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Prince did a great version of that Eric Clapton solo.

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Feels appropriate for this thread…little history lesson of a song that fits this category…

There's literally a song called "The Suicide Song" that was released in the pre-WWII (more Great Depression timeline I think) era in Hungary AKA the Hungarian Suicide Song called "Gloomy Sunday". If you google the original it's in Hungarian so you likely won't understand it but there's been English translations you can find…

Apparently the number of suicides that were related to this song became so much reported the song was banned on the radio at a certain point…and the original writer of it died of suicide some time later….

But if you go listen to it now (like I did) you'll likely think the same thing as I, "Really? This song did that? Pretty lame if you ask me…." But that was almost 100 years ago and during the Great Depression, so….different times different mindset….

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Tuesday's Gone by lynyrd skynyrd puts me in a weird funk or melancholy state. Don't know how to describe it or why it does.

Love the song and when I go to listen to it I'm just kinda down afterwards.

Can't think of any other songs that really affect me like that.

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Don Henly's Boys of Summer does that to me. It's one of my favorite songs, but it fills me with this bittersweet sense of yearning for something that's gone and never coming back. Just the first few chords are enough.

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That makes me feel better. Can definitely see some nostalgia kicking in with boys of summer. Simpler times.

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Boys of Summer and about a million other songs from my high school days make me happy and sad at the same time. Thinking about the good old days when young, innocent, not a care in the world makes you happy and then sad that it is all gone.

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Sunset Grill does that to me.

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T dizl televizl said:

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Tuesday's Gone by lynyrd skynyrd puts me in a weird funk or melancholy state. Don't know how to describe it or why it does.

Love the song and when I go to listen to it I'm just kinda down afterwards.

Can't think of any other songs that really affect me like that.

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Don Henly's Boys of Summer does that to me. It's one of my favorite songs, but it fills me with this bittersweet sense of yearning for something that's gone and never coming back. Just the first few chords are enough.

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Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone

Some of y'all may read that stanza as a metaphor for lost time. It works. Meanwhile, I have to hear it every September and take it a bit more literally. The upper mid-west veil of grey is about to descend and bring its 5 months of snow and cold. Thank you SW airlines for your winter schedule...

"Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling. It was released and rose to prominence while I was working at Best Buy, and it was one of about 10 songs they played on repeat all day long for several months. I don't know why I didn't grow to hate the others on the playlist (or even remember them), but I remember The Calling. And I still hate it with a passion.

In terms of songs that actively make me sad, but not necessarily upset, number 1 with a bullet is "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens. It's easily the most beautiful and heart-wrenching song about loss that I've ever heard.

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T dizl televizl said:

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Tuesday's Gone by lynyrd skynyrd puts me in a weird funk or melancholy state. Don't know how to describe it or why it does.

Love the song and when I go to listen to it I'm just kinda down afterwards.

Can't think of any other songs that really affect me like that.

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Don Henly's Boys of Summer does that to me. It's one of my favorite songs, but it fills me with this bittersweet sense of yearning for something that's gone and never coming back. Just the first few chords are enough.

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That makes me feel better. Can definitely see some nostalgia kicking in with boys of summer. Simpler times.

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Boys of Summer and about a million other songs from my high school days make me happy and sad at the same time. Thinking about the good old days when young, innocent, not a care in the world makes you happy and then sad that it is all gone.

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Sunset Grill does that to me.

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A lot of Don Henley's songs have that feel, but "The Heart of the Matter" fits the bill.
Garth Brooks "The Dance" is another one.

Less upset and more angry, but "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman. I'm sure she's a wonderful lady, but 93.7 the Arrow in Houston played that seemingly every day while I was stuck in rush hour on my way home.

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In terms of songs that actively make me sad, but not necessarily upset, number 1 with a bullet is "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens. It's easily the most beautiful and heart-wrenching song about loss that I've ever heard.

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We could have gone with Fourth of July here too. I've read that Sufjan doesn't perform Fourth of July much anymore because it's too hard for him.

On a different note, MW03, we've been around this board long enough to have possibly discussed this album when it came out. Now my eldest is going off to college (though not in Chicago, I did what I could) and, the Illinois album was turned into a musical, we can talk about how awesome and touching the album is with her and her theater friends

I've heard this random bro country song a few times and he says 'Here I go again I'm drinking one I'm drinking two'.

and it annoys the heck out of me he didn't go with drinking one I'm drinking ten, since it rhymes with again.

Mount Eerie's Real Death

This song popped into my head yesterday, as it does from time to time. It's crushing and leaves me hollow. I'm happy that I haven't experienced this, but I know its variation is coming for all of us.
"I don't want to learn anything from this"

Not clicking that.

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"Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling. It was released and rose to prominence while I was working at Best Buy, and it was one of about 10 songs they played on repeat all day long for several months. I don't know why I didn't grow to hate the others on the playlist (or even remember them), but I remember The Calling. And I still hate it with a passion.

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Ha. I've trolled my wife with this song randomly for over 20 years... use my early 2000s rock/Creed voice:

"If I could, then I would. I'll go wherever you will go."

Absolute trash of a song. That and Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.

Glen Campbell's - I'm Not Going to Miss You.

Having lost grandparents and father to Alzheimer's, and knowing that it's possible it could happen to me.

The idea that your loved ones are going to see you deteriorate, and you won't recognize them or the memories, is scary and sad.

Terrible considering what happened to him.

He sucks.