s1ocki's Sad YouTube project

I hope to heck you are all checking it out. The entry just now is highly recommended:

http://sadyoutube.com/post/33297954220/i-was-the-only-witness-to-a-horrific-car-crash-in

holy hell, amazing

Didn't know about this until now, thanks.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/tumblr-blog-sad-youtube-sammelt-traurige-ruehrende-kommentare-a-860277.html

I did see that! Book deal by the end of the year or something.

Surftipp
Where YouTube is really sad

My favourite Tumblr

yeah it's great

http://rookiemag.com/2012/10/things-we-saw-that-we-liked/

wow!

a++++

way to go s1ocki!!

This is a great idea; glad it's more for documentation than piss-taking.

Oh man, s1ocki this is great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZeaAIDvTo

MrPete45 4 months ago

I was nineteen years old when I was in the war in 1972. One of the guys in my platoon had this song on 8 track tape. while walking through the elephant grass. We came up on a burnt out tank (ours) got in. got comfortable,dropped acid. (brown acid)some where during the night we were over come. The only memory I have of that night, is this song playing its violent guitar solo.And fighting this enemy solder with my fingers and teeth I woke up during dawn, and guy was ripped in pieces next to me.

Okay you have to send that to s1ocki now dammit.

haha ok

If it's true, brilliant, if it's false, that still works.

half of me thinks it's bullshit and the other half thinks how weirdly specific and non-composed it is

either way I'll never listen to the song again without thinking of guys tripping in a burnt out tank in vietnam

a friend of mine was in iraq pt. 1 and they tripped a lot because for some reason it wasn't that hard for ppl to just mail tabs in a letter and not get caught

idgi he ripped his friend apart with his fingers teeth?

it's also because lsd doesn't show up in urine tests

xp

he killed an enemy soldier with his fingers and teeth if I am reading him right

ohhh rite "during the night we were over come"

I had a friend who was tripping on an army base stateside when they got an emergency call to deploy (also iraq pt 1). he ended up sitting in the bay of a troop carrier for hours, waiting to get airlifted. then they got told nevermind, go back to whatever you were doing, false alarm. that was when he decided to go awol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs

This song means a lot to me. I just turned 18 on the 16th, a major milestone in life. The thing is though after moving into north-western Texas in late June, it seems that all my friends that live down here don't seem to appreciate anything but weed anymore. They didn't even call me on my birthday... I'm at a crossroads, do I stay in this place and stay young or do I move on and out leaving my family and bunk friends down here? Well, hopefully this December is different.. From the rest at least.
hawksixnine 10 months ago

It was just before New Years 2009 and my kibbutz was under it's third day of rocket and mortar attacks. I was working in the dairy and trying to ignore the explosions all around me when the radio played this song. That was the first time I have ever heard it and the world stopped for me when it played. I still tear up everytime I hear it.....
rakiaofek 10 months ago

I fell in love to this song many years ago. I flew across the country to be with her when I was seventeen. That story ended for me half a decade later but this song still reminds me that there are always beautiful things to look forward to in life.
0158014 10 months ago

"the smell of hospitals in winter... and the feeling that its all a lot of oysters, but no pearls"
Remainds me so much of spending my 30th birthday on call as a senior resident... up all night in some damn teaching hospital, getting home the next day to find that my girlfriend had abandoned a birthday cake and a few presents for me... one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me, and one for the sadest sights Ive ever seen... I think I knew I loved her then, married her...
drsoandso 11 months ago 64

My friend committed suicide 2 nights ago with the lyrics "I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they last" as his last post to FB. I Googled them and I wound up here. All I wanna say is Goodbye man and God-Speed Bryan, you were a great soldier and friend! From me and all your friends.
joedag90 1 year ago 145

Dude...me and my friend were in my truck, drivin' down the road and we got into an argument, it escalated and we were ready to kill each other. He had a plastic fork and I had a plastic knife and we were goin' to rip each other's head off, but then this song came up on the radio and we just looked at the radio and back at each other and just apologized to each other and just relaxed in his garage with a few beers.
Gia Kang 1 year ago 3

this song reminds me of what it felt like growing up, and discovering, good music, and my big sister .. listening to it, the feeling that life can be sweet, for a moment or two
santoriniification 2 years ago

A++

"He had a plastic fork and I had a plastic knife and we were goin' to rip each other's head off" is the best thing I've read all day.

I think I found a comment that's too heartbreaking to post and I don't know what to do.

Well you kind of have to tell us now

I queued it up for next week... it's on a Commodores song.

I was a little boozy when I read it and it kind of twisted my heart in half

Oh man...

Night shift?

Just to be close to you?

Brick House obv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE&feature=related

first top comment.

It's very heartbreaking. And it fits your project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fEfJsYiD2A

i lost my virginity to this song, listening to the past brings out so many memories please kill me.
robbantheshit 1 year ago 3

christ
xxp

a video i posted got one of these and even though it's insubstantial in the wider scheme of things it's one of the few comments i have on any of my videos so i think of it every now and then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj0yyyu8WkY&feature=plcp

I think of my daughter when I hear this-I f***ed up so badly-..., but I alwlay loved her. Addiction takes love away and leaves you with nothing.
aynnie1 4 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nacXrTFzRw

Reminds me of when I was a freedom fighter, in South America. I found myself skydiving for
what felt like forever... all the time. Hell, I'd commandeer choppers, just so I could get
in the air and jump one more time. The solitude always saved me.

Into installations I'd fly, alone and silent, to save lives, to destroy illegal arms...
[...]

sad

some of these don't pass the smell test.

that Commodores one...I held it together until the kid mentioned the guinea pig...just heartbreaking.

yeah seriously

ya, that plus the line about going to work with him sometimes. man. just. man.

11

love this song ..reminds me of my days at home from college..gorgeous sunny days, walking by waterways with sunny sparkle reflected of the water surface..now life is busy and hard paperwork datelines finances kids taxes ..i'd pay anythin to be trapped in those old moments

rinsedpie 1 month ago

Thank you for your comments to me. The words I know are true and said very beautifully. I am waiting for my heart to get over the loss. I know I will at least partially someday. I went through our cd's and found his cd's and a DVD of Foreigner and will spend some time today enjoying them and memories of him.

berrylyn 1 year ago 2

Lyn, I'm so sorry. Let me return a hug you passed to me few days ago. Thanks you for the kind comments then. It is very stressing for the surviver to review our lost love ones personal items, lingering imaginations, thoughts of reasons, purpose of each item smothered deeply in each container. I don't touch anything anymore, leaving it the way my wife placed it 12 months ago. Stay busy and with others.

twoZJs in reply to berrylyn 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POCzcpA78zs

Uploaded by antiochus66 on 11 Mar 2010
i tied some rocks on my back took a eumig under water super 8 camera,put a security light above and we both went down .
down into a scary murky black pool near marks place in virginia
the film in the camera failng as it slowly filled up with stagnant pond water.
me struggling cos of the rocks on my back and no air in my lungs.
mark managing to get some air,then sinking back down into the gloom.
1 camera,1 take,2 men drowning.
mark a lovely shy talented guy
RIP.

omg look at the other comments by the girl who commented on the commodores vid

marissagwen padullajamison commented 1 month ago
you are beautiful but i dont like your attitude

haha i did, i sometimes do that to see if the person is who they're claiming to be... she def could be a 13 yr old girl from those other comments

i def like that her other comments entirely involve shaming bullies & supporting girls w/ low self esteem <3

totes

random side note but that song was the sample source for one of my all-time fav curren$y songs from before he got boring to think about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkPxF2bYkg

from this thread:

