Sad, Sad Songs

[wyverary]

Joanna Newsom
"Cosmia"

 

[gonzerd]

Bert Jansch - Needle of Death

Leonard Cohan - Famous Blue Raincoat

Lou Reed and John Cale - Hello It's Me

 

[wyverary]

Nirvana
"Pennyroyal Tea"

 

[gonzerd]

Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog

 

[x3n0]

Anything from Placebo
The Crawl...

 

[Joel I]

Here is one I wrote on this day several years ago

 

[gonzerd]

Bonnie Prince Billy - You Will Miss Me When I Burn

 

[nowwhat]

 

[Laughingowl1975]

 

[Warwick C]

I find this to be a very moving song. Both written by Eric Bogle

 

[nova]

"I Was A Cage" by Right Away, Great Captain

Usually when I have any kind of intense emotion tied to a song it's because that song is tied to a memory/person/specific time in my life, but this song is one of the few that shatters me into a million pieces in the best way possible for no reason other than the song itself.

 

[wyverary]

You can't get much darker than Mahler's Kindertotenlieder ("songs on the deaths of children," I think)

 

[Laughingowl1975]

 

[wyverary]

The Magnetic Fields
"Abigail, Belle of Kilronan"

Iron & Wine
"Sodom, South Georgia"

 

[gonzerd]

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
If you're ever in the mood for 40 minutes of bleak despair, here's the complete album. It's great.

 

[wyverary]

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
If you're ever in the mood for 40 minutes of bleak despair, here's the complete album. It's great.

Great album. It's among the records I inherited from my parents' old vinyl library.

 

[wyverary]

Tom Waits
"House Where Nobody Lives"

 

[gonzerd]

John Lennon - My Mummy's Dead

 

[wyverary]

My favorite recording of this symphony...always nice when you can find specific ones on YouTube. Nobody does sad quite like Tchaikovsky.

 

[wyverary]

I think he's DEFINITELY channeling Springsteen in this one: