What songs do you listen when you are sad?

[Villavic]

when you are sad.. or you got the blues.. what songs do you like to listen, to keep sad?

these days I choose
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Storms - FM
Goddby yellow brick road - Elton J.
Why - Annie Lennox

[foxyluva]

Tori Amos - Winter
Tori Amos - China
Tori Amos - Baker Baker

[chiliD]

I haven't really been "sad" for quite a while...and I try not to dwell on sad times. :shrug:

[carrie721]

Tori Amos - Winter
Tori Amos - China
Tori Amos - Baker Baker

tori depresses me too ;)

I haven't really been "sad" for quite a while...and I try not to dwell on sad times. :shrug:

pollyanna :D

i listen to patty griffin.

[chiliD]

pollyanna :D

I'll take that as a compliment.

Actually, when I do hit a "sad" time, I DON'T listen to music, I MAKE music. Playing guitar is VERY cathartic.

[carrie721]

I'll take that as a compliment.

Actually, when I do hit a "sad" time, I DON'T listen to music, I MAKE music. Playing guitar is VERY cathartic.

i was kidding, i didn't mean it in a bad way ;)

and i missed the last bit of villavic's post - i don't listen to music that'll make me keep feeling bad, i listen to music that comforts me. thus, patty griffin. :woohoo:

[DrummerDeanna]

I'm incapable of listening to happy and uplifting music when I'm down...so I do listen to music that totally just "fits" my mood. Sarah McLachlan is good for that, Storms is good....I can't really think of any specifics...it totally depends on the degree of sad :p

[Rickypt]

Red Dirt Girl

[carrie721]

Red Dirt Girl

ooh, that one's good. that and the pearl and michelangelo.

[priestofnothing]

Lots of Cowboy Junkies and Townes Van Zandt. Two of my favorite artists.

Both have really beautiful sad sad songs in their catalogs. In a way, when I listen to them though, they make me feel better. I'm not sure why, but they do.

[ryan8472]

The Mac - Angel
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
Pretenders - Night In My Veins

etc

I'm listening to that happy playlist right now actually!

[foxyluva]

tori depresses me too ;)


I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing :laugh:

ooh, that one's good. that and the pearl and michelangelo.

The whole album really. "Bang the Drum" especially.

[JazmenFlowers]

The whole album really. "Bang the Drum" especially.
amen. :nod:

any Tori Amos, but especially Little Earthquakes, and for some reason, Sandy Stewart's Cat Dancer album

[rbs3676]

When I am down, I listen to old Joni Mitchell and Morrissey. For some insane reason, they make me happy -- and I am over whatever it was that initially made me down. :laugh:

I love the power of music...

rbs

[Tee Dee]

Every Rose Has its Thorns (Poison)
Learning to Fly (Tom Petty)
Roll Me Away (Bob Seger)
The End of the Line (The Travelin' Wilburys)
Somebody to Love (Queen)
'39 (Queen)

I only stay sad for about an hour, because "music saves my mortal soul" --- Thank you Don McLean (Bye, Bye Miss American Pie reference)

[irishgrl]

Sad Lisa -- Cat Stevens
I am Sailing -- Rod Stewart
I dont wanna talk about it -- Rod Stewart
I wanna know what love is -- Foreigner
Who wants to live forever -- Queen

Im sure there's more....

[xdreamsunwindx]

I group sad music, angsting music & drinking music together.

