Sad Songs

[orangejello]

Does anybody have a sad song they like? Either because it makes you cry or brings you comfort?
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[tdirt]

"The Dance " Garth Brooks sad tone but happy if you listen !

[RehabRhino]

For obvious reasons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

[Le Type Français]

My all-time favorite song:

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It's bittersweet to me; I love that my pain can be written so well into lyrics and sung so beautifully to melancholy music.

[tmorris381]

alicia keys "like you'll never see me again". lived this song last summer.

[Obieone]

RR and OJ nailed it totally for me ......

....and I don't know why this song makes me cry .. I think its because it reminds me a: how much I miss John Lennon and b: how in spite of everyone else's feelings about Yoko he just loved her so much ....

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Obieone

[lynnifer]

November Rain by Guns N Roses

- first love, post break-up song ..

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Empty Garden by Elton John

- I know it's about Lennon, but it makes me think of my brother John and how he wanted the farm to himself all these years and now how he lives there alone with no contact with anyone

[betheny]

Like so many of the songs that stuck, the ones that really touched me, this is from the early 70's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64_303eHaTM

Fire and Rain, by my sweet baby James Taylor.

Sigh. Jesus I feel old sometimes. This one has been making me cry for 35 YEARS!

And this one. maybe less well known, from the same era, by Sir Elton. I'm sure the lyrics are by Bernie Taupin, though, and boy are they powerful.

Talking Old Soldiers

http://www.last.fm/music/Elton+John/+videos/+1-tPqhiAiRMHQ

[christopher]

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[betheny]

Wow, I forget how gorgeous Mick was before Time laid his destructive paws on him!

[NoDecafPlz]

Jeff Buckley RIP


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavSOS3xK7k&feature=related

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Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead,[1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover versions at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, and he gradually focused more on his own material. After much interest from record labels he signed with Columbia and, after recruiting a band, recorded his debut studio album, Grace.

Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1997, he stopped touring and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to experiment with new material for a second album. During his time there, he recorded many four-track demos and completed his third recording session for his new album with his band, with Tom Verlaine as producer. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during an evening swim in the Wolf River. His body was found on June 4, 1997.[2]

[addiesue]

I wonder if it was the crazy place by the Wolf River I was not allowed to go to when I was in high school? I grew up near Memphis. Of course I listened to my parents and never went there.

[cypresss]

Too Much Love Will Kill You

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[bcsimpsons]

Ok, so here is my contribuation...

"You'll Never Walk Alone"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffBIOTP5vtg

"Time to Say Goodbye"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0ccQVy1og&feature=related

There are others, I am going to look for links.......

Becky,
Chicago

[rdf]

Sarah McLaughlin's In the Arms of an Angel

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I did it my way by Elvis (Sinatra song OJ)

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And a sad happy song, Hey Jude

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You know what's cool? Watching the sun touching and sinking below the mountain or ocean horizon as you listen to In the Arms of an Angel, Tears in Heaven, and finish with Let it Be on an mp3 player.

Gives my soul peace, and sustains me for another day with hope for a better tomorrow.

But many songs can do that, not just these three.

[Timaru]

Pretty much sums up the world today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2rDp6FnbP0

[bcsimpsons]

OK, two more...........

"If I had only known" Reba McEntire
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ejkX8EDhUA&feature=related

"Anyway", Martina McBride
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SE3S7VcyOPU


Becky,
Chicago

[betheny]

What a great video, Timaru. Ya gotta love that orchestra reveal!

[Obieone]

Sigh. Jesus I feel old sometimes. This one has been making me cry for 35 YEARS!

So that would make you :thinking: .... ummm er ..... what .... 18 now ?????? http://bestsmileys.com/cool/1.gif http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/musik/music-smiley-005.gif ... me too :D !!

...... my Juliebug danced to In the Arms of an Angel .... its one of my most precious memories .... I'm a basket case every time I watch the home video !

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Okay okay .... I'm a Beatles kinda gal :mega: ! What a great thread ...... I love these music threads .....

