Patsycat Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 i was in between putting this one in MY ROMANTIC SONGS thread, but decided to give it to you....!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patsycat Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Janet Devlin "Stay With Me" Amazing cover........ Of Sam Smiths Hit.... Here you go - hot off the press!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuming Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Stuart Staples with Maria Mckee: "This road is long". http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0_FwDMMeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) From Peter Gabriel's 2010 album - Scratch my Back Edited September 15, 2014 by xen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggsie Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I'm beggared if I'm gonna trawl through nigh on 150 posts just to see if my nomination has already been included (which it surely has) so I'm just gonna post it (maybe someone could figure out a way of making a "Top-Ten" miserable sad songs). Anyway, here it is (Alone again, naturally): Another that can "bring a lump to my throat (all the more through being currently "estranged" from my eldest son is: The Living Years: If ever a happiest song list is contrived, might I ask for this to be considered? Boogie Wonderland: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggsie Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 One that I'll bet a thousand Bhat has not been listed is this: The Kick Inside (it's a conversation between a pre-aborted child and its carrying mother which, along with other Kate Bush penned songs leads me to believe her upbringing and "family/sibling relationships" were not [ahum] quite what we would call "conventional"): Beautiful song (despite her apparent fkd-up upbringing) nonetheless: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 One of the most moving albums and possibly one of my favourite albums for those quite introspective times - Hector Zazou - Sahara Blue (Rimbauld) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicrLoCdhr4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Duggsie Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 (edited) One that I'll bet a thousand Bhat has not been listed is this: The Kick Inside (it's a conversation between a pre-aborted child and its carrying mother which, along with other Kate Bush penned songs leads me to believe her upbringing and "family/sibling relationships" were not [ahum] quite what we would call "conventional"): Beautiful song (despite her apparent fkd-up upbringing) nonetheless: Oops. Seems I mixed up my "Bushaphores". The song she penned as a, soon to be aborted, embryo was in fact "Breathing" - not "The Kick Inside", as I stated (it's been awhile since I renewed the aquaintance I once held so dear with my vinyl record collection, is my excuse - that and the possible onset of dementia, perhaps . The Kick Inside was a suicide-note ballad (written when she was only a mid-teen) which contains the, oft-repeated, chorus: This kicking, here inside Makes me leave you behind No more under the sheets to "keep you warm" Your sister I was born You must lose me, like an arrow Shot into the killer-storm Make your own minds up as to her early sibling relationships.....I have. Edited September 17, 2014 by Duggsie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank James Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Strangely, this song gives me hope. Sorry there is no video of the author, Randy Newman singing it. I just heard it again this morning. Great stuff. "Better Off Dead"When you fall in love with someoneWho doesn't love youSomeone who treats you so badlyIt ramifies your headSomeone who doesn't want youBut won't let you goSomeone who thinks you're crazyAnd tells you soOver and overIf this happens to youYou'd be better off deadYou might be surprised to learn how often it can happenIn a love affair(And boy does it hurt)You fall in love with someone for whom you really careAnd they treat you just like dirtThey make you feel all fat and fumblyMake you feel kind of dirty and flirtyHey I'm talking to youDidn't you hear what I said?Better off deadThan living with someoneWhose every word's like a knife that cuts through youBetter off deadThan living with someoneWho just doesn't give a shit what happens to youYou know that it's wrongBut you go on and on and onBetter off deadBetter off deadBetter off deadWhen you fall in love with someoneWho doesn't love youYou better run for daylightJust as fast as you can (Little man)Forget your foolish dreams and schemes that things will work out in the endPut some real mileage between yourself and the object of your love my friendOr become what you seeYes, a loser like meSomeone who'd beBetter off deadBetter off deadBetter off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Frank, thanks for putting those lyrics up for it gives me a chance to do the same, only it's a poem by W H Auden. I was very lucky in my final years at school because we had to study the poets and writers of the 1930s, no difficult Chaucer or Shakespeare, rather John Betjeman's ' Come friendly bombs, fall on Slough' was a typical piece we studied, (should have been Hull or Doncaster, but that's another story!) One poem that has always stuck in my mind is Auden's 'Musee des Beaux Arts' poem, the essence being that whilst someone is suffering, someone else is laughing, our pains are subjective, whilst we mourn and grieve, others are oblivious and living their own lives with their own joys and pains. Doctors tell patients they have cancer stage 4, innocent tourists are murdered on foreign beaches, civilians die in their thousands in wars in the Middle East, innocent students are shot dead in Bang Sue whilst going home on a motorbike.... but we carry on living our lives regardless, the nature of survival. Musee des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 He should still be around today, married to an Irish girl with a farm and playing in pubs at the weekend. So missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jVMTydhx1Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 A terribly sad song about a man driven to murdering his whole family on Christmas Eve 1929 in Carolina. The version by Dave Alvin is the best but is not on You Tube so here are the lyrics and the Wiki link to the story. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Lawson The Murder of the Lawson FamilyIt was on last Christmas EveningA snow was on the groundIn a home in North CarolinaWhere the murderer he was foundHis name was Charlie LawsonAnd he had a loving wifeBut we'll never know what caused himTo take his family's life.They say he killed his wife at firstAnd the little ones did cry"Please papa, papa, spare our livesFor it is so hard to die".But the raging man could not be stoppedHe would not heed their callAnd he kept on firing fatal shotsUntil he killed them allAnd when the sad, sad news was heardIt was a great surpriseHe killed six children and his wifeAnd then he closed their eyes"And now farewell, kind friends and homeI'II see you all no moreInto my heart I'll fire a fatal shotThen my troubles will be o'er."They did not carry him to jailNo lawyers did he payHe'll have his trial in another worldOn the final judgment dayThey all were buried in a crowded graveWhile angels watched above"Come home, come home, my little onesTo the land of peace and love." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 the music from one of the most depressing films ever made. I have tried to watch it but can't get thru it in one sitting. It is "The Road ". I don't want a future like this . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 I just sit on the ground in your way... A wonderful talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jVMTydhx1Y One of the most moving songs I've ever heard, the melody, voice and lyrics just kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank James Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 (edited) This song has been covered by many since Charles Aznavour wrote it, in 1964. But this version can't be topped. Edited October 4, 2014 by Frank James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 Gene's songs are not hard to play on the guitar but to get within a million miles of that voice of his is imposssssssible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 Gene Clark battling his addictions, he lost the battle far too early in his life.But what tunes he left behind. Sail on everyone......... into the new year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWizardofRnR Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Sad but in a beautifully sung way , Oxymoron ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Good, but nowhere near as good as Roy Orbison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Jerry Lee Lewis-----You Win Again (by Hank Williams) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=06xZyh8VBFQ George Jones-----He Stopped Loving her Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y You are right about the George Jones one Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Lena Horne / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless C: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Jesus Christ Superstar ('73) I don't know how to : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Elvis Presley Tomorrow is a long time.: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Dean Martin - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Click : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Hard Luck Trouble by Elvis Presley: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrahmm Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Elvis Presley - Early Morning Rain (with lyrics): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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