This week on the show, the All Songs gang and listeners spill on the tunes that bring them to tears.
No one wants to see two grown men cry — especially not at work. For this week’s all-tearjerker episode of All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton took the conversation offline and set up shop in Bob’s apartment, armed with some home recording gear, a box of Kleenex and a bottle of wine.
Thousands of listeners contributed stories about the music that makes them cry, and while there were some usual suspects — Adele, Sufjan Stevens, and Paul Simon, to name a few — Bob and Robin discovered that a song needn’t necessarily be sad to get the waterworks going.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138511911/cry-baby-cry-songs-that-make-you-weep