Obie

[RehabRhino]

So that would make you :thinking: .... ummm er ..... what .... 18 now ?????? http://bestsmileys.com/cool/1.gif http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/musik/music-smiley-005.gif ... me too :D !!

...... my Juliebug danced to In the Arms of an Angel .... its one of my most precious memories .... I'm a basket case every time I watch the home video !

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Okay okay .... I'm a Beatles kinda gal :mega: !

Obie

Obie

The building in the opening seconds of that Beatles video is the Royal Liver Building on Liverpool waterfront. I spend about one day a fortnight working in there!

[Obieone]

Obie

The building in the opening seconds of that Beatles video is the Royal Liver Building on Liverpool waterfront. I spend about one day a fortnight working in there!

Coolio :mega: ....... I think Bethy and I should come over for a personal type tour .... you know ... just to prove you're not lyin' :D !

Obieone

[Timaru]

The building in the opening seconds of that Beatles video is the Royal Liver Building on Liverpool waterfront. I spend about one day a fortnight working in there!

It's a wonder some thieving Scouser hasn't nicked your wheels!



Edit - to apologize for stereotyping Liverpudlians.

[rdf]

It's a wonder no thieving Scouser has nicked your wheels!What does does that translate to in American Timaru? :D ;)

[Timaru]

What does does that translate to in American Timaru? :D ;)

I refer the Honorable Gentleman to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouser

[rdf]

I refer the Honorable Gentleman to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScouserThanks Timaru. So the Beatles were a bunch of Scousers, who would have known!

[doingtimeonmyass]

I find this Stone's song pretty sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8iLnqIeD4

A "nice" song about death.
"Alexandra Leaving", Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZjGUSVdrZ8

There are a lot of sad songs I like that hold some kind of meaning to me. I like a lot of those already mentioned.

[JenJen]

Great thread OJ! I've been contemplating mortality recently. Not suicide, just mortality. RR, B you guys nailed it for me. Obi, it was especially sad to watch the vid with both John and George gone. Made it even more poignant.

This one has always done it for me. I chose a youtube clip from Canada just for you ;) plus the composer, Leonard Cohen is "yours" too. Although I think he should write them and leave the singing to others lol. There are like 15 verses to this song and I wish kd would have added some of them to her version but you gotta love the way she belts it out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE

My first break up song http://youtube.com/watch?v=-21QK9F1NWc although they're all so stoned I don't know how they got through it.

As far as songs that make me cry... anything I danced to (or made love to) pre-injury especially the song David and I were going dance to at our wedding. :(

[doingtimeonmyass]

JenJen, I was trying to fix my post just before you replied. Funny how we both had a Leonard Cohen and Rolling Stones song.

[JenJen]

JenJen, I was trying to fix my post just before you replied. Funny how we both had a Leonard Cohen and Rolling Stones song.

I think your op posted while I was off typing and finding my links. I didn't see it before I started. Good choices though. Notice that LC's voice is covered over. He's not a great singer (InMyHumbleUselessAmericanOpinion) LOL too monotone to be enjoyable unsupported.

[betheny]

Coolio :mega: ....... I think Bethy and I should come over for a personal type tour .... you know ... just to prove you're not lyin' :D !

Obieone


Oh, we should. I once spent several very happy days in Liverpool. It's a real city, you know, a bit on the gritty side but with culture to spare. I saw Shirley Valentine there, which was perfect as Miss V. was a Scouser. Was in the bar of the Adelphi when my stepbro left me alone with a team of rugby players that were convinced I was a hooker and he was my pimp! Went by myself to the Labor museum, gave a pound coin to an old woman beggar that bit it. Straight out of Dickens, that was!

I really enjoyed Liverpool. I always crank up Ferry Me Across the Mersey now!! LOL

I'm dying to go back to England, have the $$ saved and everything. I need a good chairpusher...

[doingtimeonmyass]

Foolish Old brought the song to my attention in another thread a while back. I think it's excellent.

