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SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good.....

Chisai Fry
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SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:39 PM UTC #
You know the ones, the songs that will just tear you up inside, or cause you to weep like a girly-man, yet you love to listen to them……
'cos they're that good.


Dead Can Dance - 'Host Of the Seraphim'
Dead Can Dance - 'American Dreaming'
Cranes - 'Fragile'
Slowdive - 'Blue Skied N' Clear'
Cure - 'Same Deep Water As You'
Mazzy Star - 'Still Cold'
Sonic Youth - 'The Diamond Sea'
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:46 PM UTC #
the smiths – any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
brennser
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:54 PM UTC #
The The - 'August and September'
ggw
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:57 PM UTC #
Bob Dylan - Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol
tenfifteen
Joined: February 15, 2005 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:57 PM UTC #
:: Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
:: Moz - Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
:: Bob Mould - The Next Time That You Leave
:: Sugar - The Slim
:: The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
:: Spoon - Anything You Want, Paper Tiger
:: Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
:: Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot, Mercy Street
:: Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line
:: Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah, also Lover You Should've Come Over
:: Elliott Smith - The White Lady Loves You More, also everything he ever recorded
jkeisenh
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:58 PM UTC #
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
the smiths – any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
I wouldn't say that's a sad song.

Bright Eyes- "Messenger Bird Song" (warning- insanely sad. really really sad.)
Mountain Goats - "Your Belgian Things"
Radiohead- "Let Down"
and i might add death cab's "title and registration"
jkeisenh
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 02:59 PM UTC #
Originally posted by tenfifteen:
:: Spoon - Anything You Want, Paper Tiger
umm… paper tiger is a love song, and one of my favorites at that. it's not sad at all, unless you think love is sad, and then maybe it's you and not the song that's sad…
joz
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:06 PM UTC #
the carpenters…superstar and rainy days and mondays
tenfifteen
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:09 PM UTC #
Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
umm… paper tiger is a love song, and one of my favorites at that. it's not sad at all, unless you think love is sad, and then maybe it's you and not the song that's sad… [/QB]
Ummm… it's one of my favorite songs too, which is why I listed it. Not sure why you'd presume to tell someone what to take away from a lyric, as if one interpretation could be wrong.

I'm quite aware of the content of the lyrics, but I don't think I'd call it a love song. There are some lines that remind me of various sad times…

"and if you and me is so right
why's it the same thing every night?"

"we go through all the same lines,
we sell out to appease
but go to sleep in a bed of lies,
i've made my own more than once or twice"

"and now time is my time time is my own
and I feel so alive yet feel so alone"

Yeah, totally up song. Maybe if it makes you happy, then you should start a f**king parade.
jkeisenh
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:11 PM UTC #
Originally posted by tenfifteen:
Yeah, totally up song. Maybe if it makes you happy, then you should start a f**king parade.
I will.
And you're not invited.
So there.
tenfifteen
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:15 PM UTC #
Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
I will.
And you're not invited.
So there.
Awww. Now I have to write my own sad song.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:50 PM UTC #
Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
the smiths – any of them, but particularly, "there is a light that never goes out"
I wouldn't say that's a sad song.
Take me out tonight
Where thereâ??s music and thereâ??s people
And theyâ??re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I havenâ??t got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and i
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please donâ??t drop me home
Because itâ??s not my home, itâ??s their
Home, and Iâ??m welcome no more

———–
party!!!!!
pip
Joined: January 31, 2005 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:54 PM UTC #
The British do sad better than anyone else…

Coldplay - See You Soon
Doves - The Cedar Room
Elbow - Powder Blue
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
thirsty moore
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 03:55 PM UTC #
Nico – These Days

As for The Smiths – I've Got a Nightlight On (and it will never go out), I think its levels of sadness and desperation will be discussed at the forum in Manchester. If you can attend, it's titled Where Are My Razors – Morrissey and Misogynism.
joz
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 04:24 PM UTC #
i think "asleep" and "please, please, please let me get what i want" are much sadder than "there is a light". the latter is really a love song…i've always thought of it as more passionate and desperate than sad or depressing.
Chisai Fry
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Re: SAD SONGS That Are Oh - So Good..... March 29, 2005 at 04:57 PM UTC #
Doves - 'Lost Souls'
New Order - 'Lonesome Tonight'
*boo hoo…
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