Joey - Concrete Blonde is a song I can't listen to anymore, as it was the first song I heard on the radio after finding out that a classmate, named Joey, had died. Not a sad son, per se, but the association makes it so.
Can't Find My Way Home - Traffic
My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
The Needle & The Damage Done - Neil Young
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden
The River Runs Low - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Prayer For the Dying - Seal
Come Undone - Duran Duran
Any Day Now - The Watchmen
Mad World - Gary Jules
I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Katie Melua
Angie - Rolling Stones
Wonderful Life - Lentos
Fool's Overture - Supertramp
Six pages I'm kinda surprised no one has said this year:
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ever since my grandfather's funeral (10 years ago this May) I tear up when I hear it. To this day I can't get through the song without fighting back the tears.
Other sad songs, or at least songs I like to listen to when depressed:
Needle in the hay - Elliot Smith
The Hardest Walk - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Fly - Nick Drake
Goodbye Girl - Squeeze
China - Tori Amos
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
I Almost Cried - Hayden
Mary of the Wild Moor - Johnny Cash
The Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
Love Vigilantes - New Order
A Warm Place - Nine Inch Nails John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - Sufjan Stevens
For Emily,.... - Simon & Garfunkel
Fast Car - Xiu Xiu (Tracey Chapman cover)
Mad World - Gary Jules
I Don't love Anyone - Belle & Sebastian
Excellent picks. There is also that song by Sufjan that goes through his friend dying of cancer (I can't think of the name!!)...very sad, but somehow disturbingly melodic.
Not so much the songs but the videos associated with the Travis Tritt songs about the war vet who comes back his family after a war and they start a business etc...
This has probably already been posted but I am not going to read every post
Johnny Cash - Hurt
__________________ "In brightest day, in blackest night / No evil shall escape my sight / Let those who worship evil's might / Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!"
The Boss rocks. First concert I ever went to was to see Bruce at the Saddledome. No one gives the One! Two! One Two Three Four! better than bruce.
The river is amazing, but the Springsteen song that always, ALWAYS gets me close to tears is "My Hometown"
Oh I don't disagree, I love the Boss, and I've seen him in concert several times and he puts on an amazing show.
But I can't think of one song that has a happy message
Glory Days - Your a loser quit livin in the past
Tunnel of Love - I love you, but I know this is eventually going to die
Born in the USA - This country is in trouble
The River - Shoulda worn a rubber, crap
Growing up - Eventually your not a kid anymore and life sucks
Rosalita - I love this girl, but her dad will do everything to keep us apart because he thinks I suck
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Lots of great picks on here. I'm surprised no one's mentioned Nick Drake yet. He wrote some ridiculously sad stuff. Here's one that I think is especially good:
