Favorite Sad Songs:

Nightswimming, REM
Hallelujah, John Cale
Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now
Frank Sinatra, Very Good Year
Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart
Paul Young, Wherever I Hang My Hat
George Michael, One More Try
U2, Running To Standstill
The Beach Boys, God Only Knows
The Replacements, Here Comes A Regular

Those are just a few that leap immediately to mind.

john micek.






On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Farrar Hudkins wrote:

> 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
> ©1979-2007