Songs that always make you feel wistful

Back For Good by Take That

It is from 1995 but has a much older feel to it. Normally I hate black and white videos but it works for this one.

And this

-- Moon River.

-- A Summer Place.

-- A Time for Us.

Wildfire

Maybe I’m Amazed

When some cold tomorrow finds you When some sad old dream reminds you How the endless road unwinds you

When there's no one left to leave you Even you don't quite believe you That's when nothing can deceive you

Don't you know by now No one gives you anything? And don't you wonder how you keep on moving?

"The Circle Game" - Tom Rush (or Joni Mitchell, but this was my imprint version; there were folk radio stations in NYC and New Brunswick, NJ).

Let's have a poll. WW your more wistful version.

Madonna's "La Isla Bonita"

This one, it brings back memories of dark days in ‘85 for me, I was 14, & felt such kinship with this singer, I felt she was fragile like me!

Theme from The High and The Mighty.

Theme from Midnight Cowboy.

Walk Away (sung by Matt Monro).

It did *not* last forever, our love.

Never My Love, The Association.

Bobby Darin - “Beyond The Sea”

"April Come She Will," Simon & Garfunkel.

"What A Wonderful World," Louis Armstrong.

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

Sara...

"Sealed with a Kiss," Brian Hyland.

"Summer Wind" - Sinatra's version...

...and this corny, old classic.

As a child, the final scene, hearing the score and the camera in the sky panning down showing Hal on top of the train and the bus with Madge thrilled me with its happy ending.

My adult eyes, those Debbie Downers, then changed that ending on me!

Wistful, indeed.

Probably the most wistful of wistfuls...

Simply Red: Holding Back The Years (1985)

Ragtime Jazz

James - Say Something

One of the only Elvis songs I like...

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Summertime Sadness...

The Smiths - Reel Around the Fountain

"Somewhere" from West Side Story, The Supremes.

Heart - Dog & Butterfly

Never would believe One Direction would do anything for me, but "Story of My Life", blows me away...

Life in a Northen Town. In 1986, at age 16, full of angst, I spent the summer living with my relatives in a northern English town (Liverpool), getting rained on by Chernobyl rain. I listened to this song a lot (on my Walkman).

New Order - Temptation

@r32, I get it. This song gave me the same vibe...

"don't let the sun catch you crying"... gerry and the pacemakers

"someday" ... the carpenters

the theme from "to kill a mockingbird"...

"wildfire"... michael martin murphy....

many more...

Cannibal Holocaust theme

Bette Midler: Wind Beneath My Wings (1988)

I had just moved to LA. All my friends were dying of AIDS. Evocative of a sad time.

Another LA AIDS tune.

George Michael’s Father Figure

"You Belong to Me," Dean Martin.

My first kiss with a boy and yes he was a Steve Perry look a like.

"We'll Meet Again," Vera Lynn.

This song reminds me of seeing the ocean for the first time as a child. That song was playing on the radio. It's still so beautiful.

"Both Sides Now" (Judy Collins) "A Very Good Year" (Frank Sinatra)

Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) - Aretha Franklin

Wheels of Life- Gino Vannelli

Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack

Gladys Knight & The Pips ~ Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First) 1973 Soul Purrfection Version

Emma - Hot Chocolate

Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft

All by Myself - Eric Carmen

To be honest, I think it's Carmen's liberal use of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18 throughout. Sap that I am, the violins never fail to draw tears.

I'm Not In Love - 10cc

Another Gino Vanelli.

"I'm Not In Love" was put to great use in The Virgin Suicides

Paul McCartney and Wings!

Another Paul McCartney and Wings!

This cheesy song on the radio of our little Mazda pick up. Moving to LA with my boyfriend. High and fucking and in love . To be young and full of hope.

^ A year later when he dumped me.

Love this one too!

"Another Day" (Paul McCartney). I love this one - a lot of Paul's solo work is kind of meh, but I love this song

Lord. What a failure of an R1. And then she carries her confusion of music videos with songs.

"Back for good" is fine but DLers who don't know how to post on the DL (Earnest R1s are just little piggies rushing in to blab; R1's must be astringent in some intelligent way.).

^ Duchess of Prisspot ruins another thread with her compulsive cuntyness.

Fifth Dimension.

"Long, Long Time" fills me with wist.

Ready to throw myself over the cliffs at Pt Dume.

Ooops.

