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chaz

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favorite sad songs
« on: May 17, 2006, 12:28:00 pm »
List 'em
 
 Good Feeling - Violent Femmes
 Hospital - Modern Lovers
 Here Comes a Regular - Replacements
 Holocaust - Big Star
 'Til I Die - Beach Boys
 
 I'm a sucker for a good tear jerker.

stu47

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2006, 12:36:00 pm »
Whiskeytown- Houses on The Hill
 Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye

BookerT

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2006, 12:43:00 pm »
i remember me -- silver jews
 basically anything by elliott smith, especially "the biggest lie," "waltz #2," "happiness," etc.
 
 good call on "hospital"

grotty

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2006, 12:43:00 pm »
Cure ~ Pictures of You
 Cure ~ Prayers for Rain
 Jeff Buckley ~ Lover, You Should Have Come Over
 Joe Henry ~ Fuse
 Doves ~ Cedar Room
 Prince ~ Purple Rain
 
 [edit] So many...
 
 Pearl Jam ~ Off He Goes
 Chris Whitley ~ New Lost World
 Radiohead ~ How To Disappear Completely
 Elbow ~ Switching Off
 Drive By Truckers ~ Goddamn Lonely Love
 Ugly Casanova ~ Cat Faces
 Mark Lanegan ~ 100 Days
 Mark Lanegan ~ Strange Religion
 Mojave 3 ~ Mercy

thirsty moore

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2006, 12:45:00 pm »
Yo La Tengo - Damage
 Sonic Youth - JC

amnesiac

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2006, 12:51:00 pm »
Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
 Two-Headed Boy Pt.2 - Neutral Milk Hotel
 Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
 A Stone - Okkervil River

TomJaworski

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2006, 12:59:00 pm »
The tail-end of The Smiths "Louder Than Bombs"...
 
  Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want  
  This Night Has Opened My Eyes    
  Unloveable      
  Asleep  
 
 Just crushing...

Venerable Bede

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2006, 01:30:00 pm »
cure- letter to elise
 bobby goldsboro- autumn of my life
 mark kozelek- round and round (john denver cover)
 red house painters- bubble; uncle joe; katy song; strawberry hill; have you forgotten
 flaming lips- do you realize
 harry chapin- cats in the cradle
 terry jacks- seasons in the sun
OU812

SalParadise

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2006, 01:38:00 pm »
patsy cline - "she's got you"

sacriforce

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2006, 01:45:00 pm »
Morphine - In Spite of Me
 Billy Bragg - St. Swithins Day
 
 2nd on "Here Comes The Regular"

pj

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2006, 01:48:00 pm »
Alison - Elvis Costello
 Time in a bottle - Jim Croce

pj

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2006, 01:49:00 pm »

eros

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2006, 01:53:00 pm »
The Everlasting - Manics
 Writing to Reach You - Travis
 Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
ʎɐʍou

SPARX

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2006, 01:55:00 pm »
Sad Song - Lou Reed

HoyaSaxa03

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Re: favorite sad songs
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2006, 02:07:00 pm »
Quote
Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
  The tail-end of The Smiths "Louder Than Bombs"...
I'd go with the one-two punch of:
 
 "I Know It's Over" and "Never Had No One Ever"
 
 almost unlistenable unless you're not in the right mood
(o|o)