Eleanor Rigby--Beatles Yesterday--Beatles The Show Must Go On---Grim Reaper I Dont Believe in Love---Queensryche My Empty Room--Queensryche
In the arms of the angels - Sarah McLachlan All by myself - Celine Dion Ode to Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry The Fonz - Smashmouth
I remember listening to that song over and over when I broke up with a girl. I felt like such a lame-ass but for some reason Diddy's words spoke to me and had meaning. Wish I could turn back the hands of time Us and the six shop for new clothes and kicks You and me takin' flics Makin' hits, stages they receive you on Still can't believe you're gone
Baby Broke My Heart---TBone Walker Every Day I Have the Blues---BB King Travelin Riverside Blues--Robert johnson Thats off the top of my head... oh yea... Cats in the Cradle--Harry Chapin Thunderbird--Quiet Riot (tribute to Randy)
No doubt, Faith Evans singing "Some glad morning" really depressed me. Diddy dancing around to it during that awards show kinda taints the legacy of the song, but it is still one of the sadest.
Most of the greats have a lot of sad songs (they say so much, acoording Elton John, you know). This is a good topic (especially after the Rockets performance last night), excuse me while I ramble on... With all due respect to Beck's "Sea Change," the saddest album of all time is "Plastic Ono Band" by John Lennon -"Mother," "Isolation," "God" and "My Mummy's Dead" Oh, man..this album completely tears you apart. The solo Beatles made all sorts of sad songs...check out "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison and "Tug of War" by Paul Mccartney. While we're on a theme, if "Empty Garden" by Elton John (about John Lennon) doesn't reduce you to a blubbering fool, then you have no soul, no eye ducts and no future as a human! Bob Dylan has a lot of sad ones, too. -"Delia" Traditional folk song..his rendering is so delicate, beautiful and sad. "All the friends I ever had are gone." Sigh. -"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol." Life changing (for me). "No More Auction Block." "Not Dead Yet" "I was born here and I'll die here against my will I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer It's not dark yet, but it's getting there." I don't think I've ever listened to "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie" and not cried, but that's not sad tears. Elvis Costello -"Almost Blue" Almost blue Almost doing things we used to do There's a girl here and she's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in hers too Now your eyes are red from crying -His live cover of "Sleepless Nights" always kills me, too. Neil Young wrote a lot of great sad songs. "The Needle and the Damage Done" is one of the best songs ever. Finally, if you want a more abstract sense of sad, listen to David Bowie's majestic "Low." "Always Crashing in the Same Car" is f-ing awesome. Ok, that's all.
Two songs by Ben Folds come to mind... "Fred Jones Part 2" and "Still Fighting It" both make me sad every time I listen to them. "Still Fighting It" is probably sad in the "Cat's in the Cradle" vein.
Some albums I listen to when depressed: The Verve - Urban Hymns Our Lady Peace - Clumsey Chris Isaak - Forever Blue Eels - Buetiful Freak Beck - Sea Change Ben Harper - Live From Mars - Disc 2
Elvis: awesome list. Almost all of Time Out Of Mind is sad as hell. And Delia's probably the saddest thing I've ever heard. Along with a hundred others, I'd add Bob Dylan's Dream to the Dylan list. Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat gets me every time. It's a letter he's writing to an old friend who had an affair with his wife. Here's a little bit of it: "What can I tell you, my brother, my killer What can I possibly say I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I'm glad that you stood in my way And thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried." But almost all his songs are sad. Alexandra Leaving on his latest album is another great, sad one.
When depressed I try to avoid depressing music, but some times you just can't Some favorites: Counting Crows--Long December, Colorblind, Anna Begins Ben Harper--The Drugs Don't Work (also performed by others) Ben Harper--Walk Away, Give a Man a Home Poison--Every Rose Has a Thorn Nirvana--Unplugged in New York (Album) Modest Mouse--Lives However, luckily, there are a few great ones that always snap me out of it: Grateful Dead--Touch of Grey Beatles--Let it Be Anything By Robert Randolph and the Family Band
