Sad Songs

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Sad Songs.

There are certain songs out there that, when you listen to them, trigger certain emotions/memories from your past. This usually revolves around previous relationships that either didn’t materialise, or if they did never ultimately worked out the way you would have liked.

Today, for example, I was listening to some old songs while rebuilding a HP ProLiant DL160 Gen 9 (as you do!) Next on the playlist was a song called “Can’t Stay Away From You” by Gloria Estefan, which came out way back 1987.

It’s quite an emotive song, and at the time I used to play it to death purely because I was dating a girl whom I really liked but never had the balls to get past 1st base. I left it and left it to the point where she left the company we were working for and I never saw again!

To this day I regret not being a bit more assertive. But listening to that song really hit home, and it made me think of what might have been!

There’s another song, by a folk group called Bon Iver. The song is called “Holocene”. And that too sets off similar emotions of yet another girl I never really got past 1st or 2nd base with.

I blame myself of course, for being a gutless wimp back then. But it always intrigues me how certain songs can trigger such reflective memories/emotions.

How about you? Any sad songs you care to mention?

Nominated by: Technocunt

142 thoughts on “Sad Songs”

  1. This cunting proves that there’s a snowflake in all of us IsAC’s.
    It’s just quicker to melt.

  2. Being a complete and utter emotional retard and borderline sociopath, not really sad songs.

    Mahler’s 5th?
    Agadoo?

    Perhaps certain pieces of orchestral music.
    I dont know. I dont share my feelings with anyone, if Ieven have them LOL.

    • Maybe Joan Baez’s Rejoice in the Sun at the end of Silent Running with the last shot zooming out from the robot with the watering can.

      That’s me though. I’ll shed a tear over a robot watering plants but not ex-girlfriends or my grandad.

      • Watched that when I was seven years old, never forget bawling my eyes out at the end with my twin and older brother. Still gets me today…

  3. Anything from the eXcrement factor makes me cry when I think of how Simon Cowell has fucked up the British music industry. He’s a cunt of gargantuan proportions. If there was a Crufts for cunts then he’d win best in show every time.

    • Every time ive seen The X fuckter i just remember the overuse of Orff’s Carmina Burana for the supoosed foreboding import of the results..

  4. Snow patrol, Coldplay, that cunt wot dun a cover of “Mad world”.
    Bedwetters all.
    Be assertive to wimminz because they don’t want a simpering Nancy boy and if they did, you wouldn’t want to be with them.
    Slap ’em abaaaaaht a bit.

    • Gary Jules did the cover of Mad World. Originally by Tears For Fears of course.

      • In my experience, people who prefer the dreary flat-cap wearing Jules version usually havent even heard the Tears version.

        Millennial cunts.

      • I saw an in depth interview with grinning basketball head Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. They said Jules’ vocal performance and arrangement was closer in essence to what Mad World was about.

        I think the TFF original is wonderful and sad. The Jules version is crushingly sad. If I had to choose, I’d still go with the original because of the electronics. I love a bit of moody synth me.

      • It was Christmas No.1 here ofc too. I bet that was fun for all the depressed on that joyous day.

  5. Motorhead have done a ballad or two.
    ‘One more fucking time’ for example.
    ‘Die you bastard’ wasn’t quite the same mould.

  6. Dire Straits – Tunnel of Love, and I’m not even a fucking Geordie.

  9. Motorhead, ace of spades, sooo romantic, just thinking about it gives me the horn, I am imagining nicola sturgeon and priti Patel going hammer and tongs in a red painted room while a strobe is flashing at high speed..hmmmm..just thinking about it..gets me firm…

    • “Too drunk to fuck” by the Dead Kennedys!
      Nah, sweet sixteen by the Furies and Davey Arthur – played that one at my Mothers funeral, I am glad it’s not a regular radio choice – gets me all upset it does.

    • Air that I breathe-Hollies
      So lonesome I could cry-Hank Williams
      Wild world- Cat Stevens
      All lump in the throat tunes for me.

  11. If we’re going to get all emotional then these song’s do it for me.

    Guitar man. Bread
    Little bit more . Dr Hook
    Expecting to fly. Neil Young.
    Blue Guitar . Blue Jays

    • My mum used to play this to death when I was a kid. I prefer The Sound of Silence. What a combo those guys made.

  14. As a massive Depeche Mode fan I’ve been listening to sad, or is that depressing songs for nigh on forty years.😃

    • Come off it WCC. Depeche started off all bubble gum pop crap. New Life, Just Can’t get Enough, See You…..not much depressing there.

