Pretty self explanatory. I think most people who listen to music with any real degree of enthusiasm and who've listened to enough music will have come across a few tracks that really hit them emotionally. I think that it's a very personal thing, too. Songs like Angels by Robbie Williams are emotional to a broad cross section of people, but it's not really a natural example in my opinion, more of a contrived one. Anyhow, if you want to include an upload with your picks, that would be pretty cool, probably.

Fingers-Cut, Megamachine! - Release Me
Flaming Lips - The Sound of Failure
The National - The Geese of Beverly Road
Nirvana - Where did you Sleep Last Night
The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
Queens of the Stone Age - Auto-Pilot
Screeching Weasel - Every Night
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Teenage Bottlerocket - So Far Away
The Weakerthans - None of the Above

Click. (http://www.sendspace.com/file/9o7e6z)

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls
Man Man - Gold Teeth

no band does emotional stuff quite like Radiohead. try laying in a field on a nice sunny day with Kid A on your walkman, and 6 cans of stella in your stomache. thats pretty powerful stuff i can tell you.
as for songs that really make me emote
Radiohead - True love waits
Radiohead - Videotape
Radiohead - 4 minute warning
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
Joy Division - New dawn fades
A perfect circle - Whats going on
Alice in chains - the whale and the wasp
Oasis - Cast no shadow
to name but a few

I like a lot of Radiohead, but some of my favorite songs like "Knives Out" or "There There. (Boney King of Nowhere)" don't really affect me, they're just awesome.

here's some stuff i find huge on emotion and gives me a boner.

Gackt - Emu ~For My Dear~
Regina Kitsch - Ghost of Corporate Future
Radiohead - Reckoner
Radiohead - Idioteque
The Pillows - Carnival
Peter Gabriel - I Grieve
Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show

some soundtracks too...

Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Cross
Thomas Newman - WALL-E
Thomas Newman - American Beauty
Michiru Oshima - ICO

Of Montreal's "Spike the Senses" and Thomas Newman's Road to Perdition OST

Climbing Up The Walls. Shit yeah.

Any new metal song. Why? Because they are usually terrible.

"The Atonement"
"Transient Life"
"Sorrow"
"Tune of Seperation (Piano Solo)" - By Michiru Oshima [Full Metal Alchemist OST I-III]

Until I Say So--ALL
Looking Back on Today--The Ataris
Disenchanted--MCR
4am--Our Lady Peace
Daylight Fading--Counting Crows
Scattered--Green Day

Any new metal song. Why? Because they are usually terrible.

Why this in particular? :o

He means nu metal. And that's because it is particularly awful. More than metal.

Pilot Speed - Alright (Heard in the film Death Sentence)

Midnight Hour - Running Away (Wife loves Ghost Whisperer, I heard this song while she was watching!)

Happy Birthday - Flipside.

I can relate

Anything by Della Reese. Seriously the greatest songtress of our time.

Name by the goo goo dolls

Yeah I know you think it's gay

Tori Amos

- Seaside
- Gold Dust
- Cloud On My Tongue


There are more, but I can't think of the titles...

Dear God bye Avenged Sevenfold

In Memoriam by Hammerfall, very powerful song

would it be safe to say that songs cause strong emotions if we are
a) currently in an emotional state in our lives
b) can connect song content to a previous emotional experience in our lives

so if you hear something at an emotional time in your life (say teenage years) that song will always mean something to you emotionally?
and that's why different generations may have different preferences for this kind of thing?

thinking out loud dunno why

el ma�ana, by gorillaz

"Summer Snow" - Sissel

Get it here (http://www.mediafire.com/?f0enmum071l65of)

This song is taken from the soundtrack to a Japanese film called Summer Snow.

Besides the fact that Sissel Kyrkjeb� (a Norwegian singer... you've probably heard her voice if you have seen the blockbuster remake of Titanic since she does all the vocalizations on that soundtrack and in the film) has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard, the song has special meaning to me as I listened to it a lot around the time my grandma passed away, who I adored very much... we had a Sissel CD I made playing most of the time during the period when she was dying, particularly after she was asleep all of the time over the last week of her life. The lyrics also eerily relate to feelings of loss:

It's summer snow in the deep blue sea
I try to touch, but it fades away
It must be a dream I will never get
Just like my love that's crying for you

If there were something not to change forever
We could feel it deep in our heart
Today is over with a million tears
Still everyone has a wish to live

Oh, I do believe everlasting love
And destiny to meet you again
I feel a pain I can hardly stand
All I can do is loving you

It's summer snow in the deep blue sea
I try to touch, but it fades away
It must be a dream I will never get
Just like my love that's crying for you
Just like my love that's crying for you