Sad and Beautiful songs...

[franzbassist]

[quote name='yorick' post='1062101' date='Dec 17 2010, 10:32 PM']Me and a Gun-Tori Amos[/quote]

Ouch, yes, forgot about that one

[bassbloke]

Surprised no one has posted this

[BottomEndian]

Stops me in my tracks every time.

[Bass_Guardian]

Hopefully moines mentioned these

Is nothing sacred - Meatloaf

All out of love - Air Supply

Getting to the point - ELO

Don't walk away - ELO

these are the one off the top of my head.

Honestly give them a listen on YouTube sniff

[Ian Savage]

'Last Goodbye' by Jeff Buckley sticks in my mind, but it does have personal connetations. And I usually don't like the band, but since I heard Midge Ure doing Ultravox's 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes' acoustically it gets me welling up all too easily.

[paul_5]

"Gloomy Sunday" from Billie Holiday, also "Goodbye porkpie hat" by Charles Mingus - the world's most beautiful melody/

[EBS_freak]

Nobody mentioned this? Love the video too... although I'm not usually a Coldplay fan.

[waynepunkdude]

I'll do more later.

[silentbob]

Can someone tell me how you put the video clips into your posts please?

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='silentbob' post='1062160' date='Dec 18 2010, 12:33 AM']Can someone tell me how you put the video clips into your posts please?[/quote]


Explained here mate

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[silentbob]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1062162' date='Dec 18 2010, 12:34 AM']Explained here mate

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Cheers dude.

Edited December 18, 2010 by silentbob

[franzbassist]

[Wil]

Sad and beautiful immediately makes me think of this stunning piece of music:



Quite capable of moving me to tears that.

And this. When the strings come in, the lyrics and the build up of emotion... ooof.

[Randy_Marsh]

Edited December 18, 2010 by Randy_Marsh

[lowdown]

[quote name='walbassist' post='1061995' date='Dec 17 2010, 08:26 PM']Call me a soppy old git, but I'd go for Bonnie Raitt's "I can't make you love me".[/quote]
You soppy old git - its a great tune....





Garry

[Truckstop]

Elbow - Friend of Ours.

So sad. It's about a friend of the band who died suddenly. The way Guy Garvey sings "Love you mate" brings tears to my eyes every time. Just 10 lines of the most incredible words.

Before leaving, get to the bar
No-one 'round here makes you pay.
Never very good at goodbyes,
So gentle shoulder charge
Love you mate

Salford skyline gloom
Always you
Could fly 'round any corner
'Til you do...
Love you mate

Also +1 for Johnny Cash's 'Hurt'

Truckstop

Edited December 18, 2010 by Truckstop

[warwickhunt]

Not sure if this counts as sad or beautiful but the first time I listened to this 'unplugged' version of a song, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up; probably more so because it's patently just an impromptu performance.

[Bassassin]

Some of my favourite miseryguts slash-wrists ditties:


Love Song (For A Vampire) - Annie Lennox

Black - Pearl Jam

Script For A Jester's Tear - Marillion

Chance - Big Country

Lazarus - Porcupine Tree

The Kick Inside - Kate Bush

First Orgasm - Dresden Dolls


Go & find them yourselves, you lazy gits.

Jon.

[Lozz196]

The Winner Takes It All - Abba

The words are amazing, especially when you know that they guy who wrote it, handed it to his ex-wife to sing.

[misrule]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jFmVP-jXM"]Kate Rusby -- Let The Cold Wind Blow[/url]

It's about a ghost watching his former girlfriend copping off with another bloke on his grave, or thereabouts.

And ...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSIty6Reils"]Tori Amos -- Cooling[/url]

Cheers

Mark

[bubinga5]

Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw[/url]

[Jerry_B]

[EdwardHimself]

Ok I know this is a really obvious one but to be fair, I can play it on the piano!



This is the new version of this song featuring the Lacuna Coil singer Christina Scabbia (I could tell that just from listening to her ). The original is awesome as well.

Edited December 18, 2010 by EdwardHimself

[silentbob]

[Count Bassy]

'Hang on to a dream', Tim hardin - but there are a lot of crap versions out there (not keen on his own even). Roger Chapman's version is a cracker.

Here's a link [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fepc8z1Wqcs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fepc8z1Wqcs[/url]


Actually, 'Reason to Believe' is also quite sad.

Edited December 18, 2010 by Count Bassy