Def Leppard was, is, and always will be bad ass. i have every cd and music video, my fav tune and video shall always be "bringin on the heartbreak" . it was me and my fiance's song, not for the words, but we loved
the powerful emotion it conveyed. my fiance was killed in an auto accident, decapitated by a drunk driver. my friend and i busted our guitars out and played "bringin on the heartbreak" and "in time" by robbie robb(our other fav song) in her honor, but noone except her and my parents understood what i was doing, thought i was damning her. any way, def leppard is totally bodacious, i pray they don't sell out like most of the 80's bands these days

there are so many "my fiance was killed in a car accident and this was his/her favourite song" comments i get kinda skeptical of them

s10ck are the "i miss you" songs too much of a low-hanging fruit

ya kinda

there are so many "my fiance was killed in a car accident and this was his/her favourite song" comments i get kinda skeptical of them

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:54 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn luna is even snowing people on youtube

there are so many "my fiance was killed in a car accident and this was his/her favourite song" comments i get kinda skeptical of them

is it skepticism or is it that you're just tired of seeing them? It wouldn't surprise me that loss of a special person would trigger really strong sense of nostalgia and sadness when someone hears a particular song. I can't think of why someone would lie/exaggerate about this particular type of nostalgia.

i think it seems like such a perfect sob story if someone were going to make one up that at a certain point you wonder if it's possible for that many automotive fatalities to happen to people while they were engaged to be married

iatee to thread w/ statistics

haha

i think it seems like such a perfect sob story if someone were going to make one up that at a certain point you wonder if it's possible for that many automotive fatalities to happen to people while they were engaged to be married

― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, October 29, 2012 11:55 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya exactly.

i just use the smell test.

i like to use stories that have specific interesting details, which also makes them seem more likely to be true.

i like to use stories that have specific interesting details, which also makes them seem more likely to be true.

this is pretty specific (though, obv not from youtube).

killed in an auto accident, decapitated by a drunk driver. my friend and i busted our guitars out and played "bringin on the heartbreak" and "in time" by robbie robb(our other fav song) in her honor, but noone except her and my parents understood what i was doing, thought i was damning her.

specific but... "busted out our guitars" doesn't pass the test for me.

plausibility depends on whether they busted out their guitars immediately after the accident, feet away from the disaster

this is an example of a similar-themed comment that did ring true:

http://sadyoutube.com/post/32341610575/the-day-of-one-of-my-best-friends-funeral-we-our

fyi s1ocki I love that you're doing this, fking awesome job dude

thx :D

yes totally

Echoing that. Check your mail too.

got the email, it was rad (but no return address in it.. damn u robot ilx)

don't mind saying the one i just posted hit really close to home

http://sadyoutube.com/post/34572562792/man-i-mustve-been-11-years-old-playing-computer

germans just keep writing and broadcasting about sad youtube http://wissen.dradio.de/sadyoutube-melodie-melancholie-auf-youtube.85.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=225884

All I can say..is when this song came out..was it 89 or 90? I can't even remember...but they were some VERY fun years. Fuck me...we had a blast. Rockin out in the summer....partying our asses off...girls everywhere..everybody just wantin to have fun..not all the poser bullshit you see today. it was just working class folks getting down.

from Great White, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz61YQWZuYU

NO MOTHER FUCKER OUT THERE CANT SAY THAT THE 80S WERENT A FUCKING BLAST AND DIDNT CARE THEY HAD TO GET A SHOT EVEY ONCE IN A WHILE (I DID ) I MISS MY LONG HAIR AND MY GIRL DOING MY HAIR AND THE RIPPED JEANS LEATHER COAT W/ THEJEAN OVER IT THE BOOTS THE BEST TIME IN THE WORLD WAS IN THE 80S IF IT CAME BACK STRONG PEOPLE WOULD ENJOY LIFE AGAIN ( THE DRUGS) I SAY FUCK THE NEW SHIT BRING BACK OUR HERO'S I MISS THEM ALL

germans just keep writing and broadcasting about sad youtube http://wissen.dradio.de/sadyoutube-melodie-melancholie-auf-youtube.85.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=225884

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

german is the only language that has a word that means 'sad youtube'

yep: Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

lol some dude

kind of a special one today http://sadyoutube.com/post/35338805717/tomorrow-is-the-37th-anniversary-of-the-sinking-of

good entry

grew up in mn and that event and song has a sort of weird place in my mind, a sad legend that kind of haunts lake superior.

my parents had gord's gold on vinyl and i used to listen to it when i was a kid, that song had a lot of impact on me, it really felt like the world of music opened up to include the sad and scary and mythological events of the world...of course the song i hear now isn't necessarily how the song was to me at the time, but it's got a certain power still

this looks awesome. good work.

Lightfoot is definitely a big thing for ontarians of my parents' generation

to everyone who said my fathers band was crap GO TO HELL YOU DIDNT KNOW MY DAD HE WAS THE BEST FATHER AND I MISS HIM SO MUCH AND NONE OF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY THAT SHIT ABOUT HIM I love you daddy and I miss you so badly I wish u were here

gummycarebear 4 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQzNMBbMVM

that's such a classic song, i think i have that on a bloodstains comp

Ha! Been subscribed to this for yonks, but only because Buzzfeed features is right now I find out this is S1ocki's project! o_O Kudos!

featured it

:)

heres a submission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpcrW8yeyNk

MrDAVIDTOLAND 2 years ago
I WAS GOING TO TAKE A GIRL TO A GIG TO SEE DJ MIKO WHEN THIS TRACK JUST WAS OUT , WE DIDNT GO BUT WE HAD A GREAT NIGHT AND SHE BECAME MY MISSUS AND GAVE ME A BEAUTIFULL DAUGHTER ,SHE PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR BUT SOME SONGS BRING MEMORIES BACK
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thats great

had no idea this was you, dude.

if anyone cares about this kind of thing, i made a facebook page for further discussion/suggestions/etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cche-h83qNQ

gman65ish 4 months ago
played this at my 20 yr old son's funeral, 1yr ago today
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my new fav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHlnFPcNx0

deion27 2 years ago
man i just cried listening to this song, real shit. i remember i bought this tape in the 5th grade, living in techwood. look at what atlanta is now, i don't know this place.
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whoa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7fMOnY4MYI

sad little 1-2 punch in the comments:

jmil2tx 1 year ago
Great song but hurts my heart.
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jmil2tx 1 year ago
Carolyn, wherever you are, I've never forgotten you...

aw

I know! It made me sad for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0SVJRlUTtA

1mlt1 3 months ago
When this was released I was working as a janitor in a Kellogg’s cereal factory. The only furniture I had was an old bus seat I'd found on the curb. I listened to this every day for months. It kept me alive. Thanks Mr. P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwCp6RuQsZc

sigendymion 9 months ago
She looks and sounds like my dead lover. Only after three years can I watch this without tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQlImg2bm28

Freddie Barrett 1 month ago

She did.She never told me my whole life would be like this.What a mess I made of it.But Momma told me.

http://www.vice.com/read/rave-video-comments-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity

:/

Reading that article has made me lose a bit more of my faith in humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsK5kCs4EXE

snuppisn 2 years ago

I'm realy sad :'(

because I am a big fan and I planed to send my first fan mail :-(

it's so many things I want to ask him, my grandmother's sisster was actuly his babysitter when he was little <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkbj56bnYs

http://i.imgur.com/ouaTYF6.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1et-O6_9tC4

bluetmax 1 month ago

I love this version!!!!!! It was my friend Mattie's favorite song....he would have loved this version xoxox

