do you have a song that makes you sad...
 

but you keep listening to it?

What is it?
Why is it sad for you? (I'll take any 'sad' song or C & W as read)
And why do you keep listening to it?

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Adagio-Albinoni. It is sad to me because it brings up childhood memories of my mom playing it for me. I miss that. I keep listening to it because it is just a beautiful piece and sometimes sadness is not a bad feeling.

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David Wilcox

Eye of the Hurricane

It's about a fatal motorcycle accident

It's a song about a fatal motercycle crash.

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Pink Floyd's Echoes from the Meddle album.

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Why is it sad for you? (I'll take any 'sad' song or C & W as read)

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I'll be keeping that to myself. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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And why do you keep listening to it?

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I'm not sure.

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"American Pie" by Don McLean and "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin.

I think everybody thinks the first one is sad and the second reminds me that I don't always take enough time for some people.

And I keep listening because they're good songs.

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Okay,

mine's an old song, don't think it got to the USA - 'paris match' by the Style Council

it's a song about regret, longing and thinking on things that have passed or cannot be.

It makes me think of the things in my life that I regret, have missed or lost, and is sad, sublime, and nostalgic all at once. Remembering them can sometimes be sweet.

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Pink Floyd's Echoes from the Meddle album.

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I feel bad for you. Saw Floyd do this in an outdoor concert on an island in the middle of the Rhine river and this song brings a smile to my face whenever I hear it.

For me it's Tears In Heaven and Life By The Drop.

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two of them:
don't turn around-aswad
wild world-maxi priest

my ex-gf wanted a reggae mix tape, so I made on with these two songs opening/closing the tape. then she dumped me.

I still listen to them because they're good songs.

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Yes! It's:

Listen To Your Heart


http://www.darkwars.org/index.php?a=click&id=89707

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Smoke Rings in the Dark, by Gary Allan. Played it as a blind request at a wedding I DJ'd once (bad, bad idea, my first wedding ever), my girlfriend refuses to listen to it because it's so weepy.

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Don't really listen to it all the time or anything but:

Mazzy Star - "Fade into You"

First song I heard after I saw my grandmother for the last time and I *knew* it would be the last time.

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magic - ben folds five
i remember clifford - arturo sandoval

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The Day You Went Away - M2M

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"Ashokan Farewell," from Ken Burns' Civil War. As previously posted, that series and I have a strange relationship.

"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" by Neil Young recalls a profound sense of pre-wedding existential angst.

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Echoes is a fantastic song. It provokes a weird feeling in me... some of it sadness, some of it just nostalgia. It's like the song that defines the period of my life where I "came of age" or something like that, so it's a weird mix of emotions for me. But I love hearing it.

I think "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" by The Cure probably makes me sadder than most. It reminds me of a time of life where I had some good friends that I no longer have. Plus the song is sad as hell too.

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Winter by Tori Amos. If you know the song and your father is in his golden years, the reasons probably are obvious.

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"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" by Neil Young recalls a profound sense of pre-wedding existential angst.

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I just downloaded this and you're right, very wistful. neil young's kinda melancholy.

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"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" by Neil Young recalls a profound sense of pre-wedding existential angst.

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I just downloaded this and you're right, very wistful. neil young's kinda melancholy.

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I mean what I say literally. The wedding was at the end of July, in beautiful Louisville, KY. Lot of conflicted feelings about that one.

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gilbert o'sullivan - alone again naturally

I just like the song, it sounds nice, but it's sad. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Tea for One-LZ

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Bad Moon Rising by CCR. I was dating my friends sister. (he was fine with it). Anyway one day me and him and a few other guys were suppose to go on a road trip but at the last minute I cancelled. An hour or so after i was suppose to leave with the guys me and Jana (my buddys sister) had just come out of a store and got into my car. The radio came on and Bad Moon Rising by CCR was playing and all of a sudden I got a wierd feeling. Turns out my friends had all been in a car accident and my best friend (her brother) was the only one who was killed. So to this day it is a song that makes me very sad, yet I like to listen to it because of him. He was a cool mf and I do miss him alot.

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You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban

First song I heard at my dad's funeral.

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'breathe me' by sia would probably make me sad if i heard it, i think that was the song that was played during the ending montage of six feet under's last episode

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left and leaving by the weakerthans, but i can't listen to it. it makes me want to kill myself.

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Carly Simon - Coming Around Again

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"What a Wonderful World" as performed by Iz. ='(

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Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Song says it.

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Runaway train - its always made me sad but i love the song

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Ave Maria - mozart and maria callas
i think the only song thats ever brought me close to tears, but im not sure why, very beautiful...

also cats in the cradle is a good one...

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You dont miss your water - Otis Redding

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'The Scientist' by Coldplay.

When my ex couldn't describe in his own words how remorseful he was over the breakup... he sent me a cd with this song about a year ago. I still get welled up & have to turn off the radio whenever it comes on.

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'O mio babbino caro' from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.

It just sounds so sad it reminds me of every sad thing that's ever happened to me.




(Oh dear daddy

Oh dear daddy
I love him, he is so handsome
I want to go to Porta Rossa
to buy the ring
Yes, yes, I want to go there
And if my love were in vain
I would go to Ponte Vecchio
and throw myself in the Arno
I fret and suffer torments
Oh God, I would rather die
Daddy, have pity, have pity)

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That is an incedible piece, brings me to tears as well.

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don't turn around-aswad


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Funny, that song allways makes me crack up laughing.

Conjurs up images of an aged Daisy Steiner bogling to aswad.....

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I dunno, I suppose the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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"Superhuman" by Ginuwine

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This is the more interesting part of this thread. I think sadness is an addictive kind of feeling. There's a kind of perverse joy in misery sometimes, especially nostalgic sadness.

I find the classical/instrumental responses very interesting. For me it's the lyrics that really do it for me. Although Beethoven's Violin Concerto does it for me a little bit. When I was a kid, this was the song my mom always played before she went out on dates after she and my dad broke up.

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Carly Simon - Coming Around Again

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This one's actually up there for me, not because of the song itself or its lyrics, but because my mom would always have this tape playing in the car when she was taking me somewhere when I was really young. Just reminds me of those indelibly happy, carefree days of childhood.

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Just reminds me of those indelibly happy, carefree days of childhood.

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That makes you sad? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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The Dies Irae from the Requiem. Pretty much sums up the fury of grief.

Edit: I'm not at all religious, but I listen to the Requiem around the anniversary of my father's death each year. It's cathartic.