Try again:

Is it real? - Yoko Kanno

(2001) - Cowboy Bebop movie OST

As someone mentioned in the comments the song is about giving up.

Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Guns N' Roses

This song is written from the perspective of a dying sheriff: "Mama, take this badge off of me/I can't use it anymore/It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see/I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

Also like this remix of Summer Breeze. It’s simply a song that you can’t get over.

A woman I shared an office with at my first real job used to play a radio station that played this song just about every hour. I hated it at first, but grew to love it. Whenever it comes on in my car, i for some reason pretend I'm in the opening credits of a prestige early 80s network drama.

I also learned to love Doris Day's "Everybody Loves a Lover" from the same station.

Avalon hotel. Mojitos. E. Sweaty sheets. Rolando.

I get it! We Eldergays need to update.

An even better GNR single.

You’re referring to this…

Also this Kool n the gang.

This one too…

Drive

"Live to Tell" by Madonna or her "Lucky Star"

Oh, and "Separate Ways" by Journey and Billy Idol's "White Wedding"

This one by Dan Hartman. It’s just so sad that he died alone just because of being gay.

After a 10 hour day. Stuck in bumper to bumper on 405. Hungry. Horny. Wanting pinche and albondigas. Mijo.

Coming back from a candlelit memorial nite of Diana's death. A deer jumped in front of my car.

Playing in my head for a year after Dane jumped.

Coming Around Again by Carly Simon.

Top down in 450SL cruising down Mulholland .

So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car

Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder

And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged

I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

Key West. Duval St. August. 3am.

Words by the BeeGees and Annie's Song by John Denver.

Studio 1. White limo. Blue velour. Joey Stephano. Click-click. Numb.

I’ll try this one again. Weird bugs here.

I was also stating that it’s unfortunate that he died poor and alone for simply being a gay man from his hometown.

Leaving LA after 35 years.

Feet in the sand on the beach I grew up on.

And then he'll settle down

In some quiet little town

And forget about ev'rything

I think just about every Tracy Chapman song can be described as "wistful"

This old school.

R81. Also lurked Keanu in the video!

Boys of Summer

Shagging Kelly in the Birds next door to Keanu.

In a hot tub with Johnny Davenport and a gaggle of call boys at Joel Schumacher's

Billy Joel.

This more recent Eric Clapton.

“Hot Fun in the Summertime”

- Sly and The Family Stone

I’ve never heard another pop song that makes me experience poignancy, nostalgia and wistfulness to the degree that one does.

And I don’t even like Summer.

Of course, Babs. But this song was linked to the death of a police officer and it was the song his wife heard on the radio the morning of his murder. (I can’t find the link just now, but I’ll keep searching).

On a Sunday by Nick Heyward

"The Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart.

Also agree with Summer Breeze and Story of My Life, as mentioned above.

This is my fav Carly song.

Clocks - Coldplay

Stuck in a shitty motel in Old Orchard Beach with my parents. Nothing to do because it rained all week. But I kept hearing this song and it made me feel calm and happy.

This old school gem.

This one always gets me

Love that one too.

This one keeps popping up on my YouTube links, so l guess I’m obliged to post it.

I lurve me this Phil Collins song.

Oops

AnothervDionne Warwick fav.

My first grade teacher was obsessed with this song. I was obsessed with her. She played it all the time in class in 85'.

Love it as well.

I also love this from early childhood days.

I love this song with images of Audrey. I don’t know why….

The combo just makes me into jello

If I could be any woman, I’d like to be Audrey Hepburn. Funny how that works….

For all you aging rockers from Flyoverstan...

Also from barely 5 year-old.

Another 5 year-old fav.

"The Jackson Song," Patti Smith's lullaby for her son, Jackson.

Tammy's in Love--one of the first songs I ever remember

Hot, hot man! In full glory. I can’t help myself!

Simply Red with beautiful men.

Well, in response to "The Circle Game," I'm gonna say that "Sugar Mountain" is even more wistful. Joni Mitchell wrote "Circle Game" in response to "Sugar Mountain," which is about lost youth.

"Stranger on the Shore," Acker Bilk.

"America" - Simon and Garfunkel

Also, about ten other songs by them.

"Libby" by Carly Simon.

I'm just another passenger,

Travelling on these crazy high seas

Very likely to be the same

In a Paris breeze,

R 2: Ouch. As time goes by.

