Songs that make you feel sad and nostalgic

"Sunday Mornin' Coming Down" - Kris Kristofferon

The entire Side 1 of Songs of Kristofferson:

The Silver-Tongued Devil

Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)

Me And Bobby McGee

Help Me Make It Through The Night

For The Good Times

Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

When I was a senior in high school, every day I drove my beat up Pinto from school to work. For Your Eyes Only was always played during my drive time and everytime I hear it, it takes me right back to being 17 years old.

Damn Youtube. I meant this.

"Keep Me in Your Heart" - Warren Zevon says goodbye.

"How Can I Tell You?" - Cat Stevens

Someone used to play this at me because I couldn't fall in love with him. It always makes me feel like crying.

"Mary's Dress Waves"

And then there's this version of "Thunder Road."

"Take that long walk from your front porch to my front seat. The door's open, but the ride it ain't free."

"Tougher than the Rest" - Springsteen

"My Hometown" - Springsteen

My mother's favorite hymn is "How Great Thou Art." It was played at my Dad's funeral, and she requested that it be played at hers when she passes.

I live in a very old, historic, section of town, just half a block away from a beautiful, old Cathedral. Every Sunday morning they play a selection of hymns using only bells, and that is one of the songs they play. It always stops me in my tracks and I pause to listen. Makes me sad to know that one day I'll be hearing it at my Mother Funeral Mass.

Reminds me of my childhood

Josh Groban - Home to Stay

Whole Hearted - Extreme -- The last time I heard this it caused me to burst into tears. It reminds me of the loss of my partner last year and the emptiness that I feel.

Don't Speak - No Doubt --- I associate it with unpleasant memories. My mom died about the time of it's release.

She ran callin' W I L D F I R E

Classical Gas by Mason Williams. Most anything by Simon & Garfunkel.

"Surrounded," Chantal Kreviazuk

Fountain of Sorrow -- although Joan Baez's rendition leaves me more melancholy than the version by originating artist Jackson Browne.

One W for R18 (for Jackson Browne's version)

Go Tell Aunt Rhody

Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces

'Daydream Believer' - The Monkees

A bad breakup at the time: Losing My Religion

Right down the line and Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty

Dirty work- Steely Dan

Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman.

It breaks my heart whenever I hear it. I was so young and idealistic then.

Jennifer Johnson and Me by Robert Earl Keen

This Shirt by Mary Chapin Carpenter

"I Can't Tell You Why" and "Hole In The World" both by the Eagles.

[quote]It breaks my heart whenever I hear it. I was so young and idealistic then.

This is why a lot of songs seem sad to me. I listened to them when I still felt I had hope.

Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow/ Inside My Love - Minnie Riperton = sadly reminds me of my best friend from middle school. He's the one who introduced me to both of these songs and artists. He was more bold and adventurous than I was back then. He turned me onto lots of songs. He was drowned in a hazing prank gone terribly wrong. I miss his friendship and unshakeable Taurus strength. I learned much from him.

"U got it bad" by Usher. It was my first time living overseas, first time being out, hitting the gay clubs, feeling free, full of hope, hooking up with hotties, trying on different hats. First time seeing snow too. Kills me every time I hear it

As someone stated earlier, for me, too, it's the songs with which I grew up as a preteen.

This would be basically any song from the mid to late 1970s.

Yes, there are a lot of bad pop songs from this era, but almost all of them have a memory of my childhood years through the mid 1980s.

Another vote for Sunday Morning Coming Down, though not the Johnny version - too fast and jaunty. The Handsome Family do a good one.

Hurt, the Johnny version.

Arthur's Theme

Blue

Jim Croce reminded so much of my older brother, who loved Croce's music as much as I did. Ironically, my brother died in an automobile accident, one month before Croce died in a plane accident. I'm always reminded of my brother whenever I hear one of Croce's songs being played.

"Another Auld Lange Syne" by Dan Fogelberg

Not to be too precious here, but the Carpenters "Yesterday Once More". It reminds me of long summer evenings when we kids played outside until the sun went down. And it's literally about songs that make one feel nostalgic.

"If you could Read my Mind"

"Help me Make it Through the Night"

The theme from midnight cowboy

Hell is for Children.

