Sad songs...

kfallon · 28-05-2015 04:51PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09F5MejfBE

kfallon · 28-05-2015 04:52PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc

kfallon · 28-05-2015 05:00PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0

Waitsian · 28-05-2015 05:03PM

Sad song eh?

How about Sad Songs by The Christians off their first album.

kfallon · 28-05-2015 05:07PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

kfallon · 28-05-2015 05:11PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQc

seamus · 28-05-2015 05:27PM

Two that are a little bit odd:

"My Hero". Talking to myself in a drunken state one night and thinking what song I would most like to sing at my Dad's funeral, I came up with this. Now when I hear it I get a kick in the feels. And my Dad is still alive, which makes it even sillier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWRaAF6_WY

Also, as much as this song annoys people, in full context "Do You Wanna Build a Snowman" from Frozen is actually a really sad song with an upbeat tune. Can't find a video though - the song alone is just a cutesy Disney song, you need the full context.

ThinkProgress · 28-05-2015 05:40PM

Brian Eno: (An Ending)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4WxQ6dnn0

Sigur Ros: (Hoppipolla) <---- Think this one is not meant to be sad, but has that kind of effect on me! Or perhaps just poignant maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXMA34CeoQ

Platoon movie soundtrack: (Adagio for strings)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQeLQURNuw

Yamanoto · 28-05-2015 05:46PM

This one always gets me:

'Carmelita, hold me tighter,
I think I'm sinkin' down,
And I'm all strung out on heroin,
on the outskirts of town'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeb0OI8wXN4

Summer wind · 28-05-2015 06:30PM

Otis Redding: I've Been Loving You Too Long

Otis Redding: These Arms Of Mine

Sam Cooke: I'll Come Running Back To You

INXS: By My Side

Ray Charles: You Don't Know Me

Gary Moore: Still Got The Blues

Thin Lizzy: Still In Love With You

Passenger: Let Her Go

Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Elvis Costello: A Good Year For The Roses

Electric Sheep · 28-05-2015 06:38PM

Hey Jealousy by the Gin Blossoms. Especially sad when you know that the writer committed suicide after being kicked out of the band.

dmc17 · 28-05-2015 06:44PM

This one describes the realities of war fairly well

28-05-2015 07:03PM

Summer wind wrote: »

Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Excellent!

Or was it Bogus!?

Eutow · 28-05-2015 07:26PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjAuA8s2M8

dmc17 · 28-05-2015 07:29PM

Anything sung by Eva Cassidy especially when you read her life story

28-05-2015 07:32PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FVflGaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iEId2vmb0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAg8L9snDTM

Cold War Kid · 28-05-2015 07:33PM

This is a toughie. Gets used a lot as backing music for sad stuff. At the moment, a NSPCC ad.

So yeah, pretty bleak - but so beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCQPSrlNbk

mudstack · 28-05-2015 07:36PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

Vincent - Don McLean

28-05-2015 08:13PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRGPg5laDU

the evasion_kid · 28-05-2015 08:30PM

Written about Diane edwards who's missing posters were up on the kiosks\telegraph poles as husker were putting there gig posters up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTy8GGyUgBQ

DoozerT6 · 28-05-2015 08:36PM

Sigh, I can NEVER post youtube links here...

Janis Ian - At Seventeen.

The Clancys - The Dutchman.

If someone would like to post vids please do so. My ineptitude is limitless in that regard

Andrewf20 · 28-05-2015 08:39PM

Yep - Board of Canada will do it. "5 9 78" is a sad, nostalgic tune.

Brian Eno and Harold Budd - Their memories is pretty sad...

Also,

Brian Eno - An Ending
Eno & Budd - Still Return
Eno & Budd - Lost in the humming air

Most of these are off the ENo and Budds 1984 album - The Pearl. A gem in my books.

dmc17 · 28-05-2015 08:39PM

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Sigh, I can NEVER post youtube links here...

Janis Ian - At Seventeen.

The Clancys - The Dutchman.

If someone would like to post vids please do so. My ineptitude is limitless in that regard

Put [YOUTUBEE] [/YOUTUBEE] with the URL to the video in between these tags and remove the extra E's I've put in. Alternatively, click the little youtube icon when you're creating your post and it'll create the tags for you.

Vincent Vega · 28-05-2015 08:45PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3UPm9r5HWE

the evasion_kid · 28-05-2015 08:48PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkWVrLfiJKs

Saralee4 · 28-05-2015 09:22PM

Anthony and the Johnsons writes some very sad beautiful songs.

One of my favourites 'fistful of love', about an abusive relationship is very moving.

silverfeather · 28-05-2015 09:24PM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

This is a toughie. Gets used a lot as backing music for sad stuff. At the moment, a NSPCC ad.

So yeah, pretty bleak - but so beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCQPSrlNbk

love this

silverfeather · 28-05-2015 09:26PM

Saralee4 wrote: »

Anthony and the Johnsons writes some very sad beautiful songs.

One of my favourites 'fistful of love', about an abusive relationship is very moving.

I can't say that about that song i find it superficial if about abuse.

Ruu · 28-05-2015 09:28PM

Some days feels like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4PHlvlQheM

Saralee4 · 28-05-2015 09:33PM

silverfeather wrote: »

I can't say that about that song i find it superficial if about abuse.

really? I think it depicts an angle or denial of the victim and while not right, it very often what it sounds like is going on in the victims mind or those kind of relationships where someone stays, ie 'he loves me really, he cant help it, he doesn't mean it'. I don't think it glamorises abuse though.

Sad songs...

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