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OK, help me come up with a list of really sad emotional songs for a CD I'm making. Right now all I know I'm putting on it is "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen.
 
"Tomorrow" (both versions), "So Cruel", "One" and "Drowning Man" always bring a tear to me eye...

I know Leonard Cohen as a TON of others that would suffice, but can't remember any of the titles, sorry...
 
Originally posted by Screaming Flower:
sweetness follows - r.e.m.

I second that.

Also -

* 'Everybody Hurts' R.E.M.
* 'Nightswimming' R.E.M.
* 'Never is a Promise' Fiona Apple
* 'Angel' Sarah Maclachlan (sp?)
* 'Absence of Fear' Jewel
* 'Fat Boy' Jewel
 
More suggestions -

* Pretty much anything by David Gray
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'This Years Love', 'Nightblindness', etc

* Lots of Travis - 'The Last Laugh of the
Laughter', 'Luv', 'Slide Show', 'Dear
Diary', etc

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a lot of Chris Isaak stuff
Isaak's version of ONLY THE LONELY off the Baja Sessions album is stellar
most anything off FOREVER BLUE is very sad

I find TRYING TO THROW YOUR ARMS AROUND THE WORLD a very sad song

lord I'm drawing a blank, I used to have my own sad song mix tape.

HIGH AND DRY- radiohead

ON AND ON- by the Long pigs

Catch- The Cure
 
Currently, I suck my thumb and rock back-n-forth in a corner to these:
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Wise Up - Aimee Mann
Honesty - Billy Joel
Somebody - Depeche Mode
Push and Pull - Nikka Costa
Tender - Blur
Patience - G-N-R
Pictures of You - Cure
1000 Oceans - Tori Amos
Foolish Games - Jewel
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
How Soon is Now? - Smiths
 
Hello,

For me, the saddest song ever is The River by Bruce Springsteen. Especially the second verse is so sad!


Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress

And the ending: "Is a dream a lie when it don't come true, or is it something worse."

SOB!

Not really sad, but very depressing is Time Out Of Mind by Bob Dylan. Lovesick, Not Dark Yet, Trying To Get To Heaven, all quite sad/depressing songs.

C ya!

Marty



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People criticize me but I know it's not the end
I try to kick the truth, not just to make friends

Spearhead - People In Tha Middle
 
LAst Goodbye - Jeff Buckley, always does a number on me.

Angel - by Sara M. Ugh - they played this at a friend of mine's funeral a few years ago - I cant even listen to it.

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God has got his phone off the hook, babe...Would he even pick up if he could?
 
Well-already mentioned is the first one that comes to my mind-'Angel' by Sarah MacLachlan.

I cry so much at that song, that I even cried listening to in on airplane headphones one time, right in front of all those people.
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Another sad one by her is I Will Remember You.

Also-Tears In Heaven-Clapton

I know this is probably weird, but I think that Green Day song-Time Of Your Life-is very sad-maybe melancholy is a better word.

All Apologies-Nirvana
 
I'm biased because I'm a huge R.E.M. fan, but Everybody Hurts and (especially) Sweetness Follows and (especially especially) Nightswimming are really sad songs. Especially Nightswimming.
 
On Your Own - The Verve
History - The Verve
Love Comes Tumbling - U2
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Don't Go Away - Oasis
Bullet Proof - Radiohead
Talk Tonight - Oasis
Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Something In The Way - Nirvana
Black - Pearl Jam
Colour Blind - Counting Crows
Streets Of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Don't Cry - Guns And Roses
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths


some of these are sad, others are more melonchonic than anything




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The Cure - Apart
Tindersticks - Dying Slowly
Walkabouts - The Leavin' Kind
Nick Cave - As I Sad Sadly By Her Side
David Bowie - My Death (Jaques Brel cover)
Samuel B?rber - Adagio For Strings
Jaques Brel - Ne Me Qui'te Pas (sp??)
BB King - The Thrill Is Gone
Kate Bush - Under The Ivy
 
Tindersticks - Tiny Tears
Palace Music - Kid of Harith
R.E.M. - I'll Take the Rain
Townes van Zandt - Why She's Acting this Way
Natalie Merchant - My Beloved Wife
U2 - Tomorrow
Lambchop - Life's Little Tragedy
The Jayhawks - Ann Jane


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Salome
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Everybody Hurts, because they do and it's nice to be reminded of that...

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Go lightly down your darkened way.
 
I just remembered another one, Blues Traveler has one on their new CD (which, might I add is FABULOUS). It's #7, but I can't remember the title. It's about their friend who died...it is SO true, every word of it strikes a chord with anybody who has ever lost a close friend.

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Go lightly down your darkened way.
 
U2 songs:

-- The First Time
-- Tomorrow (Common Ground Version)

Saddest U2 I can think of.

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
 
My Beloved Wife by Natalie Merchant always makes me cry.

I cannot even imagine the loss that Eric Clapton must have felt. Now that I have a son, Tears in Heaven is almost too painful for me to listen too.
 
Fast car- Tracy Chapman
Blue hotel- Chris Isaak
Love will tear us apart- Joy Divison
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next- Manic Street Preachers
Jealous Guy- John Lennon or Bryan Ferry cover
hmmmm thats all I can think of now
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Perfect and Adore by the SMashing Pumpkins

With or without you-u2
I love you always forever-donna lewis
Miss Sarajevo.
About a girl, Heart shaped box-Nirvana
I remember you-u2 version
Dying-Hole

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And if you look, you look through me.

L'amore giunger
L'amore
E non so pi pregare
E nell'amore non so pi sperare
E quell'amore non so pi aspettare

miss_smith@emailaccount.com e-mail me :)
 
'Hallelujah' jeff buckley's version

'street spirit'- radiohead

'only when i lose myself'- depeche mode

'blue calx'- aphex twin (aka track 1 off disc 2 on selected ambient works 2)

'heliospan'- aphex twin (the dickhead actually once knew how to make music before disintegrating himself to the point of unlistenable IRRITABLE NOISE!)
 
Portishead: Sour Times
Massive Attack: Angel (or maybe Teardrop)
Radiohead: Lucky and Exit Music (for a film)
Blur: End of a century
The Verve: The drugs don't work
Nirvana: Dumb
Beatles: And I love her
Placebo: My sweet prince
Pulp: Something changed
Element of crime: Nur so
R.E.M.: Everybody hurts
U2: Love is blindness
Manic Street Preachers: Ocean Spray
Travis: Dear Diary
I love each of them and there are many more!

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Friday night running to Sunday on my knees.
 
OMG I spontaneously cry during ANY slowish song.

1. WOWY (at the give yourself away I CRY!)

2. Northern Lad -Tori Amos

3. Landslide -Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac

4. Unbreakable Heart -Jessica Andrews (some country kid)

5. The Difficult Kind -Sheryl Crow

6. Sick of Me -Ani DiFranco

7. Sad Eyes -Bruce ( I don't know why this makes me cry!)_

8. You Don't Love Me Anymore -Tim McGraw (more country)

9. WGRYWH? -U2 (akorse) Lol I'm such a nerd. Why do these random songs make me cry? Now I'm all emotional.

also I think Brandy originally did this song (whatever happened to her?) but the version I know is by Mark Wills (more country
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), "Almost Doesn't Count"
OMG I'm gonna cry

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