Saddest songs
Tom Blumenthal
>
> Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
>
>I'll take a stab at it, PM:
How about:
1) Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (The Sad Song) - Otis Redding (1966)
(note to the uninitiated: That is the name of the song)
2) Ask The Lonely - 4 Tops
3) Tracks of My Tears - Smokey & The Miracles
4) Darling, Take Me Back - Lenny Welch (1967)
5) Since I Fell For You - Lenny Welch (1962)
6) Foolish Little Girl - Shirelles (1962)
7) Come See About Me - Supremes
8) There Goes My Baby - Drifters (1959)
9) I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You - Hank Williams/Patsy
Cline
10) It Hurts To Be In Love - Gene Pitney
Just off the top of my head, a random sampling. Pretty depressing lot. Oh
yes,
could have mentioned Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You", but that belongs
one
notch lower on the suicide watch, and Kim Weston's "Take Me In Your Arms"
as well.
Tom Blumenthal
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>
>
Tom Blumenthal
their day:
1) Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding (1966)
(note to the uninitiated: That is the name of the song)
2) Ask The Lonely - The Four Tops
3) I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
4) It Hurts To Be In Love - Gene Pitney
5) Since I Fell For You - Lenny Welch, or Darlin Take Me Back - Lenny
Welch
6) Sad Mood - Sam Cooke
7) Dawn - The 4 Seasons, or Bye-Bye Baby - The 4 Seasons
8) Come And Get These Memories - Martha & The Vandellas
9) There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
10) Yesterday - The Beatles, or For No One - The Beatles
11) Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio
12) I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You - Hank Williams, & later
by
Patsy Cline
13) I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams, & later by B.J. Thomas &
The
Triumphs
14) Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
15) My True Story - Jive Five
16) Come See About Me - The Supremes
17) Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
18) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles, or Born To Lose - Ray Charles
19) Tracks of My Tears - The Miracles, or Ooh Baby Baby - The Miracles
20) Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - Shangri-Las
Well, pretty depressing stuff. Pick up on those if you're down at
Heartbreak Hotel. Of course, I could have mentioned "Since I Don't Have
You" by The Skyliners or "Take Me In Your Arms" by Kim Weston, or "Without
The One You Love"
by The 4 Tops, but those songs belong one notch lower on the suicide watch.
Tom Blumenthal
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In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk>, s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) wrote:
> The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
> I like them.
>
> 1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
> 2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
> 3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
>
> Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
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Elizabeth Anne Ivanovich
(in no particular order)
1) "Alcoholiday" by Teenage Fanclub
2) "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison
3) "Thirteen" by Big Star
4) "Glass of Drown" by In Perfect Bedlam
5) "Ever Since I Was Alone" by the Posies
6) "Look Up" by Chris Bell
7) "Has He Got A Friend For Me?" by Maria McKee
8) "Another Time Another Place" by U2
9) "Nightime" (sic) by Big Star
10) "Twilight" by U2
11) "This One's Taken" by the Posies
12) that "Walk Right Back" song (is that the title?) by the Everly
Brothers
13) "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" by the Beach Boys
There are probably more I'll think of, but those are the ones that come to
mind most quickly. Some of them can make me happy at different times, too.
I guess some of these are odd choices, but then I've always been overly
sensitive. :-)
--Elizabeth
PM Wong
Hein_t_z Mueller
>The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
>I like them.
>1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
>2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
>3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
>Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
1) Paint it black (Rolling Stones)
2) Look what they've done to my song (Melanie)
3) Tell Laura I love her (Paul Anka? don't know)
4) Excerpt from a teenage opera (???)
And then there are some others where I can't remember the name, one italian
song about the young boys of Via Gluck and one (may be little mermaid) where
I can only remember a line ,,and you dance the dance of death ...'' ... can
someone give me a hint?
Greetings,
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Surely one of the saddest songs must be "Ebony Eyes" by the Everley
Brothers.
Makes me dribble every time I hear it (but that's another story).
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Edward Jervis
>From: ste...@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Steve McGowan)
>Subject: Re: Saddest songs
>Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:04:34 GMT
>Surely one of the saddest songs must be "Ebony Eyes" by the Everley
>Brothers.
>Makes me dribble every time I hear it (but that's another story).
>--Steve.
How about 'Death of an Angel' by Donald Woods and the Velairs...
David Watson
In a previous article, s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) says:
>Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
Billy Bragg--"The Man in the Iron Mask"
Swans--"God Damn the Sun"
Joy Division--"Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Tim Buckley--"Song to the Siren"
('scuse me...I gotta go cry awhile...)
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Mike Contento <mp...@pitt.edu> wrote:
>In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk>, PM Wong <s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk> wrote:
>*>The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
>*>I like them.
>*>1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
>*>2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
>*>3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
>
> Mr. Lonely - Bobby Vinton
> Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
> What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - ???
Jimmy Ruffin (brother of ex-Temptation David Ruffin)
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"Girlfriend in a Coma" by The Smiths too.
I've always been wondering if Morrissey was really serious when
he wrote these ! Nice songs nevertheless.
I would add to the list the entire 2 Unlimited works (with another
acceptation to the word "sad").
Klakmuf.
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Cameron Newham
Careless Whisper - George Michael
Round and Round - Spandau Ballet
(the last two have past significance to me - particular people/places
and events, and it's only due to that that I'd consider them sad, otherwise
I wouldn't take much notice of em. 1984 was a very special year).
c.
PS: apologies to a.r-n-r.o, but this thread was cross-posted to r.m.misc
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Neil W. Aguiar
> The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
> I like them.
>
> 1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
> 2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
> 3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
>
> Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
sure...
Wildfire - MICHAEL MURPHEY
Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think)
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - (don't know the artist)
...can anyone help me with the artists on these last two?
Benjamin Ernest Kierulff
SO Sad.
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Open Door - Genesis
Evidence of Autumn - Genesis
Woman in Chains - Tears for Fears
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Mark J. Rinehart
> Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
One of my favorite songs, which also sends shivers up and down my
spine and makes me teary eyed every time is Once There Was, by Tim
Buckley. It's the song that ends the movie Coming Home. Bruce Dern
gets naked on the beach, leaves his wedding ring on the lifeguard
stand, and runs into the water, presumably to commit suicide, after
having returned from Viet Nam a very dis-illusioned Captain in the
Marine Corps in 1968 or so.
