Kevin's Watch

Guns N Roses : Estranged

sometimes I just want to reflect on someone or something that is gone from my life. not to obsess or beat myself up. but to acknowledge a loss or someone I miss. for my first g/f, this song does it. listened to it a lot, drinking beer and smoking clove cigs. wlaking to my apartment in the snow. just me and the tape player, after midnight, wandering the town. missed her so much, and now I just wonder how she's doing. i know i can never recapture those nights walking home...

David + David, the whole Boomtown album. Brilliantly depressing.

Dumptruck : For the Country.

a brilliant and depressing alt country album. took me years to find it after my tape broke. (well my wife found it) the titletrack goes...

"drifting on an ocean til you die"

REM - Everybody hurts

Birds-Neil Young-serious tearjeaker

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

"Mad World" new version, not Tears for Fears, Gary Jules?

Very haunting and sad.

Hey Dennis,

You seem to enjoy alt. country. I was wondering if you've ever listened to any Grant Lee Buffalo?

Brinn: I had their debut album years ago. I can't remember it much. will look it up on the player.


TAILLIGHTS FADE
by Buffalo Tom
VERSE
Sister can you hear me now
Ringing in your ears
I'm down on the ground
My luck's been tried for years

I'm lost in the dark
And I feel like a dinosaur
Broken face and broken hands
I'm a broken man

CHORUS
I've hit the wall
I'm about to fall
But I'm closing in on it
I feel so weak
On a losing streak
Watch my taillights fade to black

VERSE
I read a thing about this girl
She was a hermit in her world
Her story was much like mine
She could be my valentine

And although we've never met
I won't forget her yet
She cut herself off from her past
She's alone at last

CHORUS
I feel so sick
Lost love's last fix
But I'm closing down on it
I feel so weak
On a losing streak
Watch my taillights fade to black

VERSE
Lost my life in cheap wine
Now it's quiet time
And I can't dig no Jesus Christ
He could not help my faith

But I'm underneath a gun
I'm singing 'bout my past
Had myself a wonderful thing
But I could not make it last

CHORUS
I've hit the wall
I'm about to fall
But I'm closing in on it
I feel so small
Underneath it all
Watch my taillights fade to black
..Watch my taillights fade
..Watch my taillights fade
..Watch my taillights fade

High Lord Tolkien wrote:"Mad World" new version, not Tears for Fears, Gary Jules?

Very haunting and sad.

That always makes me think of the end of Donnie Darko, and Mary McDonnell's performance in particular.

continuing with Donnie Darko

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again --
Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
[or in the Peel and Bains Douches versions:
Is my timing that flawed - have our feelings run dry?]
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again --

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose
There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can't function no more
When love, love will tear us apart again --

Winds of Change - The Scorpions

Tends to make me cry for some reason. I once made the mistake of not skipping that track while I was driving.

All she wrote - Default

Look Down From the Bridge : Mazzy Star

This topic really had me digging through my CD's...I can't think of any songs that actually made me cry. The Beatles' "Across The Universe" came close.

There are a number of songs that have made me feel wistful or nostalgic. Whether or not that's the equivalent of "sad" I'm not sure, but they do have a bittersweet quality that both tugs at my heart and comforts me.

Juice Newton's "Heart of the Night" is a good example. It instantly brings me back to the days of my youth in suburbia in the early 80's. The song evokes the sense of loneliness I felt at the time, but also a sense of a precious and innocent period in my life that can never be taken from me. Newton's song beckons me to escape "into the heart of the night"--a suburban night of quiet, moonlit sidewalks and rustling trees.

Likewise, the Pretenders' "Back On The Chain Gang" also takes me back. I fancy it as the "daylight" counterpart to "Heart of the Night." While Newton tells me to seek the womb-like stasis of a distant night, Chryssie Hynde tells me it's just as well to deal with the BS out there and move on.

I'll also mention Elton John's "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" as a favorite. Maybe "sad" songs with self-referential titles should be automatically excluded, heh heh...but this song nevertheless works for me. Sad songs do indeed have much to say, and they say it so well.

"How Soon Is Now?" by the Smiths is the most chilling, potent song about loneliness I've ever heard, and it can be truly depressing, yet blows me away every time I hear it.

Not 'sad' per se, just so amazing (to me) it brings tears to my eyes when I listen.

Second side of Yes' album Going for the One. For me, 'Wondrous Stories' and 'Awaken' have to be listened together to bring on the effect.

Some of you (heh, you know who you are) may smirk at this next choice: the Pet Shop Boys' "This Must Be The Place I've Been Waiting Years To Leave." The title alone says it all for me. To my ears, beneath the hi-tech polish of the Pet Shop Boys' music there has always been an undercurrent of melancholy, and this song is a good example of that.

Jean-Luc Ponty - Renaissance, followed by Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments

imogen heap - hide and seek

Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just began to form
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking, feeling
Spin me around again
And rub my eyes
This can't be happening
When busy streets
Amess with people
Would stop to hold
Their heads heavy
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover
The sweeping insensitivity of this still life
Hide and Seek
Trains and sewing machines (you won't catch me around here)
Blood and Tears
They were here first
Hmm, what'd you say, mmm, that you only meant well?
Well, 'course you didn't
Hmm, what'd you say, mmm, that it's all for the best
Because it is
Hmm, what'd you say, mmm, that it's just what we need
You decided this
Hmm, what'd you say, mmm, what did she say?
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs
Speak no feeling, no I don't believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit
(Hide and Seek)
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs
(Hide and Seek)[carries on through rest of song]
Speak no feeling,I not believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a, you don't care a bit
Oh no, You don't care a bit
Oh no, You don't care a bit
Oh no, You don't care a bit
You don't care a bit
You don't care a bit