Corny songs that actually move you

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"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

not inclusive but definitely corny:

"Waiting for a girl like you" Foreigner
"Woman" John Lennon
"That's why they call it the blues" Elton John
"Nights in White Satin" Moody Blues
"Against All Odds" Phil Collins
"Message To My Girl" Spilt Enz

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 12 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Snowbird - Lynn Anderson
Close Your Eyes - Peaches & Herb
You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - Joni Mitchell
Angie - the Rolling Stones
For A Day Like Today - Lee Hazlewood
God Only Knows - the Beach Boys
Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce
Will You Be Staying After Sunday - Peppermint Rainbow
I Am A Woman - Twinkle
Free to Be You & Me

and yeah, totally Angel in the Morning, Which Way Are You Going Billy, 1000 Miles, and This Woman's Work.

― babyalive (babyalive), Monday, 3 January 2005 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i remember you - skid row
true colors - cyndi lauper

― Molly, Monday, 3 January 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link

do you realize, come sail away, & wind beneath my wings

― Holly (an appletross), Monday, 3 January 2005 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Andrea Bocelli - "Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye)"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 3 January 2005 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

"Crimson & Clover" by Tommy James

― youn, Monday, 3 January 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Clarence Carter - Patches

-- mason r butler (masonbutle...), December 1st, 2003 5:27 PM.

i'm so glad this was picked because me too.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 3 January 2005 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"from the bottom of my broken heart" by britney

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 3 January 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "The Power Of Love'

― Bimble..., Monday, 3 January 2005 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, I'm glad someone said Against All Odds. I was at a funeral last week where that was played, and I bawled like a big kid all the way through it.

My own nomination? "The Living Years" - Mike & The Mechanics. Corny, designed to tug at your heartstrings, and actually does so, against all my better judgement.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 January 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

mr mister - broken wings. actually most "corny" songs move me cos i am lame and sentimental.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Milkcow Blues Boogie

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

could it be magic - barry manilow

― deanster, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Against All Odds is a good one. My pick which always brings a tear to the eye is He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies version. Funny thing is I don't even have a brother. I MUST be corny to feel this way.

― Piers, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"Everybody Hurts" REM
"I'm In Love With A Girl" Big Star
"Whenever You're Ready" The Zombies

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, here's my for real answer:
Nature Boy - any version from Nat King Cole on.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Daphne & Celeste - Hey Boy

(I'm not even sure if it's meant to be sad! The lyrics aren't really, it's just the way its sung, awwwww)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Another old chestnut:
Les feuilles mortes

and to take it further:
Garota de Ipanema

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" OWNS this thread. That and anyone, no matter who you are, can sing it.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

tina arena - sorrento moon

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

A few as yet unmentioned:
Eagles, Best of My Love
Malvina Reynolds, Where Are You Going
Patsy Cline, Sweet Dreams

also, in addition to the Lauper/Hooters Time After Time, there is a totally different Whiffenpoofs Time After Time that totally chokes me up:
Now that our love can never be
More than a wistful memory
I try not to fall in love with you
Though time after time I do

― Vornado (Vornado), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

'lost without you' by Blink-182

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Living Years" - Mike & The Mechanics is a great pick. I despise that band but there's a genuineness of emotion in there which hits me every time. Probably because of the chorale backing.

And "Time After Time" is my Cyndi Lauper pick too. It hits that right note of knowing there has to be a change but wishing it wasn't so ... similar to Ween's "Birthday Boy."

Todd Rundgren's "I Saw The Light" is perhaps my favorite ebullient song about love.

Eric Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" is a true heartbreaker.

Plus Dusty Springfield's version of "24 Hours To Tulsa" ... she lingers on the backstory while trying to muster up the courage to say goodbye, and you can hear the struggle in her voice.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Phil Collins-Against All Odds

fucking amazing record.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean seriously, it's not even corny, the lyrics have that directness, I think only a robot could not be moved by "Against All Odds".

I also find "Losing My Mind" by the Pet Shop Boys kind of moves me, just the absolute unabashed theatre of it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

When I was much younger, 'Cats in the Cradle'.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

I just heard the Tony B / Gaga version of "Nature Boy," which my dad used to sing spontaneously (and make himself cry) when i was a kid.

Who is this Nature Boy? A sprite, a deity?

― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 October 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link

Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...

― Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 October 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link

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― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 19 October 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link

most moving pop songs are at least a little corny

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 19 October 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link

"Sing" - the Carpenters

― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 19 October 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link

Kiss From a Rose rules this thread.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 19 October 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link

bruce hornsby "the way it is"

― dyl, Sunday, 19 October 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link

"say you love me" wins the thread

― katherine, Sunday, 19 October 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link

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

― dyl, Sunday, 19 October 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link

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

― banjoboy, Sunday, 19 October 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link

Pat Benatar - "We Belong"

― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link

'dont cry for me argentina'.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link

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