Corny songs that actually move you

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

"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

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

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

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

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.

(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)

and to take it further:
Garota de Ipanema

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

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.

fucking amazing record.

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

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?

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

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most moving pop songs are at least a little corny

"Sing" - the Carpenters

Kiss From a Rose rules this thread.

bruce hornsby "the way it is"

"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!!