Twelve years ago right before my husband walked out with no warning , we went away for valentines weekend. Reason was because our adult child in college was dancing at a basketball game.

In hotel room, I give him a “musical card «  (time goes by). His comment, “oh, I forgot your card at home .” Then we had almost the worst sex of my life. Emotionally

R90: What makes you think Dan Hartman "died poor and alone for simply being a gay man from his hometown."

If you meant to say Hartman was closeted, and kept his HIV status a secret until his death from an AIDS-related brain tumor, you'd be correct.

I heard Air Supply “The One That You Love” today and burst into tears during the chorus. I was 8 yrs old in 1981 and remember hearing that song on the radio. It made me feel sad and I longed to go back to that era.

Art Garfunkel - I Only Have Eyes For You

Year of the Cat

Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze

In honor of Jim Seals whose death at 80 was just reported.

Garland's great song is so obvious a choice it doesn't even need to be named.

If you're a Garland fan, r137. Not everyone melts upon hearing her voice. I feel wishful when I hear "The Man Who Got Away." Wishful that it would be over.

R138 Rather true of every listing in this thread, isn't it.

No, r139, I don't believe everyone who posted something thought their song was "so obvious a choice it doesn't even need to be named." Only an over-the-top Garland queen would make such a statement (or a Madonna stan).

This song makes you ache:

R140 A troll lacking reading comprehension, or feigning to trying to start an argument. The point of course is that different folk like different things. Pick any artist mentioned here and you can find someone who isn't a fan. So what else is new.

I thought I posted this earlier, but it didn't seem to have shown up, so sorry if it's a dupe.

"Tempted" by Squeeze

Freshman year, Drew University

T. Rex – Cosmic Dancer

Wax Fang - Majestic

This Used To Be My Playground by Madonna.

This song came out when I was 12 and my best friend and I were starting to go our separate ways. We’d been best friends since nursery school, but he was getting popular and hanging out with a new group of friends and going to parties and such. I was still kind of a nerd who liked to ride bikes and play Nintendo.

One of the last times he slept over my house we watched A League of Their Own and this was the song playing at the end credits and so I associate it with my childhood buddy.

He ditched you and you just said oh well.

Sugar Walls

"The Second Time Around," Frank Sinatra.

This reminds me of all the times I had to drive different girlfriends to get abortions.

Matt Alber - End of the World

"Skylark," sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

"Dream," The Pied Pipers.

Enya – Na Laetha Geal M'òige

Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time

My favorite ABBA song is "I Have A Dream", however, this one makes me feel more wistful.

It Must Have Been Love by Roxette

I know it’s a cheesy song, but I remember listening to this on a homemade tape in the 80’s, when I was suffering from anxiety and depression, and a broken heart, in the 80’s.

^ Hey, whatever it takes to get you through 🙂

"Missing You" - John Waite, because of who it reminds me of. If I make it through this song, I'm going to look up his quilt on last night's Names Project thread.

"Don't Worry, Baby" - the Beach Boys

Toad the Wet Sprocket. A good tricia band title and a very good song.

Many of Sinatra's songs are wistful but this is essential wistfulness.

The Karate Kid Part 2 and Peter Cetera's beautiful song Glory of Love. Who here was obsessed with karate back in the 80s?

Those First Impressions- Associates. Poor beautiful Billy McKenzie.

This paints a picture for me.

Let's paint another. "Portrait of My Love," Matt Monro.

I was 5 when Year of the Cat came out, and it scared the shit out of me. I would get it in my head sometimes at night, and wouldn’t be able to fall asleep.

State Anthem of the Soviet Union.

FUCK YOURSELF DEEPLORABLE/RUSSIAN BOT TROLL! You’ve been detected. I hope you go to a Russian prison in the near future and get continuously pounded up your ass!

Some crazy person in a thread about 'white replacement' said that the people posting in this thread were doing so to keep people from knowing some supposed truth of his. He called us deplorables. And 'trools.' Here's what he said:

[quote]There it is again: 8 instant replies on the thread: SONGS THAT MAKE YOU WISTFUL….

[quote]FUCK OFF DEPLORABLE TROOLS!

[quote]BTW, do you get paid to monitor DL?

I posted one of the last 8 songs on this thread, "Don't Worry, Baby," and I'm not a deplorable, a Russian, a "trool," or anyone else about whom he should feel paranoid.

