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"The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys". Can't remember the band. That was playing on a trip up north after a long night of partying & no sleep, and I had to turn it off - it was putting me to sleep.

 

I think that is by Traffic.

 

I'm not sure about slow but anything by Justin Bieber makes me sad.

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From my personal playlist called 'Haunt':

Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee.

The Party's Over, especially the version by Shirley Bassey.

Dust In The Wind by Kansas

If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot

If I Could Reach You by The Fifth Dimension

Operator by Jim Croce

The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby

April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel

Babylon by David Gray

Second Avenue by Tim Moore or Art Garfunkel (may be the best song on this list!)

Superstar by The Carpenters

A Song For You, The Carpenters

Suzanne, Leonard Cohen

Born Under A Bad Sign, Richard Hawley

If I Were A Carpenter, Bobby Darin

Everything I Own, Bread

Long, Long Time, Linda Ronstadt

Send In The Clowns, Judy Collins

Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper (the slow version)

A Little Bit Of Everything, Dawes

We Just Disagree, Dave Mason

Please Come To Boston, Dave Loggins

Taxi, Harry Chapin

Silent All These Years, Tori Amos

Fire And Rain, James Taylor

Carefree Highway, Gordon Lightfoot

Oh Very Young, by Cat Stevens

Song For Guy, Elton John

Like A Sad Song by John Denver (yes, John Denver)

 

"If I Could Reach You" by The Fifth Dimension is one of the best songs EVER. You have some other fantastic ones on here too. :)

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"Blue Dress" by Depeche Mode

"If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right" by Luther Ingram (I think)

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack

"Why" by Annie Lennox

"Waiting in Vain" by Annie Lennox (original by Bob Marley, I think)

"She's Gone" by Hall and Oates

"One Night Only" from Dreamgirls by Jennifer Hudson (NOT the disco version...that one's sad for other reasons...)

"New Favorite" by Alison Kraus and Union Station

"Goin' Back" by Dusty Springfield

"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel

"One Lonely Night" by REO Speedwagon

"Hat Full of Stars" by Cyndi Lauper

 

I think I'll stop now. :)

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There's the original version of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails/Trent Reznor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66GHz-H4k6M

And a live version featuring David Bowie that I like even better than the studio version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7_Te7iDojA

Though I think Johnny Cash took this song and made it his own. Reznor has admitted as much.

 

I suspect you could find more songs like this in NIN's repertoire, much of which is notoriously depressing.

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"Ride" by Lana del Rey (or Eli Lieb's cover)

"Wrecking Ball" by Eli Lieb (NOT the original by Miley Cyrus)

"Undone" by Eli Lieb

"Latch" by Sam Smith (the acoustic version)

"Any Other World" by Mika

"Erase" by Mika

"Mad World" by Adam Lambert OR the version from the movie Donnie Darko (I think)

"Turning Tables" by Adele

 

OK. I think I'm really done now. :)

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ANY song by Timi Yuro. Judging by her songs that girl was never treated right by any man in her life---ever. She makes being hurt and lonely into a religion.

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"Get Here" always seemed hopeful to me. Yeah, she's not happy that he's not there, but I always felt like she knew he WOULD indeed arrive. I've never thought of it as a depressing song. Or "Unchained Melody." They're both about longing, but they don't depress me.

Yeah, I know...the weirdo speaks tonight... ;)

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"Get Here" always seemed hopeful to me. Yeah, she's not happy that he's not there, but I always felt like she knew he WOULD indeed arrive. I've never thought of it as a depressing song. Or "Unchained Melody." They're both about longing, but they don't depress me.

Yeah, I know...the weirdo speaks tonight... ;)

T

 

How about "It's too late" by Carole King... about her break up with Gerry.

 

~ Boomer ~

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