Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: LEE on 05 March, 2009, 04:16:52 pm
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What gets your nomination as the saddest song?
What would be the backing track playing as your gilrfriend/boyfriend walked away?
What would come on the radio as you drove "Fido" to the vets that final time?
Here's my nomination
I wish it would rain - The Temptations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJZ-yB5pLvA)
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Crying by Roy Orbison
Never Said Goodbye by Cerys Matthews
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Nothing compares 2 U always makes me cry :'(
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Morrissey - Disappointed
Someone will be along soon with Sweetest Smile by Black.
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From a different era, but Burns' "Ae Fond Kiss".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIKWHuxljFE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIKWHuxljFE)
Utterly heartbreaking. :'(
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Bessie Smith's Take Me To The 'Lectric Chair
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Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
* runs away *
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Ah, but that reminds me of
Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
and
Mary Coughlan - The Ice Cream Man
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Kate Rusby I am stretched on your grave.
The Band sang Waltzing Matilda ,I prefer the June Tabor verion
and for purely personal reasons Baby can I hold you tonight by Tracy Chapman.
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Nina Simone - When I Was A Young Girl
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Jim Reeves - Old Tige :sick:
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For me it would have to be:
Seeing Things - Black Crows
Goodnight Elizabeth - The Counting Crowes
Brown Eyes Blue - dunno who it's by but always reminds me of my late uncle
Get me everytime
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Oh
Mariama Kaba - Boubacar Traore. A lament for his late wife.
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Nothing compares 2 U always makes me cry :'(
Skinhead O'Connor version I assume. (Pronounced Skin-Heed)
That was the last vinyl record I ever bought.
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One more:
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam
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Bricks in my Pillow - Robert Nighthawk
Stones In My Passway - Robert Nighthawk as well, but on a rather different subject.
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Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
* runs away *
Not Honey by Bobby Goldsboro?
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I Can't Go Home - Robert Cray
Nobody mentioned 'Patches'? :o
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"World without mercy" by Violent Femmes
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Ruby's Arms by Tom Waits
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Lover you should have come over by Jeff Buckley, reminds me of a relationship which might have been many moons ago.
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The butcher boy also by Sinead O'Connor
Aboout some one who kills themselves because their love cannot be fulfilled because they arent a virgin
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OK, some one's already mentioned "Sweetest Smile", so I'll have to have George Michael's "A Different Corner", from his pre-cottaging days, and "Bullet" by Furniture, a half-sung, half-spoken elegy in blank verse to a doomed relationship.
Oh, and any of Roy Orbison's ballads :'(
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Never be Mine -- Kate Bush.
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Pavement - Major Leagues
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Anything from the Boatman's Call album, but especially Brompton Oratory and Are You The One I've Been Waiting For? (The answer is no).
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How could I forget: Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
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I dunno about sad, but I do find Seasons In The Sun very depressing.
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I dunno about sad, but I do find Seasons In The Sun very depressing.
This'll cheer you up then:
We had joy, we had fun
Flicking bogeys at the sun
But the sun was too hot
So the bogeys turned to snot
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RZ: ;D
I can't listen to Ambulance Blues by Neil Young, or One by U2 these days without ending up in floods of tears, which is a shame because I really like them. :(
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I am another fan of Sinead.
Also Eva Cassidy -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
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I can't listen to Ambulance Blues by Neil Young.
This was truly great when I saw him live last year. Just Neil, a stool and his guitar, mesmerising the audience for 9 minutes.
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Argh! I'm sad again now. Just bought tickets to see him on Monday (after missing out last time) and found out today that my travel request was approved at work so I'll be away. :(
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Sandy Denny
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I can't listen to Ambulance Blues by Neil Young, or One by U2 these days without ending up in floods of tears, which is a shame because I really like them. :(
Have you heard Johnny Cash's version of "One"? The U2 version is bathetic by comparison.
http://ipickmynose.com/mp3s/loop1/04%20One.mp3
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Both sad and bitchy, The Bluetones' "Slack Jaw" has a jaunty little backing which belies its message:
It was a month and a day
It seems a lifetime away
When we first met in town and spent a night
We drank and we talked until the music was stopped
And the barman came and turned back on the light
We arranged again to meet
And as I walked off down the street
I swear that I felt ten feet tall
Was I dizzy from the wine?
