Ace Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 What's the code to embed a Youtube video again? Click the share tab on youtube and use that link. The board will do the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaacduke Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Clarence Carter is known for two things: giving white guys a soul song to dance seductively to with "Strokin'", and dropping some real talk on growing up poor in the South here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Isaac: it's the word "media" [in brackets]. You know what really fucking sickens me? The sheer number of videos on Youtube which force you to watch an advertisement first. Okay, I know the 'Tube has gotta pay its bandwidth costs somehow. But the ads are typically shown on much-watched videos and the money is typically split with whoever posted the video, right? That means countless people are making cash from copywritten material that they had precisely jack and shit to do with making in the first place. Meanwhile, the actual creators and artists don't get a dime. How's this any different than selling bootlegs on the sidewalk and pocketing the dough? BECAUSE OF EDDY, DAMMIT!!! It ain't too often that one can truthfully say "gee, this cover of a Trent Reznor song is so much SADDER than the original", is it? Just when you'd written off gloriously celebrated the Dropkick Murphys as a punk band, they come back and kill you. I cry every time. fixed that for ya. But seriously, most artists who are good enough to be successful in any field are usually hiding a whole bunch of other talents which media typecasting & public pigeonholing refuse to let them do. Like how everyone giggled at the idea of Bruce Willis or Michael Keaton as action heroes until they actually did it and then transformed the genre forever. You can probably use most versions of this song here. I may be on my usual island-of-one here, but I think "Hallelujah" would tremendously benefit from just straight chopping out all the lyrics except the chorus. All that nonsense about listing which chords "pleased the Lord" is just hilariously awful. And if I was gonna pick my go-to Sad Cohen Song, personally I'd go with this one: And the fact that it's eventually revealed that the entire song is basically just some impotent dude whining about some woman's alleged promiscuity, makes it even sadder. "Waaaah, everyone says she's fucking everyone but me!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 LET THE WARREN ZEVON ONSLAUGHT OF SHEER DEPRESSION BEGIN NOW! You mean like when he wrote a goodbye song to his family while dying of cancer? Waren Zevon could make you laugh/think/cry at the drop of a hat. Truly one of the great American song writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 My favorite sad Tom Waits song: I always figured it was a letter written to his mother about how he's completely fucked up his life. good pick...but hey speaking of trains... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 And I'll throw the saddest metal song ever into the mix, too, since we got some metal fans here and Fowler did his duty on that front. Soaring yet depressing. The lyrics... This is a fucking awesome band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 i never would think of William Shatner as somebody to mention in a music thread. but this song, especially when paired with "What Have You Done", the next song on the album, is just emotionally wrecking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Jesus, three pages in and no one posts Fast Car by Tracy Chapman? This song, to me, is absolutely soul crushing. It's the "Will's father walking out on him" of songs. I was at the mall one day looking for a Father's Day present for my Dad and this song came on in the Bose store and I had to leave and go to a different store, I couldn't shop and listen to this song just absolutely couldn't. http://youtu.be/TO9Qa7MpAvw God damn you Tracy Chapman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacelle Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 This song just sounds so heartbreaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Less personal sadness that will make you cry, and more just soul-crushing depression put into song form. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Wesley Willis is remembered mostly as a comedy figure, because he was often hilarious. But hearing "Chronic Schizophrenia" is probably the closest i'll ever get to understanding the condition. I remember just sitting there for about five minutes the first time I heard it, agog at how unsettling and depressing it was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Crackers Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Daniel Johnston singing about being exploited is heavy shit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Seriously, Stevie Wonder paints the story in this song so fucking vividly James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 This cover by Rebekah Del Rio from MULLHOLLAND DRIVE always gets me. The combination of being a capella, and the reverb making it sound like she's in this huge empty space makes it the loneliest song ever. Like, Roy Orbison in his version is singing about being abandoned and obsessing over someone and it's pretty normal. He's depressed but he's still in the world...like, literally he's surrounded by the sounds of other people in the band and so we recognize him as a sad guy in the world. But this is different. If you forget the visuals (and I'm not putting up the version from the movie for this reason)...listen without watching the video, this is like someone trapped in the empty space of their own mind. It takes this already pretty good heartbreak song and turns it into something totally solipsistic and catastrophic. This is someone singing to themselves in a space inhabited by no one but themselves. No light. No warmth. No other life. It's like mythic or something, like the song you'd imagine some mythological figure locked in a cell at the edge of the universe would sing. And so it becomes a really powerful and kind of terrifying metaphor for just how lonely you can be when you feel you've drifted so far away from the world that you can't even see the light of it or hear the sounds of it anymore. Just blackness and your own voice, stirring from slumber every so often to sing this one lament and then falling back into sleep and this goes on forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMD87e5be5I If you want to see it as it was in the movie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Harry Chapin's greatest song. And it'll fuckin' wreck ya. "The waitress, she took her bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes And as she spoke, her voice came out as...something like a sigh. She said "I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind. And I wish I weren't so god damned fat..I wish that you were mine. And I wish that you'd come with me when I leave for home, for we both know all about emptiness, and livin' all alone." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacelle Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Alabama perform a song about running into your ex and it reminds me of every relationship I've ever had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HypEBILGvHA "Stella Blue" The Grateful Dead's saddest and most beautiful song. This version is from RFK 1991, I was there and it was amazing. Jerry's voice is so full of experience and life, mournful and wailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Here's another Queen song that gets me, for different reasons. Simply because it's the last one Freddie sang, and he never got to finish it. Then there's this one, written about him dying of AIDS, and the last track on the last album he worked on. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Aight I gotta throw this out here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Definitely the first to come to mind for me, think the first time I heard it was an Eddie Guerrero tribute video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Needs to be here somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrasslinfan2009 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 {Media} I give you the saddest country song ever. mostly due to the fact my Grandfather was trucker and I have had health problems most of life so I could certainly relate to this song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaacduke Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 A song that is all about one woman BEGGING another to leave her man alone, because she knows he would leave her for the other woman in a heartbeat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Depressing enough that the BBC banned it for over 60 years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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