Unitron

There's a handful of songs that I can think of, but these are always the first two that come to mind when asked this question:




Also the entire album of Godflesh's Songs of Love and Hate:

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Oriphiel

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windsock

Disney ruined the **** outta this song for me. Only makes me laugh now. I think if I had gone on without knowing that it mutilated by the mouse I might have been it up there with something like Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang.

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Luther Vandross -Dance With My Father

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Amusing as it may be, the only song I can think of where the lyrical content was primarily what moved me to tears is Green River by CCR. Shortly after high school I moved away to the city for university. I lived there for 2 years and, perhaps in an effort to make my mind feel more in sync with the environment, I immersed myself almost exclusively in cold, experimental electronic music for the entire time that I lived there. Once I had completed my schooling and locked in a career I was free to move back to my hometown. On the day of the move I stuffed everything into the back of my truck, unearthed my old Chronicle Vol. 1 tape, loaded it into the cassette player, and hit the road. Just as I rolled past Abbotsford and into the valley, surrounded by open fields and mountains at all sides, Green River comes on and I'm overwhelmed by the feeling of being home. The combination of the homely lyrics, the view, and the jarring sensation of hearing that kind of music for the first time in years was the perfect recipe to trigger the waterworks.

Every other time that a song has moved me to tears it's the music itself, a particular section paired with a particular setting.

The solo sections of Driftin' & Driftin' (3:07) and In My Own Dream (3:13) get me almost every single time I hear them:





Certain crescendo sections of Epitaph by King Crimson get me tearing up frequently as well but I can't find the original recording anywhere on YouTube anymore, they've all been replaced with some milk toast non-mellotron version.

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windsock

Good choice, but I think if we're talking emotionally-charged Rush songs, this is one of my favorites:

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Neapolitan

Ian Bairnson who played guitar for Pilot also was a studio musician for Alan Parsons Project and KATE BUSH!!!

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Death and understanding are two important considerations of my life.

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Oriphiel

OH SHIIIIIIIIII

*rewatches every Kate Bush music video*

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rrrkitchen

Steven Wilson songs have been known to make me find dust in the back of my eyes....Drive Home, The Raven That Refused To Sing, and Routine in particular.