R37 Yup. That'n always makes me cry.

"Ventura Highway" by America; my aunts & uncles were teenagers/20-somethings when I was a kid and I seem to remember them playing America all the time.

You guys are really showing your age. Songs that do it for me are:

Alphaville - Forever Young

Crowded House - Don't Dream it's Over

Season's Change - Expose

What's up - 4 Non Blondes

Save the Best for Last - Vanessa Williams

I almost forgot

Drive - The Cars

Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol

Wham - Careless Whisper

I used to love that song by Dionne Warwick and all, "That's What Friends are For", which was ubiquitous in the late eighties and even early nineties. Also Cyndi Lauper's "All Through the Night" still chokes me up when I hear it.

Works just like a time machine on me. Glad I never hear it on the radio anymore as I will tear up immediately.

And what are you showing, R44, if not your age?

I love Save the Best for Last, btw.

R49 Point taken

I must admit that I develop an emotional connection to most of my favorite songs to the point where a part of me dies inside when it's featured on some stupid commercial or if there is a shitty cover version of it on Glee. I can't be the only one.

I wanted to blow up my television, R50, when Glee did "Rumours," but I like the Finn/Jesse St. James version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" much more than the original. And "Don't Stop Believin'" failed to register until I heard the Glee version.

"Afternoon delight" the summer of 76. I was 10 MY whole family I recall went to Central park. I remember the sun setting and the boats This song was playing somewhere around me from others enjoying the day while sitting or laying on the grass enjoying the late afternoon warm air. I remember clearly all these visuals for and for perhaps a split second... I'm moved

R33, I tried the Handsome Family version of "Sunday Morning Comin' Down," but it doesn't replace the Kristofferson for me. HATED Johnny Cash; as you said, way too "jaunty." This is not a jaunty song.

I was introduced to a lot of Motown hits through the California Raisins. I guess there are worse ways to get acquainted with the classics.

When You Say Nothing At All by Alison Krauss. Reminds me of my first boyfriend. I was in my early 20s and we loved each other so much...but we were just too young for it to last.

Year of the Cat. Thunder Road.

"These Eyes" by the Guess Who. Reminds me of breaking up with my first love.

[quote]I must admit that I develop an emotional connection to most of my favorite songs to the point where a part of me dies inside when it's featured on some stupid commercial or if there is a shitty cover version of it on Glee. I can't be the only one.

Which is why I will never see the stage version or the movie of Mamma Mia. The songs of ABBA are so entwined into my teenage years that I think if I heard them in a different context, it would break the chain. "Dancing Queen" "Winner Takes It All" "Mamma Mia" "Fernando" and the rest of the catalog are so nostalgic for me.

The songs of John Denver, specifically "Take Me Home, Country Road"

We lived 1,000 miles away from our grandparents. Every summer, my parents would pile us into the station wagon and we would drive to spend two weeks with my grandparents. Back in the 1970s, radio stations weren't as segmented. You could turn on a station and it would play everything from country to pop to rock to soul. So while riding along, we heard a lot of different styles of music.

"Take Me Home...." reminds me of sitting in the back seat of the station wagon with the window rolled down (dad was too cheap to get a car with AC) and just watching the scenery fly by. We would stop at roadside diners for lunch where waitresses would call me "Sweet Pea". "You want a Mr. Pibb, Sweetpea?" I'm sure this sounds corny, but my summer vacation was something out of Americana. I'd ride along with my hand out the window feeling the wind rush against my hand. Whenever a truck drove by, we'd always try to get them to blow their horn. And we'd have to practically threaten to pee on the back seat to get my father to stop for a bathroom break. I think he didn't want to stop because he knew he'd have to buy all of us Cokes out of the vending machine at the gas station and an hour later, he'd have to stop for another pee break.

R59 I still remember hearing "Take Me Home Country Roads" when I was driving my car up on an overpass, and the song touched something deep inside me, like my soul, as though something opened up. So young at the time. And it's still my favorite song by John Denver. It has such presence to it.

Still You Turn Me On by Greg Lake. Memories of being 16 and in love.