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpo8BYD7JyY

Dale Burkett 3 weeks ago
i am rimanicing aboute the time this song was made an i lost my heaven an it still hurts 3 birds in the bush an now nothing in my hand just a lot of time to think to old to do any thing elese i hope this will help a young man or woman to keep what ever it is that you have an do not loese it you will get old an all alone trust me

sweetpetergeda 1 year ago
damn i miss seeing that light skinned girl with the blonde hair in videos. she was that chick during that time frame

saltwaterebel 2 weeks ago
around '78 me my brother and buddy of ours took a road trip to jax fla to pick up an lb of weed. scored some particularly fresh green mesculine on the way outta charlietown and tripped all the way down 95. we jammed this and assorted others pumped thru my jensen triaxles.godamn this counrty used to be free.

http://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bill-gates-vaccine.jpg

wanna drop that last sentence into the beautiful names for terrible things thread it's so beautiful/ruinous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PfwVNmckc

LeisureSuitLurie 10 months ago
This reminds me of my friend Jane . Every Christmas I hope against all hope she is alive and well. She was my one and only true friend I had my whole life. Every Christmas I look for a card from her but it never comes... Love You Jane

thanks

no problem

kot00100
3 years ago

I have been looking for this song for a couple of years - not remembering either the title or the artist. We used to listen to it. Now it is only the song and my memories. Thank you very much for this moment.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/how_we_watch_tv/2013/11/bob_seger_s_night_moves_and_the_poetry_of_youtube_comments.html

love this:

The old saw is that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but writing about music on YouTube is like clambering up on the architecture, hanging banners and family photos on the window ledges, or tossing garbage from the gables. Its anonymity makes it all the more like a group portrait, hauling us into visibility in all our bedraggled need. It’s not that you can’t or shouldn’t formally analyze or evaluate a song, but YouTube’s intimate entanglements make it plainer that doing so is no more the end of the process than gossiping about your family, even to your therapist, is a resolution to the relationship.

way to get name dropped dude! saw this when one of my non-ilx affiliated friends posted this on FB!

s1ocki writes about it all for Buzzfeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/markslutsky/how-the-youtube-comments-section-became-our-cultures-secret

Now listening to Telstar.

wow, this is excellent

Yeah, that was a great read.

Loved this, thanks S1ocki.

thx dudes!!!

did this spawn off an ilx thread?

Alex De Capua
4 weeks ago

This was playing first time I went to a big night club. All dressed up smart clothes only, shiny shoes. It was a night club called chevaliers in stanmore. It was with a flame haired girl who was in a leopard skin dress. Debbie was her name. It didn't last. The night club has gone. I had this tune in my head for better part of 30 years. I only tracked it down this year. I hear this and I'm back there. That's the power of a song. No a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bc65K9N5LI

nice

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/366364/Screenshots/h9zr.png

wha?!

"Joke's on you, you heard a bitin' ass crew"

Lol

This is like something out of a movie

:|

ok this is why http://fusion.net/Culture/video/sad-youtube-turning-mans-trash-treasure-513604

why ^^^ this man

why what this what

Bonnie Speeg
1 year ago

The name: Williams Mix, made in 1952, eerily represents my family. We five children growing up in the 50's amidst parental chaos, the atom bomb, increased modern media, McCarthy, the Red Scare and Rock n Roll. Our name was Williams, the grown ups drank, there were many secrets, much music and a lot of disconnectedness. I vote this John Cage to be the background if there were movies of my family . There aren't. My parents didn't even think to buy a movie camera to capture their 5 beautiful kids

"I had a little room in the east end of london in 1978 just after my marriage had broken up.. I had a little old record player and this single.. I put it on repeat and cried and cried and cried..."

romeo garcia 2 years ago
Yeah..i was 6 when this movie came out and a simply love it...They don't make movies like this...I show to all my friends and everyone loves it..specially this very touching scene...Thanks dad...The best movies i see in all my life was with you,,,

awww

Was the movie Predator?

no, universal soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVetTbHiwjw

Cameron White4 months ago

Nancy, You walked in and my life began again. Thank you for being here. I miss you. Rest In Peace my darling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9B6KaIRQ&feature=kp

John d'Arke9 months ago

I used to entertain ideas of suicide throughout my teens. Attempted it once and indulged in lots of reckless behaviour in the hope I might not survive.

Years later I lost my best friend to it. I was the one to find him, and cut him down from the ceiling then cradled him in my arms while crying like a baby for what seemed like an eternity (probably only ~5-10 minutes) for the ambulance to arrive.

Even writing these few words brings tears to my eyes...about 8 years later. I really am shattered by these events even now. I found out later he was having marital issues and struggling after the arrival of his first child. I didn't even know.

This event tore my life apart, and his wife and daughter's, and touched many more. It being suicide made it feel all the more tragic and pointless. Much more than any other friend I've lost to car & motorbike accidents and drugs and cancer etc. I'm still hesitant to make new friends to this day.

I don't know if it'll help to share, but I how it might help someone.

Take care and talk to someone you trust - friend family or counsellor if you feel this way. 

i wonder about those

Yeah, the user name adds to the suspicion. This is a well-intention fiction. The opposite of trolling. Llorting.

i feel like i have a pretty good smell test about these, and there are a lot of ones that play out like fantasy melodramas that im suspicious of

devilkyn13 months ago

This song literally changed my life. When I was young I was afraid of coming out in the small town I lived in. After buying the Empire Records soundtrack I listened to this song over and over until I had the courage to move out on my own and start living my life. Happily things worked out fine, but like i said this song literally was my catalyst to change my life :)
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^ happy youtube

A friend sent me a link to this site a few months back, and I gotta say what's already been said: this is an amazing project. It's heartwarming to see people other than myself get all nostalgic over "I.G.Y.", one of my all-time faves

you're right people kill but they don't get imediate death penalty! no i don't have kids i got tons of cousins and yes some already were atacked by dogs and as always the dogs are always killed , makes me wonder if one day there aren't enough dogs to kill!

(post the youtube link too pls guys)

A recent interview...

http://www.nosuchthingaswas.com/2014/11/how-we-talk-about-ourselves-and-music.html

...which just now led to a mention by Andrew Sullivan.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/22/the-little-stories-of-youtube/

h/t man alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtnwcv-quE

Trevor Ferguson6 days ago
When this song was released. I was 9 years old(1997). It was the day of my grandfathers funeral. Heard this song just before the graveside service
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E

1969pontiac13 weeks ago

My wife passed away, she was no mistake. I miss her very much. Cherish the time you have with your loved one. We never know when it will be over. Happy New Year to all.
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Érica Ferreira Mazarini Kika2 weeks ago

Leste go
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Jader Loki1 week ago

Very sorry for your loss. All we can do is think about the good times with those we lost that we loved and put in a little extra for those we have not lost yet... We may be next. Too many to count for me
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1969pontiac11 week ago

+Jader Loki
Thanks for your kind words. I am sorry for your losses.. Take care, Bill
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOn6Am_opk

James Robo
6 days ago

Jim reminds so much of a man I called a friend, they looked so much alike. but my friend drank himself to death, i guess Jesus wasn't enough :(
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wow @ "I guess Jesus wasn't enough"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8&list=RDVSQWcQXPtmA&index=5
Tdot heisenberg3 months ago

Rip to my late friend Doug, I miss you buddy I wish I would have known how you were feeling, I wish I could have saved you man, goodbye brother
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so good:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-220-1.2957497/sad-youtube-music-and-memory-1.2957500

