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  • From: william brafford <randyunplugged AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Saddest Song Ever?
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:19:40 -0800 (PST)

I was definitely going to say "Tom Traubert's
Blues"... so I guess I'm going to have to go with "Day
After Tomorrow" (also by Tom Waits) and Ryan Adams'
"Call Me On Your Way Back Home". And I'll fourth
"Unsatisfied" - although it's more triumphantly sad
than sad-sad.

-Randy


--- Evan Rowe <evanrowe AT fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I will emerge from lurking long enough to third the
> "Unsatisfied," if
> for no reason other than: while driving to work this
> morning, listening
> to an old Replacements compilation tape someone made
> me, it came on and
> I thought (really, today) "this might be the saddest
> song ever."
> Also-
> "Tom Traubert's Blues" by Tom Waits. More Matilda
> Waltzing.
> "Sunday Morning Coming Down" by Kris
> Kristofferson/Johnny Cash. The
> Crooked Fingers cover is pretty damned sad, too.
>
> =ER
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Fikri Yucel" <fikri_y AT yahoo.com>
> To: "RTP-area local music and culture"
> <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:33:55 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Re: Saddest Song Ever?
>
> "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil
>
> Also, I second the Replacements' "Unsatisfied."
>
> Recently: "Empty Cans" by The Streets has brought me
> to tears.
>
> And Johnny Cash can (OK, could) sing just about
> anything and it's the saddest possible sound you've
> heard...
>
> -Fikri
>
>
>
>
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