Tearjerkers- Some Sad Songs

[Bodhi]

 

[Bodhi]

 

[christoph]

Tearjerker by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Too obvious?

 

[Sablon Audio]

Dance with My Father - Luther Vandross

 

[Tango]

Maybe I should have added "...rather insignificant for me, especially in this thread".
Better?
I don't like the original too much (where as I really like Tears for Fears in general), but I really love the Michael Andrews cover for the Donnie Darko soundtrack. Completely transforms this song for me

There is a guy commented the Origibal vs Gary Jules and I very much agree as follow:
" Both the Original and the Gary Jules cover have their benefits. The Original is angrier, bitter at the way things are, wearing a tight-lipped and sardonic smile. The cover is too tired to fight anymore and is introspective and brooding about the way things spiraled downwards."

I like the cover too but the 80's is in my blood and too tired to fight is just not me.

Btw I can even imitated the dance exactly like that.

Kind regards,
Tang

 

[XV-1]

There is a guy commented the Origibal vs Gary Jules and I very much agree as follow:
" Both the Original and the Gary Jules cover have their benefits. The Original is angrier, bitter at the way things are, wearing a tight-lipped and sardonic smile. The cover is too tired to fight anymore and is introspective and brooding about the way things spiraled downwards."

I like the cover too but the 80's is in my blood and too tired to fight is just not me.

Btw I can even imitated the dance exactly like that.

Kind regards,
Tang

Right on Tang.
The original Mad World is awesome and a classic track, as is Pale Shelter.
Tears for Fears were huge in the UK well before they hit US gold om their 2nd album.

The cover version is a nice somewhat bland cover by a guy that sounds like Michael Stipe imo

 

[christoph]

There is a guy commented the Origibal vs Gary Jules and I very much agree as follow:
" Both the Original and the Gary Jules cover have their benefits. The Original is angrier, bitter at the way things are, wearing a tight-lipped and sardonic smile. The cover is too tired to fight anymore and is introspective and brooding about the way things spiraled downwards."

I like the cover too but the 80's is in my blood and too tired to fight is just not me.

Btw I can even imitated the dance exactly like that.

Kind regards,
Tang

Dear Tang
Thank you very much for that further input

 

[Blue58]

Played as intro and outro at my best friends funeral.
I can no longer listen to it home as it cracks me up.
RIP Ian Lewis.

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

 

[Ed.P]

 

[fbhifi]

Tom Waits- Bad Liver and a Broken Heart.

 

[Folsom]

Nothing else comes close to this. Nearly the whole album is brutal in sadness.

And best of all it sounds nothing like his pop crap version of everything.

 

[DonH50]

Five off the top of my head:

Ben (the old bear movie)
Time in a Bottle
Where Do I Begin? (Love Story)
He Stopped Loving Her Today

And of course:

Taps (the hardest 24 notes for a trumpet player; Last Post for non-USA folk)

 

[Nemal1]

Don’t you forget about me by Era. On the Mass album.

 

[DaveyF]

This from the Sheffield Lab Amanda McBroom Growing up in Hollywood town:

 

[marty]

There is only one master of the torch song:

 

[cpvniii]

"Softly as I Leave You". I know.....I am showing my age. Frank defined my dad's generation.....every bit as much as the Beatles defined this young teenagers generation. My dad was a contemporary of Franks and lived two townships over (Wood Ridge) from Hoboken in Bergen County, NJ...above the Palisades, above Teterboro Airport on the Hudson.

 

[NorthStar]

Opera vocals are the ones that make me cry the most ... just too many of them here to mentioned; it would take a library ...

 

[cpvniii]

She Must be Beautiful-Janis Ian from the cd "God and the FBI"