"Flooding" by Kristin Hersh, the piano demo.
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 25 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
"In This Hole" - Cat Power"Holding" - Grouper"For Martha" - the Smashing Pumpkins"My New Freedom" - Elliott Smith"Something in the Way" - Nirvana"The End of the Rainbow" - Richard & Linda Thompson"Sawdust & Diamonds" - Joanna Newsom"God" - John Lennon"This Night Has Opened My Eyes" - The Smiths"Buzz Saw" - Xiu Xiu
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
People have some odd ideas on what constitutes a sad song.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 25 September 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
A harder challenge would be coming up with some sadder than any of the songs on Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked at Me.
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah :-(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
I mean, Phil abandons/dismisses any attempt at making "art" on that record, because it's been rendered completely meaningless and useless to him. understandably. I couldn't get through 4 songs.
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell is probably a contender for saddest album.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 25 September 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
otm, I could listen to that one twice all the way through, and haven't revisited it since. songs are good, I just can't sink into that mood.
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Little Green, Joni Mitchell – The wistful optimism is just heartbreaking
― dinnerboat, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
oh man, I was gonna mention that one. "A Case of You" as well, even if it's more bittersweet. "Little Green" is similar to "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" - the complicated emotions that come with having an abortion / giving up a child for adoption.
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
River too -- subject matter is kind of run-of-the-mill as far as sad songs but the treatment is especially heartbreaking.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 25 September 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
joni mitchell - other people's parties
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
Inconsolable - Jonatha Brooke
― Bloody Snail, Monday, 25 September 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Zabelle Panosian, Groung (The Crane)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GizgyxGSrFs
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 25 September 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
The Train by Sinatra, off Watertown, a brutally sad album all told.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXP-417oiv0
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Sunday, 28 October 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
Franz Schubert - 'Der Leiermann' (from Winterreise):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIS-UgixGE
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 October 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
The Band - It Makes No Difference
― fancy the Dirkishness of carrying Doré a round (fionnland), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
the winner
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen, “Brilliant Disguise”
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
Randy Newman - “Marie”
just thinking about that song, christ..
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
The Last Ride- Todd Rundgren
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
Kathleen Edwards - "Alicia Ross"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 May 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
Josh Ritter - "The Curse"
Rickie Lee Jones - "Skeletons"
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 May 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
also legit surprised not to see John Prine’s “Hello in There” in this thread.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 23 May 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
Sandy Denny - "All Our Days"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsxeL-59GbM
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Thursday, 23 May 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
It's here.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
Peter Hammill, "This Side of the Looking-Glass"
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
Everybody's Been Burned by the Byrdsso sad it's haunted
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
billy Bragg - tank park salute
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
Jason Isbell - "Elephant"
― Accidentally Gets High By Touching LSD Left in Vintage Buchla (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
The Perfect Disaster - Down (Down)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Dory Previn - "Beware of Young Girls" or "Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign"
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
anything by sibylle baier. colour green is the darkest LP i've ever heard, and that's coming from a regular elliott smith listener.
― meaulnes, Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
A couple days ago, my daughter was singing "Maybe" from Annie, and I actually irl teared up. That song is inappropriately sad. It should be illegal except under tightly controlled circumstances.
― mitt the hoopla (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 May 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
41. This Mortal Coil - Holocaust (no I haven't heard the original but I can't see how it could possibly be any more sad - "your mother's dead", the rise and fall of strings and piano and one excellent performance by Howard Devoto)
― Bimble..., Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:20 AM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fucking hell, I can't imagine knowing this song without being aware of the Big Star original. It's the pinnacle of devastation.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
The Specials - I Can't Stand It
― kitchen person, Saturday, 25 May 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
most of the "sad songs" people talk about are to me encouraging and uplifting, which i guess says a lot about me. people with the saddest voices in the world like robert wyatt singing about how it'll be ok, no really, just make me think "yeah, they have a point, it will be ok". to me a really sad song is something like "you can make it if you try" by sly and the family stone.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
I think I sort of know what you mean. Like, “what a wonderful world” fills me with deep deep despair
― brimstead, Saturday, 25 May 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
Sad songs say so much, even when they’re in another language (Turkish, in this case):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdngjh5cy5ESezen Aksu • Kavaklar
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link
seasons in the sun
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link