Came here to post that. Heard it on the radio this weekend. Nice one, S1ocki!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuz5TKzaJoE

needfulthingsTYify 4 years ago
Why have I been early so late ... why have I not been there ... why do I have to carry on life knowing I will never see this magic with my own eyes ... life has become futile :-(

lol what was the video

Sisters of Mercy at Brixton Academy in 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wDKEhQcv0

d3p3ch3mod3 7 years ago

this is so beautiful it makes me want to cry. i'm kind of glad i ruined 3 years of my life so that i could understand art like this

A new thing going!

http://sadyoutube.com/post/120615087195/introducing-sad-youtube-books

http://i.imgur.com/Vv7BkXf.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnt7ndS6dA

spacehimself 1 year ago
when this came out ,i was a teenage boy in a lonely place , detassling cornfields. i only looked forward to coming , going into garage and listening to this on a little panasonic portable cd player , with headphones where only one ear worked.

i watched ants in the garage running in lines building things fighting back tears

:(

Though sad, also cool as shit to me that there was some random kid finding solace in cerberus shoal in between cornfield detasslings -- gives me faith in music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNg5_Jtd8k

http://i.imgur.com/anDoloV.png

^the comment section is like 95% lonely meme dudes and 5% 'I enjoyed this song by the recording artist Tom Waits'. not sure if sad or lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltkyqfMjCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igNVdlXhKcI

Moped _26 2 weeks ago
Did you know that Marvin Gaye's dad killes him

I cri evry tiem 😢
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hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwxKWT6m7U

I haven't heard this song in years, but this takes me back. I don't really know why I'm typing this whole wall of text, but here it goes. November of 2009, a guy I had a crush on asked me to be his gf, and I accepted. Let's call him J. I thought he was amazing, and for the first few months, he was. I was only 15, but I was convinced I was in love. And it was great until J graduated from high school in May of 2010. That was when his parents decided that a relationship with a high schooler was now inappropriate. He and I would find loopholes and see each other whenever we could. My parents found this new behavior sketchy, so he and I pretended to break up, but were still dating in secret, the only ones knowing being my best friend and his sister. September 2010, and he began college while I continued high school. Seeing him in the old church every Thursday night became the highlight of my week. Around the end of September, he made the bold move to come see a play I was performing in. After the play ended, he and I ran out into the alley behind the theater and kissed while it was raining, and I didn't even care who saw. It's unbelievably cliche, and probably something you'd see in a movie, but my adrenaline was surging. He was like a drug to me. After that night, things only got worse. A few people saw us, and word got back to both of our families. I was grounded for a month, and even after that I was rarely allowed to hang out with friends anywhere other than my house. I had to block and delete his number, and we didn't talk for almost two months. Fast forward to November 2010. I joined a local volunteer group and so did he. I could tell he was glad to see me, and we got back together again, this time, no one else but us knowing. But something was different about him. He had a hair-trigger temper now. He seemed way more stressed. But me, being ecstatic to even be around him again, I tolerated it. Late November, things started going south for me, too. I was getting migraines and my vision was worsening. I went to a doctor, they did an mri test, and found an abnormal lump in my brain, near my left optic nerve. December 3, 2010. I lied to my parents about going to study with friends and snuck out to see J, saying I had something important to tell him. I told J that I had a brain tumor and it might be cancerous. He broke up with me mere minutes after I said this. I was so angry, I couldn't even cry, and went home with a stoic expression. Thankfully it wasn't cancer, but I had to have surgery and spend about a month in the hospital. But then, in August of 2012, I got a phone call from a number I didn't know. I ignored it, but I was left a voicemail. It was J, apologizing for everything with so much detail, and then asking me if I'd be willing to come see him. I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry and even contemplate taking him back. But I called back, and said no. He left me during the most difficult time in my life. He hurt me so badly that I couldn't feel anything. I couldn't let him back in, because even after all of the happiness he brought into my life, it was dwarfed in comparison to how much pain and sadness he brought. We haven't spoken since. Now I'm starting to wonder how he's doing. I wonder if he still regrets what he did back in December. I wonder if he thinks of me every time he hears this song.

h o l y s h i t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdp4kiuT-U

Elizabeth Child 1 month ago
This and "Smiley's People" are like food and drink to me at this time in my life (age 70 and alone). They fill an empty place in my soul few, if any, movies could. A million thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuTEk2uqzTA

Susan Holm 1 year ago
This was one of my sissys favorite songs. She was an awesome person but cancer took her way too soon. I miss her terribly and so do her children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvvRYYoGxg

Teamug96 6 months ago
My Grandfather is in the late stages of dementia, he doesn't remember any of his family, barely anything; yet he sings this song and this song only over and over again, word for word. It's so lovely to hear, brings me to tears.

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvz7I7Dp5c

Philippe Quinchard il y a 4 mois
Cela me rappelle, lorsque mon fils m'aimait. il chantait cette chanson avec le conservatoire de Fontenay sous Bois

(This reminds me of when my son still loved me. He used to sing this song with the Fontenay sous Bois music school)

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/peanuts2.jpg

K (~4 yrs old) will sometimes say to me when I have the guitar "I want you to play Freight Train because it makes me so sad." When I play it, she will then bawl. <3 :`(

http://sadyoutube.com/post/134867337470/sad-youtube-is-over-for-now

And what a lovely way to wrap up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csG6MBYsmOU

TheRAFfc 2 weeks ago
THANK YOU FOR THIS MEMORY. I REMEMBER SITTING IN THE PICTURE HOUSE IN THE EARLY 30.S ,IN LONDON WITH MY SISTER. WHO WAS 16 YEARS OLDER THAN I SHE HAS LONG LEFT ME, REST HER LOVING HEART AND SOUL. "BY A WATERFALL" THE MELODY HAS ALWAYS ENTRANCED ME, SO WELL SUNG BY DICK POWELL THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN:):):)

http://i.imgur.com/KWT5Ozg.png

:'(

what song?

"A Boy Named Sue"

Uploaded on Mar 24, 2011
The first time I heard this song I was on a balcony while a typhoon was coming into town and a potted plant fell off and smashed in the courtyard four stories below my feet. I smoked a cigarette which lasted the exact length of this song, and as the rain came in I felt at peace with the weather.

Not surprisingly, much heartbreaking commentary here

20 years ago today we lost my dad to suicide. I was 21 when I had to get the police to break into his house and I had to identify his body. He always used to play this song every weekend when he took me and my sister to his local pub to play pool. Miss him still x

When I was 20yrs old just gave birth to my second son abandoned by my husband, there stood children service trying to sign away my baby for adoption, he was a beautiful baby, child service had a social worker who wanted him bad, my sister played this song knowing how much I listened to music, I gave her the paper back said I can raise my kids, now grown up, he is a wonderful Christian, good father, husband&son this song woke me up, i am so glad that my sister played this, I grew up that day

Last one on first page cracked me up though, perfect closer:

steve FromEngland vor 1 Monat
I always hated this song because my brother was the biggest dick head you could ever meet, bollox to him

indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrC034UHk50

Judyp774 months ago

I am a 72 year old granny whose 39 year old son had a massive heart attack and died May of 2010. I just found this CD with about 10 different songs that he recorded for his library in 2002. So, I thought I'd listen to it to see what songs he liked. This was one of them and I gotta say I kinda like it as well. Very nice. Now, I'm off to hear My Father's Eyes by Eric Clapton. My son was Charles Douglas (Doug) Pruitt.

