Post by mrpancake on Apr 22, 2007 0:56:31 GMT -4
I hope it's okay to start this thread. I could have sworn we had a thread here, but I may just be thinking of FT back in the say. We have a funeral songs thread, but I don't think sad songs are necessarily the same. I really love sad songs in general, I don't know why.
I guess one of the saddest songs ever was Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, about lynchings of Black people in the south. It's just so profoundly sad, and her voice does it absolute justice. Stunningly beautiful. She has a lot of other good sad songs, too. The End of a Love Affair being one of them - it's partially sad just because it was recorded toward the end of her life, when her voice really was all but ruined, and yet it's still great because it's her.
But I also like songs that aren't inherently sad, but have a weird way in which they're sad. For example, Subterranian Homesick Alien is sad to me in a strange, unexplainable way. I don't really think that the song is sad in and of itself, but there's something sort of heartbreaking about the lyrics. I guess it's sad in the same way I think warm Sunday afternoons are sad - there's just something about them. But they have other songs, like No Surprises or How to Disappear Completely which are uneqivicoally sad.
Other songs you think are sad?
I guess one of the saddest songs ever was Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, about lynchings of Black people in the south. It's just so profoundly sad, and her voice does it absolute justice. Stunningly beautiful. She has a lot of other good sad songs, too. The End of a Love Affair being one of them - it's partially sad just because it was recorded toward the end of her life, when her voice really was all but ruined, and yet it's still great because it's her.
But I also like songs that aren't inherently sad, but have a weird way in which they're sad. For example, Subterranian Homesick Alien is sad to me in a strange, unexplainable way. I don't really think that the song is sad in and of itself, but there's something sort of heartbreaking about the lyrics. I guess it's sad in the same way I think warm Sunday afternoons are sad - there's just something about them. But they have other songs, like No Surprises or How to Disappear Completely which are uneqivicoally sad.
Other songs you think are sad?
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