Keep Me In Your Heart- A Warren Zevon Tribute
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NQjLZvw44

[JenJen]

another nice one! I love how music can help me explore and clarify my thoughts and moods. Here's one I like a lot too. It gives me strength to do it all again tomorrow.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xWYRfsjBNQk

[doingtimeonmyass]

I'm not a big country fan, but I do like that song. :thumbsup:

[Them Bones]

"The Green Fields of France" by Dropkick Murphys

"Boston and St. Johns" by Great Big Sea

There are a couple of verses in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot that have gotten me misty-eyed.

I'm not too proud to admit "Black Muddy River" by The Grateful Dead has made me absolutely bawl in the past.

[anty]

Josh Groban You raise me up.

Look at next post.

[Mr Wonderful]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBga34W57As&feature=email

[HeathQuad]

Christmas Shoes -- reminds me of my mother, she passed away at 42 years old of cancer
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Tiny fingers tiny toes -- reminds me of a little one taken too early in life
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[Obieone]

This one has always done it for me. I chose a youtube clip from Canada just for you ;) plus the composer, Leonard Cohen is "yours" too. Although I think he should write them and leave the singing to others lol.
Merci Jen ..... I couldn't agree more about Leonard's singing ability but you know he's acquired a kind of cult following up here in spite of it ... I liken it to Bob Dylan's singing style ........ but as song writers .... in a class of their own :mega: ....... and as far as K.D.Lang goes .... a true chanteuse ... she has left me breathless with her singing ....

For the record I believe we live many many lives .... you will dance again without a doubt .. cure or not :o I promise!

Although I'm not much of a country music fan .... this is very nice ....... and can bring a tear to the eye .......

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Obieone

[john smith]

Here's my pick.


Jacob's Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1p22kW5Xs)

John

[CurlieQCarrie]

It gets me every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

And this one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQvja_t1FY

[Juke_spin]

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[Steven Edwards]

Sad songs (and artists who sing them) tend to become my favorites, more often than not.

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[Steven Edwards]

Mindy Smith - Raggedy Ann

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[Steven Edwards]

Lisa Loeb - Window Shopping (not entirely sad... more of a sober look at reality than anything.)

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[CapnGimp]

My all-time favorite song:


It's bittersweet to me; I love that my pain can be written so well into lyrics and sung so beautifully to melancholy music.

Aye' , couldn't have said it better if I tried...

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[Steven Edwards]

Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall

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[Steven Edwards]

Ben Folds Five - Brick

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[Steven Edwards]

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

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[Steven Edwards]

Christina Aguilera - I'm Ok

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[Steven Edwards]

Everclear - Wonderful

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[Steven Edwards]

Everclear - Father of Mine

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[Steven Edwards]

Edwin McCain - Solitude

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[Steven Edwards]

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

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[mr_coffee]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xnvKCa-5SW0&feature=related (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nHjPp4-kYrI)





Great song by one of my favorite bands Sevendust

[Steven Edwards]

Last from me:

Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song

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[orangejello]

double post...just what everybody needs...more of me lol

[orangejello]

Steven I was going to say I might have to ban you from the thread if you made too many posts :D

(Just kidding Pinky)

I am loving all the replies to this thread. I haven't been able to get through them all yet, still working my way through the links people have posted. So many of these are songs I loved but had forgotten about. Like Steven I am drawn to sad songs and those who sing them. Not sure why. Maybe I just have a melancoly personality. I am going to post a few more I like after I watch everybody else's.

rdf My Way is one of my favorite songs. I had never heard an Elvis version. Thanks for posting that. Steven I was just listening to Superman's Song last night and thinking how much I love it. Brick as well...been a long time since I heard that one :)

Great songs everybody. Thanks for sharing them.

[CurlieQCarrie]

Like Steven I am drawn to sad songs and those who sing them. Not sure why. Maybe I just have a melancoly personality. I am going to post a few more I like after I watch everybody else's.

Me three. I usually only listen to music like this when I am by myself and need to think or reflect. The words are more poetic and it's soothing, even if it makes me occasionally tear up.