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something odd about the way she says his name... gets the feels stirred up.

the dignity of it maybe

also very poignant the way she is on this journey through his song library to try to feel a connection with him

same age as me too...

There's a lady in my building who lost her son to a heart attack around that age and also lost her daughter to alcoholism. Husband just went into a home. Reminds me that we've been saying we want to have her up for coffee some time, nice woman and lonely.

That said, I hate it when people are referred to as William (Bill) Newman or James "Jimmy" Sanders.

on Master P's "Gangstas Need Love Too"

Henry King2 months ago
born in 75 this reminds me of my only love ... forever still waiting for her to come back to me. Finally found her again 10 yrs later after talkin to her last waiting for her to move on from her relationship to get back with me. true love for this woman now we was young in 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU

PeaceSunshiine5 months ago
For my friend I lost during the Paris attacks. For Lola and the other innocent people. Peace,love and rock n roll.

ColdWaterGaming135 months ago
So sorry for your loss

PeaceSunshiine4 months ago
thanks for your support ..

Anita Poling4 months ago
im so sorry to hear that.... i dont even know u, and it hurts me

PeaceSunshiine4 months ago
thanks for you support .. This song reminds me her so much .. she was only 17 ..

Guess that's better than "You Really Got Me".

doudream2 months ago

I was about 6 or 7 when I would play this game with my older brother. We spent hours achieving as much as we could in this game. because of this, I have always wanted to be the hero like the one we played in the game. unfortunately, my brother has passed, and the world isn't as magical as this game. or at least it isn't, yet

Leford Nugent
2 years ago (edited)

Listening this makes my pain comes anew as I remember some good times we shared in Mandeville, The true value of a treasure general takes time to mature RIP my love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woUIIERWpeY

the one man alive posted in May last year made me well up.

I say "well up" but it was a bit more than that...

i also really love that Sonya Spence song that i had never heard before.

Youtube is Wild, Reason #64,807: half of the comments on Roy Orbison's "Crying" are "The Walking Dead brought me here" and the other half are the deepest, darkest thoughts of the elderly and lonely pic.twitter.com/1miYaJg2t4

— Patrick Lyons (@P_Lyons_) March 24, 2018

cpecpecpe1 year ago
Brings a tear to my eye. Have Stage four cancer. Looking for the rainbow connection.

Joanne Starr
2 years ago
It was 1987 An older kid named Craig brought his tape out to the front porch and started to play the album "hey you have got to listen to the new album" huh. I had never even heard the last album. More and more songs played. The night was warm ,the air filled with the sounds of the Substance album. as Craig played it over and over. From that day on I was a New Order fan.. Sadly My friend Craig Passed away a few years later. I always remember Craig when I play this album. My youth, My friends, Peace. Music lives on....

;_;

✌️New Order✌️

Gino7 months ago
I hope this song is being played in heaven when I'm reunited with my sweet mother Shirley .How I wait for that moment,you're son,Gregg.

Gxxxxxxx xx xxx
4 months ago
My dad died in April 2018 aged 63 years, he was a big fan of Cream, we never paid much attention to him about music but when he died we googled the band and sat together, brothers and sisters, quite emotional. We don't know if this was his favourite tune or even rated but we all agreed it's the sort of thing he would have loved, as best we can guess. We do he was a Cream fan for more than 40 years. RIP Dad the last great generation of British people are leaving us.

Rxxxx Pxxxxx
3 months ago
Gxxxxxxx xx xxx I can guarantee you that this is one of his favorite songs. My deepest condolences on your devastating loss. I read this song was about the draft. You should check out Blind Faith. Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker are the guitarist and drummer here. Jack Bruce on bass and vocals. Unfortunately Ginger and Jack disliked each other so Cream broke up. You may have heard of Steve Winwood, he's a child prodigy and musical genius. I think you'll find great comfort in Sea of Joy, Can't Find My Way Home and Presence of The Lord. I'd bet your dad loved Do What You Like on the self titled album Blind Faith. I lost my mom 11/27/14, unexpectedly. It was the day after Thanksgiving. My dad followed her in March of 2016. The pain never goes away, I don't think. It does become tolerable. Best regards to your family.

Mxxxxxx Oxxxxx
2 months ago
Imagine your father, age 13, hearing this song for the first time and loving it. It is also highly likely that he or one of his friends bought the album and there was a listening party of their close buddies where every cut on the double album was played back to back. I hope that is a good (imaginary) memory.

I am wondering if your meme is from the Bayeux Tapestry.

v good, thanks

Survivrs
Survivrs
11 months ago
I first heard this at a funeral for a 15yo kid who was one of those kids that all parents wish they could have. Beautiful November day in Iowa and 4 friends took one of their dad's pickups out for a joy ride. Two boys, 2 girls, and being the good kid, he let the girl next to him wear the seatbelt. They were on a gravel road, not hurting anyone, but I guess the boy driving lost control and rolled the truck in the ditch. That great kid was killed instantly because they had the windows open and without a seat belt, his head was crushed and he died instantly. I was less than 2 months away from having our second baby. This boy's mom was our babysitter. We'd had a fun day, bought some cheap bread, took our 2yo to a familiar small lake where the geese were tame enough that they would come and take bread from your hand. I had a series of pictures. My little boy took the piece of bread from dad, took a bite himself, then a goose came close and he held out the bread so the goose could chew off a bite, then he took another bite, and we still remember that day as if it was yesterday. We were back in town, sitting at DQ having ice cream cones when 2 ambulances went flying by with lights and sirens going, and we knew it was bad, but not how bad until an hour later when we got a call that we would have to get someone else to babysit. When my husband got off the phone and turned to me and told me what happened, I couldn't believe it. We went to their house where many others were already there. That kid's older brother picked out 2 of the songs for his funeral. This one and Somethin' to believe in by Poison. The funeral had to be held in the high school gym because there wasn't a church or any other place big enough to hold everyone. That was 1990 and it just never goes away.

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^from a video for Brickyard Road by Johnny Van Zant

David golf
3 years ago
I wish i was 18 again in 1985! My life stopped after that year. I never grew up and now I am a hermit and lonely.. now I am 48, but do not feel alive until I listen this magic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZkLV3ZjeI

Oh, jeez, ok ... gonna have to sit down

8 months ago
. Im reall sick. I got a serious tuberculosis. I've comed to hospital too late and, well, im scared. Anyway. I can't stop thinking about my life, what's going to happen. This music cheers me up every night. It makes me forget what im living. I go to other world. Thank you a lot for this song. If it wasn't for it, I would have psicological problems too.

893

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyY4IZ3JDFE

:(

I lost my unborn child today. Immediately went to my records when I got home. This is the first I picked out of many, accompanied with my fifth of Jameson I am coping...thank you for your music Lily's...the sadness is white washed in melancholy shoe gaze that deserves recognition beyond "today's music". People don't listen to emotion anymore and it's a God damn travesty....I love that you calmed my soul even the slightest and I sincerely thank you from the bottom of what's left of my heart. Keep it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3P9nUxY2Mg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

graywolflmr
4 years ago
My cousin was a Sam Stone. Four tours in Veitnam. Never got off the drugs and stayed in and out of trouble his whole life. Found him dead in dumpster when he was 60 years old. Never got his life on track after that damn war.