Anything by Gordon Lightfoot

"Walking Higher" by Heather Nova

"Donut Song" by Tori Amos

Careless Whisper reminds me of one former lover and anything Wham! Of my first. Don't you want me Baby of another. Miss Otis Regrets of a third. Anne Murray of a fourth. Oh god I'm a slut.

My summer at Camp Pembina in Algongquin Park in July 1969,

A House Is Not A Home by Dusty Springfield

Most songs remind me of last week, not a million years ago, because they have lived on through the years without much effort. But there is one period -- late '77 when I was just starting college where, if I hear a song from it, I feel downright hollow. It's weird too because that wasn't a particularly good (college got great very soonafter) or bad. But songs like "We Just Disagree" by Dave Mason are the ones that make me sad for truly lost youth. "Crazy Love" by Poco too, though it came out a little later.

All Apologies by Nirvana

Madonna's Crazy for You. I was 21, had just come out the year before and was hopelessly head-over-heels in love for the first time. I was so naive and just didn't have a clue about so many things. But I'll never forget that first time with Bobby...or was it Billy...or was it Benny. Oh shoot, anyway it started with a 'B'! :)

All songs by Madonna make me sad. Sad that she was ever encouraged to sing.

God you people are old.

I just dowloaded this from Itunes, it reminders me of being a teen, it seems like such a long time ago, but I remember it like yesterday. There is something about songs from that era that just tear me up, maybe because my parents were alive, and life was so much simpler when I was just a kid. Different world.

Boys of Summer

This song especially, but also the whole Quiet Fire album, were the soundtrack of two my heartbreaks in late '71 - early '72.

r56 funny, Year of the Cat is one of the only Al Stewart songs that doesn't make me sad and nostalgic.

This one from the Goo Goo Dolls always gets me right in the gut. Under-rated song and band.

I was just going to post that R70. The part "I woke last night to the sound of thunder/ How far off I sat and wondered" reminds of sleeping with the windows open in summer and a storm coming in. And my brother playing the radio low (probably WLS).

" In My Life " by the Beatles

Supertramp, "Take the Long Way Home"

"Africa" by Toto

James Taylor's "Carolina in my Mind" and "You've Got A Friend"

Kind of a different theme than the others, but video games in general make me very nostalgic for my childhood/teenage years.

ELO- telephone Line

Billy Joel - honesty

Depeche Mode- free love

Cat Stevens - wild world

Elliot smith- pick any song

Aimee Mann- also pick any song

Elton john- tiny dancer

And another vote for crowded house- don't dream is over and supertamps take the long way home.

I will be back with many more. I love and have appreciation for many beautiful songs especially if they invoke painful memories or cause me to reflect on my life with sadness and regret

James Taylor "Fire and Rain" and The Turtles "Happy Together".

Oh Very Young by Cat Stevens. In fact, just about anything by Cat Stevens.

Take my Breath Away - Berlin

Sign Your Name - Terrence Trent D'arby

Close to You - Maxi Priest

The entire Dirty Dancing Soundtrack

Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle

How could I forget these

The NeverEnding Story - Limahl

Hero - Mariah Carey

Agree with R8

The most nostalgic for me is 8 bit NES music. The Mega Man series had my favorite tunes.

Sorry that last post was in response to R80

Bryan Adams was my favourite rocker from young, he soundtracked my childhood basically (and was also my first fantasy crush). I love everybone his early 80s-early 90s releases, but 'Do I Have To Say The Words?' has the most power to move me. It catapults me back to being a pre/teen in unrequited love. I was a very moody, introverted & angst teen who never had my feelings returned, it was a tough time and I don't always like to remember it, but I won't deny the depth & power of my emotions felt good then.

Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney

Me too, R90, but in a good way. The McCartney album was part of the soundtrack of a very good time in my life.

At Seventeen - Janis Ian

Mary @ r92 . . . . .That IS an outstanding song.

Jungle Love by the Steve Miller Band

Makes me want to get up of the ground and do a tribal dance!

THIS ONE

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

R86 OP That was the first song I thought of. Operator has some great pop storytelling in it. That is probably the saddest of all of Croce's songs. It reminds me so much of my late uncle.

Certain Elvis cuts make me think wistfully and painfully of my paternal family, who became estranged from me completely when I was around 12 due to an inheritance dispute with my dad.

