What songs do you listen when you are sad?
 

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

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

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

tori depresses me too ;)

pollyanna :D

i listen to patty griffin.

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:

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

Red Dirt Girl

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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)

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....

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.

I wish I could do that

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

Enchanted-Stevie Nicks

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

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.

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

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

:nod:
:nod:

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..."

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.

can i perform the ceremony?

Hmmm...
 

"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

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 ...

It does NOT belong in a song!

^right on! :laugh:

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

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

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

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.

Shady Pines, Ma...