Dancwwolvs
5 years ago
as a nam vet I can relate to this song,never made it out as they say, always there in my mind,1st cav div,2/5th 1966-1968 I only hope the men I left behind made it home,bless each and every one, I've never forgotten you,you will always be in my heart

brad Kennett
5 years ago
When I came home from CU-CHI Vietnam in 1970 My cousin gave me a John Prine record. I thought there was something wrong with me because when I heard this song I was the only one crying

SurreySlum
2 years ago
This song reminds me of my dad. Vietnam vet addicted to heroin and alcohol played this song almost every night with a glass of whisky.... childhood memories

Cal M
1 year ago
I will always remember My father was such a strong and cruel man. He used to listen to this so loud on those long trips to the lake. He always looked at me and would say never be like me but he was always so strong and mean. Later in life after living the same life I realized he actually wanted a good life for his kids but couldn’t do it because of all the bad stuff and it breaks my heart because he actually was a good man.

Jordan Ellington
9 months ago (edited)
My brother and I were junkies doing the whole “idolizing heroin” shtick for years. I got clean and worried about him, crying each time I heard this. He finally passed away last June after his umpteenth overdose and I can barely listen to this now without bawling. He left behind a beautiful big eared pitcher of his own. Addiction is a bitch but the addicts in our lives are just loving, struggling people like you and me. Never give up on them, never support their habit, but never turn a cold shoulder either

Robert Mckenna
9 months ago
I have loved this song for many years, and though I tried self-medicating, I found that all the dope in the world would not take away the horror a soldier is subjected. Worse, I remember as if it was yesterday that warm enveloping feeling of peace, quiet, and emotional security, rushing through my body, lying to me, telling everything will be alright, and too even worse is the memory of using calls to me even with over 16 years of sobriety. The music of John Prine in this song helps people understand the complexities and interaction of drugs and alcohol in a relationship, a family, and society. No Pain No Gain

Spanky The Pubstar
3 years ago
that's my uncle who did the stunt scene who is now dying of liver failure =( and I wanted to see this again!

442rocketdave
3 years ago
This was my best friends favorite song then he went to Vietnam he never came back Its been 44 years and I still think of him every time I hear this song! NEVER FORGET YOU MIKE!!!

jr johnston
1 year ago
When I was getting my drivers license I had to take the driving class at a nearby public school. When we drove up to the lawn I saw a most beautiful girl sitting on the green grass....her legs tucked up under her skirt. She was the kind of girl that is so beautiful ...it makes you sorry. Her name was...you guessed it...Joanne ... and I could not help it...I loved her. She used to meet me here and there ...never letting me see where she lived or meet any of her family. MAN I had it bad. Finally she walked me through the woods to an old house I had seen before...thinking it was empty. Crying she explained that she was a foster child...and had suddenly been told she had to leave...to where she did not know. Now at 62 I hear this gentle song and remember the girl...Joanne.

Jay Gilllan
2 years ago
What a beautiful song; although when I listen to it I can't help thinking, where did my life go so wrong...I guess it's just in the movies where dreams come true.

Justin Olson
4 months ago
My grandma's name was Virginia and we called her Gramma Virgie. She passed away while I was in the ICU following open heart surgery. I was 17 and the only thing I could think or talk about back then was being a cattle rancher. She'd smile and tell me about granddad and his big herd.

Well, I've got my herd now and I'm raising show cattle on the farm she and granddad built together.

I must not have grieved properly when she passed because this came on one day while clipping for a show and I broke down sobbing in front of the college kids I have working for me. It was so cathartic.

Idk why I'm telling a bunch of strangers but this feels good too.

Tyler may be a wild mountain man, but he's a good boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFL5QcYDnmw

under 'Magic' by Pilot

vivandav67
1 year ago (edited)
This song is joyous...yet it brings a tear to my eye..i miss childhood..😭

Sue Blackwood
1 year ago
I miss it to i just wish i could go back

vivandav67
1 year ago
@Sue Blackwood I'm ready when you are..😁🎈

Duck Man
1 year ago
Yes

Goodness Gracious
1 year ago
Take me with you guys if you find a way to go back.

Slades VW Beetle
1 year ago
vivandav67 Yes I agree! Time has went too fast

em jay
1 year ago
If you guys have a time machine I'd love to jump on board. There's no good music here!

Miguel Oneto
1 year ago
Im too
my friend

frank connelly
1 year ago
me too,it was the sorta better time in my life,and Friday nights and talking to real friends down at the bowling alley and sharing pizza at long john santoros and roaming the streets in boston on sundays having coffee at dunkin donuts,yea,those were the better times and the lost songs of the seventies on that radio station. I miss home but I cant go back

Pacific Blue
11 months ago
vivandav67 don’t forget me....

Doug S
11 months ago
You got that right! Things were so much easier then, it seemed that we had so much to look forward to in life, it truly seems like it was just yesterday......but 44 years ago wow, where did it all go?

jim Graf
11 months ago
I understand, I,ll never forget Nancy and her Orange Subaru

alan spagnolia
9 months ago
know what? ME TOO !!! Happy tears for sure, however a time that will never return. At least we were able to grow up then to enjoy these songs, and can hear them again and again !

frank connelly
8 months ago
@Sue Blackwood to go back and be the innocent and happy kid i was then,well,at least allow me to know what i do now,to change what would bring too many tears and seeing the death and loss of the real and true freinds i miss terribly,the relationships,and the people that caused it,one in particular,i wouldnt shed a single tear,and doing what was offered when i was younger.

davida chapman
8 months ago
Yes I do too. To go back and know what we know now...@Sue Blackwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dw2r45Xzg

Tammy Majewski
Tammy Majewski
10 months ago
One night my late husband and I were listening to music. He was singing this song to me. He asked me to make sure that this was played at his funeral when he passed. Because of circumstances, I wasn't able to play it. But, I did however have "I was singing this song for you" with music notes as quotes, put on his headstone. Needless to say, this song will always hold a place in my heart, and I always have the tissues handy when I listen to it. I am blessed that I had him in my life. Rest in peace Daniel R. Majewski.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UluH0QmnwfM

I work as a garbage collector in those trucks where we are two or three people in each truck we work manually and I love my job. What scares me and worries me is that technology is advancing and someday by 2040 we will be replaced by advanced machines and we will lose our work since you use automatic trucks with cranes and only one person operates it and I sincerely hope not to lose my appreciated work for that, and I hope it is as always 2 men picking up trash by hand, I love my job, greetings from Oklahoma,

I need a blog that collates everyone's "jamming to this during lockdown" comments

good luck with that, as that's presently every video on youtube that plays a piece of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUOKXibHpbA

Romney Wordswerth
4 weeks ago
My papaw was dying in the hospital, when I was young. I couldn't take it, and my aunt turned me to this CD. I love you everything.

Sarah McLachlan - Hold On (live)

Sonja

This song makes me think of December 31, 2008. I was in the hospital having a baby I named Sarah who didn't make it. The next day I started chemotherapy for the cancer that took my daughter the day before. Not knowing if I'd live for my husband or my other children was scary. Thank God I'm still alive. So hearing this really touches a sensitive spot in my heart. Thanks Sarah for getting me through this.

why was this project discontinued? i always liked it.

Something doubly sad about how some of the video hotlinks no longer work, leaving only an empty space and a comment

I posted this on a different thread, a comment on Melanie/Edwin Hawkin's "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)":

"It was 1971, I was 31 years old, a low almost suicidal point in my life after I got out of the service. I drove up to Topanga Canyon above Malibu and stopped at the Corral. A young lady asked me to play this song on the jukebox. We chatted and in the end she changed my life. Strange but true. Joanne McDonald...here's to you where ever you are!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2hTQjK1Fa4

Determined Di
1 year ago
I was thinking of my dog who passed in December tonight. This song popped into my head. No disrespect to people but I loved my dog.

