SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good.....

[Chisai Fry]

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'

[HoyaSaxa03]

the smiths -- any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"

[brennser]

The The - 'August and September'

[ggw]

Bob Dylan - Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol

[tenfifteen]

:: 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

[jkeisenh]

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"

[jkeisenh]

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...

[joz]

the carpenters...superstar and rainy days and mondays

[tenfifteen]

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.

[jkeisenh]

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.

[tenfifteen]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  I will.
 And you're not invited.
 So there.

Awww. Now I have to write my own sad song.

[HoyaSaxa03]

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.
  [/b]

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!!!!!

[pip]

The British do sad better than anyone else...
 
 Coldplay - See You Soon
 Doves - The Cedar Room
 Elbow - Powder Blue
 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

[thirsty moore]

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.

[brennser]

Originally posted by pip:
  The British do sad better than anyone else...
 

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