Songs too sad to even listen to

rollings

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!

peacefrompaul

"Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains

big mick

Light Years and Come Back but I can't help myself but listen to them, the sentiment is on the nail for me

Jamie_The_CFH

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

rollings

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

oh yeah, light years is killer

rollings

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

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

jethrojam420

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

EdsonNascimento

Cats in the Craddle


I win. Close thread now. Thanks for playing.

peacefrompaul

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

Wow! That song gives me chills... Layne singing it makes it all the more chilling to me personally.

dimitrispearljam

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..

Jon Chorba

Given the right mood, "Come Back" brings the water works for me big time.

PJForceofNature

"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.

hanjenni

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

big mick

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

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.

Jon Chorba

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.

EmBleve

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

TinAnt wrote:

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

LOVE that song...or anything Lightfoot.

peacefrompaul

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

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.

Jamie_The_CFH

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

Eraserhead

"Famous Blue Raincoat" - Leonard Cohen

Smoke In A Tree

The obvious one is Black, especially the live versions where Eddie tags the end, some of those tags are gut wrenching. For personal reasons I have to also add Untitled

Aki Tendo

A not so obvious one perhaps is "Porch" - but that may have more to do with how I placed it in the play I'm working on. In that play it is sung by a mother when she finds out her son has killed himself. In that context the end of the song "not ever touch you, Hold you, Feel you, Ever hold, Never again..." takes on a new dimension and devastating power. The last time my play work group did a cold read of the thing that's when most of them couldn't take it anymore and the waterworks turned on. The writing of that scene was also one of the few times I've teared up while writing something because of what I was writing.

tem721

My old, old "breakup" song was Staind's Excess Baggage.. Yeah, Yeah, I know it's "Staind" but back in the 2001 it was good, lol. and perfect for a horrible break up when you want to be lower than you already are..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_BexzBEwX4

sven82

EmBleve wrote:

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.

Similar to Natalie Merchants My Skin

Brain of Dave

There was a time, late 2009, when they were still new, "Just Breathe" and "The End" were right on par with what was going on with me and they made me break down a few times.

Back when I saw the Body of War documentary, every time I'd play "Long Nights" and "No More" would bring me back to when I was crying by myself watching it on a rainy day in a rundown Berkeley theatre.

More recently, watching "Pearl Jam Twenty" and they're all talking about Andy Wood's death and Chris Cornell's "Seasons" is playing in the background. Also, the Roskilde tragedy with "Inside Job."

"Black Gives Way to Blue" by Alice In Chains

NothingBetterThanLeatherman

Hero of war- rise against
Nutshell- Alice in chains
Adam's song- blink182
The boy who Blocked his own shot- brand new
Fix you- Coldplay
Something in the way- nirvana

That's all I can think of right now. A guy I work with and I are really into music and we just had a discussion about the most depressing music we could think of. These were on the list

jamesaldridgemusic

It's a tie between:
Don't Say You Love Me - Free
Jetlag - Frank Turner
Grace - Jeff Buckley

If it's a PJ song though, it has to be "The End", I just sat there stunned after the first time heard it, so full of honesty and pain. Really hard to get through, but so worth it if you do.

wishlisa76

Indifference...

Gerald Richey

Mad Season Wake Up Just Wish he could have taken his own advice we all miss him so much