One of my eccentric, butchy, provincial aunts (I had 5, my dad is from a poor family) used to love careening down country roads in her scratched Kingfisher blue Vauxhall car blasting all manner of 60s/70s hits. Her favourites were doo-wop groups like The Spinners or The Four Tops, and Elvis. Only certain King songs - she had certain ones she stuck to, especially 'Moody Blue', 'Devil in Disguise', and 'Suspicious Minds'. Never heard 'Jailhouse Rock', 'An America Trilogy', 'Hound Dog' or 'Viva Las Vegas' in her car...

I'm Not in Love - Will to Power --- reminds me of an unrequited crush that I had on a straight friend, back when I was still in the closet. I'd come out later that year, because of my attraction to this guy. It remains high on my playlist and nostalgic tunes a quarter of a century later. This song will always be special to me and remind me of life changing decisions I had to make, for my future well being.

@LosFelizDaycare

Bourbon (44 wks) baby signed "this is a coup!" after hearing about Comey. Quora (85 wks) read wrong and talked about zher family's home coop

"I'm Not in Love" reminds me of a guy I wish were still alive. I used to cat sit for him when he went away, and fuck when he wasn't away. I don't remember why we lost touch with each other. I think I fell in love with someone else. Anyway, the song reminded him of me.

Summer of '42.

Pavane by Gabriel Fauré

Wild horses & fade into you, by Mazzy star. Main street, by Bob Seger.

Are you les by any chance, R104?

I find most lesbians adore Mazzy Star & Hope Sandoval, she's like one of our patron saints. In fact a lot of her songs come across as very sapphic, seemingly written as love songs with women in mind (one my old friends memorably called her oeuvre 'lesbian-sadcore-fusion-Underground). Do you know the song 'Suzanne' by Hope and her band The Warm Inventions? It's gorgeous, and brings back a lot of sad, wistful memories of unrequited first crushes for me.

(If anyone else is reading and curious for good les songs by Sandoval, I recommend Mazzy's 'She's My Baby', Hope's feature on Air's 'Cherry Blossom Girl', and the Warm Inventions' 'Charlotte' as first cuts. Thank me later ;))

Joni's Mitchell -- River

Tears for Fears -- Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I have heard this song several times during the worst days of my life, including on 9/11. When I hear it, I'm afraid it's an omen.

[quote]Joni Mitchell -- River

"Urge for Going" and "The Circle Game" have become so painful to listen to, either by Joni or Tom Rush, whose versions I heard years before Joni's, I usually turn them off when they pop up (I mainly listen to iTunes on 'shuffle').

This one. I was a little 15-year old fag going to the local teen new wave club. One of the door guys looked like the lead singer and my knees just buckled whenever I saw him.

"Back Seat of My Car"---- Paul McCartney

Speed along the highway, honey I want it my way

But listen to her daddy's song, don't stay out to long

Were just busy hidin', sitting in the back seat of my car

The lazy lights are pretty, we may end up in Mexico City

But listen to her daddy's song, makin' love is wrong

Were just busy ridin', sitting in the back seat of my car

Oh we was only hidin', sitting in the back seat of my car

And when we've finished drivin' we can say we were late in arriving

And listen to her daddy's song, we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

We can make it to Mexico City, sittin' in the backseat of my car

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

No no no no

Ohhh we believe that we can't be wrong

When I was a kid hearing this, it inspired me, made me feel like things could happen, despite the efforts of others in opposition. Now days, the power of the repeated concluding

OHHHH WE BELIVE THAT WE CAN'T BE WRONG------- those words and that sentiment just inevitably get me crying.

Abel Korzeniowski - And Just Like That

R108 you knew a doorman who looked like Morton Harket? You lucky rat bastard.

Wish clubs like the one you described still existed, where indie gays could go and be with our kind.

That quirky small-eyed Morten look was big back then and so hot. And agree with R111, loved meeting others into the Smiths and so on. Gay was most cool during that decade, maybe because the illness brought us together somehow (though I know how scary it was too). Culturally, it was amazing though.

This one...

