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they say so much ... blue moods for a blue boy

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"atmosphere," joy division
"ocean rain," echo and the bunnymen
"stanlow," orchestral manoeuvres in the dark
"watermelon in easter hay," frank zappa
"the unforgettable fire," U2
"daniel," elton john
"i'll come running," brian eno
"word on a wing," david bowie
"mind playin' tricks on me," geto boys

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Roy Orbison - It's Over
Smog - Your New Friend
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Low - Alone
Shangri-Las - Past, Present and Future
Roxy Music - Just Another High
Tom Waits - Train Song
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
Yoko Ono - Looking Over From My Hotel Window
Dolly Parton - Down From Dover

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cure - Happy the Man
Slowdive - Avalyn
Lou Reed - Sad Song
Nico - You Forgot to Answer
Bob Dylan - You're a Big Girl Now
New Order - Your Silent Face
Joni Mitchell - Last Time I Saw Richard
Nick Drake - Fruit Tree
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
Isaac Hayes - By the Time I Get to Phoenix

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 07:34 (twenty-three years ago)

1. The Landscape Is Changing - Depeche Mode
2. My World Fell Down - Sagittarius
3. God Only Knows - Beach Boys
4. Exit Music (For Films) - Radiohead
5. Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
6. Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
7. Jesse James - Prefab Sprout
8. Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
9.Till I Die - Beach Boys
10.Ghost Town - The Specials

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

aaliyah - 4 page letter
brian eno - leeks hills (unfamiliar wind)
schneider tm - the light 3000
dmx - slippin'
the streets - weak become heroes
autechre - pen expers
naughty by nature - everything's gonna be alright
the avalanches - eto
lali puna - together in electric dreams
basement jaxx - if i ever recover

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince - When Doves Cry
Nick Drake - Parasite
Ani DiFranco - Untouchable Face
Tom Waits - Cold Cold Ground
Ween - She's Your Baby
TLC - Waterfalls
Nirvana - Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam
Tori Amos - Winter
REM - Low
The Roots ft. Erykah Badu - You Got Me

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "Apologia" by Gavin Friday & the Man Seezer
2. "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen
3. "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" by Elton John
4. "Missing" by Everything But the Girl
5. "Pictures of You" by the Cure
6. "Give Me the Reason" by Luther Vandross
7. "Lucy" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. "The Song that Saved My Life" by Firewater
9. "Love Vigilantes" by New Order
10. "Ther is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the Smiths

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

On which album is "Lucy"?

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

The last song on The Good Son.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Katy Song - Red House Painters
2. Mad As Snow - Kitchens of Distinction
3. Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
4. REM - You Are The Everything
5. John Martyn - Couldn't Love You More
6. Radiohead - Let Down
7. Smiths - Asleep
8. Red House Painters - Drop
9. The Cure - A Letter to Elise
10. Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't find "Black Eyed Dog" so much sad as, well, eerie.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

but its sad because its eerie.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"she tried" bubba sparxxx
"see you next lifetime" erykah badu
"doing the best I can" james brown (especially if you take the interpretation that it's actually a song about his son who had just died in a car wreck)
"my son calls another man daddy" hank williams sr.
"black star" radiohead
"babies makin' babies" sly and the family stone
"sitting in limbo" jimmy cliff
"professional daydreamer" over the rhine
"maria bethania" caetano veloso
"tha crossroads" bone thugs n harmony

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

― earlnash, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Jo Stafford, “Auld Land Syne”
REM, “Electrolite”
Judy Garland, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
The Impressions, “I’ve Been Trying”
Oliver Mtukudzi, “Mai Varamba”
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “My Girl is Gone”
Mandy Patinkin, “No One is Alone”
Talking Heads, “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
The Five Satins, “To the Aisle”
Otis Redding, “White Christmas”

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always considered "This Must Be the Place" more of a romantic song than a sad song (not that it can't be both, I guess). I really love that line, "you've got a face with a view".

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Waits- Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

― earlnash, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Richard Thompson- Devonside

― earlnash, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Some mo'....

"Cattle & Cane" by the Go-Betweens
"Dying" by XTC
"Does Everyone Stare?" by the Police
The entirety of Dummy by Portishead
"Hitherto" by the Cocteau Twins (I've always heard it as sad, at least).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"I've always considered 'This Must Be the Place' more of a romantic song than a sad song (not that it can't be both, I guess). I really love that line, 'you've got a face with a view'."

Both sad and romantic. Most devastating line: "There was a time before we were born." Close second: "And you're standing here beside me / I note the passing of time." David Byrne's best songs are his sad ones ("Once in a Lifetime," "The Big Country").

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Atmosphere", Joy Division
"Letter to Elise", the Cure
"Atlantic City", Bruce Springsteen
"Butterfly", Weezer
"We Need a Resolution", Aaliyah
"Yuko & Hiro", Blur
"You Do", McAlmont & Butler
"I Wish I Never Saw The SUnshine", the Ronettes
"Live to Tell", Madonna
"Photograph", Ringo Starr

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Coil's version of Tainted Love is quite a downer, especially if you've seen the video for it.

um. i can't think of 9 more

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Peggy Seeger, "Lost" (saddest song of ALL TIME)
Negative Approach, "Nothing"
Nick Drake, "Black Eyed Dog"
Sebadoh, "The Freed Pig"
Mose Allison, "Everybody Cryin' Mercy"
Geechie Wiley, "Last Kind Word Blues"
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, "Noble Experiment"
The Wandering Stars, "Nobody's Humming Your Songs, Papa"
Ed's Redeeming Qualities, "The Boy I Work With"
Joy Division, "Dead Souls"

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The cool part about this thread is that you can just pick your favorite Joy Division song

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Palace - Come In
Kath Bloom & Loren Mazzacane Connors - My Stupid Little Heart
Billie Holiday - I'm A Fool To Want You
Modern Lovers - Hospital
The Cure - All Cats Are Grey
Tindersticks - Cherry Blossoms
Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home
The Smiths - Back To The Old House
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Joy Division - Atmosphere

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Death to Everyone - Bonnie Prince Billy
2. 7th Message - Prefuse 73
3. I'm So Glad - Skip James
4. Things Behind the Sun - Nick Drake
5. Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
6. A Sister Like You - The Auteurs
7. Mercy - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
8. You Never Ever Ever Ever - Captain Ahab
9. Paintwork - The Fall
10. Yes Sir, I Can Boogie - Baccara

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

my list of shamelessly weepy stuff.

Nick Drake- fly
Shannon Wright- azalea
Adorable- road movie
Radiohead- let down
Bettie Serveert- leg
the 6ths/Sally Timms- give me back my dreams
Red house painters- japanese to english
Tara Jane O'Neil- the winds you came here on
the Geraldine Fibbers- Butch
Love Spirals Downwards- depression glass

I had a tori amos one, but that's too obvious.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"Katysong" - Red House Painters
"Lilac Wine" - Jeff Buckley
"Together or Alone" - Sebadoh
"Nostalgia" - David Sylvian
"The Top" - the Cure
"A to Fade In" - Adorable
"I Just Want Something I Can Never Have" - NIN
"I am a Rock" (either Simon and Garfunkel or Red House Painters versh)
"Touched" - VAST
"Miss World" - Hole (makes me cry for some reason)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Come On Die Young even though it's twelve songs.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

1. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald....Gordon Lightfoot
2. It Makes no Difference....The Band
3. Throwing it all Away....Phil Collins
4. Angel....Sarah McLaughlin
5. Candle in the Window....C.C.R.
6. Tonight(live Version)....Elton John
7. Hey, Hey, Johnny...Elton John written for the John Lennon
8. He stopped loving her today....George Jones
9. Cryin'....Roy Orbison
10.If you could read my mind....Gordon Lightfoot

― Phil Carrow, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

1.radiohead-creep
2.silverchair-after all these years
3.smile empty soul-with this knife
4.dwight yokam-things change
5.allison krauss-forget about it
6.radiohead-true love waits
7.danzig-blood and tears
8.garth brooks-beaches of cheyenne/the dance
9.johnny cash-man in black
10.AFI-morningstar

― caroline notsaying, Thursday, 5 February 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

alesund - sun kil moon

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Thursday, 18 November 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

Sun Kil Moon - Never Ending Math Equation
Palace - New Partner
Cat Power - Still In Love
Pavement - Here
the Allman Brothers Band - Please Call Home
the CURE - Catch
Indigo Girls - Love's Recovery
Beck - Rowboat
Ugly Casanova - Smoke Like Ribbons
Fine Young Cannibals - Funny How Love Is
Electric President - Insomnia

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

i still think Katy Song is the all time sad sack song.

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

some escape some door to open
this path seems the blackest but i
guess it's the soonest
but there in the clearing i
know you'll be wearing
your young aching smile and
waving your hand
can't go with my heart when i
can't feel what's in it i
thought you'd come over
but for some reason you didn't
glass on the pavement under my shoe
without you is all my life amounts to

a final sleep no
words from my cutting
mouth to your ear or
taut wicked pinches
from my fingers to your bitter face
that i can't heal
i know tomorrow
you will be
somewhere in london
living with someone
you've got some kind of family
there to turn to
and that's more than i could ever give you

a chance for calm
a hope for freedom
outlet from my cold solitary kingdom
by the forest of our spring stay
where you walked away
and left a bleeding part of me
empty and bothered
watching the water
quiet in the corner
numb and falling through
without you what does my life amount to?

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

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