Corny songs that actually move you

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Somebody should cover Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again". If Johny Cash had done it on his last album, I would've probably checked out before he did.

― dave q, Monday, 1 December 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

"I Want to Know What Love Is"

But is it corny or is it cheesy? Hmm.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh, i also love "Time After Time"

Vanessa Carlton- "A Thousand Miles" makes me all emotional.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

"Lilac Wine" by Jeff Buckley

"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles always reminds me of my first real girlfriend from early high school

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

I think the Greg Brady (Barry Williams) sung "Cheyenne" is a very moving song.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link

"Bittersweet Symphony" Oasis

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 04:34 (twenty years ago) link

Does the Carpenters "Superstar" qualify as corny?

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 06:42 (twenty years ago) link

OH! Massive seconds (or is it third or fourths?) on The Bangles' "Eternal Flame". I read very few good things about it, but it stops me cold when i hear it.

Also
Mariah Carey's "Vision of Love"
Billy Joel's "All for Leyna"
Joan Jett's covers of "Love Hurts" and "Celluloid Heroes"
"Magnet & Steel", Walter Egan
"Long, Long Time", Linda Rondstadt

― Unum, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link

"I Want to Know What Love Is"

But is it corny or is it cheesy? Hmm.

it is high art

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

"Take my breath away" by Berlin. Also anthing by Stephin Merritt, especially the Future Bible Heroes songs.

― daavid, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

Rah Band "Clouds across the moon"

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

"Love Is Blue"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

all the songs mentioned on this thread are pure genius. except the whitney version of "i will always love you", the dolly parton original is obviously superior.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

all the songs mentioned on this thread are pure genius...
-- The Lady Ms Lurex

bumper corn!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

Meat Loaf, enough said.

― mrat, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

superman (it's not easy)- five for fighting
i'd die without you- PM Dawn

Yeeeaahhh

― zebjones, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

superman (it's not easy)- five for fighting

That song annoys me. I think it's the guy's voice that annoys me.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

69 love songs (well, some of them) to thread!

― Elliot (Elliot), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:37 (twenty years ago) link

oh and "with or without you"

― Elliot (Elliot), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link

"space oddity" and "major tom"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link

"camouflage" by stan ridgway. seriously.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah reading thru this thread "corny" has no meaning. To be corny is to risk embarassment, a prereq. for a moving song.

OK so for me its Barenaked Ladies - "Call and Answer"

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

is "it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday" corny?

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

trenchtown rock sublime

― BB, Friday, 11 June 2004 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Psycho Chicken

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 11 June 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i was made for lovin' you

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 11 June 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Second "Call and Answer." Third (or whatever) "You're Still the One."

Barry White to thread, please! "Never Gonna Give You Up" at least.

"She Loves You," "Here, There and Everywhere." Even "Imagine."

"A Long December."

Field Mice to thread... "If You Need Someone" - yep.

Foo Fighters - "Walking After You."

"Wish You Were Here"

"Don't Speak," "One," "Sweetest Thing." Though I've come close to hearing them too many times.

"More Than This"

"Wouldn't It Be Nice"

― smirky, Friday, 11 June 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link

'More Than This' is NOT corny!!

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link

neither is "she loves you"!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I vote for the Mac's 'Don't Stop'

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link

"underneath it all" - lord shoot me now.

"somethin' stupid"
"always something there to remind me" - esp. labelle's version
"perhaps perhaps perhaps"
"gloomy sunday"
"your lies" - boy shelby sure can belt it out.
"don't fence me in"
"dammit" - the worst of the worst, but it's a teeny bop sucker punch to the gut that never fails

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Friday, 11 June 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Right now, Britney - 'Shadow'
Chris Rea - 'Driving Home for Christmas'
Mariah Carey - 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'
Oasis - 'Whatever'
Robbie Williams - 'Somethin' Beautiful'
Milli Vanilli - 'Girl You Know It's True'
Mandy Moore - 'I Wanna Be With You' (not so corny and in fact, fuckin' classic)
'True'
'2 Become 1'
'The Power Of Love'
'Kiss Me'
'A Thousand Miles'
'Turn Back The Hands Of Time' (thanks for that, Pied Piper)

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

George Michael -- Last Christmas
Beatles -- Let it Be
Clapton -- Wonderful Tonight
Cinderella -- Coming Home
Faster Pussycat -- House of Pain
Journey -- Separate Ways

Songs that get me but may not be corny:

Social D. -- Ball n' chain
The Cure -- Pix of you
Jeff Buckley -- all of it
Prince -- Purple Rain

― cw28 (cw28), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yeah,

Two hearts beat as one and gloria by U2.

― cw28 (cw28), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

eternal flame is soo right on. also, tiffany and some other stuff i remember from when i was really young. it seems like most stuff i remember from that era takes on this grand, dramatic quality when i see it these days. weird.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Benny Benassi - Love Is Gonna Save Us

I'm really hoping someone does a cover of this with just vox and acoustic guitar, it's too good to remain just another soundalike Benassi track.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

let loose - crazy

i find this so very affecting it always makes me cry. i resent it for doing this to me but i also like it for this reason. damn you pop music!

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Do You Realize," Flaming Lips.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

From the introductory chords on, John Lennon's "Woman" always gets me, altho that's due almost entirely to the timing of its original release.

Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" is a real weepie.

And two of the uncoolest #1 hits of all time: "You Light Up My Life" and "Seasons In The Sun"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones. Oh, man.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

tracy chapman - "fast car"
reo speedwagon - "keep on loving you"
fleetwood mac - "you make loving fun"

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"At Seventeen" seconded
little Michael's voice on "Ben"
George Michael - "You Have Been Loved"
Madonna - "This Used To Be My Playground"
The Eagles - "Wasted Time" (cringe)

― penelope_111, Friday, 11 June 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

eternal flame and fast car, oh god yes. also:
don't stop believin' - journey
car - built to spill
love is a four-letter word - joan baez
patches - dickie lee
another auld lang syne (aka met my old lover in a grocery store) - dan fogelberg
making love out of nothing at all - air supply
she's always a woman to me - billy joel
tell laura i love her - ray peterson

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

'Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong' is playing RIGHT NOW

'Eternal Flame' is a total mover, never thought of it as corny, but it is.

Did Let Loose do 'The Best In Me'? Because that one really MOVES me.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Merrilee Rush - "Angel of the Morning"
The Poppy Family - "Which Way You Goin', Billy"
Carpenters - "Superstar"

But I suppose this means they're not corny.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

the whole pretty in pink soundtrack! esp. the omd track.

(and avril's "complicated" which isn't corny, but you know, it's avril.)

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" is tragic. It's only corny if you think ALL country is corn by definition. Now "Patches," that's more like it.

― lovebug starski, Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

ANGEL OF THE MORNING IS NOT CORNY.

― TheNewJMod (JMod), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"Let love speak up itself" by The Beautiful South. It's just an awesome, awesome vocal. Love the guy's voice, hate his shit band.

"Goodbye" by the Spice Girls. As I've said many times, the b/vox on the chorus are utterly superb.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

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