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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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"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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@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 |
@mitchagain yes I think it is the unique combo of cynicism and depression! |
@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 |
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 |
@dvddesigner 'Losing it' ... nice one! One can't help contemplate the irony of the lyricist's final years Vincent - Don McLean Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks Tears - Rush
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the Castilian Spanish version of Timi Yuro’s "Hurt" ["Agonado"]. gawd almighty, that one aches in the <3 in a way the English version only hinted at. you don’t even have to understand Spanish to FEEL what she is singing. you can "hear" hurt in her delivery. then there is Tim Buckley’s "once i was" which is the male version of that. then there is the Basque lullaby "Nana" sung by Victoria De Los Angeles. poignant! then there is "Vesti La Guibba" from "I Pagliacci" [Leoncavallo operetta] sung by a tenor whose name escapes me but you'd swear there were real tears [he was emoting like gangbusters] dripping from his eyes in the video. almost intolerably sad. "Since i fell for you" by Lenny Welch is yet another where he sells the song in his emotional delivery. if he recited the NYC phone directory in that voice it would have almost as much pathos. |
The Very Thing That Makes You Rich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTJ3RQSa1PU Cheaper To Keep Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDc-euX7ws Tied To The Whipping Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUvxRjYqjEQ Freebird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mExcPmReUM
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@knighttodd Sorry to hear that. That's emotional. Music really helps with grieving. |