Corny songs that actually move you

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.

Journey's "Be Good to Yourself" has become my de facto empowerment anthem.

I can get downright ready at "I Hope You Dance."

Teary that should have said. Autocorrect.

Kenny Loggins "Meet Me Halfway"

anybody who laughs, meet u in the alley

That's a good one.

What's corny about 'Dear Jessie'?

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 6:14 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh come on!

Another: "Could It Be Magic" Barry Manilow

I was gonna start a thread on the most melodramatic pop songs. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" being the obvious champ. My #2 would be "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" , Air Supply

So far you're just starting a Jim Steinman thread.

I'll drop the big embarrassing steamer: "Look Away" by Chicago.

Is "Brandy" corny or just cheesy?

Ok lol
That Chicago song is impossibly corny
Thread revive totally worth it

Brandy is cheesy.

Orleans, "Dance With Me"

Absolutely "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera 1000%