Songs you are embarrased to admit affect you

I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack

It's really frau-ish and overly sentimental but damn if it doesn't get me every time.

I hate that song. Trite is right.

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover. I think this is a beautiful song but it was before my time and my friends always laugh at me for loving it.

Stay

Eternal Flame

Love Thy Will Be Done

Why don't you Stay....I heard Jennifer Nettles sing this live and I thought I would laugh or pee or cry. Oh, it gets me.

All Cried Out wins this thread.

They Long To Be Close To You - the Carpenters.

Missing - Evanescence

Don't ask me why

Alone Again (Naturally) -- Gilbert O'Sullivan

.........

I can relate deeply.

Don't Want No Short Dick Man by 20 Fingers

"Laudate Dominum" by Kathleen Battle

R1, that song got in my head a few weeks ago and I binged on it for days. I like this version. It is from 2000, the "before" for me. Sons of the Desert background chorus really adds to it.

"I Hope You Dance" probably gets to a lot of people because it was a hit right around the time of 9/11.

My niece/goddaughter was 7, I think, back then, and part of a children's ballet company. That's the song to which they performed. So, yeah, given the time and the context, I cried off and on for a couple of days.

OMG r6 I totally forgot about that song. I loved it.

Two people chose different "Stay"s so to complete the trifecta I will add "Stay" by Rihanna, because in 2013 I got my heart broken in the way that physically hurts and that was my jammmmmm.

I'm not embarrassed by it, though. But another song with a video set in a bathtub, "Everytime" by Britney Spears, DOES get me even though it's not nearly as deep as it wants to be.

Hungry Eyes. Cheesy but romantic!

That early 70s song based on some Coca Cola ad. Way before I was even born, but I actually like it very much.

"Soon" from the Don Bluth animated film Thumbelina.

This one.

Despacito

I could not truly be embarrassed by liking a song, or being affected by it, but if I were, "Wind beneath My Wings" might be up there. But only because of Hal and Barbara.

OP's song does not embarrass me. James Blunt is too hot, and he gets semi-naked before going off the cliff.

This song from But I'm A Cheerleader.

It is just so fucking beautiful and perfect in its simplicity.

RHYTHM OF MY HEART by Rod Stewart.

It is some kind of minor Scottish anthem but the lyrics are very depressing. The man in the final verse appears to be addicted to playing the slot machines.

And he says “Never Will I Roam, for I know my place is home” then the next lyrics are “where the ocean meets the sky i’ll be sailing” which implies he actually has left home to go sailing?

Anyway, it’s a great song.

Not embarrassed at all but this did get to me.....Cyndi Lauper - Sally's Pigeons

Britney Spears - Everytime

All by Myself Celine Dion version

I would be embarrassed if I liked anything by Britney.

Both Sides Now - any version

Harden My Heart - Quarterflash

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

Still The One - Shania Twain

From A Distance - Nanci Griffith

Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble

Make You Feel My Love - Adele

The Flesh Failures - Let the Sunshine In from Hair.

Actually, wait, I'm not embarrassed at all. This song is stirring.

If You Asked Me To - Patti Labelle

R15, I just laughed out loud in my office cube -

North to Alaska by Johnny Horton.

The perfect james blunt song is this one.

"I Eat Canned Peaches" by Horrendous Woman Decorators.

I don't know why I like this so much. The movie was meh, but something about this part ... the women are singing [italic]about[/italic] AND [italic]to[/italic] their goddess and finding joy in it, I guess. (Yes, I know technically she isn't a goddess per se, but that's splitting hairs if you ask me.)

Not embarrassed, but this thread reminded me of Damien Rice - cannonball

😭

I’m all out of love,

I’m so lost without you,

It can’t be too late,

To say that i was so wrong!

I liked 10 cc.

Also, Meatload had a good first record, then what happened? Something musta.

Donny Osmond did a good version of “Big boys don’t cry.” He coulda been a contender, instead of chump. What happened to him?

Basically, I like whatever was playing on big city AM radio stations in 1980-1983.

OP "You're beautiful " Is not trite. Have you NEVER experienced the rush and thrill of locking eyes with someone on the subway or the street, the both of you realising the instant chemistry, but helpless to do anything about it?

