More sad songs, please. Oh, I need them. Don't make me break out my own. That could go on post after post after post. Spare yourself and send more suggestions in.
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Sweet pic--and a nice capturing of a moment.
Relationship (demise of relationship) sad: I agree with formerstudent – Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah.
Relationship (hanging in there, but you are aware of its built-in obsolescence) sad: Josh Ritter’s Temptation of Adam.
Seasonal sad: Joni Mitchell’s River and only her version no other cover will do. As soon as she sings “They’re putting up reindeers, cutting down trees, singing songs of peace. I wish I could find me a river that I could skate away on,” I am in a funk; I don’t need the rest of the song.
Pretentious teenage-angst sad: Michael Andrews and Gary Jules version of Tears for Fears’ Mad World. Never was a Tears for Fears fan, but when I heard Gary Andrews/Jules version of this song, I thought, “Oh man, I really didn’t understand all my high school peers who liked them. They must have been really miserable and I just blew them off.” Guilt and sadness what a two fer.
Socially-responsible sad: the entire Bruce Springsteen Ghost of Tom Joad album. Nothing like a couple of Steinbeck metaphors to make you feel the wrath of true depression. I know I am old and pathetic in this age of downloading one song at a time, I am still a concept album girl. Actually, for the whole gamut of relationship sad, Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love would definitely be a contender.
Trueoutlier--
I have speculated about who you are, and I was over 50% certain I knew. Sometimes the certainty I attached to my judged was higher, sometimes lower...but now with this new information, I'm pretty confident I know. True, not 100% confident. Not so confident to venture a guess here in this forum because, whoo boy, I was once before wrong (WAY WRONG) about the identity of one of my readers. (If you don't believe me how wrong I was, just ask Justcurious.)
So I won't guess. But now that I think I know who you are, let me say welcome welcome. Now about your songs: Sorry to let you down on my philistinish inability to "get" the Buckley version. True, I like it, but it doesn't move me to tears as it does others. And usually I'm the first person to reach for the hankies.
Temptation of Adam--boy, the intro sets the tone, doesn't it? Mournful trumpet, bass clarinet, strings, and piano. And, well, it's almost just too much, that song. (i wouldn't have guessed that poignancy and clever could be so powerfully blended.)
Joni Mitchell's River. A relative new one for me. ;~) It's poignant, but it also strikes me as a moment of contemplative sanity in anotherwise ridiculous season of excess and frenzy.
I don't think I know (or remember) "Mad world." Something for me to download now. And weren't the vast majority of us miserable in high school? Right? I think it's simply that all of us think our own personal misery is unique in the world, and uniquely awful.
Good on you for keeping up the fight on behalf of the concept album. I capitulated long ago in that war, and it's probably for the worse. Joad is a classic album, and deservedly so.
Fine, I will succumb to the temptation of posting more things on this your blog and offer more sad songs.
Sonata Arctica's "Tallulah", a beautifully angsty song about breakups.
"Ach ich fuhls" from the Magic Flute, about being rejected
Blackmore's Night "Wish you were Here"
Dresden Dolls "Coin Operated Boy" which is really sad once you get past the humour of it
aww, come on now. you were only off by gender, age, state, political leaning, and degree of podness. not so bad.
hey justcurious---
and don't forget intensity and frequency of snarkiness. which says a lot because my first guess was of someone who is pretty snarky.
and how unfair to mention degree of podness as a difference. because i thought the justcurious comments which i wrongly attributed to this other person dispelled my fear that this person was a pod. so it's not fair to then use that against me to show that this other person was in fact podlike (unless s/he reads the blog, of course, in which case s/he is decidedly not a pod).
you know what? I don't care if that made no sense to you. so there!
i'm just saying, it's funny you thought mitt romney was reading your blog.
just sitting around your blog being philosophical today... if a snarky post falls in the forest and no one claims to have heard, is it still snark?
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