[doingtimeonmyass]

Back in the 80s I liked a couple songs from this chick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpxNXZCLBg

And this one too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkRUs-6szsk

[doingtimeonmyass]

How about a Nine Inch Nails sad-angry song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE

Everybody Hurts - REM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAQTwc8Oas

[keps]

How about a song by the terribly-named Belgian band, Hooverphonic. The song's called...Sad Song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNp_l-P3umg

[Wesley]

Teddy Thompson, son of Richard and Linda Thompson, doing a great version of a Leonard Cohen song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W89j6GjPDI

[orangejello]

You know what's cool? Watching the sun touching and sinking below the mountain or ocean horizon as you listen to In the Arms of an Angel, Tears in Heaven, and finish with Let it Be on an mp3 player.


That does sound pretty great rdf

John I had never heard Jacob's Dream. It's beautiful

Another from me. Yesterday by the Beatles.
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[orangejello]

Gary Jules' remake of the Tears for Fears song Mad World (from the Donny Darko soundtrack). I've been listening to this song for years but had actually never seen the video before today. It's a pretty amazing piece of work, I think. This is a song I really find comfort in and listen to a lot when I am having a bad day. Very sad lyrics but they soothe me for some reason.

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[CurlieQCarrie]

Oh, Amanda! That version of Mad World is one of my fav songs ever!

[Wesley]

BB, and why he sings the blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcDpzywSUA

[orangejello]

Some more Canadian content. Bad Timing by Blue Rodeo. My favorite line from the song: "I know it's been a while since I talked to you. Nothing wrong, just nothing ever goes as planned."

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[orangejello]

Oh, Amanda! That version of Mad World is one of my fav songs ever!
Yeah me too. It's a really wonderful song, isn't it :)

Last one from me today, Long May You Run by Neil Young. The lyrics are very sad and they remind me of my friend Elliot who passed away unexpectedly and far too young earlier this year. But when I listen to it, the song makes me feel a little less sad for some reason and even can make me smile (sometimes with tears). I think Neil Young has the ability to do that with many of his songs. This video is my favorite version of the song...there is just something about it....

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[rdf]

Whiskey Lullaby. It's almost too sad to post.

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[Cherry]

Gosh OJ I've got so many, but these instantly spring to mind -

Good old Kate Bush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1fqgg42vo

Sia - Breathe me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

Richard Marx - Hazard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJffiGHz7M

In loving memory - Jamestown story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcGxWn7wfjs

Air - All I need

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgfmWfJ11s

[JenJen]

I used to sing this to myself wheeliing from my room to the gym in rehab. I was very, very alone then. http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKGpZuadMsA

[orangejello]

Cherry you are right there are so many good ones. I am still thinking of more today. Hazard is on my favorite songs list.

Another, to start the day: Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds

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[keps]

Surprised no one's mentioned Rufus Wainwright's The Art Teacher. A heart-breaking tale of unrequited love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84iUx8ghQM

Ah, This Woman's Work by Kate Bush - good choice, Cherry.

(...but it is wrong to have a violent aversion to Richard Marx?)

[orangejello]

(...but it is wrong to have a violent aversion to Richard Marx?)

You hush up! :o

Would you think less of me if I admitted I am also a James Blunt fan? :D

By the way thanks for introducing me to Hooverphonic. Never heard of them before this thread :) I think I might even be fond of their name lol

(Oy...I am going smiley crazy in this message)

[quadvet]

Look what you started, OJ ! Great posts everybody. :thumb:

:beer::crybaby:

[orangejello]

I used to sing this to myself wheeliing from my room to the gym in rehab. I was very, very alone then. http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKGpZuadMsA

:hug:


Look what you started, OJ ! Great posts everybody. :thumb:

:beer::crybaby:

:) quadvet

lol I am just happy the thread has made it to almost 80 posts so far with no fights or personal attacks (knock on wood). You are right, lot's of great posts and great music in this thread. It's a good thing.

[quadvet]

:) quadvet

lol I am just happy the thread has made it to almost 80 posts so far with no fights or personal attacks (knock on wood). You are right, lot's of great posts and great music in this thread. It's a good thing. You're right, how can you go wrong with this topic. :hug:Thanks. :applaud:

[doingtimeonmyass]

Instead of focusing on just sad songs, we should start a song of the day thread. Members can post whatever song they have in their head that day and maybe together we can expand our musical awareness.