Jessability
Jessability
4 years ago
I can't listen to this without crying. I miss all those who have passed.

layssa bianchini
3 years ago
I was looking my dad's facebook because I missed him. He posted this song in 2013 and died in 2015. I will always miss him. <3

Tom Berlied
Tom Berlied
2 years ago
I have cancer and this is the song that I want at my funeral. Sorry James. You have to stop writing tunes that mean so much to me. I live in Acton ma. Your music h as made me live this long. You are the boy that has ties here. I always loved my Boston friends. Thank you James!

ThePersonNextToYou
6 years ago
From the first time I ever heard this song I have wanted it to be the song I hear as I am taking my last breath. I know it is morbid, but I can't imagine a nicer song to be playing as I go...

Max
2 years ago
My dog passed away today. I've always loved this song and it's helped me through the worst times, and it'll help me through this one too.

susanolney
6 months ago
I am playing this song to my husband of 46 years as he lays dying. Maybe he can hear the lyrics. I hope so. ❤️

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Samantha Henson
3 years ago
I lost my dad sept 27th 2017 and this is the song his friend and brother played at his funeral. rest in heaven daddy

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Tami Yomes
1 year ago
This song has a new meaning since my Mom just passed over.. Thankyou for this.. 😓

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Cathi Hixson Mingus
3 years ago
this was the last song that my ex husband ever sang for me....he died 3 months later. It was only appropriate to have it at his funeral. rest in peace my love....I will be home soon to you

Richard Gregory
5 years ago
Will play this song for mum on monday when we say our last goodbye's going to miss her..

Goddamnit, another version came up after, comment section is destroying me

John Goedecke
John Goedecke
1 year ago (edited)
My older brother used to sing this song for me when I was going to sleep.He died of leukemia when he was 20 years old and I was just 3.Its about all I can remember of him and it still moves me to tears everytime I hear it.To this day I sing my girls to sleep at night to JT songs.One day they came in while I was watching an old JT vid on YouTube like this one and my younger daughter says “ Daddy,he’s singing your song”.I was floored and all I could think of to say was.....” bet you didn’t know you had a famous dad huh? “ They’ll figure it out someday but for now it’s how I keep my brothers memory alive.Thank you JT for all the years and the songs!

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ice la honk 2 months ago

music to spend my last night with my dog to.

good boy, Charlie. you're almost there bud

This entire comment section

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc

Lesli D
1 year ago
Found this while dealing with a loved one's fatal illness...........so beautiful. I carry it with me.......thank you.

Daniel Eptein
4 months ago
Im sorry Lesli thats awful. Hopefully this song gave you some comfort.

Siberius Wolf
4 months ago
Shit quality version unfortunately. Click on a different upload of this song and the sound is normal.

how sad

['Invisible Sun' by the Police]

Alpha9Z
6 years ago
I recently came across a letter from my ex which she wrote many years ago, when we were still young. She told me how amazing she thought this song was. I can't remember ever having listened to it. So i thought i'd google it and indeed - this song seems pretty great.
Unfortunately, she left me last year, but I am glad she still was able to add something positive to my life by introducing this song to me, even though it wasn't on purpose. She really was the most beautiful, smart and caring woman I have ever met and I am sad I lost her. But life goes on, so now i should just be glad that at least I got to know this song because of our break-up. Thank you, Judith! <3

P.S. sorry for making you read a long and sad comment from a stranger :p you should go to the kitchen and get yourself a cookie as a reward for reading it (; Have a nice day! (:

I looked at that person's user page and someone had left this comment on the 'discussion' section:

judgedeath3
12 years ago
Thanks for adding me as a friend!:D
I think you know who I´m already but this is judge death from MB.
Nice to see you on youtube.

judge death

This was my moms recovery song. My mother clean from heroin in the late 80's and she would have this on repeat. R.I.P. mom

;_;

milo I’m sorry. I’m glad you can remember clean times for your mom and that she felt recovered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSVkb_XLt4

low's "lullaby" has over 20M views when you combine this and the official one. there are a LOT of comments in turkish here.

like:

bu kadar insan bu şarkının altında sözleşmiş gibi toplanmışız, farklı yaşantılar, aynı acılar. Hepinize teşekkür ederim, yalnız değilmişim..

translated: So many people gathered under this song as if they were contracted, different experiences, the same pain. Thank you all, I was not alone.

theres dozens more like this. i cannot figure it out, but its fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaX64o71vGQ

Tanmay Gudhekar
5 days ago
Every time I play this song, I visualize me and my best friend, dining in a house, she has wore the red dress and we do exactly as the lyrics say. I cannot express how happy it makes me! I can only hope that I actually get to do it in reality with her because I'm just a best friend to her and atm she has no romantic feelings towards me.

aphex twin's "rhubarb" is quite a motherlode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U

[The Lifting by REM]

@Snagman67
2 years ago
I remember first hearing this song in the summer of 2001. I was 25 years old living in Portland OR, and it was one of the most awful years of my life. I Went through a really bad break-up with my then fiancé, the World Trade Center attacks, and my dead end job where I worked the graveyard shift was finally starting to get to me. I was going through a great deal of depression that year. This was one of the songs I listened to quite often that year, and believe it or not I get a great feeling of wonderful nostalgia hearing this today for the first time in probably 15+ years. Funny thing is, hearing this song reminded me of all the good times that I actually tried to make out of it all that year, which is why I actually find this song comforting.

@heathkitchen4315
3 years ago
I used to mow my Dads lawn to this album. Lot of introspection going on to these beautiful and spacey tunes back then. Thanks R.E.M.

[Call Me by Blondie]

@joseirizarry-rivera8873
1 month ago
AS a child, I always thought all blondies songs was produced and created by my mother! Mom dancer sang acted every Blondie so well. I would sit and watch her, clean up and act Blondie!!!!! I miss you mom!!! Till we meet again!

@leergut858
@leergut858
1 month ago
Thats so cute. I cant imagine how it feels to loose a mother... im sorry for your loss.

@kinseybandy8140
@kinseybandy8140
1 month ago
I love this song

@dayanalam3467
@dayanalam3467
1 month ago
Hello

@dayanalam3467
@dayanalam3467
1 month ago
Soy la q canta

@nina-fc2yh
@nina-fc2yh
3 weeks ago
@dayanalam3467 ?

@CouldaWouldaShoulda
@CouldaWouldaShoulda
3 weeks ago
@leergut858 lose*

@zombeairsoft
@zombeairsoft
2 weeks ago
Jesus loves you!!

@shidposting4011
@shidposting4011
2 weeks ago
😢

@gerardomedrano9784
@gerardomedrano9784
2 weeks ago
Good memories bring you happiness and sadness at the same time.
Keep remembering your mother

@worcestershiresauce6377
@worcestershiresauce6377
13 days ago
sounds like a multi-talented and special mother, hope you don't let go of her memories with you

@buttwhittle8185
@buttwhittle8185
13 days ago (edited)
Your mom sounds like she was a cool person 😎

@anubisSRT4
@anubisSRT4
4 days ago
Glad I'm not the only one with childhood trauma like that. Lol. But on a serious note, sorry for your loss.

