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Songs that gut you in their opening seconds.
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Cause, by Sixto Rodriguez.
The context helps with this more, so don't read on if you don't want 'Searching for Sugarman' ruined:
This was a man whose first album had absolutely bombed, despite critical acclaim. They allowed him to put out a second, containing this song, and it bombed harder. He was about to lose his record deal (he did, 2 weeks before Christmas) and go back to being a manual labourer.
Few songs can truly portray depression as well as this one. That mix of apathy and lethargy, that feeling of emptiness...
Radiohead have a pretty respectable list of heart wrenching songs. This one isn't that, though. Street Spirit isn't about sadness. It's about despair. Existential dread conveyed in music.
Saybia'a "Stranded" starts with "I took a life for granted, until it slipped right through my fingers" and continues on down from there. It's a beautiful and moving song about losing someone.
The entire album is somewhat moving, but I'd challenge anyone who's lost someone to get through "It's okay to love" (from the same album - "These are the Days") without welling up just a little.
The entire album is somewhat moving, but I'd challenge anyone who's lost someone to get through "It's okay to love" (from the same album - "These are the Days") without welling up just a little.
It's like OP's feelings for Big Star's Take Care. This is it, no more Morphine after this, the singer had already died when this song came out. And here's Mark Sandman, asking me to take him when I go. Well, you left me first, Sandman.
It's not the lyrics, and the familiar emptiness after a breakup. It's the fact that I'm going to roll the windows in my car up, and belt this out as loud as I can. This song always reminds me that I'm not as happy as I pretend to be.
This is the best version and that first line just kills me every time.
Damn this is a good pick.
I can handle eight rum and cokes in an hour but if this song is playing, half a drink will do.
Not even heartbroken in the slightest - I'm quite happy, in fact, but something about the lyrics just messes me up oh-so-much!
New favorite track. How he's able to juggle a beautiful melody, stark lyrics, and beautiful turn of phrases just blows my mind.
When we're talking Sam Cooke vs Otis Redding on his song, I think Sam made the better choice in almost every place where the songs diverge, but yeah, Otis definitely has the better voice for the song.
I too am a sucker for the sad ones
https://youtu.be/jGqEFQ5xmjU
There are alot of great versions of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. This is my favorite. Thoroughly ramshackle, it sounds like it could fall apart at any second.
https://youtu.be/SuwfsS5-iM8
Lovely take on Tim Buckley's crushing song. "Did I dream that you dreamed about me?"
Both stop me in my tracks and usually get a few consecutive listens.
https://youtu.be/jGqEFQ5xmjU
There are alot of great versions of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. This is my favorite. Thoroughly ramshackle, it sounds like it could fall apart at any second.
https://youtu.be/SuwfsS5-iM8
Lovely take on Tim Buckley's crushing song. "Did I dream that you dreamed about me?"
Both stop me in my tracks and usually get a few consecutive listens.
It's maybe a trained response by now, but my eyes almost always begins tearing up at those opening strokes or vocals of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings or Agnus Dei.
And even if I don't start tearing up immediately, my eyes are never dry by the end of either piece.
And even if I don't start tearing up immediately, my eyes are never dry by the end of either piece.
Listening to Tony Sly makes me very sad ever since he passed back in 2012.
His final album, Sad Bear, was already very heartbreaking, but his passing shortly after makes it 10x harder to listen to. This one always gets me right away:
His final album, Sad Bear, was already very heartbreaking, but his passing shortly after makes it 10x harder to listen to. This one always gets me right away:
Brand New - Limousine
Absolutely gutwrenching, especially if you know the story that inspired the lyrics (Basically it's about a child that was killed by a drunk driver ar a family wedding)
"We'll never have to buy adjacent plots of earth
We'll never have to rot together underneath dirt
I'll never have to lose my baby in the crowd
I should be laughing right now..."
Here's another Big Star track, Holocaust
I originally heard a version of it as a cover in the This Mortal Coil compilation album "It'll End in Tears". The arrangement right from the get is so mournful.
I originally heard a version of it as a cover in the This Mortal Coil compilation album "It'll End in Tears". The arrangement right from the get is so mournful.
