Songs that make you nostalgic and sad?

[TNJ]

There are many, and I know this isnt the only thread.
I just felt like starting one today.


Anyway, here's one that does it for me...every time.

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[bobmc]

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[daddyo]

Shannon - because my dog died in February
Wildfire - because my horse died in February.

Joking, I don't have a horse. But if I would've it would've died, too.

Don't Stop Believing - because it was a huge hit the first time i was in Hawaii and I had the best time I've ever had there.

[B Money]

"If you Leave Me Now" by Chicago. I have such a specific memory from childhood of being on the family boat. It was before my parents divorced and me and my two brothers we all still little kids. The whole family was on the boat, soaking up the Florida sun, motoring under the Melbourne Beach bridge, and that song was playing on the radio. Everyone was so happy, and life was so simple then.

[sausagefingers]

Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro. Its like, infinitely sad or something.

[zztomato]

Tom Waits "Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Owl_X-m8I

Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ

Both of these really get me.

[parker]

Doesn't make me sad, but somewhat nostalgic. I remember as little kids dancing to this, (there was a cool video I can't find)
this was my first introduction to music, so I guess it explain a lot!

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[Butterfly]

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis

When I used to hear that song on AM radio when I was a kid, it would make me sad. Her voice, the words, etc.

[re-animator]

this is the gearpage. people only listen to songs that make them feel nostalgic.

[dirtyfingers]

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=9726844&q=hi&newref=1

This one for me. I made it the day before my daughter left for Australia. The only way she could have been further from Toronto was to be in the Antarctic....But I'm much better now.

[sws1]

Far from the original version, but deeply moving. Sung for his father in a coma.

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[cvansickle]

"Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. It always makes me think of my grandfather, who was a big band drummer back in the 1930s. He was with the Herbie Kaye Orchestra for a while. He started leading his own band eventually and played the Elks Club/casuals gigs well into his 70s.

[wstsidela]

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[mike shaw]

The Little Rascals theme gets me too!
FYI - There are a couple of cd's out by the Beau Hunks where they perform tons of Rascals and Hal Roach (Laurel & Hardy etc) songs in the original style. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

http://www.beauhunks.com/

[westchesterdave]

I Wish It Would Rain by the Temptations

[guitarman_nebr]

We're still fighting it........Ben Folds Five

it is the song my daughter always says reminds her of us.

she grew up and moved out a year ago.....this song takes me back

[Telebluze]

Well, the 3 that jump to mind are from a compilation cassette (you know that was quite a while ago) my dad made for me when I was probably 11 or 12......I remember it like yesterday, when he gave it to me and said, "these won't mean much to you now.....but they will."

Wow, was he ever right........they've continued to unravel themselves to me over the years as I've had kids of my own, and now grandkids of my own.

What fantastic songs.....all of them have pretty heavy messages also.

1.) Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
2.) Forever Young - Bob Dylan
3.) Stay Young - Gallagher & Lyle

Peace,
Ken

[JPF]

Two Stevies, Joni and Death Cab for Cutie... These songs never fail to move my feelings to another place altogether.


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[JPF]

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[Budman2k]

Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

Get's me every time.

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[thanagar]

Oddly enough, one of the most melancholy songs I've ever heard is "Shades of Gray" by the Monkees. Last train to gloomsville, seriously.

[Yngtchie Blacksteen]

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[Trandy]

My Funny Valentine.

[Harryq]

"Take The Long Way Home", by Supertramp. Something about the sound of the harmonica really gets to me. The lyrics too.

[73171]

Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days
Rev. Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy



....but then I play Cat Scratch Fever and I'm happy again!:rotflmao

[acwild]

Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

Get's me every time.

Budman

+1 This tune gets in my head every time that I disappoint my son when I have to go on a trip for work.

[Beng2040]

The most obvious one to me is "In My Life" by the Beatles. It has to be one of the most sad and nostalgic songs ever written. Gets me every time I hear it.

[Jahn]

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[Dexter.Sinister]

This one. I lost a close friend around the time I was spinning this a lot at the radio station. It is beautiful, but makes me pretty quiet for awhile.

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[ChazMania]

Mike and the Mechanics - In the Living Years ; man I don't even want to hear it right now and start my day all sad......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k

[Blanket Jackson]

Great ones ... I love melancholy or nostalgic songs

Here is my hat in the ring, a more recent one:

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[waxnsteel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHX_BiE5lGY&feature=related

[Dr. Jimmy]

This sounds totally stupid but there are two songs on the kids show "Yo Gabba Gabba" (and unfortunately I don't know the names of the tunes) but they just kill me every time they're on. They aren't even sad songs but just the lyrics and me sitting there looking at my 3 y.o. daughter enjoying life make me get all misty-eyed (as I'm doing right now just thinking of them.....).