Albums I always listen to when I'm sad -
Any and all Joy Division
Any and all Stooges albums - I like angry music when I'm sad
U2 - "Achtung Baby" (got me through more **** than I can even explain)
No Doubt - "Return Of Saturn" (the ultimate heartbreak record)
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
X - "Los Angeles"
Lots of 10,000 Maniacs & Natalie Merchant
The Pretenders - "Loose Screw," "Pretenders II"
"The Velvet Underground & Nico", and of course, "Loaded"
Paul Collins' Beat - "Flying High"
Nico - "Chelsea Girl"
Janis Joplin - "Pearl"
Dusty Springfield - "Dusty In Memphis"
Lucinda Williams - "West," "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road"
Rilo Kiley - "More Adventurous"
Aretha Franklin - "I Never Loved A Man The Way That I Love You"
Otis Redding - "Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul"
Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffitti"
Sonic Youth - "Daydream Nation"

Makes me feel better -
The Cynics - "Cynicism" (garage rock makes me feel better)
Gore Gore Girls - "Up All Night" (hard-partyin' chicks in gogo boots? YES)
The Paybacks - "Knock Loud," "Love, Not Reason"
Nikki Corvette - "Wild Record Party"
Blondie - Paralell Lines
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - "Blank Generation"
Anything by The Exploding Hearts, The Epoxies, The Avengers, blah blah blah

Songs -
Johnny Thunders, or Ronnie Spector - "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory"
Dolly Parton - "Coat Of Many Colors," "Here You Come Again" (who HASN'T related to that song at one time or another?)
Loretta Lynn - "Coal Miner's Daughter" (great for drinkin' away yer troubles)
The Clash - "Train In Vain (Stand By Me)"
Elvis Costello - "Alison"
Janis Joplin - "Bye Bye Baby," "To Love Somebody," "Ball And Chain"
Loads of girl group tunes - Ronettes, The Crystals, Shangri-Las, Mary Wells, etc, etc

There's more, but this is all I can think of right now.

[Villavic]

Actually, when I do hit a "sad" time, I DON'T listen to music, I MAKE music. Playing guitar is VERY cathartic.

I wish I could do that

[rbs3676]

In a way, when I listen to them though, they make me feel better. I'm not sure why, but they do.

I feel that way about Joni Mitchell. When I am down, I always play some Joni. Somehow, her songs put my pieces together again.

I love the healing power of music.

rbs

[UnwindedDreams]

Enchanted-Stevie Nicks

[foxyluva]

I feel that way about Joni Mitchell. When I am down, I always play some Joni. Somehow, her songs put my pieces together again.


Especially Night Ride Home. That record is my everything :cool:

[Josh2003]

Rufus Wainwright is good for sad.

Some of his best for "sad": Dinner at Eight, Harvester of Hearts, Want, Vicious World, Waiting for a Dream.

And now the pathetic part: I actually have a "sad" playlist...I haven't listened to it in a while, but it includes:

Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Jason Mraz - Absolutely Zero
Jewel - Foolish Games
Lifehouse - Everything
Dolly Parton - The Grass is Blue


And a few others.

I'm in a bummed mood, so maybe I'll listen to it tonight.

[EveryHour]

"Lilac Wine" or "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley. Jesus.

[elie]

I agree on "Hallelujah". Usually I pick John Cale's version.

"Marianne", Tori Amos.
"Not the Red Baron", Tori Amos.
"Storms" FM
"Playboy Mommy" Tori Amos (that one always makes me cry)

Now if I want to feel better:

"Sara" (of course) FM
"Rear view mirror" Pearl Jam
"Mr. Zebra" , Tori Amos
"One", U2

[JazmenFlowers]

Dolly Parton - The Grass is Blue
:nod:
"Storms" FM
"Playboy Mommy" Tori Amos (that one always makes me cry)
:nod:

[JazmenFlowers]

adding to great Dolly songs...

Heartbreaker
You're the Only One
But You Know I Love You
Think About Love

love these...especially Heartbreaker when I'm sad.

[mikeschmike]

adding to great Dolly songs...

Heartbreaker
You're the Only One
But You Know I Love You
Think About Love

love these...especially Heartbreaker when I'm sad.

Yes yes yes! I was just listening to some Dolly on the way into work this morning.

"Yes I'm on the road
Once again it seems..."

[JazmenFlowers]

Yes yes yes! I was just listening to some Dolly on the way into work this morning.

