Songs that Make You Sad: Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken

Lost in Love by Air Supply. Gets me every time!

 

Very nice Motown quote...

 

Was there ever an explanation on why he never wanted girls in the band?

 

I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt is heartbreaking. Definitely been there, not a place I want to go back to anytime soon.

 

'Strange Fruit ' is arguably the ' saddest ' song of all.
Written that way and meant to scar your soul.
There is a very informative and telling section of the Ken Burns Jazz documentary about this song , its history and its place in modern culture. Well worth watching.

 

Springsteen has a slew of 'em. This is my favorite by a good measure, though "The River" really packs a punch ("Is a dream a lie if it don't come true / Or is is something worse?"). Wish he'd released this version, it's just devastating.

 

Is an explanation really necessary?

 

Pineola, Lucinda Williams
Over Yonder, Steve Earle
Wooden Ships, Jefferson Airplane

 

To know why he never wanted one? Yes, I don't know this why I'm asking.

 

These Days by Jackson Browne, as performed by Gregg Allman.

 

Oh ! Sorry , I thought you were joking.
Let's just say group dynamics would have been a factor.

 

I'd never heard that . Thanks for the post, phoenix woman.

 

Everything.
Even Mama weer all crazee now. Or Louie Louie.

 

Love this song..

 

Used Cars, from Springsteen's Nebraska, gets across really well the humiliations attendant on poverty, plus a dose of helpless, guilty embarrassment as regards the family. That this is happening to a child is unsupportably sad. Mansion On The Hill covers similar territory, featuring slightly less harsh lyrics but a more melancholic tune.
So these are the two tracks I think of first when the sad song question comes up.

 

Actually, I just heard one live last night (!). Queen's ''39" has always been melancholy to me, in part because you'd think it was a happy pub singalong if you didn't listen to the lyrics. It reminds me of the scene in "Contact" where Jodie Foster realizes that she has likely left the Earth and its interpretation of time and space behind forever. No turning back now.

 

Rem everybody hurts...
rascal flatts why

 

It usually takes a lot for me to cry. I nearly cried just posting the link below.

 

Also, Paradise.

 

Dylan "Most of the Time "

 

Used to great effect in High Fidelity.

 

Yep, sure was

 

From one of my favorite albums nobody knows about: the debut of Robert Kraft, the guy who eventually exec-produced The Little Mermaid soundtrack and hundreds of others, became a major player in Hollywood...and it all started doing "cafe jazz" in NYC, with The Ivory Coast. It's just plain tasteful, weepy violin and all. "Bon Voyage":

 

Gillian Welch
I Dream a Highway