Sad Songs

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Where is the line between the music whose sadness you enjoy and the music whose sadness you don't?

What is the saddest song you can listen to? And the saddest song you can't?

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Stan Rogers' "Lies" is the saddest song I can listen to, which makes it the saddest song I know. I don't think I have an upper limit, but I suppose that I start to process it as "boring" past a certain point.

The only song that I've found that I consider emotionally unpleasant to hear is "The Boiler", which I think is a Specials B-side, being basically the story of a date rape, concluding with over a minute of screaming.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Actually "When she loved me" from Toy Story 2 is up there as well for sadness.