"Summer Breeze"---Seals & Croft. Such a melancholy and wistful song. It reminds me of growing up in the 1970's : Riding my bike on lazy summer days jamming to my little transistor radio I duck taped to my handlebars, swimming with my friends in the lake, getting a popsicle from the hippie ice cream truck that I found out later sold other stuff besides ice cream, camping out in the backyard and spending hours just looking at the stars...

I always feel a twinge of sadness when I hear this song---perhaps for innocence that has long passed.

"I Love You More Then You'll Ever Know" by Donny Hathaway.

Fuck. My life story...

"Old and Wise" - Alan Parsons Project (so maudlin)

"Tom's Diner" - Suzanne Vega

Donny Hathaway, again. His version of "For All We Know", all the more poignant because he sings lyrics such as:

For all we know

This may only be a dream

We come and go

Like a ripple on a stream

So love me tonight

Tomorrow was made for some

Tomorrow may never come

For all we know

----- and committed suicide by early 1979.

I've Never Been To Me - Charlene

I 2nd Charlene!

Also, Open Arms, Faithfully, Unchained Melody and Careless Whisper.

The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald.

Everyone Says Hi.

The Dark Is Rising.

Good Year For The Roses.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. (Judy's of course!)

Being Boring. Pet Shop Boys

Suedehead. Morrissey

Don't Ask Me Why. Eurythmics

No Promises. Icehouse

Don't Go Back To Rockville. REM

George Michael - Careless Whisper

Louise - Bonnie Raitt

"Close To You" by the Carpenters. Age 6, splashing around the municipal pool all day, all summer 1970. My sisters were still alive. Bathing suits, chlorine, Doritos, suntan lotion, transistor radios, friends (saw my first naked guys in the changing room).

Then the long walk home to supper- we really worked up an appetite!

Sade's "Jezebel" from her 1985 "Promise" album. The whole album is excellent, but the lyrics of this particular song resonate with me, and it never fails to put some tears in my eyes. I think we all knew of a few Jezebels in our lives.

"Imagine," by John Lennon

I used to think I could. Lately, not so much.

Thanks, OP. You brought back a lot of great memories.

A song of a love departed

It was so cold in NY that winter.

I thought finding a boyfriend would be so easy in 1963.

This just compounded things.

And then there'd be the Johnnys to get through. My first was named Michael.

It took me 'til 25 to get to this point.

"The Freshmen," The Verve Pipe

Thats why they call it the blues, reminds me of the only girl I ever loved-2 faced cunt.

That Oleta Adams song reminds me if a SOB ,I once dated.

Dream lover by Mariah reminds me if my one true love, and best fuck ever.

I'm telling you I'm not going, second true love and the bastard left.

r134 Oh, my.

Billy Bragg, The Man in the Iron Mask

Take me back in time maybe I can forget

Turn a different corner and we never would have met

Would you care

One More Try

Nothing better than Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years."

"Father and Son" - Cat Stevens

"Ugoy ng Duyan" - a Filipino mother's lullaby. Makes me cry when I listen to it on You Tube.

"Michelle's Song" and "Friends" - Elton John from the 1971 movie "Friends", a movie of young love. Fifteen year old me was so attracted to Paul, the adolescent lead actor.

"Try to Remember" - sung by Jerry Orbach. More poignant now that I am turning 60 this year.

Silver Springs by Stevie Nicks. Breaks my heart badly all over again. Many tears. even reading the lyrics gives me chills.

Lighthouse Family - "High".

Patti Smith - The Jackson Song

Patti Smith's hopeful, yet elegiac lullaby to her son, Jackson, which includes lyrical references to his father, Fred Sonic Smith, who had died.

Dinner at eight, Rufus Wainwright.

OMG "Imagine"! That song makes me so sad.

Theme from "Mannix".

Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?) - Diana Ross

Creepin - Stevie Wonder

Got To Be There/I Wanna Be Where You Are - Michael Jackson

Theme From Midnight Cowboy - Ferrante & Teicher

So Real, So Right - Brenda Russell

Rolling Down A Mountainside - The Main Ingredient

Elvis - Alpha

Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt......and anything by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. My father, who was of the Glenn Miller/Tommy Dorsey era, adored them.

Anything Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler reminds me of my Dad, who I adore despite our rocky beginnings.