I simply posted a song that makes me wistful when I hear it.

Now I'll post another.

Fuck off, troll!

Yes, I myself posted many songs as well. But I feel we need to stop because this was a troll post. I didnt realize it either, but it keeps getting instant troll burying responses. Yes, I have MANY songs that make me feel wistful. However, the OP did have good intentions to start this thread and could very well be a paid Russian farm bot.

I refuse to believe in all this bot / sockpuppet shit.

[quote]the OP did have good intentions to start this thread and could very well be a paid Russian farm bot.

These thoughts contradict each other immensely.

I mean to correct myself: the OP did NOT have good intentions….

M sincere apologies.

MY sincere apologies.

Two really make me sad and wistful more than any others. First, this famous Harry Nilsson song:

And then this one, which was written decades before I was born.

Almost every cover of this is fine, because the song is so perfect, but to me this is really Jimmy Durante's song.

Scene: Late 80s. I'm 22 years old, living in the east village - laying on my bf's bed on a late spring Sunday afternoon. The sun is streaming through his tenement windows. We're hot boxing the place with a fat joint after an epic fuck. Both just watching ribbons of smoke swirl around and lazily shooting the shit.

Sigh.

p.s. Fuck off OP troll.

Thank you r181.

Here’s one that makes me feel wistful:

Another wistful one:

Another great wistful song.

The Cure - Pictures of You

late 80's

My straight best friend came to visit me when we were teens, and he insisted we play this album every night, on repeat, while we slept side by side in my full size waterbed. I thought for sure something was going to happen and it never did. I only bought the album for Freedom 90 and Praying For Time, but he sort of forced me to love the rest of it, and now I think of him whenever I play it. Especially this song.

grade 11

Stars and Stripes Forever(ok not really a song.) When I was a little boy and Vietnam had yet to reveal its true horrors small time American life still had a real sense of nationalistic pride and the music was so wonderful and stirring. Now I think the music itself is still wonderful but it makes me very sad.

191 replies and no "Yesterday When I was Young"?

A song that captures the whole of poignant, wistful existence?

Another Time After Time - Margaret Whiting

Night We Met

George Michael’s B sides are criminally underrated.

Christopher he once was a true love of mine.

1234, by Feist.

I don’t know why listening to Fleetwood Mac always makes me wistful. The inclusion of Gypsy above brought it all back. could be I was about 15 and starting to choose my own music to listen to. Always liked Fleetwood Mac. To this day I can only understand about one word in every three Stevie Nicks sings. Never know what she’s singing but absolutely love her. Sara is one of my all time favourites. Still don’t know what it’s about except somebody’s undoing and is building a house and she’s going to call her. Could listen to it on repeat all day.

"Moonlight in Vermont" by Jo Stafford

"Sweet Dreams" by Patsy Cline

"I'm starry-eyed and vaguely discontented, like a nightingale without a song to sing. Oh how can I have Spring Fever when I know it isn't Spring....."

- "It Might As Well Be Spring"Rodgers and Hammerstein(1945)

"You Are My Sunshine" .. many versions.

I'll go with the Carly Simon cover, because it reminds me of the way my mom sang it to me when I was a kid.

"Time" by The Alan Parsons Project

"What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?"

Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York

r203 You made me all misty. My husband's mother sang to him "You Are My Sunshine" as a lullaby. Found a hanging paper scroll of the first 4 lines of the song at a Dollar Store several years ago, it always makes me wistful and introspective whenever I see it.

😢 but ☺️

A wistful list demands at least one Kenny G. Let's go with "Silhouette."

We'd like to express our appreciation to the posters here for helping us create our playlist for Boomer retirement villages.

Frank Sinatra - Once Upon A Time

"Come Saturday Morning," The Sandpipers.

"Clair de Lune," Victor Borge (giving a serious performance).

The beautiful Ricky Nelson singing "Lonesome Town."

R211 Hard to believe that "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" beat out "Come Saturday Morning" for Best Original Song Oscar.

"Greenfields," The Brothers Four.

Puff The Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary

Don't judge me. After the first man that I loved and lived with realized that he was still in love with his ex and left, I drank myself into oblivion every day. One night, passed out on the sofa with the TV on, this song playing on The Tonight Show woke me up. I sobbed and sobbed. It's till hard for me to hear it.

"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," Ella.

"Smile," Judy Garland.

Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

R218 if you really want to be destroyed, watch this version by Annie Lennox done for Red, Hot and Blue. Derek Jarman was set to direct the video, but became to ill, dying of AIDS. The replacement director chose to project movies from Derek’s childhood on her while she sang. Wistful has a whole new meaning at this unfathomable level.

"The Way You Look Tonight"

It's my favorite song, and I'm going to let you search for your own favorite version. I don't really have one. I don't think any recorded version lives up to the essential wonderfulness and perfection of this song by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields.

Zoom always makes me wistful:

Nana Mouskouri: L'amour en héritage

Sinatra was a wistful man.

Making Love, Roberta Flack

Dinah Washington - Mad About the Boy ....... any Dinah fans on this site?

R222 I like the Peggy Lee version, accompanied by Benny Goodman and with that haunting celeste. Classic '40s sound.

These Dreams always gets me for some reason. Take me back to '86, dammit!

Lots of people here be obsessed with the “perfume on my wrist” song?

Wild Horses, by The Rolling Stones

R228 "Where or When" at that same session: Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, and Mel Powell on the celeste. Recorded in New York, Christmas Eve, 1941, when she was 21.

2009/2010 for me.

Great thread Cat. I'm a huge Fleetwood Mac fan as well. Wistful indeed.

Waterloo Sunset makes me feel wistful...

No Andy Williams yet. Here's "Softly, As I Leave You."

Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before

I know it’s cheesy, but I love this version of Wild Horses, and that moment the drums kick in and the rest of the band plays is perfection.

And this song is the definition of wistful.

“Hey, do you wanna come out

And play the game

It’s never to late”

Joe Esposito: Lady Lady Lady

Especially the slow part that kicks in around 1:4x.

r240, and the chills, the hair standing up on my arms starting at 2:29.

I Will Wait For You- The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg.

They’re so beautiful and so much in love. I would have given up my virginity to Nino Castelnuovo even if he wasn’t being sent to war.

"Only the Lonely" by The Motels has a wistful quality, but I really like "Suddenly Last Summer" as well.

Bruce Hornsby: Mandolin Rain (1986)

Whitney Houston: The Greatest Love Of All

Thanks for all these contributions!

R243 Love The Motels. My man and I have a number of songs we've deemed "Orbison-esque" (except we shorten it to Orbonesque) and these songs are a couple of them.

Even Tom Waits' version brings out the wist. I miss the screams after "down the shore everything's alright," though.

"Born Free," theme composed by John Barry.

More wistfulness from John Barry: "Somewhere in Time." Especially so because it always calls to mind the tragedy of Christopher Reeve.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," The Hollies. The road is long, with many a-winding turn . . .

Sugar Mountain- Neil Young.

"Shenandoah," Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Michael Jackson: Human Nature

Daniel my brother, you are older than me,

Do you still feel the pain, of the scars that won’t heal?

So many wistful songs. Let's get "Misty" listening to them. Johnny Mathis, of course.

Good Riddance by Green Day always reminds me of saying goodbye to high school/college friends. You think you're going to be in each other's lives forever, and then life happens, and the path you were on together splits. Bittersweet.

R258 It doesn't have that wistful rhythm, but the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together Again" does have the same message. Perfect theme for a high school reunion.

For Boomers watching the clock tick down, what could be more wistful than Sinatra singing "Young at Heart."

Maid of Orleans by OMD:

"The Man I Love," Billie Holiday in 1940, but credit too to the Gershwins for creating this.

Stephen Foster's 'Linger in Blissful Repose' certainly fits in this thread. It is a bit dirge-like and I'm guessing a popular song heard at funerals BITD(it was put to good use in the film "Big Eden")

I don't know if Foster wrote it as a funeral song, but it doesn't matter to me. It's a lovely, slow, haunting melody with some profound lyrics, sure to prompt you to think about how life has treated you.

[quote]It doesn't have that wistful rhythm

Rhythms don't really evoke wistfulness for me. Chords, melodies, lyrics, vocals, imagery, yes. I can't think of one rhythm that made me feel wistful on its own.

Blue Moon. Such a lovely song. A perfect football anthem.

R284 To me, a wistful song usually has a slow rocking-back-and-forth cadence or rhythm or whatever the proper technical term is. Like Blue Moon above. I see a hammock slowly swinging back and forth in that song, and that makes me wistful.