"Yes I'm on the road
Once again it seems..."
marry me? y/n? :D

I guess we're promising a lot
but for now, it's all we got
and I'll stand by you through our rockin' years

[mikeschmike]

marry me? y/n? :D

I guess we're promising a lot
but for now, it's all we got
and I'll stand by you through our rockin' years

I accept! Let's have happier songs at the wedding tho, k? :xoxo:

For sad songs, I also nominate the Chicks' Cold Day in July and Without You.

[carrie721]

I accept! Let's have happier songs at the wedding tho, k? :xoxo:

For sad songs, I also nominate the Chicks' Cold Day in July and Without You.

can i perform the ceremony?

[estranged4life]

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Bonnie Tyler
"Everything's Fine"- House of Shakira
"My Immortal" - Evanescence
"Save Your Love" - Great White
"Estranged" - Guns N'Roses

Edit: Forgot an obvious one -
"I Wont Rain All the Time" - Jane Siberry

[mikeschmike]

can i perform the ceremony?

Only if you dress like in the Sophia pirate costume. :nod:

[carrie721]

Only if you dress like in the Sophia pirate costume. :nod:

that's the plan! your first dance will be the miami song.

miami, you're sweeter than ...
and intrauterine ...

[Josh2003]

that's the plan! your first dance will be the miami song.

miami, you're sweeter than ...
and intrauterine ...

It does NOT belong in a song!

[carrie721]

^right on! :laugh:

oh, and i just realized i typed "sweeter" instead of "cuter." damn alzheimer's.

[DavidMn]

Wild Horses- The Sundays
Fallen- Sarah McLachlan
Send In The Clowns- Judy Collins
Kite- Nick Heyward

[catinthedark]

i am a HUGE believer in owning my sadness. when i am sad, i put on the saddest music i own, and just let my heart break off piece by piece. my best friend actually calls and threatens to come over and take my ipod away.

the best for helping to rip out your heart:

Goodbye - Patty Griffin: oh my lord. "today my heart is big and sore. it's trying to push right through my skin"

Top of the World - also Patty Griffin

Sanvean - Dead can Dance

Maybe Not - Cat Power

We All Lose One Another - Jason Collett

Factory - Martha Wainwright

Breathe Me - Sia

[carrie721]

Goodbye - Patty Griffin: oh my lord. "today my heart is big and sore. it's trying to push right through my skin"

Top of the World - also Patty Griffin

patty kills me. especially goodbye - good grief. that woman is just mega talented.

when i'm sad i like to drive out to he country and wail along to "tony."

hey, tony, what's so
good about dyyyyin' ...

[catinthedark]

patty kills me. especially goodbye - good grief. that woman is just mega talented.

when i'm sad i like to drive out to he country and wail along to "tony."

hey, tony, what's so
good about dyyyyin' ...


oh. i hear ya. i have to say patty is all about the agony for me. i don't even really know her less depressing music. i'm not sure i need to. patty fuels my pain, and i love her for it.

[Josh2003]

^right on! :laugh:

oh, and i just realized i typed "sweeter" instead of "cuter." damn alzheimer's.

Shady Pines, Ma...

[sara1998]

Sarah McLachlan does me fine when I'm blue...

[CelticGypsy]

Ellan Vannin by the Bee Gees

And the Sun Will Shine by the Bee Gees

Sound of Love by the Bee Gees

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by the Bee Gees

Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You by Stevie Nicks

Beautiful Child by Stevie Nicks

Beauty and the Beast by Stevie Nicks

Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by either the Hollies or the Osmonds - hey they were good back in the day.

