Another couple of Fairport Convention songs - 'Meet on the Ledge' and 'Crazy Man Michael'
I love sad music
I'm talking about music that when you're feeling down will make you feel worse. I don't want uplifting or inspirational. Some of Chopin's more melancholic works can do it for me. I don't listen to country, but George Jones singing "It's a good day for the roses" is about as sad a song as you will find. Leonard Cohen's "Alexandra leaving" is another sad song. I have everything Davis and Coltrane recorded, so I'm looking for recommendations for the most beautiful but depressing music you've ever heard. I want to hear a violin, my favorite instrument, that will bring tears to your eyes. I know this is a strange request but some of the best music comes from dark places. Thanks
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Beatles: She's leaving home, In my life, Elinor Rigby, Yesterday of their many sad songs grip me when down.Especially in my life. The one that gets me to cry every time Erik Satie - Gymnopédies So simple so intense Another classic tear-jerker Samuel Barbara's - Adagio for Strings Now I'm totally depressed 317,000 and counting, 10 of millions believing in fiction rather than fact and its consequences and implications... |
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Colour My World - Chicago 1970 That song would take the funk out of any blue lights in the basement party and for some reason it was so slow it was actually hard to slow dance too! Wildflower - Skylark 1972 A sad but beautiful song. (Olivia) Lost and turned out - The Whispers 1978 The title means exactly what you think it does. It was about a pimp prostituting a young girl. (Olivia the slave) Got distracted on her way To grandmother’s house A wolf in nice clothin’ came Blew her mind and changed her ways And now she turned out - Lost and turned out Lost and turned out - She’s spendin’ most of her time Walkin’ the streets She has a certain quota to fill He wants to buy a new Seville... Sad indeed... I think everybody likes a good tear jerker song now and then. |
Ray Lamontagne, Shawn Phillips, Lucinda Williams just to name a few off top of my head. My daughter many times will open the door and ask if I'm okay and have to laugh and give her a hug and tell her I'm okay, which I am. Sad music can put me in a strange dark place that I enjoy in a very bizarre way when I zone out alone in a dark room. Okay now it's getting weird. |
Sorry all but Sufjan Steven’s Casimir Pulaski Day is head and shoulders the saddest song - about the singer’s girlfriend dying of bone cancer. The lyrics are amazing. Why on earth would you ever want to hear this? Because it’s beautifully sung, well recorded, and if you don’t bawl your eyes out you aren’t alive. https://youtu.be/9EzeW5KoPUI |
A touch of sadness that elevate the heart without any depressing effect by one of the greatest Russian melodist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZovqO1qAdfM |
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roxy54...I know you didn't address your post to me, but I want to comment anyway. I can see what you're saying, and I felt that way at first. But then I started thinking about it in a way that draws on your last sentence. "We all find different things sad", and we all have different ways of expressing our sadness. I commend you for not being disagreeable when you disagree. |
This song from French composer Prequell breaks my soul. https://youtu.be/akxDx_BuRu4 This song from Steven Wilson/Blackfield is sad. https://youtu.be/Cl_ht2MyXnM |
If you would like to listen to a 'lovers break up" sad song, try this. The voice is spectacular. It won the 2020 Germany's Voice competition. She is a Turkish lady singing a Turkish song. Wait for the crescendo for her real talents. The first video is the competition video, the second the published version of the song.
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Has anyone mentioned "Strange Fruit", made famous by Billie Holiday? I love melancholy music (isn’t melancholia the natural human condition? It’s been mine since watching in horror as my mother slowly, painfully succumbed to brain cancer when I was 14-15), such as "’Til I Die" by Brain Wilson, found on The Beach Boys Surf’s Up album. Quite far removed from his "Fun, Fun, Fun" ;-) . But then those lyrics were written by Mr. Fun himself, Mike Love. |
