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I know it's over by The Smiths

awwwwwww

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Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Alone Again Or - Love LWTUA

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Tom Waits and Gavin Bryars: Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet.

Strangely hopeful too, but seriously bloody sad.

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Any song the BBC play to accompany the montage of England after they have been knocked out of the World Cup or European Championship:cry:

This time it was NUMB .

Not that i'm still sad.Soon got over it within 24 hours because i'm used to it now :laugh:

Previous competitions it was Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis in the 2002 World Cup and in 1998 it was that song by Green Day (Time Of Our Lives?)

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Words, don't come easy.... well, as I remembered it

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most of the tracks from Xiu Xiu's first two albums! :thumb:

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i could have lied - rhcp

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wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

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Bob Konkel wrote: Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value)

seconded. one of my favourite songs of all time. yes it's sad, but at the same time its so uplifting and just generally makes me feel good.

the unplugged version is one of the best performances of it. followed by the live at benaroya hall version. absolute genius of a song.

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dubstar, elevator song, acoustic version.

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Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode:cry: :blush:

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Does anyone else have a song with no lyrics that gets to them?

For me it's Soviet by electronic, I don't know why. but towards the end of it, it just makes me well up.

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Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode:cry: :blush:

:nono: :nonono:

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

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Dam That River wrote:

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be, can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode:cry: :blush:

:nono: :nonono:

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

:spit: :skeptic: That's what I used to think until I was corrected by a friend who was a far bigger Pearl Jam fan than me....:nonono: :scratch: Official Lyric check required:nod:

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Pearl Jam's Black? ugh. I don't know about in Engerland, but over here no song that horrendously overplayed sounds sad anymore (not that it ever did in the first place to my ears). Makes me want to put a boot through the radio instead. Surely there is some other Pearl Jam song that is far sadder than that radio fodder...like Immortality or Off He Goes.

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Minx wrote:

Dam That River wrote:

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be, can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode:cry: :blush:

:nono: :nonono:

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

:spit: :skeptic: That's what I used to think until I was corrected by a friend who was a far bigger Pearl Jam fan than me....:nonono: :scratch: Official Lyric check required:nod:

I specified the acoustic version because among other qualities it has the added "we, we belong together" lyric at the end :cry: :cry: :cry:

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Minx wrote:

Dam That River wrote:

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be, can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode:cry: :blush:

:nono: :nonono:

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

:spit: :skeptic: That's what I used to think until I was corrected by a friend who was a far bigger Pearl Jam fan than me....:nonono: :scratch: Official Lyric check required:nod:

and i am a bigger fan than you, and chances are i am a bigger fan than your mate. go check on the website, i think you'll find i am right. :nod:

POPE - off he goes and immortality good calls sir.

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Surprised no one has mentioned the masters of depressing sad songs, Radiohead.

To name a few:

Pyramid Song Street Spirit Creep The Tourist

Most depressing, I think has to be: Exit Music (From a Film)

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Minx wrote: Does anyone else have a song with no lyrics that gets to them?

For me it's Soviet by electronic, I don't know why. but towards the end of it, it just makes me well up.

one of the b side tunes on electronic, feel every beat cant think of the name as not at home but will post when ive checked

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Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

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1963 for me. The Substance version.

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patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

agreed

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In a Lonely Place

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Morrissey:

Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning Life Is A Pigsty Seasick, Yet Still Docked Late Night, Maudlin Street.

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Oh, and The Last Broadcast by Doves.

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Dam That River wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

agreed

I think Trent Reznor even said Johnny's version was definitive.

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"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton from "unplugged"

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Anything by Crazy Frog. I get all sad, weepy and emotional just thinking about it. :( :cry: :angry: :banghead:

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Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson wrote: "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton from "unplugged"

good call

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"1963" by New Order "Do I have to?" by Pet Shop Boys "Waiting for the Night" by Depeche Mode

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another one-"Redemption Song" by Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer

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Ok, I'll get right royally slated for it but one of the songs that has a powerful affect on my emotions is 'one thing left to do' by Del Amitri. Slag off the band, slag me off for liking them but don't comment on the song unless you have heard it.... Thank you

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"I Love You, You Love Me", Barney and friends...always chokes me up a little :(

In all seriousness: Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley Jealous Guy - John Lennon I Know It's Over - Smiths Blame It On the Sun - Stevie Wonder I'm Not In Love - 10CC

:cry:

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Sara by Bob Dylan always makes me puddle up...don't know why exactly...

