Songs too sad to even listen to

sleeplikeadog

I don't think that there's a PJ song that is too sad for me to actually listen to, but Dropkick Murphy's "The Torch" is hard for me to listen to.

Last-12-Exit

For me, The long road always makes me think of Indiana state highway patrolman Scott Patrick. A good friend of mine in high school who was killed in the line of duty. I listened to this song over and over driving the 900 miles from south Carolina to his funeral. I couldn't listen to it for years without getting choked up.
Now, I hear that song and appreciate all the men and women in law enforcement, firefighters, and our military.

dogfootblues

September by Ryan Adams

Nevermind90

indifference

sometimes Black, jeremy, inside job & the end

Fifi_Ireland

Chloe dancer
Nothingman
Down in a hole

Loulou

I'd say listening to Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. So sad and regretful. Makes me sad every time. :(

Fifi_Ireland

So true!! I wanna add hurt to my list too!

curlygirly9

Stevie Wonder - I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W6qJERYTc8

He played it at Michael Jackson's memorial service; It is so beautiful and the lyrics so perfect, but after I downloaded it, I think I've listened to it maybe twice and can't do it anymore.

Also, Tom Traubert's Blues by Tom Waits is so depressing and amazing, but sometimes it makes me laugh because it is kind of like every Tom Waits song rolled into one. Tom Waits lyrics in a nutshell. "No one speaks english and everything's broken..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOMiA_uGso

curlygirly9

Loulou wrote:

I'd say listening to Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. So sad and regretful. Makes me sad every time. :(

Seriously, girl. The song with the video especially is just too much to handle. :(

kscolatti

In 1995 I was 13 years old, with tickets to see Pearl Jam on the Vitalogy tour in my hometown Missoula, MT. I was so excited. It was a Friday night, I was getting ready to leave for a friends house, I was listening to Vitalogy and when it was time to go I just paused the CD like I always do. A few hours later, my Mom's best friend was at my friends house to pick me up because my Uncle had been in a car crash and passed away. I had nothing, and when I got home I went directly to my room and unpaused my CD player...this is what I heard "She once believed in every story he had to tell". I sat and listened to nothingman, and felt empty. Instead of going to the concert on February 8, 1995 I was with my family burying my beloved uncle. Seventeen years later I still can not listen to nothingman without crying...

brianlux

"All or None". This is such a great song- it sounds so dark and depressing to me and at times it's just the right song but often times it gets the "skip" button.

curlygirly9

I agree, it's a beautiful song and Eddie's voice is so great on it, but I usually skip it too. I actually skip most of the last track on PJ albums (except Release, of course) because they almost always end their albums on a sad note. C'mon, guys!

brianlux wrote:

"All or None". This is such a great song- it sounds so dark and depressing to me and at times it's just the right song but often times it gets the "skip" button.

Loulou

curlygirly9 wrote:

Loulou wrote:

I'd say listening to Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. So sad and regretful. Makes me sad every time. :(

Seriously, girl. The song with the video especially is just too much to handle. :(

It really is isn't it? :( I love Nine Inch Nails doing this song too and Ed of course. saw Nine Inch Nails do Hurt here a few years ago and it sent shivers up my spine. Such a great band.

curlygirly9

It is a great song, either way, just really, really sad. I still haven't tracked down EV's version of it, someone said recently he covered it, which is kind of hard to imagine but i'm sure it's good.

Jammalambo

curlygirly9 wrote:

It is a great song, either way, just really, really sad. I still haven't tracked down EV's version of it, someone said recently he covered it, which is kind of hard to imagine but i'm sure it's good.

He covered Hurt in Chicago 2008 for the first time.. Good rendition, I would say

A sad song for me is Do the evolution.. I think about how much this world sucks when I listen to that song, and.. ..that only happens with the studio version, for some reasons.. the live versions make me happy, actually..

Jerome230

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.

This x 10

NYYIronHorse

Release

Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me

I know the topic says to sad to even listen to but I actually listen to this song quite a bit. Every listen helps release some of the pain of losing my father when I was 14.

NateIsFaithful

"Don't gimme no lip"

That little laugh Stone does towards the end of the song gets me everytime.

AgRyan04

Without question it is The End.

My mother was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer last spring (2011) and all of a sudden that song had a face that I loved attached to it. I prayed that they wouldn't play it at PJ20 because I would have lost it.

Thankfully, she has beaten the cancer and is in complete remission now.....but I still can't listen to it.

Tora74

Hmm there really shouldn't be any song too sad to listen too.

All songs should be heard!!!

At least once lol

If you really feel the song moves you that way you should thank the Artist He/She/It HUMAN did their job Dude...

Like these guys Pearl Jam...

Thanks guys!!!

PEACE