Beautifully Sad

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Originally Posted by iceman

I think Joan's great, personally.

Always found this song pretty but sad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2H1-w7otkI

Eleanor Rigby fits the bill too.

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If I'm going Beatles, it's this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuvMcoZVYUM

another one that perfectly fits the thread title for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFudDAYqxY

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Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual

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Christ. DCD takes me waaay back.

So much for my YouTube posting... will figger out soon no doubt.

Anyway, New Pornographers "Challengers". Beautifully sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHWWWa8EvzI

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Originally Posted by HappyCamper

So much for my YouTube posting... will figger out soon no doubt.

Anyway, New Pornographers "Challengers". Beautifully sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHWWWa8EvzI

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drop the "s" off of "https" and use [ video ] [ / video ] (no spaces)

http://youtu.be/ZmWBrN7QV6Y

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Originally Posted by KQ

Well now.. maybe not sad to you but perhaps the song speaks to something in the posters life/past that evokes a feeling of sadness/loss/regret for a person/place/time. It all comes down to "where you stand depends on where you sit".

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Don't get me wrong, there's great music here. Something about sad country songs is uplifting to me. I guess it's because that's pretty much all my family listened to when I was growing up.

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Originally Posted by AaronWright

Don't get me wrong, there's great music here. Something about sad country songs is uplifting to me. I guess it's because that's pretty much all my family listened to when I was growing up.

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Well in that case...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y

George is a little hammered but that probably helps it.

You gotta watch it to the end for Ronnie's orange leisure suit.

nearly forgot about this one:



whew...this one really gets me. Little too real.

Saw this thing on teh facebookz yesterday and it really bothered me

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...2&d=1455645006


so I had to fix it to alleviate my sadness.

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...3&d=1455645024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A

Or Emmylou's version, but that's too easy.

Ian and Sylvia's original version of 4 Strong Winds

"The Same Deep Water as You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35cxutR7gc&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uszjwNoGoBI
This is a sad beautiful song. Saw it live last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew

Chokes me up every time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhOkpJVjBkA

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Originally Posted by 4matic

"The Same Deep Water as You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35cxutR7gc&feature=youtu.be

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I was thinking the same with the Cure

Here are two other tracks that I love feeling sad to as I dutifully rub greasy mascara along my diminished lashes and smear scarlet lipstick across my gaping maw in the dim flickering peal of a bare besotted bulb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Yj8Ujasaw&feature=youtu.be


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkM3M3zGcGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9cN3VWokuM

There are sad songs, and there are songs that punch you in the gut

One more for today.. a few versions have been posted already but this one from townes himself

Waitin around to die