10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 7:02 am
QotD: What song makes you feel sad everytime you hear it?
"A Quitter" by Rasputina messes me up everytime.
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10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
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Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 7:20 am
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:49 am
"Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" by Spiritualized
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:03 am
A few, but Brick by Ben Folds Five comes easily to mind.
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:27 am
I don't know why, but the acoustic version of "Couldn't You Wait" by Silkworm really gets to me.
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:13 pm
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) ...
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:38 pm
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.
[youtube]watch?v=kDWgsQhbaqU[/youtube]
[youtube]watch?v=kDWgsQhbaqU[/youtube]
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 1:02 pm
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
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:40 am
This one's nice. It's a little open-ended, but I believe it's about an abortion.
[youtube]watch?v=8-Mj3wKU-wg[/youtube]
[youtube]watch?v=8-Mj3wKU-wg[/youtube]
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 1:49 pm
Lou Reed - Kids
Beatles - For No One
Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
Mansions- Dig Up the Dead
Low- Sunflower
Beatles - For No One
Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
Mansions- Dig Up the Dead
Low- Sunflower
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:55 pm
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
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:58 pm
@niveous: Jesus, that one's morbid.
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:49 am
Thanks. From such an otherwise "not-sad-song" band, too.josh wrote:Brick! Good call...
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:34 am
Dylan's "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" always gets me.
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:57 am
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.
...
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/
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:55 pm
Stevie's Landslide. I don't know why.
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:42 am
Frank Turner's Long Live the Queen
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:45 pm
James - Sometimes
Kitchens of Distinction - Oak Tree
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Frightened Rabbit - Poke
Kitchens of Distinction - Oak Tree
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Frightened Rabbit - Poke
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:57 pm
Re: 10-19-15 Sad Songs Say So Much
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:25 pm
I love that song, but I find it uplifting & not the least bit sad. Different strokes for different folks I guess.inevitableguy wrote:James - Sometimes
Admittedly, I can't really understand the lyrics except for the chorus.