[gldstwmn]

Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan

Love Is - Stevie Nicks

Be Thankful For What You've Got - William DeVaughn

Jesus Loves Me - Whitney Houston

Que Sera Sera - Doris Day

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

One - U2 featuring Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

The Difficult Kind - Sheryl Crow

Anything But Down - Sheryl Crow

Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones

It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr

Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen

I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders

When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge

All My Sorrows - Lindsey Buckingham

Love Has No Pride - Linda Ronstadt

Going To California - Led Zeppelin

Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer

Breaking Us In Two - Joe Jackson

Miracles - Jefferson Airplane

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day

Beware Of Darkness - George Harrison

Why - Fleetwood Mac

I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James

Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John

Bell Bottom Blues - Derek & The Dominoes

Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Like A Rock - Bob Seger

Not Dark Yet- Bob Dylan

Wiser Time - The Black Crowes

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Bee Gees

Yesterday- The Beatles

The Warmth Of The Sun - The Beach Boys

Melissa - The Allman Brothers


There are probably a bunch more but these are some of the ones on my iTunes.

[gldstwmn]

I haven't really been "sad" for quite a while...and I try not to dwell on sad times. :shrug:

Amen. I try to listen to upbeat music. When I was younger I was into the more sorrowful aspect of songs.

[JazmenFlowers]

Breathe Me - Sia

I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
:nod: :nod: :nod:

[michelle2677]

i am a HUGE believer in owning my sadness. when i am sad, i put on the saddest music i own, and just let my heart break off piece by piece. my best friend actually calls and threatens to come over and take my ipod away.



omg dude. me too. I want to saturate myself in it and get over it for real. not just "pretend" everything is o.k. and turn on happy **** . happy **** ain't my style :laugh:

lesse-


beauty and the beast-stevie nicks
I'll stand by you- pretenders
crush-dave matthews band
storms-fm
total eclipse of the heart-bonnie tyler
here without you-3 doors down
sometimes love just ain't enough-pattie smyth/don henley
how can I help you to say goodbye-patty loveless
simple kind of life-no doubt
insensitive-jann arden
i can't make you love me-bonnie raitt
smile at you(angry version)-stevie/fm
like we never loved at all-faith/tim

but those are all just from the general sadness category but it really all depends on why I'm sad. if it's because of a boy-silver springs all the way.

[estranged4life]

To add to the songs I added, when I'm sad I'm a miserable and EMO bastard, who would rather wallow in his misery than cheer up.

[DavidMn]

Another one for me during sad times is:

I Started A Joke- The Bee Gees. One of the most beautiful songs Ive ever heard! Just magnificent

[xdreamsunwindx]

I can't believe I forgot this tune - "Ball And Chain" by Social Distortion. One of the greatest, most beautiful songs of all time.

Well it's been ten years and a thousand tears
And look at the mess I'm in
A broken nose and a broken heart,
An empty bottle of gin
Well I sit and I pray
In my broken down Chevrolet
While I'm singin' to myself
There's got to be another way

Take away, take away
Take away this ball and chain
Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain
Take away, take away
Never to return again
Take away, take away
Take away
Take away this ball and chain

Well I've searched and I've searched
To find the perfect life
A brand new car and a brand new suit
I even got me a little wife
But wherever I have gone
I was sure to find myself there
You can run all your life
But not go anywhere

Take away, take away
Take away this ball and chain
Well I'm sick and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain
Take away, take away
Never to return again
Take away, take away
Take away
Take away this ball and chain

Well I'll pass the bar on the way
To my dingy hotel room
I spent all my money
I've been drinkin' since half past noon
Well I'll wake there in the mornin'
Or maybe in the county jail
Times are hard getting harder
I'm born to lose and destined to fail

Take away, take away
Take away this ball and chain
Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain
Take away, take away
Never to return again
Take away, take away
Take away
Take away this ball and chain

Mike Ness' voice and lyrics are so great. There's something very real about him. Loves.

[DeadliestPoison]

Typically anything that will keep me sad.

