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Post by strat-0 on Dec 16, 2006 13:58:47 GMT -5
Three contenders by the Pretenders - all off one album, Learning to Crawl:
Show Me
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
and my favorite,
2000 Miles
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 16, 2006 14:37:10 GMT -5
The Pretenders doing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (from the first Very Special Christmas release) is another great sad turn from Chrissie.
For that matter, even something as uptempo as "Back on the Chain Gang" is just jangling through the tears ...
I found a picture of you, those were the happiest days of my life
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Post by strat-0 on Dec 16, 2006 15:10:14 GMT -5
The Pretenders doing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (from the first Very Special Christmas release) is another great sad turn from Chrissie. For that matter, even something as uptempo as "Back on the Chain Gang" is just jangling through the tears ... I found a picture of you, those were the happiest days of my lifeDefinitely. Chrissie is like that. She comes by it honest, too. |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Dec 16, 2006 15:11:21 GMT -5
Indifference -- Pearl Jam
River Man -- Nick Drake
Please -- U2
Hurt -- Johnny Cash
Dust In the Wind -- Kansas
We Want It -- The Dears
Nothing Worth Living For -- The Violent Femmes
Ruled By Secrecy -- Muse
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Dec 16, 2006 22:08:47 GMT -5
My list is just songs that sound sad to me, some of them may not be to anyone else (interesting thread topic!) I am also omitting the Smiths b/c I can't pick their saddest song.
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Tears in Heaven - Clapton
Mad World - Gary Jules version
Roads - Portishead
She's Leaving Home - the Beatles (this song is intensely sad for me, so much that I don't listen to it at all - I left home in very unhappy circumstances & these lyrics read very personally to me)
Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House (the second proper, loving relationship I ever had was with one of the sweetest guys I'll ever know & he sang this to me - for a year it was a beautiful song for me & then he left me & now its just a heartbreak song)
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - the Hollies & House of the Rising Sun - the Animals (both have sad melodies & have always seemed depressing to me, more so the former)
the Scientist - Coldplay
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding
Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden
Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis
The Ship Song - Nick Cave (a song of tremendous heartbreak memory for me)
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Dec 16, 2006 22:11:26 GMT -5
and
A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos
though, its hard to isolate one or two sad Tori songs. She's one of the best for crying your heart out over failed love.
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Post by kool on Dec 16, 2006 22:14:59 GMT -5
I think Tori's saddest songs are on Choirgirl. "Playboy Mommy" is one hell of a tearjerker.
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 16, 2006 22:18:11 GMT -5
Does Tori have any happy songs?
Surely there's a special place for "Me and a Gun" ... don't know if I'd call it sad, though. Maybe "profoundly disturbing" would be a better description.
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Dec 16, 2006 22:20:30 GMT -5
She does sad songs so incredibly well - but intelligently.
One song that always seemed too cheesy to be sincere for me was 'Last Kiss' (either version). I can't stand the Pearl Jam version, its one of the few songs of theirs I dislike.
But one day one of my dad's friends was listening to it in the garage & I was like "Uncle Rick, how you can you stand this cheese-fest song?" (He's this big, grizzled, tattoed biker). And he told me he likes it because of the line "she's gone to heaven so I've got to be good, so I can see my baby when I leave this world" is the way he feels about his wife.
So I've softened a little to that song.
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Post by kool on Dec 16, 2006 22:28:05 GMT -5
Despite its title, I've always considered this song one the funniest Morrissey has ever penned. How can you not laugh when he sings that line about Caligula? Yes, the song does talk about tragic events but it also contains some of Moz's wittiest one-liners to date.  |
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Post by Ayinger on Dec 16, 2006 22:59:59 GMT -5
"Baby Blue" - BADFINGER
"Man Of The World" - FLEETWOOD MAC
"Racing In The Street" - SPRINGSTEEN
"Unsatisfied" - THE REPLACEMENTS
~that one fuckin' song the doe sings to Rudolph....I'm NOT kidding!
"When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" - ROY HARPER
---shit,,,too tired to think more and I know these were oldies off the top of my head,,,I seem to tire of the trendy 'emo of the day...
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 16, 2006 23:21:27 GMT -5
Moon River - Andy Williams
Smile - The Charlie Chaplin tune...not sure who it was did the definitive one...
People - Barbara Streisand
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Post by wayved on Dec 17, 2006 0:18:45 GMT -5
Ayinger--STRAIGHT THE FU*K UP--that song that that female deer sings to rudolph is a tearjerker str8 up! (haha) I cant believe I forgot UNSATISFIED by the Replacements too....
Pet Sounds is a sad sad record. But its hopeful. The vocal melodies underpin it all and make it all the more beautiful and it seems happy at first blush. BEACH BOYS TODAY hits it too. Not happy AT ALL.
"Show Me" by the Pretenders--I forgot all about that one.
"How To Fight Loneliness" by Wilco. Woah.
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Post by wayved on Dec 17, 2006 0:20:15 GMT -5
"Happy Heart" by Andy Williams
The ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS ALBUM too.
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Post by Proud on Dec 17, 2006 0:56:02 GMT -5
La, great calls on Tears in Heaven and She's Leaving Home. Both of those (the latter in particular... it's certainly on a Golden Slumbers level to me) came very close to making my list. Stop Crying Your Heart Out's a great tune, though when I think of sad Oasis songs, I personally consider their "We're getting older and material culture isn't as fun for us as it used to be and now we may as well die" songs... Where Did It All Go Wrong, Getting Older, and Sunday Morning Call, to name a few.
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