Gets me every dang time. Yes I know this isn't the original, but this tribute album is usually in heavy rotation in our house. We're big Shel S. fans.

My dad is 86 and still an avid pianist. I'm dreading the day when I won't be able to listen to any of the solo piano pieces he has played regularly throughout the years by Liszt, Ravel, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, and Chopin. This one, Chopin's Ballade #4, is really going to be tough.

Pheobe Bridgers - Funeral

Black Star by Radiohead


Dead Man's Will by Iron & Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jd2cdU4fA4

Death with Dignity by Sufjan Stevens


Beauties Can Die by M83


For Martha by The Smashing Pumpkins


K by The Clientele


Waiting On A Call by The Futurebirds

Not so much does it destroy me as it makes me feel completely at peace.

Drops of Jupiter makes me sad for humanity.

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When the piano kicks in during this song it just does something. This album came out when I was at A&M and to this day it just makes me sad, it's a beautiful song. It takes me back and not in a good way. I didn't know I was battling actual depression until much later in life. I can remember riding around CS listening to this song wishing I knew wtf was wrong with me.

This entire album qualifies, but these two in particular are a gut punch both for the songs themselves and knowing Layne was die shortly thereafter.

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Came here to post Nutshell, that version in particular. The music, the lyrics, his voice, all of it. I listen to it on a regular basis and it hits me every time. One of my favorite songs of all time.

When I heard this song in my teens I hated it. I'm older now and understand the meaning and it's sad.

Max Power said:

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When the piano kicks in during this song it just does something. This album came out when I was at A&M and to this day it just makes me sad, it's a beautiful song. It takes me back and not in a good way. I didn't know I was battling actual depression until much later in life. I can remember riding around CS listening to this song wishing I knew wtf was wrong with me.

This entire album qualifies, but these two in particular are a gut punch both for the songs themselves and knowing Layne was die shortly thereafter.

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You have great tastes on all three counts. Moby's "Porcelain" and that entire album makes me feel great except for "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" which I love so much but it's also a wrecker.

Yeah, I choke up a bit singing the Spirit every time.

One of my best friends (and roommates at A&M) died tragically early, and this was basically the soundtrack to my coping at the time.

Loves Me Like A Rock by Paul Simon--brings back memories of unpleasant weekend visits as a kid with my ne'er-do-well birth father and my mom always being there no matter what.

Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics--kind of the bookend to the one above. Mom remarried, stepdad was more of a father. He died not long before this song came out. Always think of him when I hear it.

America by Neil Diamond--strictly personal, as this was played in a video montage after a memorial service for a HS classmate who was killed in Afghanistan.

Songs I recently had come up:

"Annie Waits" by Ben Folds
"Father and Son" by Cat Stevens
"When the Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash
"Symphony 7, Opus 92" Beethoven

Don't know why really - I have no attachment to the sea or lighthouses - but this song has always gotten me right there, Just a genuine tragic love story told from a unique perspective.

I hate the actual video for it - the imagery in my head is better so here is the lyrical version.

Saw arcade fire on the funeral tour at Stubbs although I went for the openers, The Black Keys. Heard Wake Up for the first time with Everyone singing along and immediately got the chills. Saw them a year or two later at ACL with thousands singing along to Wake Up and I've never felt a wave of chills like that at a concert. Hell, I'm not even a big Arcade Fire fan but that song and album is great.

I've posted this in other sad song threads, but I'll do it again - "Dark Side of the Moon" by Chris Staples. I have a father dying of cancer and this is the quintessential fatherhood passing of the torch song.

A couple of of Chris Degarmo masterpieces:

never had to deal with this myself thankfully, but damn, the first time i heard this song I had to pull off the side of the road and get a hold of myself.

Lance's Song by Zac Brown Band. It's about a drummer that dies and people not appreciating what they had while he was here on earth.

I first started listening to that album a few weeks after my uncle, who was a fantastic piano player, passed away. He had been more like a brother to me while growing up than an uncle and his passing messed with me bad. I heard this song and it wrecked me.

So many great songs posted above. In a totally different spirit, but this for whatever reason was my first thought. No matter how many times we've watched this damn movie it gets me every time:



And if you haven't seen it cuppy's take on the photo album scene, it's an masterpiece. This is from when we were (unsuccessfully) courting the Belk Bowl:

let's start an adventure, @belkbowl pic.twitter.com/hPwRqP5cgn

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