Crying - originally done by Roy Orbison, KD Lang's version of this
song (on a tribute show to Roy, on Showtime) had me crying by the time
she finished.
Mark
Tom Lacko
1) DIARY by Bread.
2) I STILL CAN'T SAY GOODBYE by Chet Atkins (et.al.)
3) SHANNON by Henry Gross [Sorry but, I'm a dog lover!]
Tom Lacko
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Peter Jones
Peter Jones
Margaret R Thomas
song, "I've Passed This Way Before".....one of my very faves!!
Ah, memories!! : )
Margaret
Robert W. Northcott
"Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
"The Water is Wide" - I like the Karla Bonoff version best w/ Garth Hudson
on accordian. His solo could make you cry all by itself it's so lovely.
James A. Cubeta
the Pillar of Salt Held Up" (Mercury) and "Kathleen" (United Kingdom).
Some of the Red House Painters stuff, too.
James
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Brian D. Phillips
especially for 1964)
"Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
"Death of an Angel" - Donald Woods(although the fake crying is a hair
intrusive)
Boo. Hoo.
Brian
Mike Contento
*>The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
*>I like them.
*>1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
*>2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
*>3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
Mr. Lonely - Bobby Vinton
Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - ???
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Goodbye to Love - Carpenters
Margaret R Thomas
Mark J. Rinehart <rine...@remus.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk> s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) writes:
>
>> Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
>
>One of my favorite songs, which also sends shivers up and down my
>spine and makes me teary eyed every time is Once There Was, by Tim
>Buckley. It's the song that ends the movie Coming Home. Bruce Dern
>gets naked on the beach, leaves his wedding ring on the lifeguard
>stand, and runs into the water, presumably to commit suicide, after
>having returned from Viet Nam a very dis-illusioned Captain in the
>Marine Corps in 1968 or so.
>
>Crying - originally done by Roy Orbison, KD Lang's version of this
So many of Roy Orbison's songs are sad,..."the Crowd", "It's Over",
"Love Hurts", "The Crowd", "Pretty Paper", "Only The Lonely", "Leah"..
I think that's what makes him so..."powerful" for lack of a better
term!!...Truly one of the music industries giants!!! ....BTW I had
the privilege od "running" into him in a Stop'N'Shop in Waukesha,
WI the day after his concert in Milwaukee...would you believe I
was the only one that recognized him??...Super-nice man and he was
only to happy to autograph my receipt (the only piece of paper I
had on me!)
Margaret
Margaret R Thomas
> Mr. Lonely - Bobby Vinton
> Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
I can't even sing along with this song without choking up...a real
tear-jerker IMO!! **sniff!**
Geoff Walters
I was interested to read the lists of sad songs, but I must say that
I don't consider some of the choices to be particularly sad, for example:
> There Goes My Baby - Drifters (1959)
(Wsn't this a dance hit!)
> The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
(If you think this folk song is sad then how about Steeleye Span's
"Boys Of Bedlam" or "When I Was On Horseback"?)
> American Pie - Don McLean.
> SO Sad.
(Oh come on! Be serious - this isn't sad, and yes I know the word 'dies'
appears in the chorus! Surely "Empty Chairs" or "Crossroads" is sadder)
> Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio
(What, this sing-along-camp-fire chesnut?)
> "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" by the Beach Boys
(If you had named almost any other track of the _Pet Sounds_ album then
I would have agreed with you, but this song I find uplifting)
And then some of the songs listed were twee sugar-sweet pop songs that
just can't be taken seriously:
> Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
> Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
> Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think)
> DIARY by Bread
> Yesterday - The Beatles
(A well written song, but too obvious & commercial)
> Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
(I didn't realise that some people actually get taken in by such corny
sentiments)
> Tell Laura I love her (Paul Anka? don't know)
(And "Dead Man's Curve" and Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel" and all the other
'death discs' from this era I suppose!)
> Excerpt from a teenage opera (???)
- Keith West
(How can you compare something like this with say "T.B.Sheets" for sadness?)
However, I certainly agree with the following:
> Tracks of My Tears - Smokey & The Miracles
(Or even "Tears Of A Clown")
> Tim Buckley - Once There Was
(Or should the title be "Once I Was"?)
> Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
> Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - Shangri-Las
("Past, Present & Future" and "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" are also
not bad '...and that's called sad'.)
...And I'd like to add these:
Richard Thompson - he's written too many to list here
June Tabor - most of here songs, but especially "Pull Down Lads" and "She
Moves Among Men"
Eric Bogle has written a number of not too jolly songs, but they are maybe
more bitter than sad.
Leonard Cohen - again too many to list
Shirley Collins -" Poor Murdered Woman", "Adieu To Old England" and "Murder
Of Maria Marten"
Tom Waits - "Postcard From A Hooker" and "Soldier's Things"
The Chi-Lites - "Have You Seen Her" (verging on the edge of twee-ness though!)
Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
Elvis Costello - "Good Year For The Roses"
Marvin Gaye - "Abraham, Martin & John"
Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Queen Of Tears"
Jonathan Richman - "Hospital"
James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"
Albion Band - "Lay Me Low"
Gram Parsons - "$1000 Wedding" & "Love Hurts"
Fairport Convention - "A Sailor's Life" and "WHo Knows Where The Time Goes"
Melanie - 1/2 the tracks off of her _Good Book_ album
Lastly, here's something I posted on the Allmusic list a few years ago. It
is more concerned with depressive music than sad music, but I think it
still might be of interest.
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"Music to be depressed to."
I could just ramble off a number of songs and artists that for me induce
or encourage a state of depression, but what I find just as interesting
is to distinguish what exactly a depressive song is. Someone mentioned
that nearly all the tracks on Floyd's _The Wall_ are depressive. Is this
true? I don't think so. They are critical and provocative but not depressing.
What is depression, anyway?
de-pression - low spirits
(from The Oxford English Dictionary)
A song that I consider to be about low spirits is Van Morrison's "T.B.Sheets":
"Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
way in the midnight through,
until the wee small hours
long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord"
There's also a subtle difference between a depressive song and a sad song.
sad - causing unhappy feelings (from TOED)
A consider Tracy Chapman's song "Fast Car" to be sad, but not depressive.
"Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
...
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter..."
The narrator is obviously in a sad and sorry state, but she's still
optimistic, and that makes a big difference.
Of course, another phrase that is similar in meaning is:
the blues - condition of being sad, melancholy (from TOED)
It's only natural that with such a fine line dividing sadness from depression
that 'the blues' would be an obvious source for this kind of song -
"I've been down so long, that it looks like up to me"
A strange thing is that sadness is very close to beauty, which is almost
its opposite:
beauty - combination of qualities that give pleasure to the
senses (from TOED)
Yet, take a song like the Temptation's "Just My Imagination". This is
basically a sad song, but it's also got this beauty that stops it being
depressive. Another example is Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going To Rain".
This sweet/sour contrast of emotions is very dominant in soul ballads,
try some Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Smokie Robinson, etc.
So far I've only mentioned lyrics, but of course the 'feel' of the music
is very important and can expresse a mood or colour the lyrics, inducing
extra meaning in them.
Sometimes what is basically a sad song is paired with a dancable, not at
all sad rhythm to good effect. An example of this is Marvin Gaye's
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine".
And then again there's pessimism:
pessimism - tendency to believe that the worst thing is most likely
to happen (from TOED)
Good examples of this are Tom Waits' song "Dirt In The Ground" and a large
number of Richard Thompson songs (e.g. "The End Of The Rainbow"). But, now
we're getting back towards depressivness again, and a song that I would
certainly call depressive is Nina Simone's "4 Women". This is a strange
case because the performance is so strong that I get a feeling of 'dispite
how bad it all is we'll overcome it in the end", and I find it uplifting.
While on this topic we musn't forget the 'big three'; Leonard Cohn,
Tim Buckley and Ian Curtis - now these people REALLY are (were) depressing!
However, I think my top 3 'down' albums must be:
1) Richard Thompson - _Bright Lights_
2) Cure - _Faith_
3) Van Morrison - _Veedom Fleece_
_Veedon Fleece_ is a weird because the lyrics aren't really depressive or
sad, and the music is just slow and gentle. But something there really
winds me down, and I end up feeling all sorry for myself and going off
to bed not talking to anyone. For me no other music can follow this album.
My top 3 'down' songs (in reverse order) are:
3) Lou Reed - "Caroline Says"
2) Eric Boggle - "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
and (fanfare please)...
1) Joy Division - "The Eternal":
Geoff (aren't sleeping tablets the most painless way?)
"Now that I've realized how it's all gone wrong
Got to find some therapy - this treatment takes too long"
- Ian Curtis (24 Hours)
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: Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think)
: The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - (don't know the artist)
: ...can anyone help me with the artists on these last two?
Paul Martz
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<1994Nov8.1...@emba.uvm.edu>:
| ...can anyone help me with the artists on these last two?
| Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think)
Terry Jacks had the hit in 1974, but versions that include the stanza to
the dying man's wife [which Jacks omitted] come out bitter rather than sad.
He reminds her of her affairs and threatens to haunt her.
| The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - (don't know the artist)
Gordon Lightfoot
Catherine Charron
Very sad. And "I've Been Loving You (A Little Too Long)" always gets to
me, Otis Redding.
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<hmuell...@sni.de> wrote:
> Heinz,
"Tell Laura I Love Her" was done by Ray Peterson, who also covered
"Corrina,
Corrina" (the Joe Turner hit) and how many of know he also recorded
"The Wonder of You" BEFORE Elvis in 1959 (!) ?
"Tell Laura I Love Her" was regularly played on New York's main wave
WABC for years and years, particular on Bruce Morrow's Saturday Nite show.
Tom Blumenthal
<tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu>
>
> >Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
>> 3) Tell Laura I love her (Paul Anka? don't know)
>
Tom Blumenthal
"I've Passed This Way Before".....
Once again, that's Jimmy Ruffin; and I think it was his follow-up record
"What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted". Unre-issued duet with late brother
David
Ruffin, "Your Love Is Worth Waiting For" is also particular fave of mine.
Tom Blumenthal
<tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu>
In article <39r06q$g...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Tom Blumenthal
1) Crying Time - Ray Charles
2) Raindrops - Dee Clark
3) My World Is Empty Without You - Supremes
4) Locking Up My Heart - The Marvelettes
5) Foolish Little Girl - Shirelles, also "Blue Holiday" by Shirelles
6) Ronnie - 4 Seasons
7) It's Over - Roy Orbison (but I think someone mentioned that)
8) It Doesn't Matter Any More - Buddy Holly (did someone mention this?)
9) Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan/Peter, Paul & Mary
10) Cry - Johnny Ray
11) Cry, Cry, Cry - Bobby "Blue" Bland
12) 7 Rooms of Gloom - 4 Tops
13) Strange I Know - Marvellettes (VER-y sad)
14) I'm So Young - The Students
15) The Gal That Got Away - Frank Sinatra
16) I'm A Loser - The Beatles, also "Nowhere Man", "You Won't See Me" and
more
17) I've Been Lonely Too Long - Rascals
18) Cry Me A River - Julie London
19) Ode To Billie Joe (artist slips my mind right now)
20) Groovy Baby - Billy Abbott
Alright, I'll stop (for now at least). Obviously, there's no shortage of
sad
songs in this world.
Tom (of wide tastes)
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Kid Charlemagne
: >
: > Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
: >
Any Yes fan will agree that 'Circus of Heaven' is by far their saddest song...
Although 'Saving My Heart' comes very close.
je...@waikato.ac.nz
Long,long way to go - Phil Collins
Off No Jacket Required.
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I probably like the some sad songs people have never heard of, but here
goes anyway:
(In no particular order)
"Vision of You" - Belinda Carlisle
"Nothing Broken but My Heart" - Celine Dion
"Crying" - Roy Orbison
"Candle in the Wind" - Elton John
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1. The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
2. Let It Be Me - The Everly Bros.
3. Crying in the Rain - The Everly Bros.
4. Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison
5. Crying - Roy Orbison
6. I Need You - THe Beatles
Only a sampling of the songs that are capable of making me breakdown.
