Songs too sad to even listen to

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rollings
rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
edited June 2012 in Words and Music...Communication
The songs "Come Back" and "Parachutes" sometimes seem more sad than enjoyable that I can't even listen to them.

..the line about going to sleep for the "real possiblility I might see you in my dreams"...that is so sad! :cry:
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    "Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains
  • big mick
    big mick Hull UK Posts: 773
    Light Years and Come Back but I can't help myself but listen to them, the sentiment is on the nail for me :cry:
    Reading England 2006, Manchester England 2009, London England 2010, Manchester 1 2012, EV London 1 2012
  • Jamie_The_CFH
    Jamie_The_CFH Posts: 35
    Since New Year 2009, my girlfriend and I seem to have an unspoken rule against putting on Last Kiss...It was a song that we both loved, however, her best friend was a pedestrian killed by a drunk and drugged driver on New Year 2009(take note anyone who believes 'bubbles' are innocent')...listening to any song with the theme of a car crash is pretty difficult but Pearl Jam's version of Last Kiss is just too painfully emotional a vocal performance to listen to. We've never actually confronted the fact that we don't play it, we just don't.

    I think lots of Pearl Jam songs have that kind of effect on me, because (probably like many of you) I used constant Pearl Jam as therapy for getting over my ex girlfriend of 5 years many years ago during some tough times of drug and drink abuse. So certain songs have seemingly 'un-shiftable' imagery attached to them which is not necessarily a good thing.

    However, I have never stopped listening to any of those songs (except Last Kiss) as it has allowed me to help create a new context for each song as I am the happiest I have ever been in life with my girlfriend of 3 years...I think this is important when trying to move on from things...facing your demons and such (not there yet with Last Kiss though.)

    Songs which give me a painfully 'real' reminder of my past are:

    Present Tense, Red Mosquito, Nothingman, All or None, Crazy Mary (Beneroyal), Man of the Hour.
    Anyone else have songs that are not necessarily sad, but have personal negative significance for some reason?

    ...also, I echo the sentiment on Light Years...since hearing the version at the 02 they dedicated to their surfer friend, that song (particularly that version) really speaks to me
    You can't spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets - you can't come to terms and realize you're the only one who can forgive yourself - it makes much more sense to live in the present tense.

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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    mh210105 wrote:
    Light Years and Come Back but I can't help myself but listen to them, the sentiment is on the nail for me :cry:

    oh yeah, light years is killer
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    Jamie_The_CFH wrote:
    Since New Year 2009, my girlfriend and I seem to have an unspoken rule against putting on Last Kiss...It was a song ................

    if Last Kiss was a Pearl Jam song, but its a remake of an old sappy 50s number. Right Between Crying in the Chapel and Tell Laura I love her....but good idea, don't listen to it :thumbup:
  • TinAnt
    TinAnt Posts: 343
    "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
  • jethrojam420
    jethrojam420 Foxborough MA Posts: 1,075
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    "Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains

    a few years back my dad and I were pulling into the cemetery where my grandparents are buried with this song on - and my father singing along....

    I tried as gently as I could to inform him that we should probably be listening to a different song at this location :lol:
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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    Cats in the Craddle


    I win. Close thread now. Thanks for playing.
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    jethrojam420 wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    "Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains

    a few years back my dad and I were pulling into the cemetery where my grandparents are buried with this song on - and my father singing along....

    I tried as gently as I could to inform him that we should probably be listening to a different song at this location :lol:


    Wow! That song gives me chills... Layne singing it makes it all the more chilling to me personally.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    the one ..cant say is sad..but cut my breath and cant stop crying the last months when i listen it is
    Dixie Chicks - Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)..killing me..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
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  • Jon Chorba
    Jon Chorba Posts: 268
    Given the right mood, "Come Back" brings the water works for me big time.


    If You Like Crunchy Guitar Riffs, Powerful Vocals, Melodic Guitar Solos, And Meaningful Lyrics..then you need to check out one of the most refreshing new hard rock bands in quite some time...-->The Liberty Underground<--
  • PJForceofNature
    PJForceofNature Posts: 3,087
    "Man of the Hour" from Water on the Road. The first time I heard this version, I had to actually stop the DVD and leave the room for a while I was crying so hard.
    "A beacon on dry land"
  • hanjenni
    hanjenni Posts: 174
    the end just kills me.

    i am working on that, though...if it comes on, i think i have made it through once or twice now :wink:
    "How I choose to feel,... Is how I am."

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  • big mick
    big mick Hull UK Posts: 773
    hanjenni wrote:
    the end just kills me.

    i am working on that, though...if it comes on, i think i have made it through once or twice now :wink:
    Whenever I listen to Backspacer right through, I can't play more music after, I have to go find something else to do. The End guts me too.
    Reading England 2006, Manchester England 2009, London England 2010, Manchester 1 2012, EV London 1 2012
  • Jon Chorba
    Jon Chorba Posts: 268
    PJForceofNature wrote:
    "Man of the Hour" from Water on the Road. The first time I heard this version, I had to actually stop the DVD and leave the room for a while I was crying so hard.

    That is a fantastic, gut wrenching, version.


    If You Like Crunchy Guitar Riffs, Powerful Vocals, Melodic Guitar Solos, And Meaningful Lyrics..then you need to check out one of the most refreshing new hard rock bands in quite some time...-->The Liberty Underground<--
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    Angel, Sarah Mclachlan--I will never be able to hear or listen to that song again since it has been associated with those animal abuse infomercials.
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    TinAnt wrote:
    "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
    LOVE that song...or anything Lightfoot. ;)
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    EmBleve wrote:
    TinAnt wrote:
    "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
    LOVE that song...or anything Lightfoot. ;)


    GREAT song
  • SocialDistorter
    SocialDistorter Posts: 1
    Immortality. It's something about the way Eddie sings it, like how his voice cracks in parts. There's always a bit of tears on that one.
    He still gives his love, he just gives it away.
  • Jamie_The_CFH
    Jamie_The_CFH Posts: 35
    Rollings wrote:
    Jamie_The_CFH wrote:
    Since New Year 2009, my girlfriend and I seem to have an unspoken rule against putting on Last Kiss...It was a song ................

    if Last Kiss was a Pearl Jam song, but its a remake of an old sappy 50s number.

    Yep...I know it's a cover...not of any real significance to what I was saying
    You can't spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets - you can't come to terms and realize you're the only one who can forgive yourself - it makes much more sense to live in the present tense.

    Leeds Festival - 25/08/2006, London O2 - 18/08/2009. London Hyde Park - 25/06/2010...upcoming... Manchester MEN - 20/06/2012, Manchester MEN - 21/06/2012 :)

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