[sjean423]

This one always makes me tear up:

"Moments" Emerson Drive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzriEXPJ1-k
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[orangejello]

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[RehabRhino]

(...but it is wrong to have a violent aversion to Richard Marx?)

How can you not love that hair? It's almost as big as yours:p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDTAqsMNEM&feature=related

Quality karaoke fodder. I always pretend to wink at someone (ladies love that shit) but I'm crying inside:o

[Steven Edwards]

Quality karaoke fodder. I always pretend to wink at someone (ladies love that shit) but I'm crying inside:o That's my start page! :eek:

Aliyah Tribute - I Miss You

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[Foolish Old]

Three from Tim

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[adi chicago]

georghe zamfir .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC-qVU58Nk4&amp;feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws5WP1LHGUc&amp;feature=related

[Foolish Old]

but that was once upon a time...

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[adi chicago]

hero mariah carey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLC73DB7jE8

[adi chicago]

richard clydermann .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS8F5x07pl8

[Foolish Old]

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[keps]

You hush up!

Would you think less of me if I admitted I am also a James Blunt fan?

By the way thanks for introducing me to Hooverphonic. Never heard of them before this thread I think I might even be fond of their name lol

(Oy...I am going smiley crazy in this message)
I actually can't think any less of your music taste since seeing your post in this thread a couple of years ago -
http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/showthread.php?t=72573&page=12&highlight=milli+vanilli
:D


Hooverphonic are really good...they have quite a lot of songs with sort of sweeping sad strings.
Mad About You is another good one to try -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4gMc15bD_0

(apparently they used to be called just Hoover but there was some fuss about it). :)

How can you not love that hair? It's almost as big as yours

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDTAqsMNEM&feature=related

Quality karaoke fodder. I always pretend to wink at someone (ladies love that shit) but I'm crying inside
There you go, I've been rumbled; it's because I'm jealous of the size of Richard's hair that I hate him so. ;)

[doingtimeonmyass]

Had the song not been on a TV soundtrack, I probably never would have heard it, but I really like it. The bolded line stands out to me. On the road of experience, join in the living day
if there's an answer, it's just that it's just that way I don't believe in fate or everything happening for a reason, for better or worse, sometimes things just happen.

John Denver - Looking for Space
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[Robynbird569]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtQzZmdX-E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQUFvdRdIG0

more so these for my 2 boys will be more than likely sent to Iraq when they are done with boot camp

[Scott Pruett]

Pat McGee Band, Elegy for Amy

can't find it on YouTube, but here's the iTunes preview:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=282955797&id=282955557&s=143441

more recent / unplugged version:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=254517454&id=254516052&s=143441

[Le Type Français]

(...but it is wrong to have a violent aversion to Richard Marx?)

Richard Marx is music for fucking. ;)

[Polett]

Don't know if someone posted it yet but...


http://www.youtube.com/v/dYub1neLZmA&hl=en

[HeathQuad]

This one gets me and is for single fathers
Single Fathers By Kid Rock
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[rdf]

Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

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[Foolish Old]

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[oscdude]

I love this song.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WHbQjLc7GXc

[RehabRhino]

From favourite episodes of Scrubs (back when it was good).

I watched a lot of Scrubs in rehab.......a lot of these lyrics seemed apt at the time.

Jesus, I'm tearing up watching these (Keps, I need you to mock my cheesy choices to snap me out of it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHlf08yTPiU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ45xrtNnzk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEkKa-W55s&feature=related

Sorry.........if they depressed you, this one will cheer you up (I wanna be Turk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfdcXnaPbM&NR=1

Ok, no more Scrubs:o

[keps]

Richard Marx is music for fucking. ;)

I prefer to keep the two mutually exclusive. :p



Jesus, I'm tearing up watching these (Keps, I need you to mock my cheesy choices to snap me out of it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHlf08yTPiU

What THE COCK is this mawkish piece of shit? :D

Anyone heard of Kaki King? She is this guitar virtuoso, who writes eerily beautiful music.
Night After Sidewalk could be called sad-sounding, and it's bloody brilliant -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odc-wJQ4q70

[orangejello]

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[doingtimeonmyass]

RR, that was weird seeing the guy from Men at Work on the episode of scrubs. I've never watched the show, but the song brought back memories.

