Your favorite sad and angry songs

[High Lord Tolkien]

What are they?
I have become an ITunes junkie.

But after trying to make a few playlists based on songs that make you sad and songs that make you angry I came up with only a couple.

I know some songs are only sad based on how you were feeling when you first heard them or associated like that somehow.
Care to list some of your "sad" songs?

I'll list mine later.
I'm at work now and don't have access to the names.

Now, "angry" songs is a little different.
What do I mean by angry?
Songs that get your blood pumping but not in a happy way.
Like Metalica's "Whiskey in a Jar"
Know what I mean? it's not uplifting or anything but I could drive 120MPH listening to that song.

Again, I know it's all subjective but I'll download anything someone posts here and check it out.

Thanks!

[Cameraman Jenn]

For sad it's "The River" by Bruce Springsteen. Makes me well up in tears everytime. I'm editing to be more specific. From the haunting harmonica melodies to the subdued singing that peaks at the bold parts and sounds as though you can hear the pain in his voice to the evoking lyrics of lost love and broken dreams, every single part of that song is sad.


I come from down in the valley
where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
when she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
they haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
that sends me down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
my baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride

The bold represents where I start sniffling, the italics mark where the actual sob moment comes. Seriously. I think this is the saddest song ever written.

[Cail]

And I wonder, day to day.
I don't like you any way.
I don't need your shit today.
You're pathetic in your own way.

I feel for you.
Better fucking go away.
I will be
Hey!
Better fucking go away.

I'm doin the best I ever did,
I'm doin the best that I can.
I'm doin the best I ever did!

I don't need to fantasize,
You are my pet all the time.
I don't mind if you go blind,
You get what you get, until you're through with mine!

I feel for you.
Better fucking go away.
I will be
Hey!
You better go away.

I feel for you.
Better fucking go away.
I will be
Hey!
You better go away.

I'm doin the best I ever did,
I'm doin the best that I can.
I'm doin the best I ever did!
Now go away!

I'm doin the best I ever did,
I'm doin the best that I can.
I'm doin the best I ever did!
Now go away!

[Cameraman Jenn]

My favorite anger song is Rammstein's "Buch Dich."

My favorite in your face song is Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice"

[danlo]

All those damm Godsmack songs sound the same, don't they?!

[Menolly]

I rarely, hardly ever, allow myself to reach the state where I want to hear this. I have other things I try first so that I don't get to this place. I listen to this maybe once every three years or so...

Speak of the destruction. (x3)

This is a world destruction, your life ain't nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Countries are fighting with chemical warfare.
Not giving a damn about the people who live there.
Nostradamus predicts the coming of the Antichrist.
Hey, look out, the third world nations are on the rise.
The Democratic-Communist Relationship,
won't stand in the way of the Islamic force.
The CIA is looking for you.
The KGB is smarter than you think.
Brainwash mentalities to control the system.
Using TV and movies - religions of course.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
Is it a nuclear war?
What are you asking for?

This is a world destruction. Your life ain't nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
The rich get richer.
The poor are getting poorer.
Fascist, chauvinistic government fools.
People, Moslems, Christians and Hindus.
Are in a time zone still searching for the truth.
Who are you to think you're a superior race?
Facing forth your everlasting doom.
We are Time Zone. We've come to drop a bomb on you.
World destruction, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom!

This is the world destruction, your life ain't nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Nationalities are fighting with each other.
Why is this? Because the system tells you.
Putting people in faceless categories.
Knowledge isn't what it used to be.
Military tactics to control a nation.
Who wants to be a president or king? Me!
Mother Nature is gonna work against you.
Nothing in your power that you can do.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
You and I know it, cause the Bible tells you.
If we don't start to look for a better life,
the whole world will be destroyed in a time zone!

Speak of the destruction. (x3)

Sad? Debussy...

[The Laughing Man]

sad:

• The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
  Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
  The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
  When the skies of November turn gloomy.
  
  With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
  Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
  That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
  When the gales of November came early
  
  The ship was the pride of the American side
  Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
  As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
  With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.
  
  Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
  When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
  And later that night when the ships bell rang
  Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.
  
  The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
  And a wave broke over the railing
  And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
  T'was the witch of November come stealing.
  
  The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
  When the gales of November came slashing
  When afternoon came it was freezing rain
  In the face of a hurricane West Wind
  
  When supper time came the old cook came on deck
  Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
  At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
  He said fellas it's been good to know ya.
  
