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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 15, 2006 18:25:21 GMT -5
Inspired by this article, popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/12/sad_songs_they_.html, and by own general December blahs, comes this survey. What are the saddest songs you've ever heard? Any genre is fair game, though I expect that this will be dominated by rock since that's what most of us listen to most of the time. How about your top twenty or so choices? And for those of you gloom and doom types out there (Mary! ThoRny, JLLM, anyone who listens to the goddamned Smiths), I've got high hopes for your lists. I'll leave this open till some time after New Years, I think. Unless it's obviously wrapped up before then. |
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Post by Galactus on Dec 15, 2006 18:31:35 GMT -5
I made CD once of the most depressing songs ever, I'll try to dig up the track list.
I know one of them is Can I Sleep In Your Arms by Willie Nelson...jesus that songs makes me want to drink a lot. Pearl Jam - Footsteps was on it to, the BBC version of Since I've Been Loving You - Zeppelin, Borrowed Tune - Neil Young, Highway Patrolman - Springsteen...
I can't remember any others right now.
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Post by maarts on Dec 15, 2006 18:33:07 GMT -5
To open proceedings:
Eleanor Rigby- Beatles
Hurt- Johnny Cash (especially accompanied by that video)
Goodbye My Friend- Karla Bonoff
3 Days- Toni Childs (about cancer)
I Know It's Over- Those goddamned Smiths
Persephone (The Gathering Of Flowers)- Dead Can Dance
Minus Sanctus- Lisa Gerrard
Long As I Can See The Light- Ted Hawkins
Haunted- Type O Negative
Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 15, 2006 18:34:45 GMT -5
The answer is "The Bed" by Lou Reed.
Thread closed.
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Post by Galactus on Dec 15, 2006 18:37:42 GMT -5
I've Got A Mind To Give Up Living - B.B. King
Bird On A Wire - Johnny Cash's version
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 15, 2006 18:37:47 GMT -5
A (very) tentative list to get the ball rolling a bit ...
1. If You See Her Say Hello, Bob Dylan. As Cameron Crowe said, the saddest of sad songs.
2. Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton. I literally could not listen to this when it first came out.
3. All Apologies (MTV Unplugged version), Nirvana. The cracks in Kurt's voice in this, knowing what had to be in his mind at the time ...
4. Mother, John Lennon. "Mother, you had me, but I never had you. I just want to tell you goodbye." So simple, so painful.
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Again), Joy Division.
6. Pictures of You, the Cure. "If only I'd thought of the right words, I wouldn't be breaking apart all my pictures of you." Sadness is rarely this beautiful, though.
7. Hurt, Johnny Cash. Even better with the video.
8. Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon.
9. One, U2. For personal reasons.
10. My Father's House, Bruce Springsteen. The starkest of landscapes from the bleak praire of Nebraska is also the pinnacle of Bruce's early father/son songs.
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 15, 2006 18:39:21 GMT -5
Wow! I had no idea we had such a resevoir of sadness here on a Friday afternoon!
I'm reasonably confident that Cash's "Hurt" will make the final cut in this survey.
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 15, 2006 18:41:56 GMT -5
I should've included the Beatles' "For No One" as well ... sadder than either "Yesterday" or "Eleanor Rigby" IMHO (though both of those certainly deserve consideration!). Also, Sinead O'Conner's "Nothing Compares 2 U," (and for that matter, her breath-taking cover of "All Apologies" deserves some mention) certainly deserves a nod.
This is gonna be a challenge.
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Post by Galactus on Dec 15, 2006 18:42:44 GMT -5
Jim James (My Morning Jacket) - Does a pretty somber version of Suspicious Minds...sounds just like the moment you realize a relationship is over.
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Post by Galactus on Dec 15, 2006 18:50:42 GMT -5
BTW, I think I like Ben Harper's version of The Drugs Don't Work better.
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Post by Galactus on Dec 15, 2006 19:04:38 GMT -5
Promises - Lyle Lovett
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Post by kool on Dec 15, 2006 19:30:59 GMT -5
How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
Most of the songs on Ken's list too. And some from Maarts' as well. "I Know It's Over" by those goddamned Smiths almost had me in tears when I first heard it.
There are many more, but I just don't feel up to it right now to come up with a list. Just thinking about these songs is depressing.
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 15, 2006 19:31:57 GMT -5
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Post by Proud on Dec 15, 2006 20:34:49 GMT -5
I don't possess the knowledge that you fine gentlemen and gentlewomen have, but a few for me...
- Butterfly, Weezer. Everybody knows this one... and it's a big reason why fans heavily anticipated a follow-up to Pinkerton for five years (and beyond!).
- Chelsea Girls, Nico. Most of her solo stuff is tragically themed, but it's precious just the same.
- Come Back, Pearl Jam. A recent tune about the (don't read on if you don't want to know) death of Johnny Ramone. Sometimes you're there, and you're talking back to me..., and then Vedder wails more impressively than he did with Black...
- Days Were Golden, Sunny Day Real Estate. A lot of sad moments on SDRE's finest album, but this song has "I've given up on my life and everybody else's" written all over it.
- Don't Follow, Alice in Chains. One of the most emotional climaxes of any song in modern music history.
- Golden Slumbers, The Beatles. Try to imagine the Abbey Road Medley without it.
- High and Dry, Radiohead. It's a toss-up between this and Fake Plastic Trees. Either way, I'm miserable.
- I'll Take The Rain, R.E.M. Honestly, I think it's Stipe's #1 tear-jerker... Everybody Hurts included.
- Redemption Song, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (sort of). Maybe the most memorable moment on Strummer's last stop.
- The Bed, Lou Reed. Already been said, but come on... deny it.
Boy... you're gonna carry that weight... carry that weight... for a long time...
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Post by Galactus on Dec 15, 2006 20:44:39 GMT -5
Can somebody YSI that Lou Reed song for me?
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