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Favorite sad song? Do you have a good one that gives you chills? (1 Viewer)

I don't think anyone needs my emo backstory, but Chicago by Sufjan Stevens also always gets me. Might be off of the most emo album of the aughts, and that's saying something. 

If I was crying in the van with my friend
It was for freedom from myself and from the land
I've made a lot of mistakes 
I've made a lot of mistakes...

 
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St. Stephen’s Day - The Tossers / I had a period where I was self-isolating and ultimately lonely with random bouts where I’d want to go somewhere.

I drank until my bones shook and gathered all my pay
I stood outside the locked up bar along the bachelors quay
I had absolutely forgotten that it was Christmas day
And now there's nothing open and there's nothing left to say

 
These 2 get me.

Ill fly away

Go Rest High on that mountan

I was very close to my mom's parent's.  They helped raise me until my mom and "dad" met when I was 3 and I spent a lot of time with them growing up.  Grandpa passed away when I was 20, but Grandma lived another 20 years after that.  She was a very strong woman and it hit me hard when she did pass away, more so than any of my other grandparents.

 
gianmarco said:
2 that come to mind for me are Simon and Garfunkel tunes:

Scarborough Fair

Sound of Silence
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For "Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" does it for me...

The Dreaded Marco said:
One of my top 5 songs of all time also happens to be sad and gives me the chills every time:

Let Down - Radiohead
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"Idioteque" used to get me when I was just getting over my getting over days...

This is really happening...happening...

 
So did Let Down, by the way. "Let Down" is something else with the high-pitched percussive elements. Like chimes and xylophone. Crazy. 

 
So many good ones listed already. I have a sad playlist that is just titled ‘Rain’ as it encompasses that type of mood - sad and grey. Here are a bunch that folks may or may not have heard before including two oldies but goodies by Brenda Russell and Richard Marx. 
 

To Build A Home - The Cinematric Orchestra 

https://youtu.be/oUFJJNQGwhk

One More Second - Matt Beringer

https://youtu.be/jmGhtIOBlhI

Falling - Trevor Daniel 

https://youtu.be/eIc4mqyN1Q8

All Time Low - Jon Bellion

https://youtu.be/AXnqkVTFUqY

The Night We Met - Lord Huron 

https://youtu.be/KtlgYxa6BMU

I’ve Never Felt So Alone - Labrinth 

https://youtu.be/JxMglPvvzQw

Piano in the Dark - Brenda Russell

https://youtu.be/H7u5GtSIC5k

Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx 

https://youtu.be/S_E2EHVxNAE

 
zamboni said:
I've stated this one in other threads: Carly Simon - "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"

Gut punch of a song.
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I was making fun of my own bleakness one night and I kept playing the song on my phone and singing the "He wants to marry me" part of the song to my mother. She was unamused. Maybe hit a little too close to home. 

Such a ####### depressing song. Awful. Anybody making "art" like that really ought to be writing essays rather than evoking emotions. Putrid. 

 
rockaction said:
zamboni said:
I've stated this one in other threads: Carly Simon - "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"

Gut punch of a song.
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I was making fun of my own bleakness one night and I kept playing the song on my phone and singing the "He wants to marry me" part of the song to my mother. She was unamused. Maybe hit a little too close to home. 

Such a ####### depressing song. Awful. Anybody making "art" like that really ought to be writing essays rather than evoking emotions. Putrid.
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I think the fact that it does hit very close to home for some (present company included)  is what makes it so sad and powerful.

 
zamboni said:
I think the fact that it does hit very close to home for some (present company included)  is what makes it so sad and powerful.
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I agree. I just have a bone to pick with maudlin or mawkish art that seeks to capitalize on human frailty. That's all. Just something I thought about in college once while reading Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto. I don't agree with Rand on almost anything, but reading about how art could be inspirational and aspirational stuck with me. 

 
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rockaction said:
I agree. I just have a bone to pick with maudlin or mawkish art that seeks to capitalize on human frailty. That's all. Just something I thought about in college once while reading Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto. I don't agree with Rand on almost anything, but reading about how art could be inspirational stuck with me. 
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It's all Jacob Brackman's fault.

A singer-songwriter named Jacob Brackman wrote the lyrics. He and Simon met when they were counselors at a summer camp in 1967; they wrote several songs together, which appeared on Simon's first three albums. Simon cites Brackman as a major influence in her development as a songwriter, and was amazed at his ability to fit lyrics to a melody without using clichés.

