More sad songs
I feel like a sad song, so more sad songs today. The day has been grey lacking in life. My sad song comes from what in my mind is one of the saddest albums in history. It is sad in an entirely different way than Loren Mazzacane Connors. Where Connors' music is immediately recognizable as sad this album masquerades as a pop album. What they can't hide is that the band, who were all romantically involved were falling apart, and not only falling apart, but being forced to all work together in a studio recording an album about their failing relationships.
Thunder only happens when it's raining.
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I'd like to hear what you the readers think of as the best sad songs. If you like you can email them to us.
Thunder only happens when it's raining.
Song Here
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I'd like to hear what you the readers think of as the best sad songs. If you like you can email them to us.
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(Spoiler:) When I googled this to find out who it was, the first results made me think it was The Corrs. And it seemed pretty weird that one of your favourite sad albums of all time was by The Corrs. But then I see that it's probably the original (?) by Fleetwood Mac?
Some of my favourite, saddest songs:
Nina Simone - "Little Girl Blue" (golly!)
Sigur Ros - "Vaka [track 1 from ()]"
Montgolfier Brothers - "World is Flat" (and maybe "Journey's End", both of which are on Gramophone right now).
Jude - "I Do"
Songs:Ohia - "The Redhead"
Bonnie Prince Billy - "II/XV"
Beck - "I Get Lonesome"
Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice It's Alright"
Songs:Ohia - "Redhead"
Damien Jurado - "Ghost in the Snow"
Hayden - "You Are All I Have"
Cat Power - "Color and the Kids"
Sufjan Stevens - "Flint"
Do you know any of these?
You are correct it is the Mac. I had a hard time picking a single song from the album, it is all the little passing comments that run through all the songs that make it the saddest album of all time. Sorry that you had to google it, I was trying to avoid too much attention if you know what I mean. The id3 tags are still intact though.
the songs I don't know are:
sugar ros
jude
I've heard the bonnie billy album(and quite enjoyed it) but I can't remember the song.
Hayden
Thanks for your suggestions.
ps I really like that song by george that you posted.
jason molina - "No Moon on the Water"
My brother is compiling a "best songs to commit suicide to at his blog right now.(http://randomsuperfluousness.blogspot.com/)
I'm not sure if I agree with all of his choices, but I did offer him the smog and LC suggestions.
I say good call on the Cat Power, sean. That song consistently makes me stop whatever I'm doing by paralyzing me with sadness.
It's hard to say if the song itself is sad, or if you just happened to be sad when you heard the song and thus associate it as such. At any rate, my favorite sad songs:
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Pearl Jam - Nothingman
Coldplay - See You Soon
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Two-Headed Boy"
It's hard to tell the difference between really pretty songs and sad songs. Maybe it's a difference between actually sad songs and ones that are just sort of melencholy.
I think this little list is more melencholy, but:
Soul Coughing - True Dreams of Wichita
Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
Birds and Ships - Billy Brag/Wilco/Natalie Merchant
Young and Sexy - The City You Live in is Ugly
p:ano - all of novemeber and most of october
But the one that is actually sad:
Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard
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When i'm feelin a little blue, its gotta be:
Low - Words
And almost any Sigur Ros song......
Sigur Ros, most definitely. Also: the soundtrack for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind gets me every time.
Bye Bye Love - Everly Brothers
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Offside - The Bats
Love For Sale - Elvis Costello (Cole Porter)
A Common Disaster - Cowboy Junkies
Fox In The Snow - Belle & Sebastian
Things Behind The Sun - Nick Drake
This Boy Is Exhausted - The Wrens
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Most of Eels' Electro-Shock Blues
Most of Elliott Smith's Basement on the Hill
don't forget elliot smith!!
You can't go wrong with some Trembling Blue Stars. "Nobody But You" off of Her Handwriting is pretty heart-wrenching.
Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures (Vol 1) has a few songs on there as well.
Love - Andmoreagain
The Zombies - A Rose for Emily
those 2 are usually pretty sad to me.
Leonard Cohen “One of us cannot be wrong” – This song very well might be the absolute “sad song” cliché. I thought it was sad when I was 15, and I still do.
Diane Cluck “Turnaround Road” – Am I the only person who thinks this song is sad? The lyrics is mostly hopeful, (“I would have gone crooked, but for you…” with emphasis on “would have”, as in, I would have gone crooked, but yay, look at me, I found you and I didn’t go crooked, how terribly lucky am I?).
Sufjan Stevens “Flint” – This song has already been suggested. Whoever thinks this song is not sad has never tried alone before.
Joanna Newsome “This Side of the Blue” – “I do not know my way to the sea, but the saltiest sea knows its way to me”. Need I explain more?
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane over the Sea, the whole album.
The Taxi Ride, by Jane Siberry, is the saddest song I have ever heard. It makes me think of every wretched breakup I've had.
Beautiful song, tho.
The only Diane Cluck song I've heard is Easy To Be Around. And that's a brilliant song, and a little bit sad as well.
Katy Song and Summer Dress by Red House Painters
Halfway to a Threeway by Jim O'Rourke
When A Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge
Grace by Homeland
Slow Graffiti by Belle and Sebastian
Christmas Card from a Hooker by Tom Waits (but the Neko Case cover)
W.E.L.L.O. by The Inconsolable <plug>
I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton (but the Whitney Houston version. Yes, really. It's the soundtrack to the worst year of my life.)
I also find virtually everything by Magnetic Fields terribly poignant, but not sad per se (Take Ecstasy with Me is the exception).
And, of course, pretty much every Christmas song ever recorded. They all fill me with the most appalling pangs of nostalgia.
"Everybody Hurts" - R.E.M
"Without You" - Harry Nilsson
"All By Myself" - Eric Carmen
"Mr. Lonely" - Bobby Vinton
What about some Eva Cassidy, Minnie Driver, Sarah McLachlan and India Arie?
Eva Cassidy:
1. Fields of Gold (beautiful)
2. Since you went away (depressing)
3. I know you by heart (*sigh*)
4. Anniversary song (also nice)
Minnie Driver:
1. Hungry heart (one of my favorites)
2. Yellow Eyes (love it!)
3. Deep Water (jor dreamers like me ^^)
India Arie:
1. Ready for love (a MUST!)
Oh my, I forgot the lovely Sarah!
Sarah McLachlan:
1. In the arms of an angel (sooo sad and beautiful)
2. I love you (don't know why, but it makes me moody)
3. Dirty little Secret
Oh, and Laura Pausini's "One more time"!
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