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Subject: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Denzel Date: 01 Aug 02 - 06:32 AM What on your opinion is the saddest song of all time (the song you listen to after being dumbed by your boy/girl friend)? My own vote goes to Brandy's "Tomorrow". On the contrary what do you think is the song with most positive attitude and optimism? In my opinion "It's my life" by Bon Jovi. Please share your opinion! |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Hecate Date: 01 Aug 02 - 07:27 AM Most miserable song? "I am stretched on your grave" is fairly grim, and "Carrick Fergus" quite thoroughly depressing. Anything by Leonard Cohen has to be in with a shot. Cheerful songs? That's even harder. No, can't think of any. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,GUEST not Denzil Date: 01 Aug 02 - 07:42 AM So we have to start out with Brandy and Bon Jovi? What happened to folk music? |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Deckman Date: 01 Aug 02 - 08:01 AM I will offer "Mary of the Wild Moor" for saddest song! CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Skipjack K8 Date: 01 Aug 02 - 08:07 AM Chill Eastern Wind, by Andy Stewart Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Lanfranc at the orifice Date: 01 Aug 02 - 08:52 AM It's probably classified as "Country", rather than "Folk", but I'd nominate Beth Neilsen Chapman's "Sand and Water". Leonard Cohen is much misunderstood, imho; he can't help having a graveyard voice - I doubt if any of his detractors have ever seen him live. Alan |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Rich_and_Dee Date: 01 Aug 02 - 09:29 AM Saddest: "Land of the Leal" (Andy M. Stewart's version) Stomp-your-foot-cheering-just-happy-to-be-here-happy: "Mary Ellen Carter" |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: kendall Date: 01 Aug 02 - 09:53 AM Saddest, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Optomistic, The Happy Wanderer. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:17 AM Some more good contenders... Saddest: "Most Of The Time" (Dylan) Most Optimistic: "Piney Wood Hills" "Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo" "Native North American Child" "Sweet Little Vera" "He's A Pretty Good Man If You Ask Me" "97 Men/Don't Call Me Honey" (all by Buffy Sainte-Marie) And "Oh Boy" by Buddy Holly. How about that Buffy, eh? - LH |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,.gargole Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:42 AM Morose Minstral Boy = the loss of youth and art to the bubble reputation of the cannon's mouth.
Elation Bethovan'sJoyful Joyful We Adore Thee in a toss up with Bach'sHallelujah Chorus
Sincerely, Gargoyle
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Fred Miller Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:51 AM For me The Juniper Tree is both. It's from the point of view of a young girl sad to see her older sister grown and marrying, but putting a brave face on it. Sad/sad songs aren't as deeply sad as sad/happy, I think. But it's not really a been-dumped tune though. 10,000 Maniacs had a song called You'll Never Know, which was especially sad. The way I take it is that the death of an admired friend releases one from the pressure of having to live up a standard. The song swells with the feeling of that release, but is tragic, one is disappointed in one's self. Reminds me of J. Updike's story Deaths of Distant Friends. Ritchi Haven's cover of Here Comes The Sun is pretty darn happy. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Hecate Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:54 AM I'll add that I really like Leonard Cohen, and nominating him as miserable is in no way a criticism on my part. My parents played Leonard to me when I was very young, my folk club seems to think this explains a lot. Jon Harvison writes and sings some stonkingly miserable songs (getting back on subject) Mary Ellen Carter is a good candidate for most uplifting song, I'd probably vote for that if we were going to do something as alarmingly organised as voting. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: greg stephens Date: 01 Aug 02 - 11:10 AM Has Leonard Cohen ever recorded "Your baby has gone down the plughole"? |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: beadie Date: 01 Aug 02 - 11:52 AM Saddest :: The Fields of Athon Rye Happiest :: Variable, depending on my mood |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: alanabit Date: 01 Aug 02 - 11:53 AM Not yet Greg, but somebody should pass on the idea! The image of Cohen and Dylan as miserable buggers is much overstated. There is a fair bit of wry humour in both of them. Listening to Dylan's "Mississippi" or "Most of the Time" is really down to the way you take it. If you take them at face value, they are both heartbreakers, but I like to think that he is poking fun at himself too. For me the saddest Dylan song is "If You See Her, Say Hello", because he is trying to deal with an unbearable separation and show respect for the woman at the same time. It's a tricky one, isn't it? What makes a song "sad"? A song about an unhappy love affair may be dealing with a theme which is of less importance and for fewer people than a song like "No Man's Land" or "The Flowers of the Forest". If we go along that path, we are on the way to evaluating the sadness of a song by its body count... On the happy front, Steve Knightley/Paul Downes' song "Friends" and Johnny Coppin's lovely "Never Lost for Love" always cheer me up. