feeling blue?

[rockmeister]

Was listening to Richard and Linda Thompson on the way home and just wondered... what's your favourite five all time sad songs... you know, the ones you play when she's left you, everyone hates you and all that?

Mine would be

R&L Thompson: 'My dreams have withered and died'

Jackson Browne: 'Late for the sky'

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a wire'

Otis Reddin: 'Try a little tenderness'

Love: 'Wise old man'

 

[Chewie]

Sorry Rockmeister I can’t get it down to just five, it was bad enough getting it down to these (Why is there no embarrassed emoticon when you need one)

Atmosphere – Joy Division

October – U2

Wonderwall – Oasis

I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl

Ode to my family - The Cranberries

I'm So Lonely – Cast

I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

Never Never - The Assembly

Somebody Hurt You - A Girl Called Eddy

Babybird – Babybird

Philadelphia - Neil Young

Gravity – Embrace

Thank U - Alanis Morissette

All I Want Is You – U2

My Immortal – Evanescence

Both Sides, Now - Joni Mitchell

Still Life – Suede

Perfect - Smashing Pumpkins

Perfect Circle – REM

Low Expectations - Edwyn Collins

 

[Hawk]

everybody hurts REM

 

[Sony6million]

DOn't you mean, try not to breath, Hawk? I always think everone hurts is overplayed. Let Me In, on Monster is good.

Blue by Joni Mitchel is really moving.

Can You Forgive Her by The Pet Shop Boys is sad to me as it reminds me of an ex (fucking cow that she was).

 

[Brown Bottle]

'Hurt' by Johnny Cash, a killer sad song.

 

[Hawk]

Sony6million wrote:

DOn't you mean, try not to breath, Hawk? I always think everone hurts is overplayed. Let Me In, on Monster is good.

Its a fair point Sony, and i dont disagree... But i was moved by Everyone Hurts when it was played live at Glasto a couple of years back.. It changed the way i felt about the song big stylee as it also coincided with some very bad news... I guess its more association than the song itself..

Hawk

 

[PARAGON]

"There were roses" - Cara Dillon, very sad as well as topical.

You can listen to tracks on her album Sweet Liberty including the above here..

http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/57135.html

 

[chezi61]

Stiff Little Fingers ; Barbed Wire Love.

Inevitably , still sad but very true today. FUCK!!

chezi.

 

[rockmeister]

For me, sad songs are always associated with 'things'... everytime I play Jackson Browne,'late for the sky' visions of a certain woman swim into view!

 

[meninblack]

Leonard Cohen - Famous blue raincoat

Nick Cave - Where do we go now but nowhere

Sisters of Mercy - Lights

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart again

Robert Forster - Danger in the past

 

[Guest]

Brown Bottle wrote:

'Hurt' by Johnny Cash, a killer sad song.

:^Seconded also

Eva Cassidy : Autumn Leaves

Led Zeppelin : Babe i gonna leave you

Queen : Who wants to live forever

George Michael: Cowboys and Angels

Goldfrapp : Paper Bag

Lamb: Gabriel

I could go on