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Go Rest High On That Mountain by Vince Gill. I've heard it at far too many funerals, it seems to have become a standard when someone in the family passes on. Not that many of YOU have heard it!

:skeptic:

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a lot of songs by the Smithereens are quite sad, in an emotional sense.

eg. Only a memory & Elaine.

top band. where are they now? :scratch:

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Two Little Boys By Rolf Harris :cry:

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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths (Johnny Marr's guitar run through the Boss Lachrymose+ pedal)

You Don't Love Me - Matthew Sweet

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Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Go Rest High On That Mountain by Vince Gill. I've heard it at far too many funerals, it seems to have become a standard when someone in the family passes on. Not that many of YOU have heard it!

:skeptic:

Oh I have!! fantastic song-straight into the gospel vein

unlike most country guys-Vince has talent

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J.A.K wrote: a lot of songs by the Smithereens are quite sad, in an emotional sense.

eg. Only a memory & Elaine.

top band. where are they now? :scratch:

One of my favorite bands!! *bow*

Pat DiNizio made a career of writing about being torn up a girl or sumthin!

"Deep Black" "The House WE Used to Live in" (about his parents losing his childhood home to the IRS) "Blood & Roses" "Drown in My Own Tears" "In a Lonely Place"

I saw Pat at a local bar about 18 months ago $12 for just him & his Strat

the 'Reens still do the occasional show.....

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"hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley

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Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson wrote:

J.A.K wrote: a lot of songs by the Smithereens are quite sad, in an emotional sense.

eg. Only a memory & Elaine.

top band. where are they now? :scratch:

One of my favorite bands!! *bow*

Pat DiNizio made a career of writing about being torn up a girl or sumthin!

"Deep Black" "The House WE Used to Live in" (about his parents losing his childhood home to the IRS) "Blood & Roses" "Drown in My Own Tears" "In a Lonely Place"

I saw Pat at a local bar about 18 months ago $12 for just him & his Strat

the 'Reens still do the occasional show.....

nice one. Green thoughts is an amazing album.

although, Blood & roses is probably their definitive song.

So up beat - the riffs etc. but so down beat - listening to Pat's life story etc. must put the 'reens in my car again soon. haha, i'll probably cry as i'm driving. haha

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MESSAGE TO UNCLE LIAM: you will like Green Thoughts by the Smithereens. Guarn-damn-teed. classic album.

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smithereensgreen thoughtsfrom AMGThe Smithereens' excellent sophomore effort picks up where their debut, Especially for You, left off, with Pat DiNizio delivering another impressive batch of superbly constructed pop gems; tracks like "Only a Memory," "House We Used to Live In," and "Drown in My Own Tears" are immediately ingratiating — instantly familiar, yet performed with more than enough energy and flair to sound new and exciting. Equally compelling are Green Thoughts' curveballs, like the countryish "Something New," the lovely ballad "Especially for You," and the dark, atmospheric "Deep Black," all of which deliver intriguing variations on the Smithereens' basic power pop formula. Another winner.

its brill.

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definately "seasick, yet still docked" but with "i know it's gonna happen someday" included... also "i've changed my plea to guilty" by the mozzster is a wrencher... wahhhh!!!

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patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

Aye ,agreed, i always seem to catch that vid at 2 or 3am after a night out.

But ,um, his "version" ?.Did he not write it himself then?

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Johnny Come Loudly wrote:

But ,um, his "version" ?.Did he not write it himself then?

It's a Nine Inch Nails song.

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NIN ? really?? .Learn somethin new every day

Cheers C

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Johnny Come Loudly wrote: NIN ? really?? .Learn somethin new every day

Cheers C

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Last song on The Downward Spiral

Glastonbury 2000

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Didn't think much of that.I think i'll check out Cash's version again

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If You Go Away, Dusty Springfield or Scott Walker "I'd live in the shadow of your shadow....." [original French version by Jacques Brel is angry rather than sad]

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HURT by NIN has really amazing lyrics. I love that tune.

Cash's version is indeed great, especially the video, but NIN version I will always prefer just cos it means quite a bit to me, for different reasons. so NIN get my vote. :thumb:

On a happier note, Cash also does a kick ass version of soundgarden's rusty cage, it's proper different.

PS - why do everyone in NIN apart from Trent Reznor look really weird?