R253 - see R127

Carpenters - "Goodbye to Love"

I just adore Don't Phunk with My Heart by Black Eyed Peas from 2005. It was on constant replay at my 21st birthday that year.

This one always makes me feel something. Good or bad, depending on the day. .

"the warmth of the sun" by the beach boys

"dreamin" by vanessa williams

"moments of love" by cathy dennis

"you make me feel brand new: and betcha by golly wow" by the stylistics

The Mamas & The Papas – California Dreamin'

Alphaville: Forever Young

R269 Indeed.

A little voice inside my head said, "don't look back, you can never look back."

I thought I knew what love was, what did I know?

Those days are gone forever, I should just let 'em go, but

"desert moon" by the lead singer of styx...

Roxette – It Must Have Been Love

Carly Simon singing a wistful old standard: "Moonglow." It must have been . . .

It's just a few notes, but that whistled introduction to Lassie sure makes you yearn for those days gone by.

"September Song" from the show "Knickerbocker Holiday".

Mama Cass’ version

R279... LOVE MAMA CASS ELLIOT... criminally underrated and so talented (voice, personality, dancing, etc.)...

Andrew Gold=Golden Girls.

R281 MARY!

It Might As Well Be Spring-Margaret Whiting

How Are Things in Glocca Mora-Martha Tilton

Give A Damn - Spanky and Our Gang

Elaine McFarland was another underrated voice. If you

Arrow: Hot Hot Hot (1983). This song reminds me of every vacation I ever took when I was a child/teenager. One in particular in 1992 was on a cruiseship and my parents, sisters and other passengers were dancing drunk to this song before the boat's departure.

r263 Nice choice, Bronzie. I'd not heard "Linger in Blissful Response" before.

Vangelis: Chariots Of Fire

Hélène by Roch Voisine

God Only Knows by The Beach Boys

"To Sir with Love," Lulu of course. Here she is reprising it on American Idol a few years ago.

Christopher Cross: Sailing

Call Me on Your Way Back Home

Tell Me Why

This one.

"Rainy Night House" - Joni Mitchell

Pure wist.

Coming Up Close by Til Tuesday

I grew up hearing this on my radio station all the time. It was always so melancholic, and now nostalgic to me

"Touch Me in the Morning" - Diana Ross

"by the time I get to Phoenix.. glen campbell

"a rainy night in Georgia:-brook benton

"don't let the sun catch you crying"- gerry and the pacemakers

I’ve NEVER EVER seen a shittier listing of songs in my life!

I know it was a Beatles song, but it was written by George (my favorite), and I prefer his post-Beatles, live version. When doing the arrangement used by Cirque du Soleil, Sir George Martin even referred to it as a "wistful song" and talked about the original demo George had done for it.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

[quote]I’ve NEVER EVER seen a shittier listing of songs in my life!

I’ve NEVER EVER seen a shittier post in my life!

I hope when you die, r300, these songs are all you hear, forever and ever. For I’ve NEVER EVER seen a shittier Datalounger in my life!

"I'll Remember". It's just one of those songs. I didn't have the experiences spoken about in the song until it had been around for a few years. But this is my entry.

Roxy Music - "More Than This"

Cole Porter's "In the Still of the Night," Perry Como.

"We've Only Just Begun," The Carpenters live on Ed Sullivan.

R307 Listening again, I'm pretty sure it's dubbed. I just always thought Ed insisted on a live performance.

Cathy Dennis - All Night Long (Touch Me) Original version

Missing you by Soul II Soul featuring kym mazelle

THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES - Never Stop

The Jakson 5 - I Wanna Be Where You Are

Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost

Sybil - I Wanna Be Where You Are

A very dated cover of the Jackson 5 song

KRISTINE W - One More Try (1996)

Tom Petty - Free Fallin'

"I'll Be Seeing You," Billie Holiday.

John Barry's theme for the movie Indecent Proposal. Makes me cry every time.

Candy - Iggy Pop (with Kate Pierson)

Also one of my favorite duets.

"If I Loved You," Art Garfunkel of all people, but it works.

The Irish do wistful incredibly well.

Angry Wistful

Devastating wistful

Even when it’s not their own song.

Romantic yearning wistful.

I feel wistful just reading some of these song titles.

Earth, Wind & Fire: Fantasy

"Someone to Watch Over Me," Willie Nelson.

"When I Fall in Love," Nat King Cole.

