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Sad, but Beautifully Written Songs

#43
Alone Again Naturally - Gilbert O' Sullivan
Diary - Bread
She's Leaving Home- Beatles
Country music is chock full of them
Tomorrow is Forever - Dolly Parton
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty
These are just off the top of my head...
Green Grass of Home - Various artists
 
#44
Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain, Willie's version. It was always Ma's favorite. Decades ago she always requested we play it, whether in the basement at practice or playing out. In the later years, after getting back into music, I recorded our jams and always included Blue Eyes just for her. In a few days it will be two years since she went to that "Great Gig In The Sky." I sang a verse to her at bedside after she passed. It's hard to get through singing it now, but when I do, I know she has a front row seat.

:(

X8
 
#45
Definitely Red Sector A...for me, it painted a picture of a group of P.O.W.s in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with a skyline of red plateau silhouetted against an orange sky. It makes me realize how much living in [pre-apocalyptic] California doesn't suck.
Then I listened to the lyrics, and, yeah, it sounds a lot like the Holocaust. Sad song.
Another one for me would be, obviously, "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. YOU'RE MY BOY, BLUE!!
EDIT: Gotta add "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" by Alan Jackson
 
#47
trayner1 said:
I would classify that as a beautiful happy song...showing God's powerful love.
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Oh, I agree that it's beautiful and encouraging, but there's certainly something bittersweet about hearing McMillan explain the song and the process of writing it. I love the way he describes his bitterness and anger when it came to communicating with God after his friend's death.

Sorry if I was off-base or if I have misinterpreted the OP's topic. At any rate, this is one that really gets me!
 
#49
most alice in chains. the pained murmuring and screeching of an addict is sometimes painful to listen to, despite how soothing it all is. jerry held that ship together quite well.

i listen to a lot of sappy music. i cant stand songs in major keys. it doesnt feel real to me.
 
#51
tdub0199 said:
Only the Strong By FLAW... especially the acoustic version
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dozicusmaximus said:
That whole album is pretty depressing, if I remember right.
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I'm so glad to see more people that have listened to FLAW. I feel like they were way under-appreciated. Through the Eyes and Endangered Species are both albums that I can listen straight through without ever wanting to skip a track.

I can't really think of many songs right now but here are a few that really stand out:

Brand New - Jesus Christ
Band of Horses - I Go To The Barn Because I Like The
Deftones - Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
Radiohead - Exit Music
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
 
#52
a point for the religious people offended by the use of "christ" in The Pass: Neil Peart doesn't believe in religion (not sure if he's an athiest or agnostic), so I believe the "christ" as an "expletive" wasn't a conscious decision on his part as far as wanting to be "disturbing". to him, it's just another word, and he probably threw it in there because most people would say something along that manner when discovering something like suicide.
 
#54
I<34080 said:
If "Christ what have you done" upsets you, I don't understand how you can like Faithless, Free Will, Roll the Bones, Brought Up to Believe...
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I don't really like any of them but Freewill, and even that one doesn't have my favorite message. However, if you are going to represent Christ well, you have to understand what people who don't know Him see in a world full of Sunday-only's and extremists. If a Christian is to be anything but a "madman", they must understand more than their sphere of religious activity, and they must learn to analyze, listen to, and logically and intellectually debate other viewpoints that are not their own, and appreciate other people's ideas, even if they don't apply to their own life, and never could. The more you sharpen your mind, the more you grow in your faith, as I see it.
 
#55
hachi kid said:
a point for the religious people offended by the use of "christ" in The Pass: Neil Peart doesn't believe in religion (not sure if he's an athiest or agnostic), so I believe the "christ" as an "expletive" wasn't a conscious decision on his part as far as wanting to be "disturbing". to him, it's just another word, and he probably threw it in there because most people would say something along that manner when discovering something like suicide.
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I agree. Wholeheartedly. It doesn't make me think he's attacking Christians. To him, Christ would be a strong, high level swear word. I still wish it was a different word, but I understand why he'd put it in there. It's just like when Mal kills herself in "Inception", Leo DiCaprio's character exclaims that. I think that even pious preachers might say something extreme in such circumstances.
 
#59
'Going Over Yonder'--Tremaine Hawkins
Maybe the best Melody ever.

'Little Wing'--Jimi's Version

'Vodoo Chile'--SRV's Version...just it..IT

'Soul to Squeeze'---Red Hot Chili Peppers..Why it didn't make it on the BloodSugarSexMagic album I'll never know.

'Leaving'--Indigenous--Great.
 

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