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: YOR Date: 01 Aug 02 - 07:23 PM "The Famous Final Scene" Bob Seger "Goodbye My Friend" and "Daddy's Little Girl" Karla Bonoff Happiest sad song: "Lie In Our Graves" Dave Matthews Band Enjoy, Roy |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Joe_F Date: 01 Aug 02 - 07:35 PM "The Revel": Then stand to your glasses steady. This world is a world of lies. Here's a sip to the dead already, And a cup to the next that dies! |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Mooh Date: 01 Aug 02 - 07:37 PM Kilkelly Ireland. Long, dreary, and tragic. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Bat Goddess Date: 01 Aug 02 - 09:58 PM "No More Beer From Kendal" "The Old Pubs" And "Dancing at Whitsun" -- I still have trouble getting through that without choking up. Linn |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Bill D Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:08 PM There aren't 'saddest', there are just heaps of 'sad'...like dead & dying kids, as in "Little Joe" and "Put My Little Shoes Away" and SO many songs of lost love, and things about lost DEAD love, like "Do You Think That I Do Not Know?"..... ....and songs of leaving one's homeland.., and songs of unrequited love..(well, the good ones, anyway).. too many to make a choice. (CERTAINLY not "Kilkelly, Ireland" ..which is "Long, & dreary" and is so overdone that I can no longer evaluate it!) |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: open mike Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:22 PM the song by Kathy Mattea "Where've You Been" often brings tears to my eye. Kate Wolf's "Give Yourself to Love" is always up-lifting. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Mudlark Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:30 PM Not love-lost, but so sad it still chokes me up, tho I've been singing it for 35 years...The Great Silkie. Every time I sing it I hope it comes out differently, but it never does.
For most wistful song I nominate Close Your Eyes, by J.Taylor For happiest...hmmmm...can't think of a definitive happy song at the moment...but for contentment...You Aint Going Nowhere, by Dylan. Singing that always makes me feel good. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Allan Dennehy Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:39 PM Galway to Graceland. (Sean Keanes version) I fall to pieces. (Can't for the life of me remember her name right now) I can't help it if I'm still in love with you. (Hank Williams) Sob sob sob................
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 01 Aug 02 - 11:42 PM saddest-No man's Land (willie McBride0 Happiest-Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) or Storm by Vannessa Mae |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Blackcatter Date: 02 Aug 02 - 12:59 AM Anything by Yanni or John Tesh is sad. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: John O'L Date: 02 Aug 02 - 01:37 AM Leader of the Pack...? Sad: Flight of Earls (Dublin City Ramblers) Happy: Settin' the Woods on Fire (Hank Williams) |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Bunger Mulkin Date: 02 Aug 02 - 02:44 AM these are SO subjective...as of today, my vote for saddest is David Bromberg's "Sammy's Song" Last week, it might have been John Prine's "Christmas in Prison" or Geoffrey Oryema's "Solitude", though it's a stretch to call it folk. happiest - the Banana Splits' theme song! |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: alanabit Date: 02 Aug 02 - 04:03 AM I like that Banana Splits theme too. Is it an old American Folk dance tune? |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: rich-joy Date: 02 Aug 02 - 04:27 AM Kate Wolf's "The Heart" ... (It's in Mudcat) Cheers! R-J |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: cetmst Date: 02 Aug 02 - 08:02 AM Several candidates in a number of categories. What Families Do to Each Other - Sonny's Dream, Harry Chapin's Cat in the Cradle; Tyrannical fathers - Anachie Gordon, Bonnie Susie Cleland, Arbutus; War - Previously mentioned No Man's Land, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda and Dancing at Whitsun, also Flowers of the Forest, Rosemary's Sister; Native American Persecution - My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying, Heart of the Apaloosa. The whole genre of folk and traditional music seems tilted more toward sadness than joy. Does that reflect life in general or am I just in a bad mood this morning ? We need to accept the mix but emphasize the upbeat. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Aug 02 - 08:15 AM Alanabit - very perceptive comments on Dylan and Cohen. Well said. - LH |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Schantieman Date: 02 Aug 02 - 11:28 AM Keith Marsden's "Morley Main" takes some beating as a tear-jerker, along with other mining disasters. "The Farmer's Toast" always cheers me up but some won't like it as it's so smug! Almost any shanty, really. There's something about a full throated sing that gets the endorphins going. Steve |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Hippie Chick Date: 02 Aug 02 - 11:49 AM House of the Rising Sun - Woody Guthrie, Eric Burden I Am A Rock - Simon & Garfunkle "a rock feels no pain, an island never cries" That sounds like the ultimate in loneliness. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: dwditty Date: 02 Aug 02 - 01:55 PM Saddest: Fred Koller's "Life As We Knew It" |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: lady penelope Date: 02 Aug 02 - 03:25 PM The song guarenteed to put a lump in my throat and start the tears, even when I'm in a really good mood is "The Minstrel Boy", but I think that's mainly 'cos I associate the song with what happens in one of the books of "The Chronicles Of Prydain". I can sing the first verse ok but I'm a snivelling wreck by the end of the second. Happiest song? A song I always sing to myself to cheer myself up ( and it works every time! ) is " Accentuate the positive" but I've got to imagine Bing Crosby singing it.