NATALIA WENTINK
ne Ivanovich) writes:
>I can only think of a few at the moment, but these always do the trick:
>
>(in no particular order)
>
>1) "Alcoholiday" by Teenage Fanclub
>2) "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison
>3) "Thirteen" by Big Star
>4) "Glass of Drown" by In Perfect Bedlam
>5) "Ever Since I Was Alone" by the Posies
>6) "Look Up" by Chris Bell
>7) "Has He Got A Friend For Me?" by Maria McKee
>8) "Another Time Another Place" by U2
>9) "Nightime" (sic) by Big Star
>10) "Twilight" by U2
>11) "This One's Taken" by the Posies
>12) that "Walk Right Back" song (is that the title?) by the Everly
> Brothers
>13) "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" by the Beach Boys
>
>There are probably more I'll think of, but those are the ones that come to
>mind most quickly. Some of them can make me happy at different times, too.
>I guess some of these are odd choices, but then I've always been overly
>sensitive. :-)
>
>--Elizabeth
I'd have to add "The Flame" by Cheap Trick--bittersweet
>
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NATALIA WENTINK
s:
>
> I was interested to read the lists of sad songs, but I must say that
>I don't consider some of the choices to be particularly sad, for example:
>
>> There Goes My Baby - Drifters (1959)
> (Wsn't this a dance hit!)
>> The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
> (If you think this folk song is sad then how about Steeleye Span's
> "Boys Of Bedlam" or "When I Was On Horseback"?)
>> American Pie - Don McLean.
>> SO Sad.
> (Oh come on! Be serious - this isn't sad, and yes I know the word 'dies'
> appears in the chorus! Surely "Empty Chairs" or "Crossroads" is sadder)
>> Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio
> (What, this sing-along-camp-fire chesnut?)
> I would have agreed with you, but this song I find uplifting)
>
>And then some of the songs listed were twee sugar-sweet pop songs that
>just can't be taken seriously:
>
>> Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
>> Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
>> Yesterday - The Beatles
> (A well written song, but too obvious & commercial)
>> Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
> (I didn't realise that some people actually get taken in by such corny
> sentiments)
Saddest songs? How about "If You Leave ME Now" by Chicago--its haunting
Margaret R Thomas
When I first heard this song, the last verse blew me away!!!...Nonetheless,
it has a great sound and I wish the radio would play it once in a while!!
**sigh!**
John Flinchbaugh
'Why Can't I Fall in Love?'--Ivan Neville
Both from 'Pump Up the Volume' sndtrk.
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Tell me There's a Heaven - Chris Rea
I'm sure this song's about a victim of child abuse. It's hard work to
listen to because it really is so depressing, but it's such a
beautiful song at the same time.
Dave
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: The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
: I like them.
: 1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
: 2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
: 3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
: Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
Definitely "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men back when it was first
released (very dramatic) and nowadays when I pop in the CD once and a
while, it gets pretty sad and reminiscient...
Tom Blumenthal
J. Rinehart) wrote:
> In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk> s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) writes:
>
> > Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
>>
> Crying - originally done by Roy Orbison, KD Lang's version of this
> song (on a tribute show to Roy, on Showtime) had me crying by the time
> she finished.
>>
> Mark
Excellent sad song example Mark. I also like Don MacLean's version,
though not quite as much. Orbison, and certain other singers like Ray
Charles almost
seemed to have sad songs as their specialty. Also, by Orbison "It's Over".
Downright Doomy.
rta...@pica.army.mil
Charlemagne) wrote:
> : In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk>, s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) wrote:
> : >
> : > Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
> : >
Thinking about sad songs brings to mind one of the great sad-song singers
of all time, Johney Ray. "Little white cloud, "Cry" (" ... when your
sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye ....") ... he had a bunch of them,
back in the 50's, I think ....(not to date myself) ...
--- RBT ----
rta...@pica.army.mil
> : In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk>, s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) wrote:
> : >
> : > Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
> : >
..... Thinking about "saddest songs" reminds me of that famous
"saddest-songs singer" Johney Ray from back in the 50's, or there abouts.
I remember such songs as "Little White Cloud (that sat right down nd
cried)" and "Cry" (when your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye ...).
Another one that really isn't "sad" becase the ending turns out good and
should be "happy" but sure doesn't sound it is "Endless Sleep".
- - - RBT - - -
John Winder Taber
>From: tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu (Tom Blumenthal)
>Subject: Re: Saddest songs
>Date: 9 Nov 1994 22:48:07 GMT
>Thought a second installment of sad songs was worth mentioning:
>1) Crying Time - Ray Charles
>2) Raindrops - Dee Clark
>3) My World Is Empty Without You - Supremes
>4) Locking Up My Heart - The Marvelettes
>5) Foolish Little Girl - Shirelles, also "Blue Holiday" by Shirelles
>6) Ronnie - 4 Seasons
>7) It's Over - Roy Orbison (but I think someone mentioned that)
>8) It Doesn't Matter Any More - Buddy Holly (did someone mention this?)
>9) Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan/Peter, Paul & Mary
>10) Cry - Johnny Ray
>11) Cry, Cry, Cry - Bobby "Blue" Bland
>12) 7 Rooms of Gloom - 4 Tops
>13) Strange I Know - Marvellettes (VER-y sad)
>14) I'm So Young - The Students
>15) The Gal That Got Away - Frank Sinatra
>16) I'm A Loser - The Beatles, also "Nowhere Man", "You Won't See Me" and
>more
>17) I've Been Lonely Too Long - Rascals
>18) Cry Me A River - Julie London
>19) Ode To Billie Joe (artist slips my mind right now)
>20) Groovy Baby - Billy Abbott
DIARY, by Bread
Fire and Rain, James Taylor
Goodbye to Love and Hurting Each Other, Carpenters
lots of others that someone else posted
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Tony Redman
Shangri-Las. That's the only "teen tragedy" song I've heard that ever
really had any effect on me.
