Author Topic: Songs. Sad songs. Heartbreak songs. (Read 8413 times)

Raaphael · « **on:** January 1, 2016, 07:35:15 pm »

Do you have any good heartbreak songs that you would recommend? Preferably English songs.

TheTeflonJohn · « **Reply #1 on:** January 1, 2016, 07:48:45 pm »

Iron Maiden - Rime of the ancient mariner.

Raaphael · « **Reply #2 on:** January 1, 2016, 07:59:34 pm »

Quote from: The Teflon Virgin, Mother and Child on January 1, 2016, 07:48:45 pm

Iron Maiden - Rime of the ancient mariner.

Not quite what I had in mind, but thank you.

jboy14 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:03:57 pm »

Nelly and Tim McGraw, Over and Over

Upinsmoke · « **Reply #4 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:04:30 pm »

Raaphael · « **Reply #5 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:08:36 pm »

I`m sort of into Shack and similar stuff like that to make a reference.

soxfan · « **Reply #6 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:11:01 pm »

There's a thread for this.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=315580.0

Raaphael · « **Reply #7 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:13:30 pm »

Quote from: soxfan on January 1, 2016, 08:11:01 pm

There's a thread for this.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=315580.0

Can`t find any songs there.

Titi Camara · « **Reply #8 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:18:00 pm »

Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad

The Smiths - Heaven knows how much I miss you

rawcusk8 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:20:09 pm »

Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal red army.

Raaphael · « **Reply #10 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:22:31 pm »

Quote from: Titi Camara on January 1, 2016, 08:18:00 pm

Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad

The Smiths - Heaven knows how much I miss you

Thanks.

Hazell · « **Reply #11 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:27:45 pm »

The Cure - Inbetween Days

Crimson_Tank · « **Reply #12 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:33:57 pm »

How to save a life - the Fray

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:35:40 pm »

Pretty much anything on Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell.

marko35s · « **Reply #14 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:36:54 pm »

Hurt by Johnny Cash

johnsmithlfc · « **Reply #15 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:47:14 pm »

Pearl Jam - Black
Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Ray LaMontagne - Jolene (no not that Jolene)

Mind gone blank now...

cloggypop · « **Reply #16 on:** January 1, 2016, 08:59:33 pm »

The whole of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized.

If you just want one song off it try Broken Heart.

Cletus vanDamme · « **Reply #17 on:** January 1, 2016, 09:01:57 pm »

"For Martha" by The Smashing Pumpkins

rawcusk8 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 1, 2016, 09:49:30 pm »

Mad World - Gary Jules

BarryCrocker · « **Reply #19 on:** January 1, 2016, 10:06:05 pm »

Last Goodbye and Lover You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #20 on:** January 1, 2016, 10:09:28 pm »

Quote from: BarryCrocker on January 1, 2016, 10:06:05 pm

Last Goodbye and Lover You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley

Haha, the latter was exactly what I thought wen I saw the thread title before clicking on it!

I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James

Filler. · « **Reply #21 on:** January 1, 2016, 10:50:22 pm »

Are we any good at it in England stroke Britain? Writing a sad one? Don't we always revert to humour? You could try the Smiths, but there's far too much wit going on usually - 'Suffer Little Children' would be the first go to recording tho. Am strumming through all my recent listens on Spotify and literally can't find one Brit who I'd suggest doing a proper good sad song. America has so so many! Joy Division don't write sad songs really. I'll think on't.

Doris Duke's 'I'm A Loser' LP (1969) is American - but beginning to end, even through the happiness, is a story being told - and it's magical. I could pull out a song, but it's a beginning to end type caper this LP.

BRdispatch05 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 1, 2016, 10:52:54 pm »

The Antlers-Hospice (album)

Filler. · « **Reply #23 on:** January 1, 2016, 11:18:08 pm »

Pink Floyd: Vera
Nick Drake - plenty there of course..
Ah yes: The Smiths: 'I Know It's Over' - yeah I waded thru that song alot!
PJ Harvey - she can drum one up, but again, it's always entangled in irony, pathos, wit etc
Christ! Forgot - Antony and the Johnsons!
Portishead - they could really dig out some depth

legendkiller · « **Reply #24 on:** January 1, 2016, 11:39:09 pm »

Sinead O Connor nothing compares to you

Trada · « **Reply #25 on:** January 1, 2016, 11:44:56 pm »

I can't listen to it anymore, It was strangely the last song me and Tracy listen to together in the car.

I had it played at her funeral.

It breaks my heart.

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elbow · « **Reply #26 on:** January 2, 2016, 12:07:49 am »

Nick Drake - Saturday Sun

Timbo's Goals · « **Reply #27 on:** January 2, 2016, 12:40:37 am »

It Makes No Difference - The Band

red mongoose · « **Reply #28 on:** January 2, 2016, 01:46:05 am »

Quote from: Filler. on January 1, 2016, 10:50:22 pm

Are we any good at it in England stroke Britain? Writing a sad one? Don't we always revert to humour? You could try the Smiths, but there's far too much wit going on usually - 'Suffer Little Children' would be the first go to recording tho. Am strumming through all my recent listens on Spotify and literally can't find one Brit who I'd suggest doing a proper good sad song. America has so so many! Joy Division don't write sad songs really. I'll think on't.