[roshni]

"This Year's Love" by David Gray on White Ladder.

[cara_m]

Jackson Brown The Load Out/ Stay
It gets me everytime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY

ETA: How could I forget this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkdweA-DOU&feature=related

[Sue Pendleton]

More so these for my 2 boys will be more than likely sent to Iraq when they are done with boot camp


For what your young men will be doing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOkxI2YtZXw

and why they'll be safe (my squad's party song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVvIQbovn5A

[Sue Pendleton]

I think all my favorite sad songs are taken. They are the ones I hear and for one reason or another they take me back somewhere. Like Bethany I feel soooooooo ancient when I remember an old, sort of, crush when I was 13 singing Fire and Rain in my ear.

Tears in Heaven came out years later but sums up how I felt hitting the family plot for the first time in almost 20 years last week back home.

I'm not from the south but for some reason this song brings back memories of hot summer nights that are kind of melancholy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSyWZgtm50Q

Only one that makes me both sad and happy together is from Satchmo and this video is a great way to show why. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk2LtK680w

If a song came out in the late 70's to 1992 and I danced to it that makes me sad now. I mean I have yet to do a decent Time Warp in a chair. Slow dancing songs make me the saddest. There was nothing like slow dancing.

I guess this one takes me back the farthest and can cause tears or smiles depending on what memory hits first. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrLr5Q9BQRM I was 12 when this came out in the UK. Like Sir Elton and Bernie Tuapin's stuff US distributors didn't know what to think of it at first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTFKPdWw1Gc Not sad, how I feel about all our CC members. OK, most the time. LOL

[Hellonwheels]

I've always liked melancholy songs, so they don't really get to me. One of my favorites is Sarah McLaughlin "Full of Grace". First heard it on Buffy the Vamp. Slayer, of all places. "Arms of the Angels" is just a little too depressing even for me.

[Lilishor]

Total eclipse of the heart always gets me for some reason :busted2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nTwg5NIPM

and then.....

REM - Everybody hurts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAQTwc8Oas

ETA : Though not necessarily sad... one of my favs

R. Kelly - I believe I can fly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTahrYXCChI

[tvot]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SWkOryYF6CI
a sad song and tragic end.
i thought it was great how they used it in tommy boy.

[Ashley]

please don't kill me if this song was already mentioned, as i'm too lazy to read all 11 pages, but Adele's "Hometown Glory" is sadly beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXG0YMv5Fvk

and Sia's "Breathe me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

[keps]

Joy Division's Decades is one of the bleakest songs I've heard. I know JD weren't known for being upbeat, but even for them, this is very dark-sounding.
I actually can't listen to it as it makes me feel bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAB3r6EjcM

[rdf]

This used to break my heart. It's about a little crippled boy, and it's bittersweet.

Teddy Bear

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[Obieone]

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Obieone

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[tdirt]

John Montgomery My Dear Son, it is almost June,
I hope this letter catches up to you, and finds you well.
Its been dry but they’re calling for rain,
And everything's the same ol’ same in Johnsonville.
Your stubborn 'ol Daddy ain’t said too much,
But I’m sure you know he sends his love,
And she goes on,
In a letter from home.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
Like there’s something funny bout’ the way I talk,
When I say: "Mama sends her best y’all."
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

My Dearest Love, its almost dawn.
I’ve been lying here all night long wondering where you might be.
I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring.
Man on the television said something so I couldn’t sleep.
But I’ll be all right, I’m just missing you.
An' this is me kissing you:
XX’s and OO’s,
In a letter from home.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
'Cause she calls me "Honey", but they take it hard,
'Cause I don’t read the good parts.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

