Dark Globe or Vegetable Man - Syd Barrett Where one of the most creative artists of the late 60's starts to confront his own alienation and descent into mental illness. You could probably pick any number of songs from his solo work.
When you say the saddest song you know, do you mean by the lyrics? the way it makes you feel? reminds you of the past?
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla. I guess most would think its an uplifting song but I well up like a loon when I listen to it for no apparent reason. No idea why.
One of my baby daughters toys plays the same tune as my dear old Nan's jewellery box. That absolutely destroys me and I had to keep walking out the room into the garden. My wife has hidden the toy away now.
And totally randomly, we was out somewhere in the summer and we heard an ice cream van play a tune that I hadn't heard for 35 years and it took me right back to my childhood, sitting in my Nan's garden with my Grandad on the Downham Estate during the summer holidays. The only place I'd ever hear that tune was there. There was no other ice cream van that played that tune. I didn't think to record it but I hummed it back into the voice recorder on my phone and played it back to my Mum and Brother and they both remembered it. Ah FFS. I feel proper sad now
Adele has a whole catalogue of sad songs......”Someone like you” being the saddest I guess. Her live version at the Brit Awards a while back was truly awesome.
Songs about loved ones not being around and memories get me, songs about heartbreak are bullshite generally and very generic as I suppose popular songs have to be. A memorable couple are Sheila by Jamie T and Dry your eyes by the streets. They don't sadden me but they do a pretty good job of analysing young men and how they respond to seeing the girl they thought was the salt of the earth being finger banged in the back garden of the pub by another lad
Adele has a whole catalogue of sad songs......”Someone like you” being the saddest I guess. Her live version at the Brit Awards a while back was truly awesome.
Not a big fan of her but I really like her tribute to George Michael at the Grammy Awards in 2017, a slow version of Fastlove. The string arrangements are superb. Every time I watch it I get misty-eyed.
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Great live version here: https://youtu.be/Uvg_4XIZ5cA
Where one of the most creative artists of the late 60's starts to confront his own alienation and descent into mental illness.
You could probably pick any number of songs from his solo work.
Put it into a microwave and wait until its bill withers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd3oqvnDKQk
Jaques Brel song...
Every English version of Brel's song sounds like a soapy babaganoush
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla. I guess most would think its an uplifting song but I well up like a loon when I listen to it for no apparent reason. No idea why.
One of my baby daughters toys plays the same tune as my dear old Nan's jewellery box. That absolutely destroys me and I had to keep walking out the room into the garden. My wife has hidden the toy away now.
And totally randomly, we was out somewhere in the summer and we heard an ice cream van play a tune that I hadn't heard for 35 years and it took me right back to my childhood, sitting in my Nan's garden with my Grandad on the Downham Estate during the summer holidays. The only place I'd ever hear that tune was there. There was no other ice cream van that played that tune. I didn't think to record it but I hummed it back into the voice recorder on my phone and played it back to my Mum and Brother and they both remembered it. Ah FFS. I feel proper sad now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gkeYkXEyyY&feature=share
Her live version at the Brit Awards a while back was truly awesome.
Mark knopfler& Emylou Harris
It's about the twin towers victims last calls to loved ones.
I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
Didnt get to tell him
All the things I had to say
Those lines, given my dad died suddenly and unexpectedly, get me every time.
Songs about loved ones not being around and memories get me, songs about heartbreak are bullshite generally and very generic as I suppose popular songs have to be. A memorable couple are Sheila by Jamie T and Dry your eyes by the streets. They don't sadden me but they do a pretty good job of analysing young men and how they respond to seeing the girl they thought was the salt of the earth being finger banged in the back garden of the pub by another lad
I'll add in Jake Bugg's Broken...beautiful, albeit, sad track.
As for sad songs, I particularly like Dusty Springfield's Yesterday When I Was Young.