"against all odds"- phil collins

"only the lonely" - the motels

So many by Stevie Wonder but I love Summer Soft.

Like to Get to Know You - Spanky and Our Gang

"Tuesday Afternoon," The Moody Blues.

A cover version of "A foggy day in London town" by David Bowie and Angelo Badalamenti which could possibly be my favorite cover song of all time.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship is, in my opinion, the song that represents the best the spirit of the 80s.

Cowboy Junkies' beautiful cover of "Sweet Jane."

The classic main title theme to Twin Peaks.

Break It to Me Gently by Juice Newton

Spandau Ballet - True

The first music video that I can remember. I saw it at my older brother's friend's house who had MTV.

Sinéad O´Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds

ODYSSEY - NATIVE NEW YORKER

Reminds me of this--Part 2

Thelma dancing to Native New Yorker

I Swallow His Kids

"The Nearness of You," Glenn Miller Band

Sheena Easton - The Nearness of You

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day

This version of the classic Sondheim song, done by the classic Barbara Cook.

Thanks R345.

This gets me every time too. Wistful yet chills every time.

Sunday from Sunday In The Park With George

A boy I should have known better about but it was definitely magic

Annie Lennox: Why (1992)

The Human League: Human

R346 That horrible song in Tick, Tick… Boom! ruined that song for me forever, hate you Johnathan Larson!

"First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," Roberta Flack.

Crowded House: Don't dream it's over

Wilco – Jesus, Etc.

Better Off Alone by Alice DJ

Auld Lang Syne

"Midnight Blue" - Melissa Manchester.

I had left last night's fuck's house one Sunday afternoon, and walked past the bar where we'd picked each other up, which happened to be on the street where I lived. I thought I'd go in, see if I could score again before walking the rest of the way home. I got my drink and walked over to the seating section. This song was playing.

Right in my line of sight was last night's fuck. I wondered if he'd played the song. We knew each other, had dated/fucked on and off for a couple of years. I'd spent the night at his house because his lover, as we called them then, was away for a week. I'd loved this man so much, but to him, according to the lover, I was nothing but "a piece of shit to fuck."

"I think we can make it, if we try. One more time for all the times" hung in the air between us. I left, knowing this would never be true. I had to get out of there. We never did make it. Not even one more time for all the old times.

But at least I have this song to remind me of him. Now that's called wistful.

Neko Case – I Wish I Was the Moon

"Make Someone Happy," Aretha.

"You Send Me," Sam Cooke.

Neil Young's Expecting To Fly

Spanky & Our Gang - Like To Get To Know You

Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

"Can't Help Falling in Love," Elvis. Wise men say . . .

Live To Tell, Madonna's most beautiful song.

The Christians: Words. This song came out in 1990 when I was 11. All my friends and classmates loved this song. It's incredibly beautiful and children back then were able to appreciate beauty. Compare it to the songs 11-12 year old kids listen to today. Are we progressing as a society or regressing?

Louise Tucker: Midnight Blue (1982)

"Leaving on a Jet Plane," sung live by Mama Cass and John Denver in 1972, which makes it all the more wistful.

Sacrifice by Elton John.

Blondie's "Shayla"

"Isn't It Enough?" -- Danny Wilde

"A new career in an new town' by David Bowie. Ironically, Bowie references this song in his last song from his last album "Blackstar" ("I can't give everything away") before passing 2 days after it's release. It's happy and sad and wistful and very much how I see life itself.

"Time in a Bottle," Jim Croce.

"Abraham, Martin and John," Dion.

"The End of the World," Skeeter Davis. Why does the . . .

"Pomp and Circumstance." Gentlemen, today is called "commencement," because today you embark on a journey, a journey that will lead . . .

Dream Weaver-Gary Wright

Golden Apples by Country Teasers

Most songs by Gordon Lightfoot

Sailing by Christopher Cross

These Dreams by Heart

Songbird by Fleetwood Mac

Bryan Ferry: Slave To Love

"Fire and Rain" - James Taylor

We miss you Delores!!!

Julia Fordham made a career out of singing wistful songs, so many yo choose from, but I picked a well known one.

David Gray was kind of the male version, again with a catalog built on wistful songs.

Shame on you DL.

Chris Isaak. Dig in.