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I'm Not In Love - 10CC

I love that song.

Don Henley - Last Worthless Evening Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away

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THIS MORTAL COIL (Cocteaus + guests) - Song To The Siren KORGIS - Everybody's Gonna Learn Sometime 10CC - I'm Not In Love ELVIS COSTELLO - I Wanna Be Loved

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Dam That River wrote: HURT by NIN has really amazing lyrics. I love that tune.

Cash's version is indeed great, especially the video, but NIN version I will always prefer just cos it means quite a bit to me, for different reasons. so NIN get my vote. :thumb:

On a happier note, Cash also does a kick ass version of soundgarden's rusty cage, it's proper different.

PS - why do everyone in NIN apart from Trent Reznor look really weird?

jack-

do you like Hurt more than "something i can never have?" I guess becuase Hurt came a few years after I heard SICNH a bazillion times it always took a back seat in my mind. Hurt does kind of sound like a part 2 of SICNH.

The guys in NIN all look really weird because its the industrial trademark. Although I would hardly categorize NIN as industrial these days.

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agadoo

now theres a proper sad song.

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so many songs come to mind, but one song that stands out most recently for me is william shatner's mr. tambourine man (the transformed man 1967)

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"Tank Park Salute" by Billy Bragg. Came out on the album "Don't try this at home" in 1991. Haven't heard the end yet.

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"Sacrifice" by Elton John

"Miss Misery" by Elliott Smith (he wrote a LOT of weepers)

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"You'll Never Walk Alone" sung by the Celtic support in full voice certainly stirs the emotion.

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palace - you will miss me when i burn smog - you moved in papa m - last caress arab strap - serenade mogwai - come on die young elvis costello - i want you tom waits - train song godspeed you black emperor - gathering storm leonard cohen - bird on a wire nick drake - parasite slowdive - blue skied an clear

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Johnny Come Loudly wrote: I think i'll check out Cash's version again

Good call :clap:

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I agree 100% of The Cure's Disintegration, the song or pretty much any other song they have off the same album

My New Order list, cuz why not? :shrug:

In A Lonely Place Special (I do get a wee bit choked up) Avalanche (Simply stunning) and the winner

Elegia (Not that I'm the type, but if I were to top myself, no more appropriate background music :rip: )

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Kristian Valen "Still here"

and I always have to cry at Billy Joel's "Leningrad"

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bob dylan - i want you

ONLY the live at budokan version though :nod:

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"The man Who Sold The World" Nirvana

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'If You Go Away' - Marc Almond (Marc & The Mambas) version

'I Want You' - Elvis Costello

'Like A Hurricane' - Neil Young

'My Funny Valentine' - Elvis Costello version

'In A Lonely Place' - The Smithereens

'Blood & Roses' - Live version - The Smithereens

'Stop Your Crying' - Bob Mould

'Nothing Ever Happens' - Del Amitri

'Needle & The Damage Done' - Neil Young

'Me Singing' - Julian Cope

'Decades' - Joy Division

'Elegia' - New Order

'Please, Please, Please (Let Me Get What I Want)' - The Smiths

So many more great tracks, but those spring to mind for me...

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Chris Nash wrote:

'Like A Hurricane' - Neil Young

'Needle & The Damage Done' - Neil Young

agreed. i love neil young. these 2 from the unplugged album are class as well, when he does the whole of like a hurricane on organ and harmonica.

tho my fave version of hurricane is from weld, needle and damage done is a great call.

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Yup - the accoustic versions are great, aren't they?

Just a sideline - have you heard Neil Young's soundtrack for the Johnny Depp film, 'Dead Man'? Apparently the whole score was recorded in one take. Great guitar playing and a real feel for what was going on in the film. If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it! :thumb:

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"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" Pink Floyd

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Chris Nash wrote: Yup - the accoustic versions are great, aren't they?

Just a sideline - have you heard Neil Young's soundtrack for the Johnny Depp film, 'Dead Man'? Apparently the whole score was recorded in one take. Great guitar playing and a real feel for what was going on in the film. If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it! :thumb:

yup got that - neil is a legend.

i love greendale.

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"Twenty Four Hours"... the sound of all hope is lost

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I'm suprised no one has mentioned Atmosphere by JD. A fantasticly sad song. Manys a time I have had a weep to this

Regret also brings a tear to my eye. Especially live where I have been in floods.