Goin' through the iTunes:
Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty, High On Sunday 51, This Is How It Goes, Invisible Ink, Today's The Day, The Moth, It's Not, Fourth Of July, Stupid Thing, I've Had It, Wise Up, Save Me, Satellite, Video, Little Bombs, That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart
Arrah & the Ferns - Southern Comfort
Babble - Hold The Sky
Beth Gibbons - Funny Time Of Year, Candy Says
Blondie - Rules For Living, The Dream's Lost On Me
Casey Stratton - Cellophane, I Can't Make You Love Me
Cat Power - The Greatest, Wonderwall
Charlotte Gainsbourg - AF607105
The Church - Under The Milky Way
Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet - Lux Aeterna
Conjure One & Poe - Center Of The Sun
The Creatures - Killing Time
The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
DeVotchKa - The Last Beat Of My Heart
The Elected - 7th September 2003, Greetings In Braille, A Response To Greed
Elvis Costello - Alison
Emilie Autumn - Hollow Like My Soul, I Don't Care Much, Ever, Remember, What If, Mad Girl, The Art Of Suicide, Shalott, Photographic Memory, Gloomy Sunday, A World Of My Own
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Doctor Blind, The Lottery
Fiona Apple - Sullen Girl, Sally's Song
Frou Frou - Let Go
Garbage - Medication
The Good Life - Inmates
Imogen Heap - Hide & Seek, Hallelujah, Speeding Cars
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - You Are What You Love
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Broad Ripple Is Burning, A Sea Chanty of Sorts, Jen Is Bringing The Drugs, Dress Me Like A Clown
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Métisse - Boom Boom Bâ
Midlake - Young Bride
Neko Case - Outro With Bees, Tightly, Look For Me (I'll Be Around), I Wish I Was The Moon, Runnin' Out Of Fools, Ghost Wiring, Knock Loud, In California, Margaret Vs. Pauline, Porchlight, Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis, Hex, Duchess
Nelly Furtado - Scared Of You, Onde Estás, Try, Build You Up
Olive - Trickle
Patti Smith - Elegie, Beneath The Southern Cross, Cartwheels, Helpless, Pasttime Paradise, Perfect Day, Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect, Everybody Hurts
Paul Schwarz - Veni Redemptor Gentium
Placebo - Twenty Years, Running Up That Hill
Poe - Haunted, Spanish Doll, Amazed, If You Were Here, Fly Away
PORTISHEAD - ROADS, Elysium, Over, Undenied
The Pretenders - Human, Samurai, Chill Factor, Hymn To Her, Kid, I Hurt You, Criminal, Creep, 977, Forever Young, Goodbye, The Needle & The Damage Done, Angel Of The Morning, I Go To Sleep
Regina Spektor - Samson, The Flowers, Chemo Limo
Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won't Come Out, So Long, A Better Son/Daughter, Papillon, Asshole, Ripchord, Absence Of God, A Man/Me/Then Jim, Somebody Else's Clothes, It Just Is, A Town Called Lucky, Simply Irresistible, Xmas Cake, American Wife, Science Vs. Romance, Plane Crash In C
Sia - Breathe Me
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Obsession, Melt!, Face To Face, I Promise, I Could Be Again, Carousel, The Last Beat Of My Heart, Rhapsody, Forever, Little Sister, The Ghost In You, Hall Of Mirrors, Strange Fruit, Lullaby
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
This Story - An Old Slave Hymnal
Tilly and the Wall - Lost Girls, Coughing Colors, Bessa
Tom Petty - Crawling Back To You
Tom Waits - Time
Tori Amos - Horses, Hey Jupiter (Dakota Version), Smells Like Teen Spirit, Spark, Jackie's Strength, iieee, Northern Lad, Playboy Mommy, Pandora's Aquarium, Crucify, Winter, Me And A Gun
The Watson Twins - Shoot The Lights Out
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Turn Into, The Diamond Sea

I like sad stuff idk

[darklinensuit]

Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin
Think About It, Straight Back, Battle of the Dragon - SN
Desperadoes Under the Eaves - Warren Zevon
Yerushalaim Shel Zahav - Ofra Haza
Desperado - The Eagles
Southern Accents - Tom P.
Jackie Brown - John Mellencamp
Helpless - Crosby SN&Y
Midnight Voyage - Mamas & the Papas
All Fired Up - Pat Benatar
Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
Moon River - Andy Williams

I'm sure there are others.

- Jake W.