I can't make you love me/bonnie raitt . . . good call, matador. bookends/simon and garfunkel . . . good call, gascon. here are some others I'll throw in: I don't know if many of you will know about this group, but anything by Pedro the Lion would work here. eye on the finish line/pedro the lion welcome to the cruel world/ben harper pleasure and pain/ben harper I'll leave you all with a heartbreaking lyric: and if you get up to heaven before I do I'm gonna tell ya. . . it's gonna be cruel there, too cruel there, too welcome to the cruel world. . .
When you're really sad, one song is not long enough, you need a whole album: Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast The Cure - Disintegration
Try listening to ‘The Beginning of an End’ by Clint Mansell on the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. It beautifully encapsulates all the loss, horror, and sadness each of the characters in RFAD encountered towards the end of the film.
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades is pretty sad. Speaking of Morrissey, I was at FYE a couple of weeks ago when I passed by The Smiths concert DVD. The Smiths? Yet, Warner Reprise won't release a New Order concert on DVD in the states.
For some odd reason, when I broke up with my ex-girlfriend (all those years ago before meeting my fiancee), I was instantly sad upon hearing "Don't Speak" by No Doubt. I guess the song just summed up how I felt at the time.
My mind is achin'and Lord it won't stop Thats how it happens....Livin' life by the drop SRV-Life by the drop
yes...there must be a huge conspiracy somewhere...New Order should be larger than they are! how can u not like lyrics such as "..i would like a place i can call my own, have a conversation on my telephone..."
"...I saw tears were in his eyes, He never meant to hurt me, Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me..." 1963
More New Order: "I'm not kind that needs to tell you just you want me to." Age Of Consent - I've never heard so much emotion squeezed from a synthesizer.
