Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Sad Songs They Say So Much

30/4/21 CestLaVie 25

Tonight the theme is sad songs. I’m sure we all have some favorite somber melancholy tunes.

Don’t cry though, sad songs can be beautiful and they can be cathartic .

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    • LOL….unexpected side effect..
      im staying at me mums at mo…she heard the song and decided it was lovely..and now ill have to hand over me flogging molly cds when she drops me off at home sunday..lol

  5. I really like this song but it was released during an awful time in my life:


     
    That was the Seeb remix, which is jumping. For seriously sad you have to go to the original:

  6. There are a couple of artists who always get me in the feels.

    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – You Will Miss Me When I Burn

     

     

     

    Rufus Wainwright – Poses

     

     

  9. Also, the Irish have some incredibly sad songs.  I tear up whenever I hear Carrickfergus.  I love this Allison Moorer version, which has the amazing bonus of the great Jerry Douglas on dobro.

  15. “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt. It’s not for any reason with the lyrics, so I’m not going to post it here because also I think it’s a crummy song written by a whiny man.

    However

    My grandma saw him perform it on Ellen or something like that when it was a new song and she couldn’t stop talking about it for days and days. She fricking loved it. 

    A few weeks later, one of my cousins got her the CD, and my grandma had no recollection of the song, seeing him on Ellen, talking to us about it, and didn’t even care for it when my cousin played the CD for her. Objectively I knew she was getting older, but this way predated when we realized she was dealing with onset of dementia. So when I hear this song now, I think about her and her dementia and how at the time we didn’t know to recognize the early onset and missed so much time we could have spent with her before she was gone. 

    • It’s one of those misunderstood songs:

      Blunt said of the song: “It’s always been portrayed as romantic, but it’s actually a bit creepy. It’s about a guy (me) who’s high and stalking someone else’s girlfriend on the subway. And then the stalker kills himself.”

      • Oh damn! I didn’t realize he was a stalker who kills himself. I thought it was just a whiny man. 

        I remember years and years ago hearing Sting talk about how uncomfortable he felt when people would say that “Every Breath You Take” was their wedding song. Like… huh… good luck with that one since that song is also horribly stalker-ey and very much not a romantic song. 


  16. I’m surprised this one was missed.

    It’s my favorite Phil Collins tune

    What’s sad without Hank Williams?


    Two Smokey And the Miracles anthems.  The tunes are bright, but the words aren’t.

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