Janis Ian's " At Seventeen" brings me to tears remembering the awful time as a teenager in the 80s, knowing I was gay, but terrified to tell anyone and having to play the fucking straights game. Hated that time of my life.

Stan Rogers’ shanty “The Mary Ellen Carter” makes me get all weepy *every damn time* I hear it.

Carpenters - Close to you

Another vote for James Blunt. "There must be an angel with a smile on her face when she thought up that I should be with you..." kills me every time and then it's topped by "But it's time to face the truth/I will never be with you." Yep, reminds me of a dead friend (who even looked a bit like Blunt) whom I loved very much.

Blunt is underrated in general at this point.

The Last Song by Elton John

"Elton's Song" and its video also make me weep. As does the one above.

see for yourself., Easy to forget how great Elton John could be once upon a time.

"I would give my life for a single night beside you..."

(I think most of us have been there. I sure as hell was).

What can I say?

I am always embarrassed to like Boy Bands.

The Triplets, Light a Candle. Appropriate for these anti-immigrant times.

OP Consider this version...

Abba: Dancing Queen

I’m utterly embarrassed by mine. I like to think I’m pretty cynical - and abhor cheap sentiment! - but every fucking time I hear that song - The Living Years - Mike & the Mechanics - I start to tear-up and feel like I’m gonna lose it. Seriously - make it stop!

James, "Sit Down". The lyrics say much about and to the dispossessed, the freaks, the misunderstood, the outsiders. This is from James' final live performance and the song is made even more poignant by the voices of thousands in the audience joining in.

Man R46...that was one of the very first albums I ever bought. I'm not sure why an 8-year-old kid was saving up to buy an Air Supply album like a housewife, but it still fills me with melancholy.

This affects me similarly. So redolent of dreary mid-80s afternoons.

Ooh, you all are so right about "Goodbye My Lover". I am an ending a relationship and that song is a DOOZY. It also applies when the Instagay you have a crush on leaves the bar but smiles at you and waves back. I'M SO HOLLOW, BABY....

No way, Jack.. err..R32

Can't hold a lighted candle to the original. Which will be extinguished by my blubbering about the time the Harrison-esque slide guitar chimes in.

Damn it (sniffles)

“Someone Like You” by Adele. Reminds me so much of the one that got away 25 years ago. I’m happily partnered for over 10 years but still occasionally wonder “what the the ex and I had been older or made wiser choices in 1993?”

Too many impossible loves, I guess...:(

Beautiful ballad

Great lyrics

Billy Joel, And So It Goes

Taylor Swift - Love Story

Kayleigh. Affects me by becoming stuck in my head for months. I must really like it I guess. Argh! His hair in the video... Tragic.

Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two

The Chainsmokers - Closer

Tom Baxter's "Better". It;s the simplicity of the song and the honesty of the lyrics.

“I’d Like to Get to Know You” by Spanky & Our Gang. I always feel embarrassed when I play it out loud and someone catches me listening to it, eventhough it’s not as cheesy as something like “Muskrat Love”.

Eva Cassidy's take on "Somewhere over the rainbow"

"Alone," and other songs by Heart. Oh God. I start crying in the car.

This version of this song.

At that time, for one set of reasons.

Now, for different ones.

I wouldn't say that I'm *embarrassed* to say that I like this song.

I'll admit, its pretty cheesy, but for me it brings back memories of the spring of 1968 [it was a big hit during this week in 1968].

1968 was a special year. The spring of 1968 was a special time.

I was eight years old and living in NYC.

I'm so glad that I'm old enough to remember the late 1960s -- the good and the bad.

Some of these I'm not embarrassed about at all. Like R77, that's just a great pop song. I love the moody orchestral bit that takes over in the last minute.

Losing My Religion

[82] , I think the snobby rock criticism of the 70s and 80s is to blame for my feeling embarrassed. Anything that wasn’t punk or influenced by the Velvet Underground, was looked down upon. People today have a more eclectic taste in music and the critics of Creem and Rolling Stone have become irrelevant.

"Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin. I know....there's no bigger ball of cheese at the holiday buffet, and I'm duly ashamed. I have to admit, though, this song reduces me to tears every time, more so since I became a father and even more again since my own father passed away.

That Joe Jackson is one of my faves. Nothing to be embarrassed about there, ole chap.

We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters. Especially the very beginning.

This is the original by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols:

Unlove You - Jennifer Nettles

I'm not embarrassed but other's say I should be for loving Reba .But this one especially gets me every time. I always think of those whom I have lost, combined with knowing she recorded the song after the tragic lost of her band in the airplane crash, makes me cry like a baby every time I hear it.

can't believe some of you like people like Jennifer Lopez and songs like Hope you Dance. The Triplets were recording the demo for "Light a Candle" at the same Hell's Kitchen studio I was recording my demo at the time. They were already signed to a label but did demo's before the suits decided if the song was worthy. The two producers at the studio didn't like the song, even imitating sarcastically the chorus, but liked mine. I never had any success with any of my songs and gave up when I turned 60 a few years ago. The Triplets went nowhere. I heard from their landlady they were noisy at all hours and she hated them as tenants.

The Triplets, r92?

Yoko's version of Death of Samantha is a train wreck. Sinead O'Connor's is a fucking masterpiece.

The thread specified, R95, to be embarrassed about the selection, which I am at 93. You seem to be proud!

I Will Never Be the Same - Melissa Etheridge

There are a number of Enya songs that hit me hard. "Only Time" was a hit after 9/11, so it stirs up a lot of emotions.

Cher's Believe always got to me. I think that it was the first time I really noticed autotune and it just tickled something inside me, Cheesy-ass song that I just love.

Michael Buble “Home”

Linger Nothing Compares 2 You

Telephone Man

Anything by Phil Collins

More Than Words Can Say by Extreme

House of Pain by Faster Pussycat

“Do That to Me One More Time” by Captain & Tennille. I like that song because I feel it somehow symbolises the end of the 70s.

The Wreck Called Hillary Clinton

'Lavender' - Marillion (but only as 'interpreted' by Jill Tyrell)

If we are talking actual embarrassment- don’t look back in anger by Oasis touches me

I love the lyrics.

Embarrased? Not really.

Jennifer Warnes - Way Down Deep. A song, pure and incredibly dirty at the same time.

R38, that song affects me too. In fact I'll watch the whole movie to see it.

Thanks OP for this thread and the James Blunt video. I heard that song a few times on the radio and really liked it. Until I watched the video a few times, I finally understood the song. I've gpne through the threads but I haven't found anyone mention this. The singer of the song finally kills himself. The first indication that all is not what it seems is what mention, the phrase that feels out of place: "My life is brilliant." It is not if he falls in love with an "angel" that smiles on him in the subway and who is with another man (insinuating that the singer is who this angel should be with). He's not going to lose sleep on it because he has a plan...to kill himself. He then looks up to the sky and vultures, perhaps.

It is really a brilliant song. A guy who will never and can never have the woman he is stuck in love with. You can also interpret it as the human experience of the sublime and knowing it can rarely be attained. It is a very old human love motif brilliantly done.

OP reminds me of this tear jerker...

"Patches" by Clarence Carter = copious tears.

Ugh. I'm going to win this thread aren't I?

Having My Baby by Paul Anka

Two songs which speak of melancholic nostalgia.

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Shiloh by Neil Diamond

Brooklyn Roads by Neil Diamond.

I love every single, solitary single released by Captain & Tennille. Especially You Never Done it Like That.

[quote]That early 70s song based on some Coca Cola ad. Way before I was even born, but I actually like it very much.

R22, are you referring to this song? It was first a jingle for Coke and it was so popular that a full song (removing the references to Coca Cola) was written.

I'm not embarrassed at all by liking this song. Heck, we have the old 45 of it.

I'll post the commercial in my next post.

For R22

I LOVE the Coke song and have the full version on my player.

Beat this. Takes me back to simpler times. My older sister was in the folk choir in our church when I was a kid. We'd got to that mass(along with the Sunday one) so we could watch my sister sing. They'd sing this. I'd insist on the first pew so I could lean over and watch my sister sing. There she was in the powder blue pant suit, with vest, that she sewed. Sporting her Dorothy Hamill haircut. I'd wave. She'd wave back and I'd be in heaven. SHE WAS A STAR IN MY BOOK!