      Don’t get me wrong, I love a lot of Depeche stuff. I couldn’t take them seriously though until Violator. Songs of Faith and Devotion had some decent highlights, but for me their pièce de résistance is Ultra. Moody, dark, cutting and edgy. It’s in my all time top 10 albums and IMO, they’ve not come close to bettering it.

      What say you?

      • I prefer the later stuff. Speak and Spell is synth pop. Just cant get enough has been covered to death.

        I think my favourite DM song is Walking in My Shoes.

        I’m wuite a fan so there’s a lot of others i could name.

      • Walking In My Shoes is quite superb. The production on that is spectacular IMO.

        Darker Mode is a wonder to behold.

      • Yeah, fair enough IM. Only really got darker when Martin Gore took the writing reins. Still nigh on 40 years though. 😜

      • I know. I find it incredible Dave Gahan is still alive. Great front man, terrific voice but bugger me what he’s put his body through. I can’t see him making old bones.

  16. Death of Optimus Prime, by Vince Dicola. It always gets me teary eyed. Can of can’t.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=22iFwCc_egM

    The whole film was full of death killing off characters.
    It felt sad and poignant but it turns out they killed all the old characters to make way for new characters also known as get rid of old toys to make way for new toys. Sell sell sell.
    There was so many complaints from parents of upset children, they brought Optimus Prime back.

    Also ‘Unbreak my heart’ by Toni Braxton upsets me too.

    • Optimus was my more celebrated, outgoing older brother.

      Glad i’m not the only one who cries over robots.

      • Cuntamus, if only Hot Rod hadn’t gotten in the way. I know he was trying to help. But still.

        Mind you, retrospect is easy after the fact.

      • Evening Bertie. I am Splendiferous! 🙂
        Much better than I had been. Thanks for asking. 🙂

        How be you? I hope all is well in the Bertie household.

  17. Music is my thing. Love it. Couldn’t be without it. Closing in on 2,500 albums and buy something most weeks. Many genres are represented, but the overwhelming majority of my collection is dark, haunting and moody, often with an unsettling air of menace. I find music like that so much more interesting, complex and emotive.

    Unsurprisingly, I don’t like pop music. Or happy, upbeat music. Or positive love songs.

    As it happens I recently put together a mix CD for a mate who wanted to know what I was on about. Here are the tracks. Some desperately sad and gripping tunes in this list. You have been warned:

    Amnesia by Dead Can Dance
    In Dulce Decorum by The Damned
    Statues by OMD
    Burning Bridges by Japan
    My New Career by Japan
    Every Colour You Are by Rain Tree Crow
    Codex by Radiohead
    Not The Love We Dream Of by Gary Numan
    Nutshell by Alice In Chains
    Indian Strings by Suede
    The Vow by Toyah
    Give It Your Choir by Mark Pritchard
    Sometime Lately by The Darts
    Space and Time by The Verve
    Safe and Sound by Sheryl Crow
    Serenity by Godsmack

    You’re welcome. Cheers – IY.

  20. I doubt if any Scotsman can listen to Jean Redpath singing The Wild Geese or the Corries’ live version of The Wild Mountain Thyme withoot greeting intae his wee dram.

  22. Who coukd forget the default sad song of the noughties?
    Played every 5 seconds on various music channels.
    I always found it affectly melancholy, a bit of a self-parody, much to the horror of the ‘deep and interesting’ fans of Thommy Yorke I knew.

    https://youtu.be/u5CVsCnxyXg

    • Apparently it was released in 1997. Ah well, i honestly thought it was later. Probably because it was played on music channels all the time.

      I guess I wasnt cool enough to have known about it in the late nineties.

  23. Bright Eyes still gets me. Beautiful lyrics written by the same cunt who wrote: “remember you’re a womble, remember you’re a womble”.

      • OMG! Well bugger me backwards with an egg whisk and call me Shirley – you’re absolutely right. Mike Batt penned those words. Who would have thunk it? Cheers – IY.

  24. At my funeral I want the full version of the end by the doors and everyone has to drop an acid tab

  25. Am I cunt for mentioning Cat Stevens Father and Son ?
    Lump in throat every time.

  26. What about “Ebony and Ivory”? Surely a heartfelt ode to these troubled times that we live in? #Black piano keys matter!

  27. Another song that certainly gets the emotions going is one from 80s glam-rock band, Heart and their “There’s the Girl”

  29. There is actually one gem from Fat Reg when he was half decent in the 70s.

    Levon is a top tune that brings back memories.

    • That whole Madman album is pretty good to be fair to the rug wearing shirt lifter.

    • I do, Norm. Epic is right. Picked up John Miles’ best of years ago just for this track. I was very young when this was on the radio. It stuck which is the sign of a great tune.

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