It's hard to believe that a man wrote the lyrics, which are clearly from a woman's point of view, but the song came out of a conversation Simon had with Brackman. He was going through some relationship troubles that were very similar to Simon's: His girlfriend moved in with him and he was worried about giving up some of his identity and personal space as he felt an infringement on his territory.
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https://www.songfacts.com/facts/carly-simon/thats-the-way-ive-always-heard-it-should-be

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
One of my top 5 songs of all time also happens to be sad and gives me the chills every time:

Let Down - Radiohead
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Radiohead has a lot of sad songs, but I think How to Disappear Completely is their most dreary and depressing song (and also their best, IMO).  

 
Ghost Rider said:
Radiohead has a lot of sad songs, but I think How to Disappear Completely is their most dreary and depressing song (and also their best, IMO).  
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Yeah, I couldn't agree more. It probably evokes more emotion in me and hits home more than any other. I could see this being played at a wake. 

 
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Ridgeback said:
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. It probably evokes more emotion in me and hits hime more than any other. I could see this being played at a wake. 
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I don't know about anyone else, but depressing, sad songs are ones I can often find uplifting.  The sheer power of them can be an upper, not a downer. 

 
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song said:
wow.  thanks.  didn't know of her.   am checking back in here to post this from the youtube rabbit hole, including her TED talk.  gonna check out more.
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She's an amazing narrative songwriter. A couple years ago she came out with an album called Rifles & Rosary Beads where she spoke to a bunch of different people associated with the military and then co-wrote songs with them telling their stories

 
A couple more gut-punchers:

  • "The Drinking Song" by Moxy Fruvous. Melancholy song about two drinking buddies, but in the last verse, his friend drinks himself to death, which shocks the narrator into sobriety: "Ambulance flying in/I never drank again/Can't really call that a loss or a win" 
  • "Happy" by Mike Errico. Most of the song is over-the-top declarations about how happy he is "to be here in New York", so you know the kicker is coming: "Well I’m happy/But since you’re asking/I’d be more happy if you lived here in New York."
Typically, the stuff that makes me sad is lyrics/narrative, but sometimes a song just has a mood to it. I'm not entirely sure what Freedy Johnston's "Bad Reputation" is about, but it gives me this vibe of living in NYC, stewing over a breakup, feeling lonely despite living in the most exciting city in the world.

Finally, how has no one mentioned a single Adele song yet? SNL did a whole skit about people breaking down in tears after hearing five seconds of "Someone Like You". Her cover of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" is another tear-jerker, although -- and I say this as someone who was never even remotely a fan of "Glee" -- the version they did after actor Cory Monteith died is pretty damn powerful.

 
ignatiusjreilly said:
Finally, how has no one mentioned a single Adele song yet? SNL did a whole skit about people breaking down in tears after hearing five seconds of "Someone Like You". Her cover of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" is another tear-jerker, although -- and I say this as someone who was never even remotely a fan of "Glee" -- the version they did after actor Cory Monteith died is pretty damn powerful.
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I cannot speak for anyone else, but while Adele has a few songs I can handle, her over the top singing style makes it hard for me to get any emotional reaction from her songs.  In essence, the way she sings most of the time reminds me of a guitar player who feels the need to shred like crazy in every solo, simply because they can.  She obviously was gifted with a great voice from the gods, but her "I am going to show off how awesome my voice is in every line, even when a little more restraint is needed" style of singing just isn't my thing. 

 
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Ghost Rider said:
I cannot speak for anyone else, but while Adele has a few songs I can handle, her over the top singing style makes it hard for me to get any emotional reaction from her songs.  In essence, the way she sings most of the time reminds me of a guitar player who feels the need to shred like crazy in every solo, simply because they can.  She obviously was gifted with a great voice from the gods, but her "I am going to show off how awesome my voice is in every line, even when a little more restraint is needed" style of singing just isn't my thing. 
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She sounds too polished, same applies to Taylor Swift.  

 
FairWarning said:
She sounds too polished, same applies to Taylor Swift.  
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I don't agree in regards to Taylor.  Taylor is the opposite of a naturally gifted singer.  She had to work her butt off to improve as a singer considering how nasally and pitchy she was in her early years, and she still isn't close to an Adele when it comes to technical ability. Taylor definitely has some pop songs that were produced to have her song very polished, but those are the exceptions rather than the norm, IMO. 

 
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