"Touched by an Angel" by Celine Dion will give you diabetes if you listen to it and is the worst kind of schmaltz, but I teared up when I first heard it.

Having been in elementary school during the late 1970s through the early 1980s, there are way too many to list.

Someone above already beat me to "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka. Yes, I know it's considered one of the worst songs of all time, but when I hear it, I am instantaneously transported back to 1974.

I was also into a lot of the disco music from the late 1970s. But to show how much of a clue I didn't have, I was also a big Steve "Disco Demolition" Dahl (Chicago radio personality) fan. I listened to his show daily.

"Ghost in This House" sung by Alison Krauss at the Kennedy Center. I had heard her name but I was not familiar with her. I remember I was watching the PBS show and she came on. (The song starts at the 4:00 mn. mark). I loved the song, the simplicity. And her voice is such perfection. For some reason, it affects me deeply. And I even love that "dress"/coat....as if she just walked in from the rain. Devastating. I know: Mary! But this is the maryest thread it ever maryied. (I have used two different spellings because I am not sure if it is Maryiest or mariest.)

Thanks for both versions of I'd Like to Teach the World and also for The Lord's Prayer. Loved it as a youngster in Australia. Did you know the (unsuccessful) follow-up single was The Ten Commandments? Heh heh. Here's one of my 'gets to me' songs - Nanci Griffith's version of Ralph McTell's From Clare to Here.

And my other main 'gets to me song' is this one by the McGarrigles. I think it's just about the saddest song ever written.

There should have been dong.

The people who have said You're Having My Baby is the most embarrassing song they will admit to being affected by need to have a seat somewhere, because I am about to take ownership of this thread.

Speaking of the Lord's Prayer, this is the Lord's Prayer sung in Swahili.

I guess the embarrassing part is that it's from a video game.

It did win a Grammy, though.

"Hypnotized" by Fleetwood Mac. This pre-Stevie ditty is about UFOs and other metaphysical nonsense, but it always transports me to some strange not-quite-there there.

Who Wants To Live Forever - Adam Lambert. A real tour de force. Breaks my heart everytime. Freddie Mercury song.

"Moringtown Ride" by the Seekers-my Mom used to sing this lullaby to me

Catholic hymn "Soul of my Saviour"

R47 Meat Loaf has had a ton of great records, if you can truly appreciate bombast.

I have to admit that I genuinely enjoy at least 70% of his catalogue, with or without Steinman. I don’t know why exactly; his oeuvre just speaks to my penchant for theatrics, I suppose. I have even been inspired by Meat’s music videos, styles and even musical influences myself before now, as a Millennial. There is something so subversive about his voice & presence that it intrigues me. I find it refreshing, even now.

I assume you praise BAT OUT OF HELL as a good album, and no matter what the hipsters & snobs have to say — it IS. I would even content that the sequels BAT...II: BACK INTO HELL & BAT...III: THE MONSTER IS LOOSE surpassed the first in terms of truth & relevance to Steinman’s vision and Meat’s voice.

The song ‘Blind as a Bat’ had me in tears every night for a week straight back in College. I made the mistake of listening to it for the first time just after watching the Batman movie UNDER THE RED HOOD (the one about the death & resurrection of Jason Todd aka Robin II) and somehow the two became emotionally intertwined for me. Now I can’t hear that song without thinking of poor, poor Jason. Now I think about it, many of the songs Steinman wrote for the BAT albums were meant to be in a tragicomic musical on the subject of the Batman, so ‘Blind...’ could even directly relate to the tale. Hmmm.

Original Sin - Taylor Dayne

Don't know this has been posted, sappy but a lovely fusion of words and music.

Sailing by Christopher Cross

Careless Whisper by George Michael

I, too, am a huge Captain & Tennille fan. I have all their albums on CD. Even 1982's "More Than Dancing".

I even made my own Spanglish version of "Love Will Keep Us Together" based on the 1975 WLS AM89 (Chicago radio station) version

R139 I also love "Arthur's Theme" by CC.

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Fanny by the Bee Gees