'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
But I suppose this means they're not corny.
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
(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
― lovebug starski, Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― TheNewJMod (JMod), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
"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
"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
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
― Molly, Monday, 3 January 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Holly (an appletross), Monday, 3 January 2005 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 3 January 2005 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Monday, 3 January 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
-- 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
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 3 January 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble..., Monday, 3 January 2005 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― deanster, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Piers, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link
(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
and to take it further:Garota de Ipanema
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
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 beMore than a wistful memoryI try not to fall in love with youThough time after time I do
― Vornado (Vornado), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― cis (cis), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
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
fucking amazing record.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
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
http://www.sportaphile.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ricflair.jpg
― 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
pisceboy said so on the thread too
And as for fortune and as for fameI never invited them inThough it seemed to the worldThey were all I deservedThey are illusionsThey're not the solutionsThey promise to beThe answer was here all the timeI love you and hope you love me
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
although it's Sinead O'Connor's version that i love, really.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
"I wont Say I'm in Love" as sung by Susan Egen in the Disney movie Hercules
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 19 October 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
― Bloody Snail, Monday, 20 October 2014 08:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 20 October 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― marcos, Monday, 20 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link