Dear Son, I know I ain’t written,
But sittin' here tonight, alone in the kitchen, it occurs to me,
I might not have said, so I’ll say it now:
Son, you make me proud.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, but no one laughs,
'Cause there ain’t nothing funny when a soldier cries.
An' I just wipe me eyes.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home

[Princess "Leia"]

John Montgomery My Dear Son, it is almost June,
I hope this letter catches up to you, and finds you well.
Its been dry but they’re calling for rain,
And everything's the same ol’ same in Johnsonville.
Your stubborn 'ol Daddy ain’t said too much,
But I’m sure you know he sends his love,
And she goes on,
In a letter from home.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
Like there’s something funny bout’ the way I talk,
When I say: "Mama sends her best y’all."
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

My Dearest Love, its almost dawn.
I’ve been lying here all night long wondering where you might be.
I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring.
Man on the television said something so I couldn’t sleep.
But I’ll be all right, I’m just missing you.
An' this is me kissing you:
XX’s and OO’s,
In a letter from home.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
'Cause she calls me "Honey", but they take it hard,
'Cause I don’t read the good parts.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

Dear Son, I know I ain’t written,
But sittin' here tonight, alone in the kitchen, it occurs to me,
I might not have said, so I’ll say it now:
Son, you make me proud.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, but no one laughs,
'Cause there ain’t nothing funny when a soldier cries.
An' I just wipe me eyes.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home

tdirt,
Never heard this one..... it made me cry like a baby. I can truthfully tell ya, there ani't nothing funny when a soldier cries, it will rip your heart out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5LlE0ETfk&feature=related

[skippy13]

I love anything by the late Eva Cassidy, but her song "Autumn Leaves" is a great one. (I dont have a link.)

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[skippy13]

Thank you RDF!! you are such a sweetie:)

[orangejello]

The Walk by Sawyer Brown. Makes me think of my grandfather in the last few months of his life after my grandmother passed away. I really like it. A very poignant and touching song, I think.

Down our long dusty driveway
This time we both would go
He had grown old and gray
And his mind was wandering
Daddy took me by the hand
Said, "I know where we're going and I understand
Don't worry boy it will be all right"
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[rdf]

Thank you RDF!! you are such a sweetie:)aw shucks *kickin' the dirt with my sneakers* thanks skippy :) :o Lord knows I'm usually called something worse :mega:

Hi OJ. I always liked that song :)

[Onmom3]

This is one of my favorite sad songs. Normally I don't like music videos, but this one is just so special. I hope you agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU

This one is really bittersweet too. No video, just close your eyes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqwD0DsZXyU&feature=related

[MandyRae]

One that is extremly sad is "Last Kiss" by pearl jam... its so sad!

[cass]

Like so many of the songs that stuck, the ones that really touched me, this is from the early 70's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64_303eHaTM

Fire and Rain, by my sweet baby James Taylor

i'm guessin you know this song was written after a good friend was killed in plane crash? and sweet baby james was in treatment at the time. makes the song more poignant.

cherry really nailed it with kate bush and that video broke my heart. been there, done that (in hospital many times with loved ones dying). i've loved that kate bush song for years.

i'm glad to see a john denver song posted. i met him the year he died. anyway, i don't think that's a sad song. i think it's an inspirational song, like most of his. even he turned Challenger accident into good thing. btw, he was supposed to be on that space flight. he was the one who went to the President to get civilian onboard.
Flying for Me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaMbky66-38

and from my fav movie, Gone With the Wind, as God is my witness..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjHuOnwhFA

i used to play Tara's Theme on piano.

[Princess "Leia"]

I love anything by the late Eva Cassidy, but her song "Autumn Leaves" is a great one. (I dont have a link.)

Me too skippy, it is so moving but I have always dug the tune. Tony Bennet does a geat cover of it to name just one. I have a few of Eva's CD'd, her spirit was so beautiful and its such a tragedy she is no longer with us. :( She passed on way too young.

[skippy13]

Yeah Leia, I miss her too. She was never well known until after her death, but there wasn't a song that woman could not sing well.