The Bitterest Pill - The Jam
The Song is Over - The Who
Why Should I Cry For You? - Sting
Angie - Rolling Stones
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
Every Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox (via Cole Porter)
I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine - Beth Orton
The Ghost in You - Psychedelic Furs
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project
Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
Pictures of You - The Cure
Don't Go Away - Oasis
Waiting For that Day - George Michael
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
The Unforgettable Fire + Promenade - U2

TheFlyingScouseman · « **Reply #29 on:** January 2, 2016, 03:02:16 am »

Sweet Virginia - The Rolling Stones

Red in Korea · « **Reply #30 on:** January 2, 2016, 03:08:11 am »

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/iwWt81Vn-sA

Tigers That Talked - Artificial Clouds

Filler. · « **Reply #31 on:** January 2, 2016, 07:18:10 am »

Quote from: red mongoose on January 2, 2016, 01:46:05 am

The Bitterest Pill - The Jam
The Song is Over - The Who
Why Should I Cry For You? - Sting
Angie - Rolling Stones
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
Every Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox (via Cole Porter)
I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine - Beth Orton
The Ghost in You - Psychedelic Furs
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project
Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
Pictures of You - The Cure
Don't Go Away - Oasis
Waiting For that Day - George Michael
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
The Unforgettable Fire + Promenade - U2

Exactly my point!

I've never found Wish You Were Here a sad song for instance. Sure, it's moving etc, (and a great song) but it's also uplifting and celebratory at the same time. To me a sad song is something like Nina Simone's 'The Other Woman' - particularly the version sang at Town Hall in 1959. Her whole oeuvre is infused with a sense of melancholy of course, and even here, when she's confident that her husband will always return to her - when she's being celebratory and victorious and strong at the end of the song, 'She will always cry herself to sleep' - that's the saddest part. She was simply incredible. On the other side of the story, is Doris Duke's 'The Other Woman' - same title, totally different song. She's the woman having the affair -

To the other woman
I'm the other woman
And the other woman is his wife

Everybody calls me stupid
For playing second fiddle
At least I know I'm number two

That whole album, 'I'm A Loser', is a sad album. Some find it depressing. Have to say I don't.

So many names, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen (tho he too is swimming with wit, and self depreciating humour), Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Antony & The Johnson's electrifying 'Hope There's Someone', all those Blues artists - hundreds to choose from - all American.

Woke up this morning and slipped on The House of Love's debut LP - one or two in that LP, but I don't know if any one track really counts as sad. 'Man To Child' possibly.

Will check out one or two of those choices of yours that I don't know, or need reminding of. Except Sting. Oof.

Timbo's Goals · « **Reply #32 on:** January 2, 2016, 09:17:55 am »

Quote from: Filler. on January 1, 2016, 10:50:22 pm

Are we any good at it in England stroke Britain? Writing a sad one? Don't we always revert to humour? You could try the Smiths, but there's far too much wit going on usually - 'Suffer Little Children' would be the first go to recording tho. Am strumming through all my recent listens on Spotify and literally can't find one Brit who I'd suggest doing a proper good sad song. America has so so many! Joy Division don't write sad songs really. I'll think on't.

On first reflection that seems to be a great shout F.

As you say there seems to be an innate compulsion to soften the blow with irony or humour that prevents the full heartache from being laid bare.

But we may be wrong.

Maybe there are some. Gonna wrack what's left of my brains.

Raaphael · « **Reply #33 on:** January 2, 2016, 09:56:27 am »

Thanks for the suggestions.

red mongoose · « **Reply #34 on:** January 2, 2016, 11:31:27 am »

Quote from: Filler. on January 2, 2016, 07:18:10 am

Will check out one or two of those choices of yours that I don't know, or need reminding of. Except Sting. Oof.

I wish coming up with those had been more difficult, but such is my chequered romantic past

I read the OP as Raph feeling some ache and wanting to listen to some sad songs and those are some of the ones I've wallowed in, though thankfully I don't do it anymore as I couldn't be arsed.

Raaphael · « **Reply #35 on:** January 2, 2016, 02:44:53 pm »

Well, fuck me. That was shit. A shit game with a shit result. Just massive shitness. So now I`m going to listen to some sad bastard music and go to sleep. Fuck it.

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #36 on:** January 2, 2016, 05:03:59 pm »

REM - Everybody Hurts.

Pistolero · « **Reply #37 on:** January 2, 2016, 05:09:01 pm »

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles.

Les Willis · « **Reply #38 on:** January 2, 2016, 05:11:18 pm »

Sorry seems to be the hardest word - Elton John

just Riggins? · « **Reply #39 on:** January 2, 2016, 05:35:40 pm »

Noah & The Whale - The First Days of Spring got me through some shit.

Some really beautiful music on there, a mixture of just heartbreak and also hope.

Blue Skies is a wonderful song of hope, and if you want to feel endlessly sad try My Door Is Always Open or I Have Nothing.