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>nag...@moose.uvm.edu (Neil W. Aguiar) asked in
><1994Nov8.1...@emba.uvm.edu>:
>
>| ...can anyone help me with the artists on these last two?
>
>| Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think)
>
>Terry Jacks had the hit in 1974, but versions that include the stanza to
>the dying man's wife [which Jacks omitted] come out bitter rather than sad.
>He reminds her of her affairs and threatens to haunt her.
Originally written (and sung) by Jacques Brel. The title in the original French,
as I recall was Le Moribund.
-BMS
pcom...@altair.selu.edu
Theme From "Summer of '42" - Peter Nero
Theme From "Love Story" - Frances Lai
Theme From "A Man & A Woman" - Frances Lai
Gal From Ipanema - Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
Cycles - Frank Sinatra
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
Stay - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Through The Eyes of Love - Melissa Manchester
Long, Long Time - Linda Ronstadt
Last Waltz With You - Englebert Humperdinck
This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (something in the instruments, I guess)
The Look of Love - Bert Bacharach; Dusty Springfield; Brasil '66
Lost In Love - Air Supply
Blowing Kisses In The Wind - Paula Abdul
The Year of the Cat - Al Stewart (again, the instruments leave this effect)
Could It Be Magic? - Barry Manilow (sad in a beautiful sense)
We'll Sing in the Sunshine - Gayle Garnett
Times of Your Life - Paul Anka
Sentimental Lady - Bob Welch
Makes you realize how many there really are, doesn't it?
Patrick Lonergan
PCOM...@vega.selu.edu
Michael Scott Warner
You just reminded me -- there are a couple on "Face Value" --
"If Leaving Me is Easy" and something else....in fact I think that
whole album is (gloriously) depressing!
Plus, I need to put in a vote for Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work",
though perhaps only in the context of the movie "She's Having a baby" --
but the one I sent to the vote collector is:
"I Can't Make You Love me" - Bonnie Raitt
Mike
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Georgia Institute of Technology
bob...@delphi.com
"A COTTAGE FOR SALE" with lyric by Larry Conley and music by Willard Robison:
Our little dream castle with ev'ry dream gone,
is lonely and silent, the shades are all drawn,
and my heart is heavy as I gaze upon
A Cottage For Sale
The lawn we were proud of is waving in hay
our beautiful garden has withered away,
where you planted roses the weeds seem to say
"A Cottage For Sale"
From ev'ry single window, I see your face,
but when I reach that window, there's empty space.
The key's in the mailbox the same as before,
but no one is waiting for me anymore,
the end of our story is told on the door
A Cottage For Sale
Although it's been recorded some 100 times you might try listening to
versions by the following artists:
Frank Sinatra on his "No One Cares" album
Tony Bennett on his "Long Ago And Far Away" album
Natalie Cole on her "Unforgettable" single
Nat Cole on his "Just One Of Those Things" album
Billy Eckstine on his "Mr. B And The Band" album
Mel Torme on his "Mel Torme And Friends" album
Chuck Berry in his movie "Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll"
Bob Lang
Alex Fung
In a previous article, gt4...@cad.gatech.edu (Michael Scott Warner) says:
>Plus, I need to put in a vote for Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work",
>though perhaps only in the context of the movie "She's Having a baby" --
>
>but the one I sent to the vote collector is:
>
>"I Can't Make You Love me" - Bonnie Raitt
>
That's a good one. Though I was tempted to vote for Paula Abdul's
"Rush Rush", just because it's horribly sad to think that some record
executive thought that this might be a beautiful, quality ballad,
the one I sent to the vote collector was Elton John's blissfully
mournful "The Last Song".
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"Be afraid. Be very afraid." - Geena Davis, _The Fly_ (1986)
(and later Christina Ricci, _Addams Family Values_)
John Winder Taber
>DIARY, by Bread
>Fire and Rain, James Taylor
>Goodbye to Love and Hurting Each Other, Carpenters
>lots of others that someone else posted
And also Journey - "I'll Be Alright Without You" and Kansas - "All I Wanted"
both from 1987, both from the respective group's last efforts.
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on Christmas Eve. Can't quite remember the name, I'm getting
a lump in my throat just thinking about it.
"so we went to have a have a drink or two
couldn't find an open bar,
bought a six-pack at the liquor store
and we drank it in her car..."
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"I think, you know, there are a lot of people in country music who have
this kind of hair, uhh... a lot of 'em just wear hats..." -- Lyle Lovett
Craig Hoyt
Saddest songs:
1. The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics
2. For the Good Times by Kris Kristofferson
3. Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkle
Craig
Tom Blumenthal
"There's Goes My Baby", first record by re-constituted Drifters with a
young Ben E. King as lead singer, sure sounds sad to me. Even the cellos
and
other strings seem to be sobbing. Plus there are too many tempo changes
(speed up a little, slow down here, etc.) for this to be a very danceable
record. Might still be my favorite Drifters record on some days. Words:
"....wanna know why she left me, why did she leave me, so all alone, so all
alone..."
Tom B.
<tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu>
In article <39sdl0$1q...@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU>, na...@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (NATALIA
Tom Blumenthal
>> Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
>
> Here comes the fireworks folks, the Grand Finale, my last big list of (mostly)
unmentioneds. You want sad? You want depressing? OH! Do we have sad for
you?
OH! Do we have sad!
Remember how sad:
1) She Cried - Jay & The Americans
2) Love Is A Hurtin' Thing - Lou Rawls (maybe my all-time favorite sad
song)
3) I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye, in particular
4) Playboy, Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down - Ann Peebles
5) By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Glenn Campbell
6) Hurts So Bad - Little Anthony & The Imperials
7) Oh! How It Hurts - Barbara Mason
8) Have You Heard? - Joni James 1953 (later by The Duprees)
9) One More Heartache - Marvin Gaye
10) Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams/Joni James
11) The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - Walker Brothers
12) Artificial Flowers - Bobby Darin
(note: I get a guilty pleasure from enjoying the lively music of this
uptempo swing record in which an orphaned child freezes to death in
abject
poverty. But it sold well folks)
13) Sally Go Round The Roses - Jaynettes
14) Wait! Stop The Wedding! - Etta James
15) You Cheated, You Lied - The Shields
16) Down So Low - Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth 1968
(what's got her so down so low?: "..I just can't find another man to
take
your place..."
17) Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan
18) Anyone Who Had A Heart - Dionne Warwick
19) Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
20) It's Too Late - Carole King
21) Pain In My Heart - Otis Redding
22) Blue On Blue - Bobby Vinton
23) Tragedy - Thomas Wayne, also The Fleetwoods
24) Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
25) Cottage For Sale - Little Willie John, also Frank Sinatra
26) Heart Like A Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
27) The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King (crossover hit)
28) Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things - Martha & The Vandellas
Q: Are you depressed yet?
29) Whispers - Jackie Wilson
30) I Know - Barbara George
31) Urge For Going - Joni Mitchell (Asylum single, 1971)
32) Rainy Night In Georgia - Brook Benton
33) Caroline No - The Beachboys
34) Solitary Man - Neil Diamond
35) What's So Good About Goodbye? - Smokey & The Miracles
36) Purple Raindrops - Stevie Wonder
37) This Broken Heart - The Sonics (the R&B vocal group from Newark)
38) Lost Love - Superiors
39) I'm So Close To Cathy - Mike Clifford
40) No Reply - The Beatles, also I'll Be Back
Also, had they not been mentioned already, "Crying" By Roy Orbison (or Don
Maclean),"Worst That Could Happen" by The Brooklyn Bridge would absolutely
by on my lists.
Cheer up,
Tom Blumenthal
<tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu>
David Bassin
John Flinchbaugh
I was going to add this one myself, but then I would have to consider
almost every Morrissey an Smiths song I've heard. :) or rather :(
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How could you not mention Little Willie John (of 50's R&B fame) 's
version,
or don't you know it? Oozes sadness.
Tom Blumenthal
<tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu>
In article <ZGx3coZ...@delphi.com>, bob...@delphi.com wrote:
> If you are looking for a very sad song, try listening to the 1930 standard
> "A COTTAGE FOR SALE" with lyric by Larry Conley and music by Willard Robison:
>
Tom Blumenthal
despair to me. But S&G had there share of introspective sad songs, some I
would agree
as being quite down; e.g.: "I Am A Rock", "Hazy Shade Of Winter", "Dangling
Conversation" (ooh, that one's sad), "Sounds of Silence", of course, and
what
would be my particular S&G sad nominee had I thought of it before: "Fakin'
It".
Pathos.
Tom
<tblu...@cc.swarthmore.edu>
In article <Cz3vL...@boi.hp.com>, ch...@boi.hp.com (Craig Hoyt) wrote:
>
> Saddest songs:
Fox Guy A III
: In article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk> s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong) writes:
: > Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
: One of my favorite songs, which also sends shivers up and down my
: spine and makes me teary eyed every time is Once There Was, by Tim
: Buckley. It's the song that ends the movie Coming Home. Bruce Dern
: gets naked on the beach, leaves his wedding ring on the lifeguard
: stand, and runs into the water, presumably to commit suicide, after
: having returned from Viet Nam a very dis-illusioned Captain in the
: Marine Corps in 1968 or so.
: Crying - originally done by Roy Orbison, KD Lang's version of this
Robert W. Northcott
Steve Ramirez~ <sram...@fission.ch.intel.com> wrote:
>Dan Fogelberg does one about running into an old girlfriend
>on Christmas Eve. Can't quite remember the name, I'm getting
>a lump in my throat just thinking about it.
>
>"so we went to have a have a drink or two
> couldn't find an open bar,
> bought a six-pack at the liquor store
> and we drank it in her car..."
>
Yes I agree Steve, this is a great song. I love to hear it on the radio
around Christmastime. It's one of those "stop dead in your tracks" songs
for me. I think the lyric, the melody, the delivery, the arrangememt, it
all falls into place. It's like a little movie; I can see it all in my
head. The little touches like when she spills her purse, not being able
to find an open bar, those took a lot of care. And when the sax comes in
at the end, playing "Auld Lang Syne" ( the title, by the way, is "Another
Auld Lang Syne" I believe) and he says "the snow turned into rain..." as
the last line...it's perfect. What a great song.
Sorry for gushing. Some songs make me do that.
Kaye - George
Laura Bashlor
they would come and borrow the "Blue Three". These were Hi-Fi albums
that were perfect when you were in the dumps:
Trouble Is A Man - Judy Holiday
Am I Blue - Betty Maddigan
Only the Lonely - Frank Sinatra
These aren't Rock and Roll Oldies but they syure are sad.
Another I can think of is NEVER to be played at a mixer for divorced
Parents Without Partners...Once More For the Good Times.
David Watson
I forgot to mention the two most obvious ones by one of the most obvious
groups--"How Soon is Now?" and "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by
the Smiths. Both lyrics are crystal-clear examples of the feelings that
go through shy and lonely people people, day after day--defiance of
well-meaning advice, fear, self-pity, hatred, alienation, anxiety,
dispossession, hopelessness and dramatic angst. The music also
compliments the lyrics perfectly, which is why they have both lasted this
long. However, I disagree that everything that ol' Mozzer has written
turns into a razor blade to the wrists--"The Queen is Dead" and "Vicar in
a Tutu" (to name but a couple) both have some pretty funny lines in it.
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Keith Spurgeon
few that come to mind. The numbers _do not_ indicate sadness order.
1) The Band Playes Waltzing Matilda (the Pogues, among others, cover
this Eric Bogle (Aussie) song)
2) Flow, my tears by John Dowland
3) Lucky Guy by Rickie Lee Jones
4) Cold, Cold Heart by Hank Williams (Sr., if you didn't know)
5) One of those killers from John Prine's first LP Hello In There, Sam
Stone, Donald and Lydia
6) George Butterworth's setting of "The Lads In Their Hundreds" by A.E.
Houseman
Hey, I'm depressed a lot, so I've got a million of them. But I'll stop here.
John Cronin
(Neil W. Aguiar) writes:
> From article <39ng4j$2j...@ctsc.hkbc.hk>, by s11...@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM
Wong):
> > The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
> > I like them.
