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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Chisai Fry on March 29, 2005, 10:39:00 am
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You know the ones, the songs that will just tear you up inside, or cause you to weep like a girly-man, yet you love to listen to them......
'cos they're that good.
Dead Can Dance - 'Host Of the Seraphim'
Dead Can Dance - 'American Dreaming'
Cranes - 'Fragile'
Slowdive - 'Blue Skied N' Clear'
Cure - 'Same Deep Water As You'
Mazzy Star - 'Still Cold'
Sonic Youth - 'The Diamond Sea'
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the smiths -- any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
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The The - 'August and September'
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Bob Dylan - Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol
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:: Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
:: Moz - Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
:: Bob Mould - The Next Time That You Leave
:: Sugar - The Slim
:: The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
:: Spoon - Anything You Want, Paper Tiger
:: Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
:: Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot, Mercy Street
:: Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line
:: Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah, also Lover You Should've Come Over
:: Elliott Smith - The White Lady Loves You More, also everything he ever recorded
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
the smiths -- any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
I wouldn't say that's a sad song.
Bright Eyes- "Messenger Bird Song" (warning- insanely sad. really really sad.)
Mountain Goats - "Your Belgian Things"
Radiohead- "Let Down"
and i might add death cab's "title and registration"
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Originally posted by tenfifteen:
:: Spoon - Anything You Want, Paper Tiger
umm... paper tiger is a love song, and one of my favorites at that. it's not sad at all, unless you think love is sad, and then maybe it's you and not the song that's sad...
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the carpenters...superstar and rainy days and mondays
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
umm... paper tiger is a love song, and one of my favorites at that. it's not sad at all, unless you think love is sad, and then maybe it's you and not the song that's sad... [/QB]
Ummm... it's one of my favorite songs too, which is why I listed it. Not sure why you'd presume to tell someone what to take away from a lyric, as if one interpretation could be wrong.
I'm quite aware of the content of the lyrics, but I don't think I'd call it a love song. There are some lines that remind me of various sad times...
"and if you and me is so right
why's it the same thing every night?"
"we go through all the same lines,
we sell out to appease
but go to sleep in a bed of lies,
i've made my own more than once or twice"
"and now time is my time time is my own
and I feel so alive yet feel so alone"
Yeah, totally up song. Maybe if it makes you happy, then you should start a f**king parade.
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Originally posted by tenfifteen:
Yeah, totally up song. Maybe if it makes you happy, then you should start a f**king parade.
I will.
And you're not invited.
So there.
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
I will.
And you're not invited.
So there.
Awww. Now I have to write my own sad song.
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
the smiths -- any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
I wouldn't say that's a sad song.
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Take me out tonight
Where thereâ??s music and thereâ??s people
And theyâ??re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I havenâ??t got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and i
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please donâ??t drop me home
Because itâ??s not my home, itâ??s their
Home, and Iâ??m welcome no more
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party!!!!!
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The British do sad better than anyone else...
Coldplay - See You Soon
Doves - The Cedar Room
Elbow - Powder Blue
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
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Nico -- These Days
As for The Smiths -- I've Got a Nightlight On (and it will never go out), I think its levels of sadness and desperation will be discussed at the forum in Manchester. If you can attend, it's titled Where Are My Razors -- Morrissey and Misogynism.
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Originally posted by pip:
The British do sad better than anyone else...
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=624478 (http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=624478)
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Originally posted by brennser:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=624478
http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009610 (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009610)
:p
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Originally posted by ratioci nation:
Originally posted by brennser:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=624478
http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009610 (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009610)
:p [/b]
aaah yes, but my posting was in so much better context.....ya bollix!!!! :p
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Neil Young - Powderfinger
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i think "asleep" and "please, please, please let me get what i want" are much sadder than "there is a light". the latter is really a love song...i've always thought of it as more passionate and desperate than sad or depressing.
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Doves - 'Lost Souls'
New Order - 'Lonesome Tonight'
*boo hoo...
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Originally posted by joz:
i think "asleep" and "please, please, please let me get what i want" are much sadder than "there is a light". the latter is really a love song...i've always thought of it as more passionate and desperate than sad or depressing.
That's the way I see that one too. How about 'Never Had Noone Ever'. I think that pretty damn well qualifies as sad.
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Dear God - XTC
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Sad Song-Lou Reed
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
the smiths -- any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
"Please Please Please" kept me sane my sophomore year of college.
Senior year it was the Posies, "Like Me Too" and "Compliment?"
First year out of school, Bob Mould "See a Little Light" and "Wishing Well"
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Tracy Nelson: "Down So Low"
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Lush - "When I Die"
New Order - "Leave Me Alone"
Breathless - "Over and Over"
Lowlife - "Tocopherol"
Vitesse - "Late Morning"
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They Might Be Giants - They'll Need A Crain
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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
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One Tree Hill - U2
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I cannot believe no one posted the saddest song ever:
year 1968
Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
See the tree, how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad, the first day that she planted, it, was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die
Came runnin' in all excited, slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart, kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so
And I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her
When I came in from workin' late 'cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'
Over some sad and silly late, late show
And honey, I miss you and I'm bein' good
And I'd love to be with you if only I could
She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad but what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me and hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly and caught her cryin' needlessly
In the middle of a day
And it was in the early Spring when flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away
And honey, I miss you and I'm bein' good
And I'd love to be with you if only I could
One day while I was not at home while she was there and all alone
The angels came
Now all I have is memories of Honey and I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life's an empty stage where Honey lived and Honey played
And love grew up
And a small cloud passes overhead and cries down on the flower bed
That Honey loved
And see the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
And I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig
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Originally posted by Confssions of an Englsh Opium Eater:
One Tree Hill - U2
Great effing song. Red Hill Mining Town is still my fave from that disc for some reason, but One Tree Hill... wow, what a tune.
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Wow. The Bobby Goldsboro mention reminded me of a few of my "all-time" saddest songs. Was thinking of indie/alt songs, totally forgot old soul and country...
:: Otis Redding: Dreams to Remember & I've Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now)
:: Hank Williams: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry & Take These Chains
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Most, if not all, of Lou Reed's Berlin.
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Watching Scotty Grow -Bobby Goldsboro
Watching Scotty Die -Dead Milkmen
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seasons in the sun - terry jacks
when i was little it used to make me wail.......
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Define "Sad."
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonnaise, Soma
Eric's Trip - Behind the Garage
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (Alternate Version from Beehives)
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Portishead - Glory Box
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Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe"
"... That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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"Late For The Sky" - Jackson Browne
"Get Thee Gone" - Geraldine Fibbers
"Ambulance Driver" - Superdrag
"Troy" - Sinead O'Connor
"Shatter" - Liz Phair
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
seasons in the sun - terry jacks
when i was little it used to make me wail.......
http://www.slate.com/id/2114863 (http://www.slate.com/id/2114863)
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Originally posted by pip:
Originally posted by poorlulu:
seasons in the sun - terry jacks
when i was little it used to make me wail.......
http://www.slate.com/id/2114863 (http://www.slate.com/id/2114863) [/b]
That (http://img.slate.msn.com/media/50/Nirvana_SeasonsInTheSun-110k.wmv) is my new favorite tune. Kudos! Next time I throw a party and it's gettin' late and I wanna shoo the guests...I'll put that on the Hi-Fi.
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yeah nice job pip.......
i wouldn't have thought that song could be made any more depressing :(