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

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

the saddest song that i can listen to is george jones he stopped loving her today. the saddest song that i cannot listen to is strange fruit by holiday.

(i almost wrote gloomy sunday, but it is so theatrical, that its artifice makes the sadness meditated, it is a work about sadness as much as it is sad itself) (in fact that line between theatricality and genuine emotion, the enjoying of craft so that emotion can be deftly avoided, is a mark of my favourite sad songs--from hank williams i'm so lonesome to the shangri las train from kansas city, a few dylan songs, a dozen leonard cohen tracks, scott walker's tilt, send in the clowns, and even kenny chesney's anyone but mine... (of course stephin meritt wrote a meta-song about this slippage--the amazing promises of enternity)

Young V Mitchell

[mcatzilut.livejournal.com]

For me it comes down to all of Blue versus Young's "Old Man." The former I can only handle when I'm already devastated and it's speaking for me - and the latter makes me sad, but I can listen to it any time. I think it's the difference between raw sadness, and just sensitive suffering.