> >
> > 1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
> > 2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
> > 3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
> >
> > Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
>
>
> Wildfire - MICHAEL MURPHEY
> Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think) You are correct SIR!
> The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - (don't know the artist) Gordon
Lightfoot
>
> ....can anyone help me with the artists on these last two?
Sean Vostinar
BEK-=>SO Sad.
How is that sad? Just because it's about them crashing in the Air Plane?
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BY: gt4543b#cad.gatech.edu (Michael Scott Warner) #3424 @506
>>Long,long way to go - Phil Collins
>>
>>Off No Jacket Required.
>
>You just reminded me -- there are a couple on "Face Value" --
>"If Leaving Me is Easy" and something else....in fact I think that
>whole album is (gloriously) depressing!
Yeah that is a great album for making you depressed. When I lost a love, I put
that album on and cried after listening to "If Leaving Me Is Easy" since it was
dead on.
Phil Collins wrote that album after he had divorced his 1st wife and all the
saddness in him definitely came thru on the album.
Over the years his albums have gotten more "happy" feeling.
<< |<ing #erx+ >>
mtu...@acpub.duke.edu
>1) The Band Playes Waltzing Matilda (the Pogues, among others, cover
>this Eric Bogle (Aussie) song)
>2) Flow, my tears by John Dowland
>3) Lucky Guy by Rickie Lee Jones
>4) Cold, Cold Heart by Hank Williams (Sr., if you didn't know)
>5) One of those killers from John Prine's first LP Hello In There, Sam
>Stone, Donald and Lydia
>6) George Butterworth's setting of "The Lads In Their Hundreds" by A.E.
>Houseman
Good choices! Prine especially.
It's odd that no one's mentioned the V. U. in this thread, e.g.:
Candy Says
Pale Blue Eyes
Stefanie Says
"Heroin" ( I prefer the _1969 Live_ version) is perhaps much too high-energy
to fit in well, but it _is_ practically a suicide note from a doomed junkie...
Elvis Costello's "I want you", from _Blood and Chocolate_ (yes, I know, it's
not old enough) is also a wonderfully tormented downer...
regards, mdt
Anton Sherwood
: . . . . But S&G had there share of introspective sad songs, some I
: would agree as being quite down; e.g.: "I Am A Rock", "Hazy Shade Of
: Winter", "Dangling Conversation" (ooh, that one's sad), "Sounds of
: Silence", of course, and what would be my particular S&G sad nominee
: had I thought of it before: "Fakin' It". Pathos.
Don't forget "Richard Cory" and "A Most Peculiar Man". And how about
"The Boxer"?
Some of my sad song nominees:
Harry Chapin: Sniper
Janis Ian: The Man You Are In Me
Heart (cover): Without You
Dr Hook: Sylvia's Mother
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James A. Wheatley
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
For the rock & roll fans:
Caroline No - The Beach Boys (from "Pet Sounds")
For the old soul music fans:
The Love We Had - The Dells
Letter To Myself - The Chi-Lites
You Are Everything - The Stylistics
Love Is a Hurtin' Thing - Lou Rawls
Jim Wheatley
Auburn University, Alabama
whea...@eng.auburn.edu
Leanne McInnes
>Don't forget "Richard Cory" and "A Most Peculiar Man". And how about
>"The Boxer"?
Silent Night/6 O'Clock news always gets me.
> Dr Hook: Sylvia's Mother
I was going to mention this, but was beaten to it.
Also, No Man's Land - Eric Bogle
The Photograph - Rick Springfield
Born Out of Time - Rick Springfield
One Tin Soldier -
and Song For the Asking - Simon and Garfunkle
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: The following songs come to my mind as being sad (lyrics wise) and
: I like them.
: 1. Whoever finds this, I love you (Mac Davies)
: 2. Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O Sullivan)
: 3. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
: Can you name your favourite sad songs ?
: --
Here's another vote for Ebony Eyes (Everly Bros.,wrtn by J.D. Loudermilk)
Also:
Brown Eyes (Everly Bros., wrtn by Phil Everly)
I Wish It Would Rain (wrtn & recorded by Nanci Griffith)
M. Hampton, Public Access, Malden, Mass., USA
I've got a headache
this depressed the hell out of me.
Ken
Emily Branson
I, too, vote for "Alone Again (Naturally)"--very cathartic.
I probably played it a lot after a broken relationship.
Emily
--
"And when the sun goes low and you're home all
alone, think of me and try not to laugh."
from "You Wear it Well" by Rod Stewart
Mark Brewster
Ahh, this could be fun...
My thoughts on the saddest songs (if not lyrically, musically)
1. Level 42 - "It's Over" (the perfect breakup song)
2. Arcadia - "Missing" (Simon LeBon at his best)
3. Japan - "All Tomorrow's Parties" (a cover of Velvet Underground)
4. UZEB - "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (a cover of Charles Mingus' classic)
5. Robbie Robertson - "Fallen Angel"
6. Prince - "The Beautiful Ones"
7. U2 - "Surrender"
8. Single Gun Theory - "My Estranged Wife"
9. The Deal - "Long Way Down"
10. Nine Inch Nails - "Something I Can Never Have"
<sniff>
Mark B.
Robert Larson
>>Dan Fogelberg does one about running into an old girlfriend
>>on Christmas Eve. Can't quite remember the name, I'm getting
>>a lump in my throat just thinking about it.
>>"so we went to have a have a drink or two
>> couldn't find an open bar,
>> bought a six-pack at the liquor store
>> and we drank it in her car..."
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Sean Courtney
GW> > SO Sad.
GW> (Oh come on! Be serious - this isn't sad, and yes I know the word
GW> 'dies' appears in the chorus! Surely "Empty Chairs" or "Crossroads" is
GW> sadder)
Not if you were a die-hard Buddy Holly fan....
GW> > "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" by the Beach Boys
GW> (If you had named almost any other track of the _Pet Sounds_ album
GW> then I would have agreed with you, but this song I find uplifting)
I agree with you there. Although that song has been shoved down my throat
by the radio most of my life [and you'd think I'd be sick of it], there are
often nights when I just wanna put _Pet Sounds_ in my CD player and just
sorta "drift away" and this song always brings an involuntary smile to my
face...probably because the lyrics describe my biggest dreams???