He loves wandering around humming Knopfler tunes, some of his favourites being th hits like 'Sultans of Swing', 'Romeo & Juliet', 'Telegraph Road', 'Walk Of Life', 'Sailing to Philadelphia', 'What It Is', 'El Macho' and 'Song for Sonny Liston'. As Dad raised me on those records I've grown up to be as big of a Knopfler fan as he is, but my favourites are almost all different choices to his - typical of our contrary relationship. I do think 'Romeo & Juliet' is the perfect teen love-song.

"Which Way You Goin', Billy?" ==== The Poppy Family

The song has another layer of meaning to me...

[quote]"Michelle's Song" and "Friends" - Elton John from the 1971 movie "Friends", a movie of young love. Fifteen year old me was so attracted to Paul, the adolescent lead actor.

Road to Perdition:

so much sadness, so much nostalgia to punish myself with. and yet I keep doing it, almost reveling in it sometimes. "Same Old Lang Syne " by Dan Folgerberg. Quite possibly too obvious a choice for some, perhaps too pedestrian. But it so makes me remember meeting Virgil, my first love, and how all these years later, the feelings can be summoned up but we probably would run out of things to say...

Bryan Adams' contribution to the soundtrack of the animated film SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON has what is probably the most desolate ballad ever heard in a kids' movie, 'Sound The Bugle'. It begins at the lowest mood: 'now I can't go on....I can't even start.../I've got nothin' left, just an empty heart...'. and just gets darker & sadder, making giving up completely sound very seductive....until the final bridge and outro, which is thankfully a triumphant lift with the usual Adams brio and a 'call-to-arms' fanfare.

Strange as it sounds this sad song was the catharsis for my teenage depression. I still don't understand why; I was years too old for the song (and the film) at the time I was attached to it, and the song lyrics are more to do with the specific miseries of war/captivity and PTSD than generalised juvenile depression, but it spoke to me and so I just went with it. I can't remember how many hundred times I cried along to it. The animation makes the sequence seem even more horrifying, so it's better to repeat-listen without it.

Anyone remember Harry Chapins' " I am the morning deejay at W-O-L-D"?

The album BAT II: BACK INTO HELL is pure fromage but it's majorly formative for me as a music fan.

'I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That' reminds me of seemingly endless summer nights as a kid, at cookouts or drive-ins or watching the stars. The whole record is an achingly sincere ode to pubescent innocence and the surging emotion you feel in those years. I love it even now I'm grown.

This song touches my soul, with its melancholia.

Superstar Fire and Rain God Only Knows Father and Son Until I Die..Brian Wilson Try To Remember...from The Fantastics....

Cat Stevens' 'Here Comes My Baby' doesn't have a solo but the alto-run at the chorus features heavily.

Is this a rare folk-rock example of a prominent sax?

^^^Wrong thread, my bad!

Too many to relate,but this particular one kills me every time. My lover of 12 years who died in a car wreck absolutely loved this song,as did I before I even met him. He's been gone 23 years and I still cant listen to it without crying my eyes out.

I actually heard this song in a dream recently. There were FUCKTONS of these sorts of songs in the late 1960s and 1970s.

There is a scene in the race car driver Shirley Downy life movie where Bonnie Bedelia remembers driving really fast with her slightly drunk Father after she got the news that he had died. She and he are so happy racing through the back roads of her town. It chokes me up somewhat.

My song is a Simon and Garfunkel oldie named "My Little Town."

Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester (I know😉)

Bringing On the Heartbreak - Def Leppard

Going Through School and Love - Raydio f/ Ray Parker Jr.

I love "Midnight Blue," KC. Also "Come in from the Rain," "Better Days," and "Don't Cry Out Loud."

Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend R166? You always have B. You rock, fine Sir.

"Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star

It makes me sad but [italic]not[/italic] nostalgic because it reminds me of an asshole ex who also happens to be my first. I loved the song before I met him but now whenever I hear it it reminds me of a dark time in my life.

Fire and Rain by James Taylor.

r167 So do you, KC. Don't let the douchebags get you down. Remember: they are nothing more than containers of feminine cleansing product.

