Orphees return originally by Philip Glass gets me
Sad songs are the best ones....
Blood Embrace - Bonnie Prince Billy
Do I Wait - Ryan Adams
Just about anything by Cat Power (good call no teeth above) but esp for Blue & Metal Heart
Annabelle - Gillian Welch
Always coming back to you -Scott Walker
We Dance - Pavement
On The Beach - Neil Young
My Drug Buddy - Lemonheads
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens (John Wayne Gacy Jr to now I think on it...)
Sweet Surrender & Hong Kong Bar - Tim Buckley
One of these good old days - Al Green
So this is goodbye - Stina Nirdenstam
To Love Somebody - Flying Burrito Brothers
And for some reason We Are Family - Sister Sledge
I could go on. And on.
If I walk to work (6 miles) with the Walkman on shuffle, there's usually something comes up and hits me...
chewkw - Member
Anything by ABBA, Bee Gees and Carpenter ... so sad ... no fairy tale ending for most of them. Failed marriage with members (female members particularly) ended up alone in their latter years dead young brothers, and dead sister with angelic voice.
Very true, chewkw. Karen Carpenter singing [i]Goodbye To Love[/i] is so damned sad and poignant, when you know her history of having relationships deliberately interfered with because the other person wasn't felt to be suitable.
ABBA have all the internal relationship issues coming across in a lot of their music, but there are two in particular that are very melancholy; [i]The Day Before You Came[/i], and [i]Cassandra[/i]. The former does end positively, and it's one of my favourite ABBA songs, but [i]Cassandra[/i] is very sad, based on the mythological prophet and the fall of Troy.
Stupid, but it's a beautiful song that always makes me feel sad, despite it not being a factual story.
The strength of good songwriting and singing, I guess.
Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle
Even before I had 2 girls it would get me every time it came on the radio.
Hollies, 'He ain't heavy, he's my brother'
Great song, personal context too.
Earl Klugh,'Acoustic lady'
CountZero - MemberVery true, ...
As much as I love their songs I cannot bring myself to listen to them any more. For whatever reasons they just make me sad.
Another one perhaps is Deborah Harry from Blondie. Very sad.
Excellent thread!
Thought about it, decided on The Call by Regina Spektor, played it, discovered I was right. So now I'm listening to Us to cheer me up again. Cheers Reg!
I'll confess to not reading this whole thread yet - saving it for when the kids are in bed.
This is mine..
[i]...so Mary climb in. It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.[/i]
Which Side Are You On ? - Billy Bragg
Musette and Drums - Cocteau Twins
Beautiful Lies - B Complex
sc-xc
That is my favourite song, and that live clip is my favourite version of it. Just beautiful.
I always get goosebumps for the
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This caught me by surprise the first time I heard it:
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Also I'm still trying to track down a song my dad had on vinyl. A folk singer/guitarist, song is about a returning soldier throwing himself on a bomb at a train station. Think it may be the first time I was drawn fully into the lyrics of a song. No Idea who it was by.
[b]Electric Worry[/b]
is this the song your after ?
Unfitgeezer you nailed in seconds. I guess you may have known what you were looking for from my vague description. Internet points to you sir!
I shall probably give it a few listens.
Nimrod, Barbers Adagio, This bitter Earth (from Shuter Island - Donah Washington) Oh dear....
Oh, I just took a call.....my cousin was was just found dead at home.I didn't have a great deal to do with him but still...it puts things in perspective.
Any of the above will do the trick right now.
loads of tunes with emotional attachment but for what it's worth the following just for the song
Kirsten hursh - your ghost
pixies - gigantic
the smiths - suffer little children
radiohead - no surprises
loads of those already mentioned...
Joan Biaz version of 'and the band played waltzing matilda'
good riddance - green day
mozart's clarinet concerto, not stictly a 'song'
cavalleria rusticana - mascgni if I'm a bit tired.... many many other pieces
goodbye my lover james blunt - yes i know......
every time, lump in the throat and dust in the room (I think the first time I heard it I could have swore he sang "I couldn't feel her".....bad time to hear that and it just stuck)
And this, takes me right back to 92
Mention of Abba reminded me of this, those with daughters might want to stiffen upper lips!
I liked the Guy Clark track so much I bought the song, Mrs S says she thinks it's about me!! Thanks anagallis_arvensis.
Any gareth gates song or justin beiber song makes me cry.Not because im emotionally moved. 😉
Terry Jacks, Seasons in the sun
Some cracking tunes on this thread, I've spent more time on you tube than I ever have this last couple of days. Thanks to all for some truely dusty moments.
At the time Wires by Athlete had me reaching for hankies as we went through same with my girl when she was born.
Lots of the above, particulary nimrod I was at the November ceremonies at the Cenotaph in '96 and although we had spent about 4 weeks marching about and practicing for it all and listening to the music, it didnt really hit me until I was stood there in the rain that Sunday morning in Whitehall.
And the best Slade song ever how does it feel, always for some reason gets me at the back of the throat.
EDIT: I heard this song on 6music months The Unthanks, the testimony of patience kershaw. Based on a true tale of life in the mines for women.
Electric Worry - MemberThis caught me by surprise the first time I heard it:
Frank Turner - Long live the queen
It's a bit odd that one, in most ways it's one of his worst- terrible rhymes, mawkish lyrics, even the delivery's pretty poor. But I guess that all just makes it feel a bit less made and a bit more real.
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
Macy's Dat Parade - Green Day
You're All I Need - Radiohead
Right now? Now My Heart Is Full by Morrissey. Tail Lights Fade though...that's a song.
'Time to say Goodbye' Andrea Bocelli for me - not everyones taste i'm sure, but I can't listen to it without welling up...!
Oh boy. I've just flicked back through this thread. Amazing songs. A few more spring to mind - forgive me if they've already been mentioned:
Racing In The Street - Springsteen - get's me every time.
Let Him Roll - Guy Clark - I saw him play it at the Irish Centre in Brum and he brought it up to date to tell of his own father passing away.