ANyway...not ALL the songs on _Pet Sounds_ are sad. Actually, most of 'em
are pretty...well...might I say philosophical....
GW> > Seasons In The Sun - TERRY JACKS (i think)
There are so many versions of this song, so no matter WHOM you name, you'd
probably be RIGHT!
GW> > Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
GW> > Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - Shangri-Las
GW> ("Past, Present & Future" and "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" are also
GW> not bad '...and that's called sad'.)
both of which were recorded & released by The Beach Boys, might i add...
GW> Marvin Gaye - "Abraham, Martin & John"
Hmmm...I've always thought Dion DiMucci did this one...
Internet: stucou...@vax.colsf.edu
... Love to feel those healin' hands of Anna Lee--the healer!
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Claude Panneton
: No one's mentioned what has got to be ultimate sad/depressive song :
: Tell me There's a Heaven - Chris Rea
: I'm sure this song's about a victim of child abuse. It's hard work to
: listen to because it really is so depressing, but it's such a
: beautiful song at the same time.
: Dave
: --
Love will come to you....by the Indigo Girls..
Claude.
M. K. Houghton
Try "For You" by Tracy Chapman ..
"The Wing and The Wheel" or "Gulf Coast Highway" from Nanci Griffith's albums
"Rx for the blues" by Mike Bloomfield
"Love don't live here anymore" Rose Royce or the Jimmy Nail version.
"The way we make a broken heart" by John Hiatt - sung by Ry Cooder on "Borderline"
"Monopoly" sung by Shawn Colvin (I think she wrote it)
"Tip of my tongue" -John Hiatt
"Don't let me be lonely tonight" James Taylor
and last - "Streets of Philadelphia" by Mr S. ..
If anyone else has any suggestions, mail me... I am in that sort of mood ..
Mike Houghton
University of Reading
England
Karen Presley
Mark J. Rinehart
(I believe the title is) Empty Garden by Elton John.
Mark
Robert W. Northcott
Keith Spurgeon <spur...@is2.nyu.edu> wrote:
>1) The Band Playes Waltzing Matilda (the Pogues, among others, cover
>this Eric Bogle (Aussie) song)
Oh man you got that right. Actually a radio station here did a
"saddest songs" contest a few years back and this song was either #1 or
#2, somewhere in there. Talk about sad.
Rhonda McAllister
If not, ...I haven't seen these mentioned yet:
Cyndi Lauper: My First Night Without You (on: A Night to Remember)
Billy Joel: And So It Goes (on: Stormfront -- anyone ever see this on
an available video of his?? ... I've only caught pieces of it on VH-1
when it first came out, ~ 1988?)
John Waite: Missing You
Jackson Browne: In the Shape of a Heart (on: Lives in the Balance)
very cry-able, and very worthy!
--Rhonda
Sam Pretzlaff
"Sad Song" from Lou Reed's "Berlin".
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Go Tribe!
Sam
Marc Dashevsky
Yes!!! Particularly the live, slow version recorded in the '60s in L.A.
Kerry Nicholson
I've always found the following quite good in times of despair:
'Waiting in vain' Bob Marley
'Barefoot in the head' A man called Adam
'Under the bridge' Red hot chilli peppers
'Wish you were here" Pink Floyd
Actually most of Pink Floyd's stuff is good when in a dark mood!
Also I find 'The Birdy song' makes me cry every time I hear it but that's
because it's just crap!
Hey, maybe some suggestions for really crap recolds could be fun?
Kerry
William McBrine
: "Love don't live here anymore" Rose Royce or the Jimmy Nail version.
(Also covered by Madonna on _Like a Virgin_.)
--
William McBrine
wmcb...@clark.net
Geoff Walters
>> this Eric Bogle (Aussie) song)
> Oh man you got that right.
If you like this track then try listening to June Tabor's version of Eric
Bogle's "No Mans Land/Flowers Of The Forest" - it's in the same league.
(BTW, June also does a version of "TBPWM" which I consider to be better than
the Pogues' version).
And while we're mentioning the Pogues, could someone send me a Pogues
discography, if such a beast exists?
Cheers,
Geoff
Jennifer Beidas
What about Stan Rogers' "First Christmas Away From Home"?
It's mostly about old people dying alone and neglected in nursing homes at
Christmas.
I hear that his band regularly refused to play it, complaining, "It's just
such a downer".
HD.
Holly Odell
On 9 Nov 1994, Peter Jones wrote:
> To me, the saddest song is James Taylor's "Fire and Rain".
>
> Peter Jones
>
>
Leanne McInnes
Catch the Wind - Donovan
Two Out of Three Aint Bad - Meatloaf
My Darkest Blues - Stephen Duffy
Bruce Rodean
I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles
Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
Only A Fool - Karla Bonoff
Someone Like You - Van Morrison
Open Arms - Journey
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Her Town Too - James Taylor
and my #1 sad song is:
Goodbye My Friend - Linda Ronstadt
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Inderpreet Singh
Rather sad.
Terry Thero
: I agree, "Fire and Rain" is one of the saddest songs.
:
Another sad song is:
'Cruel War' - Peter, Paul and Mary
So sue me, I'm a folk song freak :-)
CU
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Margaret R Thomas
like to mention, "Sunday Morning Coming Down"...this I believe was written
by Kris Kristofferson (sp?) and I do believe he recorded it, but I'm refer-
ring to Mark Lindsey"s rendition on his "Arizona" album...a really "mooshy"
album...I LOVE it!!!
Margaret
Andrew Rogers
> I, too, vote for "Alone Again (Naturally)"--very cathartic.
>I probably played it a lot after a broken relationship.
I played Gene Pitney's "I'm Gonna Be Strong" incessantly after my breakup
with (sigh) Faun.
If anyone wants the words/chords to either, get back to me...
Andrew
old fart at play
Kristine Thompson
>Ahh, this could be fun...
>My thoughts on the saddest songs (if not lyrically, musically)
>1. Level 42 - "It's Over" (the perfect breakup song)
Oh, heck yeah...I thought it was "Leaving Me Now"....but "It's Over"
just leaves you in tears....
Kris:)