@UrDeadPerson
@UrDeadPerson
1 day ago
@dayanalam3467 doubt

@roxane1976
@roxane1976
1 hour ago
Awesome memories condolences 💐

Queensryche, "Silent Lucidity"

Alden Charley
3 months ago
I lost my wife of almost 20 years to Cancer on 09/12/22.... When we first met I took her to a Queensryche concert in Albuquerque,NM. That was night we both really understand that we were soul mates I guess... And I held her when they started playing this song, and we were inseparable since than. It was early 2020 we found out she had Cancer and because of Covid it was hard to get into a hospital for treatment. Two years went by with very little medical visits till early 2022 and things took a turn for the worse and did my very best to be there for her as much as I could. I even quit my job just to take her to her Chemotherapy treatment and stuff. I could tell by her physical appearance that her body was getting frail but to me she is always that beautiful Navajo woman that I fell with regardless of her physical appearance. She left us ( our kids and I)! in the early morning hours of 09/12/22. And eversince than I would dream of her and till a month later she came to me once again in my dream and told me she is home and gonna go to sleep and eversince than I felt peace and Comfort. Rest easy my love Tawnya I love and miss you tremendously 😭

Pablo Blanco
3 months ago
My son passed away today and this is the song that I dedicated to him when he was born in 1991, the same year Queensryche released the Empire album. RIP my son.

Joseph Mojica
4 months ago
I had this cassette in Saudi during Desert Shield/Storm and would look at the stars at night hoping to make it home. Months later I made hope and turned on the tv and this song started to play. I cried. God was telling me I was home. Will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you Queensryche for the incredible memories.

Mÿndcrime
2 months ago
My Dad passed away on Wednesday February 1, 2023. I'm proud to say he had amazing taste in music and because of that, he had a huge influence on my musical interests.
He loved this song. My love for Queensrÿche and my love for this song...I influenced him too.
I will miss you SO MUCH Pop. My heart is broken. I miss my morning phone call from you...especially your "My son!" after I said hello. You're no longer in pain or suffering. I love you Papasito. ❤️

The Crusader
1 year ago (edited)
My dad asked to play this at his funeral, I never understood why until he passed and I listend to the lyrics. It makes sense now. I come back here every so often to reminisce him.

Crystal Helms
3 months ago
I know this may sound weird, but I lost my husband out of the blue… this song makes me feel like he’s around ❤

I hope folks are reading s1ocki's Substack because this was an amazing update to SadYouTube
https://markslutsky.substack.com/p/something-good-88-irene

Wow! He gives a little hat-tip to the podcast Heavyweight at the end, but it really does feel like a episode of that show.

I sadly missed this revive, so reboosting!

[Golf Girl by Caravan]

@twohamburgers
2 years ago
I can't really listen to this song without crying anymore. It's one of my favorite songs of my entire life, but it reminds me to much of a world that is no longer able to exist, especially when it comes to artistry and music.

@Gino565
1 year ago
Oh please. I’ve had enough of this ‘music was better when x happened”. There’s still plenty of great music being produced today, you just won’t hear it if you only pay attention to what’s top 10 on the radio.

@ZalMoxis
1 year ago
@Gino565 You have zero insight. It's the underlying feeling presented in this song as well as from most bands of the period. That period of music was an open book of exoteric projection of positivity and uplift whereas today's music is introverted, perverse and completely self indulgent. The majority of today's music is produced by a cabal of evil. Real musicians have been marginalised and the loss of the swing within the music through the use of computers has rendered it sterile in comparison.

@StoanPhrogg
1 year ago
I'm 29 but I feel similar. Found Caravan (and the Canterbury scene) in my early 20s when I was a college student and had so many quirky idealistic friends. It felt like anything was possible. I was best friends with a foreign exchange student girl who was so witty and charming and really got me to come out of my shell. Everything was interesting and it really felt like every day was a dream where you could be yourself and try new things and someone somewhere would understand. Anyway, that was only my experience, but I imagine that idealism and freedom (like the arrival of a nice springtime) is what life must've felt like for many young people during the early prog years.

@carlhilliard677
11 months ago
Last time I saw these I took too many drugs and ended up falling in a ditch

@jorgedelgadotoxotrofogo
10 months ago
I couldn´t understand you in the first line , then i read the rest and man I feel sad now too not only sad but desperate and i am not even that old I am 40 .

@littlebritain64
9 days ago
Yes, to me as well...
Yet, I am who I am just because I kee on loving these things, I would not change my vision with anybodyelse's one. We are lucky, I think.
And it is a true relief sharing sensations.

jfc all this for Golf Girl!

Share the sensation

Comment on a video of Mattafix's "Big City Life":

@lookaspoland
2 years ago (edited)
Tears in my eyes. I was poor young polish immigrant in Holand. Lonely. Hard working. I slept on the floor in some warehouse and rent bike and drive to Nijmegen at sunday. I was walking on the streets of night city. Alone. And i listened this song. After years im businessman in Poland. And again im lonely. Even if not poor anymore. I feel like our world went wrong brothers and sisters. I feel do weird but i want listen this song still.

https://bsky.app/profile/vruba.bsky.social/post/3lc4idom5i22h

Aram Khachaturian - Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio)

"My parents were already fighting like cats and dogs when I was 8 and they sent me off to see 2001 at the movies in 1968. The D word had been thrown around already in one horrific, childhood ending evening in one memorable contention.

It's never good to be eight and first learn what it is to truly be alone, isolated, on your own adrift in incomprehensible sorrow and terror. The Gayane gave my pain a voice and helped me survive."

Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix)
"Playing this for my sister who is dying in a coma for the old days wer we didn't have a care in the world ... bring back the 90s if only 🙏💙🙏"

It's a pretty good choice for that situation!

xp that Gayane comment is amazing

yeah

Pink Floyd - Live - Wembley , Empire Pool, London, November 16 , 1974 ( Full Concert )

"@krissknight3540 8 years ago
I was there with my husband Steve, we got married earlier in the day, absolutely the best day of my life ever..........
Sadly my beautiful man died in February and listening to this knowing that his voice is in there somewhere is wonderful, he shouted himself hoarse for the encore.......... Echoes
And so I throw the windows wide and call to you across the sky......................"

That something-good-88-irene post is Substack is beautiful. (As is the concept for this whole project, really).

(Some extra words in there, sorry).

Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind

Man these words from this song hit home.
Met my Girl in 1984 in the 9th grade hallway.
She was way out of my league but I had something that made her feel special.
We rescued each other from mutually terrible family lives.
We had a incredible marriage that just got better every day.
Sadly cancer stole her from me this year at age 52, way too young.
I tried so hard to fix it and took care of her best I knew how.
She was afraid that I was going to leave her but I would have died protecting her.
Now that she’s gone I’m just in a fog and feel like half my soul is gone.
I’m sure she knew this would be the case as she always looked ten steps ahead.
She insisted I find love again and remarry.
I’m not sure it’s out there.
I think I had my shot and it was what every man could dream of.
Finding that again seems impossible.
I was broken when she found me and here I am again.
I’m just thankful I have my grand kids that I just adore and love them extra for her too.

Peter Laughner - "Slim Slow Slider" (allegedly cut the night before he died)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_5jwr0tykU

@sheepscotbordercolli
10 years ago

I have a letter he wrote me on that night. He was planning to move out to Ravenna, and work on his music away fro the hangers-on and the self-destructive jerks who plagued his life in Cleve. He said he was working on some ideas for our new sound. And he signed it "I will see you sooner than you think, Love Peter" I didn't get that letter until the day of his funeral. I will see him never again. Never again. And as ridiculous as it may seem, I still cry about that, after all these long and unsuspected years.
Thank you for posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNvJ4wemrA

I loved him for 11 years and he got married with a girl he knew only 2 months