'Sad' Songs - inspiration please!

[BassMama]

This is going to sound very weird.. but:

My band have been asked to play a gig at an underground festival.. basically, the set is to consist of 3 hours of songs that will (quote) 'make people cry, in an uplifting way. Songs that will get you in the gut (any genre)'

NOW - the examples they gave were things like

Bon Jovi - ill be there for you
Rod Stewart - Handbags and Gladrags
Oasis - Little by little
Robbie - Come Undone
My Chemical Romance - Black parade

There were more.. I cant remember now!

Anyway - I rand the lads and we're all quite up for it as its not really the sort of thing we do. We have 4 months to practise, and learn all the new songs.

SO - our 'homework' is to each come up with 30 suggestions, and then we'll choose 30 songs out of the 150 to do.

So - any help with my list would be HUGELY appreciated!

Thanks, lou!

Sad Song (!?) - Joe Jackson
Kayleigh (sp?) - Marillion
(I thank you for the) Days - Kirsty McColl

sorry haven't read thread so may be duplicates, but...

love song for a vampire - annie lennox
everybody hurts - rem (but of course)
one - u2

Invincible - Muse

Haven't read the whole thread so these are probably duplicated but here goes -

The drugs don't work - The Verve
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Goodbye my lover - James Blunt
The Promise - Tracy Chapman
Somewhere over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy
Love song for a vampire - Annie Lennox
Sorry seems to be the hardest word - Elton John
Going under - Evanscence
Heaven can wait - Meatloaf

Oh God - my Mastermind specialist subject

not read whole thread, so sorry for any repetitions.

Allelulia - jeff buckley/leonard cohen

Where is my Mind or Giantic - The Pixies

Coal not dole - chumbawumba

Between the Wars - Billy Bragg

Mad World - Jules andrews or whatevver his name is version

Knocking on heaven's door - clapton

Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention

What if God was One of Us - Joan Osbourne

Think For a Minute - The Housemartins

Lithium - Nirvana

Angie - Rolling Stones

Ruby Tuesday - Melanie

New England - Kirsty McColl

Fading Out (street Spirit) - Radiohead

Me and a Gun - Tori Amos

Hootie and the Blowfish - Goodbye

sob

fields of gold, cant remember who its by.

Nobody does it better - Carly Simon (I think!)

Crazy for you - Madonna

Lyrics to Hootie

Tomorrow used to be a day away
Now love is gone and you're into someone far away.
I never thought the day would come
When I would see his hand, not mine,
holding onto yours because I could not find the time.
Now I can't deny
nothing lasts forever
I don't want to leave
and I see the tear drops in your eyes
I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye
Now there comes another part of life that I call alone
sitting at a bar with Chris
and I can't leave 'cause my house ain't no home, no.
I just wanna touch you girl
I wanna feel you close to me
Without your love I would give up now
and walk away so easily.
So maybe while you're young
We'll figure out together
that even with the pain, there's a remedy
and we'll be all right
I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye.
When I first met you I couldn't love anyone
but you stole my dreams and you made me see
that I can walk under the sun
and I can still be me
and now I can't deny nothing lasts forever.
But I don't want to leave and see the teardrops in your eyes
So baby while we're young let's figure out together
that even with the pain there's a remedy
and we'll be all right.
I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye,
we say goodbye, oh goodbye, goodbye.

Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
Guns n' Roses - Patience
The Beatles - She's Leaving Home

bassmama - you are going to come back and let us know your shortlisted songs so we can howl 'noooo' or shout abuse at the screen when we disagree strongly etc??

( I really need to get a life, right?)

One of the songs that makes me cry is I will always love you.

Not the Whitney Houston version which is all loud, show-offy defiance imo, but Dolly's original version.

In my mind it's a poor teenage mother singing to her new baby who she's putting up for adoption - I'm sure that's not what she was singing about but the song has always sounded like a desperately sad lullaby to me.

Not suitable for a band really but one of the saddest songs I know.

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band: Adam Raised a Cain
Emmylou Harris - Sonny
The Hothouse Flowers - The Lake of Ponchartrain
Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas (a little something in the language of lovers peut-etre)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (I think that's the title, it's a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song I think)
The Walker Brothers - No Regrets

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oh god yes, Hurt!!

And Kate Bush This Woman's Work (though maybe that only gets you if you're a mother...)

unchained melody

i think they should do "I will survive"

Straight out of left field - Vera Lynn with a lot of base. We'll Meet Again or the White Cliffs of Dover - ohhh, they'll be crying alright (in an uplifted way, of course).

i'll be seeing you

Sad, but also uplifting? Interesting. Much as I like Radiohead and Joy Division, they are probably too depressive....I mean,'Love will tear us apart'...pass the razor blade, love.

Here goes:

Impossible Things - The Cure (from Wish)
Mad World - Tears for Fears (not the awful Gary Jules version)
Breathing - Kate Bush
Chasing Cars / You could be happy - Snow Patrol
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Three Times a Lady - Lionel Richie
Private Universe - Crowded House
Where have all the flowers gone? - Peter Seegar
And a couple that are uplifting, but sad because of what happened to the artists,etc.

We've only just begun - The Carpenters
Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel / Kate Bush

Oh... I almost forgot:

Mothers, Daughters, Wives - The Corries. Will have you weeping in yer haggis..

Gorecki - Lamb
''If I should die this very moment, I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
Still in my heart this moment
Or it might burst
Could we stay right here
Until the end of time until the earth stops turning
Wanna love you until the seas run dry
I've found the one I've waited for''

Oh, and Richard Thomspon writes fantastic - ballad of James and Red Molly
Beeswing

Even my dh had a 'moment' when he heard these...so beautiful

Music When the Lights Go Out - The Libertines.

bassmama, where are you!! Feedback on how we're doing????

(I LOve these threads.)

ADAd, and Spawnchorus - I'm loving your work here (it's a good job I'm off out soon or I'd be cracking open the whisky and have a very happy maudlin singalong night IYKWIM....)