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2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
We've had a thread about beautiful songs...so why not sad songs?
I'm just curious as to what songs you listen to when you're feeling sad, lonley, soppy etc... songs that help you 'cope' kind of thing.
May I suggest a couple:
Come To Nothing - Evermore
Nothing Compares to you - Sinead O'Connor
1000 Oceans - Tori Amos
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
223 posts
Location: Newcastle NSW
Hmm i think i put this in the beautiful song thread, but its beautiful cause i thought i fitted the descriptoin u just put up,so
"Everybody's free (to wear sunscrean)"
By Qindon Tarver
Definately shed a few tears, but i makes you feel much better!
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
hmm...i don't really have one specific song...but definitely albums!!
the whitlams - charlie no.2 (buy now pay later) tis my fave song, but it's also a sad one...
the cure (particularly "catch" - not cos it's really sad, but cos it's linked to a certain time in my life)
okay i take it back, there are specific songs!!
the whitlams - the curse stops here
the waifs - lots of different songs...
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Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Everybody Hurts - REM, springs to mind straight away.
My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
High Enough- Damn Yankees but that is for personal reasons
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
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1,530 posts
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
alot of the same from the beautiful songs thread
lots of eels and some jj72 helps me when i'm down
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
I assert that there is no sadder song than Vincent by Don McLean.
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
moo..
1,899 posts
Location: melbourne, australia
oh yes vincent is good but ive only heard a guy called loren do a cover of it... hmm my sad songs are thrown annd hold on by carus
i thought of more when i first saw this thread and now i just cant think of anything hmmf oh well
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1,024 posts
Location: london
pete murray- so beautaful
portous head- roads
197 posts
Location: Bolton
Don't think they're sad songs, more emotive songs. I think of sad songs more to be songs that remind me of sad occasions, though they generally stop being so bad after a while.
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Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
about songs reminding you of an occasionI can't listen to teardrop by massive attack or get a move on by mr scruff because it was played at my friends funeral
Although there are some songs that are sad, even without a connection to a sad time
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4,145 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
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669 posts
Location: Lancashire, UK
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
damien rice - cannonball because its the last song on our leaver's video and its a really sad section watching all your friends - that ones emotive sad
that and anything by coldplay i find depressing sad (i cant actually listen to one of their albums all the way through)
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just a shadow of my former self...
205 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
absolutly jonny cash-'hurt'
also...
Ben haerper-- another lonely day
chicane--no ordinary morning
and alot of songs by nina simone, too many to single just one out.
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Beta Band - Gone
Rapture - Infatuation
Nirvana - Something In the Way (Electric Version, listen to loud to appreciate the walls of sound and sadness)
Interpol - The New
Mazzy Star - Blue Flower
This Mortal Coil - Song To the Siren (though Tim Buckley's original is good this edges it)
Jonathan Richman - Affection
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Nick Drake - River Man
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Nick Cave - Hallelujah (though the whole No More Shall We Part album would do it).
Bender: I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire.
old hand
853 posts
Location: Behind you...
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing... I just love that song when i'm down, and most of the songs on that album really.
*starts crooning*...
I'm unclean, a libertine, and every time you vent your spleen I seem to lose the power of speech, you're slipping slowly from my reach you grow me like an evergreen, you've never seen the lonely me at all...."
Idolized by Aurinoko
Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....
Bob Dylan
QuackerJack
1,927 posts
Location: over your left shoulder, Australia
everclear- wonderful
its just so sad, it always gets me *sniff*
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Owned By Steaks
1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
Slipknot - Vermillion (...just, yeah)
Korn - Hey Daddy (hard to listen to, too hard to sing)
Korn - Alone i break (how i felt for a long time)
Malice Mizer - Regret (doesnt need words)
Korn - Falling away form me
Eagles - Hotel California (dont know why)
So many more...
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Loving you from the deepest part of my loins.
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
Nur zu Besuch - Die Toten Hosen
Yes it's sad. And yes it refers to a sad moment. Worst part is, that moment hasn't come yet, but I know it will
~ Bobo
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479 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
I think the chart-topping Crazy Frog ringtone song is very sad
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Location: I wish I knew, United Kingdom
REM - Low
Blur - Battery in your leg
Will probably be back with a few more, but these spring immediately to mind.
J
If you're not confused, you're not thinking about things hard enough.
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475 posts
Location: Van Diemans Land, Australia
Almost anything by Nick cave and the bad seeds.
Tanz Mit Laibach - Laibach <--- Theres a joke there if your smart enough to get it :-)
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
ARRRR!
529 posts
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Gotta love Nick Cave.
My vote is for Bright Eyes (The band, not that cheesy song). Again, just about all of their songs. Here are some good ones:
- Land Locked Blues
- Arienette
- Let's Not S**t Ourselves
- The Center of the World
"My skin is singed but it heals my heart and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars." -Davey Havok
comfortably numb
2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
Interesting range.
Ah! I have one.
Evanescence - My Immortal
I used to think that was the saddest song ever. I think the first time I heard it I cried!
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
1,100 posts
Location: Denver, Co. U.S.A.
Definately with the Johnny Cash.
When I'm depressed it's all about Lucero.
(Not the latin super group Lucero, but the Lucero from Tennessee fronted by Ben Nichols that probably none of you have ever heard of, lol.)
They have *the saddest* songs ever written.
Lately I've been totally hooked on The Inner Universe by the Yoko Kanno Project, though.
Jesus helps me trick people.
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
For me it would have to be CircleSquare by The Wonder Stuff
Not a particularly sad song but seems to help.
I can't sing but I do enjoy shouting along
Always feel much better when my voice has disappeared.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
45 posts
Location: halifax uk
cyndi lauper - sally's pidgeons
those who are possessed by nothing possess everything
fluffy mess
197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Toni Childs-Dreamer
Bob Carlisle-Butterfly kisses
No matter what mood I'm in, if one of those songs come on, my dignity is toast and I sob for Africa!
"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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no bravery by james blunt, very bleak
Are you that clever that you smile forever?
What's from the Earth is of the greatest worth
883 posts
Location: Stevenage
I personally don't know if I have any sad songs, I listen to them all the time but don't really see them as sad. I like they're uplifting voices etc. Erm... otherwise favourite ones of these songs would be:
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Hell is for Heroes - The Quiet Song
Otherwise my mind is totally blank dammit!!!! I know I like more songs than this but there it is
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