Life can leave you feeling very sad sometimes. I'm a fan of the melancholy, I have been known to embrace a bit of misery from time to time.
And there's nothing to help you along your way with your eyes to the pavement than a good sad song. Songs are sad because of the words, the idea or concept, the melody, the production, the sounds, the chord progression, and sometimes little delicate details that invoke emotion.
Here's my Top 5 for an emotional rainy day:
1. Stable Song - Deathcab for Cutie
2. Somersault Score - Decoder Ring
3. Into The Sunset - Neil Finn
4. Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
5. Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray
And instantly I need to append the list with almost all of Damien Rice's reportoir, but specifically:
ReplyDelete6: Grey Room
7: Cold Water
8: Sleep Dont Weep
Then there's a bit more Deathcab for Cutie:
9: I Will Follow You Into the Dark
10: What Sarah Said
I thought Russel Fragar's "Yes and Amen" was a pretty sad song...but a legitimate Top 5 will take some more constructive formulation.
ReplyDeleteYes and Amen to those. I like to wallow to these:
ReplyDeleteHallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Eli the Barrow Boy - The Decembrists
You Had Time - Ani Difranco
Just need to add also, a sad song doesn't make you sad (unless its Russell Fragar) but it guides you along your way, chicken soup for the ears, a warm blanket for the storm inside you. A good sad song is remedial more than depressing; it comforts and encourages because someone's been where you are now and they wrote a song about it and lasted long enough to sit down and record it.
ReplyDeleteBTW - Sez, don't you just love the decemberists. i've been listening to a lot of the Crane Wife album, its brilliant!
ReplyDeleteStill formulating...but I'm getting there - with alarming duplication.
ReplyDelete1. Romeo and Juliet - DS
ReplyDelete2. For a short time - WPA
3. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - DG
4. Bridge over troubled water - S&G
5. When the tears fall - TH
ok, here's another five:
1. Every little thing - D
2. Mr Tanner - HC
3. Everybody Hurts - REM
4. Fall at your feet - CH
5. Bradman - PK
I probably had more fun with the dishonorable mentions, but:
ReplyDelete1. Brick - BF
2. Still - RM
3. I am Carried - GB
4. How Great thou art - PD
And the honorable mentions:
1. White Dress - Kenny Marks
2. The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
3. Friends - Michael & Amy (he he)
4. Compulsory Hero - 1927
What about 'Two Little Boys' by Rolf Harris? Surely...
ReplyDeletesimon, that whole album by tim hughes is incredible, its a caboose on your train to sadville, but its the steam engine at the front of the train which pulls you on out again. that man is a genius.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I completely agree. It kind of makes me wonder why they didn't call the album: 'The caboose to Sadville' rather than 'When Silence Falls'.
ReplyDeletewell, google tells me that:
ReplyDeleteYour search - Albums - the caboose to sadville - did not match any documents.
So the name is completely available, i wonder why they didn't go for it.
Hey I'll be the first to do a review on the bass solo album:
ReplyDeleteGarrick Field - The Caboose to Sadville
maybe that'd be the "cab-bass to sadville"
ReplyDeletei play guitar too.
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
ReplyDeleteIndependence Day - Ani Difranco
ooh... i loves me a good sad song.
ReplyDeleteSorry I Am - Ani Difranco
Sylvia Plath - Ryan Adams
Come Pick Me Up - Ryan Adams
Your Sweet Voice - Reindeer Section
Old Friends - Simon and Garfunkel
i'd go for come pick me up, ryan is a great one for the sad song, but he ruins that song with the lyrics in the chorus. i'm more a fan of "time of need" and "goodnight hollywood blvd". ryan is genius, although the rock and roll album is only good as a coaster for your coffee cup.
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