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Post by phil on Dec 18, 2006 10:00:57 GMT -5
Sad and/or depressing ...
- Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
- Needle and the Damage Done ~ Neil Young
- Happy Xmas (War is Over)
- Imagine ~ John Lennon
- Whispering Pines ~ Richard Manuel (The Band)
- Sister Morphine ~ Marianne Faithfull
- Brothers in Arms ~ Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)
- Luka ~ Suzanne Véga
- Madame George ~ Van Morrison
- Cry For Me ~ Janis Joplin
- The Sound of Silence ~ Simon & Garfunkel
- Nothing Compares 2 U ~ Sinead O'Connor
- Knockin' on Heaven's Doors ~ His Bobness
- Total Eclipse of the Heart ~ Bonnie Tyler
- Half of Leonard Cohen's catalogue ...
And my favorite ...
- The Ballad of Casey Deiss ~ Shawn Phillips
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Dec 18, 2006 10:36:11 GMT -5
"She's Leaving Home" - the Beatles "For No One" - the Beatles "Till The Next Time We Say Goodbye" - Rolling Stones "Blues For Baby & Me" - Elton John "Expecting to Fly" - Buffalo Springfield (Neil Young) "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" - Bob Dylan "Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton "Unloveable" - the Smiths "Katy Song" and practically the entire Red House Painters catalogue "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones...okay, I'm in C&W territory now...I'd better stop before I turn suicidal.  The most depressing song in the world is anything by Billy Joel when I don't have access to the on/off switch. |
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Post by Paul on Dec 18, 2006 10:36:57 GMT -5
One of my favorite sad songs is "No More Looking Back" by the Kinks.
some of the lyrics:
"But lately Ive been going to
All the places that we once knew,
And just when I think that I am free of you
I keep seeing the things that remind me of you,
And just when I think youre out of my head
I hear a song that you sang or see a book that you read.
Then youre in every bar, youre in every cafe,
Youre driving every car, I see you everyday,
But youre not really there cos you belong to yesterday.
...Yesterdays gone and thats a fact,
Now theres no more looking back,
Perhaps someday Ill stop needing you,
Then maybe one day Ill be free of you."
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Being a big fan of Pearl Jam, they got some pretty good gut wrenchers too..."Off He Goes" comes to mind.
I don't have a list just yet, but I'll work on one.
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Post by Fuzznuts on Dec 18, 2006 10:44:55 GMT -5
Lonesome Suzie - The Band
Lump-in-the-throat Time.
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Post by luke on Dec 18, 2006 10:48:10 GMT -5
Beck's "Lost Cause" definitely is right up there for one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Absolutely depressing goddamn song. Would probably top my list if I made one. Although JAC is right to move into C&W territory. No one does it as good, and those who come close are always drifting into C&W territory. |
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Post by maarts on Dec 18, 2006 14:33:53 GMT -5
From Uncut:
The Verve’s "The Drugs Don’t Work" has topped a list of songs that make people feel sad, a scientist has found in research conducted on behalf of phone company Nokia.
Dr Harry Witchel, an expert in physiology and music, has measured physical reactions to music – heart rate, respiratory responses and skin temperatures to find song’s "tune trigger quotient".
In conjunction with the Official UK Charts Company, Dr. Witchel has also compiled lists of the happiest songs, measured by levels of sighs - as they indicate happy memory recollection, and exhilarating songs, measured by an increased breathing rate.
Dr Witchel commenting on the results said, "Music is undeniably powerful at triggering different emotional states. Changes in tempo and frequencies induce profoundly different emotional states. A slow tempo song like the Verve's The Drugs Don't Work slows down the heart
compared to most of the other songs and compared to white noise - in other words, it works like the emotional state of sadness.”
In contrast, the research found that Lily Allen’s “LDN”, Abba’s “Dancing Queen” and R.E.M’s “Shiny Happy People” were the ones guaranteed to bring on a smile.
Blur’s “Song 2” topped the ‘exhilerating’ songs list by quite some way, Witchel said, “I was surprised that Blur's Song 2 could be such a clear winner among our participants."
The research found that the saddest ten songs were:
1. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
2. Robbie Williams - Angels
3. Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
4. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
5. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
6. Will Young - Leave Right Now
7. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight?
8. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
9. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
10. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
and the happiest ten were:
1. Lily Allen - LDN
2. Abba - Dancing Queen
3. REM - Shiny Happy People
4. B52s - Love Shack
5. The Beatles - She Loves You
6. Beyonce - Crazy In Love
7. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
8. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - I've Had The Time Of My Life
9. The Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life
10. Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
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Post by maarts on Dec 18, 2006 14:41:19 GMT -5
I forgoThe Bed on my list. Also thought of:
Sigur Ros- Andvari
Marianne Faithfull- The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
Nina Simone- Strange Fruit
Vangelis- Tears In The Rain
Elkie Brooks- Lilac Wine
Tom Waits- well, probably his whole Asylum output I could mention but Ruby's Arms is a good 'un
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 18, 2006 14:43:20 GMT -5
Hey maarts, does Uncut mention how big of a pool of songs those scientists were working with? I wonder how they even chose which ones to test.
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Post by maarts on Dec 18, 2006 15:00:03 GMT -5
I think the research has sad mixed up with depressing. Especially 2,4,6,8 and 9 are balltearers of depressiveness.
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Post by dolly on Dec 18, 2006 17:24:01 GMT -5
Bright Eyes from Watership down. Poor Hazel  |
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Post by Fuzznuts on Dec 19, 2006 8:19:06 GMT -5
Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor - Eels
Actually, pretty much all of Electro-Shock Blues is a major bummer.
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Post by luke on Dec 19, 2006 9:47:16 GMT -5
Interesting, I don't think "The Drugs Don't Work" is even the saddest song on Urban Hymns.
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 19, 2006 18:14:28 GMT -5
...and Nat Cole did the definitive 'Smile'....
Dolly's Watership Down song reminded me of the perfectly heartrending 'Baby Mine' from the Dumbo movie.
Little elephant's Mom is locked in a wagon with locked, barred doors and windows and her trunk is caressing her son's face through the bars as she sings this song... *sniff!*
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Post by Ayinger on Dec 19, 2006 20:32:09 GMT -5
ok,,,,maybe Dumbo trumps my Rudolph moment.....
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 19, 2006 23:44:38 GMT -5
Hey! I just remembered they played that whole thing out in the Belushi flick, '1941' (a totally crazy movie where supposedly more $$ was spent on the stars' cocaine than for the movie itself) where this bunch of U.S. generals would go see friggin' Dumbo' to cry their eyes out at THAT scene....panned critically, but it's one hell of a movie especially when you're aware of all of its backstories.
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