What's Your Favorite Sad Song?

cliffdweller · #1 04-28-2005, 01:46 PM

This may be a recent topic, but I was watching that Elton John vid "I Guess That's Why They Call it The Blues" (or whatever it's really called lol!) this morning on VH-1 Classics and thinking about how sad the song and vid are and how much I used to LOVE this song when I was like 10 or so. Anyway, other sad songs I love:

"I've Been Away" by Kathleen Edwards on her new album "Back to Me" just rips my heart out. I literally tear up every time I listen to it.

I also think Neil Young has some of the saddest songs I've ever heard: Birds, I Believe in You, After the Goldrush--just to name a few.

"Blue" by Joni Mitchell gets me too.

So what are your favorite sad songs?

all the same · #2 04-28-2005, 01:58 PM

Sad music is my favorite!!!

Morrissey: I've Changed My Plea to Guilty/Will Never Marry
The Cure: Trust/The Loudest Sound
Emmylou Harris: Goodbye/Prayer in Open D
Tori Amos: Hey Jupiter/Sugar
Patty Griffin: Useless Desires/When It Don't Come Easy/Nobody's Crying
Erasure: Stay With Me
Loreena McKennitt: Dante's Prayer
Ani Difranco: Dilate
Meshelle N'Degéocello: Bitter
Peter Gabriel: I Grieve
The Smiths: Asleep
Kent: 747
Tanita Tikaram: I might Be Crying/Lovers in the City
Kate Bush: Under the Ivy/This Woman's Work
Joni Mitchell: A Case of You

I could go on!!!

cliffdweller · #3 04-29-2005, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by all the same

Emmylou Harris: Goodbye/Prayer in Open D

Good choice.

This reminds me..."All I Left Behind" by Emmylou from the Western Wall album she did with Linda Ronstadt make me cry every time I hear it.

eclipse · #4 04-29-2005, 11:26 AM

Linda R- Someone to lay down beside me- Written by Karla Bonoff but Linda does a great job of it-very sad and lonely song. Forgot about that one
~~eclipse

all the same · #5 04-29-2005, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Good choice.

This reminds me..."All I Left Behind" by Emmylou from the Western Wall album she did with Linda Ronstadt make me cry every time I hear it.

Going to listen to it right now. Doesn't ring a bell, but I have that album and love it! I can't believe I can't think of the song. LOVE EMMYLOU!!!

all the same · #6 04-29-2005, 11:30 AM

How about Strong Hand by Emmylou Harris? She wrote it for Johnny Cash after June Carter Cash died. If that doesn't move you to tears, you have a heart of stone!

TheBlueLamp · #7 04-29-2005, 12:45 PM

I have heaps of favourite sad songs...my "Sad" playlist on the comp has around 250 songs, but the best (imo) are:

Faces - Blondie
English Boys - Blondie
(Can I) Find The Right Words (To Say) - Blondie
Boys In The Trees - Carly Simon
That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon
In Pain - Carly Simon
Uncool - Courtney Love
We Used To - Dolly Parton
You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart - Eurythmics
Don't Ask Me Why - Eurythmics
Cup Of Coffee - Garbage
Bleed Like Me - Garbage
A Stroke Of Luck - Garbage
You Look So Fine - Garbage (I love all of their slower 'down' stuff)
Safe And Sound - Sheryl Crow ( I don't think anyone's mentioned that yet..excellent song)
Home - Sheryl Crow
Rock A Little - Stevie

hayley · #8 04-28-2005, 02:00 PM

I'll think of a million more as soon as I post this.

Why- Annie Lennox
Blue- Lucinda Williams
Here Comes the Flood- Peter Gabriel
Wise Up- Aimee Mann
Never is a Promise- Fiona Apple
Moses (& all of Living With Ghosts)- Patty Griffin
Lover, You Should've Come Over- Jeff Buckley

ETA: Yeah, okay, I'm totally down with all the same's suggestion of Kate Bush's This Woman's Work, and I'll see his I've Changed My Plea to Guilty and raise with Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.

all the same · #9 04-28-2005, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by hayley

I'll think of a million more as soon as I post this.

Why- Annie Lennox
Blue- Lucinda Williams
Here Comes the Flood- Peter Gabriel
Wise Up- Aimee Mann
Never is a Promise- Fiona Apple
Moses (& all of Living With Ghosts)- Patty Griffin
Lover, You Should've Come Over- Jeff Buckley

ETA: Yeah, okay, I'm totally down with all the same's suggestion of Kate Bush's This Woman's Work, and I'll see his I've Changed My Plea to Guilty and raise with Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.

Totally forgot about Lucinda! She has some doozies! Love her! New live record comes out in a couple of weeks I think!

dissention · #10 04-28-2005, 02:23 PM

Deathly by Aimee Mann and Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage have always been my favorites.

Pisces Queen · #11 04-28-2005, 02:53 PM

There are several that will stop me in my tracks and break my heart;

Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
Beautiful Child - FM
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
November Rain - G&R
History Repeats Itself - A.O.S.

WildInTheWind · #12 04-28-2005, 03:05 PM

The only one I can think of right now is Fire and Rain by James Taylor. Oh...Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) is pretty sad, too.

wondergirl9847 · #13 04-28-2005, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Pisces Queen

Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
Beautiful Child - FM

Two of my favorite songs of all time.

amber · #14 04-28-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Pisces Queen

There are several that will stop me in my tracks and break my heart;

Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
.

Hey, is that the one that goes "she ran calling wiiiiiiiiiiiildfire, she ran calling wiiiiiiiiiildfire..." and it's about a horse? That song is really sad, I haven't heard it in years, though. Fire and Rain is sad, too, Becky. I always forget songs until someone else says them. Anyway, I thought of Sometimes, by No Doubt:

Sometimes sunshine
Does not want to shine on me
And sometimes I find myself blind
At first I cannot see and then I see it's me

I chose a road when I was young
In search of fun temptations won
And all my soul I did surrender
If I had a chance to go back now
Would I redeem my moral vows
Or would I repeat for my own laughter

From now on, I will behave, but in
The back of my mind, I will be enslaved
Repeat

Sometimes I hide somewhat
Like a bulb behind a shade
And sometimes I ask myself why
Is it cause the lights are too bright
Or because my eyes are closed too tight

Sometimes I find myself blind
Don't use my brain don't use my mind
Distorted feelings always leading my way
But I must forgive myself
and let the past lay down to rest
And be prepared to face myself in another day

From now on I will behave
But in the back of my mind I will be enslaved

hayley · #15 04-28-2005, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by all the same

Totally forgot about Lucinda! She has some doozies! Love her! New live record comes out in a couple of weeks I think!

I LOVE Lucinda. I should've put my favorite song of all time of hers, Side of the Road. And yes, the live album is out in May. There's a great cover story on her in the new issue of Tracks.