[TwoTubMan]

"Thorn Tree In The Garden" from Layla.

[Jim Holloway]

Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg

[neastguy]

"autumn" by edgar winter

I went to college w/ my high school honey... 6 months into college ... she dumped me..

she was a physcho anyhow, and I was too naive to notice.... regardless, this song always brings me back to that rock gut feeling you get when you lose something you loved... I haven't heard the song in a long time though... I'll have to get a copy so I can depress myself ..

[shredhead7]

Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg


This song does it for me too. I rediscovered it when I was in college after my sweet heart dumped me. Pretty awful to hear then. On that note, pretty much any song from 92-96 reminds me of her. We had such a care free time for so long, that it was that much more painful when it came time to grow up and graduate to real life and a job.

[Toogy]

The most obvious one to me is "In My Life" by the Beatles. It has to be one of the most sad and nostalgic songs ever written. Gets me every time I hear it.

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[reddgeetarzan]

Bell Bottom Blues.......every time- also the ending part to Layla does it!

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This one does too.....

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[thanagar]

Speaking of Harry Chapin, the song "Taxi," while a little too overwrought in spots, is pretty damn sad.

[RupertB]

It was one of Dad's favorites & reminds me of him.

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[stratman34]

No Doubt - Don't Speak. It was playing on the radio when a major crush of mine took my still beating heart, threw it on the ground, and did a dance on it.

Not that I'm bitter or anything ... :)

[Mike52]

"Late for the Sky" Jackson Browne

[screamtone]

This song reminds of when I was young and had the world by the balls, before the world started kicking me in the balls a few short years later. I was so full of hope and joy back then.

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[jjboogie]

This song for some reason makes me feel real sad.....I turn it off every time it comes on the radio...not that its a bad song.....just don't like the way it makes me feel.



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There are TONS of songs that make me feel nostalgic but in a good way.

[NPP]

No Doubt - Don't Speak. It was playing on the radio when a major crush of mine took my still beating heart, threw it on the ground, and did a dance on it.

Not that I'm bitter or anything ... :)

Sorry to have quite different memories of that song - it was playing at the dentist around '96 while I was having a wisdom tooth out. I didn't like the song before that, but since then it is ineffacably (is that a word?) associated with something completely unpleasant.

[stratman34]

Sorry to have quite different memories of that song - it was playing at the dentist around '96 while I was having a wisdom tooth out. I didn't like the song before that, but since then it is ineffacably (is that a word?) associated with something completely unpleasant.

Probably a similar feeling we have

[airportbar]

Beatles-Let It Be
Tom Waits-Never Let Go
R.E.M.-Leaving New York
R.E.M.-Nightswimming
R.E.M.-Find the River
R.E.M.-New Test Leper
Jackson Browne-These Days
Radiohead-Let Down
Whiskeytown-Houses on the Hill
Monkees-Daydream Believer
Louis Armstrong-What a Wonderful World (thanks Good Morning, Vietnam!)

[Spudman]

In My Life - The Beatles

+1 for The Logical Song

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[JB Eckl]

Almost everything on top 40 radio lately makes me both sad and nostalgic.

Sorry.

[Droptop]

I get a lump in my throat everytime I hear:

Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfjSnMN88U

Same Old Lang Syne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CV7zKBbZbY

[Blanket Jackson]

This, and this

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Mercury Rev for my friend that took his own life last year, and Elliott for the ones that got away

[bbarnard]

The most obvious one to me is "In My Life" by the Beatles. It has to be one of the most sad and nostalgic songs ever written. Gets me every time I hear it.

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[Chops]

"Feel Like Going Home" by Charlie Rich.

[daddyo]

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Webb sure writes beautiful songs. Maybe the most poigniant song ever.

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[Baxtercat]

Two Stevies...

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[jcbaxe]

This one has a heavy "vibe" for me.

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[jojogun1957]

When I was around 8 ,I had a big crush on Mary Travers after hearing this song.
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[skillet]

'And It Stoned Me' -- Van Morrison
'Ten Years Gone' -- Led Zeppelin
Grace (the album) -- Jeff Buckley
'Hard Time Killing Floor' -- Skip James

[captain_bob]

Everytime I hear Heart of Glass by Blondie it reminds me of a girl I knew that was murdered around 1982. Very difficult to listen to nearly 30 years later.