Ok, newish song- so I saw the movie OLD- and WOW this song absolutely riveted me because a young woman wrote it, but for me it’s really about experiencing true love, heartbreak, and being with the person you want to be with for the rest of your life. The movie sputters a bit yet amazingly my husband liked it. It’s only a horror movie if you’re afraid of aging.

I love that it’s one of the rarest of songs would be perfectly appropriate to play at both a wedding and a funeral.

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.

ELO - Evil Woman (1975)

"The Way We Were," Beyoncé live, with Streisand in the audience.

Cranberries - Linger

Smalltown Boy. For reasons I've said in another post THERE so i don't have to say it HERE.

Black: It's A Wonderful Life

Large sections of Tanita Tikaram's Ancient Heart, but especially this one

Lionel Richie: Hello

Let’s go back to the start…

The 1997 cover to R305 =

Shining Light = 10,000 Maniacs

A Room For Everything = 10,000 Maniacs

Girl On A Train = 10,000 Maniacs

Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour

Kind of a forgotten song but enjoyable.

"Stardust," Michael Bublé.

I Don’t Want To Talk About It - Crazy Horse

Poco - Crazy Love

In response to your song, r405, I nominate Miss Patsy Cline singing "Faded Love."

Judging from the copyright date on most of these tunes, the average age of a DL'er is deceased.

R407 Oh, that's a new one.

R408 As Tony Bennett used to sing, "Wit is wasted on the young . . ."

People who like Fleetwood Mac are retarded. Gypsy blows I'd rather hear seven Wonders or Little lies. That's saying something

R407 Would rather Jack than Fleetwood Mack.

R410 Your comment about "Gypsy" reminds me of an old boyfriend who didn't like the song AT ALL either, and when MTV was continually playing the video for it, he wanted the CGI precipice that they have Stevie dancing on at the end of it to break-off with it showing her falling over the cliff and going SPLAT.

Don McLean - Castles in the Air

R410 PLEASE, PLEASE post something so that we can get a feel for what makes YOU feel wistful.

This makes me feel nostalgic and wistful, first time I left home for college and fell in love.

This reminds me of my first love, how sweet and naïve we both were.

R414 I'm not 410, but your phrasing me think of this one by The Smiths:

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

To be young again...

This isn't a song that makes me feel wistful because I grew up listening to it, or because it reminds me of a certain person or time in my life. It doesn't really tell a story that I can strongly relate to anything that happened in my life, either.

It's just the song itself. The picture it paints of a beautiful young love that runs its course and is now emphatically over.

It's a masterful display of songwriting by Jimmy Webb...so simple, yet so incredibly moving. It's hard for me to listen to without getting a lump in my throat.

Linda Ronstadt - "Adios"

Don Henley - Boys Of Summer

I grew up in a touristy little beach town in the 80s/90s...

this version of "The Way You Look Tonight"

R242: With all due respect to Pedro Almodovar, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is my favorite foreign film. It's exactly what I needed to hear, thank you. Anyway, here's a track that makes me wistful. Memories of 9th grade.

Rod Stewart and Ronald Isley - This Old Heart of Mine

Thomas Dolby, Budapest by Blimp. Essentially about the Jews flight during WW2.

Elusive Butterfly

CCR- Have You Ever Seen the Rain

Dreamboat Annie

Rocky Mountain Mike - Drama Queen

Walk Away Renee.

A short, perfect song, and seemingly iron-clad -- while surely terrible versions exist, any version I've heard captures the same wistful mood.

I hate op and his constant replies to his own thread

Night to Remember by Prism

Danny O'Keefe - Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues

Once Upon a Time

George Benson's Breezin'

This song and video have got me in my feelings.

More Babs.

Sweet, beautiful Morten Harket.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights by Freddy Fender

And if I had only one tomorrow…it’s a lifetime if I knew, I could spend that day with you.

Can't Take My Eyes Off of You -- Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons

Going Out of My Head -- I have to admit the Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 version is the most wistful and the one I love the mos. Even though it's Little Anthony's song and he sings it beautifully, his voice is just not as heartbreakingly poignant as Lani Hall's.

Another cover I prefer to the original: Roy Orbison's Blue Bayou as sung by Linda Ronstadt

Only Yesterday - Carpenters

"Someday" by the Carpenters...both the original 1969 version, when Karen was only 19 (she later said she never liked this version because she had a cold at the time when it was recorded) and the later more polished short remake version they did in 1980 for their TV special "music, music, music"..