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9 Dec 2011, 03:42 AM | #1 |
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The sad music playlist
Since we're digging into music here, I thought this one deserves a topic (well, I am a clinically depressed but in all honesty, listening to sad music has helped me through some very rough times since it gives the feeling you're not on your own with your sadness. Also, very often a sad song if you pay attention well has a hopeful undertone somewhere, although this is not a default obviously)
Some good ones to start with: So Slow - Sophia Where are you now? - Sophia Swept back - Sophia Something - Sophia (yes, they're quite sad as a whole, their entire catalogue...) The flower song - The God Machine It's all over - The God Machine In Bad Dreams - The God Machine My Immortal - Evenascence (preferably the piano-only version) Illusion - VNV Nation The Grey Ship - EMA There is a Light that never goes out - The Smiths How soon is now? - The Smiths Asleep - The Smiths Nothing compares 2 U - Prince / Sinead O'Connor I faught in a War - Belle & Sebastian I'll stand by you - The Pretenders Seven - The Connells Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (yes, I prefer the original, as much as I respect Johnny Cash but this it a NIN song) Vienna - Ultravox All we ever wanted (was everything) - Bauhaus Burning from the inside - Bauhaus Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure Last Stop: this Town - Eels Sometimes you can't make it on your own - U2 October - U2 All I want is you - U2 Still I'm sad - the Yardbirds Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Angie - The Rolling Stones Paranoid - Black Sabbath Run - Snow Patrol The Sparrows & The Nightingales - Wolfsheim Heart & Shoulder - Heather Nova A Place nearby - Lene Marlin Disorder - Joy Division Day of the Lords - Joy Division The Church-bells & the Razor-blades - Silke Bischoff I could have picked a long list of goth artists but often their melodrama is too much over the top, making it more absurd than a song that really moves you. |
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"Sad Songs They Say So Much" -- Elton John
"Manic Depression" -- Jimi Hendrix, covered by Jan Hammer "Ohne Dich (schlaf' ich heut Nacht nicht ein)" -- Münchener Freiheit (lovely upbeat tune, but the lyrics are downbeat) |
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"Song for Guy" -- Elton John (inspired by the then-recent death of London Zoo's Guy the Gorilla; mostly instrumental, the only lyric is "Life isn't everything" towards the end)
"Solang' man Träume noch leben kann / Keeping the Dream Alive" -- Münchener Freiheit (same tune, different lyrics, but I think that in this case the English lyrics are a fairly close translation of the German ones) "I Won't Be Home For Christmas" -- Blink-182 "Song Sung Blue" -- Neil Diamond (his "Cracklin' Rosie" is one of only two songs I've heard of which is about an inflatable sex doll -- and the only one of the two to get past the radio censors) "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" -- Elton John |
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Another one I've just remembered, I'm surprised you didn't get to it first.
"Losing It" --Rush |
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So Long Marianne - Leonard Cohen
The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Love on The Rocks - Neil Diamond Please, please, please let me get what I want - The Smiths (covered by Slow Moving Millie as used in the TV ad) |
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths
Teddy Bear - Red Sovine Honey - Bobby Goldsboro MacArthur Park - Richard Harris Now you may think the last one isn't sad, but let's face it, he put in a lot of effort to make the cake and then it got totally ruined! |
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Miss you - Westlife
Unbreakable - Westlife From the bottom of my broken heart - Britney Hurt - Christina Song from the secret gardens Last edited by ReuvenNY : 10 Dec 2011 at 01:31 PM. Reason: Signature removed |
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Wild World -- Cat Stevens (though the Jimmy Cliff cover is probably better known)
Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) -- The Shangri-Las The Turn of a Friendly Card (the entire five-part suite) -- The Alan Parsons Project Time -- both the Alan Parsons Project version and the Pink Floyd version (which was produced by Alan Parsons); two different songs Monday Monday -- The Mamas & The Papas Look Through My Window -- The Mamas & The Papas Glad to Be Unhappy -- The Mamas & The Papas (edited to add) Silent One -- Jan Hammer Last edited by robert@fm : 10 Dec 2011 at 10:59 PM. |
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Tool - Wings for Marie/10000 Days (both combined)
18 minutes length, complex musical structures, and yet... this pierces through your heart like few other songs. It combines feelings of love and admiration with a sadness dwelling in between the lines. A Perfect Circle - Orestes A Perfect Circle - Three Libras Echo & The Bunnymen - How can we hold on to a dream? The Gathering - Alone Currently listening to EMA... "Great grandmother lived on the prairie with nothing, nothing, nothing... I got the same feeling inside of me: nothing, nothing, nothing...". Combined with an almost aching vocal, this leaves a deep mark for sure. |
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Who did these two? As is often the case (particularly with such short titles), there have been many different songs with these two titles, so just giving the song title without the artiste is meaningless.
