Love in Vain is my warm up song when I play. One of my all time favs. Just played it a few minutes ago.
Alone again (Naturally) was mentioned. Gosh, does it get any worse than that? That would be on a compilation album called "Songs To Suicide By" for sure.
I offer one more submission. A song called "Honey", back in like 1969 or something. Brain freeze on the artist right now, but I do have the CD. It came with a razor. :?
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
Honey was sung by Bobby Goldsboro. Real tear jerker.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
which also has been called the schmaltziest song of all time. one man's treasure is another man's ...
-=tension & release=-
"The Living Years" by Mike & the Mechanics has always gotten to me, and now that I have a son I find it especially moving.
Also Bruce's live acoustic version of My City of Ruins for the 9/11 benefit absolutely kills me.
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
Honey was sung by Bobby Goldsboro. Real tear jerker.
Beat me to it... Boby Goldsboro.
It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question.
Cat's In The Cradle and Taxi, Harry Chapin, are pretty much downers: lives tossed away, and what could have been.
It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question.
Love in vain... those words make me remember something...
Robert Johnson song from 70 years ago.
Basically it states that the men (and perhaps the women) have the same universal problems the latest 70 years... at least! :D
I think I already post a link to this song in a similar thread: Mariza, O gente da minha terra. It is fado.
A recent one from the Americana genre is "Crroked Road" by Chris Knight. It's about a man and his wife who decide to leave West Virginia after losing thier son in a coal mining accident. And the way Cris performs it really brings out the emotions of it all. pay it a listen if you can.
Regards,
Mike
"Growing Older But Not UP!"
Love in vain... those words make me remember something...
Robert Johnson song from 70 years ago.
Basically it states that the men (and perhaps the women) have the same universal problems the latest 70 years... at least! :D
As long as there have been men and women... at least!
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
It's the rock that gives the stream its music . . . and the stream that gives the rock its roll.
It Won't Be Like This - Darius Rucker (Hootie frontman in his country debut)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZtpUfiRqg
Audio is kind of low.
In Space, no one can hear me sing!
I love my dad, but he's old, we're too alike, and we don't have a close relationship at all. The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics is probably the worst for getting me upset.
I wasnt there that morning
When my father passed away
I didnt get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
Im sure I heard his echo
In my babys new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years :(
A lot of Don McLean's American pie is heartbreaking, especially;
Vincent,
The Grave,
Till tommorow
Eels have a lot of sad ones too Dead of winter being the main one
together we stand, divided we fall..........
Heartaches by the number. And I prefer Kitty Wells version.
The First Cut is the Deepest by Shreyl Crow is also heart ripper.
Surely there must be many more in my library. Will list more when heart is kinda ripped. 8)
I dont know any songs that rip my heart out, but certain songs, like Cats in the Cradle and Wish You Were Here, really take me to a place and time that can be sad, but not to the point where I can say that its tearing me apart
"The Beauty of Music is my Sanity. Without it, I would simply lose my gravity, and blow away with the breeze." - Ness K(Aka Matt Harris)
