Sad songs

[MichaelC]

When I was little it was Puff the Magic Dragon

As I got older, it was Seasons in the Sun

But, for me, it is The Raven That Refused to Sing...

 

[Gaius]

I also like Puff the Magic Dragon.

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw7CvPwu5z8

 

[zarniwoop]

Crash and Burn, Sheryl Crowe

 

[SamS]

The easy suggestion would be Sad Song from Lou Reed's, Berlin, but it isn't really that sad. The two preceding it however, Kids & The Bed - now those are sad songs.

 

[Joe Hutch]

'Floreat Inertia' by Half Man Half Biscuit.

 

[Stunsworth]

Joni Mitchell, Little Green from Blue.

 

[Cloth-Ears]

Stan Ridgway - Mission In Life from the album , Mosquitos.

You can follow the lyrics in another window as you listen

Lyrics : here

This one really builds with the feeling as it goes on. Excellent music !

 

[Bob McC]

I Grieve - Peter Gabriel

 

[PsB]

Lou Reed - Berlin. (The whole thing.)

 

[CJBenno]

Eleanor Rigby

 

[kasperhauser]

Billy Bragg – Tank Park Salute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5heTJ65bdhU

Martin Simpson – Hard Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSRiWEpOTso

Jonathan Edwards – Sometimes in the Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5_jJbPqxI

 

[gordon]

 

[tones]

From the mistress of the sad song:

 

[Mullardman]

Sad songs? How long have you got?

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Mull

 

[Mullardman]

I also like Puff the Magic Dragon.

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw7CvPwu5z8

That is truly gorgeous. Thanks.

Mull

 

[Wilson]

MichaelC,

I had not heard or heard of the Steven Wilson album you mention above.

Thanks for passing that along.

 

[FireMoon]

This

this...

and this...

 

[sadcafe]

Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Ship Building - various
Strange Fruit - various

Agree with Steven Wilson and The Raven that refused to sing. The instrumental version on the Blu Ray is very moving.

 

[Singslinger]

There is no more sadder music than the melancholic Brain Voyager by Robert Schroeder.

 

[kumachan]

Edith Piaf's 'Hymne à L'amour' reads like, well, a hymn to love, which shouldn't be sad at all. However, when you know she's singing for her great love, boxer Marcel Cedran, who later died in an air crash, it becomes incredibly moving.

The story goes that her doctors later forbade her to sing it on stage for fear that she'd keel over from the toll it took on her. I actually have to skip this when it comes on the cd, otherwise I'm wreckage.

This version has handy English subs:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c4h1_edith-piaf-l-hymne-a-l-amour-englis_music