There's a feeling in the air...

Whenever the days get cooler and the sky gets that particular shade of blue I always get emotional.

Top 5 saddest songs

1.) Two-Headed Boy part II - Neutral Milk Hotel.
_I can't rationally write about this song because it's so good and so powerful. Just please listen to it. Please, I'm begging you. If you don't get emotional than I don't know what to tell you.

I couldn't find a version of this on the internet anywheres. If you want it, let me know and I'll send it to you. It is worth it, believe me. Look up the lyrics.

This is the number one song, so it is more sad than the 4 that follow it, so just think about that.

2.) Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash
_I only know of this song because DMB covers it. But it is wonderful and mourning and a painful story. More than the first one, this is...directly sad, while the first one is more existential in it's sadness.

go here and turn up your sound pretty loud because it's quiet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfl4UVyaQlY&mode=related&search=

Sad, right?

3.)With or Without You - U2
_Just amazing and wonderful and so powerful in it's indecision. I cannot listen to this song without getting goosebumps. And you can't tell me it doesn't make you think of lost loves. And the payoff in this song is just unreal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ye8GLPUVsM

Oh my goodness I love youtube...this version makes me cry...buy this DVD.

4.) For Me this is Heaven - Jimmy Eat World
_The only time I've cried in the past 10 years? This song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiS1urF-K1w

Ignore the video and listen.

5.) This Brilliant Dance - Dashboard Confessional
_I couldn't make a list of sad songs and not include Dashboard. Just pours sadness out of every note and line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GHIc7tWfU

I find the video oddly appropriate. There is enough imagery in the song.

OK so there it is. I think you must want to hear the #1 song. Please e-mail me and I will send it to you. Again it's different than anything you've heard before and I can't guarantee that you will immediately recognize the sadness or the brilliance. But you will eventually.

H.M.-
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Dave Matthews - Some Devil
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Counting Crows - Anna Begins
Ben Folds - Brick, Fred Jones pt. II, Cigarette, Smoke, Still Fighting It
Better Than Ezra - A lifetime, This time of year

In some (perhaps, many) ways the honorable mention is sadder than the list itself. What happens is that I write these things in one sitting and they really do just come from the top of my head. I usually have the idea floating around near the back burner to simmer and while I'm writing it comes to the front after the ideas have reduced and intensified.

But when I write about music I find it hard to capture my thoughts in a proper manner. I suppose that I feel...inadequate to properly express how these songs (and others of course) make me feel. The songs speak for themselves and you don't need me to dress them up with useless words is what I'm trying to say.

Can you still hear the last...

_Todd

p.s. - anyone need a hug? I sure do.

p.p.s. - I'm serious about that #1 song.