God, I am such a bloody girl

:bag:

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Inspirals- Two Worlds Collide

and Sackville as well. A very sad song when you think about it.

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alice in chains - don't follow

doubt anyone else has heard that tho :\ohwell:

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Hard to pin it down to just one,so here's a few..Enjoyable but sad in one way or another...

Some Distant Memory-Electronic Applecart-Big Audio Dynamite Top Of the World-JAMES Regret(Its the "Just wait till tommorrow...."poignant ending punch in the gut,that got me) LWTUA(without the COME ONS!) Atmosphere Loveless Sirens Hurt-Johnny Cash

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"Your confusion, my illusion Worn like a mask of self hate Confronts and then dies"

Has to be Atmosphere for me :cry:

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To add four more....

SMITHS Suffer Little Children NO Avalanche EDITORS Distance and.. INTERPOL NYC

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Editors -Camera

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rabcfc wrote: "Tank Park Salute" by Billy Bragg. Came out on the album "Don't try this at home" in 1991. Haven't heard the end yet.

Excellent choice that one, Atmosphere by JD, Find The River by R.E.M., Down The Tip by Aztec Camera and any version of Fields Of Athenry in addition for me.

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Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphey

:cry:

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Beck - Little One

Well, really all of Seachange is pretty depressing. If I were to commit suicide, it'd probably be to that album.

Slowdive's Avalyn always gets me too.

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methanolcereal wrote: Beck - Little One

Well, really all of Seachange is pretty depressing. If I were to commit suicide, it'd probably be to that album.

A ringing endorsement if ever I heard one :p

"If I Fell" by the Fab Four is a nice little slow number buried on the Hard Day's Night soundtrack, it's supposed to be about a new relationship but the guy is singing about his old one.

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Taboo # 7 wrote:

methanolcereal wrote: Beck - Little One

Well, really all of Seachange is pretty depressing. If I were to commit suicide, it'd probably be to that album.

A ringing endorsement if ever I heard one :p

Thanks, I try.

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Sad but not depressing (though it gets helluva close sometimes,,,,)

So long marianne, Leonard Cohen Hey thats no way to say goodbye, Leonard Cohen Decades, Joy Division The Eternal, Joy Division Special, New Order (well, bittersweet) Avalanche, New Order Procession, New Order A night like this, The Cure I Know its over, The Smiths

Thats it.

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"Angie" The Rolling Stones

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Anyone mentioned "Shipbuilding" by Elvis Costello yet? :shrug:

Because I did...just now :p

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All Apologies- Nirvana Atmosphere Decades

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One without words:

Journey to the Line - Hans Zimmer

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sad? ... the theme to twin peaks!!!:cry:

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d13 wrote: sad? ... the theme to twin peaks!!!:cry:

The same for me

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Garbage's "nobody can win"? or their "a cup of coffee"

Blink 182's [please don't take the piss, honestly its actually quite good] "I Miss You"

Radiohead "street spirit" (picking radiohead being a bit obvious though)

Oh yea, most of Dead Can Dance's "the serpent's egg"

and I guess the Beatles "yesterday"

the Pretenders "I go to sleep"

Police "every breath you take"

Placebo "sleeping with ghosts"

New Order's In a Lonely Place and Elegia (well they make me feel sad anyway)

and everything that's already been mentioned (especially the crazy frog!)

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Nothing Lasts Forever - EatB

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seals wrote: Sad but not depressing (though it gets helluva close sometimes,,,,)

Procession, New Order quote]

Interesting...I've always thought of that as a "bipolar" New Order song....optimistic and cheerful, with a dark edge of pain and despair ("There is no end to this...")...so I can listen to it regardless of my mood....not many bands can do that to me. :nod:

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The Field Mice - And Before The First Kiss

With an honourable mention to my current 'it'll bring tears to your eyes' track: New Model Army - Fireworks Night

SHEDi xxx

EDIT: Add Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream to the above...

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"Adam's Song" Blink 182 a suicide note from a teenager. SAD

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saw the video for Johnny Cash's "hurt" again....

the icon, the rebel, the proud american, the loving husband, the old man knowing the end is near....

I was working a record store and the Universal rep brought a videotape of it and showed it to some co-workers and I. It was maybe 2 months before the cd was released

I had a tear running down my face as I first saw it.

