Hayley Westenra's version ends her Odyssey album, it just fades away gently at the end and you just want to sit there in silence.
"When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast.
Remember me, remember me, but ah!
Forget my fate...."
Evanescence ~ My Immortal.
Ozzy & Kelly Osborne ~ Changes
Boyz 2 Men & Mariah ~ One Sweey Day
Simple Plan ~ Perfect.
Michael Bolton ~ When I'm Back on My Feet.
P Diddy & Faith Evans ~ I'll Be Missing You.
I'm ashamed to admit this but also Ronan Keating ~ If Tomorrow Never Comes Cheesy I know, but still makes me think.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking
Of all the things we should've said,
That were never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things that you needed from me.
All the things that you wanted for me.
All the things that I should've given,
But I didn't.
Oh, darling, make it go away.
Just make it go away now.
That was the first song I thought of.
Also, Everybody Hurts by REM gets me and Fields of Gold (Eva Cassidy version).
Evanescence- My Immortal- first heard it when I had just been dumped by the man i thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with (we are back together now) and I had to pull over in the car as I was crying so much I couldn't see!
Also Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt and Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy- I remember when it was used in a Cancer Research ad a couple of years ago and would always leave me in a snivelling mess.
Radiohead High & Dry
The Carpenters Close to You
Coldplay Dont Panic/In My Place/Fix You/Trouble
The Feeling Rose
Queens Days of our lives
Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold
She's like the wind - Patrick Swayze/Dirty Dancing.
Never fails ... even set me off when I saw Noel (ex Hearsay) performing it in What a Feeling at our local concert hall.
protection by everything but the girl - so haunting, and tracey thorns voice is chilling.
hope theres someone - antony and the johnsons - what a strange yet compelling and heartbreaking voice - listen to it and dare u not to have a lump in ur throat.
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Oh, here's an even sadder one... Dido's Lament from the Purcell Opera Dido and Aeneas. It is about Queen Dido, who cannot face life without the love of her life and finally, she dies (kills herself) of a broken heart.. I like the words she sings as she is about to die... they are simple but compelling; guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes if you play it late at night sat on your own. Hayley Westenra's version ends her Odyssey album, it just fades away gently at the end and you just want to sit there in silence. (Repetitions omitted).
Ozzy & Kelly Osborne ~ Changes
Boyz 2 Men & Mariah ~ One Sweey Day
Simple Plan ~ Perfect.
Michael Bolton ~ When I'm Back on My Feet.
P Diddy & Faith Evans ~ I'll Be Missing You.
I'm ashamed to admit this but also Ronan Keating ~ If Tomorrow Never Comes Cheesy I know, but still makes me think.
(I guarantee this'll make you weep)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwwy-g2wkc
Winter - Tori Amos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqauKbARSvc
Also, Everybody Hurts by REM gets me and Fields of Gold (Eva Cassidy version).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOTglWNPPJo
Queen - The Show Must Go On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADh8Fs3YdU
The Smiths - Asleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8H7Qn3ifA
Mariah Carey - Vanishing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tgYRgNm8s
If so, I LOVE that song!!
TH
Also Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt and Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy- I remember when it was used in a Cancer Research ad a couple of years ago and would always leave me in a snivelling mess.
The Carpenters Close to You
Coldplay Dont Panic/In My Place/Fix You/Trouble
The Feeling Rose
Queens Days of our lives
Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold
Rapsodia - Andrea Bocelli
Hello - Evanescence
The Grave - Don McLean
Athair Ar Nearmh - Enya
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
let me go- midge ure
dance with my father-luther vandross
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
He wrote it after his son fell out of his mother's apartment window
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1274
*Everybody hurts* by REM but that has now been overplayed to death so doesn't do it for me anymore
*If you don't know me by now *by simply red (this is probably a cover)
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
Keane - On A Day Like Today
The original music score by Francis Lai:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqfk_bv715w
And Andy Williams singing it (not a fan of his, but this is not bad as at least you get the words accompanying it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEazBfPVFg
That song is heartbreaking
Never fails ... even set me off when I saw Noel (ex Hearsay) performing it in What a Feeling at our local concert hall.
This one in particularly!!
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
protection by everything but the girl - so haunting, and tracey thorns voice is chilling.
hope theres someone - antony and the johnsons - what a strange yet compelling and heartbreaking voice - listen to it and dare u not to have a lump in ur throat.
lovers spit - the feist version.
Spandau Ballet's best song imo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjHoY-XDUK0
The Blue Nile at their best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0wkO0aTtec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPWSlQp7TqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GecEJqi2shs
Feeder - Quick Fade