The 1950s Only You (can't remember who did it, there were several) is very different from the early 1980s Only You by Yazoo (covered in an à capella version by the Flying Pickets), and I wouldn't call either song particularly sad. Likewise, the Hollies and Rush both did songs called Stay (I think the Hollies' one was covered by Neil Sedaka). |
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Hope it is okay to admit that I have cried to music about three times.
Dolly Parton singing the original track music to a movie where she played a prostitute in Texas that was in love with her school mate that now was the Town's Sheriff and him too was still in love with her. Dolly actually made that song herself. "I will always love you." It later got known by a Soul singer that make another version. I cry to the original but not to the cover. Another song that made me cry was a folkmusic tune from Norway. I trust it is a christian song about saying "far well" to close friends. third song is a Romanian funeral song that seems to not exist other than on one old LP from Colombia. Most likely Allan Lomax series of World Music? Four to seven old woman singing a very old melody and text about losing a relative through death? Very sad melody. |
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Nothing wrong with crying over music, that just means the music reached for your emotions. Only good music manages to do so.
"Stay" could also be the song from Shakespear's Sister, which was a big hit in the early nineties and indeed a rather sad song. Coincidencally probably, Siobhan Fahey has been a depressive for most of her life, and has been on hiatus numerous times for a while because of her depressions. Robin Proper Sheppard of Sophia and the God Machine, apparently has manic depression (which would somewhat explain the sadness in the lyrics which is the one big thing both bands have in common... musically he took a drastic change after the God Machine dissolved and he started Sophia but the sad lyrics remain a constant factor. Note it is a friend of mine who met Robin numerous times who told me about his depressions, but I do seem to recall him talking about it in interviews too. I would love to meet this person as he's been a huge inspiration on me. The song "Purity" changed my life literally as it was so overwhelming it made me decide to get on stage myself, which is what I've done ever since on regular basis I first heard that song) He has a few more hopeful songs too though, such as "Portugal" ("and I decided tomorrow I'm gonna be a better person, no it's never too late to change") Some other sad songs: "Everything must go" - Manic Street Preachers "74-75" - The Connells (fantastic band, grotesquely underrated. Song is very melancholic, maybe not gloomy but for sure extremely melancholic) "Isobel" - Dido (seems to be about suicide or about vanishing from all and everyone you know) "Comateen I" - Indochine (the chorus is uplifting but the parts in between deal with drug overdose and suicide attempt -- the hopeful chorus is a stark contrast which makes the song switch from sad to soothing several times) "Kayleigh" - Marillion "Blasphemous rumours" - Angelzoom (the original by Depeche Mode isn't that sad but Angelzoom's version turns it into a song hard to fight tears) "Kein Weg züruck" - Wolfsheim "Sonnet" - The Verve "The Drugs don't work" - The Verve "Bittersweet symphony" - The Verve Richard Ashcroft of the Verve by the way is clinically depressive (like myself) |
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Also, Kirlian Camera did some very intense sad songs on their album Invisable Front.
One of my all-time favourite songs, "K-Pax" is from that album. It shifts between sadness and hope, where the dream is a metaphor for the hope that takes the narrator away from the sadness of waking up: "Sunday morning, maybe March, and I must turn my face to you I must realise what is that arch enemy looking for your blue but with willing and merciful arms Don't say a word... The world is gone" |
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I Think It's Going To Rain Today - Randy Newman (covered by UB40 amongst others)
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The Yazoo song was a hit for them in 1982, and then for the Flying Pickets at Christmas 1983 (the latter has thus become a "Christmas song" by association, like We Are the Champions by Queen and The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, although there's nothing remotely Christmassy about any of these; the last one is more a Hallowe'en song). YouTube videos: Only You -- The Platters Only You -- Yazoo Only You -- The Flying Pickets None of these strike me as remotely sad, so goodness knows what the spammer was referring to... Last edited by robert@fm : 26 Dec 2011 at 04:52 AM. Reason: speling errurs |
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