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'Trouble'Cat Stevens

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for some reason popcorn has always got to me a little no idea why myb i need shooting

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:violent: Honey by Bobby Goldsboro - pure cheese but beware, it can get to you :barf:

World Without Love is more bearable.

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meatloaf,2 outa 3 aint bad!

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Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Go Rest High On That Mountain by Vince Gill. I've heard it at far too many funerals, it seems to have become a standard when someone in the family passes on. Not that many of YOU have heard it!

:skeptic:

Yep, my mom loves that song so much. Since I've been going to more funerals lately, I've heard that duet by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton, When I Get To Where I'm Going, several times.

Also gonna add I See A Darkness, by either J. Cash or Will Oldham.

How could we forget Roy Orbison's In Dreams, since it touched ol' softy Frank Booth so deeply in Blue Velvet?

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Found Goodnight Kiss by Black Box Recorder sad recently

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[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: [ .

How could we forget Roy Orbison's In Dreams, since it touched ol' softy Frank Booth so deeply in Blue Velvet?

that was an amazing part of the film:nod:

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Why not Elegia ? It is powerfull but also very very sad in my eyes.:cry: Or "Save a Prayer" "Come Undone" Duran Duran.Bloody hell am i showing my soft side ????? :cry: :cry: :cry:

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'My youngest son came home today'MaryBlack

Play this,and the next time you hear 'save a prayer',feel free to laugh your head off.

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Sigur Ros is very saddening - it's ultra-very-nice but somehow they always make me cry (perhaps because it is so ultra-very-nice)...

I don't know if anyone mentioned "Seasons in the sun" by Terry Jacks yet.

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Mobile Homes - Another One. A really sad song.

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Bere wrote: Sigur Ros is very saddening - it's ultra-very-nice but somehow they always make me cry (perhaps because it is so ultra-very-nice)...

I don't know if anyone mentioned "Seasons in the sun" by Terry Jacks yet.

If my rather shoddy memory serves me correctly, "Seasons in the Sun" was named in the top 10 of some worst song of all time list a few years ago. Yes, another silly list.

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imo, "the worst year of my life" by THE WILD SWANS!

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puff the magic dragon. i can't get past the first verse without bursting into tears.

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AgentWood wrote: puff the magic dragon. i can't get past the first verse without bursting into tears.

Christy you little softy. How about Glen Campbell's By The Time I Get To Phoenix...."..She'll be sleeping":scream: :cry:

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Does anyone remember 'One Night Stand' by the Aloof?

that was a bit grinding, but also kinda cool

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'The streets of Loredo' Thats sad song.....if your a cowboy

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This Womans Work- Kate Bush

:(

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atmosphere

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"Man of The Hour" Pearl jam

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God save the Queen. Rule Britannia (wrote by a bloody Scot). The Stars and Stripes.... But real sad songs... O' Flower of Scotland :laugh: No really the whole of Berlin (Lou Reed) and almost anything by Billie Holiday.

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In A Lonely Place by New Order.

The Bush song was better. I mean it's not that lonely as that of New Order.

Indeed!

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Lonesome Tonight

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Shellshocker wrote:

Bere wrote: Sigur Ros is very saddening - it's ultra-very-nice but somehow they always make me cry (perhaps because it is so ultra-very-nice)...

I don't know if anyone mentioned "Seasons in the sun" by Terry Jacks yet.

If my rather shoddy memory serves me correctly, "Seasons in the Sun" was named in the top 10 of some worst song of all time list a few years ago. Yes, another silly list.

Ah yes - 'would you please kill me now i've got seasons in the sun, in my head thanks to you so please kill me - here's the gun'

& don't get me started on 'honey' :tank:

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Going with sad, and not romantic/love song:

Drugs don't work - The Verve Wires - Athlete Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan

Do NOT laugh at the last one - very clever lyrics.

Ish.

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'walking on sunshine' by katrina and the waves...

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In a Lonely Place The last day of summer - The Cure

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Cyndi Lauper - Sally's Pigeons

:cry: :cry:

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Spiritualized's "Broken Heart" -- kills me every time!

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Trisomie 21 - la fête triste

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DOVES - Ambition (off SOME CITIES) :cry:

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Kath wrote: Going with sad, and not romantic/love song:

Wires - Athlete

found out the other day this song gets to my ex cos it reminds him of one of the times I was in hospital...... :\ohwell:

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well i wonder by the smiths is a tear jerker but seasick, yet still docked and i know it's gonna happen someday by the mozzster is a heart-wrencher!!! WAAAAHHHH!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

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[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

agreed

Ditto.