  The Captain wired in he had water coming in
  And the good ship and crew was in peril
  And later that night when his lights went out of sight
  Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
  
  • 
  
  
  Does anyone know where the love of God goes
  When the waves turn the minutes to hours
  The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
  If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
  
  They might have split up or they might have capsized
  They may have broke deep and took water
  And all that remains is the faces and the names
  Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
  
  Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
  In the ruins of her ice water mansion
  Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
  The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
  
  And farther below Lake Ontario
  Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
  And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
  With the gales of November remembered.
  
  In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
  In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
  The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
  For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
  
  The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
  Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
  Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
  When the gales of November come early.

I don't know why this song makes me weep....and I don't care....

mad:

• • • • • Godless
      I'm checking into leaving, yeah I'm folding
      I'm tired of breaking down and shaking this life around
      I'm tired of praying, yeah I'm tired of trying myself
      I'm tired of being taken all the way
      
      I don't need to be godless - but I am
      I don't need my head - keepin all my problems
      I don't need your hand of god
      I don't need to say I'm godless
      With nowhere to fall, I'm all ready to fall
      
      Day by day I'm like a playful puppet
      And I stumble around
      I'm aching on my brain and I'm in
      Big trouble, big trouble
      I still got to breathe, oh yeah
      Like my shame this will all go down
      God damned me that's for sure
      and I believe, I believe I don't belong here
      
      I don't need - to get my head kicked in
      And I don't need to be another lost
      Soul that can't find home
      I don't need to get my face
      dragged down in the muddy water
      I don't need, to say I'm godless anymore
      
      Still I'm gone
      Still I'm on the run
      Still I'm on the brink of the edge
      Still I'm, still I'm feeling dead
      
      I don't need to be godless, but I am
      I don't need to be another lost soul who can't find home
      I don't need your hand of god
      I don't need to say I'm godless anymore.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Ummmmm....guys?....girls?

The name of the songs would be a big help!

(Jenn's not included, she's perfect as always!)

Sad songs:

"Volcano" Damian Rice
"Run" Snow Patrol
"Everlong" Foo Fighters **the acoustic version only!**
"Forever Autumn" Justin Hayward from the War of the World soundtrack (not the new one) also the 5 minute long one. There's another 7 minute one with a voiceover from the movie that sucks.



I have more but it's time for bed!

[danlo]

Everlong and Hayward-right with you man! (tho I have a hard time deciding whether Forever Autumn or Thunder Child is my fav...) as far as 'sad' is concerned, Forever Autumn (heartbreaking) hands down. Good calls!

[Menolly]

Ooops...

The one I posted is called World Destruction by Zone Time/John Lydon.

[sgt.null]

sad songs

the Bleeding Heart Show : the New Pornographers
If I Could : Phis w/ Alison Krauss
Harrisburg : Josh Ritter
Wings : Josh Ritter
Juanita : Flor De Mal
September When It Comes : Roseanne Cash w/ Johnny Cash
Wendell Gee : REM
Flock of Words : Trey Anastasio
When You Come Back Down : Nicklecreek
the Three Bells : Alison Krauss

[Cail]

All those damm Godsmack songs sound the same, don't they?!

Indeed they do. I had to look that one up to get the title.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Well, Esmer's sad song is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Another vote for sad is "Young Stranger" also by Gordon Lightfoot. The last line always gets me a little. The line is "The answers in the forest carved upon a tree, John loves Mary, does anyone love me?"

[Menolly]

Well...if Es isn't going to claim it, I guess I can add Michael Martin Murphy's Wildfire to my sad song list...

[The Laughing Man]

ok, but I get One Tin Soldier.....


and how about Even In The Quietest Moments by Supertramp for a little self-indulging?

[Astavyastataa Kadna]

I love One Tin Soldier!!

[Menolly]

ok, but I get One Tin Soldier.....

But...but...but...

I mentioned it first over in Flicks...

Can we trade? I'll give you back Wildfire for One Tin Soldier...

...I sing One Tin Soldier a whole heck of a lot better than Wildfire when my voice is warmed up; took a gold as a senior in high school with it, as well as with Garden of Gethsemene from JC Superstar in solo competition at State...

and how about Even In The Quietest Moments by Supertramp for a little self-indulging?

...now there's another good one...

[The Laughing Man]

ok, ok, fine, we'll trade, just because I see Both Sides, Now....

[Menolly]

You "looked at Love?"

[The Laughing Man]

It's life's illusions I recall....