a new poll!!!!
i am listening to music at work and a favorite song has me teary-eyed. so the new poll for this week is: what songs make you cry? ok, if you're a guy, what songs make you sad (cuz i am told boys don't cry.)
my list:
- puff the magic dragon (fuck that jackie paper!)
- yellow -coldplay (if a guy played this for me i would get so sappy and bawl like a baby)
- top of the world- dixie chicks (so depressing)
- when you fall in love- bjork (so goofy and wonderful, i cried when i saw the video on MTV out of pure joy)
- any kind of marching band music
- i hope that i don't fall in love with you/ waltzing matilda- tom waits
ok, so i'm a big cry baby. so tell me your favorite sad songs!
Comments
"Duke of Whales", by ((rhythymism)) - No idea why; Something about the whale calls is liberating.
"C'est La Vie", by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Reminds me of someone I once knew.
"Bears", by Zebra - Okay, you saw that one coming. I'm a sap. So sue me.
and i have to agree with mom and old georgy. but, damn, i love that sad bastard song!!!
Fuck you like an animal- I forget.
SInce everyone has a nifty name, I shall have one too.
mr. bear- i love your sappy ways!
sis- we only think "desperado" is depressing since we saw the film "in america" (part of out suicide/ sad bastard film fest last summer.)
groound cat- welcome! those icelandic folks always seem a bit depressed to me....
now who the heck is bananas and water??? btw- the "fuck you like an animal" song is NIN "closer", i think.
A Home by the Dixie Chicks
To Zion and Ex-Factor by Lauryn Hill
Nobody's Baby Now by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
ever since it played at my dad's funeral it makes me just bawl
(The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee)
Now I lay me down to sleep...
I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
And if I die before I wake...feed Jake...
He's been a good dog...
My best friend right through it all...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
If I die before I wake...feed Jake...
a few more sad ones:
"jackie brown" john mellencamp
"love at the five and dime" nanci griffith
"cat's in the cradle" cat stevens
duh.
LOL
"goodbye Michele it's hard to die ... when all the birds are singing in the sky ..."
Bob Seger ... in your time.
okay, I could go on forever.
I'm Still Here by Tom Waits. It was written about Alice Liddell-Hargreaves (Alice In Wonderland); as if she was signing the song. She had to make appearances in her 80's just to survive. So sad.
Ode To... by Rachael Yamagata. I keep going back to this one. It's a 'hidden track' and there's a video of her performing it somewhere on the web. Heartbreaking.
Overture (Dancer In The Dark) by Björk. Oh man, the waterworks are kicking now! (I also agree with Slytherin Chick's selections). But just hearing those strings I start to get all wobbly-like at the knees.
True Love Waits by Thom Yorke.
A Generation X love song that just makes me weep.
OK, I can't go on with this. Where's my Effexor?!
Cat's in the Cradle is Jim Croce, not Cat Stevens.
Get to know your sensitive and hairy seventies songwriters.
we are both SO cliff claven! :o)
But by far, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" - they use it at the end of the old B&W version of the Elephant Man, when John Merick dies. Reduces me to a mound of sniveling poo every single time.