Sad but not Nostalgic

Daughter - “Doing The Right Thing” This song is about Dementia

Sara Smile - Hall and Oates

Someone Saved My Life Tonight -Elton John

Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels

Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac

Save A Prayer - Duran Duran

I meant SHE'S GONE by Hall and Oates...^R172.

My favorite Hall & Oates album, KC:

Thanks kind Sir R174. Your eclectic taste in music is only exceeded by the extent of your knowledge of and generosity in sharing it. Appreciate you fine friend...B.

"Eclectic," yes. I'll take it.

A couple of minutes ago, I was listening to Tavis Smiley interview Joni Mitchell. Then I got an e-mail from youtube asking me to listen to new singer Sofie Zamchick. How do you like her? If nothing else, I think this song could qualify as "sad and nostalgic."

It doesn't really strike the right "chord" for me R176, B (?)

But then, what does a simpleton wastelander like me really know? I find Sofie's sound to be a bit raw and not pretty or harmonious enough for me. Kinda folksy. IMHO.

Yes, it's me, KC. "Raw" is a good word for her voice. But I like the songs.

I hear you B. 👍 I get your fondness for Linda Ronstadt, but we agree to disagree about Olivia Newton John. lol. I hope she's going to be okay, after learning her cancer has returned.

Don't Follow- Alice In Chains

Show: "For A Dancer" by Jackson Browne.

Place: "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Jennifer Warnes, OR the original Leonard Cohen version.

Win: "A River For Him" by, of all people, the great Emmylou Harris.

Oh, and Honorable Mentions to Roy Orbison's "Crying" and Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me."

LOVE this song.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

"When Will I See You Again" by The Three Degrees. My cousin was in college and when she would come home she would always call me and ask me to come spend the night. We'd play records and talk all night. When she fell in love with a guy named Nasser, she would play this song over and over. She passed away from cancer 3 years ago. Every time I hear this song it always reminds me of her and that summer. It brings years to my eyes and I'll never forget that summer.

Moon River, just because it's so melancholy sounding it always makes me a bit sad. The Only Living Boy in New York by Simon and Garfunkel (I listened to this a lot as a teenager on an old record player). Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis - this song came out when I was in my early teens, but I was going through a depressive episode centring on my feelings of nostalgia for my childhood and I felt old at 13/14, plus it reminds me a lot of that time. Sonny Boy by Al Jolson, because my dad, who died when I was 20, used to sing it to us as children.

"Black Coffee in Bed" -- Squeeze

"Hazy Shade of Winter" by either Simon & Garfunkel or The Bangles

No More "I Loves you's"-Annie Lennox. Reminds me of my childhood in the 90s

This song always makes me sad and nostalgic for some reason.

Lulu

This.

So many... certainly most anything in my parents' box set "Readers Digest Great Original Hits of the 50's and 60's" ... every now and then, Mad Men would hit a soft spot with one of them. (My parents dictated what music was playing most of the time up until I got my own radio and cassette player.)

Losing My Religion - REM

Monkey Man - Rolling Stones

Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn

Maybe a weird combination of songs but my ex wife used to sing them when drunk and I can still picture it 20 years later. Losing My Religion is particularly devastating and I can rarely listen to the whole song.

(ahem)

Try this.

The Sundays' version of "Wild Horses" -

I was so in love with the love of my life at the time this song was released -

This song is one of my earliest memories and gives me a major 70s tummy ache.

Play the Music Loud - Marie Osmond

Desperado.

“I Like Dreamin’” by Kenny Nolan.

This

I knew this greasy drag queen called "Summer Breeze". I can never listen to that song again.

Princess Diana era.

Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me"

Sting, "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You"

Theme songs of doomed relationships.

Let's Face the Music and Dance

They Can't Take That Away From Me

All Through the Night.

Embraceable You

The Way You Look Tonight

Better Luck Next Time

Begin the Beguine

Why Was I Born

I wasn't alive when these songs came out but they are so musically profound they speak to my personal experiences and have such a deep sense of futile longing..

Sara - Starship

Life In A Northern Town - The Dream Academy.

Lotta Love by Nicolette Larson. Makes me woebegone and wistful.

Coming Up Close - Til Tuesday

How Am I Supposed to Live Without You - Laura Branigan.