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| From | Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorite Sad Songs |
| Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:13:13 -0600 |
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I'll admit I'm pretty strange, but what inspires melancholy tends to
differ from person to person anyhow. Here off the top of my head are
some that make my eyes water up:
Grateful Dead - ‘Broke Down Palace’
Grateful Dead - ‘Black Muddy River’
Joni Mitchell - ‘Both Sides Now’
Judy Collins - ‘Houses’
Johnny Hartman/John Coltrane - ‘They Say It's Wonderful’
Mel Tormé - ‘Don't Worry 'Bout Me’
Udo Lindenberg - ‘Bis Ans Ende Der Welt’
Alison Krauss & Union Station - ‘Never Got Off the Ground’
The Spongetones - ‘Love Song To Mrs Parker’
Stevie Wonder - ‘All In Love Is Fair’
Roger Waters - ‘The Tide Is Turning’
Paul Simon - ‘The Obvious Child’
Sting - ‘Fragile’
Karla Bonoff - ‘Lose Again’
Harry Belafonte - ‘These Are The Times’
Jackson Browne - ‘Late For The Sky’ (and a whole bunch more by him,
actually)
...and many more I can't remember right now.
And I am the only one I know who gets teary-eyed when I hear Louis
Armstrong's ‘What a Wonderful World’ or Jim Henson's ‘Rainbow
Connection.’ They are more melancholy to me now that those guys are
dead; same with Ella Fitzgerald singing ‘Here's That Rainy Day.’ Not
many people I know think of those tunes as being sad, but it happens.
*shrug* (Also the last movement of any Mahler symphony... but those were
never popular. LOL)
And of course I'm not sure how big hits ANY of these were as I don't
listen to the radio very much... :P
Cheers,
Farrar Hudkins
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