The Best Sad Songs

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ChuckMetcalf

I'll start off with...

Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris

Her voice is angelic. It'll send shivers down your spine hearing this song.

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Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Shazzbot

I have a not-so-secret love affair with sad/meloncholy songs.

Act Naturally, and
Gone to the Movies, by Semisonic

Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground

shoot, I have sad song thinking block...

"Guests, if you are out there... LET ME KNOW *lights candles... opens arms... waits*" -BoulderDave

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: franklin_mint

just off the top of my head...

And So it Goes - billy joel

Somewhere - (west side story -- the song isn't sad unless it's in the context of the show)

Break Your Heart - barenaked ladies (from the live CD)

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ChuckMetcalf

And So It Goes is a beautiful song.

Call Me On Your Way Back Home by Ryan Adams is great too.

Love is fleeting but art never dies.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Nepenthe

Asleep by The Smiths

You gave me pain-free sleep

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Shazzbot

Not to get off the subject, but has anybody heard Neil Diamonds Song Sung Blue? It's for sure the cheese of all sad songs. I can't help but chuckle when I hear it.

"Guests, if you are out there... LET ME KNOW *lights candles... opens arms... waits*" -BoulderDave

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ChuckMetcalf

Hahaha. Neil Diamond, how I hate thee.

Upon listening to Emmylou Harris some more, I have to add her cover of The Beatles' "For No One" . Heartwrenching stuff.

Love is fleeting but art never dies.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: blackteeshirt

People actually like Neil Diamond? I thought all of his "fans" were being ironic.

I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in ten days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Shazzbot

Well, yes, notice I reffered to the song as "the cheese". I find it thoroughly amusing. Another example might be my love of the song Rhinestone Cowboy, or my long time fondness for country music.

"Guests, if you are out there... LET ME KNOW *lights candles... opens arms... waits*" -BoulderDave

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Imperiai2

Magic.

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My ferret likes jazz.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: gooseman

elizabeth on the bathroom floor - eels
efils god - eels
lost cause - beck

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Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: brent_krebs

Oasis - Sad Song

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: bencollinsmavs

Pasenger Seat -- Death Cab for Cutie

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: sparklle

Counting Crows - Colourblind.

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You think that you're too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite... you aren't.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: powrtocw

i've built periods of my life around finding depressing music

coldplay - trouble

ben harper - alone

ben harper - my beloved one

Ray Lamontagne - a bunch of his songs

lou reed - perfect day

elliot smith - white lady loves you more

the smiths - please please please let me get what i want

anything by the band dolorean

a lot of songs on the requiem for a dream soundtrack

for some reason, the luckiest depresses the hell out of me

nirvana - something in the way

bob dylan - your'e a big girl now

bob dylan - if you see her, say hello

and i can go on much longer...maybe later

they'll never catch me man.........cuz i'm fucking innocent

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: hattie

ryan adams - harder now that its over
ryan adams - touch feel and lose
counting crows - raining in baltimore
eric clapton - tears in heaven
the jayhawks - will i see you in heaven
jesse malin - god's lonely people
jesse malin - solitaire

..wow thats not all i could find..but i have quite sad music..well some of it.

..hatts..

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: hppyunderground

"the scientist" by coldplay

good luck exploring the infinite abyss

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: PianoBoyce

I'll go with "Sail Away Sweet Sister" and "Save Me" by Queen

"We could see you weren't yourself."

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Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: powrtocw

oh yeah, forgot ryan adams....

shadowlands is sad.....as is his version of wonderwall. actually, anything on his love his hell eps

they'll never catch me man.........cuz i'm fucking innocent

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: hppyunderground

"Amazing Grace" in any form kills me.

good luck exploring the infinite abyss

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: t41again

R.E.M. "Everybody Hurts"

Keep Listening!!
T41again

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: star slight

"Cathedrals," by Jump, Little Children.
"Here Comes A Regular," by the Replacements.
"The Warming Sun," by Grandaddy.
"Temporary Peace," by Anathema.
"House of Smoke and Mirrors," by Matthew Good.

‡‡‡
I want to vanish
This is my last request
I've given you the awful truth
Now give me my rest

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Imperiai2

Yea, The Scientist is pretty damn cool also.

--Imperiai2

In the year 2000: "...The American bald eagle will be taken off the protective species list, not because it's no longer endangered, but because it is a douche bag." -- David Duchovny

"I'm selling these fine leather jackets." -Threepwood, G.

My ferret likes jazz.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: emaline84

another lonely day- ben harper

i ♥ quirky boys

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Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Imperiai2

You post alot for being hungover.

--Imperiai2

In the year 2000: "...The American bald eagle will be taken off the protective species list, not because it's no longer endangered, but because it is a douche bag." -- David Duchovny

"I'm selling these fine leather jackets." -Threepwood, G.

My ferret likes jazz.

Dec 12th (6 years ago)

Posted by: justpretend

Sleeping- The Postal Service

love n huggles
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Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ben_freak

seasons in the sun
cats in the cradle
mad world (donnie darko version, NOT tears for fears)
hallelujah - rufus wainright
seems it never rains in southern california
living is without you
operator
anything by elliot smith...

AND last but not least ... EVAPORATED
makes me cry ever time i hear it

I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

Limb by limb, tooth by tooth, Tearing up inside of me,
Every day, every hour, I wish that I was bullet proof

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly

I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life... They'd shut me away.

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ilovebenfolds

There are two songs which make me cry every time I hear them. They are:

I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
No Way Out - Peter Gabriel

"My goat knows the bowling score, hallelujah."

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Neil Mace

Fred Jones: parts one and two surely

Alan: 'Oh yeah, I like the Beatles too'
Ben: 'Really? Whats your favourite Beatles album?'
Alan: 'Hmmm....I'd have to say ''The Best Of The Beatles'''

From I'm Alan Partridge

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: brent_krebs

still fighting it even

"I really like my job at Burger King," Richards said. "But I just couldn't give back the SpongeBob."