10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
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10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
QotD: What song makes you feel sad everytime you hear it?
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"A Quitter" by Rasputina messes me up everytime.
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"Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" by Spiritualized
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A few, but Brick by Ben Folds Five comes easily to mind.
"Out of all I've learned in Life,
You always keep your friends close to your heart,
cause they'll help you if you're falling down..."
- The Ataris - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, B, A, Start
You always keep your friends close to your heart,
cause they'll help you if you're falling down..."
- The Ataris - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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I don't know why, but the acoustic version of "Couldn't You Wait" by Silkworm really gets to me.
"Yes, I am a Muppet with B.O.; this song speaks to me." - Manhattan Glutton
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Doesn't make me physically cry (as I have no soul); but damn it's achingly, beautifully sad ... (apologies if this doesn't work outside of the good ol' U of K) ...
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Welcome to the Black Parade by MCR has always had a special meaning to me. Only it isn't my Father I think of, but a now deceased co-worker.
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Dayton Ohio, 19-something-and-5, by GBV. Sweet, sweet, melancholy.
Isn't it great to exist at this point in time?
Where the produce is rotten but no one is forgotten
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
Children in the sprinkler, junkies on the corner
The smell of fried foods and pure hot tar
Man, you needn't travel far to feel completely alive
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
On a hazy day in 19 something and 5
Isn't it great to exist at this point in time?
Where the produce is rotten but no one is forgotten
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
Children in the sprinkler, junkies on the corner
The smell of fried foods and pure hot tar
Man, you needn't travel far to feel completely alive
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
On a hazy day in 19 something and 5
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This one's nice. It's a little open-ended, but I believe it's about an abortion.
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Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Lou Reed - Kids
Beatles - For No One
Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
Mansions- Dig Up the Dead
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Beatles - For No One
Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
Mansions- Dig Up the Dead
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Brick! Good call...
Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
Kentucky Ave - Tom Waits (well... maybe not sad, but a weird kind of nostalgia)
Needle in the Hey - Eliot Smith
Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey
Diana - Skip Spence (also... Weighted Down)
Kiss Off - Violent Femmes
Birthday Boy - Ween
No Other One - Weezer
Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
Kentucky Ave - Tom Waits (well... maybe not sad, but a weird kind of nostalgia)
Needle in the Hey - Eliot Smith
Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey
Diana - Skip Spence (also... Weighted Down)
Kiss Off - Violent Femmes
Birthday Boy - Ween
No Other One - Weezer
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Thanks. From such an otherwise "not-sad-song" band, too.josh wrote:Brick! Good call...
"Out of all I've learned in Life,
You always keep your friends close to your heart,
cause they'll help you if you're falling down..."
- The Ataris - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, B, A, Start
You always keep your friends close to your heart,
cause they'll help you if you're falling down..."
- The Ataris - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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Dylan's "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" always gets me.
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Oh - and one of my own songs - Beaten Man:
http://www.songfight.org/music/beaten_m ... ray_bm.mp3
It came from a very sad story I read in the local paper about a bloke from Brisbane who tried to rob a bank at Dalby, out west of Toowoomba:
A GRANDFATHER, 64, will spend Christmas in custody after he allegedly tried to rob a Dalby bank using a replica handgun and a box full of sawn-off broomstick handles painted to look like dynamite.
He failed.
Dalby Police Sergeant Dave Tierney said police would allege that staff at the Commonwealth Bank in Cunningham Street became suspicious when Ian Clifford Smith, unemployed, of Cleveland, entered the branch carrying a box at 4pm on Tuesday.
Sgt Tierney said it would be alleged Smith pointed the replica handgun at the bank manager and the security screens were activated.
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The court heard Smith suffered from depression and had resigned from his job in May.
However, he kept his unemployment a secret from his family and pretended as though he was still working.
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/20 ... backfires/
http://www.songfight.org/music/beaten_m ... ray_bm.mp3
It came from a very sad story I read in the local paper about a bloke from Brisbane who tried to rob a bank at Dalby, out west of Toowoomba:
A GRANDFATHER, 64, will spend Christmas in custody after he allegedly tried to rob a Dalby bank using a replica handgun and a box full of sawn-off broomstick handles painted to look like dynamite.
He failed.
Dalby Police Sergeant Dave Tierney said police would allege that staff at the Commonwealth Bank in Cunningham Street became suspicious when Ian Clifford Smith, unemployed, of Cleveland, entered the branch carrying a box at 4pm on Tuesday.
Sgt Tierney said it would be alleged Smith pointed the replica handgun at the bank manager and the security screens were activated.
...
The court heard Smith suffered from depression and had resigned from his job in May.
However, he kept his unemployment a secret from his family and pretended as though he was still working.
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/20 ... backfires/
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Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Stevie's Landslide. I don't know why.
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Frank Turner's Long Live the Queen
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James - Sometimes
Kitchens of Distinction - Oak Tree
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Frightened Rabbit - Poke
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blippity blop ya don’t stop heyyyyyyyyy
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I love that song, but I find it uplifting & not the least bit sad. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Admittedly, I can't really understand the lyrics except for the chorus.inevitableguy wrote:James - Sometimes