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Subject: Songs that Tell Sad Stories
This idea just popped into my head as I was listening to 'Two Beds and a Coffe Machine' by Savage Garden. There must be so many songs that seem to tell stories, most of which are sad and emotional. I'm thinkin of making a CD with such songs on. Here are some of my starts:
Savage Garden - Two Beds and a Coffee Machine
Randy Crawford/Charlene - I've Never Been To Me
Plumb - Damaged
Smiths - Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Subject: Re: Songs that Tell Sad Stories
ode to Billie Joe-Bobby Gentry
ooh...I do know more...um...teen angel...I forget who thats by...um...there are more...I remember a song where someones girlfriend dies and he cant get over her, so he digs up her body and sleps with it....yes, its disgusting, but get this...the song came out in like 1959!
oh, I got another:
Last kiss-J frank Wilson and the Cavieliers (Or Pearl Jam)
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Copacabana - Don McClean
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatless
Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
The Boxer - Simon & Gatfunkel
Breathe - Pink Floyd
The Trial - Pink Floyd
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Copacabana - Don McClean
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thats Barry Manilow
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thats Barry Manilow
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Cat's in the Cradle--Harry Chapin is kind of sad...
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ode to Billie Joe-Bobby Gentry
ooh...I do know more...um...teen angel...I forget who thats by...um...there are more...I remember a song where someones girlfriend dies and he cant get over her, so he digs up her body and sleps with it....yes, its disgusting, but get this...the song came out in like 1959!
oh, I got another:
Last kiss-J frank Wilson and the Cavieliers (Or Pearl Jam)
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8) 8)Hi!The song where the guy digs up his girlfriend is called "I Want My Baby back"and it's actually from 1965,the year I was born.It's a spoof of the 'teen tragedy'genre of the time. :POne song i like is "Ebony Eyes"by the Everly brothers,from 1961 8)Cheers!
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Cat's in the Cradle--Harry Chapin is kind of sad...
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It's the *only* song that brings tears to my eyes... but only since I had children of my own.
Phil
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Last Kiss - the original
Teen Angel
Tell Laura I Love Her
Never Go Home Anymore :'(
Lots of country songs, esp. if you include the "bittersweet" type.
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Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
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Billy Don't Be A Hero
Wildfire (?) -- the one about the lost horse or something (I think -- may be way off base on that one :P)
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A rather haunting one, this...you may not have heard the song but I think the lyrics stand up OK on their own...
http://www.yardbirds.org/lyrics/mrzero.html
The song is "Mr Zero" written by the horrifically under-rated Bob Lind...marvellous stuff...
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"nervous in the alley" by smash mouth, although you really have to just read the lyrics because the songs much too fast to feel sad...
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Hands to Heaven by Breathe is another one.
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Not many people would know this...
"Indian Princess" by Monsoon featuring Sheila Chandra
It's the story of a woman who was widowed at a very young age....and pines away for her dead love. At the end she dies too...but the song doesn't make clear how.
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8) 8)Hi!The song where the guy digs up his girlfriend is called "I Want My Baby back"and it's actually from 1965,the year I was born.It's a spoof of the 'teen tragedy'genre of the time. :POne song i like is "Ebony Eyes"by the Everly brothers,from 1961 8)Cheers!
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Ah, thats it...thank you Marian!
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Lots of country songs, esp. End Quote
I agree...also It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday by boys to men
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stagger lee-Lloyd Price
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:'( :'("Old Shep"by Elvis Presley;"Put My Little Shoes Away"and "Lightning Express"by the Everly Brothers.Cheers! 8)
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stagger lee-Lloyd Price
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8) 8) 8)Another one that has murder in it is "Down in the Willow Garden"by the Everly 8)Brothers.Cheers!
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This idea just popped into my head as I was listening to 'Two Beds and a Coffe Machine' by Savage Garden. There must be so many songs that seem to tell stories, most of which are sad and emotional. I'm thinkin of making a CD with such songs on. Here are some of my starts:
Savage Garden - Two Beds and a Coffee Machine
Randy Crawford/Charlene - I've Never Been To Me
Plumb - Damaged
Smiths - Hand That Rocks The Cradle
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Criz, you know 'a sad story' is told in just about every origional song I've ever written
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Criz, you know 'a sad story' is told in just about every origional song I've ever written
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Pretty much of my original writing is pretty emotional and depressing toom ro be honest :]
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The Night Chicago Died-Paper Lace (I dont find this really sad but some ppl do) Creed's one last breath is enough to make one want to commit suicide.Matter of fact a lot of stuff written these days is pretty sad :'( ::)
Subject: Re: Songs that Tell Sad Stories
Two of Eminem's songs tell sad stories; Stan and Cleaning Out My Closet. Stan is about an Eminem fan with that name who does not get a reply until he dies. COMC is about Em's childhood and how hard it was. His father left home and his mother was horrible to him.
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'Where the wild roses grow' by Kylie Minogue/Nick Cave about a man that kills a woman.
'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro - Awful as well.
'Tell Laura I love her' by Ray Peterson - About a man that dies in a racing accident.
I always felt there was something sinister lurking around in the song 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep' by Middle of the road. It might be my imagination though.
Subject: Re: Songs that Tell Sad Stories
I read the lyrics to 'Chirpy cheep cheep' and it's just about some bird waiting for it's parents to show up - Instead of 'Little baby bird' (which is in lyrics websites apparently) it sounds very much like 'Little baby Don'. To me that gave it a human edge not a bird edge!
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I was listening to that song today. It's actually quite freaky...
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8) 8) 8)Another one that has murder in it is "Down in the Willow Garden"by the Everly 8)Brothers.Cheers!
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Lightning Express, for all of its 4:51, is quite a sad song, as Marian said. It's all about a boy whose mother is dying.
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my suggestins:
going to your funeral (pt 1) - Eels
Child Killers - The Delgados
Leave this city - the Sundays
Walk on By - Saint Low (not the more famous 60's song btw)
Rilkean Heart - Cocteau Twins (as that has lyrics, but they have sadder ones without having a comprehensible lyric)
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"Barbra Allen". I know Jonni Mitchell (right?) has a version, and so does Andreas Scholl. Originally a Middle-Ages ballad.
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"Barbra Allen". I know Jonni Mitchell (right?) has a version, and so does Andreas Scholl. Originally a Middle-Ages ballad.
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8) 8) 8) 8)The Everly Brothers recorded this song,too.It's on their "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"album.Cheers!
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"Someone Saved My Life Tonight"--Elton John.
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Big, Bad John - Jimmy Dean
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"Mercy Mercy Me" and "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye