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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Lansing, MI
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Damn it! Gotta pay more attention
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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In no particular order
Mein Herz Brennt-Rammstein Heading to Acadia-Runrig It's No Good-Depeche Mode With Or Without You-U2 Achilles Last Stand-Led Zeppelin The entire Benefit album-Jethro Tull Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd This Darkest Winter-Runrig Authentic Nova Scotia bagpipe innards |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: london and københavn
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'Miss Beverley' by the roots reggae singer Ijahman Levi, with the classic lyric 'It's not who you love/ But it's who loves you' is a powerful contender.
It's the close-to-tears gasp of refined heartbreak he sings it in, like someone just punched him the stomach, that tells you that someone just had a moment of clarity. And it told him to fire captive bolts into the twitching carcass of his romance. Ai me. I listen to it and go 'poor bastard.' gibberish |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Anything by Rammstein or the Mission Impossible II soundtrack (the score, not the song).
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Sharp, Pointy Teeth
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Like some of you, I try to avoid sad songs when I'm feeling low, but here are some on my list:
1,000 Oceans (Tori Amos) Streets of Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen) Colorblind (Counting Crows) When I'm Gone (3 Doors Down) No one's Home (Avril Lavigne) I Grieve (Peter Gabriel) Remember When It Rained (Josh Groban) Con Te Partiro (Andrea Bocelli) Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss) Silence (Delerium & Sarah McLachlan) Damaged (Plumb) Teardrop/Inertia Creeps (Massive Attack) Deliver Me (Sarah Brightman) Afterglow Album (Sarah McLachlan) Innocent/Superman's Dead (Our Lady Peace) Concrete Angel (Martina McBride) Breakaway Album (Kelly Clarkson) Most of these songs seriously carry me (emotionally/mentally) back to specific bad/hard times in my life (just as some happy songs take me to certain happy moments). Anyone else experience that (a lot? intensely?)? It's good to reflect on, digest, and transition from those moments, but sometimes I'd rather not go there and the darn song comes on, you know? "The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself." ~Michel de Montaigne |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I will do my best to narrow my "sad" songs to a top ten list.
She Ionized and Atomizes - Modest Mouse Crack Pipes - Sage Francis Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana Oh comely - Neural Milk Hotel Write a Letter Home - Jackie Greene Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple Sorry but its Over - Dredg Misery is the River of the World - Tom Waits Life in a Glass House - Radiohead That was more difficult than i thought, i have way to many sad songs. Those ones seem to get the most play though. The Sage Francis, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Nirvana albums from which the above songs are on end up in my cd player quite a bit when i am feeling down. |
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Oh yeah, I think I forgot Streets Of Phildelphia and All That Could've Been and Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Everyones picked some interesting choices. Heres the saddest songs that come to mind in no particular order:
Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor('Moonlight') 1st Movement - Beethoven Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins (now tell me you don't get goosebumps!) Emotion Sickness - Silverchair Teardrop - Massive Attack Silence - Delerium Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse (I find this really emotional in good surround sound setup) Painted On My Heart - The Cult Iris - Goo Goo Dolls (Very sad, remember City of Angels?) Not quite so sad, depends on your mood but nevertheless good songs: Always Worth It, Don't You Ever, etc. - Sarah Blasko. The whole album is good in this topic, "The Overture And The Underscore" Twenty Years - Placebo Oceania - Björk Liar, Zombie, etc. - The Cranberries Crazy Life - Toad The Wet Sprocket To You I Bestow - Mundy How To Be Dead - Snow Patrol Overkill - Colin Hay Hold On Hope - Guided By Voices Heartbeats - José Gonzales Enjoy, theres some real keepers there. |
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i know its more modern day but any1 listened to three doors down- here without you...this has to be my favourite song at the moment..its really sad and makes me think of my girlfriend all the time..let me know what ppl think it???