Songs to run around and make you feel G.O.O.D. TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Stearle Earl Date: 02 Aug 02 - 07:06 PM I dont know who wrote or sang it but I will write a couple of verses' Your daddy was a gambling man my mother said to me He left me when you were a child but he was all the world to me. The boy became a gambler and shot a man for cheating and discovered it was his dad. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: michaelr Date: 02 Aug 02 - 07:54 PM Anachie Gordon! |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Just Amy Date: 02 Aug 02 - 07:57 PM The song that I can't play in the car because it makes me cry so hard I can't drive is "White Squall" where all the young men die. Too sad! |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: richlmo Date: 02 Aug 02 - 10:38 PM Where've You Been?, Kathy Mattea Techumseh Valley, Townes Van Zandt Hello In There, John Prine I Can't Make You Love Me, (Mike Reid) ,Bonnie Raitt |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: khandu Date: 02 Aug 02 - 11:58 PM alanabit and Little Hawk, good post! I am always moved by "Most of the Time". "Ring Them Bells" strikes me with much sadness and hope at the same time. "Ring them bells for the child that cries when his innocence dies..." Another sad song by Andy M. Stewart is "Bridget O'Mally" (I think that is the name of it!), and what a fine voice he puts to it. I must also credit him with one of the funniest songs I have heard, "The Errant Apprentice". Then there is a hokey sad song by khandu: "This song has got no music, This song has got no words This song has got no melody, it's the saddest song I've heard This song has got no rhythm, no poetry, no rhyme This song is a reflection of my lonely state of mind" khandu
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,Mountain Tyme Date: 03 Aug 02 - 01:18 AM Generaly acepted for recorded songs is that "After The Ball" by Charles K. Harris was the first "tear jerker" bringing Harris $25,000.00 per week including sheet music sales. Others song writers saw the numbers, followed suit, and the "Parlour Era" of sad songs began on cylinders and then later on 78rpm discs followed at the turn of the last century. The Mechanically recorded Cylinders and 78's era ended in 1921 but the "tear jerker" had been born and continues. For those interested in these early recorded sad songs, check out Harris and what he wrought, as well as the Lester Levy sheet music collection. An early version of "Mary of the Wild Moore" from this time period indicates by sales the public's craving for sad songs in the various recordings of "The Fatal Snowstorm". Them's my two votes! :) Mountain Tyme |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Greenbeer Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:16 AM Just Amy: I'm with you on Stan Rogers's "White Squall" - it describes loss so poignantly - but another song of Stan's does that for me too - "The Jeannie C". Also his Song of the Candle" hits a deep chord. Saw Judy Collins sing her famous song about her father and cried uncontrollably. Warren Zevon's "The Heartache" is another very sad one that i like. As far as optimism what prings to mind is Pete Seeger's "Oh Had I a Golden Thread" well worth finding if you haven't heard it. greenbeer |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Art Thieme Date: 03 Aug 02 - 06:58 AM "It's Not The Meat, It's The Motion" Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Art Thieme Date: 03 Aug 02 - 07:03 AM best happy one = AS ABOVE (ditto)! Art |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Jim Krause Date: 03 Aug 02 - 12:14 PM Candidates for the Saddest Song category are:
Candidates for the Happiest Song category are:
Jim |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,PJ Curtis. Date: 03 Aug 02 - 01:32 PM Has Anybody mentioned 'Danny Boy'? Also 'The Derakest Hour Is Just before Dawn' by Emmylou. Just two that always register a high tingle-ometer rating with me. ppjc |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: alanabit Date: 03 Aug 02 - 02:29 PM "Danny Boy" has always struck me as being sad, because I have always found it sad that a singer could not have picked a better song. Each to their own though. My Dad used to love it - and he was one of the least sentimental men I ever met. |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Jim Krause Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:34 PM A couple more: Saddest Song Category
Jim |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: Catherine Jayne Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:46 PM Jim Krause "Desperado" by the Eagles also has to be in there too along with "I am a Rock" by Simon and Garfunkle which both are favourites of mine when I feel down. cat |
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Subject: RE: What is the saddest song? From: GUEST,big bam wimmie Date: 03 Aug 02 - 04:01 PM remember and do pray for me --loyd chandler - on HIGH ATMOSPHERE ballads andbanjo tunes recorded by John Cohen in 1965 at sodom north carolina-- makes your hair stand up |
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