And as for the saddest stuff...

Joy Division-- --Atmosphere --LWTUA --Heart and Soul --24 Hours --The Eternal

New Order-- --IaLP --Mesh --Leave Me Alone --Elegia --1963 --True Faith [just something about that song...] --most of the 'Technique' album, while it IS dancable --WftSC --Turn

The Other Two-- --Superhighways --The River --Selfish --New Horizons --You Can Fly [almost the same effect as Superhighways]

Otherwise-- --'Stable Song' [Death Cab for Cutie] --mostly anything from Mira --'Hurt' [NIN] [Johnny Cash] --'A Million Miles Away' [The Plimsouls] [don't ask. i dunno.] --'Adam's Song' [blink-182]

...I guess that's all I can think up at the moment, really.

ETA [edited to add] How the fuckin' hell could I forget this: --anything by Morrissey and/or the Smiths

:nonono: How could I have forgotten...

:shrug: What? :shine:

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I love sad songs...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees The Beatles - Yesterday New Order - Love Less Long Pigs - On and On Tony Rich - Nobody knows Third Eye Blind - God of Wine R.E.M. - Find the River Mazzy Star - Fade into You Lou Reed - Perfect Day

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angeldust_evildust wrote: well i wonder by the smiths is a tear jerker but seasick, yet still docked and i know it's gonna happen someday by the mozzster is a heart-wrencher!!! WAAAAHHHH!!!

i know it's gonna happen someday...

sniff

how about 'love on the rocks' - neil diamond? (quite a few cracking tearjerky themes actually - twin peaks, brideshead, deerhunter)

some really good weepies already mentioned here, think i'm gonna make me a little comp and have a bit of a blub. spiritualized 'ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space' makes me well up too. dare i mention 'souvenir' by omd? 'somebody' by dm?! please don't hurt me

'starmaker' from the kids from fame soundtrack! i could do this all night.

"do i listen to pop music because i'm miserable or am i miserable because i listen to pop music?"

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Jet trails in the skyleave one word behinda hand bangs into sanda nameand we all understandeverybody's lostbut they're pretending they're not lostJet trails in the skyleave one thought behinda hand bangs into the sand a nameand we all understandeverybody's Lostbut they're pretending they're not lostSo, if I see youand I tell youhow I've watched youI'm just LostSo if I see youand I tell youhow I've watched youdon't make fun of me later'cause I'm just lost

'Lost' by Morrissey. :cry: :cry: :cry:

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Desperate Kingdom of Love by PJ Harvey

Just rip my heart to shreds, Polly dearest... :cry:

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[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:

PS - why do everyone in NIN apart from Trent Reznor look really weird?

Hehe...that's saying something, when Reznor looks more normal than the rest... :)

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One Dove - Why Don't You Take Me Presence - Far Far Away From My Heart Jose Padilla - Adios Ayer Placid Angles - Everything Under The Sun Michael Nyman - Franklyn Section 25 - Sweet Forgiveness New Order - Lonesome Tonight

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Most of Michael Bolton's ballads :cry:

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Thrasher - Neil Young

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Daver wrote: Spiritualized's "Broken Heart" -- kills me every time!

Yes:nod:

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Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway

Very clever song too. I don't listen to lyrics much but I was quite proud of myself when I worked that one out (after listening to the song for about 8 years!). The boyfriend in the song is dead by the way in case you're as thick as me.

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Honesty by RFATP on their album "In The Sea Of E", the best record they ever did.

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hurt as covered by the man in black,, awesome.

avalanche by new order would get me sad as it sounds like the end ,, though it wasnt .cept for gillian g.

and you can have it all.

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Wires - Athlete Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House Everybody Hurts - REM Eternal/Decades - Joy Division Elegia - New Order Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice Nothing Compares 2 U - Skinead O'Conner Thats all I can think of for now.

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Celebration Kool & the Gang

"There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times, and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you"

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:\oops:

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Mike, will you have my baby???

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King John Honest John wrote: Celebration Kool & the Gang

"There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times, and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you"

:abovelol: :abovelol: nice one John

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Snoopy wrote: Most of Michael Bolton's ballads :cry:

Michael Bolton sucks :thumbdown:

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I don't need any sad songs right now.

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