Or maybe I just missed the signs
‘Cause now you won’t return my calls
I hope that one day when you’re ancient
Preparing for another lonely night
You close your eyes for one last time
And you see me in my prime
The great lost love of my life
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OK, some one's already mentioned "Sweetest Smile", so I'll have to have George Michael's "A Different Corner", from his pre-cottaging days, and "Bullet" by Furniture, a half-sung, half-spoken elegy in blank verse to a doomed relationship.
A Different Corner is probably my most favouritest ever George song. It's beautiful. Are Furniture the group that had the one hit in the 80s with the song I can't remember?
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Yes.
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What was the song? I keep thinking it was I Can't Wait but I think that was Nu Shooz. Was it Driving Away From Home?
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Yet another one....
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana, from the Unplugged in New York CD, sang with such hurt in his voice that it was obvious it was about Courtney Love...
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Ah, but that reminds me of
Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
I was going to add "If You Go Away" by Scott Walker. Only after listening to Jaques Brel on Youtube did I just realise that they are fundamentally the same song.
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Pink Floyd - The Gunners Dream
Just for something different.
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What makes me well up every time is the Kyrie from Mozart's Great Mass in C.
It's the music for the sea-crossing sequence in Belleville Rendezvous. A DVD I must play again...
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Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
* runs away *
That's another Brel song.....
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I think he might disown Jacks' version ;D
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The last movement of Strauss' Four Last Songs "Im Abendrot" especially in the glistening recording by Herbet Von Karajan and Gundala Janowitz.
Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" (Songs on the death of children)
"I often think: they have only just gone out, soon they will be coming back home. The day is fine! Don't be dismayed! They have just gone for a long walk! Yes indeed, they have just gone out, and now they are making their way home. Don't be dismayed, the day is fine! They have simply made a journey to yonder heights. They have just gone out ahead of us, and will not be thinking of coming home. We go to meet them on yonder heights! In the sunlight! The day is fine on those uplands!"
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LOADS of Eric Bogle....
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Withered and Died by Richard and Linda Thompson.
"Once I was bending the tops of the trees
Kind words in my ear, kind faces to see
Then I struck up with a boy from the west
Played run and hide, played run and hide
Count one to ten and he’s gone with the rest
My dreams have withered and died"
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Withered and Died by Richard and Linda Thompson.
"Once I was bending the tops of the trees
Kind words in my ear, kind faces to see
Then I struck up with a boy from the west
Played run and hide, played run and hide
Count one to ten and he’s gone with the rest
My dreams have withered and died"
kate Rusby sings that as well a real tear jerker
"If I were a butterfly Id live for today"
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This thread and Spotify
I'm depressed. :'(
. ;D
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"The Dead Flag Blues" - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Not sure if it's sad or just depressing.
No, hang on, this is much sadder -
"It Was A Pleasure Then" - Nico
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What was the song? I keep thinking it was I Can't Wait but I think that was Nu Shooz. Was it Driving Away From Home?
Brilliant Mind
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As any fule kno, the Actual Saddest Song In The World is Take This Longing, by Leonard Cohen.
And everything depends upon
how near you sleep to me
Just take this longing from my tongue
all the lonely things my hands have done.
Let me see your beauty broken down
like you would do for one your love.
*is remembering icon and feeling a bit clichéd, but the second saddest song in the world is also an L Cohen song*
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Exile by Show of Hands or Mna na h' Eireann by Kate Bush. Sinead O'Connor's version is OK but a bit too dirgy for me.
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Unfinished sympathy - Massive Attack
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Nothing compares to you - Sinead
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almost anything by Jackie Leven
try this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APNVVMp0AF0), plenty more to choose from on you tube
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Steve Earle "Johnny come lately" from Copperhead Road.
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The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby.
Por que te vas? from Cria Cuervos.
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Silent all these years - Tori Amos
You're History - Shakespear's Sister
Yesterday - The Beatles