Corny songs that actually move you

"say you love me" wins the thread

out of cyndi's songs i think "true colors" would be my choice for corny-yet-moving quality

"The Angels Rejoiced in Heaven Last Night" by the Louvin Brothers.

Pat Benatar - "We Belong"

'dont cry for me argentina'.

pisceboy said so on the thread too

And as for fortune and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world
They were all I deserved
They are illusions
They're not the solutions
They promise to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

although it's Sinead O'Connor's version that i love, really.

"I wont Say I'm in Love" as sung by Susan Egen in the Disney movie Hercules

'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

Corny as in sentimental, or corny as in full of melodic and lyrical cliches? I am a sucker for the former and cry pretty much on cue. Same with movies.

i could easily see why someone might think dylan's "brownsville girl" is corny as fuck but i'm moved to tears most times i hear that song, it's so captivating, everything about it. the lyrics, the stories he tells in it, the background singers, the huge drums, the sax solo, i just think it's a complete masterpiece. i know i'm not alone in that though, it has tons of devotees.

"Game of Love" - Santana and Michelle Branch. Love her voice on this.

The answer is "landslide". I am a lost little bawling baby when I hear that song.

Good one, calstars. There's a bunch of late '90s/early '00s minor key pop songs that I only ever heard in passing and over PA systems, like, at work and in student unions that always made me feel a little melancholy (e.g. "Barely Breathing"). They lost a little of their magic once I heard them over something other than tinny speakers playing in the distance.

Also, "Adia" kinda fucks me up. And "Anything For You" by Miami Sound Machine.

i don't think there is anything corny about landslide!!

Bruce Hornsby's 'Mandolin Rain' is very bittersweet too.

Ashamed to say, 'A Long December' by C*unting Cr*ws

I will second "The Way It Is" -- that song really makes me feel better about life

I heard Walter Egan's "Magnet and Steel" on the radio yesterday and it sounded unbearably poignant in spite of being completely corny and Walt's resemblance to Willie Aames

Kiss From a Rose rules this thread.

Whoa yeah it does

I also learned that Walter Egan wrote "Hearts on Fire" which I also love for its lyrical and melodic corniness.
The "sleep escapes me still" part always gets me

I must be in a sentimental mood

"Baker Street" has to qualify just because saxophone

Bette Middler "The Rose"

I Love You, Climax Blues Band

I listened to some additional Walter Egan songs and they are TERRIBLE. "Tunnel O'Love" has to be one of the worst songs I've heard in a long time. Not even Stevie can save it.

OMG I cry like a monster when I hear "The Rose"

which is a suuuuuper-cornball song but the basic chords and melody structure + fairly minimal arrangement + soaring gospel choir + self-pitying/self-help tenor of the lyrics totally do it for me. I have clear memories of hearing this song really young, which I'm sure also contributes to it.

Cathy Dennis - 'Too Many Walls', Anita Baker - 'Giving You the Best That I've Got'

"the rainbow connection"

ha yeah

that is an incredible song though, the lyrics are actually quite strange

ok this is embarrassing but just recently "Call and Answer" by the Barenaked Ladies got me

'Rainbow Connection' AND 'Bein' Green'

i sure do love me some joe raposo, despite the whole "three's company theme song" thing.

latin ballads like marco antonio solis "Si No Te Hubieras Ido"

WKRP theme song

Imagine

'The Greatest Love of All' has been doing this to me lately.

air supply

Total Eclipse of the Heart

I'm also a sap for the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

air supply is a good call

sometimes stare into space and get lost in thought contemplating making love out of nothing at all

lol you mean "lost in love"

feed the birds

'An Innocent Man'. My brother and I belted out an intense and half-drunken pseudo karaoke duet of same at Christmas, which I just now remembered that my mom filmed for posterity.

Madonna - 'Dear Jessie'

sarah maclachlan - "angel", obv

"Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
You'll Never Walk Alone
Through the Barricades
I Am, I Said
Actually, mostly all of Neil Diamond. Coming to America!

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Gary Byrd & The GB Experience - The Crown (although only the rap is corny)
Michael McDonald & Patti LaBelle - On My Own
The Scorpions - Wind Of Change

Nilsson - Without You

mr big - to be with you

j/k, sorry

What's corny about 'Dear Jessie'?

Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold. All the way.