Old Bones, Hangman, and Trigger on the album Blood of the Land by The Burned.
Darkest of My Days on album A Rebel’s Story by Big Wolf Band
Sad songs- We love them- We need them
Hello everyone,
I was listening the other day to a sad song on my playlist and realized their ability to invoke a powerful emotional reaction. Usually about someone in your life. Your children, your special lady or man or maybe someone who is no longer living. I realized we need these songs to remind us life is short and to remember what is most important to us. I thought I would ask everyone to list a song or two that is special to them. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a sad song. I have children so I will start with a few songs that remind me to tell them I love them more often or give them an extra hug or two.
Cats in the cradle- Harry Chapin
Jacobs Dream - Allison Krause
Hell Is for Children- Pat Benetar
Ron
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Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul, and Mary A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain |
@fastfreight , good call on Lloyd Cole. Everything But the Girl - Riverbed Dry Prefab Sprout - We Let The Stars Go The Smiths - Back To The Old House |
@mitchagain yes I think it is the unique combo of cynicism and depression! |
@spenav, Thank you so much for the thought, what a sweet special gesture. It was my beautiful 36 year old daughter I lost in a car wreck 8 month ago. Enjoy the music |
"I Can't Make You Love Me" Bonnie Raitt "Hey Mister, That's Me Up On The Jukebox" Linda Ronstadt "Hurt" Johnny Cash "He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones "Someone Like You" Adele "The Living Years" Mike & The Mechanics "Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life) Green Day "Lazarus" David Bowie "Blue" Joni Mitchell "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" Glen Campbell "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" Bee Gees
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@cns1946 +1 "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" Gordon Lightfoot. I can't listen to this song without getting choaked up a little. My wife and I spent some time in Michigan's Upper Peninsula last year. Being there made the song even more real to me. |
@tooblue My sincere condolences. I lost my son in 1994. Our song was Mona, by Quicksilver Messenger Service. I'd drive him to school every day, and start this song when we pulled out of the driveway. Mona has a very long instrumental lead in and we made a game of noting where we were when the vocal started. We could also tell if we were making good time, or bad time on the commute. Every year on his birthday, I reenact the drive -- noting, of course, where the vocal started. Losing a child certainly re-calibrates your definition of what a problem is. From that day forward, everything else seems pretty trivial by comparison. |
@waytoomuchstuff , thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing that with me. @ronboco, thank you. |
Warren Zevon's "Keep Me In Your Heart". The final song on Zevon's 2003 album, "The Wind". Zevon began recording the album shortly after he was diagnosed with inoperable pleural mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the lung), and it was released just two weeks before his death on September 7, 2003. I've heard it played an several Memorial Services and it brings the waterworks everytime.
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@waytoomuchstuff and @tooblue,
My heart is heavy for both of you after reading this thread. I have two boys (actually adults of 31 and 28 years old, both teachers in High School and Middle School, but they will always be "my boys"), and I can't bear to envision a World without them. My sympathies to you both and I hope time, memories, and music have helped soothe the scar.
Allen
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A ghost in the house by Alison Krauss – grieving If Tomorrow never comes by Ronan Keating and also by Brenda Kinnear - The subject is in the title. Sweet old world by Emmylou Harris – grieving. Yesterday when I was young by Roy Clark, Dusty Springfield and others – regret. Try to remember by Jerry Orbach - nostalgia. If I Loved You by Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae from the show Carousel (and we know how that turned out).
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@switzer145 another vote for "Sweet Old World"! Yes! However, as much as I like Emmy Lou’s cover of it, I am prejudiced and I love the original by Lucinda Williams.
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I'll have to contemplate before I can respond on my own behalf; but I know my daughter's choice. When she was about three I was singing lullabies to get her to sleep. For some reason I went into "You are My Sunshine". She started crying inconsolably when I got to The other night dear, as I lay sleeping Choose any version you like. Even the songwriter(s) is a subject of contention. I always thought it was corny and was very surprised when she started crying. |
+1 for Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" and Warren Zevon's "Accidentally Like A Martyr". They were at the top of my list. Here are a couple more including a few covers I prefer to the originals: Nils Lofgren- "Little On Up", "I Don't Want to Know", "Moon Tears" Ricki Lee Jones- "Walk Away Renee" Jennifer Warnes (and Leonard Cohen)- "Joan of Arc" Vanilla Fudge- "You Keep Me Hangin' On" Neil Young- "The Needle and the Damage Done", "Old Man", "Down By the River" Bloodrock- "D.O.A." The English Beat- "Can't Get Used to Losing You", "Tears of a Clown" (I love Smokey, but this a great cover of his song). Smokey Robinson- "Tracks of My Tears" The Weavers- "Ramblin' Boy" Joe Cocker- "With a Little Help from My Friends"
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