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i'm a sap....
hello its me by todd rundgren romeo and juliet by dire straits alison by elvis costello and for some reason i'll listen to the beatles and the jam when sad now to break out of the sadness i tend to go punk with the clash and the buzzcocks and the ramones...throw in some talking heads and costello too and bowie and prince...who can be sad listening to early bowie or early prince? costello seems to cross over...the jam too...early jam gets me upbeat, later jam tends to make me reflective and saddish (like a raddish...actaully nothing like a raddish, but it rhythms with saddish) g crazy is not a rare human condition everything is food if you chew hard enough |
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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Listening to sad songs when you're sad? Perfect time for this thread to re-emerge. I fear I'm an expert on the topic
10. To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens 9. Vienna - The Fray 8. Between the Bars - Elliott Smith 7. It's All Understood - Jack Johnson 6. Wonderwall - Oasis 5. Twilight - Elliott Smith 4. The Scientist - Coldplay 3. Metamorphosis Five - Phillip Glass 2. Look After You, Acoustic - The Fray And the best song to listen to when you're sad? 1. Look After You - The Fray iTunes linked for your enjoyment Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end. Last edited by Kraetos : 2008-05-25 at 23:27. |
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Jesus Christ... reading this thread again, I was really lame at 15.
I've recently fallen in love with Soundtrack To a Vacant Life, a new album by The Flashbulb (pseudonym of musician Benn Jordan); I was originally drawn to it by the neat-sounding genre name (Intelligent Dance Music). You ask me for a hamburger. |
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Severed - Mudvayne
Just about anything by Neil Young before (and including since it is a greatest hits compilation) Decade. |
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here comes goodbye - rascal flatts
my dad just passed away last week and i think i've listened to this song on repeat over a hundred times |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
Welcome to AN. |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: london and københavn
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We have sad songs for a reason. Don't overdo it though. Just as many as you need to remember properly, I guess. If that's what sad songs are for. What are sad songs for, actually? Thanks for bumping this thread, and welcome. gibberish |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I don't know. Probably for the same reason(s) there are sad books, movies, plays, etc.? It's just part of it all. The happy and the sad, the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, etc. One makes you appreciate - or notice - the other.
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: london and københavn
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Yes. But it’s funny that we turn to sad things when we feel sad.
I’m not thinking of Robert Johnston, say, whose life was a catastrophe but whose blues make you feel better (probably because you’re reminded that you’re not him when you hear them and this can only be a positive thing, no matter what kind of a state you’re in.) I just saw Synechoche New York last week, and it’s the best advertisment for suicide I’ve ever seen. I liked it. I hate the music of Joy Division, on the other hand, because it’s kinda inhuman (to my ears, anyway.) gibberish |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I'm not really a fan of sad songs either. I'd rather go through life smelling roses. I'll hit thorns along the way, I don't need a song to do it for me.
There was a song my Alabama though I used to listen to before I got custody of my daughter. "In Pictures" or something like that. I hated it but it seemed to ring true so much since she lived 2000 miles away. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Synechoche NY becomes pretty amazing after the first fifteen minutes... really changes.
I like Bauhaus. Still like Bauhaus. And I respect Joy Division, too... I just hate their music. And I've owned all their albums at one time or another. I sort of hated their music even when I listened to it a lot. gibberish |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Mel-Bun!
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Like A Stone- Audioslave. The song is rockin' but Chris Cornell's lyrics are a little haunting.
With or Without You - U2. This song really hit me when it was played in an Australian movie whose name I have forgotten. It was right after the main character finds out her boyfriend committed suicide. Wife and I were weeping. Losing My Religion-REM Not For You- Pearl Jam November Rain & Don't Cry -G'n'R Change The World - Eric Clapton & Babyface Specialists are people who know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing. Generalists are people who know less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything. I'm somewhere in the middle. |
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Still trying to pin down my sad song...I made a tape back then in '84 with a variety of artist's sad songs...I might even still have the tape back home. Though I doubt it. If any come to mind I'll check YouTube and link them here. "I always question the received reality. The consensus reality is often intentionally misleading." - George Carlin |
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Bauhaus it ain't.
Sad it is. Maxwell: This Woman's Work. Go on. Give it a try. What's the worst that can happen? |
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That's Peter Murphy, who is an amazing solo act. I thought this was a nice take of the song.
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Øh i agree, absolutely. Hey my iphone is in scandinavian.
Maxwell ... Dont get the cigar. I listen to a lot of 'proper' old soul and i was never quiiite convinced my Maxwell. This song is sad, though. Did you see the bauhaus reunion gigs? They kicked the ASS. See on youtube. Kick the arse. I am in a café in copenhagen. Iphone good. gibberish |
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