Beautiful and Sad Songs
Beautiful and Sad Songs
Lara2
Chorus Member Joined: 10/18/05
#0Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 3:39am
I've been downloading songs like crazy lately, and I need help and rcomendations. What I'm looking for are some of the most beautiful songs you have ever heard, and also sad songs, about loss and love.Doesn't need to be songs from Broadway, though those will do too.
So I am in need of help to expand my music collection, and this is the kind I'm in the mood for.
Thanks in advance, and Happy Hollidays!
Lara
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Updated On: 12/23/05 at 03:39 AM
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#1re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 4:39amHmm...I'd Give It All For You from Songs For A New World comes to mind, as does The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee. I'm drawing a blank as far as non-musicals go...but it's late.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#2re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 4:51am
"Nobody Needs to Know" - Last Five Years
"Why" - tick, tick...BOOM!
Those two songs break my heart.
Akiva
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#3re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 4:53amAh, yes. And just about everything from The Last 5 Years...and Parade.
RachLaura
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/05
kelly0ann
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/05
#5re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 7:40amA Little Fall of Rain, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables....any thing from Les Miserables
#6re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 7:42am"Mad Mad World." Don't know who sings it, but if you've seen Donnie Darko, you've heard it.
kelly0ann
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/05
#7re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 7:55amGary Jules sings that song. Tears for Fears does a version of it too. I love Donnie Darko!
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#8re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 8:16am
"What’ll I do when you
Are far away
And I’m so blue,
What’ll I do?
What’ll I do when I
Am wondering who
Is kissing you,
What’ll I do?
What’ll I do with just
A photograph
To tell my troubles to?
When I’m alone
With only dreams of you
That won’t come true,
What’ll I do?"
#9re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 8:39am
The acoustic version of I Miss You by Incubus.
Kissing You by Des'ree from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack
I Know The Truth from Aida
Hold Me by Savage Garden
I Don't Know You Anymore by Savage Garden
If You're Not The One by Daniel Beddingfield
Best I Ever Had by Vertical Horizon
Never is a Promise by Fiona Apple
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#10re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 9:02am
FINALLY!!! I love threads like this.
Here, one of the saddest songs by Tori Amos EVER!!
Hey Jupiter
http://feature.atlrec.com/tori_amos/heyjupiter-rm-full.ram there ya go!! I am gonna put more...hee hee, but definatly this one.
Here are three more that make me want to cry every time I hear them.
Mother
This one's only instrument is the piano, and then of course Tori's voice. http://feature.atlrec.com/tori_amos/mother-rm-full.ram
Winter
This one starts with piano and then gets the violins and everything going. http://feature.atlrec.com/tori_amos/winter-rm-full.ram
China
Very flowing and heavy. http://feature.atlrec.com/tori_amos/china-rm-full.ram
So many more, but these are the songs that I started with with Tori, but the others aren's the kind you are wanting (although the best).
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#11re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 9:31amI've always found "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack to be a very beautiful song with a sad undertone.
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#12re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:08pm
Josh Young has an AMAZING CD for songs like this .. so I'll give the ones I love with him and someone else singing for the more known ones.
Run Away With Me -Michael Arden or Josh Young
How To Not Be With You - Josh Young
Flight - Daniel Torres or Josh Young
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell or Josh Young
Someone to Fall Back On - Josh Young
His CD is amaazing if you're in one of those kind of sad moods.
#13re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:11pmI don't know how you feel about country, but "Skin" by Rascal Flatts breaks my heart.
#14re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:12pmDays of Plenty from Little Women and Some Things Were Meant To Be.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#15re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:13pmHero by Enrique Iglesias
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
#16re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:14pm"Brick" by Ben Folds Five
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#17re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:16pm
"How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye" by Patty Loveless.
Any song that ends with a dying mother telling her daughter how to let go of her and move on with her life should by default qualify for "saddest song ever".
Also notable: (This is pretty much the only sort of music I listen to, so I've got a pretty big collection)
-"The Greatest Man I Never Knew" - Reba
-"She Thinks His Name Was John" - Reba
-"Whoever's In New England" - Reba
-"I Don't Know You Anymore" - Savage Garden
-"Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" - Savage Garden
-"Starting Over Again" - Reba
-"Never Is A Promise" - Fiona Apple
-"Lion Tamer" - Kristin Chenoweth
-"Times Like This" - from "Lucky Stiff", as sung by Christiane Noll
-"Ballyshannon" - Emily Skinner/Alice Ripley
-"My Brother Lived in San Francisco" - Emily Skinner
-"I Don't Know How To Help You" - Stephanie Pope
-"The Rain Keeps Falling Down" - Brian D'Arcy James
-"Anytime (I Am There)" - Norm Lewis (Carolee's version is ok, but too shrill to convey the emotional content)
-"Heroes All Around" - group thing from "Elegies....Raging Queens"
-"My Immortal" - Evanescence
-"Hello" - Evanescence
-"Breathe No More" - Evanescence
-"You" - Evanescence
-"Even After Death" - Evanescence
-"Goodnite" - Evanescence
-"Now When The Rain Falls" - Christiane Noll
-"I Can Tell You Are Always There" - Christiane Noll
Will update as more occur to me...
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Updated On: 12/23/05 at 12:16 PM
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#18re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:42pm
Here are my favorites:
*No one is alone - Into the Woods
*Maybe I like it this way - Wild Party
*Not while I'm around - Sweeney Todd
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#19re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 3:53pm
http://www.thunderwishes.com/yessaid/1996-11-11_improv-hurt-sneeze.mp3
Caught a Lite Sneeze (Hurt improv)
This was recorded at a concert. The beggining is jsut Tori singing and then she starts to play the harpsichord and the guitar is in the backround all pretty and eerie.
#20re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 4:15pm
Oh yes, Tori Amos is suicide material. "Winter" is beautiful.
Joni Mitchell's "River" is a lovely sad song, full of melancholy and regret. It's especially fitting for the holiday season ("Comin' on Christmas, we're cuttin' down trees....I made my baby say goodbye...").
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Updated On: 12/23/05 at 04:15 PM
#21re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 5:00pm
I absolutely love "Whoever's in New England," Jaily. And I'm not that big of a country fan. "For my broken heart" by Reba is also a good one. Truly depressing and beautiful.
The Carpenters have a lot, too. Karen's "Superstar" is the only version of that song I'll listen to. Ruben Studdard should be muzzled for ever trying to sing it.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#22re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 5:03pm
Both of these songs from Jersey Boys/Frankie valli & The 4 Seasons are pretty sad- "Fallen Angel" and "My Eyes Adored You"
they always make my eyes tear up
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#23re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 5:12pm
Tori covered RIVER!!!
It is great, and then she messes up and says, "Give me a sec, I'm f*cked up. Getting old happens."
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/2001-11-06_river.mp3
#24re: Beautiful and Sad Songs
Posted: 12/23/05 at 7:41pm
The Luckiest by Ben Folds
ANY of The Hours soundtrack, my favorite is Morning Passages
Fly Away by Poe
A Song For You by Donny Hathaway
Texas Tornado by Tracy Lawrence
The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice
Carbon Monoxide by Regina Spektor
Not all particularly sad, but beautiful by all means.
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