perfect, that's it. i actually thought of the brummels when i was searching to try and find that lyrical snippet which i had wrong! as it was almost a san fran rendition of the merseybeat sound so the beu brummels fits that bill.. so yeah. LAUGH LAUGH it is not "half past"! i dont think i've heard that track in 40 or 50 years ha
Strangely, a song by a band I adore that despite its protestations about loneliness fails to get across the slightest sense of actual loneliness to me. When I was a Sad Bastard late teen I liked to make tapes of this vibe. I think Culture Club's "That's the Way" is a real intense lonely sad vibe.
Soulsavers - The Longest Day & album it's on: The Light The Dead See (w/Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, co-writer, vocals)
Mark Lanegan - Autumn Leaves written by Jacques Prévért, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma & album it's taken from: Imitations
Great record, and good choice! Jack Jones did a vocal version, beginning (as I recall, from one listen, over 50 years ago) "See him standing there all alone." I thought it was ghastly!
Chasin' Wild Horses - Bruce Springsteen The song sounds to me like a lonely man walking alone through the snowy and windy mountains, thinking about his things. In fact, a good chunk of the Western Stars album sounds "lonely" to me.
A great choice! That song ALWAYS leaves me in tears, especially during the ending when he holds that final note while the orchestra finishes! For me, Tony Bennett's take on "The Very Thought Of You" with Bobby Hackett on trumpet, is very lonely and emotional sounding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGvrcUvH2C8
I'm probably alone on my feelings about a lot of Barry Manilow's songs, but I often find loads of sadness buried in them. This old reflective song from the '40's "I Don't Want To Walk Without You" is a perfect example of what I call the "Manilow Effect", where he takes the most simple song and adds his little touches to make it even more lonely. On this song his adding that emotional "da, da, da, da" bit that eventually evolves into "Singin' In The Rain" before the song is over, is just so great. Add in the usual emotional Manilow key changes, the multitrack layers of him and Ron Dante harmonies and it's "lonely city", even though the song appears to be uptempo and happy.
Something seriously lonely going on inside this thought provoking guitar instrumental by Makana called "Deep In An Ancient Hawaiian Forest", that I first heard during a sad scene in a George Clooney movie of all things ...
Ronnie Hawkins - Lonely Hours This is actually a later version of this song, and is IMO more lonely sounding than the original.
That's a good one fer sure and brings to mind the great Roy Orbison and his song of the same title. There are some brilliant loneliness phrases in this one - "whisper secrets to the wind" - oh man, that's lonely!
